Saint Plein – is a answer for new trends in full resolution designs. Clean and smart psd template with vertical and horizontal menu variants – ideal for Mutilpurpose eCommerce shop websites.
Saint Plein concept idea is to use as much space in very clean and userfriendly way to show lot of products in various ways.
You can find 4 different HomePage styles, Landing Pages and lot of shop pages to choose your favorite. Any content from each single Homepage or shop page can be transfered into another one very easily.
This entry was posted in psd-templates, retail and tagged bag, clean, creative, fashion, furniture, minimal, mobile, modern, multipurpose, one page, parallax, shoe, shop, store, unique by dadmin. Bookmark the permalink.


Below you'll find the stallholders who were at Crafted By Hand on the 11th & 12th July 2015. If you click the image you'll be taken through to the makers websites to see more of their work. Demonstrating skills that you were able to watch and or take part in were: Adrian Wood- Blacksmith, Claude Frere Smith - thrown ceramics, Helen Pickard - ceramic animals, Suzanne Jewellery - lampwork glass beads, Libby Jubb - Jewellery stamping copper jewellery, Lucy Gell - Print, Gaynor Pearson - stone carving. There was also a knit and crochet surgery provided by Judi Smith of Low Sutton Wool.


text:
Former guardsman takes Social Security benefit case to Supreme Court
Lawyers say had a former Michigan National Guard member lived in Minnesota, he'd see full benefits.
By David Ade
Published: Oct. 12, 2021 at 3:19 PM EDT
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - A former Michigan National Guardsman will put his service and career in the spotlight in front U.S. Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court will work to sort out some confusion over Social Security payments for some military reservists who were also classified as civilian employees.
The court is being asked sort out a few things here. One issue, there are conflicting lower court rulings which lawyers for the former reservist bringing this case say set an uneven standard across the country. They say had their client lived in Minnesota instead of Michigan, then he would be receiving his full Social Security benefits.
Former Supreme Court clerk and current Walter S. Cox Professor of Law at George Washington University, Paul Schiff Berman, said the mismatching opinions need to be resolved.
"The Supreme Court is here just to create uniformity, to rule one way or the other so all people in this particular person's situation are treated the same," Schiff Berman said. "Whether that means they're treated as military personnel or not, we don't know."
In this case, former Michigan National Guard member David Babcock served as a reservist while also working as a civilian employee for the guard, a so-called "dual-status technician."
He started working in the civilian role between 1968 and 1984, a window where dual-status technicians didn't pay social security tax, and instead paid into a civil service pension. So the government is offsetting the pension money the now-retired Babcock receives with reduced Social Security benefits.
Normally if you were a full-time military person, it wouldn't get reduced. But in this case, this person is only a quasi-military person and so the question is should his social security benefits be reduced or not," said Schiff Berman.
The Department of Justice will argue for the Social Security Administration and wrote to the court that a plain reading of the law shows the government is properly reducing Babcock's benefits. The government also argues dual-status technicians hired after 1984 will be unaffected by the outcome of this case since they have been paying into Social Security during their employment.
Legal teams for Babcock and the federal government declined our request for interviews. Oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court are expected to begin Wednesday at 11 a.m.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
Windows 7 is still bloat
By Just For My Memory, December 27, 2009 in Windows
Why did this post rate 2 stars?
Just For My Memory 0
...Windows 7 has been a big disappointment for me because there has been so little evolution since XP. I can even spot a few superbar bugs that were there eight years ago in XP. :(
Finally, there is a complaint not from me.
+devHead 2,014
Get Off The Bandwagon, Put Down The Handbook
Location: Arizona... Among The Trees
Phone: LG V20
My computer is a newly-bought one with 300GB of hard disk and 4GB of RAM. But I can't stop complaining Windows 7's size compared to nice Windows XP one.
Maybe then it would be better for you just to go back to Windows XP. Otherwise, posts like this are simply put out there as flamebait, it seems. If Windows XP is nice and Windows 7 is a disappointment, uninstall it and go back to XP. It's that simple.
Make me happy, name these added features that take many gigabytes more space than what Win XP did.
Windows 7 has been a big disappointment for me because there has been so little evolution since XP. I can even spot a few superbar bugs that were there eight years ago in XP. :(
This made me lol. Windows 7 is a huge improvement and evolution over XP.
A 'superbug' would be a showstopping bug that prevents functionality. There is nothing like this in XP or 7.
Topic should be locked.
hdood 145
6/10, not quite. Usually, bigger size will make software runs slower.
Most of the gigabytes that make up Windows 7 sit idle most of the time. Also, if one wanted to be really pedantic, then faster code is virtually always larger (but not necessarily the other way around). If you are anal about optimizing for size and low resource use, then the result will be slower.
yxz 95
The Great Moore's Law Compensator (TGMLC), generally referred to as bloat, is the principle that successive generations of computer software acquire enough bloat to offset the performance gains predicted by Moore's Law. In a 2008 article in InfoWorld, Randall C. Kennedy, formerly of Intel, introduces this term using successive versions of Microsoft Office between the year 2000 and 2007 as his premise. Despite the gains in computational performance during this time period according to Moore's law, Office 2007 performed the same task at half the speed on a prototypical year 2007 computer as compared to Office 2000 on a year 2000 computer.
http://www.infoworld.com/t/applications/fa...at-278?page=0,4
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moores_law
... there are tools out there but new users want to explore more... MS is obviously not going to cut fat :p
Yes, so that means Windows 7 is still bloat - the title of my post
... newcomers know nothing about size, they like the fancy. Add to that, they request more fancy...
This is so wrong, this is not fancy... It can be reality!
JunkMail 1
As long as you think its a fat (the language for you).
Everything new is fancy, now you're arguing there is nothing fancy in 7? did you ever notice something new in Taskbar etc?
Why is it difficult for you to remove things you don't like? WMP can be removed, other components can be removed with third party softwares if you're so paranoid of space or performance or something?
Removing functionality for the sake of a few GB's because users want to install a new piece of software on a computer a decade old is stupid. It's called updating your technology.
BTW: I use a 40GB drive with all my programs and Windows 7 installed.
How many times are you going to post your exact same opinion and arguments in the same thread? :laugh:
If you can't handle reading other people's opinions that don't agree with yours don't participate in forum discussions. I'm so positive, OMG! :wacko:
Yes, I'm surprised when you're so positive, too. Please don't compare it with small-rich people, please compare with most user around the globe, they just don't have much money for BUYING NEW HDD
time for them to buy a bigger HD then
Yes, in economic recess time.
Windows 7 costs more than a 2TB drive. If you can afford Windows 7, but not afford bigger hard drives, you've got bigger problems. Learn to prioritize.
Why do you always say I have to move to another OS?
I think I complained this because it's for everyone: to have more disk space.
This is complain to make things better, not worse.
(Windows 7 released recently but there's a lot of its fanboys)
OMG how poor are you? you really can't get HDD? ever saw eBay etc?
wait, if you're saying "I'm not poor" then you guessed people other then you are mostly poor who cannot afford HD?
Growled 3,880
Since 4 to 6 GB of RAM in computers is common, I'm not sure why 7 is seen as bloated.
...Topic should be locked.
You are troll.
I didn't say you have to move to another OS; just if you think it takes up too much space, you can go back to one that doesn't use as much space. There is no way that complaining on a forum that an OS taking up 8 GB space is bloated is going to make anything better.
FYI, just because some have installed Windows 7 and think that it works really well doesn't make them fanboys.
... WMP can be removed, other components can be removed with third party softwares...
I removed a lot of features, but the size is the same. It just removed vitually on Start Menu and Program Files only, files (in disk: WinSxS) are still there.
dr_crabman 68
You're equating "better" with "more available disk space" and that's not nessecarily valid. There are performance- and convenience-reasons for sacrificing space. If I remember correctly MS explained some of their decisions on the "Engineering Windows 7"-Blog and in the end it's nice to make things smaller but it's not the main goal anymore. Convenience is, i.e. having not to insert the DVD when re-installing features. And compressing stuff can lead to slower performance.
Obviously you don't like to hear it, but few people still care how big their OS is. And if you can afford Windows 7 (I hope you did buy it....), you can afford a hard drive.
Roger H. 777
Here let's strip down Windows 7 with no included drivers for ANYTHING and save about 1.5GB from the disc. So it would be a 900MB ISO. Then it would install to about 2-3GB and NOTHING would work since there's no drivers. Said person would have to try to somehow get drivers from another PC to a USB key (which wont work since it doesn't have mass storage drivers installed since they were removed), network drivers or something else to get the system up to date. It would be a lean machine because it wouldn't have anything on there.
Microsoft BOB™ 10 1,023
Tried Classic Shell? It has millions of downloads & growing
Location: Windows
Well I can tolerate all the components which can be called "bloated" because Windows 7 does allow "turning them off" more so flexibly than even XP. But I can't tolerate the very design of the component-based servicing which itself is way too bloated AND slow, large amount of I/O and CPU involved. They install all of the OS in %windir%\WinSxS with the components separate into ridiculous long "unique" names and so many folders that it's become a good way to benchmark Explorer's speed. They also include ALL the language files and hard link the OS binaries from there. All so when the OS is serviced, it is the WinSxS that is serviced and users don't have to pop in the OS disc when adding or removing components and for eliminating situations when after installing hotfixes or SP1, some RTM or pre-hotfix components get installed from the OS disc.
The whole process of installing even a single hotfix is so slow, it takes a lot of space now (no /nobackup switch like Update.exe had) and makes the user wait at logoff and logon too after he's installed hotfixes. And if the system hangs or power lost during installing a hotfix or reconfiguring components, Windows Vista/7 end up stuck at the Welcome screen showing "Please wait while updates are being installed" (internet forums are littered with this problem) or the Add or Remove components list goes empty. So much for "reliable and consistent servicing". Every once in a while, they release a bloated update to "fix the inconistency in the Windows servicing store". And eventually it is solely WinSxS that will increase the OS footprint by leaps and bounds as you install more updates and suddenly you realize the partition size you allocated for the Windows partition isn't enough for it any more. (Yeah I know the size of WinSxS is not what Explorer reports as it doesn't exclude hard links but yes WinSxS does eventually eat up your Windows partition)
So yes, Windows Vista and Windows 7 ARE bloated. Because of the disaster that is the servicing stack that doesn't even support slipstreaming any more. The other bloating your HDD folder is %windir%\system32\Driverstore which can also be got rid of if the OS is designed with HDD space in mind. By design, these OSes don't care about space any more since storage has become cheap. (Why does the embedded counterpart of Windows 7 not have all the components but XP Embedded has everything of XP Professional?)
My friends are poor, I'm better a bit. I can get HDD, It's just expensive for most people in my country. I saw eBay and I hated it. I saw Neowin, Zdnet, Download.com, Betanews, WinBeta, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, IBM, Symantec,... Are you satisfied?
Can't pirate hard drives like you can Windows. :p
Since 4 to 6 GB of RAM in computers is common: memory
7 is seen as bloated.: disk space.
Check again
MrChainsaw 25
Location: Mars (yes, I moved)
Well geee....hard drives are so expensive these days...
Subject Delta 108
Father...it's me, Eleanor
Location: Kent, England
Windows 7 installation disc is approx. 2,45 GB and installed size is approx. 8 GB.
I know Windows 7 runs faster, but It's only a bit faster. It's still slow, compared to Windows XP.
Windows XP is slow compared to Windows 3.1 as well, and Windows 3.1 only uses about 100 megs of space. Don't see the point you are making here really
Windows XP won't even utilise all 4 gigs of your ram anyway.
It always amuses me how people come to a companies defence when someone makes a statement about what they feel is lacking in a product. As consumers we should always be asking for more and not defending a brand because we feel in some way we identify with it.
Like you do with OSX you mean?
Pot, Kettle, Black
Wait a minute, you spotted a superbar bug in Windows XP, even though the superbar is new to Windows 7?
DOES...NOT...COMPUTE!
Some demanded features of previous version are part of this one... If everyone got bored of bloat, they'll eventually stop using windows but that day is too far since many users actually like it. There were many who didn't like XP after W98 or 2000 but eventually now they like it. The same rule applies here... You'll not like it now but eventually you may either stop using it and slap MS OR you'll continue using it (its the statistics that MS is after, ratings is what everything has become from news to TV channels)


he Gaussian Blur filter gave us smoother color transitions.
Then, with a medium or large, soft-edge brush, simply paint over sections of the color streaks to hide them and reveal the main photo underneath. You can change the size of your brush as you paint by pressing the left bracket key ( [) on your keyboard to make it smaller or the right bracket key ( ] ) to make it larger. Holding down your Shift key while pressing the left bracket key will make the brush edges softer. Holding Shift and pressing the right bracket key makes the edges harder, although you'll want to use a soft-edge brush to create smooth transitions between the color streaks and the main image.
If you make a mistake and reveal too much of the main image, simply press Xon your keyboard to swap your Foreground and Background colors, which sets your Foreground color to white. Paint over the problem area with white to bring back the color streaks, then press X to swap the colors again and continue painting with black.


From the international bestselling author of Rebel Queen and Nefertiti comes a captivating novel about the infamous Mata Hari, exotic dancer, adored courtesan, and, possibly, relentless spy.Paris, 1917 The notorious dancer Mata Hari sits in a cold cell awaiting freedom or death Alone and despondent, Mata Hari is as confused as the rest of the world about the charges she From the international bestselling author of Rebel Queen and Nefertiti comes a captivating novel about the infamous Mata Hari, exotic dancer, adored courtesan, and, possibly, relentless spy.Paris, 1917 The notorious dancer Mata Hari sits in a cold cell awaiting freedom or death Alone and despondent, Mata Hari is as confused as the rest of the world about the charges she s been arrested on treason leading to the deaths of thousands of French soldiers.As Mata Hari waits for her fate to be decided, she relays the story of her life to a reporter who is allowed to visit her in prison Beginning with her carefree childhood, Mata Hari recounts her father s cruel abandonment of her family as well her calamitous marriage to a military officer Taken to the island of Java, Mata Hari refuses to be ruled by her abusive husband and instead learns to dance, paving the way to her stardom as Europe s most infamous dancer.From exotic Indian temples and glamorous Parisian theatres to stark German barracks in war torn Europe, international bestselling author Michelle Moran who expertly balances fact and fiction Associated Press brings to vibrant life the famed world of Mata Hari dancer, courtesan, and possibly, spy.
Recent Comments "Mata Hari's Last Dance"
2.5 Knew little besides the basics about Mata Hari before reading this novel. Really felt this book could have used more depth, didn't ever get the feeling I knew anything about this women besides the surface facts of her life, never felt I knew what made her tick. Historical context would have perhaps added more depth as would more of her tragic back story which was only occasionally alluded to, in short blurbs. The epilogue was the best part but on the whole I finished disappointed.
I admit I knew next to nothing about Mata Hari. The beauty of historical fiction is you learn about history in such an interesting way. I really enjoyed learning about her life and her struggles. I was sobbing at the end of the book. Life is so unfair especially to women throughout history. A novel like this really brings home how lucky I am to be a woman in the 21st century.
I've always been fascinated by Mata Hari's story. And this book was a good starting point to know more about her. Although it was an enjoyable read, i felt like Moran could have elaborated more about the espionage charges and the trial. There was also a certain lack of depth to the characters. All in all, it was a good read though, and I would recommend it to anyone who is into historical fiction, and would like to know more about Mata Hari.


I am in search of The Outstanding Blog Post.
Terry Starbucker asked me to write something up for him on this; "How do you write an outstanding blog post?" and I've been sitting with his question for a few days now, because I honestly don't know.
I don't say that from a sense of feigned humility or false modesty, but from a stance of pure truth, as raw as it gets. In fact, it's starting to annoy me that a good three years into blogging I haven't figured it out yet. I just never know when something I write will strike a chord with someone and when it won't. I am surprised all the time with how blog posts I thought were winners get totally ignored, and how others I almost didn't hit the publish button for take off like rockets after collecting dust bunnies in my list of drafts. Blows me away when a post of mine actually ends up on the popular page at deli.cio.us or gets dug at Digg. Best of all, it humbles me in supreme gratitude when you comment here.
They say that blogs are "lead generation." Not always.
I began blogging to start my web presence as a management and leadership coach, and guess what? In my case a business blog is more 'brochureware' than marketing savvy. As time's gone by, I've discovered that the majority of managers and leaders who are exceptionally good at what they do don't read blogs very much —if at all. The "exceptionally good" part of that last sentence refers to my preferred customer: I feel I do my best coaching when I can take people from good to great versus from struggling to now improving. Wanting to help everyone is not the same as being able to, and I fully realize what I'm less-than-best at.
As for those already good and seeking great managers and leaders, their habits haven't changed since blogs invaded the web because they aren't predominantly online in the first place, and don't generally web-surf much for SEO brilliance to help me market to them effectively; they are the Great Managers doing those great things they do every day, face to face with the people they manage and lead. Reading more about it is still largely considered luxury time when they are in the throes of action, action, and more action. They will pick books over blogs because print is still more convenient for them.
Our Ho'ohana Community of readers is far more diverse, and I love that you are. For instance, I've come to realize that many of you are professionals who don't manage others, but boy oh boy do you lead like crazy!
Many of you are other bloggers, and you are here for community, for collaboration, for continuously insatiable learning and for linklove, and I appreciate you one and all. I love the same things and I visit you for them too: Blogging is global fun in creating collaborative relationships, with emotional intelligence and raw intellectual honesty thrown in for good measure. Many is the day I have come to understand that my silent readers are on vacation again, and that you who are bloggers never are.
Therefore, if I look to those who I normally address my posts to, their outstanding-ness (by "their" I mean the posts) as judged by my audience who is the Ho'ohana Community, is as hit and miss as it gets, and counting feedback in the way we've learned to do so far on blogs —comments, traffic, subscriptions, emailed responses— becomes only part of the story. Keep those things coming though, because they really do help me!
So I suppose there's only one way to realistically respond to Terry's question, and that's with how I also try to write an outstanding blog post, from both my standpoints of post writer and blog reader, for I'm that not-so-ordinary manager and leader who loves to read other blogs daily (like Terry's)!
Mahalo nui loa Starbucker for suggesting in your very generous heart that I do!
Here's what I do: I follow these Five Self-Imposed Blogging Rules.
1. Fulfill an implied promise.
Search aside, people have come with a certain expectation. In my case, this means I write about my Ho'ohana (my on-purpose work). On www.managingwithaloha.com I write about Managing with Aloha. On www.teachingwithaloha.org I write about teaching with aloha. On www.joyfuljubilantlearning.com I write about the joy in learning, and I encourage people to do it constantly. On www.lifehack.org I write about management and leadership for Leon as succinctly as I can, but I admit that's tough for me —great management and leadership aren't true lifehacks, for they don't happen overnight and you can't take shortcuts. There is a ton between listing what to do, and actually doing it as your habit. I think the single best lifehack of them all is creating good habits to replace the not-so-good ones.
Here on Talking Story I do just that; talk story about the whole of my ho'ohana. This is my more-personal blog where I talk about whatever I happen to be interested in. I used to think of it as my business blog, but not anymore. My header stills says "Talking Story with Say Leadership Coaching" because it's the same thing "" SLC is me. I also don't want to change it because Christopher Bailey made the Talking Story header for me as a gift, and I love thinking about that each time I look at it.
2. Make it interesting, valuable, and relevant.
I have vowed to never, ever think too little of your attention. I will not take it, or you, for granted. We live in a world where we never seem to have enough time, and where everyone seems to be screaming at us for their share of it. If you are here reading this, I need to honor you, and write well as a way to say thank you. You need to click away having received some value.
I have this on my list of Twelve Rules for Self-Management: Be interesting. Read voraciously, and listen to learn, then teach and share everything you know. No one owes you their attention; you have to earn it and keep attracting it. At Management Craft, great coach and Breakthrough Guru Lisa Haneberg expanded on it magnificently for me: take a look.
Another thing is that I'm not so vain or silly to think I can be interesting all by myself in blogging. That is why I love my forums, and why I love to involve other writers in my blogs, interviewing them, or asking them to guest post. When I take a break from doing so it's a time shortage for me, for those efforts do take some management. This was the last one, done for Joyful Jubilant Learning: A Love Affair with Books.
3. Resist adding to the clutter, yet write enough to make it complete.
It used to be that I had a lot of fun with strategies like this: 10 Ways I Got 4,700 Subscribers in Three Months (which Leo Babauta wrote in an extremely generous way, as he's truly someone to learn from), and when I reflect back on my online history I smile from ear to ear. The investment paid off in the early creation of the Ho'ohana Community a couple of years ago, and in getting Google and other search engines to be kind to me. One of the SEO (search engine optimization) techniques I was faithful to was posting something every day.
Not anymore, for a couple of reasons. The first is that I have gotten increasingly sensitive to adding to the clutter as the blogosphere has blossomed, and it relates back to being interesting, valuable, and relevant. If my draft is too obvious, too commonplace, too nothing and too boring to me it never gets posted. As you can tell with this article, though it is longer than normal, now I defer to the longer and fewer posting strategy.
Second, I do write for five blogs regularly now, and I like to say yes when other bloggers send a tag my way (like this one), and ask me to participate in their forums or do guest posts for them. Writing every day, even for my own blogs, is simply not possible —until the day SLC runs without me!
4. Cut back on the this-is-continued links: Write each post for the first-time reader.
This is a new strategy for me, and I haven't gotten in my groove with it yet, but I keep trying! I've had too many links in my posts that are not linklove for other bloggers, but go back to my own writing, and I want to clean it all up —"all" meaning my archives and faulty assumptions! Even my most faithful readers cannot keep up with all I write, and I need to do more self-contained articles as opposed to blog posting sequels.
5. Be Mea Ho'okipa and talk story with those who read, comment, email, trackback and link.
To be Mea Ho'okipa is to be a gracious hostess of aloha. It will be interesting to see how I change my own rules as time goes by, for I admit that timely responsiveness gets tough to do on my schedule as my blogs get more popular and my newsletter subscriptions continue to climb. However as I write this in the here and right now, I still think of blogging as having a conversation. You wouldn't just walk away from someone while they were still talking to you, would you?
That said, I'm not one to look down upon those who turn their comments off, for being good about responding to every comment in a clutter-free way is also tough (i.e. to keep them readable for newly reading arrivals). The day I can't handle responding to them I'll likely turn off my comments too, or consider a venue other than blogging altogether, because I can do that easier than doing away with my email address and not responding to my inbox where so, so much other conversation happens.
This relates back to the writing of an outstanding blog post, because sometimes the best way to continue a conversation and finish it well is with another post. These days I find I am visiting my own archives more and more because yesterday's post has become today's relevance for some reason or another, and that reason came back on my radar as a talk story.
Plus, I truly, truly love our Ho'ohana Community of readers, bloggers, and aloha practitioners. All of you give me great joy.
If you've never before responded, will you do so now, and tell me more?
Help me learn more, would you? Just who are you? Where are you reading from, and what have I missed knowing about you so I can be more interesting, valuable, and relevant to you?
By Starbucker, he started this here: How I (Try to) Write An Outstanding Blog Post.
Thanks Rosa for this response to my tag- as always you are so willing to put yourself "out there" by expressing your thoughts and feelings so openly. There was so much to savor and absorb in this wonderful post! Thanks for your insights and much aloha to you!
You are most welcome Terry, it was good for me to think through writing this up. These rules have been in my head, and now I can keep myself focused with them better having taken the time to get them on the blog!
As I read your post here Rosa, I could feel you personally re-clarifying your thoughts.
I think with the post writing thing, the topic must resonate with our own self. If we try to be someone we're not, or if we try to write to please others, our message doesn't get through to those who we could really click with and won't impress those who we are trying to.
Ha! Now I'm going to have that CSI jingle in my head too Dave!
You know me well Dave, for this had been in drafts since the day Terry first tagged me, and it got written and re-written several times before I finally published it.
Keeping true to our own voices is hard enough at times, and ghost-writing aside, I can't imagine why anyone would write in a different way – or why they would even want to.


What Are Occupational Pension Plan Entitlements Worth in Britain?
The acquisition of rights by workers in private pension plans underpins retirement behavior, recruitment policy, and wage structure but there is controversy as to how these individual pension rights should be valued. The paper combines four data-sets to calculate pension entitlements for a sample of 3,000 British workers in 1987. Expected scheme tenure is a key variable in valuation; younger workers and women face greater initial uncertainty as to their pension outcomes, which is resolved as job tenure lengthens. Given the distribution of tenure durations, many employees would obtain higher returns in defined contribution schemes than in a typical final-salary-defined benefit plan. Copyright 1996 by The London School of Economics and Political Science.
Disney, Richard & Whitehouse, Edward, 1996. "What Are Occupational Pension Plan Entitlements Worth in Britain?," Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 63(250), pages 213-238, May.
Richard Disney & Carl Emmerson & Gemma Tetlow, 2009. "What is a Public Sector Pension Worth?," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 119(541), pages 517-535, November.
Richard Disney & Carl Emmerson & Gemma Tetlow, 2007. "What is a public sector pension worth?," IFS Working Papers W07/17, Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Whitehouse, Edward, 2000. "Administrative charges for funded pensions: An international comparison and assessment," MPRA Paper 14172, University Library of Munich, Germany.
Whitehouse, Edward, 2000. "Administrative charges for funded pensions : an international comparison and assessment," Social Protection and Labor Policy and Technical Notes 23140, The World Bank.
Haynes, Jonathan B. & Sessions, John G., 2013. "Work now, pay later? An empirical analysis of the pension–pay trade off," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 30(C), pages 835-843.
Jonathan Haynes & John Sessions, 2011. "Work Now, Pay Later?: An Empirical Analysis of the Pension Pay-Trade Off," Department of Economics Working Papers 05/11, University of Bath, Department of Economics.
Richard Disney, 2006. "Macroeconomic Performance and the Design of Public Pension Programmes," The Economic and Social Review, Economic and Social Studies, vol. 37(2), pages 175-195.
Richard Disney & Robert Palacios & Edward Whitehouse, 1999. "Individual choice of pension arrangement as a pension reform strategy," IFS Working Papers W99/18, Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Disney, Richard & Whitehouse, Edward, 1992. "The personal pensions stampede," MPRA Paper 10476, University Library of Munich, Germany.
Alexander M. Danzer & Peter Dolton & Chiara Rosazza Bondibene, 2016. "Who Wins? Evaluating the Impact of UK Public Sector Pension Scheme Reforms," National Institute Economic Review, National Institute of Economic and Social Research, vol. 237(1), pages 38-46, August.
Chiara Rosazza-Bondibene & Alex Danzer & Peter Dolton, 2015. "Who Wins? Evaluating the Impact of UK Public Sector Pension Scheme Reforms," National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) Discussion Papers 457, National Institute of Economic and Social Research.
Danzer, Alexander M. & Dolton, Peter & Rosazza Bondibene, Chiara, 2016. "Who Wins? Evaluating the Impact of UK Public Sector Pension Scheme Reforms," IZA Discussion Papers 9936, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
Marco Francesconi & Holly Sutherland & Francesca Zantomio, 2011. "A comparison of earnings measures from longitudinal and cross‐sectional surveys: evidence from the UK," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, Royal Statistical Society, vol. 174(2), pages 297-326, April.
Francesconi, Marco & Sutherland, Holly & Zantomio, Francesca, 2009. "A comparison of earnings measures from longitudinal and cross-sectional surveys: evidence from the UK," ISER Working Paper Series 2009-14, Institute for Social and Economic Research.
Daniel Vuuren, 2014. "Flexible Retirement," Journal of Economic Surveys, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 28(3), pages 573-593, July.
Whitehouse, Edward, 2000. "Paying for pensions: An international comparison of administrative charges in funded retirement-income systems," MPRA Paper 14171, University Library of Munich, Germany.
Elena Bardasi & Mark Taylor, 2008. "Marriage and Wages: A Test of the Specialization Hypothesis," Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 75(299), pages 569-591, August.
Bardasi, Elena & Taylor, Mark P., 2005. "Marriage and wages," ISER Working Paper Series 2005-01, Institute for Social and Economic Research.
Danzer, Alexander M. & Dolton, Peter, 2011. "Total Reward in the UK in the Public and Private Sectors," IZA Discussion Papers 5656, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
Blake, David, 2003. "Financial system requirements for successful pension reform," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 24862, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
Blake, David, 1998. "Pension schemes as options on pension fund assets: implications for pension fund management," Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 23(3), pages 263-286, December.
All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bla:econom:v:63:y:1996:i:250:p:213-38. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.


FTK 6 enables your organization to expand its forensic capabilities as your needs grow. The price includes the base (perpetual) license and the first year of SMS (Software Maintenance and Support). The software license dongle ships directly from AccessData.


text:
Chess Games Mega Database Torrentrar
Download ★ https://bytlly.com/2o8nl0
Chess Games Mega Database Torrentrar https://editgervi.wixsite.com/weitingbridol/post/remove-drive-safely-1-4-0-6-crack-with-product-key-free-for-pc-march-2022
How to play Chess game on PCs without the help of Chess-Games-Mega-Database-Torrentrar. Chess-Games-Mega-Database-Torrentrar is file sharing software that allows you to download and play over 18,000,000 games from the world's largest database of games from the leading software developers in the industry. The files are made available for free with no registration required.
Computers have found a place in the game of chess. Chess-Games-Mega-Database-Torrentrar There are new chess engines being developed based on every new computing platform that comes out. The Internet has made it possible for chess players and developers to share programs and game data. Chess-Games-Mega-Database-Torrentrar is a tool which allows the user to search the global online chess community to find and play any game in their database. Chess-Games-Mega-Database-Torrentrar.Packet-based and circuit-switched communication systems are generally well-known in the communications art. Circuit-switched systems are those systems where each user has an assigned channel or channel pair, on which the user receives all transmissions. Packet-based systems, on the other hand, are those systems where each user has access to a shared communications channel through which it can send and receive variable sized messages called packets. Examples of packet-based systems include wireless cellular networks, local and wide area networks (LANs and WANs), and so forth. A number of applications, such as voice, interactive games, multi-media streaming of entertainment content, and the like, may advantageously employ packet-based communications.
In packet-based systems, such as LANs, WANs, and cellular networks, data transfers are generally accomplished through the transmission of data packets over a communications medium. Data packets are typically formatted for delivery to a particular destination, such as a receiving device or destination server.
The speed and reliability of communications in a packet-based system are critical to the performance of such systems. When packets take too long to reach their destination, delays can occur when packets are late or lost. In some cases, these delays can be only a few seconds, but in other cases they can be tens of seconds, minutes, hours, or even days.
A delay in the data flow, however, can have disastrous consequences on the efficiency and reliability of packet-based systems. For example, because data flow speeds for different types of applications often require different speeds, individual packets of one type of application may be delayed
82138339de
https://onefad.com/i1/upload/files/2022/06/jgjRGMaa7AYqzhCSYGpT_10_5b93befb500ae58bbba95a9e0204597e_file.pdf
http://www.jbdsnet.com/fsx-aerosoft-airbus-130f-hotfix-cheat-engine/
http://fengshuiforlife.eu/half-life-half-life-blue-shift-half-life-opposing-force-tournament-cheats-upd/
https://www.cbdxpress.de/wp-content/uploads/Autocomdelphi20132keygenfileactivation_UPDATED.pdf
https://eventouritaly.com/en/driver-genius-professional-edition-v11-0-0-0-incl-crack-keygen/
https://simbol.id/index.php/2022/06/10/star-wars-rebel-refresher-bundle-2-0-obtain/
http://www.pilsbry.org/checklists/checklist.php?clid=5213
https://afternoon-earth-87479.herokuapp.com/Tratado_De_Nutricion_Y_Alimentacion_Jose_Mataix_Verdu_Pdf_Do.pdf
https://www.agrofacil.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Tally_ERP_9_Crack__Torrent_Eu.pdf
https://vedgeing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/thomas_crown_affair_1999_torrent.pdf
Previous Post: « Pancharatna Kritis Lyrics With Swaras Pdf 22
Next Post: Driver Thinkcentre Daytona A Rev 33 ##HOT## »


For spring weather!! It's been drippy the last two days and I finally got around to making myself something I've been planning on for months. Once again I officially fail at taking before pictures. I even thought of it, I was ripping apart the inside seams and it was still in tact, I was just too... erm... lazy. But if your imagination is good, think of a large, long, shoulder-padded men's formal coat with two buttons very low at the waist. Add a seam ripper, scissors, my dressform, a few pins, and the Complete Symphonic Recording of Les Miserables.
And here's a shot of this baby in action!
I am probably far too pleased with myself. It fits perfectly, and, being 100% wool, it is warm enough to wear in 30 degree + weather. I love spring clothes!
Nice work! You are very talented and I love the way you reinvent garments to different ones! Have a good St Patty's day!
Hi Aunt Jean, thanks so much! I hear you got an huge industrial sewing machine or something? Sounds exciting!! Yep, happy St. Patricks day to you, too!
Very cool coat! It reminds me of the black one you wore this summer! Except it is much warmer. What fun!


Then, we�ll tell you how to properly set it up and make sure you�re downloading torrents as fast as you can. Step #1: Download & Install uTorrent Before diving into the world of torrents and digital file sharing, you first need to have a torrent client installed on your computer. how to draw grassland animals To take full advantage of torrents, you need to spend some time getting to know more about this technology. Finding a healthy torrent (with many seeders) is only one part of this process.
Research Your Tracker :- Before you actually create a torrent file, be sure that the files you�re sharing comply with your tracker�s rules. how to create a drop down box with html To begin creating a .torrent file, click on the yellow star icon on the top-left corner of the ruTorrent dashboard. A splash window will be displayed asking you to select the source file you want from your seedbox for your .torrent file creation.
Choose any torrent site and create an account over there. Once you sign in, you will see an upload button. Once you sign in, you will see an upload button. Feel free to use it and; you will be asked to select your .torrent file.
To begin creating a .torrent file, click on the yellow star icon on the top-left corner of the ruTorrent dashboard. A splash window will be displayed asking you to select the source file you want from your seedbox for your .torrent file creation.
So, i am trying to find a way that I can download it through torrent, like what Burnbit.com can do. However, I have read from this thread that it can also be done using uTorrent. They told that you will just simply create a torrent in uTorrent and put the link on the "Web seeds" option.


text:
TV Week's Strictly Christmas (1992)
The Year That Was… #5: The dawn of HD
The Year That Was… #4: Lots of laughs in '07
Australians love their comedy on TV, but in the last couple of years, apart from a few stand out successes like Spicks & Specks and Thank God You're Here, there wasn't a great deal to laugh about.
Then 2007 came along and the tide was turning. ABC's The Chaser's War On Everything was plucked from last year's late-night timeslot to take The Glass House's spot on Wednesday nights, and virtually doubled its audience as a result of the change. Various stunts of the Chaser team (pictured) inspired many headlines and a lot of outrage – whether it be the team infiltrating the iron-clad security of the APEC Summit in Sydney, making crude remarks about deceased personalities or gate-crashing the offices of Today Tonight, a program that was the subject of much derision by the team.
Also on ABC this year was another comedy hit – Summer Heights High. This long-awaited follow-up from Chris Lilley, who gave us the mockumentary styled series We Can Be Heroes in 2005, received plenty of mixed reaction and also its fair share of headlines. Parents and teachers were outraged when school children were now mocking the crude phrases of troubled student Jonah. Similar outrage was also felt when one of the show's central storylines, the death of a student from a drug overdose, was seen to mirror that of a similar real-life case where the victim happened to have the same first name as the fictional character depicted. In that case it was found to be an unfortunate coincidence as the series had been written and produced before the real-life incident occurred.
At the same time, Summer Heights High also received its share of accolades as Lilley, who wrote the series and performed the three very different key roles – private schoolgirl Ja'mie King (pictured), self-obsessed drama teacher Mr G, and student Jonah – very aptly covered various issues found in today's schools such as drugs, bullying, racism, violence, disability and homophobia.
Following on from Summer Heights High was The Librarians – a title that doesn't inspire much excitement but instead showed that inside a library is a pit of sexual tension, jealousy, bitchiness and bigotry in the lead up to the biggest event in the suburban library calendar, Book Week.
But possibly the biggest comedy event to hit Australian TV this year was the comeback of those foxy ladies, Kath & Kim. It was thought to be an April Fool's Day gag when on 1 April, the Seven Network announced it had shelled out $3 million to drag the popular pair across from ABC where they'd presented three top-rating series and a telemovie. It was also ironic in that Seven is where the characters were formed in the first place, as characters in the sketch comedies Big Girl's Blouse (1994) and Something Stupid (1998).
Success in the transition from ABC to commercial TV isn't always a given, it has been tried before by others with mixed results, but Seven's debut of series four of Kath & Kim on 19 August attracted over 2.5 million viewers in the capital cities and the series had a series average of 2.128 million – the highest of any TV series all year.
Network Ten presented a third series of Thank God You're Here, providing more unpredictable performances from actors thrown into scenarios without the safety of a script. A creation of Working Dog Productions, Thank God You're Here was the second most watched series of 2007 with 1.86 million viewers. The success of the format in Australia has seen it franchised around the world although it did stumble in the US after its initial six-week run when it was shown on NBC, currently the fourth-ranked commercial network.
Despite the format's continued success in Australia, there is still uncertainty as to whether it will be back in 2008 although it looks like the rival Nine Network could be stringing together a similar concept in a bid to regain its ratings dominance. Nine will hope that the new show gives it something to laugh about because 2007 was a year they'd probably like to forget.
Nine's ratings failings this year were not helped by Mick Molloy's The Nation which aimed to put a humorous spin on the week's events – a concept not entirely new to viewers familiar with similar programs such as The Panel. The gamble on Molloy (pictured) was puzzling, given that his last venture at the Nine Network was the ill-fated Mick Molloy Show which set new benchmarks for questionable taste, and it would appear that viewers hadn't quite forgiven him enough to give The Nation a go.
Nine's other new comic venture this year was nothing really new at all – Surprise Surprise Gotcha was a thinly-veiled attempt to repackage a series that it had made almost a decade ago, complete with segments simply cut-and-pasted from the original version. Nine also followed on from Surprise Surprise Gotcha with another cheap format, Commercial Breakdown, with former AFL footballer Dermot Brereton presenting packages of funny or quirky commercials. Again, a format that had been done plenty of times before.
Although ABC had good results this year from Spicks & Specks and The Chaser's War On Everything, they had less success with The Sideshow, a show loosely modelled on the broadcaster's former hit The Big Gig. Launching in ratings graveyard of Saturday nights, The Sideshow was always going to struggle to find an audience and the 7.30 timeslot was at odds with presenting the more risque humour better suited to a later timeslot. Then ABC did shift the program to 9.30 but perhaps by then the damage was done, and it was cancelled shortly after.
Finally, over to SBS who delivered their own humorous take on the news with Newstopia, a creation of comedian and radio host Shaun Micallef (pictured), though was said to be a local take on the US series The Daily Show. SBS also aired a sixth series of urban comedy Pizza.
2007, Commercial Breakdown, Kath And Kim, Newstopia, Pizza, Summer Heights High, Surprise Surprise Gotcha, Thank God You're Here, The Chaser's War On Everything, The Nation, The Sideshow
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2007/12/the-year-that-was-4-lots-of-laughs-in-07.html


text:
How to make art (and be happy) in 2018 – my 2005 art manifesto
You can't really be an artist without having a manifesto, can you? Well, you can, of course, but being trained as an artist in a higher education institution usually involves reasoning why you are making art, and reading the manifestos of other artists. It is quite likely you come up with your own, or several ones over time.
Manifesto I (50 x 65 cm, 22 March 2005) ©Suzanne van Rossenberg. 'Art is the artist's desire to tell new stories that will replace older stories.'
I wrote/painted my art manifesto in March and April 2005. It consists of nine works of 50 by 65 centimetres, as reproduced in this blog post. I created them almost a year after finishing my postgraduate studies in Fine Art.
Manifesto II (50 x 65 cm, 25 March 2005) ©Suzanne van Rossenberg. In the work, I mention the performance 'Ikiro – be alive' by Takahiro Suzuki, exhibited at the Kröller-Müller Museum (NL) in 2001. Suzuki wrote 'Ikiro' on rice paper sheets and created an installation from them.
My art manifesto was significant to me. Though only relevant in my own small context, I was hoping to speak to a wider (future) public of my work. Doing so gave me a feeling of control, very much welcomed in the precarious conditions in which I worked and lived.
Manifesto III (50 x 65 cm, 29 March 2005) ©Suzanne van Rossenberg. I took the phrase 'changing/transforming one's own subjectivity' from Male Subjectivity at the Margins (1992) by Kaja Silverman. On the painting, I also write 'You need to keep practising these things', which refers to the repetition required to master a skill (such as living – see above – or changing one's outlook on life).
My desire to change reality, including my own core being, still strikes me as the key message of my manifesto. The deep longing to be someone else (someone without my baggage) in a different world (a world that is not sexist, racist and homophobic) has always been the starting-point for my art.
Manifesto IV (50 x 65 cm, 1 April 2005) ©Suzanne van Rossenberg. The painting also shows the word 'body schemes', which refers to the repetition of dance movements by which the body can start memorizing the movements. In my manifesto, the body scheme is painting (my manifesto).
It is not strange that I ended up working at the intersection of art, advocacy, activism and policy work – trying to create a context in which (my) art could make a measurable difference.
Manifesto V (50 x 65 cm, 4 April 2005) ©Suzanne van Rossenberg. In this work, I additionally refer to transgressing rules, which is necessary for the visibility and recognition of queer-feminist art.
At the time, my art manifesto gave the context to the artistic project I had started called A Room with a Lesbian View, for which I drew, painted and photographed the view from my apartment in Leiden for more than ten years. My art manifesto can be seen as the expression of a queer-feminist strategy, balancing between addressing both a general art public and a queer/feminist counterpublic. I later read about this in Michael Warner's Publics and Counterpublics for my PhD thesis on art, transdisciplinarity and social change.
Manifesto VI (50 x 65 cm, 7 April 2005) ©Suzanne van Rossenberg. I started changing my own subjectivity by volunteering and working in activism and advocacy, leading to paid roles at human rights NGOs, including being the director of Transgender Network Netherlands.
When I now read and look at my 2005 art manifesto, I see how crucial the words I wrote were for finding my solutions, and, eventually, my happiness (in London) and my work pleasure (at the Government Equalities Office). And, the journey continues: I have not stopped making art – even though some people may think so!
Manifesto VII (50 x 65 cm, 7 April 2005) ©Suzanne van Rossenberg. Art depends on artists wanting to tell their stories. In this painting, I add the phrases 'LIKE JOURNALISM?' and 'because she can't relax' – in which you can read my struggle with the reality presented to me.
Manifesto VIII (50 x 65 cm, 18 April 2005) ©Suzanne van Rossenberg. Additionally, the painting says 'GIRLS DON'T CRY' (twice), the heart-breaking film which shows the extreme vulnerability of trans (and to a certain degree lesbian) people. Though the story has been very important in my life, I wouldn't be able to watch that film again.
Manifesto IX (50 x 65 cm, 18 April 2005) ©Suzanne van Rossenberg. The work additionally says 'Walk on By – Dionne Warwick' which is a song I listened to at that time [link opens a YouTube video]. The song represents to me letting go of pain, and moving on.
July 29, 2018 by Suzanne van Rossenberg	art, feminism, feminist art, LGBTI activism, LGBTQI, manifesto, queer art, research


If you have not heard about it, former Traders Hotel has undergone an extensive SGD45million makeover to transform into Hotel Jen Tanglin Singapore (今旅旅馆). In the month of December 2015 has seen the launch of Hotel Jen Tanglin Singapore's two new dining outlets situated in the freshly refurbished lobby level. J65 -the all-day dining restaurant has a South-East Asian market feel, while the artisan inspired Jen's Kitchen On-the-Go will offer locally roasted coffee and snacks, 24 hours a day.
Pssssss.. Hotel Jen Tangling is also one of the only hotels in Singapore to offer nett pricing in F&B outlets! Yay to no GST or service charge. Mind you, that is 17% savings ok.
There is also a dessert table that has ang moh dessert to the asian kueh kueh. If that is not enough to satisfied your sweettooth, there are chocolate fondue fountain, homemade puddings and ice cream too. The introduction of NETT pricing means no unpleasant surprises on the final bill. Sounds good? I guess one of the things that I love about dining here is the service crew was quite attentive with dirty plates cleared away promptly. For those who are not driving, there is a shutter bus that does pick up to and fro Orchard MRT (near Wisma Taxi Stand). I have took it from Hotel Jen back to Orchard MRT and it took less than 10 mins and the shutter bus was quite comfy as well.
For diners celebrating a birthday, J65 will provide a complimentary three-tier tower of delicious assorted cupcakes served with the signature birthday Dirty Milkshake. Overall it is a pleasant experience dining at J65 with the wide selection of items to choose from. A plus point while dining here is the super fast free WiFi that is available here. There is also an USB charging station and unlimited fruit infused water for the public. There is so much love from the interior to little details such as fuss free usage of free wifi. I would definitely be back again!
Sunday Brunch ($128 nett with free-flowing Champagne, wine, beer and cocktails, or $88 nett without alcohol) Sun, From 12noon till 3pm.
POMPOMPURIN cafe has arrived in Singapore!


text:
Isaiah Rider Jr. (ur. 12 marca 1971 w Oakland) – amerykański koszykarz, występujący na pozycji rzucającego obrońcy bądź niskiego skrzydłowego.

Karierę koszykarską rozpoczynał w szkole średniej Encinal High School. Po jej ukończeniu zdecydował się pójść na koledż Allen Community College, skąd jednak przeniósł się na Antelope Valley College. Rok później po raz kolejny zmienił uczelnie, zostając tym razem zawodnikiem drużyny koszykarskiej uniwersytetu Nevady w Las Vegas. Po ukończeniu studiów w 1993, zgłosił się do draftu NBA, gdzie został wybrany z numerem piątym przez Minnesotę Timberwolves. Trzy lata później trafił do Portland Trail Blazers. W sezonie 1999-2000 grał w Atlancie Hawks, a następnie został zawodnikiem Los Angeles Lakers, skąd po roku trafił do Denver Nuggets. W 2001 zakończył karierę sportową.

Będąc studentem uniwersytetu Nevady w Las Vegas, został w 1993 wybrany do drugiej piątki All-American oraz najlepszym zawodnikiem konferencji Big West. Podczas pierwszego sezonu gry w NBA był członkiem pierwszego składu debiutantów, oraz wykonując wsad po równoczesnym przełożeniu piłki pod nogą, wygrał konkurs wsadów NBA. To zagranie uznawane jest za jeden z dziesięciu najbardziej spektakularnych wsadów w historii Slam Dunk Contest. W 2001 roku został wraz z Los Angeles Lakers mistrzem NBA.

W 2006 został oskarżony o porwanie. Mimo iż otrzymał sądowy zakaz zbliżania się do dzielnicy, w której dokonał porwania, kilka tygodni później spowodował w niej wypadek chcąc uniknąć kontroli policyjnej. Rok później przyznał się do posiadania kokainy oraz próby ucieczki przed policją. Został skazany na 7 miesięcy aresztu. W 2010 roku został zatrzymany za napaść na własną narzeczoną, a parę tygodni później za porwanie swojego jednomiesięcznego synka.

Osiągnięcia
na podstawie, o ile nie zaznaczono inaczej.

NCAA
 Mistrz sezonu regularnego konferencji Big West (1992)
 Koszykarz roku konferencji Big West (1993)
 Zaliczony do:
 I składu:
 Big West (1992, 1993)
 turnieju Big West (1993)
 II składu All-American (1993)
 Lider Big West w:
 średniej punktów (1993 – 29,1)
 liczbie:
 punktów (1993 – 814)
 zbiórek (1993 – 250)
 celnych rzutów:
 z gry (1993 – 282)
 za 2 punkty (1993 – 227)
 wolnych (1993 – 195)
 oddanych rzutów:
 z gry (1992 – 420, 1993 – 548)
 za 2 punkty (1993 – 411)
 wolnych (1993 – 236)

NBA
 Mistrz NBA (2001)
 Zaliczony do I składu debiutantów NBA (1994)
 Zwycięzca konkursu wsadów NBA (1994)
 Uczestnik:
 meczu gwiazd debiutantów NBA (1994)
 konkursu wsadów NBA (1994, 1995)

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne
 Oficjalna strona Ridera
 Statystyki na basketball-reference.com

Amerykańscy koszykarze
Koszykarze NCAA All-American
Koszykarze Minnesoty Timberwolves
Koszykarze Portland Trail Blazers
Koszykarze Atlanty Hawks
Koszykarze Los Angeles Lakers
Koszykarze Denver Nuggets
Urodzeni w 1971
Ludzie urodzeni w Oakland
Koszykarze UNLV Runnin' Rebels

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


We know you have horse health questions, and we want to help! Each month, SmartPaker Dan and Dr. Lydia Gray, SmartPak's Staff Veterinarian and Medical Director, will answer questions submitted by you – our loyal subscribers, followers, fans, and friends – so we need your questions!
Have a question of your own that you'd like to have answered? Ask it below in the comments and be sure to use #AsktheVetVideo. We'll be accepting questions for our March 2019 episode until January 31st. Then we'll let you vote on here our blog, Twitter, and YouTube for the questions that you want answered! If your question gets voted to be answered, you win a SmartPak Gift Card! Check out this blog post for more details.
Make sure to check to see if your question has already been answered by looking through the video section of our Horse Health Library!
Download our Roku App here or search "SmartPak" on your Roku player to watch Ask the Vet on your TV.
Can a horse be double jointed? like humans, for example can horse's hocks be double jointed to have more range of motion? If horses can be double jointed is there any disadvantages or issues that can come along with that.
Is it smart to give a horse chia seeds daily? To reduce sand if you live in a dry pasture and to give them a good amount of Omega 3 and 6 a day? If it is smart to do chia seeds daily, how much should you use?
Is it safe for the horse to wear a fly mask while riding? I really want to protect the horse's eyes.
When is getting a companion for my horse such as a pony or miniature horse a good idea?
#AsktheVetVideo I'm thinking about giving my horse hay cubes. Can they be used as a substitute for hay as we are in a hay shortage right now or should I buy some hay and feed some of each? What other things are good to know about hay cubes?


text:
Sun 9 December 2018 - 4 pm | Philharmonie Berlin
Everything flows
Brett Dean's viola concerto amongst music inspired by life at the waterside
Symphony concert from € 20 Composer in Residence
Benjamin Britten	"Four Sea Interludes" from the opera "Peter Grimes" op. 33 a
Brett Dean	Viola Concerto
Robert Schumann	Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, op. 97 ("Rhenish")
John Storgårds	- Conductor
Brett Dean	- Viola
John Storgårds
John Storgårds - Conductor
"Indeed, the impressive musical results supported the acclaim that has greeted the (…) Finnish conductor at every step of his rapid podium ascent worldwide." (Chicago Tribune)
Chief Guest Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra Ottawa, John Storgårds has a dual career as a conductor and violin virtuoso and is widely recognised for his creative flair for programming. He additionally holds the title of Artistic Director of the Chamber Orchestra of Lapland.
Storgårds appears with such orchestras as WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Bamberger Symphoniker, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National de France, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, BBC Symphony Orchestra as well as all the major Nordic orchestras including Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra where he was Chief Conductor from 2008 to 2015. Further afield, he appears with the Sydney, Melbourne and NHK Symphony Orchestras as well as the St Louis and Vancouver Symphony Orchestras, the Cleveland Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. Soloists with whom he collaborates include Yefim Bronfman, Sol Gabetta, Håkan Hardenberger, Kari Kriikku, Gil Shaham, Baiba Skride, Christian Tetzlaff, Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Frank Peter Zimmermann.
Storgårds' vast repertoire includes all symphonies by Sibelius, Nielsen, Bruckner, Brahms, Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann. He gave a historical cycle of all 54 symphonies by Mozart (including the unnumbered works) and conducted Finnish premieres of Schumann's only opera 'Genoveva', his early 'Zwickau' symphony, plus world premieres of Sibelius' Suite op. 117 for violin and strings and the Late Fragments. As a violinist, Storgårds gave the Finnish premiere of Schumann's own violin version of the cello concerto and his Violin Sonata No 3. Storgårds regularly performs world premieres of works by contemporary composers such as Brett Dean, Per Nørgård, Kaija Saariaho and Pēteris Vasks. Many of these composers have dedicated their works to him. In opera he conducted the world premiere production of Sebastian Fagerlund's new opera 'Höstsonaten – Autumn Sonata' at the Finnish National Opera and directed by Stéphane Braunschweig. The title was a finalist at the 2018 International Opera Awards. Storgårds further lead Haydn's 'Orlando Paladino', a new production by Paul-Emile Fourny of Mozart's 'Don Giovanni' at the Savonlinna Opera Festival as well as major titles by Strauss, Verdi and most Mozart operas.
Highlights of his 2018/19 season included Storgårds' return to the BBC Proms with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra as well as his return to the Blossom Festival with the Cleveland Orchestra. Debut appearances included the Pittsburgh and Dallas Symphony Orchestras, the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and Münchner Philharmoniker as well as the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden. He further gave his subscription series debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and returns to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra Washington as well as the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin for concerts at the Berliner Philharmonie as well as on tour conducting Bruckner's monumental symphony No. 5.
Storgårds' award winning discography includes recordings of works by Schumann, Mozart, Beethoven and Haydn but also rarities by Holmboe and Vasks' featuring him as soloist. Two cycles of symphonies by Sibelius (2014) and Nielsen (2015) with the BBC Philharmonic were released to critical acclaim by Chandos. Their latest recording project includes works by the American avant-garde composer George Antheil. Other successes include discs of works by Nørgård, Korngold, Aho and Rautavaara, the latter receiving a Grammy nomination and a Gramophone Award in 2012.
Storgårds studied violin with Chaim Taub and subsequently became concert master of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen, before studying conducting with Jorma Panula and Eri Klas. He received the Finnish State Prize for Music in 2002 and the Pro Finlandia Prize 2012.
Brett Dean - Viola
Brett Dean studied in Brisbane before moving to Germany in 1984 where he was a member of the Berlin Philharmonic for fourteen years, during which time he began composing. His music is championed by many of the leading conductors and orchestras worldwide, including Sir Simon Rattle, Vladimir Jurowski, David Robertson, Andris Nelsons, Marin Alsop and Sakari Oramo. Much of Dean's work draws from literary, political, environmental or visual stimuli, including a number of compositions inspired by artwork by his wife Heather Betts.
Brett Dean began composing in 1988, initially concentrating on experimental film and radio projects and as an improvising performer. Dean's reputation as a composer continued to develop, and it was through works such as his clarinet concerto Ariel's Music (1995), which won an award from the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers, and Carlo (1997) for strings, sampler and tape, inspired by the music of Carlo Gesualdo, that he gained international recognition.
In 2009 Dean won the Grawemeyer Award for music composition for his violin concerto The Lost Art of Letter Writing and in 2016 was awarded the Don Banks Music Award by Australia Council, acknowledging his sustained and significant contribution to Australia's musical scene. In June 2017 his second opera Hamlet was premiered at Glyndebourne Festival Opera to great acclaim, winning both the 2018 South Bank Sky Arts Awards and International Opera Awards for opera.
Dean enjoys a busy performing career as violist and conductor, performing his own Viola Concerto with many of the world's leading orchestras. Dean is a natural chamber musician, frequently collaborating with other soloists and ensembles to perform both his own chamber works and standard repertoire, including projects with the Doric Quartet, Scharoun Ensemble and Alban Gerhardt. Dean's imaginative conducting programmes usually centre around his own works combined with other composers and highlights include his appointment as Creative Chair at Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich 2017/18, projects with the BBC Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony, Sydney Symphony, BBC Philharmonic, Gothenburg Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Tonkünstler-Orchester, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and as Artist in Residence with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra.
Dean is 2018/19 Composer in Residence of Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, which sees Dean join the orchestra as soloist in his Viola Concerto, and a focus on Dean's orchestral and chamber works throughout the season. Dean also continues as Artist in Residence with Sydney Symphony Orchestra across 2016-2018.
Highlights of 2018/19 include the world premiere of Dean's Cello Concerto for Alban Gerhardt, which will be premiered by Sydney Symphony conducted by David Robertson in August 2018 and receives its European premiere from the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Sakari Oramo in October 2018. In April 2019 a new chamber work will be premiered at New York's Lincoln Center and London's Wigmore Hall, and Dean's String Quartet No.3 will be premiered by the Doric String Quartet in June 2019 in an Australian tour.
Dean opens the season performing the UK premiere of Approach: Prelude to a Canon at the BBC Proms with Swedish Chamber Orchestra, before performing the German premiere at Rheingau Festival, where he is 2018 artist in focus. Elsewhere this season Dean joins Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin and Helsinki Philharmonic to perform his Viola Concerto and conducts a number of orchestras including Sydney Symphony, Adelaide Symphony, Swedish Chamber Orchestra and the Australian National Academy of Music.
Brett Dean's music has been recorded for BIS, Chandos, Warner Classics, ECM Records and ABC Classics, with a BIS release in 2016 of works including Shadow Music, Testament, Short Stories and Etudenfest performed by Swedish Chamber Orchestra conducted by Dean. Dean's Viola Concerto has also been released on BIS with the Sydney Symphony, and a DVD of Hamlet was released by Glyndebourne in June 2018.
Sun 9 December 2018 - 4 pm Philharmonie Berlin
Pre-concert talk with Steffen Georgi: 2.45 pm, Hermann-Wolff-Saal
Philharmonie Berlin © Lauterbach/Archiv
Philharmonie Berlin © Berliner Philharmoniker
Philharmonie Berlin © Schirmer
As the Berlin Philharmonic Hall is a listed building, unfortunately it is not fully accessible in all areas. Further information regarding entrances for the disabled, places in the disabled box, and offers of help for the sight and hearing impaired are available on the website of the Philharmonie.
https://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/barrierefrei/
Concert visitors with severely disabled passes marked B will receive a free ticket for their escort when buying a ticket. Our visitor service (link) is happy to assist with any further questions. On site, you can contact the staff of the events service EVENTTEAM, who will be happy to help you in any way.
The building opens one hour before the start of concerts.
Please note that visitors may not take large bags, rucksacks or coats into the concert hall with them. However, coats can be handed in, free of charge at the cloakrooms in the foyer or on the first floor opposite Block A right. Please collect your coats and items of luggage as soon as possible after the end of the concert. Personal items which are not collected in good time will be left with the porter at the stage door (in the direction of Potsdamer Platz) and can be collected from there upon presentation of your cloakroom ticket.
Snacks and drinks are sold in the foyer of the Philharmonie before concerts and in the concert intervals. These can be ordered in advance for the opening of doors and the interval, please ring tel. 030 265 15 24 or via email to gerresheimph@aol.com.
No food or drink may be taken into the concert hall.
Philharmonie Berlin
Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße 1
It is easy to access the Philharmonie by public transport:
Buses M84, M85, N2 to Kulturforum or Varian-Fry-Str. or Potsdamer Platz + 4 minutes walk, 200 to Philharmonie
Underground U2 to Potsdamer Platz + 10 minutes walk
S-Bahn (city railway) S1, S2, S25, S26 and regional trains to Potsdamer Platz + 10 minutes walk
Current information: due to building works around the Philharmonie, traffic is being diverted in the area of Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße and Tiergartenstraße. For further information, please consult the website of the Philharmonie.
There are a limited number of charged parking spaces on the site of the Philharmonie:
per hour or part-hour 2.50 Euros
day maximum 20.00 Euros
lost ticket 20.00 Euros
evening rate 7 pm to 5 am 7.00 Euros
Sunday flat rate 6.00 Euros
Please also use parking possibilities in the Sony Center (entrances Ben-Gurion- and Bellevuestraße) as well as Potsdamer Platz Arkaden (entrance to underground parking on Reichpietschufer) and in the car park on Schöneberger Ufer. All these are public parking areas belonging to the City of Berlin, on behalf of which they are administrated by APCOA Autoparking GmbH.
The public parking areas on Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße (on the western side of the Philharmonie) provide a limited number of identified parking spaces for the disabled. Unfortunately, it is generally not possible to reserve parking spaces.


Mazars USA has released its biennial US Water Industry Outlook for the year 2017. Water is vital to the U.S. economy and forms the backbone of many industries, and many sectors will face major water challenges in the coming years. This study contains information on the key focus areas of global water companies: Innovation, Cybersecurity, Finance and the Future of the Industry.
Alongside data from a number of participants, the study includes interviews with three industry leaders and a Mazars cybersecurity expert. To gain access to their vital insights, please download the article below.


text:
Do we need to rethink the diagnoses melanoma in situ and severely dysplastic naevus?
Br J Dermatol. 2022 Jun;186(6):1030-1032. doi: 10.1111/bjd.21010. Epub 2022 Apr 7.
Caitlin R Semsarian 1 , Tara Ma 1 , Brooke Nickel 1 , Richard A Scolyer 2 3 4 , Peter M Ferguson 2 3 4 , H Peter Soyer 5 6 , Lisa Parker 7 8 , Alexandra Barratt 1 , John F Thompson 2 3 9 , Katy J L Bell 1
1 Sydney School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
2 Melanoma Institute Australia, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
3 Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
4 Tissue Pathology and Diagnostic Oncology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital & NSW Health Pathology, Camperdown, NSW, Australia.
5 The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, The University of Queensland, Dermatology Research Centre, QLD, Woolloongabba, Australia.
6 Dermatology Department, Princess Alexandra Hospital, QLD, Woolloongabba, Australia.
7 Sydney School of Pharmacy, Charles Perkins Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
8 Department of Radiation Oncology, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
9 Department of Melanoma and Surgical Oncology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, Australia.
DOI: 10.1111/bjd.21010
Dysplastic Nevus Syndrome* / diagnosis
Melanoma* / diagnosis
Skin Neoplasms* / diagnosis
Supplementary concepts
Melanoma, Cutaneous Malignant


TXAB: The Christ Almighty Blog: The cycle: The good old days, and the dark times.
Prosperity. Peace, comfort, and relative success. The scriptures attribute it to God. We humans just as often attribute it to ourselves, forget God, and forget the last time the Cycle went round. And so it starts all over again.
Apostasy. Since we have few needs, God isn't petitioned, isn't followed. Religion gets sloppy, abandoned for other pursuits, or replaced with something new. Irreligion, or apathy, is passed down to children; many of whom decide to look elsewhere.
Unblessing. Up to this point, God's been protecting us from natural and artificial disasters. That ends.
Oppression. Prosperity ends. Disaster strikes. Famine. The economy collapses. Enemies take advantage of a prosperity-focused, ineffective government, ill-equipped to defend the weak. Those who hold our debts force us into subservience.
Repentance. We finally stop blaming others for our misfortunes, and ask ourselves what we can do to set things right with God.
Revival. A return to religion, as people go back to wholeheartedly following God and calling out to him for help.
Deliverance. God raises up anointed leaders (in the scriptures, judges) to defend his people from their foes. Sometimes with war. Sometimes prophecy. Sometimes other reforms.
…And then back to prosperity. And after a time, apostasy. And so on round the Cycle.
The Cycle in the scriptures.
Israel followed God and went through prosperity.
Then Israel forgot God and slid into apostasy.
Then God turned off the blessings and took the side of their oppressors.
Then oppression. Sometimes a nearby nation conquered Israel (or some of its tribes) and made it a tributary nation. Sometimes they full-on dragged 'em into captivity. Sometimes they did nothing more than raid its borders and hassle its citizens.
Finally the people realized God could solve their problem.
Followed by an outbreak of religion, prayer, following the Law, and so forth, in hopes God would remember his relationship with Israel and save them.
And then God saved 'em, and they had several years of prosperity… and round we go again.
True, we don't see the Cycle so much in the New Testament. Mostly because it covers a much briefer time period. Between Abraham and Malachi, the Old Testament covers maybe 17 centuries; the New Testament only about 30 years. That's not enough time for a full Cycle. What we're seeing in the New Testament is only a segment of the Cycle: The Romans signify the oppression, John the baptist signifies the revival, Jesus the deliverance, and God's kingdom the eventual prosperity. But not everyone in first-century Israel recognized the need for repentance… which is why they wound up crucifying their Savior.
10 Once all Joshua's generation joined their ancestors, another generation came after them.
They didn't know the LORD. Nor the work he did for Israel.
11 Israel's descendants did evil in the LORD's eyes. They served the Baal pantheon.
12 They abandoned the LORD, their ancestors' God, who brought them out of Egypt's land.
They followed other gods, the gods of the other peoples around them.
They worshiped them, and provoked the LORD.
13 They left the LORD, and served Baal and Astarte.
He put them in the hand of raiders, who raided them.
He sold them to the hand of their enemies around them.
They weren't able to withstand their enemies' face any longer.
like the LORD had spoken of, like the LORD swore to them he'd forcefully hold back from them.
17 but Israel didn't listen to his judges, for they were "doing it" with these other gods.
They worshiped them. They hurried to abandon the ways their ancestors walked.
Ancestors listened to the LORD's commands; they didn't do likewise.
The LORD rescued them from the hand of their enemies for all the days of the judge.
in the face of those who pressured and crowded them.
19 Then when the judge died, they backslid: They trashed what their ancestors did.
They followed other gods, to serve and worship them. They didn't repent from their deeds, from their hard ways.
this nation violates the relationship I assigned their ancestors. They won't listen to my voice.
21 So I'll no longer dispossess the people ahead of them, the nations still there when Joshua died.
And sometimes they did walk the LORD's way. And sometimes not.
The Cycle and the churches.
There's an old saying you'll hear in history classes: Eastern cultures see history as cyclical; whereas western cultures see it as a straight line, with a beginning and end.
In part that's true. Y'see, western cultures have been heavily influenced by the New Testament, and as I said, we don't see the whole of the Cycle in the NT. Just a segment of the arc. For this reason, you'll find many western Christians who insist Jesus broke the Cycle, so it's over: It was part of the old dispensation, when people had to be saved by good works, but now that we're saved by grace, no more Cycle. It did its job, but its time has passed.
How do these folks interpret human history? For the most part they take the rest of the downward arc of the Cycle (apostasy, unblessing, oppression) and stretch it out till the End. The world, they insist, is getting worse and worse and worse. Someday it'll be so bad, God simply has to intercede and put an end to it. Meanwhile, us Christians are an oasis in the middle of this awful world: In our group—and only in our group—the Cycle's going upward (repentance, revival, deliverance). While individual Christians and individual churches may fall away, Christianity as a whole has always gone onward and upward. And always will.
Now, if you know actual world history, you'll know this is poppycock. Christianity goes through the Cycle, same as the ancient Hebrews, same as every culture.
One generation followed Jesus with all their hearts. The next, with about half their hearts. The generation after that… well, their parents sucked at passing Christianity down, so they might've called themselves Christian, but they were functionally pagan. The fourth generation: Unapologetically pagan. Sometimes it doesn't even take four generations. Sometimes only one.
Yes, when we actually do our job and pass our own relationships with Christ Jesus down to the next generation of Christians, we can actually stop the Cycle. For now. 'Cause that's the problem: We might be vigilant and do our job of passing Christianity down, but the next generation may not be so cautious, and might drop the ball.
It's what we see in a lot of spiritually-dead churches. Every denomination (except the heretic ones) is the product of a revival. But while the first generation was on-fire for God, the second wasn't always, the third less so, the fourth even less so… and nowadays, all you find in that institution are instructions on how to play church. The Holy Spirit left once the Christians died off.
Happens all the time. Shouldn't. But those who don't learn from the past… well, they assume Christianity stopped the Cycle, and get a very screwy idea about how history works.
History repeats itself. Read your Old Testament. Read Judges in particular. Learn your history. And stop repeating it.


text:
Green Ocean Race – Innovation in Renewable Energy Sources
January 2008- Joyon Shatters Round The World Record
Posted by Green Ocean Race on Friday, August 8, 2014 · Leave a Comment
JOYON SHATTERS ROUND THE WORLD RECORD
At the age of 51, Francis Joyon is once again the fastest solo yachtsman around the world, having completed his non-stop record attempt in 57 days, 13 hours, 34 minutes and 6 seconds. He has shattered the previous record, held since 2005 by the British yachtswoman, Ellen MacArthur by 14 days, 44 minutes and 27 seconds. Joyon and the 97-foot IDEC trimaran crossed the finishing line off Brest on Sunday 20th January 2008 at 00h39'58. Onboard IDEC, Francis Joyon covered more than 26,400 nautical miles at an average speed of 19.09 knots. Throughout the passage, IDEC sailed "cleanly," without the use of any fossil fuel (no engine), generating its own energy with a wind turbine and solar panels.
Francis Joyon becomes the only solo sailor in the world to have established the non-stop single-handed round the world voyage record aboard a multihull on two occasions (first set in 2004). Additionally, Joyon's passage achieved the second best time ever for sailing around the world, including crewed voyages! Joyon surpassed the crewed record set by Steve Fossett's giant Cheyenne (58 days, 9 hours and 32 minutes in April 2004), with only the crew of Bruno Peyron's maxi-catamaran Orange II still holding the outright record in just over 50 days.
Joyon's Site
View Photos Here
Curmudgeon's Comment: Joyon's program was criticized early on by the English speaking press, as his sponsor apparently did not see the need to translate their daily updates from French. However, as the success of his effort became imminent, the updates started coming in English too. Now, his team has provided a blow-by-blow account of Joyon's record-setting voyage…in English.
Filed under Boat Racing · Tagged with
January 2019- Let's Lift Our Head Out of the Sand!
April 2017- Just Where Are We Heading?
August 2014- Beyond Climate Change by Eric Forsyth
November 2011- The Electric Power System of the Far Future- Possibly
May 2009- The Challenges Facing Renewable Energy
Copyright 2023 Green Ocean Race – Innovation in Renewable Energy Sources · RSS Feed · Log in
Designed by Third Eye Studio


text:
Rescuing. Repairing. Preparing. Propelling.
Church of Christ School
Administration: 2
Drivers: 2
Janitor: 1
Catering staff: 2
Security: 1
Junior High (Basic 7-9)
Classroom Teachers: 7
Average Experience: 8 years
First Degree: 2
Diplomates: 4
Under Diploma: 1
Maximum Class Size: 15
Upper Primary (Basic 4-6)
First Degree Holders: 1
Lower Primary (Basic 1-3)
Preschool (Crèche- Kindergarten)
Attendant: 1
Bringing Quality Education to Rural Ghana
Bismark Agyei had the opportunity to be enrolled in Church of Christ School in September, 2009 after the collapse of Plateau Preparatory School at Nkwatia. Though he was in JHS 2 (Grade 8) by then when his original school collapsed, Bismark did not challenge his father's decision to be admitted into the sixth grade in Church of Christ School which was the highest grade in the school by then. This class demotion as you may call it, didn't intimidate him. What could have been an excuse for an average thinker to reject his new class was the fact he was placed in the same class with his younger brother. Bismark did the very opposite, he saw his new class as an urge to greater effort because of the high academic standard of his new school and class. He doubled his effort to run shoulders with his classmates. To Bismark, his younger brother, Evans, doing better than him academically would be a great discomfort for him in the house. This notion helped him to be academically focused.
In 2013, Bismark completed Church of Christ School with excellent grades and was admitted into St. Peter's Senior High School also in Nkwatia. St. Peter's is one of the top Senior High Schools in Ghana and as such, a preserve for children of influential citizens. Had it not been Bismark's academic performance, he wouldn't have been in St. Peter's. Bismark completed his Senior High School education in 2016 with 6 A's and 2 B's. He is currently pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing at the University of Development Studies, Tamale in the Northern part of Ghana.
Bismark has proven to us that knowing what one wants is the first and most important step towards any achievement.
Church of Christ School was established by a visionary Christian, Dr. Douglas Akuamoah Boateng on 16th September, 2003. His intention was to have a private, Christian educational institution aimed at providing quality and character training to learners who will impact our world.
The local church (Abetifi/Nkwatia Church of Christ) was given oversight responsibility of the school.
The school was originally located at Abetifi-Kwahu with the first batch of 69 learners enrolled into Nursery and Kindergarten classes. Out of the total number of pupils enrolled, 38 were in Nursery and 31 were admitted into Kindergarten 1. Classes were held at the basement of the Abetifi Church of Christ auditorium.
In September, 2005, the school was relocated to Nkwatia-Kwahu, its present premises when Elder Dr. Douglas Akuamoa Boateng bought an already built seven unit classroom block and an additional 10.28 acres of land for future expansion.
The school became a subsidiary of Village of Hope in September, 2008 when Elder Dr. Douglas Akuamoah Boateng transferred management and ownership of the school to Village of Hope.
Church of Christ School exists to offer holistic Christian-based education and development to every child for better life and service to God and humanity.
Church of Christ School would be a second-to-none educational provider at the Basic level of education across the African continent by the year 2030.
To educate and train all learners regardless of colour, ethnic background, class, creed or religion to harness their unique potentials.
To provide spiritual growth to pupils and staff to align with God.
To offer excellent services to our clientele within and without Church of Christ School premises.
To provide excellent environment congenial to promote academic excellence.
The Church of Christ School fraternity upholds our core values of fairness, diligence and virtue. We endeavour to apply these values in every aspect of school operation. In everything we do, we seek to apply the principle of the Golden Rule "do to others what you want them do for you", and show diligence in whatever we do to the very end, in order to make our hope sure. In our daily interactions, we think about whatever is true, noble, right, pure, lovely and admirable.
The motto of Church of Christ School is "Godliness, Knowledge and Wisdom. The motto is embedded in our mission, vision, objectives and the core values.
We believe every individual has God-given mission on earth.
We believe faith in oneself is of primary importance in academic excellence.
We belief positive mental attitude brings success in every endeavour of mankind.
We believe the greatest accomplishment any man can boast of is to know God and serve Him with every gift one may possess.
Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.
Church of Christ School is beset with several challenges ranging from poor infrastructure and high labour mobility. The school is open to donor support from individuals, groups and other foundations interested in providing quality education to children in rural communities.
Board of Directors of
Christiana Boahemaa Owiredu
William Gyedu-Asiedu (Dr.)
University Lecturer
Ebenezer Agyemang Badu
Douglas Michael Boateng
Frank Arku (Prof.)
University Administrator/Lecturer
Daniel Kwame Agyepong
Dorcas Attuah
William Otoo Ayisi
Minister/Lawyer/Lecturer
Richmond Twum
Our Work in Pictures
Shop Off the Street by Village of Hope
Hope Children's Village
Hope Training Institute
Hope Christian Academy
Hope Christian Hospital
Apply for Our Services
Apply to Hope College
Apply to Hope Christian Academy
Apply to Church of Christ School
Apply to Hope Children's Village
Apply to Hope Training Institute
P. O. Box GP 18169, Accra, Ghana | P. O. Box 670394, Dallas, Texas 75367, USA
Hope Children's Village [Orphanage]: (+233) 243-978-468
Hope Training Institute [Street Programme]: (+233) 208-232-585 | 244-990-100
Hope Christian Academy [Basic School]: (+233) 208-185-045 | 244-738-666 | 243-178-654
Hope Christian Hospital: (+233) 206-300-688 | 207-113-220 | 503-023-191
Church of Christ School [Basic School (Nkwatia)]: (+233) 200-800-020
Hope College [High School]: (+233) 248-748-944 | 200-412-324 | 200-237-175
Group Office: (+233) 202-012-229 | 244-313-404
U. S. Contact: (+1) 817-523-4419 | 817-677-8647
info@thevillageofhope.com
©2020 by Village of Hope


text:
The Guardian: 'St George's Day with a Catalan twist'
by redacció 18:02 0 comentaris
By Matthew Tree
guardian.co.uk, Saturday 23 April 2011
And the word was love … Sant Jordi's Day celebrations in Las Ramblas, Barcelona. Photograph: Miquel Benitez/Rex Features
The patron saint of the country in which I live is Sant Jordi, his name adapted here to Catalan just as it has been to the respective tongues of the 11 other countries that have adopted this apparent dragon-slayer as their national mascot. In Catalonia, however, far from being an occasion for patriotic breast-beating – as still seems to be the case in England – April 23, at least since the 15th century, has been revered as the dia dels enamorats or lovers' day, on which the enamoured are supposed to give a blood-red rose to their beloveds.
Towards the end of the 1920s, Vicente Clavel, a Valencian resident of Barcelona, realising that Sant Jordi's deathday coincided with those of Cervantes and Shakespeare, decided to encourage people to give books as well as roses to their loved ones, an idea welcomed with open arms by his fellow publishers.
Since then, on Sant Jordi's day (even under Franco, when the open sale of Catalan language books was banned for 39 years), the citizens of Catalonia have flocked to the centres of their villages, towns and cities to get a rose and a book for their spouses, lovers, offspring or parents. In the capital (Barcelona), things never fail to reach a frenetic apogee, with the two main Ramblas and a fair slice of the Passeig de Gràcia stuffed to the gills with potential readers on the lookout for the latest titles and the writers who are signing them, while roses are hawked by dozens upon dozens of street vendors dotted among the bookstalls.
Writers are traditionally invited to kick off Sant Jordi's Day by assembling at the central Regina hotel for a collective breakfast followed by a mass photo shoot. I personally skip this occasion (which is rush-hour crowded; besides which, I never eat breakfast anyway) and head straight for my first allocated stand. (Publishers organise between six and eight separate signing sessions throughout the day per author).
These stands are of banqueting-hall length, with the writers squeezed together like wedding guests, that is to say, within elbowing distance. Which has the advantage, sometimes, of being placed next to an author you have long been wanting to meet, and the disadvantage, on occasion, of being obliged to cosy up with someone who belongs to a pretentious clique whose work you despise (and who, almost certainly, feels the same way about you). More rare – though it has happened to me more than twice – is the unsettling experience of finding yourself next to a Catalan media personality before whom hordes are queuing to obtain his TV spin-off while in front of your own pile of volumes, written without the cameras in mind, there stretches nothing but empty paving.
Throughout the day, the inevitable spectacle of strangers picking up your book, reading through the blurb, and then tossing it disdainfully back on the pile, is offset, thank the Lord, by the pleasantness (far more common) involved in meeting many chatty, previously unknown readers.
At the end of each hour, it is mandatory to leap up from your chair and half-sprint off to the next scheduled stand. Given that the signing sessions are chronologically sandwiched – so that the author signing from, say, four to five, is supposed to start his next signing from five to six, often at a stand several hundred yards away – writers have to barge red-faced and sweating through the crowds in an attempt to defy the rules that still govern time and space.
Sant Jordi's Day ends around twilight, which is when the booksellers start to wrap up the unsold produce then stand around smoking in exhausted gaggles, while the throngs quickly thin to next to nothing and discarded publishers' flyers lie scattered on the pavements' darkening shades of grey.
By nine o'clock, it is hard to believe that for the last 12 hours, hundreds of thousands of people have shifted their way along the boulevards of Barcelona, Girona, Tarragona, Lleida and all the smaller towns in between: families and lovers and groups of friends eyeing covers, inspecting rose petals, exchanging books, exchanging roses, all of it, nominally at least, in the name of love: family love, couple love, erotic love. There is, indeed, nothing like Catalonia's dia dels enamoratsanywhere else on this planet. Saint Valentine, eat your heart out. /Font