Adoption Funding Webinar (Christian Alliance for Orphans)Andy Lehman
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The document discusses how local churches can help adoptive families overcome financial barriers to adoption. It provides an overview of adoption costs and various ways churches can create adoption funds, including managing funds internally, creating a 501(c)3 organization, or partnering with an outside organization. Specific options for direct grants, matching grants, interest-free loans, and community fundraising examples are presented.
Using semantic annotation of web services for analyzingShahab Mokarizadeh
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This document discusses information diffusion among web services networks. It presents a method to analyze information flow between web service categories. The method involves semantically annotating web services, categorizing them, constructing a web service network, and computing an information flow matrix between categories. The matrix reveals information exchange patterns, such as self-referential categories and categories with high/low information flow. Future work is proposed to examine how service compositions influence patterns and recommend services based on network properties.
Monsoon rains caused deadly flooding in the Sarobi district of Kabul province, killing 35 people including women and children. The flooding destroyed homes and infrastructure in the area. Relief efforts are underway but have been limited, focusing on rebuilding the local girl's school that was destroyed and providing supplies for 400 students. The flooding also impacted the local scout group, destroying their meeting place and the home of the scoutmaster.
GMP Noodle, a Thai noodle manufacturer, is opening a new noodle production plant in Issariyaphol, Thailand. The new plant will increase GMP Noodle's annual production capacity by 30% to meet growing domestic and export demand for Thai noodles. The 100 million baht investment in the new plant is expected to create over 100 new jobs in Issariyaphol.
Closet & Storage Concepts Franchise ModelBobLewis
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Closet & Storage Concepts is a growing home organization franchise opportunity with over 20 years of experience. They offer fully customized closet and storage solutions at competitive price points. Franchisees can choose between a "Metro" area development model, requiring $200,000-$250,000 investment, or a lower cost "Mini" single-unit model for $45,000-$75,000. Both models offer training, national support, and potential for strong returns.
This document discusses plans for a strawberry farming business in Zambia. The business aims to provide funding for orphan care programs through profits. The farming business will employ local caregivers and aims to double employees' salaries within 8 months. The strawberries will be sold to major grocery store chains in Zambia, utilizing existing distribution networks. The business is run separately from the orphan care ministry but aims to gift a minimum of 10% of net cash flow annually to support orphan care programs in Zambia, with a long term goal of 30-50% of profits being gifted. All ultimate profits from the business will support orphan care in Zambia.
Telling Tales - Helping users for profit and pleasureRellyAB
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The slides for my 2010 talk at Web Directions Atlanta.
If you were there hopefully these will jog your memory. And if you weren't, well, good luck with that! (Hopefully audio will be out in due time)
The document discusses various techniques for analyzing links between documents and web pages, including algorithms like HITS and PageRank. HITS identifies hubs and authorities for a given topic by analyzing the link structure within a base set of pages related to that topic. PageRank ranks the overall importance of pages based on both the number and quality of inbound links, as determined through a random surfer model. Both techniques analyze link structures to uncover important or related information without considering page content itself.
Set 11 prepositions and prepositional phraseshilad
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The document discusses prepositions and prepositional phrases. It provides examples of sentences with blank spaces to be filled in by the correct prepositional phrase. The answers are also given. It emphasizes that a prepositional phrase begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun, and gives the example of "into the dark cave" as a completed prepositional phrase. It stresses the importance of using prepositions and prepositional phrases accurately in writing.
The student analyzed a video clip from the James Bond film "The Man with the Golden Gun" that showed a car making a 360 degree jump between two ramps. Through research on the car model, speed, takeoff angle, and jump distance, the student calculated that the jump should not have been possible given the speed of the car. However, the student ultimately determined the video was likely real based on evidence that the stunt required multiple attempts to accomplish and the original unedited footage showed it was done in a single take.
1. HLA-B*1502 is strongly associated with carbamazepine-induced Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) in Han Chinese.
2. Testing for HLA-B*1502 can identify individuals at high risk of carbamazepine-induced SJS/TEN with good sensitivity and specificity.
3. Other HLA alleles like HLA-B*5801 are also associated with drug hypersensitivity reactions to certain drugs.
Monsoon rains caused deadly flooding in the Sarobi district of Kabul province, killing 35 people including women and children. The flooding destroyed homes and infrastructure in the area. Relief efforts are underway but have been limited, focusing on rebuilding the local girl's school that was destroyed and providing supplies for 400 students. The flooding also impacted the local scout group, destroying their meeting place and the home of the scoutmaster.
GMP Noodle, a Thai noodle manufacturer, is opening a new noodle production plant in Issariyaphol, Thailand. The new plant will increase GMP Noodle's annual production capacity by 30% to meet growing domestic and export demand for Thai noodles. The 100 million baht investment in the new plant is expected to create over 100 new jobs in Issariyaphol.
Closet & Storage Concepts Franchise ModelBobLewis
油
Closet & Storage Concepts is a growing home organization franchise opportunity with over 20 years of experience. They offer fully customized closet and storage solutions at competitive price points. Franchisees can choose between a "Metro" area development model, requiring $200,000-$250,000 investment, or a lower cost "Mini" single-unit model for $45,000-$75,000. Both models offer training, national support, and potential for strong returns.
This document discusses plans for a strawberry farming business in Zambia. The business aims to provide funding for orphan care programs through profits. The farming business will employ local caregivers and aims to double employees' salaries within 8 months. The strawberries will be sold to major grocery store chains in Zambia, utilizing existing distribution networks. The business is run separately from the orphan care ministry but aims to gift a minimum of 10% of net cash flow annually to support orphan care programs in Zambia, with a long term goal of 30-50% of profits being gifted. All ultimate profits from the business will support orphan care in Zambia.
Telling Tales - Helping users for profit and pleasureRellyAB
油
The slides for my 2010 talk at Web Directions Atlanta.
If you were there hopefully these will jog your memory. And if you weren't, well, good luck with that! (Hopefully audio will be out in due time)
The document discusses various techniques for analyzing links between documents and web pages, including algorithms like HITS and PageRank. HITS identifies hubs and authorities for a given topic by analyzing the link structure within a base set of pages related to that topic. PageRank ranks the overall importance of pages based on both the number and quality of inbound links, as determined through a random surfer model. Both techniques analyze link structures to uncover important or related information without considering page content itself.
Set 11 prepositions and prepositional phraseshilad
油
The document discusses prepositions and prepositional phrases. It provides examples of sentences with blank spaces to be filled in by the correct prepositional phrase. The answers are also given. It emphasizes that a prepositional phrase begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun, and gives the example of "into the dark cave" as a completed prepositional phrase. It stresses the importance of using prepositions and prepositional phrases accurately in writing.
The student analyzed a video clip from the James Bond film "The Man with the Golden Gun" that showed a car making a 360 degree jump between two ramps. Through research on the car model, speed, takeoff angle, and jump distance, the student calculated that the jump should not have been possible given the speed of the car. However, the student ultimately determined the video was likely real based on evidence that the stunt required multiple attempts to accomplish and the original unedited footage showed it was done in a single take.
1. HLA-B*1502 is strongly associated with carbamazepine-induced Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) in Han Chinese.
2. Testing for HLA-B*1502 can identify individuals at high risk of carbamazepine-induced SJS/TEN with good sensitivity and specificity.
3. Other HLA alleles like HLA-B*5801 are also associated with drug hypersensitivity reactions to certain drugs.
China has some of the most spectacular highways in the world, including the world's longest trans-oceanic bridge, highways built into steep mountainsides, and roads with breathtaking turns. Three highways of note are the Tianmen Mountain Winding Highway in Hunan Province, which has 99 turns over 11km ranging from 200m to 1,300m in elevation; the Aizhai Highway also in Hunan, considered the most beautiful mountain road; and the Tarim Desert Highway in Xinjiang, the longest highway crossing a desert at 552km. China also has impressive bridges and elevators, like the Bailong Elevator in Hunan, the world's tallest outdoor elevator.
This document lists 78 people who received prizes at an international competition. It includes their names, countries, and ranking or type of prize received. The winners came from a variety of countries around the world, including Russia, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, Germany, Vietnam, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, China, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Hungary, Brazil, Romania, Spain, France, Italy, Oman, the United States, India, Ukraine, and more.
This document discusses locations in Siberia, including a diamond mine, Novosibirsk which is connected by highway and is the site of the Transsiberian express, winter in Krasnojarsk, oil drilling on the tundra near Ulan Ude, Tobolsk on the Yenisej River, and the tundra and Angara River.
El documento presenta una lista de lugares en la Selva Negra de Alemania, incluyendo ciudades como Freiburg y Rotweil, pueblos como Schiltach y Schonach, y atracciones naturales como las cataratas de Triberg y el lago Titisee. Muchos de los lugares mencionados tienen iglesias, conventos y edificios hist坦ricos datados desde el siglo XI.
Canada is a North American country located between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Its capital is Ottawa. The document lists various landmarks and locations across Canada, including Ottawa, Toronto, Quebec City, Vancouver, Montreal, Niagara Falls, the Canadian Rockies, and Yukon. It provides pictures of these places from an archive.
Greece is described as a beautiful country with beaches, mountains, canyons, rivers, lakes, and volcanoes that make it one of the nicest, if not the most beautiful, countries in the world. It suggests that paradise exists close by in Greece, which represents sun, light, and culture. The document encourages the reader to take a look at Greece.