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'Thinking the Postcolonial as Political' Published by Borderlands, 1 October 2007. ISSN: 1447-0810 http://www.borderlands.net.au/issues/vol6no2.html
This publication was developed from my keynote address to the international conference Postcolonial Politics at the University of Otago, New Zealand (2006).
The text argues that post-colonial political theory has been limited as a consequence of an unresolved theoretical debate between Marxism and post-structuralism. I contend that the changing organisation of production, reproduction and political representation at the global level entails the need to come to terms with new forms of property law, the global restructuring of labour, an emergent politics of age and disease, and an accountancy of life. In this respect this text compliments my previously published work which develops an ethical approach from a post-Marxist political perspective. The consequence of this perspective for post-colonial politics and theory are threefold: critics must come to terms with the differential valuation of lives and the technologies of such evaluation; post-colonial politics can no longer be limited to either a statist conception of political struggle, or a version of politics premised on a politics of difference; politics must address new forms of property in the body, as well as the re-conceptualisation of the body politic in genetic and informational terms.
This critique advances a fundamentally new intellectual agenda, both of the analysis and practice of contemporary politics. The method of dissemination via free access e-publication in a journal of international repute which maintains the conventions of peer review, rigorously reflects and reinforces critical concepts embedded in a framework of intended inclusiveness as opposed to privileged access.

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The equity method of private equity fund accounting is used to pull profits and losses from lower tier entities up to upper tier entities. This way, unrealized gains and losses can be properly reflected in quarterly statements and other reports, showing an accurate value of the portfolio.
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The equity method of accounting is a process used to value one company's investment in another company. The equity method is often used with the investor has significant influence in the investee, usually defined as an investment of between 20% and 50% and/or with representation on the board of directors.
When this is the case, profits and losses in the investee will affect the investor's own balance sheet. P&L needs to be pulled up from the lower tier entities to the upper tier ones in order to accurately reflect the value. This is known as the equity pickup.
How does an equity pickup work?
As an example, let's say an investor owns a 30% stake in its investee. That share was purchased for $30 million.
If the investee earns $10 million dollars over the course of the next year, the investor will need to show its percentage of that profit as a line item on its income statement, in this example, $3 million.
The investor will also need to reflect this unrealized gain on its balance sheet for its investee, adding $3 million to the historical cost basis of the purchase price, $30 million, for a total of $33 million.
Similarly, debits have to be accounted for as well. If, at the end of the year, the investee also pays out a dividend of $100,000, the investor would show its portion of this, $30,000, as a reduction on its investment account balance sheet and a line item on its income statement.
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How capable is Cisco of ensuring that it has the channel bandwidth to meet its lofty growth expectations?
A visit to the Middle East from affable Cisco CEO John Chambers often brings with it a fairly significant announcement or two, usually with a sprinkle of million-dollar figures and bold promises thrown in for good measure. This week's trip to the UAE - where Chambers met with senior government personnel and business executives - didn't disappoint.
In a repeat of his 2006 jaunt to Saudi Arabia, when he unveiled an ambitious US$265m five-year strategy to ramp up Cisco's efforts in the Kingdom, Chambers' arrival in the UAE was accompanied by details of more audacious GCC investment plans than before.
The networking behemoth has pledged to spend a colossal US$1.6 billion in the UAE ICT market over the next five years, which will include the launch of a state-of-the-art customer briefing centre and yet more local networking academies to augment the 39 already in place. If that's still not enough, Cisco expects to create a staggering 650 new jobs over the course of the next two years - the equivalent of almost one new employee joining the company every one and a half days from now until 2010. It's little wonder that an Abu Dhabi office is scheduled to open in June this year.
Although such objectives represent the sort of headline-grabbing announcement precisely reserved for important CEO visits, Cisco's buoyant vision gives major encouragement to the wider UAE market. Looking at the vendor's burgeoning cash pile and already dominant position in the Middle East, I'm sure that it is supremely confident that it can live up to the titanic task it has set itself.
But for me, there is one crucial question that could slow down the juggernaut before it has even moved into second gear. How capable is Cisco of ensuring that it has the channel bandwidth to meet its lofty growth expectations?
Cisco is renowned as a channel-focused organisation, one that derives more than 90% of its revenues from partners that sell its rapidly-growing portfolio of products and services. To recoup the outlay on a US$1.6 billion investment, I'd imagine Cisco will need to expand even faster than it has done in previous years. And that is only going to happen if its channel partners are capable of developing their own operations at a similar speed.
Remember, we are only talking about the UAE here, not even the entire Gulf.
From speaking to various resellers in the UAE, and not just those with Cisco backgrounds, it is clear that a number of ongoing challenges continue to present obstacles. Two of the most pressing, without doubt, are capacity and skills.
The capacity issue is the trickiest because it is largely the outcome of a vibrant market and a resource shortage. Supply and demand, if you like. Resellers and integrators are staring into healthy project pipelines, but privately some of them admit that they are really stretching themselves to meet the demand. This is compounded by the persistent and expensive struggle to find new staff, especially when it comes to hiring individuals with industry sales knowledge and technical expertise.
Some Cisco partners impacted by such challenges will invariably have some big decisions to make because if Cisco seriously intends to ramp up its headcount by 100%, then they have got be thinking about considering expanding the size of their business by at least 30% just to keep pace.
It's not clear how many partners represent the bulk of Cisco's revenues in the Middle East, but a figure of between 10% and 20% is probably not unlikely when you look at other vendors of similar stature in the region. If so, the cost and operational pressure on those resellers to scale up at the same aggressive rate as Cisco is going to be enormous.
Let's not forget either that staff from Cisco's partners may well be updating their resumes after learning of the vendor's plans to recruit 650 people. What price on some resellers having to find replacements for Cisco-bound employees before even getting round to the real job of scaling their business!
There's a much wider point here though, and it's one that is not just isolated to Cisco. The challenge of capacity and channel bandwidth is equally applicable to all other fast-growing vendors that possess an equally bright view of their prospects.
Like Cisco, they will be well-advised to keep a constant eye on the development of their channel partners in the region and monitor the proximity of their expectations to the channel's ability to fulfil them. If they don't then the assertions borne out of CEOs flying in to outline bold new initiatives will simply be laughed off.


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Time for a Heretical Model? Ballard, Quinn, Manahan & Simpson on 'Integrative Medicine"
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Time for a Heretical Model? Ballard, Quinn, Manahan & Simpson on "Integrative Medicine" and Inclusion
Summary: The last Integrator issue included views on whether "integrative medicine" is inclusive or denies other disciplines. This set of comments deepens the dialogue. Tom Ballard, ND, part of the naturopathic medical field for 30 years, describes how his excitement about "integration" has panned out as an unhealthy "assimilation." Sheila Quinn, a long-time leader in integrated health care, offers a few perspectives, including that of a patient. Holistic medicine pioneer and contributor to Rakel's Integrative Medicine, Bill Manahan, MD, aligns with a "heretical model" of leveling the playing field. Holistic nurse Sonja Simpson, RN, wonders if any of this will amount to better patient care. Thoughtful submissions on what Manahan rightfully called "an elephant in the room."
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A pointed column by Peter Glidden, ND and my review of Integrative Medicine (Regarding Drop Value, Antecedents and Whether It's All About MDs: David Rakel's Integrative Medicine, July 7, 2008) stirred up potent responses from some long-time leaders in naturopathic medicine, holistic nursing, holistic medicine and functional medicine.
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1. Sheila Quinn: the burden of integration should not be solely on the patient
Sheila Quinn's perspective is informed by 35 years of experience in medicine, and by growing up in a family with two medical doctors as parents. A consultant, writer and editor presently, Quinn has been a leader at the Institute for Functional Medicine, a co-founder of Bastyr University and is chair of the board for the Integrated Healthcare Policy Consortium. She is known for speaking eloquently, in all these forums, as a patient of integrated practice. Quinn is an Integrator editorial adviser.
"I had many thoughts (as you obviously did also) on reading Peter Glidden's outpouring.
"My first thought was, "Well, that's why an ND has been my primary care physician for more than 30 years!" Would I want a primary care practitioner who was not highly knowledgeable about the full range of non-drug options for most of what goes wrong with most of us for most of our lives? NO.
Quinn:
"The entire burden of integration
should not rest on the shoulders
of the patient, who must go
from office to office, from
practitioner to practitioner, and
from therapy to therapy to
receive the full benefits
of integrated care."
"However, for the times when I have had to venture into the conventional medicine arena, would I have wanted to work with MDs who are (a) reasonably aware of the efficacy of natural medicine, (b) moderately competent in some natural therapies, and (most important of all) (c) skilled at interdisciplinary co-management? Well, YES, I would have loved that.
"So, in my opinion, there is an urgent need for integrative medicine, for naturopathic medicine (and acupuncturists, midwives, chiropractors, etc.), AND for integrated health care. That last is my way of saying that the entire burden of integration should not rest on the shoulders of the patient, who must go from office to office, from practitioner to practitioner, and from therapy to therapy to receive the full benefits of integrated care. It should be available in interdisciplinary settings, where the patient can choose the care manager and then that person calls upon all other appropriate disciplines and providers, integrating all the assessment and treatment advice into one chart and one therapeutic program."
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2. Bill Manahan, MD: "I believe it's time to consider the heretical model ..."
Bill Manahan, MD, has frequently offered his fine perspective here. In this instance, Manahan has a number of stakes in the fire: leadership in holistic medicine, an associate role with a leading academic integrative medicine program, chapter author in Rakel's first edition of Integrative Medicine, a collegial relationship with, and respect for, Rakel, and his role,like Quinn, as an Integrator adviser.
"Congratulations on another great bunch of articles in the recent Integrator Blog.
"I especially thought that your review of David Rakel's Integrative Medicine book was your usual fine job of hitting the nail on the head and daring to speak the truth. I say that as both a great admirer and colleague of David Rakel and as a physician honored to be an author in the first edition of Integrative Medicine. I will also add that I thought Dr. Rakel's answers were open, honest, generous, and thoughtful - just what I would expect from him. Let me give an example of that:
"I do feel that we need to be careful in the information that is presented here so we do not cause more tension between professional organizations that could create more barriers in doing this work. After reading this summary, my concern was of creating more conflict compared to acknowledging what we have in common."
"This is well stated by David, and it speaks to that fine line between stating a truth that resists being discussed (the elephant in the room) and 'creating more conflict' and 'more barriers in doing this work.'
"Regrettably, these reasons that David spoke of so eloquently do not change the fact that, at the present time, the central themes that you state in your article are, unfortunately, truly on target. Here are a few examples of that:
"Integrative medicine" is a field defined by and for medical doctors (and osteopaths).
"Integrative medicine" is provided and managed by medical doctors.
The intellectual content in "integrative medicine" is all developed by medical doctors.
"Integrative medicine" is not about other disciplines, whether acupuncture and Oriental medicine, chiropractors, naturopathic physicians, licensed acupuncturists, massage therapists or even nurses, physical therapists and psychologists.
Manahan:
"I also suspect that the time
has arrived for us to seriously
consider having a collaborative
model rather then the present
hierarchical one. It is time to
consider the heretical possibility
that, as Dr. Glidden stated,
people should have equal access
to all of the healing disciplines."
"Over the past two years, I have read approximately fifty books proposing solutions on how to solve our health care crisis. There is basically no discussion or consideration in those well-written books about anything other than effective cost controls along with high-quality, coordinated care among medical doctors. You will not be surprised to know that only one of them (Not What the Doctor Ordered: How to End the Medical Monopoly in Pursuit of Managed Care by Jeffrey Bauer - 1998) even mentions the possibility of having an equal playing field for all types of health care providers. Peter Glidden, ND, spoke about this fact in this recent issue of the Integrator Blog. He stated:
"The best any of us can hope for, and certainly the thing that will help the greatest number of people in the shortest amount of time, is not for there to be more clinics where MD's act as the gatekeepers with the "adjunctive" holistic practitioners employed there scrambling for therapeutic crumbs, but for there to be an EQUAL PLAYING FIELD for all types of licensed medical disciplines."
"Western allopathic medicine does some fantastic things. We definitely need what MD's and DO's do well. We are trained to treat disease. We are not really trained in primary prevention or natural therapies. It has never made sense to me to expect - or even want - physicians trained in the pharmaceutical and surgical management of serious diseases and problems to be expected to also do a host of other things. I believe that healthcare would be much improved if a majority of people with health concerns entered the system through a health care provider other than a medical doctor or osteopathic physician.
"I also suspect that the time has arrived for us to seriously consider having a collaborative model rather then the present hierarchical one. It is time to consider the heretical possibility that, as Dr. Glidden stated, people should have equal access to all of the healing disciplines. After 40 years of dealing with patients, I believe that people can be given the tools to figure out for themselves what works well in Western medicine and when it would be a good time to see other types of practitioners and healers. It would truly be the American way to let a person decide for him or herself which type of health care provider to visit.
"I believe that it is time to open the doors wide open and have - as Dr. Glidden says - an equal playing field. At least it is time to have that discussion. Thank you, John, for bringing this topic out in the open."
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3. Sonja Simpson, RN, MSN, AHN-BC: "What a conundrum ... "
Sonja Simpson, RN, a former president of the American Holistic Nurses Association, was last seen commenting here on an Integrator article related to the importance of relationships.
"I was intrigued by the piece by Dr. Glidden. What a conundrum….integrative vs holistic vs. whatever. There is no mention of relationship based skills which is key to healing….and also sad to say…that the current health insurance systems feeds the total allopathic approach…it will be interesting to see what comes of integrative and holistic and most of all if any of the sorting out will result in improved health care and outcome!"
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4. Tom Ballard, ND: "Integrative medicine: Who writes the peace treaty?"
In 1982, Tom Ballard, ND, was asked by the first graduating class of naturopathic physicians from what is now Bastyr University to be represent them as a speaker at their graduation. Ballard, who also many years in nursing, has most recently spent over a decade providing integrative medicine as a primary care naturopathic physician in the Regence Blue Shield network and for other Washington state carriers.
"I hear the chant 'Integrative medicine' echoing through hospital corridors and convention halls. It conjures up images of inclusion and cooperation.
Ballard:
"Naturopaths began hearing
the integration chant a couple
of decades ago and it's become
louder. Our hopes were raised
that MDs were catching on –
realizing there is good medicine
outside the pharmaceutical
model. Many of us thought
we'd be invited into the big
wigwam, be welcomed onto
the tribal counsel.
"I've looked in the tent
and don't see integration,
but assimilation."
"Naturopaths began hearing the integration chant a couple of decades ago and it's become louder. Our hopes were raised that MDs were catching on – realizing there is good medicine outside the pharmaceutical model. Many of us thought we'd be invited into the big wigwam, be welcomed onto the tribal counsel.
"I've looked in the tent and don't see integration, but assimilation.
"What happens to any small, relatively weak tribe when it comes into contact with a large and powerful nation? If they're not slaughtered outright (this was tried by the AMA in the first half of the 20th century), they're assimilated.
"The word 'holistic' is a good example of how assimilation works. Whole systems science, as practiced by natural medicine practitioners for centuries, is watered down to become a meaningless platitude (and the 'w' dropped, as if it were the study of holes).
"Likewise 'preventive medicine' is assimilated and the meaning morphs from 'avoiding disease by nourishing the host,' to 'early detection' by our new test, read about it in the Wall Street Journal. Prevention was shifted from upstream medicine, where a trickle can be stopped by simple lifestyle changes, to expensive diagnostic testing. This is just one reason for the catastrophic rise in medical costs. Once the trickle turns into a stream, expensive interventions are required.
"With MDs slipping under
the fence into the pasture
I've been tending for over
30 years, perhaps I'll hop
over onto their side. 'Yes,'
I'll say, 'I've decided to
become an endocrinologist.'
"But no, that fence only allows
those with certain credentials
to pass back and forth at will."
"Sometimes I long for the good old days when NDs were shunned and scorned by the MDs. Now they chat us up and tell us how they're practicing integrative medicine or functional medicine and their book is about to be published or they're teaching integrative nutrition to other MDs - and all this with no formal training, often without informal training. With MDs slipping under the fence into the pasture I've been tending for over 30 years, perhaps I'll hop over onto their side. 'Yes,' I'll say, 'I've decided to become an endocrinologist.' I hear the pay's better.
"But no, that fence only allows those with certain credentials to pass back and forth at will. I'm expected to stay on my side and provide 'complementary' support for the medical industrial complex. The peace-pipe is passed among the Fortune 500 and their agents. I'm expected to get high off second-hand smoke.
"I wouldn't be all puckered up with sour grapes if I'd met any integrative practitioners that really understood what naturopathy was about. Substituting red yeast rice for a statin is not what defines me. What is important is not the treatment; it's the context of the treatment.
"What I do is ask, and try to answer, 'Why?' Your cholesterol is not high because you're deficient in red yeast rice or Lipitor. There's a diet problem or a disruption in metabolic control or both. Let's find out.
"The question of 'why?' will
always lead to a 'natural'
answer. Natural is an abused
word, another victim of
assimilation, but to me
a natural remedy simply
means something that
works with the body's
innate healing systems
to restore health."
"The question of 'why?' will always lead to a 'natural' answer. Natural is an abused word, another victim of assimilation, but to me a natural remedy simply means something that works with the body's innate healing systems to restore health. The organism wants to stay alive, so provide what is native to its needs.
"But such philosophical underpinnings, though supported by wholistic science, are becoming like an ancient chant, lost in the smoke and hand waving that's filled the tent, given way to the application not of poultice but of product.
"And the young NDs, those that should be warriors for the ancient wisdoms, what happens to them when they enter the integrated tent? There are young NDs who know more about Norvasc than they do the original calcium-channel blocker, magnesium.
"Yes, integrative medicine, I think I know what you look like. I've read the history of the American Indian; the long rifle, the small-pox blanket, the confining reservation. What happened to those Native Americans who taught thousands of years of survival skills to the European settlers? If they have any descendants, do they celebrate Thanksgiving? The peace treaty was written in a foreign language and the print was small.
"Integration may sound great in the treaty document, but in practice it murders the old, diseases the young, and corrupts the language. Few will remain to ask 'why?'"
Comment: Manahan refers to this discussion as an "elephant in the room." I'd say there is a small herd here, easily spooked. One way to keep these large, warm-blooded creatures from destroying the furniture is to talk "transformation" yet urge patience of the non-MD disciplines toward a quiet reform which won't seriously threaten the powers that be. Manahan - and Glidden and Ballard - are being precisely "heretical" in breaking out of that reformist approach. I suspect that for the dominant school of medicine this looks a lot like revolution.
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Not everyone is a fan of it, but it's hard to argue convincingly that facial recognition isn't going to play a role in the future of technology.
The newest Apple iPhones and Android smartphones have built-in facial recognition features that can unlock your device, but you would be wrong to think that the reliability and accuracy of the features is comparable.
After all, in the past, owners of Samsung Android phones have demonstrated how devices can be unlocked by pointing it at the face of a sleeping person or even with just a photograph.
It's true to say that the facial recognition technology built into handsets has improved in recent years. And as it has become more reliable, more users are likely to use it as their primary method of unlocking a phone rather than having to remember a sequence of numbers or a password.
Forbes journalist Thomas Brewster wanted to find out just how well a variety of Android phones and a top-of-the-range Apple iPhone would fare against a determined attempt to break facial recognition.
And he did that by having a 3D-model printed of his head.
As Brewster explains, he engaged the services of a small British company in Birmingham to create a spooky life-size 3D print of his own head for just over £300.
For the price, it's an impressive likeness, but it's not enough to fool any human into thinking they are looking at the real Thomas Brewster.
But could a smartphone be fooled?
To find out, Brewster registered his own (real) face with five different phones: An iPhone X, an LG G7 Linq, a Samsung S9, a Samsung Note 8 and a OnePlus 6.
With facial recognition setup, all he had to do was see if his fake head would be convincing enough to unlock the devices.
Rather worryingly (if someone has managed to make a 3D-printed version of your head), all four Android phones were duped into thinking they were looking at the real Tom. Only the iPhone X wasn't duped.
It's certainly impressive to see Apple's iPhone X not be tricked by Thomas Brewster's fake head, and it may surprise owners of Android smartphones who have had at best mixed experiences with facial recognition.
From this test at least, it would appear that the efforts made by Apple's engineers to develop its "TrueDepth" camera technology (which uses more than 30,000 infrared dots to scan your face in 3D) has paid off.
It's worth pointing out that some of the Android phones were easier to unlock than others, (The LG, for instance, proved trickier to unlock, as it required a little more effort in finding the combination of lighting and angles.) but that's not something that is going to in any way deter a determined intruder from breaking into your device.
What is somewhat encouraging is that there are alerts displayed by some of the Android devices when the user attempts to enable facial recognition, warning that the feature can actually make your phone less secure.
The LG G7 Linq, for instance, warns that similar faces can be used to unlock it:
Face recognition is a secondary unlock method that results in your phone being less secure.
Meanwhile, the Samsung S9 displayed the following warning:
"Your phone could be unlocked by someone or something that looks like you. If you use facial recognition only, this will be less secure than using a pattern, PIN or password."
No-one may be planning to make a life-size 3D-printed version of your head, but you should still take the warnings of the manufacturers seriously.
If you want to keep your device secure, you may be sensible not to put all of your eggs in one basket but instead treat facial recognition as a secondary unlock feature that should be used alongside (rather than instead of) a password or fingerprint.
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September 10, 2018 October 20, 2019 I Survived Pret A Manger
There is a British company that named itself "Ready To Eat", or better known for its foreign branding term: Pret A Manger.
British food is not known to be the most culinary experience one can lick their fingers to, especially in the 1980s. So, a French name had to help to draw to its "cuisine".
Many PR(et) slogans later the facade keeps shining, as the slogans are so many and offensive to their hard working people.
Over three years ago on 12. January 2015 I learned through an ice cold email that my brother has been found dead in his flat on 15. December 2014. He lay in his apartment for approximately 6 days before the neighbours smelled the odour of his corpse.
Police supposedly tried to find next of kin, but weren't successful in the efficient country of Germany! They then just cremated my brother and all the other nightmare things they have done. They did NO autopsy, finding no clear cause of death. The city council sent his urn from his city via the POSTAL SERVICE to the city council in the town where my mum lives. They destroyed his belongings that had no value and sold the things that had value because he was in debt…
I could look at this as if this was a twisted Hollywood script that no producer wants to finance. But if that nightmare wasn't enough I had to go into Alice Wonderlandish-nightmare…
UPDATE: Only recently I stumbled on a YouTube video where a similar thing happened to an American family. Son/brother died unbeknown to them and was cremated without their consent. I am still in search of legal advise myself how to proceed even while friends say I should let it go … But I am torn and not sure how I can cope mentally without much support to investigate myself further, without just putting my own puzzle together and if the police can be made responsible …
From the get go I was an inconvenience in Pret for which I worked 7 years at the time, 10 years altogether. The first 5 months during bereavement I was put on mainly late shifts which kept me from seeing friends during a nightmare I cannot describe!
I was then transferred at my request to a shop to have rotating shifts, but there the bullying really started.
In May 2015 I approached Pret's HR department informally to make suggestions on how to support bereaved employees. What I didn't realize then was that I put a bulls eye target on my back, as the People Business Partner who was present at the meeting, was involved in targeting me later on. I only understand now that People Business Partners are there for business, nothing else.
What staff really think.
I am tired to explain what went on for three years. Really really tired.
@Pret, your silence won't help you.
I started my website initially as poetrasblok.com which is still running under this name and was solely for my brother. But the trauma I have been through in Pret and being patronized and labelled by Clive Schlee, CEO of Pret as his "late night girl" made me decide to speak openly about what I've been through.
My site will eventually turn back again on my brother, my father who died in March, my family, friends and passions I have with writing and music. But for now, as the public is lulled in by the PR[et] facade and I almost lost my life in Pret, after being bullied during the worst time of my life. I cannot be silent.
A staff member confronted Pret on Twitter openly, this is only one example happen to become public and the cut & paste response from the Pret-Tweet employee (probably HR). I gave my own responses and suggested for him to join a Union. I know exactly how it is when managers "forget" to pay you, happened so frequently, at times putting me into rent arrears and other stressful situations having to raise this with HR which in turn put a target on my back with the line manager. No matter how you turned, you were at the losing end. And Clive Schlee is counting his £30 Million + and the £1000 "Pay Rise" for all staff that they are still waiting for is exactly what it is, PR.
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With Valentine's Day around the corner, the Albuquerque FBI Division wants to remind the public to be aware of online romance scams, also called confidence fraud.
In this type of fraud, scammers take advantage of people looking for romantic partners on dating websites, apps, or social media, with the ultimate goal of financially exploiting the victims.
The consequences of these scams are often financially and emotionally devastating to victims; they rarely get their money back and may not have the ability to recover from the financial loss.
"Social media has become a popular place to meet people, especially when COVID-19 restrictions make face-to-face gatherings difficult," said James Langenberg, special agent in charge of the Albuquerque FBI Division. "Unfortunately, criminals know that's where they can find victims, too. Anyone looking for love in cyberspace should make sure they keep their feet on the ground by educating themselves about the risks."
According to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), which provides the public with a means of reporting Internet-facilitated crimes, romance scams result in greater financial losses to victims when compared to most other online crimes.
In 2020, almost 24,000 complaints categorized as romance scams were reported to IC3, and the losses associated with those complaints exceeded $605 million.
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Etchings From a 130-Year Old Exhibition on View This Summer
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Mary Nimmo Moran, "Solitude" (1880). Etching on off-white wove paper. John S. Phillips Collection.
Joseph Pennell, "Below Atlantic City" (1881). Etching on cream Japanese tissue paper. Gift of the artist.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, "Billingsgate" (1859). Etching and drypoint on blue laid paper. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred G. B. Steel.
The first annual exhibition of the Philadelphia Society of Etchers was held at PAFA in 1882 and at the time was the largest print exhibition organized in the United States. The exhibition helped establish the Etching Revival in the United States in the late 1800s.
Several etchings first shown in 1882 are going on view again at PAFA this summer as part of Etch and Flow. The exhibition, on view June 28, 2019 through December 29, 2019, will dive into the American Etching Revival and Impressionism.
Etchings like Joseph Pennell's "Below Atlantic City" and his "Coal Wharf on Schuylkill" were originally exhibited at PAFA in 1882 as part of a push to showcase the new world of etching and will be seen again this summer in the museum.
The exhibition opens alongside From the Schuylkill to the Hudson: Landscapes of the Early American Republic. From Schuylkill to Hudson covers the late 1700s to late 1800', which saw the rise of landscape representation in the early United States. Etch and Flow covers the next generation of artists who etched instead of painted to capture landscapes. With many of the artists featured in Etch and Flow taking inspiration from the same waterscapes that moved artists featured in From Schuylkill to Hudson.
Up until the late 1870s etching was seen as a way to make copies of artwork, not a creative medium in its own right.
"Typically etching was seen as primarily a reproductive medium, so if an artist created a painting, of course not everyone can buy that painting but you could make an etching of that painting and sell it for a vastly reduced price and in multiples," said Etch and Flow curator Ramey Mize, a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. "It was a way to make art for the people and democratize things."
The American Etching Revival brought a new style of etching to the US, loosening up the original traditions of the practice.
"Rather than enacting this extremely tight and detailed sort of reproductive technique which serves the needs of reproducing a painting, a looser, freer, more fluid type of line was encouraged on the plate for etchings during the revival."
This new style also brought many more women artists into the practice and they became celebrated etchers at the time. Etching was considered a way for women artists to gain a foothold in professional careers in arts.
Mary Nimmo Moran showed 17 etchings in the 1882 Philadelphia Society of Etcher's Exhibition and will be featured prominently in Etch and Flow.
The Philadelphia artist was well-known for her etchings. "She kept a membership at the New York Etching Club and was a pioneer in that way," Mize
Her etching, "Solitude," was part of the first Philadelphia Society of Etchers exhibition and will be on view again as part of Etch and Flow.
Moran, alongside Edith Loring Pierce, Katherine Levin Farrell, Gabrielle DeVeaux Clements, and Margaret Taylor were part of a contingent of women etchers who helped lead the Etching Revival in the United States.
Their work not only inspired other etchers but artists in other mediums, as well.
"There's a painting by William Sartain, a notable PAFA figure, called Solitude from 1892 and it resonates really well with an etching by Edith Loring Pierce, also titled "Solitude" that is markedly similar in composition.
"This is not to say that Sartain was copying after Pierce, but rather that it was a frequent motif amongst these artists."
Much of Loring Pierce's work is centered on her Southeastern Pennsylvania upbringing.
Etch and Flow showcases landscapes from across Europe and the United States, but it's the local work that curator Ramey Mize wants visitors to give an extra look to when they visit PAFA.
"I hope that visitors walk away with an appreciation for the persistence of the landscape genre in this area," Mize said. "And maybe they'll look more closely at the scenery in and around Philadelphia and appreciate it for its longevity and for its symbolic centrality in the history of art in the United States. It's about taking pride in place."
Etch and Flow is on view June 28th through December 29th at PAFA.


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The markets opened on a firm note today while continuing with the record-breaking surge being witnessed on the bourses. But there may be some caution after the government announced plans to increase its monitoring of the market and the Left parties accusing the sensex surge to stock market scam.
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Colorado Democrats will be in control of the state's General Assembly next year. Now what? - Denverite, the Denver site!
Colorado Democrats will be in control of the state's General Assembly next year. Now what?
The new General Assembly could tackle paid family leave, transportation infrastructure, healthcare and maybe even sports gambling.
Nov. 15, 2018, 5:40 a.m.
It all came together for Colorado Democrats on election night.
The vibe at their watch party in Denver last week was Friday night before a three-day weekend. They found themselves celebrating win after win, with only a few losses that didn't involve local races prompting partygoer groans.
Speaking after governor-elect Jared Polis gave his victory speech, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette — fresh off her most recent shellacking of a Republican candidate — made a proclamation on stage during the watch party.
"Colorado is no longer a purple state. We're blue," DeGette said to raucous cheering.
Yes, the so-called blue wave became a real-deal blue hurricane, at least in Colorado. Democrats swept everything in sight — and by pretty wide margins. They won all four executive offices, they flipped the state Senate and kept the state House.
Democrats had not swept all statewide offices in Colorado since 1936, according to the party; the last time that happened was when the guy on the dime was president. Welchert couldn't remember the last time Democrats had this much power when they "cleaned up" like this.
With such a sweeping win, did Tuesday signal the end of Colorado as a purple state? And worse, signal the beginning of the end of the Republican party's golden boy?
Now that it's all said and done, though, what will Democrats make of this?
Garcia will be the first Latino President of the Senate when the legislature convenes in January. He will lead a party with a 19-16 advantage in the Senate over Republicans.
He said Democrats are "excited by the opportunity to lead Colorado forward" and will likely focus on "bread and butter issues impacting everyday Coloradans" like education funding.
Garcia mentioned affordable housing and the opioid crisis as two other potential topics the new legislature will address.
His thinking aligns with what Welchert said will be needed for Dems to have success.
That means staying away from more controversial issues, he said, like the death penalty, or maybe even gun control legislation, referring back to a bad chapter for Democrats in the Senate. After passing gun control bills in the wake of the Aurora theater shooting, two Democrats in the state Senate including then-state Sen. President John Morse were recalled in 2013.
Tom Sullivan — father of Alex Sullivan, one of the 12 victims murdered during the Aurora theater shooting — was a big winner for Democrats last week. He unseated Republican incumbent Cole Wist to win a house district seat that includes Aurora and Centennial.
Sullivan said he's already spoken with House leadership about some of his plans, which will include reintroducing the red flag bill (which Wist supported) that failed during the last session.
The bill would have allowed police and family to obtain court orders requiring them to surrender firearms. At least eight states have already passed a similar law.
Part of what made so many Democratic candidates successful was their attention to the community's needs, Garcia said.
"Candidates who won a week ago won so by being very in-tune to their communities about what their communities wanted," Garcia said.
Welchert said a big focus for the new legislature will be addressing the state's transportation infrastructure, which failed to get any solution last week. Two competing ballot measures failed.
"Voters didn't care for the two models they were provided," Welchert said.
ProgressNow Executive Director Ian Silverii — who's married to Brittany Pettersen, whose election helped keep a Democratic seat in the Senate — said transportation itself will need to be addressed.
"I know there are a lot of legislators that want to focus on trying to figure out how to handle growth in Colorado," Silverii said, adding this will include increasing public transit and other transportation alternatives to get around the state.
As Garcia mentioned, healthcare is another big discussion point. It's a topic Polis will no doubt be eager to discuss since he built his progressive platform on pushing for universal health care in the state. Polis will be moving from a legislative role into an executive role, which Welchert said should be taken into account.
One potentially non-partisan issue Welchert said this GA should consider tackling: Sports gambling. He thinks sports gambling could be something Polis will try to figure out the next steps to implementing Colorado. The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for states to make their own rules about it after striking down a federal law in May.
House Speaker-designate KC Becker of Boulder said Polis' agenda encompasses many of the things the new legislature will look to address, like reducing healthcare costs and increase access to it.
But there will also be a renewed focus on criminal justice reform, environmental protection and budget issues (which Becker said include education funding). Toss in passing paid family medical leave and you've got potential bills the legislature wasn't able to pass due to Republican resistance.
Outgoing House Speaker Crisanta Duran isn't sad about missing a chance to be a part of the Democrat-held General Assembly.
She's been a part of a split legislature through her legislative career, though she believes the "Democratic trifecta" is a chance to get things done.
Duran believes the new legislature will tackle paid family leave and equal pay for women and communities of color.
Silverii also believes the General Assembly's to-do list will include addressing paid family and medical leave, a bill he said has tried and failed through the legislature several times.
He thinks the new legislature will try to pass bills making college more affordable by either passing tuition caps, ensuring interest rates from private company loan low or expanding programs that provide concurrent enrollment for students to attend college while they're still in high school.
"I think that there is a clear mandate that Colorado wants an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top," Duran said. She believes there will be new initiatives promoting more small businesses and encouraging entrepreneurialism in the state.
Duran's replacement, Becker, will be the third consecutive woman to hold the position of Speaker of the House and the fourth-ever. She previously served as Majority Leader and will be starting her fourth and final term in the General Assembly next year.


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Door Step School's Parivartan Training Center has organized an Exhibition on "Human Brain and Intelligence". It is based on the theory of "Multiple Intelligence" by famous Psychologist Howard Gardner.
Such exhibitions are primarily organized for the staff of Door Step School with an objective to enhance their knowledge, and are also open to people from other organizations. A lot of people have so far visited the exhibition and the number of visitors keeps increasing every day! We are getting positive feedback from all: they liked the way information is presented and the games and tools which have been prepared. They are appreciating the way we are explaining the meaning of every aspect of the exhibition to them.
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Stuart, James 'Athenian'
Stuart, James 'Athenian' (1713–88). British architect of Scots descent, a key figure in the Greek Revival. He travelled to Rome in 1742, probably supporting himself by acting as a guide and producing drawings and paintings. In 1748 he travelled with M. Brettingham, Gavin Hamilton (1723–98), and Revett to Naples, an expedition on which a scheme to visit Athens (then part of the Ottoman Empire, and difficult to visit) was mooted. Stuart and Revett announced proposals for publishing reliable surveys of the antiquities of Athens in 1748 which was taken up by various noblemen and gentry then on the Grand Tour. Finance was raised and the two young men were elected to the Society of Dilettanti in 1751 under the aegis of which they travelled to Greece. After a dangerous so-journ they returned to England in 1755 to prepare their drawings for publication, and the first volume of The Antiquities of Athens Measured and Delineated by James Stuart, F.R.S. and F.S.A., and Nicholas Revett, Painters and Architects, duly appeared in 1762, some time after Le Roy's Les Ruines … (1758), which Stuart criticized for inaccuracy: Le Roy and Stuart continued to castigate each other's efforts for some time thereafter. The Antiquities of Athens was the first reliable source-book of Greek architecture and was at once recognized as important. Stuart bought Revett's interest out, but, being of an indolent disposition, the second volume did not appear until 1789. The third was edited by Willey Reveley and came out in 1795, while the fourth, issued by Josiah Taylor (1761–1834), was published in 1816, and C. R. Cockerell saw to the last volume in 1830.
Stuart designed the garden-buildings at Hagley, Worcs. (1758), and Shug-borough, Staffs. (1760s), that were apparently the first buildings in C18 Europe to have the Greek Orders. He designed a Palladian house with Grecian details at 15 St James's Square, London (1763–6—later altered). He was also responsible for the exquisite interiors (including some of the earliest C18 uses of Pompeian motifs) of Spencer House, Green Park, London (1759–65), Holdernesse (later Londonderry) House, Hertford Street, London (c.1760–5—demolished), the beautiful Chapel at Greenwich Hospital, London (1780–8—assisted by William Newton (1735–90) ), and the Tower of the Winds, Mount Stewart, Co. Down (1782–3). Had he not been so idle, his command of Neo-Classicism, including his knowledge of Greek and Roman decorations, together with his flair for synthesizing various schemes of ornament, could have made him a dangerous rival to the Adam brothers.
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Irene Mary F.C. Browne (14 September 1881 – 27 June 1977) was a British artist known for her sculptures and pottery.

Biography
Browne was born in Fulham in London in September 1881. She attended the Croydon School of Art and the Westminster Technical Institute before studying model making at Chelsea Polytechnic from 1906 to 1911. During her time at Chelsea, Browne won several prizes for her drawing and figure work and had, in 1908, her first work exhibited at the Royal Academy in London. Browne produced figures, medallions and statuettes in bronze and plaster and, after taking a pottery course at the Putney School of Art in 1919, began producing earthenware figures. These she had fired at the Fulham Pottery until she eventually bought her own kiln.

Browne continued to exhibit at the Royal Academy and elsewhere, notably in Manchester and Glasgow with the Royal Hibernian Academy and the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. She was elected a member of the Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers in 1929 and a member of the Society of Women Artists in 1930. Browne lived at Richmond in Surrey and later in East Sussex where she died in 1977.
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Manchester Art Gallery and Aberystwyth University hold examples of her work.

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The Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996
Northern Ireland Orders in Council
1996 No. 1919 (N.I. 16)
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CHAPTER IVA WEEK'S PAY
16. The amount of a week's pay of an employee shall be calculated for the purposes of this Order in accordance with this Chapter.
Employments with normal working hours
17.—(1) This Article and Articles 18 and 19 apply where there are normal working hours for the employee when employed under the contract of employment in force on the calculation date.
(2) Subject to Article 18, if the employee's remuneration for employment in normal working hours (whether by the hour or week or other period) does not vary with the amount of work done in the period, the amount of a week's pay is the amount which is payable by the employer under the contract of employment in force on the calculation date if the employee works throughout his normal working hours in a week.
(3) Subject to Article 18, if the employee's remuneration for employment in normal working hours (whether by the hour or week or other period) does vary with the amount of work done in the I period, the amount of a week's pay is the amount of remuneration for the number of normal working hours in a week calculated at the average hourly rate of remuneration payable by the employer to the employee in respect of the period of twelve weeks ending—
(a)where the calculation date is the last day of a week, with that week, and
(b)otherwise, with the last complete week before the calculation date.
(4) In this Article references to remuneration varying with the amount of work done includes remuneration which may include any commission or similar payment which varies in amount.
(5) This Article is subject to Articles 23 and 24.
Remuneration varying according to time of work
18.—(1) This Article applies if the employee is required under the contract of employment in force on the calculation date to work during normal working hours on days of the week, or at times of the day, which differ from week to week or over a longer period so that the remuneration payable for, or apportionable to, any week varies according to the incidence of those days or times.
(2) The amount of a week's pay is the amount of remuneration for the average number of weekly normal working hours at the average hourly rate of remuneration.
(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2)—
(a)the average number of weekly hours is calculated by dividing by twelve the total number of the employee's normal working hours during the relevant period of twelve weeks, and
(b)the average hourly rate of remuneration is the average hourly rate of remuneration payable by the employer to the employee in respect of the relevant period of twelve weeks.
(4) In paragraph (3) "the relevant period of twelve weeks" means the period of twelve weeks ending—
19.—(1) For the purposes of Articles 17 and 18, in arriving at the average hourly rate of remuneration, only—
(a)the hours when the employee was working, and
(b)the remuneration payable for, or apportionable to, those hours,
shall be brought in.
(2) If for any of the twelve weeks mentioned in Articles 17 and 18 no remuneration within paragraph (1)(b) was payable by the employer to the employee, account shall be taken of remuneration in earlier weeks so as to bring up to twelve the number of weeks of which account is taken.
(3) Where—
(a)in arriving at the average hourly rate of remuneration, account has to be taken of remuneration payable for, or apportionable to, work done in hours other than normal working hours, and
(b)the amount of that remuneration was greater than it would have been if the work had been done in normal working hours (or, in a case within Article 1(3), in normal working hours falling within the number of hours without overtime),
account shall be taken of that remuneration as if the work had been done in such hours and the amount of that remuneration had been reduced accordingly.
Employments with no normal working hours
20.—(1) This Article applies where there are no normal working hours for the employee when employed under the contract of employment in force on the calculation date.
(2) The amount of a week's pay is the amount of the employee's average weekly remuneration in the period of twelve weeks ending—
(3) In arriving at the average weekly remuneration no account shall be taken of a week in which no remuneration was payable by the employer to the employee and remuneration in earlier weeks shall be brought in so as to bring up to twelve the number of weeks of which account is taken.
The calculation date
Rights during employment
21.—(1) Where the calculation is for the purposes of Article 62, the calculation date is—
(a)where the employee's contract has been varied, or a new contract entered into, in connection with a period of short-time working, the last day on which the original contract was in force, and
(b)otherwise, the day in respect of which the guarantee payment is payable.
(2) Where the calculation is for the purposes of Article 81 or 82, the calculation date is the day on which the employer's notice was given.
(3) Where the calculation is for the purposes of Article 84, the calculation date is the day of the appointment.
(4) Where the calculation is for the purposes of Article 90, the calculation date is the day on which the time off was taken or on which it is alleged the time off should have been permitted.
(5) Where the calculation is for the purposes of Article 101—
(a)in the case of an employee suspended on medical grounds, the calculation date is the day before that on which the suspension begins, and
(b)in the case of an employee suspended on maternity grounds, the calculation date is—
(i)where the day before that on which the suspension begins falls within either the employee's maternity leave period or the further period up to the day on which the employee exercises the right conferred on her by Article 111, the day before the beginning of the maternity leave period, and
(ii)otherwise, the day before that on which the suspension begins.
Rights on termination
22.—(1) Where the calculation is for the purposes of Article 120 or 121, the calculation date is the day immediately preceding the first day of the period of notice required by Article 118(1) or (2).
(2) Where the calculation is for the purposes of Article 125, 151 or 159, the calculation date is—
(a)if the dismissal was with notice, the date on which the employer's notice was given, and
(b)otherwise, the effective date of termination.
(3) Where the calculation is for the purposes of Article 153 or 155, the calculation date is—
(a)if the employee is taken to be dismissed by virtue of Article 128(1), the last day on which the employee worked under her contract of employment immediately before the beginning of her maternity leave period,
(b)if by virtue of paragraph (2) or (4) of Article 129 a date later than the effective date of termination as defined in paragraph (1) of that Article is to be treated for certain purposes as the effective date of termination, the effective date of termination as so defined, and
(c)otherwise, the date specified in paragraph (6).
(4) Where the calculation is for the purposes of Article 182(2), the calculation date is the day immediately preceding the first of the four, or six, weeks referred to in Article 183(2).
(5) Where the calculation is for the purposes of Article 197, the calculation date is—
(b)if by virtue of paragraph (5) of Article 180 a date is to be treated for certain purposes as the relevant date which is later than the relevant date as defined by the previous provisions of that Article, the relevant date as so defined, and
(6) The date referred to in paragraphs (3)(c) and (5)(c) is the date on which notice would have been given had—
(a)the contract been terminable by notice and been terminated by the employer giving such notice as is required by Article 118 to terminate the contract, and
(b)the notice expired on the effective date of termination, or the relevant date,
(whether or not those conditions were in fact fulfilled).
(7) Where the calculation is for the purposes of Article 218, the calculation date is the date on which the protective award was made or, in the case of an employee who was dismissed before the date on which the protective award was made, the date which by virtue of paragraph (5) is the calculation date for the purpose of computing the amount of a redundancy payment in relation to that dismissal (whether or not the employee concerned is entitled to any such payment).
Maximum amount of week's pay
Maximum amount
23.—(1) For the purpose of calculating—
(a)a basic award of compensation for unfair dismissal,
(b)an additional award of compensation for unfair dismissal, or
(c)a redundancy payment,
the amount of a week's pay shall not exceed £210.
(2) The Department may by order vary the limits imposed by paragraph (1).
(3) Such an order may provide that it applies in the case of a dismissal—
(a)in relation to which the date which is the effective date of termination for the purposes of this paragraph by virtue of Article 129(2) or (4) falls after the order comes into operation, or
(b)in relation to which the date which is the relevant date for the purposes of this paragraph by virtue of Article 180(5) falls after the order comes into operation,
even if the date which is the effective date of termination, or the relevant date, for other purposes of this Order falls before the order comes into operation.
(4) Paragraph (3)—
(a)does not apply to a case within Article 128(1) or 172(1), but
(b)is without prejudice to Article 251(6).
New employments and other special cases
24.—(1) In any case in which the employee has not been employed for a sufficient period to enable a calculation to be made under the preceding provisions of this Chapter, the amount of a week's pay is the amount which fairly represents a week's pay.
(2) In determining that amount the industrial tribunal—
(a)shall apply as nearly as may be such of the preceding provisions of this Chapter as it considers appropriate, and
(b)may have regard to such of the considerations specified in paragraph (3) as it thinks fit.
(3) The considerations referred to in paragraph (2)(b) are—
(a)any remuneration received by the employee in respect of the employment in question,
(b)the amount offered to the employee as remuneration in respect of the employment in question,
(c)the remuneration received by other persons engaged in relevant comparable employment with the same employer, and
(d)the remuneration received by other persons engaged in relevant comparable employment with other employers.
(4) The Department may by regulations provide that in cases prescribed by the regulations the amount of a week's pay shall be calculated in such manner as may be so prescribed.
25.—(1) In arriving at—
(a)an average hourly rate of remuneration, or
(b)average weekly remuneration,
under this Chapter, account shall be taken of work for a former employer within the period for which the average is to be taken if, by virtue of Chapter III of this Part, a period of employment with the former employer counts as part of the employee's continuous period of employment.
(2) Where under this Chapter account is to be taken of remuneration or other payments for a period which does not coincide with the periods for which the remuneration or other payments are calculated, the remuneration or other payments shall be apportioned in such manner as may be just.
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Timber windows seeing major uptick in UK, research finds
The UK timber window market is enjoying major growth, according to new independent research, which highlights the increasing popularity of timber as a construction material.
Palmer Market Research's latest paper has revealed that the UK timber window market increased by 17.1 per cent to 739,000 frames of late, representing growth of 25.4 per cent. These figures have led to an installed value level of £439 million, the research confirmed.
The research predicted that the market share accounted for by wood, aluminium and aluminium/timber is tipped to continue to grow until at least 2019, often at the expense of the growth of PVCu.
Robert Palmer of Palmer Market Research told Timber Trade Journal: "Wood's share of the total window market based on volume moved up in 2014 from 10 to 11 per cent but by installed value it grew from 18 to 20 per cent.
"Overall, the wood window market in housing is forecast to outperform the window market as a whole between 2014 and 2019, growing by 10 per cent in real terms to 811,000 frames."
Meanwhile, Sean Parnaby, chairperson of the Wood Window Alliance (WWA), said that the "real opportunity" lies in the large home improvement sector "that represents 69 per cent of all wood windows sold in the UK."
Casement windows made up the majority – 58 per cent – of wood window sales, the research found, while vertical sliding sash windows made up 27 per cent of all wood window sales, compared to just six per cent of all material sales.
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NHBC continues to call for more construction to meet demand
Major rise in big projects proves positive for UK construction
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Деметрис Николс (; Бостон, Масачусетс, 4. септембар 1984) је амерички кошаркаш. Игра на позицијама крила и крилног центра.

Биографија
Николс је током колеџ каријере наступао за универзитет Сиракјуз, а 2007. године га је као 53 пика на драфту изабрала екипа Портланда, али га је аутоматски проследила у Њујорк. Никси су га отпустили пре почетка сезоне, а онда је потписао за Кливленд који га је исте сезоне послао у Чикаго, а Булси у Развојну лигу где се истакао у дресу Ајове. Потом је кратко био члан Никса, да би у Европу стигао 2009. у тим француског Гравлена а касније је у истој земљи играо за Виши и Шоле. Током 2012. и 2013. је играо у Доминиканској Републици, Порторику а био је и члан Су Фолс скајфорса. У сезони 2013/14. је играо за Краснаја Крила и ту је добрим партијама привукао пажњу московског ЦСКА који га доводи у августу 2014. године. Са њима проводи наредне две сезоне и осваја Евролигу 2016. и две ВТБ лиге. У сезони 2016/17. био је играч Панатинаикоса. У сезони 2017/18. је био играч Цедевите. Са њима је освојио Суперкуп Јадранске лиге а касније и Куп и Првенство Хрватске.

Успеси

Клупски
 ЦСКА Москва:
 Евролига (1): 2015/16.
 ВТБ јунајтед лига (2): 2014/15, 2015/16.

 Панатинаикос:
 Првенство Грчке (1): 2016/17.
 Куп Грчке (1): 2017.

 Цедевита:
 Првенство Хрватске (1): 2017/18.
 Куп Хрватске (1): 2018.
 Суперкуп Јадранске лиге (1): 2017.

Појединачни
 Идеална петорка НБА развојне лиге (1): 2012/13.
 Учесник Ол-стар утакмице НБА развојне лиге (1): 2012/13.

Спољашње везе
 Подаци о играчу на сајту Евролиге

Рођени 1984.
Људи из Бостона
Амерички кошаркаши
Ниска крила
Крилни центри
Кошаркаши Ајова енерџија
Кошаркаши Кливленд кавалирса
Кошаркаши Њујорк никса
Кошаркаши Панатинаикоса
Кошаркаши Су Фолс скајфорса
Кошаркаши Цедевите
Кошаркаши ЦСКА Москве
Кошаркаши Чикаго булса
Пикови Портланд трејлблејзерса на НБА драфту


The postulator for Mother Teresa's cause for sainthood, Father Kolodiejchuk, has culled some of her most stirring words into a powerful book. Accompanied by striking full-color images, this work immortalizes the words and wisdom of one of humanity's most radiant women.
Born in Skopje in 1910, MOTHER TERESA joined the Sisters of Loreto in Dublin in 1928 and was sent to India, where she began her novitiate. She taught at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta from 1931 to 1948, until leaving the Loreto order to begin the Missionaries of Charity. Through her sisters, brothers, and priests, her service of the poorest of the poor spread all around the world. She won many awards, including the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. After her death in 1997, the process for her sainthood was quickly begun and she was beatified in 2003.
JESUS IS MY ALL IN ALL follows the Roman Catholic novena format; derived from the Latin word for nine, the novena provides a nine-day rhythm of prayer and reflection.


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