ogenic products. Many of our fabrics also have GreenGuard Gold certification which states that they do not release damaging substances.
Quality. We have always put the quality of the yarns and exclusive nature of the design first. Our products, whether high-performance and easy-use technical products or articles made from high-quality yarns, such as the gold used for the Bolshoi theatre in Moscow, are born to be durable and timeless.
Social economy.We invest in training and qualification of our staff. We support local communities by backing non-profit associations. Finally, we promote the circular economy by reusing and recycling existing product.
R&D. We make increasing use of sustainable fibres. As well as fabrics made from natural fibres–jute, hemp, silk, cotton, linen, etc.–with minimal or zero pollution during disposal, we experiment the use of recycled fibres for the production of fabrics and wallpaper.
Sustainability of the textile supply chain.Our aim is to minimise the waste of economic, environmental and human resources as part of the entire production process. We continue to develop zero-miles products, investing regularly and significantly in increasingly sustainable production processes and product.
In the fall of 2006, I traveled to Beijing on a reporting assignment. The smog got so thick during the week of my visit that flights were delayed, sections of three expressways were closed, outdoor school activities were canceled, and buildings across the street from my hotel were visible only as silhouettes in a mustard-brown miasma. I caught a bad cold, which got worse on the long flight home, and then got much worse. I felt as though someone had poured concrete into my head and was now gradually tightening a belt around my temples. My sinuses didn't fully clear for a month. Eventually, I stopped coughing. And, when I did, I noticed a ringing in my ears.
A study on design principles and requirements for multimedia application development: MFolktales application for children's education

MFolktales is a multimedia application that contains Animation Module and interactivity modules which aim to promote Malay folk stories to children. This research is limited to children aged 5 to 7 years old. Therefore, approaches in developing animated multimedia applications are studied so that they can suit the children's interest and at the same time can act as a tool for learning. This paper discusses the study on design principles and requirements for multimedia application development which covers suitable learning theories, learning taxonomy, modules, user interface principles, and usability that are appropriate with the application developed. MFolktales application was developed based on the results of the study. This paper also provides some discussions regarding the guidelines utilized in developing the prototype. Finally, a set of usability questions was given to 30 parents who have children aged between 3 to 12 years old to evaluate the usability level of the developed prototype. The results showed that majority of the respondents gave a positive feedback on the developed MFolktales application.Many years ago, when we at the Berkeley Seismology Lab decided to start publishing this Seismo Blog, we resolved not to do certain things: We were not going to trivialize earthquakes and the horrors they can cause as the most potent force of nature on our planet - and we were staying away from politics. And yet here we are, talking about politics less than a week after one of the most consequential upsets in American politics in decades. Well, the blogger will refrain from actually commenting on the results of the recent elections. But he can't bite his tongue any longer after having endured endless months of polls, predictions and forecasts, and after wasting countless hours in front of the TV listening to pundits, analysts and the infamous "talking heads." The bottom line is: All of them were absolutely wrong. In fact, never in modern times have their predictions about who will be our next president been worse.
Were all of them really that bad? There was one notable exception - and that's also where seismology comes into play. To explain this unusual connection, we have to go back at least 35 years to 1981. In earthquake science, the 1970's and 1980's were full of hope that we seismologists would finally be able to answer one of the fundamental - and at the same time most vexing - questions society throws at us all the time: "When can we expect the next Big One?" Many countries - among them the United States, China and what was then the Soviet Union - put a lot of effort into trying to solve the enigma of how to predict earthquakes.
A seismic shift as Earth scientists see it: Arrows indicate how far the Japanese island of Honshu was moved by the giant, magnitude 9 Tohoku earthquake in March 2011. Some places (largest arrows) moved more than 30 feet to the East.
In fact, there were a few stunning successes, like the most famous one in China. On the morning of February 4th, 1975 Chinese authorities ordered the evacuation of the city of Haicheng in Liaoning province and its one million residents because experts had determined that an earthquake was imminent. Indeed, at 7:30 pm that evening a quake with a magnitude of 7.3 struck the region and tens of thousands of houses collapsed. With more than 2000 killed, the death toll was still significant. But hundreds of thousands of people might have died, had they not followed the evacuation orders. Such successes were very rare, though, and earthquake prediction in general was a failure. After decades of research, we seismologists are still not able to predict earthquakes - much to our chagrin. It seems that the physics of earthquake rupture processes is much too complicated to understand fully and hence to predict reliably.
Even the founder and long time director of one of the most prestigious research institutes in that field had to realize this fact. Vladimir Keilis-Borok led the International Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow to fame by using a stringent mathematical model for predicting the temblors of the earth. Sometimes he succeeded, but mostly he failed.
While predictions of earthquakes eluded his methods and algorithms, they seem to have succeeded in another, completely unrelated field. In 1981 the Russian Keilis-Borok teamed up with an American 26 years his junior. His partner was Allan Lichtman, a political historian at the American University in Washington, D.C. Together they applied the algorithms which would ultimately fail in predicting earthquakes to the US election system. In November 1981 the duo published its results in an article with the very long, unwieldy title "Pattern recognition applied to presidential elections in the United States, 1860-1980: Role of integral social, economic, and political traits" in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington (Vol. 78, pg. 7230).
And what happened? Using this method, Allan Lichtman has correctly predicted the outcomes of the past eight presidential elections in the United States. And now - in contrast to all other pollsters and talking heads - he was the only one to consistently tell all of us who wanted to listen, that the 45th president of the United States was going to be Donald J. Trump. With his statements Allan Lichtman was the lone voice in the desert and has posthumously vindicated the work of Keilis-Borok, who passed away three years ago in his home in Culver City in the Los Angeles Area.I’ve joined another get paid to blog program, and this one called Smorty. Just like other blog-for-money programs, Smorty is a service that connects advertisers with bloggers. By joining Smorty, advertisers can now boost your search engine rankings with quality inbound links from thousands of quality blogs.
You might ask, “Sound easy, but how it actually works?” OK, firstly, in order to market your website (or service, product), you get bloggers to review about the site. Of course, you only pay when you feel comfortable with bloggers’ posts and approve them. Smorty provides you fully indexed top quality blogs (just like BB Market Place, haha, promoting my own blog~), then each article has unique content about your website and we link back to you. Hence, you increase your website traffic and achieve your blog advertising purpose. Remember, there are more and more people searching for information through blogs, never under estimate the effects of bloggers’ networks. Advertise on blogs will definitely fulfills your marketing needs.
For bloggers, you earn at least $6.00 with every opinion about peoples’ products, services, and even websites on your blog. (Do I mention “opinion”? Yes, just post your opinions on the subjects that interest you, and get paid for blogging.) One thing I like about Smorty is, it pays you weekly by PayPal, fast and easy, right? Happy blogging!
3 comments:
which means when you blog for an article, you will get paid when there is a useful comment?
no no no, it's easier.
1st, u join the program and propose yo blog.
2nd, they will review yo blog, then approve it.
3rd, u will get assignment on writing review about some products, some websites, etc.
4th, after u've finish written yo article, wait for them to approve.
5th, when yo post successfully approved, u get pay.
happy blogging~
Now, that looks like it's worth trying...Rosalyn Britten
We organised a group of 6 of us from Singapore, Korea and Hong Kong to travel through Xinjiang in August 2012. Imam was always very prompt in responding to queries from each of us and helping to coordinate our various flight schedules.
We had a hiccup with the Turpan-Kashgar train tickets halfway through our trip as the guide made a mistake with the train times, and Imam was