Pickup trucks and midsize sedans are still dominating the U.S. sales charts, but a funny thing is happening with electric vehicles and hybrids.
Their sales are exploding.
Plug-in vehicles featuring electric-only power are selling 50 percent better in 2014 than in 2013. U.S. buyers hungered for plug-ins even more in May, with the 10,833 unit sales marking a 90 percent increase over 2013 stats. Of course, there are more plug-ins available than ever before, but other reasons have to be cited as well. Perhaps the obvious, still inconvenient truth about a warming planet is finally making the rounds.
In any event, the shift toward more efficient vehicles has proved to be a boon for automakers who have cars and trucks with high marks in fuel economy and reasonable emissions. One perfect example is the Ford Fusion, a popular midsize sedan. Sales were up 15 percent in May for the Fusion overall, but a look at the hybrid’s numbers reveals the source of a major boost. Ford sold 4,641 models of the Fusion Hybrid in May, up 39 percent from the previous year. To paraphrase a line from Arrested Development, there’s money in that banana stand.
Here are the top ten in sales among electric vehicles, plug-in hybrids, and standard hybrids among U.S. consumers in 2014. Included are the MSRP before destination charge for each automobile. Not included are the state and federal tax incentives offered for electric vehicles. Many thanks to Green Auto Blog and GoodCarBadCar.net for the statistics.
10. Honda Accord Hybrid
Even though the Honda Accord is one of the top five sellers in the U.S., it’s surprising how quickly the Accord Hybrid is finding its audience. At an EPA-estimated 50 city mpg (recently challenged by Consumer Reports), the base model ($29,155) makes practical sense for anyone interested in good fuel economy or a lighter carbon footprint. Through May 2014, 5,753 units of the Accord Hybrid have sold in the U.S. The green car’s performance in May was so solid (1,530 sales) it put the Accord Hybrid on pace with the Chevy Volt (1,684 sales).
9. Toyota Avalon Hybrid
Attractive and spacious, the Toyota Avalon has kept the automaker in the full-size market. The hybrid model ($35,555) adds a dose of high efficiency with 40 mpg in the city (39 mpg highway) to go along with the car’s standard 200 horsepower. Toyota sold 6,662 models of the Avalon Hybrid through May 2014, which marks a dip of 4 percent compared to 2013. In May, Avalon sales rose 29 percent.
8. Lexus CT200h
All told, Lexus hybrids actually outsold the entire lineup of GM hybrids and EVs through the first five months of 2014. Detroit, we have a problem. Toyota’s luxury and performance line posted 16,160 vehicles sold through May to GM’s 14,484 units. The Lexus CT200h ($32,050) can post 42 mpg combined in its travels, making it a slick and efficient way to get around. With 6,816 units sold through May 2014, CT200h sales are up 13 percent on the year.
7. Chevy Volt
GM’s top green performer had a decent May with a 5 percent increase in sales at 1,684 units. Through the first five months of the year, the Chevy Volt has posted 6,838 sales to U.S. consumers, which is down over 4 percent on the year compared to 2013 stats. The Volt — as well as the Cadillac ELR, which operates on the same drivetrain — can get between 35 and 40 miles of electric-only range before switching to the gas engine for a full vehicle’s range.
6. Ford C-Max Hybrid
This Ford hybrid keeps something of a low profile yet is still holding a spot in the top ten among U.S. green cars with 45 city mpg. Through May 2013, the C-Max Hybrid ($25,170) has posted 7,570 sales to U.S. auto consumers. In fact, that represents a tumble of of nearly 50 percent compared to 2013 sales. What’s the rumpus? The plug-in C-Max Energi ($32,920) is grabbing all the customers with 21 miles of electric range and 108 MPGe, giving Ford a cannibalizing situation. C-Max Energi plug-ins have sold 2,940 units in 2014, which is an increase of 45 percent. May sales of the Energi plug-in were up 74 percent.
5. Nissan Leaf
May was the Nissan Leaf’s month. The all-electric little guy can get 80 miles on a full charge and hit the mpg equivalent of 128 MPGe. Nissan sold 3,117 units of the Leaf ($28,980) in May, which marked a 46 percent increase over 2013 stats. Though the first five months of 2014, Leaf sales are up 36 percent with 10,389 units already on the books.
4. Tesla Model S
Tesla has firmly planted itself in the top ten of green cars sold in the U.S. With its flagship Model S ($71,070) priced way above the other entries on this list, it’s impresive that Tesla has moved “about” 10,761 through May 2014. That’s what a great car will do for you. Since Tesla doesn’t offer monthly sales quotes or separate U.S. stats from overseas figures, Green Auto Blog has to estimate the electric automaker’s monthly tally based on its quarterly reports. At the moment, the best guess puts Model S sales around 2,150 cars a month in the U.S.
3. Fusion Hybrid
Ford has a good-looking hybrid in its Fusion ($26,270), but the automaker also has a smart pricing strategy with this 47 mpg car costing just $2,265 more than the Fusion SE. The same strategy worked for the Lincoln MKZ (up 58 percent in 2014), but with the Fusion Hybrid Ford has the third-best selling green car in the U.S. (17,784 units) in 2014. Sales jumped 39 percent on the midsize beauty in May.
Ford’s Fusion Energi Plug-in Hybrid EV is having an even better year than the MKZ Hyrbid. With 4,296 cars sold through May 2014, the Fusion Energi Plug-in’s sales are up 260 percent.
2. Toyota Camry Hybrid
Like Ford, Toyota has recognized the impact an automaker can make in the U.S. by taking its beloved midsize sedan and adding an electric motor. Americans bought 17,897 models of the Camry Hybrid ($26,330) through the first five months of 2014, which is a decrease of 10 percent over 2013 even though sales were up 22 percent in May. As with most trail-blazing companies, it’s impossible to keep the lion’s share of the market when the competition realizes they must get on board. Four of the top ten for Toyota ain’t bad, anyhow.
1. Toyota Prius
It’s nothing shocking to find Toyota at the top of the list in U.S. hybrid and EV sales. The Japanese automaker has sold 88,452 units of the different Prius models to U.S. buyers through May 2014, which blew out the nearest competition (also a Toyota) by over 70,000 cars. Americans bought 51,760 units of the Prius Liftback alone alongside 16,992 units of the Prius V. Even the Prius plug-in (7,729 sales) would have placed No. 7 on its own if isolated on this list. Any way you slice it, Toyota has the country’s favorite green car by a landslide.
The Prius has long been the state of California’s most popular car, so one element of Toyota’s recipe for auto sales supremacy is clear: sell more cars than any other automaker in the biggest U.S. market. Californians have shown their willingness to embrace cleaner cars and backed it up at dealerships. If GM or Ford would like a bigger piece of the action on their home turf, Detroit’s Big Two would be advised to continue increasing their green car stables. There’s a lot of money up for grabs.


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Every year when I start noticing the store shelves stocked with bags of candy corn I get a craving for my favorite sweet and salty treat. Have you tried it? It’s super yummy and a bit addicting.
Take 32 ounces of salted peanuts and 24-30 ounces of candy corn, mix together and enjoy. I made this today and the family has eaten almost half of it already. It tastes like a Salted Nut Roll, one of my favorite candy bars.
Ammon helped me name our treat, so in honor of Halloween we named it Pumpkin Teeth and Goblin Toes. Try it! I think you’ll love it!

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When you stay at Quality Inn Effingham in Effingham, you'll be near the beach and convenient to Effingham Performance Center and Effingham County Courthouse. This hotel is within close proximity of Village Square Mall and Bliss Park.
Make yourself at home in one of the 60 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and microwaves. Flat-screen televisions with digital programming provide entertainment, while complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected. Bathrooms have complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include coffee/tea makers and irons/ironing boards, and housekeeping is provided daily.
Don't miss out on the many recreational opportunities, including a nightclub, outdoor tennis courts, and an indoor pool.
A complimentary hot/cold buffet breakfast is included.
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In order to asses why airlines charge so much for a ticket during rush time, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) plans to look at the algorithms to check cartelisation.
CCI chief DK Sikri said, "Airlines often hike up air tickets and blame algorithms for it. So are algorithms the real reason why we end up paying so much for an airline ticket during rush time or are airlines hiding behind an algorithm to cartelise?"
Speaking at an ASSOCHAM event, Sikri said that collusion between digital players through self-learning algorithms was one of the biggest challenges that the Competition Law enforcers were facing.
"Algorithms are not systems that are moving on their own, somebody has designed them and there is some logic put into that," said Sikri, while citing an example of an airline whose ticket prices shot up to Rs 60,000-Rs 90,000 for a Chandigarh-Delhi flight.
"When we asked the airline, they said, we do not know the algorithms are driving it up," he said adding, "But, we are not going to give it up, though they are still saying that we have these indicators, we have these variables but they are not giving the weightage given to them."
He informed that the competition watchdog was in talks with many technical people to understand algorithms.
"We have been even suggested by the IITian professors whom we interacted with that you develop your own algorithms to unravel this one, but this is not going to be easy," he said.
Terming it as the biggest challenge and the latest frontier of Competition Law, he said it was the cutting-edge where laws for most parts were genuinely struggling to keep pace with the developments in technology.
"Regulators have not much idea, yet. I must confess what has to be done to make human-centric anti-trust laws apply effectively to the bot intermediated transactions and that connect is a real challenge," Sikri said.

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What better place to come to for holidays with the kids than a beautiful resort or hotel on Kangaroo Island, where there is everything from water sports, wildlife galore, adventures, fun filled tours and you can enjoy one of the most beautiful and diverse islands in Australia. Think of holidays with the kids where there are National Parklands to explore, beautiful beaches to play on, rugged coastline to explore, wild life to get up close and personal with and where you can enjoy days that will be brimming with so much to see and do that you just won’t know where to start first here in Kangaroo Island.
Kangaroo Island is where you can see New Zealand fur seals lazing on the beach, kangaroo fossicking in the grass, bird life galore, wallabies, ospreys, echidnas, koalas, goannas and so much more, making this island one of the most fascinating eco systems you will ever see. The kids will love the diversity and the array of wildlife that you will see every day whether you set out on your own or join a tour to take you around the island. Explore the rugged coastline to the south that has incredible rock formations that have carved out by the winds from the Southern Ocean where you can explore caves and relax in secluded bays and inlets for the day where you can go swimming, fishing and investing rock pools with the kids. There are beautiful beaches that ribbon Kangaroo Island where you can either go surfing, swimming, fishing, diving, snorkelling or boating for the day.
The waters are crystal clear and beacon you to come in and play, and with safe and protected waters that kids and you will have a ball. The winters are mild and the summers a perfect, so with the Mediterranean climate all year round you will have every opportunity to get out and about. The average temperature of summer is around 25 degrees and winter can see temps level out at around 15 degrees. There are attractions like the wildlife sanctuary or the Admirals Arch which is a great walkway to take the kids along that has a wonderful surprise at the end with a family of fur seals that will greet you. Take the kids to the Penguin Centre, the Wildlife Park, out on a cruise for the day around the island or join a night tour to see the nocturnal creatures come out to play. Kangaroo Island really does have so much for families with kids to enjoy on their holiday, with a great range of tours to book onto that will let you experience all of what the island offers or you can easily set out on your own to explore and discover.
Kangaroo Island accommodation comes in many shapes and sizes from budget accommodation through to luxury accommodation. There are apartments with beachside views, holiday homes in the rolling green hills, resorts, wilderness retreats, motels and lodges. You will definitely have to plan to stay for a couple of night in your family accommodation on Kangaroo Island as there is just so much to see and do! There is a regular ferry that can take you to and from the mainland or you can arrive by plane and land at the airport on Kangaroo Island and have pre arranged transfers to your preferred accommodation. Kangaroo Island is an awe inspiring destination that you and the kids will just love. With stunning landscapes, wineries, wildlife, pristine beaches, water sports, accommodation of all kinds, tours and plenty of adventures and fun filled days, a holiday with the kids on Kangaroo Island will be one holiday that you will want to extend!

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You'll definitely enjoy your experience at Maccaroo Gyms.
It's located in Joplin. If you aren't quite familiar with that name, it's 160 miles (257 kilometers) away from the state capital, Jefferson City.
Choice of hotel can be the difference between an average trip and an unforgettable one. There are 7 accommodations to choose from that are within 2 miles (3 kilometers) of Maccaroo Gyms, so it shouldn't be hard to find one that has everything you want. Lots of people would recommend the Hilton Garden Inn Joplin, 2 miles (3 kilometers) away, the Comfort Inn & Suites, 2 miles (3 kilometers) away, and the Fairfield Inn by Marriott Joplin, 2 miles (3 kilometers) away.
If you're sick of having to choose between going out for dinner or buying plenty of campy souvenirs, free up some of your cash by booking a room at one of the surrounding area's more reasonably priced solutions. Why not choose one of the Candlewood Suites Joplin and the Quality Inn Joplin?
If you need a second wind, keep your senses awake with a welcome burst of caffeine. Enjoy one or two coffees from Via Nutrition, an easy walk away. A good option for anyone looking for something more substantial is Casey's General Store. Once again, you needn't wander too far to find it. You can keep walking and spend the last few hours of your day taste-testing the beer, wine and whatever else you desire at Gusano's Chicago Style Pizzeria.


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The City and County of Honolulu is building a 20-mile, 21-station rapid-transit line that runs from East Kapolei to Ala Moana Center. Its latest official cost estimate, based on the project’s 2017 recovery plan, is almost exactly $9 billion, including financing.
Island leaders have tried for the past half century to build a fixed-rail system on Oahu, and the current project remains controversial. Advocates say it will serve as a critical alternative option to the traffic-plagued H-1 freeway to get into town. But the project has seen its own plague of budget problems, where construction costs have grown by an estimated $3 billion since fall 2014.
The full line was originally slated to be completed in 2019. However, delays have pushed back that official completion about six years, to December 2025. Future plans call for eventually extending the line to the University of Hawaii-Manoa and Waikiki.
The city considered four options before settling on a steel-wheel-on-steel-rail system, which has received city, state and federal support. During the 2008 general election, 50.6 percent of Honolulu voters said yes to the charter amendment question: “Shall the powers, duties, and functions of the city, through its director of transportation services, include establishment of a steel wheel on steel rail transit system?”
The rail issue was so divisive during the election that year that more people voted against the steel-on-steel technology (140,818) than voted for anti-rail mayoral candidate, now-Councilwoman Ann Kobayashi. Kobayashi received 128,798 votes.
In subsequent years vocal detractors of the project have called for alternatives, such as high-occupancy toll lanes with prioritized bus rapid transit or even nothing at all. Those proponents emphasize a democratic obligation to uphold the people’s 2008 vote in support of the project.
The Final Environmental Impact Statement for the project was released in June 2010. The Federal Transit Administration issued a Record of Decision approving the project in January 2011.
The stations are designed be Americans With Disabilities Act-compliant, with escalators, elevators, stairs and platforms level with the trains’ floors. Only four stations will have substantial parking facilities, but the rail system is intended to work in concert with TheBus, allowing for easy transfer between the two.
The initial Honolulu rail line would pass the University of Hawaii-West Oahu campus,Waipahu, Leeward Community College, Pearl City, Pearlridge, Aloha Stadium, Salt Lake, Kalihi, Honolulu Community College, downtown Honolulu and Kakaako.
Extensions are also planned. One extension would go from Ala Moana Center to the University of Hawaii-Manoa campus, as well as Waikiki. Other proposed extensions would lead west through Kapolei and to Kalaeloa.
The route proposed in the 2010 EIS required the acquisition of 160 acres. Nearly 200 parcels would be impacted, with 40 of those being being fully acquired, or “full-takes.” In total, 20 residences, 67 businesses and one church are slated to be displaced and relocated.
Property acquisition is well underway, with some tenants being helped under the Federal Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act. In 2018, rail officials notified the FTA that they may not have properly followed that process – and thus potentially violated federal law – in making those payments.
The route will also have visual impacts. Some trees will have to be cut down and some ocean and mountain views will be altered by the elevated tracks. In vocal criticism of the project, the American Institutes of Architects Honolulu Chapter posted simulations of what an elevated rail line would look like in downtown Honolulu along Nimitz Highway.
The current rail proposal isn’t Oahu’s first. The idea has been considered for 50 years.
In 1967, the Oahu Transportation Study recommended a fixed guideway from Pearl City to Hawaii Kai, which then-Mayor Neal Blaisdell pursued. In the 1970s, then-Mayor Frank Fasi inherited the project and received federal money for the Honolulu Area Rapid Transit (HART) project, a fixed guideway that would connect Aloha Stadium and Kahala Mall.
However, Fasi’s defeat to Eileen Anderson in the 1980 election put his rail plans on hold. Fasi would regain the mayoral seat and, with support from Gov. John Waihee, receive congressional approval for $618 million in federal funding for HART. The plan called for a 0.5 percent general excise tax increase to cover the remainder of the project costs, but in 1992 the City Council voted down the tax increase in a 5-4 vote, killing the plan.
In 2003, rail came up again, this time as a light rail proposal from then-state Sen. President Robert Bunda. Then-Gov. Linda Lingle, a Republican, that year also proposed light rail in West Oahu and an elevated Nimitz “flyover” highway. She ended up dropping both plans due to her party’s opposition to the projects, which would have required tax increases for funding.
Two years later, however, both the city and state agreed to work together on a rail proposal. In 2005, the Legislature passed a GET surcharge, which Lingle allowed to pass into law without her signature. This time the city council approved the tax increase.
In 2008, the city, state, federal transit officials and voters all approved the start of a steel-wheel-on-steel-rail system. The project’s groundbreaking was scheduled for October 2009, but was pushed back multiple times until a ceremony in early 2011 marked the start of pre-construction work. State and federal lawsuits then helped stall construction for about a year. That work resumed in late 2013 and has continued ever since.
As of 2018, federal officials considered the rail work about 45 percent complete overall, with the most difficult construction into town yet to start. The elevated guideway from East Kapolei to Aloha Stadium is done. Stations along that stretch are underway, and the work on the elevated line and stations to Middle Street is in the early stages.
A 0.5 percent surcharge on Oahu’s state general excise tax, combined with state transient accommodations tax revenues and $1.55 billion in federal “New Starts” dollars are funding the bulk of the $9 billion project. As of March 2018, the city was obligated to cover an additional $214 million in rail’s budget.
The Honolulu Rail system will use steel-wheel technology. In Feburary 2008, an independent panel of transportation experts appointed by the administration and city council recommended steel-on-steel as the best long-term and most cost-effective solution. The panel cited benefits that include higher passenger capacity, better ride quality, better energy efficiency and lower noise and air-quality impacts.
The panel had compared the steel-wheel on steel-track system to rubber tire on concrete, monorail and magnetic levitation technology.
The decision to move to rail came just a couple years after the city abandoned plans for a bus rapid transit system in urban Honolulu, due in part to concerns that dedicated bus lanes would create more congestion rather than help it. The city considered other alternatives, such as elevated high-occupancy toll roads, as well.
The Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Honolulu rail project looked at the traffic corridor from Kapolei to Manoa and drew conclusions based on more residents and job sites moving toward West Oahu through 2030.
More than 60 percent of Oahu’s population and 80 percent of its employment is located in the designated transit corridor. The planning documents looked at a narrow 23-mile strip bounded by the Waianae and Koolau mountain ranges and the Pacific Ocean. The corridor includes most of West Oahu, including many new and upcoming suburban developments and the “second city” of Kapolei, as well as the business district and Waikiki.
By 2030, the population living in the area is expected to increase to 69 percent, along with 84 percent of jobs. If those projections are correct, along with the expectation that 95,000 commuters will ride a train on a daily basis, the city predicts future traffic congestion will be reduced versus if the system is not built.
In 2007, about 73 percent of more than 2 million daily trips on Oahu originated between Kapolei and Waikiki, including about 350,000 trips during peak morning travel times. Under the proposed system, trains will hold more than 300 passengers, which planners say is the equivalent of more than 200 cars, with trains coming every three minutes during rush hour.
If the train ridership is as robust as the city hopes, it could mean 30,000 fewer cars on the road each day. According to the Draft Environmental Impact Statement, this could improve traffic congestion and parking shortages for others commuting to work in downtown Honolulu, Kakaako or the Ala Moana area, even those coming from areas not served by the rail system.
While there is skepticism among opponents about whether the ridership projections will be realized, the city hopes to have similar results to smaller communities, as well as less densely populated cities with successful steel-wheel transit systems, including Portland, Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Although 2010 data shows declining ridership in public transportation nationwide, the American Public Transportation Association reported before the economic downturn that public transportation use had been on the rise in several cities, with increased ridership of 5 percent to 43 percent within a one-year time frame.
Honolulu’s ridership numbers will likely depend on how easy the rail system will be to use and how much it reduces commute times. The city so far has offered little data to make comparisons between the length of a rail commute and driving in rush hour. The Draft EIS offered only two comparisons between 2007 rush hour drive times and projected 2030 transit travel times:
• Waianae to UH-Manoa: 128 minutes by car vs. 91-93 minutes by train
• Kapolei to Ala Moana Center: 101 minutes by car vs. 57-59 minutes by train
Impact on Historic Sites
The city has said seven historic sites will face negative impacts, but the Historic Hawaii Foundation believes at least 33 historic properties, including three historic districts, will be adversely affected by the planned rail route.
Adverse effects, according to the foundation’s definition, include “demolition, physical occupation of a portion of the site or having an impact on the site’s setting, context, feeling or association.” Another 50 are in the area of potential effect.


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The ‘bald and beautiful’ trend started with Seventies model Pat Evans! Tired of straightening her fro for castings, she shaved her head and became a star.
We love Solange’s supersized ’fros, but her sassy short natural is our favorite look on her. The better to see her gorgeous features.
Skin, the London-born lead singer of Skunk Anansie is well-known for her dramatic costumes and stunning bald dome. No wonder she’s constantly bombarded with modeling offers!
Eva Marcille’s one-inch long platinum natural perfectly frames her golden-brown skin and model-perfect cheekbones.
Up-and-coming model Ajak is quickly making a name for herself with her pouty lips and boyish, super-short natural. If she looks familiar, it’s because she’s a relative of Sudanese supermodel, Alek Wek!
Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, has worn this short natural cut for years. She’s had a hand in making this look become chicer than chic!
Alek Wek’s signature short, tight buzz cut is the perfect compliment to her stunning Dinka features.
When Dominican supermodel Sessilee Lopez first stepped on the scene, she made a name for herself with her two-inch long afro. So elegant.
Film/TV producer Sidra Smith (and sister to "Why Did I Get Married? actress Tasha Smith) puts perfectly-shaped head on display with this low razor cut.
If you’re a woman on the move like model-mogul talent agent Bethann Hardison, a close crop is the look for you.
Janet Jackson’s recent super-short haircut completely reinvigorated her look! We love it when she goes for this sleek, Josephine Baker moment. To do, create a side part, and then comb a strong gel like Smooth ’n Shine Polishing Gellation Styling Gel ($3.80, drugstore.com) through wet hair with a fine-tooth comb. Let air dry.
“Going bald is much harder than being bald,” says famed interior designer Sheila Bridges, who has the hair loss condition Alopecia. “When I shaved my hair it was empowering. Wigs are awful!”
In the Eighties, model/actress/singer Grace Jones rocked a short flattop, carrying on the androgynous tradition Pat Evans started in the early Seventies.
Model Henrieth Paul is relatively new on the scene, but she’s already made a name for herself with her baby doll features and, more significantly, her impossibly elegant, teen-weeny-fro.
Sudanese stunner (by way of New Mexico) Ataui Deng turns heads on runways with her deep mocha skin and super-cool short hairstyles. She’s rocked a close buzz, a faux-hawk, and spikes!
Earlier this year, Chrisette Michelle buzzed off her locks and began sporting a closely-cut natural. We think it enhances her beauty in a major way.
To recreate Malinda Williams short, wash-and-go curls at home, simply run a dollop of curl-enhancing cream (try Matrix Curl.Life Contouring Cream for Thick/Coarse Hair, $17.50, drugstore.com) through wet hair, scrunch for texture, create a side part and air-dry. So cute!
Ever the coif chameleon, Kelis struck the right note with her bright-red, super-curly crop. We love the strawberry blonde eyebrows and emerald green eyeliner!
Since the late Eighties, supermodel Roshumba’s signature hairstyle has been a short, elegant natural. Here, she slicks it to one side for a sophisticated moment.

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The Government has announced some changes to its building programme to help support more people into home ownership. This includes changes from 1 October 2019 to the HomeStart Grant / Welcome Home Loan.
Read the announcement on the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development's website.
Buying your first home is exciting and scary at the same time.
Navigating your way through the process isn’t always straightforward. We’ve collected all the home loan products and initiatives we manage into one place so you can quickly and easily find out which are right for you.
You could be eligible for a low deposit loan through the Welcome Home Loan scheme or a Kainga Whenua loan for individuals or Maori land trusts. You may be able to get help towards a deposit through a KiwiSaver HomeStart grant for first-home buyers.
If you are a Housing New Zealand tenant, you may be able to buy the house you’re living in, or, for all other house buyers, one of our FirstHome properties might be right for you.


Fine-haired people have enjoyed the oil-absorbing benefits of dry shampoo but the frizzy-haired world has gone without an acceptable alternative for far too long. Living Proof agreed it’s about time women with frizz-prone hair get a dry conditioner that helps them go even longer between washes, so their hair will look just as great on day four as it did on day one.
The main cause of frizz, other than chronically playing with your hair and unforgiving humidity, is a lack of moisture. Living Proof’s senior chemist, Lauren Trahan, created its Instant De-Frizzer with a five-oil blend that coats strands to help seal in moisture. Of course, if your hair is already dry, applying oils won’t help at all — they’re only good for sealing in moisture that’s already there. Enter Living Proof, which has formulated its De-Frizzer with a conditioner that targets the driest and most damaged parts of the hair.
While spraying products onto your hair sounds like the exact opposite of what you should do to tame frizz, the spray absorbs and dries quickly so it doesn’t sit on top of hair and make frizz even worse. If you have curly hair, try twirling the product through your curls to help reshape them. All in all, the De-Frizzer dry conditioner will definitely be a curly-girl savior because going through an entire wash-day routine multiple times a week isn’t ideal.
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I once heard a newspaper publisher make a speech in which he bemoaned the fact that people didn’t really understand the newspaper business. I thought about this a bit and came to the conclusion that any of us could probably say something similar about the businesses we are in. Even if we once thought we understood someone else’s business, organizations that survive over long periods of time aren’t standing still. They’re changing in ways that are often not visible to the general public. Public perception often lags reality, and the faster the rate of change within an organization, the greater the gap between what the organization actually is and public perception of it.
Over the past decade, Goodwill in central Indiana has evolved at such a rapid rate that even people who have been relatively close to the organization are not aware of some of what we are now doing, the approaches we are taking to our work, or the impact we are having in the larger community.
For starters, most people have no idea we are as large as we are. With 3,000 employees – two-thirds with a disability, criminal history, low education level, or other barrier – we are still doing what the founder of Goodwill set out to do more than 110 years ago – provide work for people with few options. We’re just doing it for a lot more people.
We have also become significantly involved in public education – especially of older youth and adults. This fall we will operate 10 schools with a total of more than 3,000 students. Nine of those schools are Excel Centers – a unique concept we created three years ago that enables adults to complete requirements for a high school diploma and begin working toward a post-secondary credential that will enhance their earnings potential.
More recently, we have begun operating Nurse-Family Partnership, a highly effective home visitation program that helps first-time mothers in low income households improve pregnancy outcomes, child health and development, and the economic self-sufficiency of the family. Our nurses are currently working with over 350 expectant moms and new moms to whom 220 babies have been born. It’s a 30-month program with lifelong benefits.
Equally exciting is the extent to which we are now able to link individuals and families with education, employment, health and family services in a holistic approach to help people move out of poverty. We don’t provide all of the services ourselves. Rather, we work with many other organizations whose capabilities and resources complement Goodwill’s. As this approach has grown in recent years, our organization has begun resembling a network of networks – an approach that makes better use of overall community resources and is much more effective than the more common fragmented approach.
The financial base for what we do is provided by our donated goods/retail operations, which also employ two-thirds of our 3,000 employees. Thus, we are dependent on hundreds of thousands of residents who donate goods and shop in our stores.
All of this is a lot more than meets the eye of the general public. Lack of knowledge or – worse yet – misleading information or misinformation that can arise from taking small pieces of what we do out of context can be damaging. One of our challenges is to find ways to improve public knowledge of Goodwill’s wide array of services and the impact of those services in the lives of people and the communities in which we operate. The better we can do that, the better we will be able to reduce the gap between perception and reality.
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A great post by Goodwill Industries of Central Indiana’s CEO, Jim McClelland. I can’t tell you how many times I have heard “I didn’t know Goodwill did that”.
Wonderful article . . . Very eye-opening . . . Goodwill just does GOOD . . . Very, very well!
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Fintech unicorn Paddle cuts 8% of jobs
Less than a year after hitting unicorn status, CEO Christian Owens shared the news that Paddle has been forced to downsize.
London-based fintech Paddle has just laid off eight per cent of its staff in a company-wide effort to downsize.
The startup, which describes itself as the “complete payment infrastructure provider for software companies”, said it has suffered from a post-COVID dip after a period of rapid growth combined with sharp increases in inflation.
Paddle reached unicorn status in May after a £162m Series D funding round which saw it valued at $1.4bn, and is now letting go of around eight per cent of its 350 staff as it streamlines costs, as first reported by Tech EU.
CEO Christian Owens shared the news on LinkedIn after breaking the news to employees internally earlier in the week.
“What we’re seeing at the moment – both internal and external – is cyclical, not catastrophic,” Owens wrote in the company memo published on LinkedIn.
“The software industry, the economy, and our business have weathered tough times before and will likely have to do so again in the future. What defines us is how we rise to these challenges and adapt our business to thrive.”
Taking responsibility for the decisions that led to the company now needing to reduce its cost base, Owens highlighted two “key mistakes”.
“The first was assuming that the growth our customers saw during COVID was a signal of fundamental change and that growth would be sustained largely in perpetuity,” he wrote.
“The second was allowing our operating costs to increase at a faster rate than we were growing our revenue.”
Paddle is also reducing expenses in other areas, including limiting 2023 hiring to “a small number of critical roles”, reducing its budget for promotions and salary increases and reducing its spending on software, tooling and people benefits, it said.
“These changes position us to weather the storm ahead, and support our customers as they weather it too,” Owens wrote.


The killing of bin Laden by a US special operations team was the most important event covered by news agencies on Monday and attracted a lot of attention from Internet users, especially American ones.
As with any widely covered event, cyber criminals have wasted no time in trying to exploit it for their own benefit.
On Facebook, one of the main platforms for spreading scams, there are several ongoing malicious campaigns using bin Laden's death as lure.
This is an old and rather primitive scam technique. The rogue code misuses the user's active session to grab their friends list and send them spam messages via Facebook chat.
A second, more sophisticated, Osama death scam is using clickjacking and rogue wall messages to spread. Users are directed to a page asking them to solve a captcha-like test consisting of a simple math operation.
Trying to input the answer will result in the click being hijacked and used to post a spam message on people's walls without their authorization.
Users are advised to get their news and related footage only from trusted and widely used sources. Interacting in any way with Facebook or Facebook-looking pages in order to obtain news information is never a good idea.


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Nearly everyone can think of a time when they were told to finish eating their vegetables. Juicing is a great alternative to eating your daily servings of fruits and vegetables.
If you are drinking juice primarily to improve your health, then make sure the main ingredient of your juice is a green vegetable. Juices ought to be comprised of somewhere between 1/2 and 3/4 chard, broccoli, spinach or related items. The remaining percentage should be consumed by flavorful fruits.
Use ripe, sweet apples to make great tasting, fresh apple juice. Apples with bruises or blemishes are fine, but cut these parts out before juicing. Apples, such as Gala, Rome, Red Delicious, and Rome, are sweet and make richer, more flavorful juices.
Leafy greens such as kale, spinach and parsley are sources of a variety of health benefits. For maximum health benefits, have at least half of the ingredients in your juices be these greens, and add other vegetables for flavor. Fruit juices are unhealthy and sugary compared to green juices.
If mixed correctly, juice can constitute your whole meal. If you consider the quantity of produce that goes into a single glass of juice, you may see how this can be true. The nutrition will be absorbed by your body quickly if there is no other solid food to interfere.
Before you start juicing, research your produce. There is such a wide range of fruits and vegetables available, and they each have their own pros with regards to vitamins contained. Use produce which covers different nutritional requirements, such as vitamin C or niacin. You will not just be supplying your body with proper nutrients, but you are going to find some very interesting blends.
Coffee filters can be used to reduce the amount of pulp that gets into the juice you make. There may be some unwanted pulp in your juices. Try pouring the juice through a cheesecloth or a coffee filter. This should remove the majority of the pulp.
When you select a juicer to purchase, make sure you choose one that is easy for maintenance. Some juicers take over 25 minutes to assemble, disassemble, and clean. Add the time it takes to juice, and you may just want to go buy juice instead. Make sure that you clean your juicer immediately, before the pulp has had time to dry and harden.
If you have cystitis, gallstones or another infection of the urinary tract, try drinking some cranberry juice. The minute you feel the infection taking place, start using them.
If you suffer from diabetes or hypoglycemia, use only vegetables in your juices. Blood sugar levels can rise rapidly from the drinking of fruit juice. Keep close track of how much fruit juice you include in your blends to ensure you don’t cause yourself health problems. Veggies can give you nutrients without undue risk.
You can drastically improve the way you feel by simply eating enough vegetables and fruit servings each day. Juicing is a great way to increase your intake of fruits and vegetables. This article will introduce you to juicing basics, so that you can start to get the benefits of not only healthy eating but healthy drinking.


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A fictional story that happened before software rendering. It continues the artist’s previous CG narrative image, creating a chaotic and fragmented visual aesthetics between video art and CG images.
The concept of Lychee Park originated from Lychee Park in Putian, Fujian. The public facilities that were originally used for public recreation and entertainment have become sex trading places. People swayed under the lychee trees, and the ripe lychees were shaken down. The way people get pleasure here has changed. However, in this work, the software did not follow the development of the story. The model characters in the software can already resist high-speed rotation under the training of the merry-go-round and the rocking car. And began to march into the boundless depths of software, outer space.
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Maria Radoeva, one of the best appeared participants in the master classes of Raina Kabaivanska and the New Bulgarian University, performs the lead role in the premiere spectacle of the Sofia Opera – “La dona del lago”. The beautiful Elena is implicated in complicated love and political relations with three men, including the King of Scotland.
The young singer lives since years in Italy. She appears at the opera theatres in Modena, Torino, Verona, Luca, Pisa, etc. She is soloist of the theatre in Erl, Austria, where she triumphed in two other works by Rossini “Semiramide” and “Ermione” under the baton of Gustav Kuhn. In the last years, she came back in Bulgaria for “Orfeo ed Euridice” by Gluck at the Antique Theatre in Plovdiv and with the song cycle “Wesendonck Lieder” by Wagner on the stage of the Sofia Philharmonic.
Two more laureates of Kabaivanska’s master classes are part of the cast of “La dona del lago” – the tenor from Venezuela Reynaldo Droz and the Bulgarian mezzo-soprano Vesela Yaneva.
As BTA wrote, the main character Elena arrives with a boat from Lake Pancharevo, climbs on the stage and continues her participation in “La dona del lago”. With the premiere production of Giacomo Rossini’s opera will be opened this year the second summer festival “Muses of Water”.
“La dona del lago” will be performed on 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 July on the new stage, the capacity of which is 800 seats. In the playbill of “Muses of Water” are included also “Mamma mia!”, “Swan Lake”, “Shrek”. In the three genres – opera, ballet and musical there will be ca. 50 spectacles.


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Lee has played "Skyrim" for several years now and enjoys writing about it and her various Dovahkiin.
The Nord Spellsword build is something I started doing around 2015 or 16, when I thought it would be fun to play a Nord who fights like a draugr. This is a pretty simple, straight-forward build, though the great thing about it is you can make it as versatile as you want!
If you've played Skyrim for more than one hour, you've probably seen a draugr that fights with a sword in one hand and frost spells in other. At higher levels, these types also conjure frost atronachs.
These Restless Draugr are the ones this build is modeled after.
When it comes to roleplay, the most obvious race you'll want for a frost-themed spellsword is a Nord. The ancient Nords fought this way, so it makes sense to have a Nord mage who might want to follow in their footsteps.
Also, Nords start out with high resistance to cold plus five extra points of the One-Handed skill. That's the perfect setup for a frost spellsword build.
Spells and Spell Trees
I know what you're thinking: virtually every enemy in Skyrim has a high resistance to frost!
This is why I said you can make the build as versatile as you want. The idea is to use frost spells whenever you can, but if an enemy is better roasted by fire, it's good to have some fire spells in your arsenal.
I would try learning all the destruction spells—yes, all of them. Lightning spells will drain other mages of mana, while fire will do great damage to almost anything, and frost is good for slowing powerful melee enemies down.
Runes are also great for crowds so you don't get overwhelmed.
Then there's Conjuration. You can have a lot of fun with this. You can conjure a one-handed weapon, that way you don't have to keep carrying a blade. Or you can conjure an army of atronachs to fight with you/ for you. Or you can keep raising draugr and dead enemies to fight for you. This is good for someone who likes playing solo and/or just likes being a badass with an army of minions.
If you have a weapon enchanted to paralyze (think Chillrend), the Conjuration fun is never-ending.
Because this build is modeled after Restless Draugr, I wouldn't recommend—for the sake of roleplay—that you use other spells beyond this unless they light your way or guide you when you're lost (Clairvoyance), just for the sake of sticking to the aesthetic as closely as possible.
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But again, you can do whatever you want, be as versatile as you want. That's the nice thing about Skyrim: the ability to create endless builds using different methods.
I would also recommend learning Restoration magic. It can help in a pinch.
A lot of players will tell you to use heavy armor, if not for the cool Ancient Nord aesthetic. This is something I've always been on the fence about. I believe both heavy and light armor have their advantages -- one allows you to reflect damage while the other allows you to dodge it altogether -- but none of it is going to matter late in the game.
Because I like the Ancient Nord armor set -- and because I enjoy tanking as a warrior mage -- I tend to go with heavy armor. I feel that, ultimately, a Nord barbarian would wear heavy armor, even a mage, and I like to roleplay my spellsword Nords as barbarians.
So basically, do whatever you want because it's not going to matter in the end game, but I do love the way heavy armor looks in this game. Stalhrim, Ancient Nord, and Nordic Carved armor are some of my favorites.
If you're going to use weapons and armor as a mage, you will need to learn both smithing and enchanting. This means you will need a lot of money.
I would recommend making and selling potions. As a mage, you should be making your own potions anyway. Collect all the ingredients you can or else buy them. Then make potions, sell them, rinse and repeat. The extra money can go toward training in smithing.
Of course, you'll need a trainer.
This is where joining a couple factions comes in handy. After joining the Companions, you can receive training in smithing from Eorlund Graymane. He won't train you otherwise. If you don't join the Companions, you'll have to walk your ass all the way to Riften to find another blacksmith to train you.
You're also gonna want Athis to train you in One-Handed. If I recall correctly, he can take you a lot higher than Amren. The third One-Handed trainer is an orc that lives quite far away from the game's starting area. So again, joining the Companions is almost annoyingly convenient. (Sigh. Bethesda and their damn hand-holding.)
I like joining the Companions anyway. I like the concept—not the disappointing execution—of the Skyforge with its legendary (lol) weapons. Becoming a werewolf is also cool. I will always love it more than being a vampire—no matter what anyone says!
If you're playing a Nord warrior of any kind—even a spellsword—it makes sense to join the Companions. Just unequip any spells in your hand when training with Vilkas and don't use an enchanted weapon, either.
Contrary to what modern Nords in Skyrim say, magic wasn't frowned upon by the ancient Nords. That's why so many of them worshiped dragons, used the Thu'um (which is just magic), and a crapload of draugr are mages. When you go to Sovngarde during the main quest, you can also see mage Nords walking around Shor's Hall. So it isn't exactly wrong to roleplay this way.
The Companions and modern Nords hating magic is a result of the elves and the Great War.
Aside from the Companions, you might also want to join the College of Winterhold for reasons that are incredibly obvious—you're a mage! Joining the college gives you access to free items, magic stores, and trainers.
When you're playing a tank, usually any mage or archer follower will do.
Because my Nord characters tend to join the Companions, I usually wind up using Aela. She's good in a fight and tends to stay out of the way. She also can't die and wind up face-down in the mud with your loot on her.
Sadly, I can't think of many mage followers I actually like.
I like Illia's quest.
But once you get her as a follower, she is actually incredibly boring. She never says anything, has no unique or interesting lines, and it's easy to forget she's even there. But she is a decent mage. That's the upside.
There's also Serana.
Over the years, I have taken great pleasure in playing a Nord with white hair who happens to be a werewolf and falls in love with Serana, a Nord vampire with black hair. This build is very similar to Serana's (Conjuration, One-Handed, Frost spells) so it's amusing to play a character who is opposite to Serana and yet somehow the same.
People complain about Serana's fighting style (she constantly resurrects everything) but I don't mind because the characters I use her on tend to do it too! She makes for a good companion for this particular build, anyway.
Also, she can't die.
Anyway, that's the gist of it. Have fun fighting like a draugr!
I wanted to add that—hilariously enough—playing this build again recently made me realize that being a mage in Skyrim is pointless. I mean, I understand that it can be great fun, but the Dragonborn is already a mage by default with the shouts! (Also, the magic system just sucks.)
After the tediousness of constantly switching spells through the number pad, I decided on a recent playthrough to just use shouts as magic and the game became 10 times more fun. Especially with a mod that actually makes shouts useful.
I think that if Bethesda hadn't nerfed shouts to begin with, a lot of people would have done this. The improved shouts mod actually makes being Dragonborn so fun that there's no real reason to be a mage. It's especially great to use the fire shouts on vampires and undead (their screams as they burn—lmao).
So if you find you don't like this build—the way I did, lol—and you don't mind using mods, then try out this alternative method.
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Lisa Cosgrove and Emily Wheeler were awarded the Association for Women in Psychology’s Distinguished Publication Award for their article “Industry’s colonization of psychiatry: Ethical and practical implications of financial conflicts of interest in the DSM-5” published in Feminism & Psychology. The AWP is a diverse feminist community of psychologists and allied professionals invested in the integration of personal, professional, and political power in the service of social justice. It seeks to challenge unexamined privilege and dominant discourses that marginalize and oppress within psychology and the wider society. Each year, submissions for the Distinguished Publication Award are judged on creativity, methodological soundness, clarity, and importance to the understanding of women, gender issues, and sex roles. Awards are thus given to articles or books that, in meeting these criteria, make a significant contribution to the psychology of women research and theory.
When asked about what winning the award means to her, Emily Wheeler spoke about the following:
“I have been involved with the Association for Women in Psychology since I began graduate school six years ago and have such respect for this organization. Winning the award, especially as a student, was an incredible honor. This acknowledgement of the article is an ongoing reminder for me that there are many others in this field who value feminist theory and scholarship, which has been particularly important to remember in settings where feminist perspectives are less valued. It has also been so encouraging for me as a researcher to know that the work I’ve done has “landed” somewhere for someone (other than my parents’ refrigerator) and that it is contributing to feminist psychology. Presenting the paper at the AWP annual conference was such a proud moment for me as a chance to share the work and connect with others about it, and one that will stay with me”.
Lisa Cosgrove, highlighting the supportive environment of the organization, had this to say:
“We were delighted to have our paper published in Feminism & Psychology, a journal known for its intellectual rigor and cutting edge papers. Then, to hear that we won the distinguished publication award from The Association for Women in Psychology (AWP), was unbelievably exciting. AWP will always have a special place in my heart. I have been a member for 25 years and the friendships I have forged there have been invaluable. Indeed, receiving this award meant so very much to me because of my longstanding relationship with the organization. I have had the good fortune to work with, and be mentored by, so many amazing and talented women. Doing research in such a controversial area could be very lonely, but because of the support of AWP it has been not only rewarding but also energizing. It’s an organization that has always welcomed graduate students and individuals who do controversial, feminist and/or “outside the box” research—that’s certainly not true of many academic professional organizations. I have always felt at home at AWP conferences, it’s a place of inspiration and collegiality. So it was especially meaningful to be able to present our research, work that AWP has consistently supported, at the annual conference. I am deeply honored and appreciative that our work was recognized in this way. I want to thank all of my mentors, too numerous to name all of the them, but a special “shout-out” goes to Drs. Maureen McHugh, Leonore Tiefer, Joan Chrisler, and Kat Quina.”
Congratulations Lisa and Emily for your meaningful contribution!

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The Book of Madness and Curses
Little, Brown and Company 2012
The Book of Madness and Cures is the debut mystery novel by Regina O’Melveny. Set during the Renaissance, it chronicles the cross-country journey of Gabriella Mondini, a young widow looking to solve the mystery of the disappearance of her beloved father; a prominent doctor and scholar who has been missing for the last decade.
Mentored by her father, Gabriella carries with her the unique distinction being a physician; a vocation uncommon to women of the time, and often scorned as improper. She often must protect her knowledge and at times disguise her gender, to uncover information, as she is guided by her father’s correspondence to follow his path and trace his whereabouts, gaining valuable insights into the mysterious strengths and frailties of the human condition, medicine and disease.
Gabriella’s journey of love and devotion takes her from her home in Venice, through the strange, beautiful, and unfamiliar lands of 16th century Europe and Morocco, where she encounters both hardship and adventure. Each step is a clue gleaned from her cherished letters, and each location provides further insight into her father’s experiences and possible descent into madness.
The Book of Madness and Cures with its richly detailed descriptions, story telling and poetic language, transports the reader to 1590s Venice, and beyond, where medicine incorporated not only what we now consider superstition, but also the use of natural elements to relieve symptoms.
O’Melveny often enchants and fascinates, while the book nicely flows along. However, part way through, we realize that the story is rather formulaic. Also, a shocking event which set the reader to anticipate excitement and a deeper mystery is unfortunately left unattended, and therefore disappoints. The ending offers little surprise.
An easy, relaxing read, The Book of Madness and Cures is really about the journey and not the destination.


LABOUR Minister Fackson Shamenda has directed his Permanent Secretary, Trevor Kaunda to immediately summon Shoprite Checkers management and the union representatives to resolve allegations leveled against the former.
In an interview yesterday, Mr Shamenda said management at Shoprite and leaders from the National Union of Commercial and Industrial Workers of Zambia (NUCIW) should report to his office immediately so that the problem can be addressed.
He said his office would not tolerate any lawlessness from any investors who wanted to flout stipulated labour laws in the country deliberately.
He issued the directive in the wake of a looming strike at all Shoprite Checkers outlets in the country because of the chain store's failure to implement the minimum wage as well as reducing workers' allowances.
And NUCIW has expressed disappointment with Shoprite Checkers management for ignoring Government's directive to implement the minimum wage.
NUCIW president Robert Musanje said due to non compliance with the law, a countrywide strike was looming.
Mr Munsanje said his union recently met with Shoprite Checkers' management to discuss why among other things, it had failed to implement the minimum wage but failed to give convincing reasons.
"It is a pity that managers at Shoprite Checkers have continued to ignore the implementation of minimum wage with impunity, imagine a situation where the managers had even gone to levels were they now reduce the workers' allowances," said Mr Musanje.
He said his union was in support of the planned countrywide strike because Shoprite was making huge profits an indication that it was able to pay its employees new improved salaries.
A check at some of the shops found workers working but they emphasised that they were only waiting for a go ahead from fellow employees in the provincial centres because meetings were currently underway.
When contacted for a comment, human resources manager Andrew Mwala referred all queries to his superiors.


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or maunche, maunch
Origin of manche
Words nearby manche
Other definitions for manche (2 of 2)
How to use manche in a sentence
Houdin entitles the device above referred to—'La boite la manche;' and his description is to the following effect.Sharps and Flats|John Nevil Maskelyne
He had left his native place, Ville-Avary, in the department of la Manche, because there was no work to be had.The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume II (of 8)|Guy de Maupassant
If many royalists remained in the Orne and the Manche, it was impossible to group them or pay them.The House of the Combrays|G. le Notre
Manche is one of the foremost departments for the production of cider-apples and pears; plums and figs are also largely grown.
Perrée, the late editor and manager of the journal, who died at the early age of 34, was member for the Manche.


Outamyway (NZ) Storms to Stakes Success
Friday, October 2, 2020
Master trotting trainer Paul Nairn pulled off another feature race victory in the most thrilling of finishes when Outamyway (NZ) (Love You) won the $75,000 Listed NZB Standardbred Harness Million 2YO Trot (1980m) at Addington on Friday night.
Outamyway and driver Blair Orange burst out of the pack and put in one final late dive to beat runner-up Franco Jorik (Muscle Mass) by just a head in the inaugural running of a trotting event in the NZB Standardbred Harness Million Race Series.
It was not just that narrow margin that made the last 50 metres of the race nerve wracking for Nairn and Outamyway’s group of owners.
The talented, but inexperienced squaregaiter showed how much he still has to learn about racing when trotting roughly ahead of the post.
But, Orange helped the horse maintain his composure and win his first race in the most extraordinary of circumstances by taking out the Listed NZB Standardbred Harness Million 2YO Trot.
“He is a good staying type of horse and those are the types of horses you want,” Nairn said.
“He didn’t trot as well as I would have liked him to but Blair did a great job holding him together.”
Nairn got some insight in to Outamyway’s temperament when he inspected the horse at the NZB Standardbred National Yearling Sales at Christchurch in 2019.
Despite being amongst the excitement of the sales arena, the horse was not fazed in the slightest and was asleep in his loose box with the trainer arrived.
Outmyway is raced by a group largely made up of Nairn’s longtime clients along with the horse’s breeders, Peter and Jan Williams.
With plenty to learn about racing and just five starts under his belt, the future looks bright for Outamyway.
Nairn said he was looking forward to Outamyway competing over longer distances.
Franco Jorik fought bravely all of the way up the home straight for driver Ricky May.
The Greg and Nina Hope trained trotter was only caught late Outamyway.
Son Of Patrick (Father Patrick) was a length behind Franco Jorik, producing a game effort for trainers Barry Purdon and Scott Phelan.
With Phelan in the sulky, the trotter gave the leaders a big head start before the home turn and powered home wide on the track for his narrow second placing.
Eurokash (NZ) (Love You) was just a further neck away from Son Of Patrick in fourth placing.
The stablemate of Franco Jorik was brave in defeat after being forced to sit parked for much of the running of the NZB Standardbred Harness Million 2YO Trot.


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The spread of COVID-19 is affecting every aspect of our lives right now, and this includes food-related practices. More and more groceries and supermarkets are operating on a limited time table, if not closed. Some restaurants only allow takeaways as well. Lastly, a couple of items on your grocery list might not be available in the stores due to supply constraints.
Despite these happenings, it is essential that we still take good care of our health. It is also crucial while we’re in the middle of the pandemic since we need a healthy immune system to fight back the virus. With this in mind, here are some tips that can help you draft your diet plan despite the said crisis.
Do not just think about what you’re going to prepare for you and your family for the next three days. Instead, you should visualize your meals from breakfast to dinner for at least a week. You have to consider which viands you have to prepare, the exact ingredients needed, the food preparation method, and the amount of time and energy you will need to make the meals.
Once you have listed down everything you need, that’s the only time you should go to the grocery. Take note that you should minimize your trips to crowded places like these as it’s too dangerous. Therefore, make sure to maximize your shopping time by buying enough stocks for 1 to 2 weeks.
Prioritize Fresh Products
You should also make it to the point that you maximize the food available in your pantry. However, you should know how to prioritize. The most important rule that you need to keep in mind is to use the fresh ingredients first or utilize those with shorter shelf life.
Examples of these include reduced-fat dairy products, vegetables, and fruits. One technique for your fruits and vegetables to last long is by freezing them. Do not worry as they will retain their original nutrient profile despite staying inside the refrigerator.
Listed below are some nutrition-packed food that has longer shelf lives.
- Grains: frozen brown rice, instant oatmeal, refrigerated pizza crust, couscous, and quick-cooking pasta
- Bread: whole-grain English muffins, bread, bagels, corn tortillas, frozen whole wheat waffles, and wraps
- Sauce: salsa and tomato pasta sauce
- 100% Juice: shelf-stable cartons, canned, frozen
- Eggs: egg whites in packages, fresh eggs
- Soup and Broths: shelf-stable cartons, frozen, canned
- Vegetables: plain frozen, sun-dried, low sodium canned, sturdy fresh vegetables (onions, potatoes, broccoli, and celery)
- Fruits: plain frozen, dried, canned in water or juice, and sturdy fresh fruit (citrus and apple)
- Cheese: cubed or grated hard cheese
- Nuts and seeds: canned, bagged, nut butter
- Seafood: fish fillet, canned tuna, sardines, and salmon, and frozen shrimp
- Frozen chicken, pork, and beef
Control Portion Sizes
Being at home for an extended period due to lockdowns and quarantine may lead to overeating. Partner this with this inactivity, then you’re prone to a health disaster. Therefore, if you’re drafting your diet plan, make sure that your portion sizes are at par with the standard.
You can do this by seeking assistance from national food-based dietary guidelines. Here you’ll find what constitutes a right yet healthy portion. Be mindful that adults and young children have different allocations, and you need to consider this when preparing a meal.
“The healthiest meals emphasize whole grains, vegetables, and fruits—serve them in the greatest amounts. Meat portions should be smaller—this will save money and help keep dietary saturated fat in check,” share Carol Byrd-Bredbenner, Ph.D., RD, FAND, and co-authors.
Try Online Shopping
We’re living in the digital age now. Most food companies who are trying to control their losses brought about by the pandemic are now extending their services via the online platform. As a household, you should utilize this approach. It will not only save you a lot of time but will also minimize your people-to-people interaction.
Keep in mind, however, that unlike supermarkets, you have to wait for a day or two to receive or pick up your orders. Therefore, it is vital to plan and manage your groceries.
Limit Sugar Intake
The World Health Organization recommends a maximum of 6 teaspoons of sugar intake per day. This amount is equivalent to less than 5 percent of an adult’s total energy intake; therefore, if you crave for something sweet, better to consume fresh fruits than any other delicious dessert.
Always remember that one can still achieve proper nutrition amid these unfortunate circumstances. All you have to do is follow the tips above and partner this with a physically active lifestyle.


|Bill Allombert on Thu, 19 Dec 2002 11:53:49 +0100|
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On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 11:16:49AM +0100, Ramón Casero Cañas wrote: > Bill Allombert wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 11:10:42PM +0100, email@example.com wrote: > > > matinverseimage(A,Y) return a solution of AX=Y if it exists, and [;] else. > > Um, I have another question linked to Bill's answer. Let's say the > matrix is invertible. Each time that a vector's inverse image is to be > computed, the matrix has to be inverted (or whichever process it > follows), isn't it? That doesn't seem efficient from a computational > point of view (and I'm not saying that that function was written with > that idea, or maybe it's more efficient that way than inverting the > matrix and then use the inverse as a linear mapping, I don't know). I've > been reading other functions descriptions, and I haven't found anything > like "inverse(A)". 1) To inverse a matrix, use A^-1 or 1/A. 2) If A is invertible, you should rather use matsolve() than matinverseimage(). 3) matsolve(A,X) is faster than computing A^-1, but not much, so you are right, it is best to compute A^-1 if you have many vectors X. Cheers, Bill.


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Japan is at the very centre of the global financial system. It has run current account surpluses for decades, building the world's largest net foreign investment surplus, or its accumulated national savings. Meanwhile, other nations, such as the US, have borrowed from nations like Japan to live beyond their own means, building net foreign investment deficits. We now have unprecedented levels of cross-national financing.
Much of Japan's private sector saving is placed in Yen with financial institutions who then invest overseas. These institutions currency hedged most of their foreign assets to reduce risk weighted asset charges and currency write down risks. The cost of hedging USD assets has however risen due to a flattening USD yield curve and dislocations in FX forwards. As shown below, their effective yield on a 10 year US Treasury (UST) hedged with a 3 month USDJPY FX forward has fallen to 0.17%. As this is below the roughly 1% yield many financial institutions require to generate profits they have been selling USTs, even as unhedged 10 year UST yields rise. The effective yield will fall dramatically for here if 3 month USD Libor rises in line with the Fed's "Dot Plot" forecast for short term rates, assuming other variables like 10 year UST yields remain constant.
As Japanese financial institutions sell US Treasuries, which are considered the safest foreign asset, they are shifting more into higher yielding and higher risk assets; foreign bonds excluding US treasuries as well as foreign equity and investment funds. This is a similar pattern to what we saw prior to the last global financial crisis. In essence, Japan's financial institutions are forced to take on more risk in search of yield to cover rising hedge costs as the USD yield curve flattens late in the cycle.
Critically as the world's largest net creditor they facilitate significant added liquidity for higher risk overseas borrowers late into the cycle.
I follow these flows closely. One area I think is rather interesting is US Collateralised Loan Obligations (CLOs) which Bloomberg reports "ballooned to a record last quarter thanks in large part to unusually high demand from Japanese investors". CLOs are essentially a basket of leveraged loans provided to generally lower rated companies with very little covenant protection. Alarmingly, some US borrowers have used this debt to purchase back so much of their own stock that their balance sheets now have negative net equity. A recent Fed discussion paper shows in the following chart that CLOs were the largest mechanism for the transfer of corporate credit risk out of undercapitalised banks in the US and into the shadow banking sector. Japanese financial institutions have been the underwriter of much of that risk in their search for yield.
There are many other risky areas where Japan has become a large buyer, including; Australian Residential Mortgage Backed Securities, Emerging Market Bonds, and Aircraft Leases. Japan's financial institutions have desperately sought the higher yields on offer not only to compensate for higher hedge costs but also their dire domestic earnings outlook as the Bank Of Japan (BOJ) suppresses domestic interest rates below the break-even rates that many of these institutions need to remain profitable. A former BOJ Board member Takahide Kiuchi warns "there is no doubt that as a side effect of monetary easing, financial institutions are taking excessive risk". (Japanese) Banks are investing in products that yield too little relative to the risks involved. You tell banks to stop it, and then they go elsewhere to find opportunities — it's whack-a-mole". Importantly, Japan's Financial Services Agency is now instructing regional banks, to not only stop adding foreign higher risk assets but also to aggressively sell existing positions as soon as they begin to turn sour.
Unfortunately, this doesn't resolve the problem as restricting financial institutions like regional banks from buying higher yielding foreign assets removes their ability to offset their deteriorating domestic businesses. The situation will likely worsen, as even the BOJ Governor Kuroda himself acknowledges that continuously supressed interest rates will increasingly deteriorate domestic banking earnings over time as old higher yielding assets continue to roll-over onto lower rates. There is limited prospect of the BOJ meaningfully lifting interest rates to slow that deterioration. All of the BOJ's measure of underlying inflation have deteriorated this year. In addition, as the chart below shows, currency effects, which had brought some limited inflationary pressures to Japan earlier in the year, are now set to bring deflationary pressures.
An unstated objective of the BOJs monetary policy has been to weaken the Yen. As suppressed domestic interest rates also creating carry trade outflows from some Japanese investors who are willing to take unhedged currency risk. The 2016 commitment to keep interest rates pegged below zero out to 10 years, via yield curve control, has again pushed the Yen to near extreme levels of devaluation against its long-term average real effective exchange rate. The Yen is currently 23% undervalued against its export partners.
We can use purchasing power parity to specifically measure the undervaluation of the Yen versus the USD. The current 30% undervaluation implies a fair value of USDJPY 77. Surveys of Japanese exporters estimate that they only break-even on average at above USDJPY 100.5. It is clear that the BOJ would be desperate not to trigger a reversal of carry flows and push the Yen back up to fair value by raising interest rates.
The BOJ has to make a choice and there are no good options.
If the BOJ raises interest rates they risk triggering a tsunami of Japanese money flowing back home, strengthening the Yen and amplifying the coming deflationary pressures. In addition, much of that money is currently propping up higher risk overseas debt markets like US CLOs. If Japan, the world's largest creditor, brings its money back home that would bode extremely poorly for the global credit cycle, which Japanese financial institutions are now more than ever directly exposed to.
If the BOJ doesn't raise interest rates, which I think is the likely outcome, then some Japanese financial institutions will simply not be able to survive as privately owned listed entities in their current form as their domestic earnings will fall increasingly negative and they are restricted from seeking overseas earnings.
Regional banks are the entities which are suffering most and conditions have continued to deteriorate further since I wrote earlier in the year of policies in place already that would allow these entities to be resolved into more viable formats. Essentially, the cost of continuing current policy would be to zero the shareholders in some of these banks, a cost Japan has proved willing to bear on a number of occasions in recent decades already. I can see this as being the most politically palatable choice, out of a range of bad choices and see continued appealing returns in Japanese regional bank shorts.


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6-6-10 very good, salsa could have been a little spicier
6-7-10 had l/o salsa so split chicken breast in half, applied same
rub, added another tblsp jalapeno to salsa, cooked on grill, served on
soft onion roll, excellent
Cover this quick and easy grilled pork recipe with a tasty salsa that
uses summer's freshest fruits and flavors to round out the meal.
Other Time: 30 minutes minutes
Yield: 4 servings (serving size: 1 pork chop and 1/2 cup salsa)
1 cup chopped seedless watermelon
1 cup chopped honeydew melon
3 tablespoons finely chopped sweet onion
1 tablespoon finely chopped jalape±o pepper
1 tablespoon chopped fresh cilantro
1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
1/8 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons canola oil
1 1/2 teaspoons chili powder
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
4 (4-ounce) boneless center-cut pork chops, trimmed
1. To prepare salsa, combine the first 7 ingredients; set aside.
2. To prepare pork chops, heat a grill pan over medium-high heat.
Combine oil and next 4 ingredients (through black pepper) in a small
bowl. Rub oil mixture over both sides of pork chops. Coat pan with
cooking spray. Add pork to pan; cook 4 minutes on each side or until
desired degree of doneness. Serve with salsa.
CALORIES 256 ; FAT 13.5g (sat 4.3g,mono 6.4g,poly 1.6g); CHOLESTEROL
70mg; CALCIUM 37mg; CARBOHYDRATE 8.7g; SODIUM 458mg; PROTEIN 25g;
FIBER 0.9g; IRON 0.9mg
Cooking Light, JULY 2010
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The creation of a new medical device that allows physicians to more accurately insert needles into deep veins sounds like fiction.
A sketch on a cocktail napkin by a Columbia emergency medicine physician leads to eight years of tweaking designs, finding backers and clearing regulatory hurdles.
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Once anathema to New York City’s high-end home buyers, residential towers on busy crosstown streets have arrived.
Nearby amenities such as the High Line and a newfound appreciation for the benefits of building on Gotham’s thoroughfares have led developers to rethink the streets, the New York Times reported.
Developers told the newspaper wider roads provide ample light and zoning on major arteries like 57th, 23rd and 14th streets allow developers to build higher and provide better views. Developer Erez Itzhaki told the Times brokers at first cautioned him about building his 15-unit condo building, Modern 23, at 350 West 23rd Street, but problems didn’t materialize. Itzhaki added he is now looking for additional properties on crosstown streets.
“As a developer, it’s a winning situation because you have the ability to build retail on the ground floor, which is the equivalent of having two penthouses to sell,” Itzhaki told the newspaper. [NYT] – Tom DiChristopher.


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For Women, Academia is Still a Man's World
How much does a baby matter in academics? According to Mary Ann Mason, a professor of law that the University of California-Berkeley, quite a bit. The author of Do Babies Matter? Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower, Mason reiterates what many middle aged, working women have realized for years:
Maybe we haven’t come that far after all.
“The most important finding is that family format negatively affects women’s, but not men’s academic careers,” Mason writes in a piece for Slate. Her research team spent years looking at the relationship between young women and men in academia, and their relationship to family. They’ve found that marriage and children tend to hurt a woman’s prospects of scoring a tenured faculty spot, while actually supporting the chances of her male peers.
“For men, having children is a career advantage; for women, it is a career killer. And women who do advance through the faculty ranks do so at a high price. They are far less likely to be married with children.”
Mason notes that while you are indeed more likely to see female presidents of colleges and universities than ever before, it’s become a pyramidal structure — the top crust of female tenured faculty members (only 44% of which are married with children, compared to 70% of their male counterparts) are representative of a small, mostly single, mostly wealthy minority, below which are leagues of married women struggling through the second-tier adjunct hell that is entry-level academics. In the business world, only 49% of top female executives have children, compared with 84% of men.
(The rise of the over-worked, under-paid, unappreciated adjunct was recently chronicled in an excellent article by Rebecca Schuman.)
“Unfortunately, more women Ph.Ds. has meant more cheap labor. And this cheap labor threatens to displace the venerable tenure track system,” Mason writes, a common drumbeat in the continued collapse of the liberal arts educational system. Women and men who pursue Ph.Ds. or tenure positions typically achieve them between 30 and 40, due to the fairly regimented higher education career track — these “make it or break it” years are crucial, during which the struggling adjunct will either be awarded a tenure track or asked to leave. But this is also crucial family planning time, forcing women who are serious about climbing the ladder to make an impossible decision their male counterparts will never have to make.
“Female graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who have babies while students or fellows are more than twice as likely as new fathers or than childless women to turn away from an academic research career,” she says. Women professors see higher divorce rates and lower marriage rates, and considerably less fertility.
Mason’s research is consistent with Anne-Marie Slaughter’s comments in the Atlantic last summer, describing her decision to leave a position as a high-level official at the State Department in part, she says, because of the needs of her family.
“Women of my generation have clung to the feminist credo we were raised with,” Slaughter writes, “even as our ranks have been steadily thinned by unresolvable tensions between family and career, because we are determined not to drop the flag for the next generation.” She describes “having it all” as a luxury of those women who are either single, unmarried, childless, or wealthy enough to hire round-the-clock nannies to do the parenting work that holds so many women from achieving high-level positions.
“I don’t think I will ever be able to do a tenure track job, and people were very upfront with me about that when I had my child,” says Jennifer, a female neuroscience postdoc interviewed by Mason’s team. “Looking around me, I see that people are completely shut out of positions because of family.”


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