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Isn't it amazing when we are reminded what a precious privilege it is to be alive? Let's celebrate that idea in a workshop that combines some of my favourite, most restorative and nourishing practices – art, meditation and yoga. I call it an ‘Art Spa’ :)
I’d love you to join me for two days of Replenishing, Restoring and Re-visioning activities by the beautiful Swan River in Perth. You are welcome to come from anywhere in the world.*
This workshop is for you if:
:: You would like to spend 2 days immersed in a gentle, reflective creative practice. Our focus: Creating JOY using ink and paper!
:: You like the idea of letting go what doesn't serve you any longer and inviting in what does... in 2017... by creating a powerful and personal little piece of art, called The Invitation.
:: You would like to add restorative yoga to your creative practice with a skilled and gentle yoga teacher. (Beginners are welcome).:: You like the idea of using meditation and creative visualisation to nourish your body and mind.
:: You may or may not have a creative practice at the moment, but you’d like to have a go.
:: The idea of making art and reflecting on your life by the Swan River sounds delightful!
*Did you know Perth was recently named one of the top ten most liveable cities in the world? Dolphins frolic in our gorgeous Swan River as the sun sets over the water. I've actually seen them while at the workshop! If this calls to your heart, c'mon over!
- To add restorative yoga to your creative practice with a skilled and gentle yoga teacher.
- A gentle, fun creative practice focussed on Creating JOY, working largely with INKS on paper.
- To use art, meditation and reflection to nourish your body and mind.
- Replenishing, Restoring and Re-visioning activities by the beautiful Swan River in Perth.
- A clear idea of what you want to invite into your life in the year ahead (and what you no longer need to hold onto).
- HEAPS of gorgeous pieces of colourful art, and one personal, beautiful, textured piece called 'The Invitation'.
- Lunch, A Big, Warm, toothy smile, and a small amount of art materials (a list will be sent to you)
loose, comfortable clothing that you don't mind getting paint on!
Anyone who may or may not have a creative practice at the moment, but you’d like to have a go.
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“Life is a big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can!” -D. Kaye
Hi there, I’m Malini, scientist-turned-artist/writer/teacher. I’m delighted you stopped by :) If you’re here because you’ve heard of my unique art workshops for beginners, you're in the right place!
SO ... Is this you?
Have you ever gazed longingly at a beautiful work of abstract art, and thought, “I wish I could do that, but I don’t have a creative bone in my body!” Do you yearn to express your creativity, but you just don’t know how? Are weekly art classes impossible, because you just can’t spare the time? Yes, yes and yes? Well then, things may be about to change for you!
PAINTING FOR BEGINNERS - the ONE DAY INTENSIVE is for...
The ABSOLUTE BEGINNER: You’re the one that’s always been curious about your artistic side, but you haven’t a clue where to begin. Or the one that’s never had the time to attend weekly art classes. Or perhaps it all seems too overwhelming … maybe you feel you’ve left it too late to learn. Hey, I designed this workshop for YOU! In one jam-packed, fun day, you’ll lose that fear of the unknown. And learn absolutely heaps. I’ve got you covered!
The NOW-AND-THEN-DABBLER: So you paint a little. But you love it a lot! And you dream of one day learning how to do it all ‘properly’. Now’s your chance. Use my seven step process to give you some clear structure. Let my intensive but oh-so-fun approach invigorate you. You’ll be painting with more purpose and passion in no time!
I meet hundreds of wonderful, worried, would-be creatives in my workshops.And in just ONE DAY, I fill their hearts and hands with possibilities! It’s an insanely busy day, full of laughs and love, and the beautiful art that emerges is just spectacular. This event that began in my backyard just a few years ago, with five young folk who were keen to learn to paint has now grown into my consuming passion and helped transform the lives of so many people. It is an incredible honour to be part of another’s creative journey, and that delight I witness in my students as they rediscover their creativity… aaah, it makes my heart sing :)
Thank you for your interest in me and my work. It would be my honour to make a difference in your life, and help unlock your creativity!
You have so much joy ahead of you :)
I lovingly prepare materials for EACH student in advance, so if you can’t make it:
- If there is insufficient time to fill your place, there will be a cancellation fee of 50% of the workshop fee.
- If you cancel at the very last minute due to emergencies or illness, I will pop you into another class with no cancellation fee.
- 'NO SHOWS' (who don't contact me) won't be refunded or re-scheduled!
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Elijah Watson knows he wants to go to college. He also knows that it will be difficult to leave home on the Navajo reservation if he does.
The 17-year-old was reminded of the tough decision he'll face next year when he participated in a weeklong celebration in March of his cousin's Kinaalda, a hallowed Navajo ceremony marking a girl's transition into womanhood.
"I'm afraid because it's really hard to leave my family," he said, noting that college would mean he'd be away from taking part in the same rite for his little sister and participating in other important tribal ceremonies.
To reach students like Watson with higher education aspirations, a growing number of universities are offering programs to recruit and prepare Native American students for a transition to college life that can bring on a wrenching emotional conflict as they straddle two worlds.
Many young Native Americans find themselves divided by their desire for a higher education and the drive to stay close to home to hold onto a critical part of their identity. Sometimes, families discourage children from pursuing college, fearing once they leave the reservation they won't come back.
That was the case with Watson's mother — his grandmother encouraged her to stay home and carry on the family tradition of pottery-making.
"These students could be in a classroom with hundreds of kids and no one will be like them so it's really good for these programs to pull all of these kids together," said Ahniwake Rose, the director of the National Indian Education Association.
"Moving to college for these kids is taking them so far away from their homes. On top of that, we still have so many first generation students and their parents can't give them any idea of what college is like," Rose said.
Dozens have implemented mini-college boot camps, including the University of California, Los Angeles, Yale and Duke. Last week, Watson found himself at the University of California, Riverside, where he was joined by other students, including some as young as 12.
The programs challenge the idea that tribal customs and higher education don't mix, said Joshua Gonzalez, the director of Native American Student Programs at the university 60 miles east of Los Angeles and hundreds of miles from Watson's home on the Navajo Nation.
Throughout their week at Riverside, students got a taste of the college experience by attending classroom lectures, eating in the cafeteria and sleeping in the dorms. The 30 students also participated in cultural activities like prayer circles and beading workshops.
"We encourage having your culture and traditions as well as academics," said Gonzalez, whose program has a roughly 90 percent success rate in getting Native Americans to go to college.
"To be able to know your language, to be able to sing the songs, to know the creation stories — those are things that are really important," he said.
Upon completion of Riverside's program, students are given access to the university's resources and staff to assist with the application process.
Pamela Agoyo, the director of American Indian Student Services at the University of New Mexico, said many programs are introducing kids to the idea of college as early as middle school to give them the time to embrace the possibility and plan for it.
"Institutions are realizing that you don't start planning for college your freshman year of college," Agoyo said, noting that students need to plan and prepare for their experience beforehand.
Rose said the boot camps are critical to college success because they help identify peers and mentors who can guide students through rough patches.
Few go on to college and when they do, most drop out.
Only 12 percent of Native Americans between 25 and 34 have four-year degrees, compared to 37 percent of whites, according to a 2012 report by the National Center for Education Statistics. Of the students who do go to college, less than 40 percent graduate, compared to 60 percent of whites.
Jordan Thomas, a member of the Lummi Tribe, attended Riverside's program and will be a freshman there this fall. She was born on a reservation in Washington state and at age 2 moved with her family to Southern California because there were more educational opportunities.
Lummi cultural traditions are important to her family — she once missed eight weeks of middle school to attend her grandfather's burial ceremony — and the Riverside program gave her confidence that she can attend school and not lose her Native American identity.
"I learned that it's all about balance," she said. "This program has truly helped me."
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Spicy Red Lentils with Purple Sprouting Broccoli
April 03, 2015
Purple sprouting broccoli has a delicate earthy taste despite being part of the cabbage family. The warming spices in the red lentils help to bring out the vegetable's flavours, at the same time, is a great addition to the dish while we transition from winter soups to spring salads.
serves 2 as a side
1 cup red split lentils
handful of purple sprouting broccoli, broken to roughly even-sized florets
juice of 1/2 a lemon
1 tbsp butter
3-4 cloves garlic, chopped
1 tsp ground cumin
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
1 tbsp dried chilli flakes
generous pinch of sea salt
1. Soak lentils for about 20 min before cooking (to maximise digestibility; split lentils actually cook really quickly so you don't have to soak overnight unlike most pulses). Cook in boiling salted water for about 5 min, or until just tender but still retaining its shape. Drain.
2. Bring a large pot of salted water to the boil and plunge the broccoli in, boil for about 2 min until just tender, and drain and refresh in cold water. Squeeze some lemon juice over for a bit of tang and to help it stay fresh.
3. Fry the chopped garlic in butter till fragrant, then add the spices and chilli along with the cooked red lentils, and fry till slightly crispy. Season, and add the broccoli to warm through at the end. | <urn:uuid:f14a5ad7-9ca8-4a0d-b0c5-1dc657bddc83> | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | http://wholegood.co.uk/blog/2015/04/spicy-red-lentils-with-purple-sprouting-broccoli | 2019-03-19T22:55:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912202161.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20190319224005-20190320010005-00503.warc.gz | en | 0.890633 | 322 |
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We've had a great visit with mom. Josh especially enjoyed spending time with his grandma :) We'll be sad to see her leave tomorrow, but May is right around the corner!
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Friday, February 26, 2010
Thursday, February 25, 2010
There are quite a few birthdays to celebrate this week!
Happy Birthday Dad, Pop-Pop,and Luke (aka Cheeze-Doodle)
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Did you miss us? We've been battling horrible colds this week, which explains posting three pictures at once. Pictured below are essential items for getting well: tissues (we've already tackled one large box), ginger ale, sprite, Tylenol cold medicine, saline drops (for J) and my Kathryn Blanket. Since J's arrival we have tackled a few colds and the essential items have become stock in our house. Many of our friends with children in daycare have told us that this is what it's going to be like for the first year. I cannot believe it is only February. Boo. Cough. Hiss.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Yes, that's right. The booger getter outer is back. Josh has another cold. This is his 3rd cold since November. This kid is going to win the perfect attendance award in grade school. Why? Because his immune system is going to be like Fort Knox! Here's hoping for a quick and speedy recovery!
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Four years ago, my glam-lib bf, TK, took me to see Vagina Monologues. I am thankful to her for introducing me to such a powerful play. The play raises funds to support V-DAY, a global movement to end violence against women and girls. Vagina Monologues were written by Eve Ensler and are performed every year throughout the world. This year, we saw a fantastic performance at the Pour House, all proceeds benefited Interact of Wake County.
One of my favorite monologues is I was there in the room , which is about the vagina and birth. Given the fact that I just gave birth five months ago this monologue struck me with great emotion. I think TK and I were crying before the actress started talking!
Not only do I enjoy this play, but so does E. He is actually the one who told TK and I about this performance! Another reason (to add to the gazillion others) why I love this man, my Vagina Warrior! If you have not seen Vagina Monologues...GO! It will make you a better person!
Friday, February 19, 2010
Growing up in North Carolina one would assume that you know a lot about your home state. Well, at least that is what I thought until we started receiving Our State. I have learned quite a bit about NC from reading this magazine. It's not unusual for me to pour over every page from tarheel towns to photo essays to featured stories. I heart Our State! If you have not read it please let me know and I will be happy to share a copy with you.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Once again I am blogging from the magic chair. The boys are snoozing, while I watch the Olympics and surf the internet. How cute is this picture? Check out the stuffy under E's pillow. We call him Stanley the seahorse. He is like a glo-worm, but better. The glo-worm always kinda freaked me out. Stanley is a great toy and plays very soothing music. So soothing that it knocked E out too.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
It's mama and Josh night, while pops is in the big city of Raleigh at a friend's gig. So, here is the lil' one fast asleep, while I'm blogging in the magic chair. What's wrong with tonight's picture? Some may say, "well he's sleeping in your bed". See the first sentence? It's mama and Josh night. Josh can sleep in the big bed until pops comes home ;) The problem with this picture is that my lil' one is sleeping on his tummy. Doctors and nurses tell you to make sure baby is sleeping on his/her back at night to prevent SIDS. Of course, this seems to be the only position that is the most comfortable for J (he is definitely his mama's son). So, what do we do? We place him in his crib on his back. After a little while he thrashes around and wakes himself up. Up until a few weeks ago we would have just swaddled him. Magic swaddle. Oh how we love the magic swaddle. Oh how we miss the magic swaddle. He is getting a little too big to be wrapped up like a burrito. We will continue to put him on his back and he will continue to wake himself up. I have no idea what we will do when he starts rolling onto his tummy in his sleep. Eek.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Today, Cara and I went on our first "date" since Josh's arrival in September. We are both big music geeks and enjoy going to concerts when we can. The Durham Performing Arts Center, known locally as the DPAC , is a great venue in the Triangle. We saw Harry Connick Jr for the 5th time and like always it was a great show. He is truely an entertainer and knows how to work a crowd. His shows are always equal parts Jazz, New Orleans Big Band, and comedy full of laughs. We could have done without Clappy McGee a few rows ahead of us who made it her personal mission to clap through most of the show (by herself sometimes), but some people just get into the music. It would not be a Harry show if someone didn't try to get on stage to get a little piece of HCJ....he has a rough life ;-)
Monday, February 15, 2010
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Valentine's Day. Love. Josh. Love. It's a wonderful day to celebrate love. Josh seems to be the popular one in the house and rightly so. All of these cards are for our darling boy. One of my favorites is from his Auntie Kaylen. Handmade with lots of love.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Friday, February 12, 2010
As we all know, the 2010 Vancouver Olympics are now under way. One of our favorite parts of the opening ceremonies was the huge polar bear that appeared from nowhere. Even thought it will always be tough to top the Beijing opening ceremonies, the folks in Vancouver put of a pretty cool show.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
This picture was taken right before I hit the hay.
Ah. My pillow. This is the last thing I remember before passing out. It's been quite a busy week at work. I had a BIG event last night, which was a great success and this is what I could not wait to do...sleep! Eric is so awesome. He knows how important this event means to me, how much time and effort has gone into it and knew exactly what I needed when I walked through the door...a huge bear hug. He also insisted being on overnight duty with Josh, even though it was my night. I cannot even begin to explain how great it felt to sleep in until 10am! I have not been able to do that in months...many months!
I'm running a day behind w/our blog, but plan to catch up tonight! 365 days of posting is crazy...but fun!
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
We love story time and it has become a bedtime ritual. Let me tell you. This kid loves books. Really, he loves books. He sits, listens and looks intently at the pages. So observant. So smart. So cute. This picture just tugs at the my heart strings. My two favorite boys and the magic chair. Sigh.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Monday, February 8, 2010
Today C and I learned some very sad news. We lost a good friend today....Berry. BB as we called her, was our good friend's dog. I've been around dogs most of my life, having two growing up and one now as an adult, and Berry was one of the best dogs I have ever met. I know some people will think I'm crazy, but she had this happy smile when you saw her each day. She was always full of excitement to see you and knew some pretty cool tricks. I like to think that she is now running to her heart's content and looking back at us "sitting pretty". We'll miss you Berry.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Friday, February 5, 2010
Netflix has become our best friend. Our Friday and Saturday nights usually consist of a movie and a glass of wine or a good beer. I especially enjoy the friend feature. You can view your friends queue, suggest movies and share reviews. The only point of contention between E and I is the queue. Movies tend to move up and down the queue without explanation. Hmmm. It's funny how Sense and Sensibility has been pushed to the bottom, while Anvil: The Story of Anvil is in the top 5 of our queue. Looks like E and I will have to start breaking out paper, rock, scissors to make things fair. We are looking forward to viewing movies through our Wii, a feature which will become available this spring. Woohoo! Alright, time to watch a movie...
Thursday, February 4, 2010
That's what E will be doing on Saturday. Well, hopefully not the last word. This will be the second year E participates in the Krispy Kreme Challenge. Participants have one hour to run from the Bell Tower to Krispy Kreme (on Peace Street) scarf down a dozen doughnuts (or less if you are a casual runner) and run the two miles back to the Bell Tower. It is quite a site to see. Lots of runners. Lots of doughnuts.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
So, there is the magic chair. Well, this is the awesome chair. The folks over at Cornbread Nation have one and like it so much that we decided to buy one for Josh, instead of a highchair. This booster seat, by First Years, will meet Josh's needs from now through the toddler years. He loves to chill in his chair while we are cooking or hanging out. I think he especially gets a kick out of watching us wash his bottles. Suckers...that's what he's babbling.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Monday, February 1, 2010
Cloth diapers. We were quite spoiled with the diaper service, never having to actually launder diapers for four months. Now this is what our laundry room looks like every other day. A room full of hangers with bright colored, FuzziBunz diapers. Honestly, it is not as bad as I thought it was going to be. We have enough cloth diapers, so we do not have to wash every day (very important to note). Why go cloth? Not only are they easy on our budget and on baby's skin, but they are eco-friendly too. These diapers will not be sitting in a landfill for years and years. They will be used until he is ready to potty train and then passed on to the next little one. Cloth diapers are not for everyone, but they work for us! | <urn:uuid:ec470e63-171d-4b99-8e59-c08c49eaa56b> | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | http://365abigmessofhappiness.blogspot.com/2010/02/ | 2017-12-16T14:35:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948588251.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20171216143011-20171216165011-00221.warc.gz | en | 0.981125 | 2,407 |
WVSU Professor Will Present “History of Charleston: The Modern Era”
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- On Nov. 14, 2013, Dr. Billy Joe Peyton, a West Virginia State University Associate Professor of History, will present “History of Charleston: The Modern Era” at the Thursday evening lecture in the Archives and History Library in the Culture Center in Charleston. The program will begin at 6:00 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
Charleston has a rich history that spans 225 years, starting with the founding of Fort Lee at the mouth of Elk River in 1788. After becoming the permanent state capital in 1885, Charleston entered into a period of rapid growth and development. By 1960, it had evolved into a bustling city of 85,000 residents and was a hub of government, industry, and commerce. Over the next 50 years, socioeconomic forces dramatically redefined the capital city—population decreased to 51,000, the historic downtown has evolved, and modern multi-lane highways crisscross the region.
Much has changed in Charleston since the dawn on the 20th century, but the city retains a great deal of its history. Bringing his look at Charleston’s earlier history, which he covered during a library program in March, into the modern era, Billy Joe Peyton will share glimpses of historic Charleston through words and images. He will recount extraordinary moments of the past century, and share details about some little known historical secrets of the capital city.
Peyton received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in History from West Virginia University. He has worked as a public historian at WSWP-TV in Beckley and for the National Park Service in Mississippi and West Virginia. He also served as associate director of the Institute for the History of Technology & Industrial Archaeology at WVU, worked for an historic architectural firm, and taught high school history.
In 2002, Peyton joined the full-time faculty at West Virginia State University, where he is associate professor of history and chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Active in local preservation efforts, he has worked as a writer and historian on several documentary films, including Ghosts of Green Bottom, winner of a 2005 Bronze Telly Award. He also may be seen in The 50 States series that airs on the History Channel. In 2010, Peyton authored a local history book titled Charleston Then and Now, and he has just completed a second book titled Charleston: The First 225 Years, scheduled for release this December.
For planning purposes, participants are encouraged to register for the lecture, but advance registration is not required to attend. To register in advance, contact Robert Taylor, library manager, by e-mail or at (304) 558-0230, ext. 163. Participants interested in registering by e-mail should send their name, telephone number and the name and date of the session.
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AN TAOISEACH Enda Kenny has told Dáil Eireann that legislation will be prepared to impose €1 billion of additional savings in the public service pay and pensions bill if the current Croke Park ballot results in a ‘no’ vote. Speaking on Wednesday (27th March) he confirmed that this would include €300 million of savings in 2013.
Mr Kenny also said legislation was being prepared to implement various elements of the proposed agreement in the event of a ‘yes’ vote, and said this would be ready for implementation on 1st July if unions vote to accept the deal.
IMPACT’s Central Executive Committee has recommended that members vote in favour of the agreement. Ballot documents have now been sent to IMPACT branches, who will conduct the ballot over the next couple of weeks. The deadline for members to vote is 4pm on 15th April.
An Taoiseach’s statement effectively confirms IMPACT’s view that the Government will move to cut pay and alter working conditions if the deal is rejected. Some have argued that Croke Park protections will remain in place if the deal goes down. But IMPACT believes that, while the proposed deal is unattractive, the alternative is far less certain and almost certainly worse.
The February negotiations allowed unions to shape and restrain management demands under virtually every heading covered by the deal:
Management wanted compulsory redundancies in some circumstances; there will be none.
Management wanted every public servant to work five extra hours a week; the outcome is much less.
Management wanted a three-year increment freeze for all; they didn’t get it.
Management wanted permanent pay cuts for staff earning €60,000 or more; unions moved the threshold to €65,000 and ensured a route to restore pay over time.
Management wanted a 100km redeployment limit; it stays at 45km.
Unions also constrained management demands on premium payments, flexitime, allowances overtime and outsourcing.
In a letter to IMPACT’s CSO branch yesterday, IMPACT general secretary Shay Cody said the proposed deal was also the best option for members, including those who would suffer temporary pay cuts. He said:
“Both the Government and public service management have consistently said they will impose measures to make the savings if the deal is rejected. While (albeit temporary) pay cuts are clearly unwelcome, the executive took the view that deeper, wider and probably permanent pay cuts are in the offing if the deal is rejected. This is a particular concern for staff earning between €65 and €100,000 where the management side were seeking permanent pay cuts throughout most of the negotiations. In addition, existing Croke Park protections, including the commitments on compulsory redundancies, redeployment limits and outsourcing, will also be in jeopardy.”
Mr Cody said IMPACT’s executive made its recommendation after careful consideration of all elements of the proposed agreement. “Most importantly, it took the view that, while the proposed deal is very unattractive, the choice is not between this package and the status quo, but between this and something far less certain, and almost certainly worse,” he said.
Mr Cody wrote to the CSO branch after it issued an ‘open letter’ calling for the executive to change its recommendation.
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The Two Haiku Tuesday topic this week: dance with the devil.
I'm still having fun putting together a playlist for the reception. I'm currently rediscovering my love of Irish music :)
This dance floor of coal?
The orchestra of the damned?
This ain't romantic.
* * *
He steps on my toes,
He burns my hair with his breath...Save me from this hell! | <urn:uuid:76261638-ff8c-4cd4-b222-fd7141ddf4ab> | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | http://daily-writing.blogspot.com/2010/05/tuesday-may-4th-2010.html | 2018-03-18T08:06:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257645550.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20180318071715-20180318091715-00182.warc.gz | en | 0.912362 | 86 |
Babyshambles announce one-off gig in Luton – minus Pete Doherty
Drew McConnell and Mik Whitnall will play acoustic set at Charlie Browns venue
Babyshambles have announced details of a one-off acoustic gig next year – but it seemsPete Doherty will not be appearing with the band.
The show, which is set to take place at Luton’s Charlie Browns venue on February 3, will feature guitarist Mik Whitnall and bassist Drew McConnell, but singer Doherty is not slated to appear despite the event being billed as a Babyshambles gig.
Tickets for the gig cost £8 and are onsale now. To check the availability ofBabyshambles tickets and get all the latest listings, go to NME.COM/TICKETS now, or call 0871 230 1094.
During a gig at London’s O2 Academy Brixton in September, Doherty revealed he wouldn’t be playing live again for a “long time”. “We need to go and get some new things together so this is it for a while,” he told the crowd.
He also filmed his acting debut inConfessions Of A Young Contemporary, an adaption of Alfred de Musset’s autobiographical novel La Confession d’un Enfant du Siècle, in France earlier this year.
Meanwhile, McConnell was hospitalisedearlier this year after being involved in a road accident. He broke his ribs and injured his spine after being knocked off his bike.
Babyshambles haven’t officially released any music for over 18 months. Their last release was a 7″ vinyl only single of ‘Side Of The Road’ as part of Record Store Day in 2010. Doherty put out a solo album, ‘Grace/Wastelands’, in 2009. | <urn:uuid:32e594c3-6d09-4fc7-8791-7dafa832184a> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://gregorylnewton.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/babyshambles-announce-one-off-gig-in-luton-minus-pete-doherty/ | 2017-06-23T10:29:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320049.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623100455-20170623120455-00699.warc.gz | en | 0.948491 | 399 |
Everyone is fearful of freezing at that crucial moment and forgetting your lines - whether it be down the pub reciting a gag to your friends, or in front of a packed auditorium of eagerly expectant listeners.
So we spoke to Adam Burrage, head of Wembley Stadium tours and responsible for training the 30 tour guides that show people around the famous venue, for a few tips and tricks on remembering your material.
"Firstly, you have to be passionate about what you're talking about. In our case that means being passionate about football, and the stadium; it's much easier to recall things that we get enjoyment from. If you saw a great match here, or a great concert, you'll never forget it."
2. Numerical Links
"It's very useful to use numbers as an aid to memory if they link things together. For example, the World Cup Final at Wembley was on July 30 in 1966. 30 sounds like 13 - and July 13 was the date of Live Aid, in 1985."
3. Repetition and Recreation
"We take the tour 3 or 4 times a day. Each time you do it, you're going to reinforce those core facts that the tour is built around. If possible, try and recreate the same scenario you're going to be in when you do it for real. If speaking, verbalise what you're going to say, don't just write it down."
4. Visual Stimulii
"Try and attach a story to a visual, and if you get stuck you can look at that, which will trigger the memory. For example, on our tour, a good 'safety' visual is the TV gantry - when I look at that it sparks off different facts associated with it: where it is located, how many people work there, where the players are interviewed after the game and so on."
5. Have a Plan B
"If you really do hit a blank, make sure you have some backup stories: anecdotes or embellishments that can buy you time. Always have something in reserve."
(Image: All Star)
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YUMA, Ariz. – Dr. Jay Sheridan, a professor who taught English at Yuma High School for 40 years, died Saturday. He was 72 years old.
In 2010 Congressman Raul Grijvalva addressed the U.S House of Representatives, noting Sheridan’s then recent retirement. He said Sheridan had given 40 years of his life to improve the quality of public education in his community.
Sheridan was born in Clinton, Iowa in 1943. His father was a B-26 pilot in the 8th Air Force in Europe. Sheridan
and his mother lived with her parents in the village of Thomson, Illinois in the months after his birth.
In November 1948, Sheridan, his parents and his sister moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Sheridan attended
kindergarten in Greendale, Wisconsin. He continued his elementary education at Valley View School, a small school near Hales Corners, Wisconsin. Sheridan’s family then moved to the Elm Grove, Wisconsin area in 1959, where Sheridan graduated from Brookfield Central High School in 1962.
Sheridan then moved to Arizona to study at the University of Arizona. He graduated with a degree in English and a
minor in philosophy. After graduating, Sheridan went to law school at Valparaiso University.
Shortly after entering law school Sheridan was drafted into the military in 1967. He honorably served our country in Vietnam from August of 1968 to July of 1969 in the 1st Battalion, 69th Armor (4th Infantry Division). After Sheridan was honorably discharged, he enrolled at Northern Arizona University to pursue a Master of Arts degree in English. He was awarded his degree in May of 1972 and accepted an offer as an English teacher at Yuma High School.
In the summer of 1972, Sheridan met his wife Sally, from Yuma. The two were married the following summer
and have now been married 43 years. Sally, also a teacher, gave countless years to the Yuma community just as her husband did.
Sheridan was appointed Chair of the English Department at Yuma High in 1973 and spent his entire professional career at Yuma High. He taught every level of English during the course of his teaching career. Beginning in the early 1980s, he began teaching the National Advanced Placement (AP) English Literature and Composition course and assisted
hundreds of students in earning passing scores on the national exam.
Sheridan completed his Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Arizona in August 1979. He became chair of the Modern Languages department, in addition to the English department, with supervisory responsibilities over English as a Second Language, French, German and Spanish classes. Sheridan also taught part-time for Northern Arizona University-Yuma for a number of years
In 2001, Sheridan was awarded the honor of Yuma County High School Teacher of the Year by the Education Foundation of Yuma. Sheridan accomplished a great deal during his time at Yuma High School. His proudest achievement was helping Yuma High School earn first place in the district on the state AIMS writing exam for 2006, 2007 and 2008.
Dr. Sheridan retired from Yuma High School in May of 2010.
In Grijalva’s address he noted that in almost 40 years Sheridan has touched the lives of thousands of students who
have passed through the halls of Yuma High School. He also said Sheridan encouraged students who doubted they were ready for advanced placement classes to work hard and pass the test.
Sheridan is survived by his wife Sally, his two children Jill and Jay Jr., and his three granddaughters.
Sally shared with us that Sheridan was the same smart, funny and kind person at home and everywhere else. She always knew he was special and let him know he was appreciated.
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Last month I highlighted some good research done by Lal Zimman at the University of Colorado, where he found two conceptions of coming out among trans people that were very different from the way the term is used by lesbians and gay men. In the comments, my friend Caprice Bellefleur hit on the next point that I was going to make: that there’s a fourth way that coming out is used.
There is a further complication about the use of the term “coming out” among trans people. Many, especially those who identify as crossdressers, use it to mean the first time they appeared in public in their alternate gender. They may not have disclosed anything to anyone.
In keeping with Zimman’s use of the letter “d,” with declaring a gender transition and disclosing a transgender history, I’ll talk about non-transitioning trans people displaying non-normative gender expression.
Zimman explicitly excluded crossdressers from his definition of “transgender,” acknowledging its use as a euphemism for “transsexual,” but when I met him in February I was there to advocate rejecting that sense of the word, based in part on the fact that there’s so much overlap. Many of his “transgender people,” particularly on the feminine spectrum, identify for years as crossdressers, and in fact the “declaration” he described is a performative speech act that, in the eyes of many trans people, is enough to allow someone to pass from “umbrella trans” (or even “just a cross-dresser” or “just a lesbian”) into “really trans.”
(I honestly don’t know much about coming out for queens and butch lesbians. I do know that for some gay men, coming out allows some feminine self-expression, and similarly allows some masculine expression for lesbians, but I’ve heard that that is still stigmatized by many people, gay and straight.)
As I said before, I’m not really happy with these three uses of “coming out.” To put this in perspective, there are several advantages that the “gay” kind of being out confers on the individual and the community:
- The dishonesty and self-denial necessary to be closeted tend to be habit-forming and have a corrosive effect on character
- The same habits of dishonesty and self-denial have a corrosive effect on the tenor of group interactions.
- Large numbers of gay men, lesbians and bisexuals being out contribute to safety in numbers.
- It’s easy to dehumanize people when you can pretend they’re not there, but it’s a lot harder when you know someone.
- It’s easy to hate people when they feel ashamed of themselves, but it’s harder when they have self-respect.
The two forms of “coming out” that Zimman describes (declaring and disclosing) fulfill all these characteristics, but they are only available to people who choose to transition and genderqueer or genderfluid people. Someone who has the exact same thoughts, beliefs and feelings but decides not to transition or change their primary gender expression has only the display form of coming out available to them. When people display they are visible in public as trans people, but in clothing and accessories that they normally don’t wear, and with makeup that changes their appearance. They may not be recognized by people who know them in their primary identity. Most importantly, they don’t use the same name. How is anyone supposed to know that the Tiffany Sparkle that they met at the dance club last Friday is the same person as Bob from Accounting?
This means that displaying has only one of the four advantages of coming out, the “safety in numbers” advantage, and that only when people are actively cross-dressing. There may be some feeling of liberation in this, but it is fleeting, and at all other times they still have to hide and to deny their true feelings. And while they hide, others are unaware that people they know are “one of those” and know that all these people are so ashamed of themselves they don’t want their true names known.
I seem to be the exception here. I decided not to transition in 1995, and I decided to come out in 1996. I came out “gay style,” by putting up a website and telling my co-workers. I didn’t start wearing dresses to work; I just told people. And when a trans-related topic came up, I came out again as necessary.
I’ve reaped three of the four benefits of coming out. I’ve felt hugely better being able to talk about this important part of my life, and knowing that all these people know and are still treating me with respect. I’ve used it to build bridges in my community and break down walls of hatred and mistrust. But I don’t get the benefit of strength in numbers.
I don’t know any other non-transitioning trans people who’ve come out the way I did, and that’s a shame. Because there are a lot of closeted trans people out there who don’t seem to know that it’s possible to come out this way. The only way they see out of the closet is to disclose a gender transition. That’s not right. | <urn:uuid:ae8a19e6-4114-4773-8a94-63b04ae9d1c5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://transblog.grieve-smith.com/2013/05/19/the-kind-of-coming-out-we-need/ | 2022-08-09T07:24:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00732.warc.gz | en | 0.967867 | 1,163 |
What you are seeing above is a page taken from the Mueller Report on Russian interference in the 2016 American Presidential Election. It clearly shows that Maltese Professor Joseph Mifsud lied to agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; Mifsud concealed the extent of his conversations with George Papadoupolous, the content of their conversations, and subsequent meetings they had together.
It is a felony to make a false statement to the FBI, in connection with a federal investigation, with a maximum penalty of five years in Federal Prison; should he be located, it is possible that he will be charged.
There may be an additional reason why Mifsud perjured himself when he was interviewed by the Bureau; the next entry in the Mueller Report was totally redacted in the unclassified version that was released to the public. It is information about another individual whose identify was concealed, due to the fact that it has to do with Grand Jury material, which is by law secret, unless and until it is entered into evidence in a criminal trial.
We cannot determine the name of that target, and whether he was working directly with Joseph Mifsud, but the proximity of that entry to Mifsud and Papadoupolous in the Report strongly suggests that there is a link. Whether he is Joseph Muscat, and whether Mifsud hid his relationship with him from the FBI, remains an open question that we hope to answer in the future. | <urn:uuid:3c9c501b-4571-4116-a891-fc65a70fdbd6> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://rijock.blogspot.com/2021/02/ | 2022-01-18T11:08:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320300810.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20220118092443-20220118122443-00601.warc.gz | en | 0.975087 | 297 |
I have used The San Fransico Bay Brand products for more years then I care to mention..You won't and can't go wrong with any products in their product line. I am also looking at the Sera Bettagran and strongly thinking about buying a container...In case you missed all of my replies/posts about feeding/food...I don't think anyone will think that my one lone guy is spoiled...too much...
I ordered the Sera Bettagran, also. Like you, I could not find much information on the actual ingrediants. They sure are stingy with sharing information on their product line. I was also wanting to try a couple of their other products too.
Actually, I did order two products from the Sera product line when I placed my order. I ordered from EBay and just looked up Betta Food. There is one person whom sells Sera Products and that is where I placed my order. I ordered the Sera Bettagran (but, it is not a full size container..0.17 Oz...Sample packet..I am not sure why the Bettagran is the only food item that is a sample size..go figure). All of the other food items from this person are full size. Anyway, I also ordered the Sera Flake Variety container. It has 4 different flake foods within the container. After seeing a variety of people posting about flake foods and Betta feeding...I will probably have to live in a leper colony...with my Betta and his assorted pellets and flakes.....Anyway, this is the first order. If the Sera Bettagran works out after the taste test given by my guy and the reading of the packet with me, I will probably order the larger container. I have gotten several little old ladies (much like myself) into taking care of a new friend/pet..Betta. I can always find someone to give things away to or share with. I was also looking at trying their water conditioner. I seem to always want to try out new/different food and water conditioner. I always go back to using Prime (love Seachem products)...For some reason and I don't know why (even at my age)..Food and water conditioner just seems to call my name....While I was checking out the catagory Betta food on EBay, I did notice that Seachem has a Betta pellet available. I don't know if this is a new item or if it has been available for awhile.
I am like you, I need to just stick with Prime and be done with it. Like I said something about food and water conditioner...they just won't leave me alone. LOL..I am now seriously condsidering the Seachem Betta pellets..See what I mean?...Just won't leave me alone. | <urn:uuid:280c85e0-2eba-4cef-a043-dcbb044e45ab> | CC-MAIN-2014-35 | http://www.bettafish.com/showthread.php?t=69052&goto=nextnewest | 2014-09-02T21:25:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-35/segments/1409535922871.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20140901014522-00132-ip-10-180-136-8.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970177 | 588 |
1. Wash, dry … and fold
Let’s explore how dramatically changing economic trends can shift the ground beneath our feet. Instead of taking a macro view of stock markets and currency exchanges, we’ll visit San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood where one of the few remaining laundromats is closing its doors. “While families have been hauling their dirty towels, sheets, and underwear there for decades, the business’s future earnings now pale in comparison to the value of the land it sits on.” Like many urban centers, San Francisco is becoming too expensive for people who can’t afford a place with their own washer and dryer. This story of a single laundromat is a metaphor for a much broader American (and even global) saga: a growing geographic divide in which people from different socioeconomic groups are not only unequal, they’re completely separate. From The Atlantic: The Decline of the American Laundromat.
2. The stars of Stripe
“They have the advantage of coming to California without being tainted and polluted by what’s in the water supply and air of Silicon Valley. They’re more humble and well-rounded. There’s such an improbability to their story—that these brothers from a little village would come to build what could well be one of the most important companies on the internet.” If you’ve bought something on the internet today, there’s a decent chance you used Stripe. And for that, you can thank the Collision Brothers. Ashley Vance with an entertaining look at how two brothers turned seven lines of code into a $9.2 billion startup. (If I did this, my dad would say, “So why didn’t you write an eighth line of code?”)
3. Dem bones
“The trial is part of a post-coup crackdown that has imprisoned 50,000 people and seen another 110,000 fired from their government jobs. Many of the suspects Tuesday face life in prison for crimes including murder and attempting to overthrow the government.” AP: In one court, nearly 500 people are on trial for Turkey’s failed coup; many face life. And from Vice: Turkey packs 486 defendants in courtroom for massive coup trial.
+ In the increasingly unstable and undemocratic Venezuela, authorities arrested two opposition leaders in the middle of the night.
+ Paul Mason in The Guardian: Democracy is dying—and it’s startling how few people are worried
4. Dictators gonna dictate…
“The strategy, the advisers agreed, should be for Donald Trump Jr. to release a statement to get ahead of the story. They wanted to be truthful, so their account couldn’t be repudiated later if the full details emerged.” The boss had a different plan. The latest blockbuster story in a newscycle that never stops … from WaPo: Trump dictated son’s misleading statement on meeting with Russian lawyer. (It was rough at times, but looking back, I’m glad my parents pushed me to come up with misleading statements all by myself…)
+ For now, this is only a claim in a lawsuit. But because it seems to fit a pattern, it’s big news. NPR: “The Fox News Channel and a wealthy supporter of President Trump worked in concert under the watchful eye of the White House to concoct a story about the death of a young Democratic National Committee aide.”
+ “The conversation went a hundred seconds. It went from women in combat to Syria policy to the Chinese to energy independence, a little about public lands, a little about hunting access,” Zinke tells me. “Most of the conversation was not really Interior, per se.’ At one point, Trump proposed the Veterans Affairs post, to which Zinke quipped, ‘I don’t think you hate me that much.'” GQ on the former Navy SEAL tapped by Trump to be secretary of the Interior. Ryan Zinke, Trump’s Cowboy Enforcer, Is Ready for His Closeup.
5. The promise
“You see this is coming from an incredible sense of guilt. I suppose what I’m trying to do is save my boy in retrospect. I stood next to his coffin in the church. It was packed with people—a shattered community—and I made him a public promise. I said that I would investigate what had happened to him and that I would seek reform for him, and on behalf of his generation. Quite simply, I’m just a guy honoring a promise to his son. And that’s probably the most powerful motivation that you could imagine, because I’m not about to let him down twice.” Mosaic on a father working towards a world without suicide.
6. Opiate of emergency
“With approximately 142 Americans dying every day, America is enduring a death toll equal to September 11th every three weeks.” The Chris Christie-led White House Opioid Commission is out with its first recommendation to the president: Declare a state of emergency.
+ WaPo: Opioid abuse started as a rural epidemic. It’s now a national one.
+ Newshour: Almost half of all opioid misuse starts with a friend or family member’s prescription.
7. Iran seizes the moment
“Iran has built up a multinational network of tens of thousands of young men from across the Middle East, turning them into a well-drilled fighting machine that is outgunning the US on the battlefield, as Tehran outsmarts the White House in the corridors of power.” Buzzfeed takes you Inside Iran’s Mission to Dominate The Middle East
8. Like bees to money
“If Adam Smith had strapped on a bee suit, he could have discovered that the animal kingdom is, in fact, a chamber of commerce.” The always entertaining Ben Crair on the secret economic lives of animals. (Related: I have two dogs and three cats and they’re all costing me money; the dogs chew up all my stuff and the cats have, at times, embezzled.)
9. From incognito to in deep
“What would you think if somebody showed up at your door saying: ‘Hey, I have your complete browsing history—every day, every hour, every minute, every click you did on the web for the last month’? How would you think we got it: some shady hacker? No. It was much easier: you can just buy it.” All that anonymous web browsing you’ve been doing isn’t really all that anonymous.
10. Bottom of the news
Between the scandals, the international gaffes, the disturbing handshakes, and a White House that has more turnover than a red light district Airbnb, keeping up with the news is a full time job. That’s how it is for me (and maybe you too). So imagine how it is for Trump. Even if he wanted to govern normally, there’s just no way he’d have the time. This One Goes to Eleven.
+ If you’re reading this while walking across the street in Honolulu, stop. That’s now illegal. (You can mahalo me later.)
+ Here are the winners of the NatGeo Travel Photographer of the Year Contest.
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What SAIPA Members Need To know About Tax Compliance
03 September 2012
Posted by: TaxFind™
What SAIPA Members Need To know About Tax Compliance
Tax compliance has become somewhat of a dirty phrase for both tax payers and tax practitioners.Ettiene Retief, SAIPA’s Head of Tax Committee offers some interesting insights and statistics on the subject.
During the recent months media has been littered with articles regarding tax compliance and the ‘big bad tax practitioner’ that’s helping taxpayers evade tax. It’s my personal experience that taxpayers have generally become more compliant and less insistent on engaging in tax avoidance or evasion schemes. I remember the going joke some 15 years ago was that you rate your tax practitioner on how many tax loopholes he/she had named after him/her. Now, generally a tax practitioner doesn’t want any association to a tax evasion scheme. Just as accountants, auditors, and bankers get blamed for corporate failures and economic collapse, the tax practitioner is blamed for tax non-compliance. It’s all too familiar a sight for SARS when a taxpayer approaches them and blames the tax practitioner for all failures in tax administration.
During May this year SARS released the Tax Statistics for 2011, which suggested that tax revenue generally correlated with shifts in gross domestic product and economic activity. It was presented that the impact of the global recession on the South African fiscus was estimated at R255 billion in reduced tax revenue.
Tax revenues, exempt for corporate income tax, have made a strong rebound. Despite amendments to the Income Tax Act which was intended to boost second provisional tax payments, an appreciable increase in second provisional tax collections was not achieved. Further, the third voluntary payment significantly declined. Why this is a surprise still eludes me, as corporate income tax will decline in the wake of the global financial crisis which has not yet recovered to pre-crisis levels. Also, companies,at least the companies that survived, will first utilise assessed tax losses before it will pay corporate taxes on profits. South Africa has a very concentrated corporate sector, with an estimated 1% of companies paying about 60% of corporate taxes.In fact, even individual tax is very disproportionate with an estimated 3,5% of individuals paying 38% of the tax.
It was reported that Value-Added Tax collections declined sharply during 2009/10, but has recovered to an all-time high during 2010/11. This all-time high in VAT collections is despite the decline of about 80 000 registered vendors between 2008 and 2011. The decline in registered vendors was credited to SARS modernization and cleaning up of the register. However, we should include the impact that the introduction of Micro-Business, change in registration threshold, and changes in registration process, may have had. Many have been frustrated by the difficulty to register as a vendor since SARS introduced the modernisation and additional testing with regards to VAT registration.
The tax register for individuals has significantly grown, and was reported to have about 13 million registered taxpayers. However, this number is most likely understated as this does not include all the additional registrations from the last employer reconciliation(EMP501), and it is now required that all employees be registered,irrespective of the R60 000 tax threshold. SARS is expecting about 4,2 million personal income tax returns to be filing during the current filing season.
SARS reported that 80,7% individuals filed on time for the 2010/11 season, as opposed to 58% filed on time for the 2008/09 season.It is no surprise considering the modernisation of the filing season and the introduction of the administrative penalty. I’m still confounded by the continuous statements that attack tax practitioners, while no recognition is given for the role that tax practitioners played in the significant increase in on-time submissions. It was recently informed that 99% of individual tax returns filed by practitioners were done by means of electronic filing.
It was reported that administrative penalties against individuals generated some R1,6 billion in additional revenue. SARS has been very efficient in collecting these penalties by using the employer as an agent.Corporate income tax compliance came under fire as only 28% of assessment for companies regarded as being liable to file was issued on time for 2010 (compared with prior years, the percentage of assessment was 54,6% for 2007, 44,5%for 2008, and 37,5% for 2009). It was conceded that these numbers are not accurate as the tax register does not account for all dormant or inactive companies. SARS is currently busy developing a new IT14 return and other modernization that will ensure that all registered companies are also registered for tax,and that all companies will, in future, file an annual return, even if dormant or non-trading. Tax Clearance Certificates still remain a thorn in SARS’ side, dealing with corruption and the many taxpayers finding ways to defeat the system and intended result. In fact, the tax clearance certificate is not proof of tax compliance, only that the taxpayer at that point in time had no outstanding amounts or returns. SARS is considering alternatives and further development of the system to reduce risks and test and address ongoing tax compliance.
More recently, SARS introduced the VAT reviews and greater risk management and testing systems. SARS and the Minister of Finance have previously reported positive results. I’m still a little sceptical of the reported results as the review added additional administrative burden on the vendor and many incorrect additional assessments that is now subject to objection and appeal process to remedy. However, I do not doubt that the review notices and more rigorous verification process for registration has had a positive impact on fraud and false refund claims.
The new IT14SD has added another step in tax administration and compliance. The IT14SD supplementary declaration for companies has resulted in a shortage in headache and anti-anxiety medication. Beside the complexity of the declaration, the comparative testing is not easy. This new declaration has yielded many incorrect and hyper-inflated additional assessments, which now require the objection and appeal process to resolve.
The Commissioner for SARS released the SARS Strategic Plan for the next five years. It’s clear that SARS will drive tax compliance as a key component of meeting the growing demand on revenue collections.It was revealed that SARS will be focusing on improved risk management, administrative penalties (which will be extended to companies and close corporations soon), debt and cash-flow management, outreach programmes, and the implementation of the new Tax Administration Act.
Further, it was revealed that SARS has identified high-risk areas, which includes large multinational corporations (targeting cross-border structuring and transfer pricing manipulations), informal businesses, high-net-worth individuals and their use of trusts, and non-compliant tax practitioners and those who assist taxpayers in tax evasion.
Stats from SARS:
• The tax register for individuals has significantly grown to about 13 million registered taxpayers.
• 4,2 million personal income tax returns are expected to be filing during the current filing season.
• SARS reported that 80,7% individuals filed on time for the 2010/11 season, as opposed to 58% for the 2008/09 season.
• 99% of individual tax returns filed by practitioners were done by means of efiling.
• Administrative penalties against individuals generated some R1,6 billion in additional revenue.
• Corporate income tax compliance was down with only 28%of assessment for companies liable to file was issued on time
Some of the non-compliance statistics received from SARS with regards to SAIPA members are:
• SAIPA members are indebted to SARS to the tune of R30 million, of which almost R17 million is outstanding between 1 to 5 years, and R5,5 million outstanding for greater than 5 years;
• Some R3 million has been referred to appointment of agent, litigation to proceed, civil judgement to be issued, or was unresolved;
• 253 SAIPA members applied to have their debt waived via the application for a Section 91 write-off; and
• 2839 outstanding tax returns across all tax types.
The Minister of Finance during his February 2012 budget speech announced that 34 000 tax practitioners owed in excess of R260 million in tax, and that they had 18 000 outstanding tax returns in their personal capacity. Again the Minister attacked tax practitioners in a media statement (April 2012) expressing that ‘SARS will develop a rigorous risk-profiling system to identify high-risk practitioners’. The tax practitioner was not spared when the Commissioner of SARS made his keynote address at SAIPA’s 30th anniversary gala evening, presenting non-compliance statistics with reference to tax practitioners that are SAIPA members.
The regular addressing of tax practitioner compliance is a springboard for the impending amendments to the Tax Administration Act that will introduce regulation of tax practitioners, and not merely registration as currently imposed. The aim is to create a regulatory framework that allows SARS and taxpayers to pursue tax practitioners for a variety of reasons, one such being when a tax practitioner fails to perform the task required or to file a return when due.Also, the recently promulgated Tax Administration Act contains many important provisions: one such provision is that when a tax practitioner files any return or document with SARS without the required authority, it is a criminal offence. It will be critical for tax practitioners to have clear engagement letters and administration systems in place to manage the relationship and authority with clients.
Tax practitioners will be required to belong to a regulated body, such as SAIPA. Also, tax practitioners must clean up house before it’s too late.
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We seem to always want to know what will happen next, what will the future hold for us? We shake the globe and ask…will I be rich…will I be healthy…will I be…? Psychics, magic globes and predictions will fail.
The only way to know how the future will turn out is to live in the present. Hold on to your faith, let God guide you through your life. Worry not about the future and believe that if you have God by your side you will make it to the future and let that be enough. | <urn:uuid:0b4dcd03-442f-40fe-b723-f408ac3164cc> | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | https://faithfilledmom.com/predictions-february-23-2013-saturday-tidbit/ | 2021-02-26T19:09:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178357935.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20210226175238-20210226205238-00571.warc.gz | en | 0.935973 | 115 |
Choose the German Flag or the Oktoberfest Themed toothpick. A great way to decorate your food. Sandwiches, fruits, desserts, cheeses, and many more yummy treats. 50 sticks in each package enough to poke into just about anything edible. Bringing some classical vibrations to the festive, standing out to be presentable for everyone to come together and celebrate. | <urn:uuid:0334dec2-b68c-4778-a711-9d2ea6d9a1ad> | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | https://europeandeli.com/collections/oktoberfest-decor/products/oktoberfest-and-german-flagged-themed-toothpicks | 2023-01-30T11:48:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499816.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20230130101912-20230130131912-00160.warc.gz | en | 0.920465 | 78 |
Local neighbors and residents have probably noticed that the former Glass House building has a new owner and identity. In fact, the ArchWay building received it’s new name from the community’s own innovative kids. At a special grand opening ceremony, the building’s new owner, Michele Peterson revealed the winning name and logo, awarding Markees Stubbs and Savannah Rice a $250 Target gift card split prize for the name and Dakota Rice another $250 Target card for designing the logo.
The foundational concept for ArchWay, as outlined in Yolanda Putnam’s Times Free Press article following the May grand opening is to equip local youth with exposure and training in the area of marketing and business branding. Linking with Studio Everything and Glass House Collective provides Peterson with a sound foundation of community relationship already in place.
As Teal Thibaud says, “Glass House Collective is eager to team up with business efforts to get kids involved and build excitement.” Business leader and board member Carlos Hampton agrees. “Opening kids’ eyes to the value of branding and business can cultivate youthful entrepreneurship in the area, building an identity for more obscure local brands.”
For the contest Peterson, as the building’s new owner, took on the role of the client, with consultant Strat Parrott leading the young participants through a specific, truly organic process. The group brainstormed names and voted on one another’s proposals using stickers, so they experienced the value of not just picking their own idea, but evaluating the merit of other strong options.
With the support of Teal Thibaud and Rondell Crier, familiar and respected leaders, the group worked together to narrow the names down to the top twelve, then interested kids took notebooks home to sketch potential logos. Finally Peterson, the client, selected the name and logo design she liked the best, and Parrott incorporated the ArchWay logo exactly as Dakota Rice drew it, with zero interference or adjustment.
Blooming artists and designers like Dakota Rice have benefited from the steady, patient support of Studio Everything leader, Rondell Crier and the work Glass House Collective has put into activating the neighborhood blocks around Glass Street over the last 3-4 years. Back in December of 2014 GHC gave what was then their headquarters building a new façade. Peterson also believes in the work going on in the neighborhood and demonstrated her investment via the logo grant, paying for Parrott’s consultation time. All leaders agree that collaborative partnerships are key, allowing for teachable moments in economics. For example, as part of the event older kids got involved setting up little shops, demonstrating the cycle and flow of buyers and sellers. This all builds on work put in over the long run, as demonstrated at the playground next to the ArchWay building. GHC worked with anchor organizations TPL and CNE to turn what was once a vacant lot into a pocket park, ideal for events and community activities.
As Crier sees it, ArchWay is well-positioned to provide neighborhood kids with a rare experience: being heard. “Anything active here is a good thing, and it allowed kids to get involved in something adults normally control. Investment over time builds trust, and these kids have much to gain from genuine interest in their ideas.” | <urn:uuid:935e2bfd-c1ff-4996-9bbe-89e614586086> | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | http://www.glasshousecollective.org/archway-building-welcoming-business-activity-glass-street/ | 2017-12-11T02:10:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948512054.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20171211014442-20171211034442-00438.warc.gz | en | 0.957633 | 676 |
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Sometimes, especially around this time of year, it is hard to get back into an exercise routine. Motivation is one of the main factors that contribute to exercise adherence and increased physical activity. Here are just some strategies anyone can easily implement:
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‘Tis the season of fall television premieres! But before immersing yourself in the lineups we’ve been waiting for since spring, how about kicking back with a curated list of book recommendations based on your small-screen favorites?
Art school graduate Juniper Kowalski sees her entire world change when she gets pregnant. Now living in her late grandmother’s trailer, she begins to channel her anger into her public art projects, finding real love and figuring out what she wants in life.
2. If you love American Horror Story, read The Whisper Man by Alex North
Tom and his son, Jake, have moved to Featherbank to start a new life. But when infamous killer “The Whisper Man” appears to be terrorizing the town once again, the two get pulled into a new nightmare they hadn’t quite anticipated. Can they survive the mysterious killer?
3. If you love The Bold Type, read Screen Queens by Lori Goldstein
Chosen as a team to compete for a prestigious internship in Silicon Valley, Lucy, Maddie and Delia have been given the chance of a lifetime. But the difficulty and tension will elevate as the high school graduates juggle the competition, backstabbing friends and new love interests.
4. If you love Fresh Off the Boat, read Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong
In Ali Wong’s debut book, she shares anecdotes from her life and the lessons she’s learned as a comedian and a working mom. Told through a series of letters addressed to her daughter, this book inspires readers to go after what they want no matter how impossible it may seem.
5. If you love American Housewife, read Dominicana by Angie Cruz
Ana Cancion has agreed to marry Juan Ruiz as it’ll mean a new start in the U.S. for her and her family. But her new married life in New York is miserable. When her husband returns to the Dominican Republic to support his family, Ana finally gets the chance to live the life she wants.
6. If you love How to Get Away with Murder, read Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke
When 9-year-old Levi King goes missing, it’s up to Texas Ranger Darren Matthews to bring him home safely. But not everything is what it seems, and when Darren finds horrific secrets within the King family, he realizes that he’s now fighting for Levi’s life as well as his own.
The book opens 10 years after Call Me By Your Name and follows Oliver, Elio and his father, Samuel. On his way to visit Elio, Samuel meets a woman who changes his life. Meanwhile, Elio gets caught up in a new romance of his own as Oliver contemplates traveling back to Europe to see his past lover.
8. If you love Love It or List It, readAs Long As It’s Perfect by Lisa Tognola
Janie Margolis believed that taking on the job of an assistant contractor would be the perfect break in her everyday routine. But things aren’t as perfect as she’d hope, as it brings to the surface disagreements between her and her husband. Then the economy collapses, and suddenly the two find themselves in way over their heads with renovations.
9. If you love 13 Reasons Why, read I Love You Like That by Heather Cumiskey
After the death of her first love, Deacon, teenager Hannah Zandana is struggling to keep her family together – her mother an addict, her father in denial and her sister with no adult support. Little does Hannah know though that Deacon’s death was faked. Awake in a hospital outside of town, he finds himself in the middle of a federal undercover sting operation.
10. If you love Game of Thrones, read Five Dark Fates by Kendare Blake
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Interesting Blue Color Schemes For Living Room
Blue is not only for bedrooms anymore. It is quite popular a color for living rooms as well and here are some ideas for interesting blue color schemes. Blue can be paired up with almost any color depending on the hue. It always looks great with white and patterns as well with a variety of other colors.
Intensive blue colors schemes energize the room. They allow to add other brights as accents like yellow, pink, red, green, and of course pure white makes a nice contrast as a second color. Deep blue might seem a bit dark but it can be lighten up with accents in paler blue as in the main picture above.
Pale blues are soothing and elegant. Opt for interesting hues with green or gray undertones to make the color scheme more interesting. These can be paired with such neutrals as cream, gray and white. Add bright accents in same only more intense color to add depth to the design.
When the color is too intense it can be used in a pattern on a wall, in furniture or a rug. The pattern will break the solid color into pops of bright color. Thus you can make the room bright without making it overwhelming and eye watering. Adding only pops of bright color can also make a color scheme more interesting.
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God Don't Never Change: The Songs of Blind Willie Johnson is a new tribute album dedicated to the great blues and gospel guitarist and singer. It features Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi, Tom Waits (on two songs), Sinead O’Connor, Lucinda Williams and others.
To get to the bottom of why an acoustic bluesman who died in 1945 inspires such loyalty and enthusiasm, we got in touch with guitarist Luther Dickinson, who contributed a song to the album.
Dickinson, who played with the Black Crowes from 2007 to 2011, leads the North Mississppi Allstars with his drummer brother Cody. He also recently released an excellent solo album, Blues & Ballads (A Folksinger's Songbook) Volumes I & II, which features stripped-down versions of some of his best-loved songs. Guests include Jason Isbell and Mavis Staples.
What makes Blind Willie Johnson stand out all these decades later?
Blind Willie was one of the first guitar heroes, one of the kings of the 78 [rpm record]. He spread the lyrics and melodies of gospel music and the slide guitar not only throughout his generation but to all the following generations. His repertoire contains so many standards of the American roots vernacular. These songs have been played by countless artists in all reaches of roots music.
What about as a guitarist?
His melodic slide style is unparalleled. He was a master at matching his voice's pitch and vibrato with his bottleneck. His rhythmic velocity is a force of nature as well.
Why is he so special that a wide range of artists jumped on honoring him?
The different styles of the interpretations on this album is a testament to Blind Willie's repertoire and artist vision. The melodies and lyrics hold up under any stylistic ornamentation. The songs are so strong that artists are at ease interpreting them.
Why did you choose the song “Bye and Bye I'm Going to See the King"?
Corey Harris turned me onto “Bye and Bye I'm Going to See the King.” I saw him play it at a soundcheck and fell in love with the song. The melody has a wonderful flavor with the dominant seven.
Give us the 411 on your new album, Blues and Ballads. What makes it different? How do you decide what will go on solo album vs. NMA versus anything else?
We have come to learn that NMA is best when we are playing either music inspired by hill country blues or our dad’s community's repertoire. That is our unique thing we love to do. Protect our community's repertoire while using it as foundations for interpretation and improvisation. Blues and Ballads was inspired by the concept of making a traditional song book of my favorite originals with humble folk style recordings of these songs befitting the spirit of the project. Making modern-day field recordings of honest interpretations of my originals.
You are so busy doing so many projects. Is that just the reality of being a musician in 2016? Does it keep you fresh?
Yes, musical variety does indeed keep me fresh and inspired. Part of being a musician is being a hustler, and my game is deep. Having multiple projects helps keep your work steady, planning way in advance. I also adore conceptualizing music, art and projects. The artistic process and conceptualizing new ideas is huge for me.
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Presentation on theme: "Children, Young People & Families forum 4 July 2013 Phil Mawhinney Community Action Southwark."— Presentation transcript:
Children, Young People & Families forum 4 July 2013 Phil Mawhinney Community Action Southwark
1)Personalisation agenda 1. News & updates Personalisation of children’s services by Sept 2014 Children with SEN or disabilities 14 May event between VCS + council, 40 orgs o Develop a programme of transition support o Innovation Fund (Aug/Sept) 2)Approved Providers List (APL) List of pre-vetted organisations wanting to bid for contracts. Eliminates continually submitting PQQs + documentation Fri 2 Aug deadline http://www.southwark.gov.uk/info/200047/grants_and_funding/350/voluntary_and_community_sector_support/2
3) Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Helps employers makes safer recruitment decisions. Replaces CRB checks. New website – the Update Service. Allows individuals to reuse DBS certificates applying for other jobs. NAVCA briefing https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/disclosure-and-barring-service 4) Troubled Families programme extended Gov. announced additional £200m for 2015/16 (was due to end 14/15). Extending number of families to 400,000, up from 120,000.
2. Children & Young People’s Plan Fiona Russell Principle Strategy Officer, Children’s Services, Southwark council How can VCS contribute to the Plan? Impact on VCS of new Plan, e.g. different priorities, funding opportunities?
3. Update on safeguarding children Ann Flynn Development Manager Safeguarding Children Board Southwark council
4. VCS Reps Opportunity to bring to the council via Reps – issues, concerns ideas, best practice Children, young people & families Reps Natalia Sali (Contact A Family) Children & Families Trust Carolyn Martin (Family Action) Corporate Parenting Committee, Safeguarding Children Board (tbc) Florence Emakpose (World of Hope) Safeguarding – Child Sexual Exploitation subgroup Hazel Saunders (Faces in Focus) Family Focus Plus (Troubled Families) Gordon McCullough (CAS) Health & Wellbeing Board, Safeguarding Children Executive Board Phil Mawhinney (CAS) Safeguarding Children Board, ProActive Southwark (sports + physical activity) Ian Redding (Peckham Voluntary Sector Forum) Safer Southwark Partnership
4. VCS Reps Guide questions 1.How will X policy development impact your service users? Risks or opportunities? 2.What does the council/NHS need to prioritise to support your service users? 3.Are there unmet needs? Are there gaps in available services? 4.Do you need any specific support from the council, e.g. training?
5. Project showcase: Parents as Partners Elizabeth Mawle Parents as Partners Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships (TCCR) http://www.tccr.org.uk/parents-as-partners-programme
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If you drive for about a hundred miles due east out of Los Angeles, you’ll reach the Mojave Desert and the edge of one of its National Parks, Joshua Tree. There, among a dusty network of roads to nowhere, a ten-acre plot sprouts with assemblages made from the detritus of 20th Century America. Repurposed and redesigned to tell new stories, they cut, wind-worn and bleached, into a cerulean, high desert sky.
Noah Purifoy was born in 1917 in Snow Hill, Alabama, where he, his twelve brothers and sisters and his parents, picked cotton. After serving as a Naval seabee in the Pacific front during World War II, Noah used his GI Bill benefits to get a master’s degree in social work from the University of Atlanta. He worked for awhile helping people with mental health problems adjust to independent living, then applied to art school. In 1952, Noah became the first African American to be accepted into the Chouinard Art Institute (now called CalArts). As part of the great migration, he left the South and settled in Los Angeles, earning his B.F.A in time for his 40th birthday.
As his abstractions began to get noticed within L.A.’s insular downtown creative scene, Noah longed to explore art’s function and potential power in wider society. In 1964, he founded Watts Towers Art Center in the community of Watts, south of downtown, where he mentored inner city kids and adults. In 1965, riots protesting police brutality erupted in the neighbourhood and burned much of the shopping area. Over five days, 34 people were killed and thousands arrested. Noah and his students salvaged the burned-out debris and cleaned, polished and mounted the rubble into assemblages. Noah’s exhibition at the Watts Towers Cultural Center cemented a devotion to the found object as a chronicle of social change.
In 1976, dreaming of art’s potential to change lives, Noah became a founding member of the California Arts Council, piloting artist-in-the-community outreach programs, including in prisons, schools, hospitals and seniors’ centers. Noah stopped making art for eleven years. In 1989, retired from the council and struggling to afford his studio space in an artists’ co-op downtown, Noah accepted an invitation to share a desolate plot of land one hundred miles inland with an artist friend. In this remote area, he set up a trailer in which to live and began to assemble again, pulling from the rubble of his new community.
PS: “Junk art, assemblage art… it’s as close to human existence because it’s all the castoffs we are utilizing here. I won’t say that assemblage art is much like life itself, but it’s closer to existence than any other art form. Because it’s your shit that we’re remodeling… and you got rid of it.” (Noah Purifoy)
Esoterica: In March 2004, Noah died after a cigarette caught fire in his trailer while he was sleeping. He was 86. Earlier, at the prompting of his long-time assistant and with the help of an historian friend, Noah had set up a foundation that could one day take over the sculpture park that was spreading across his property. “I hope my work provides inspiration for a person to do today what they couldn’t do yesterday, no matter what it is,” said Noah. “That’s art.”
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The illustrated monograph Noah Purifoy: Junk Dada by curators Franklin Sirmans and Yael Lipschutz, published to accompany Noah’s 2015 posthumous survey at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is here.
“I do not wish to be an artist. I only wish that art enables me to be.” (Noah Purifoy, 1963)
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Reliance on shelters has grown significantly over the past decade
The number of individuals and families using Ottawa’s shelters had come down from a peak in 2012, but there was a noticeable increase for both in 2017. The average length of stay grew steadily from 2006 to 2017. The total number of “bed nights” began rising dramatically in 2006 and had a sharp uptick in 2017.
Shelters are part of a larger social-housing landscape that also includes transitional housing, supportive housing and/or affordable housing. There are about 52 independent non-profit social-housing organizations in Ottawa, varying widely in size and mandate.
Note that the numbers shown in this graphic do not include shelters for women fleeing abuse. The information in the context statement on social housing organizations comes mainly from ChamplainHealthLine.ca, supplemented by the Ottawa Community Foundation's in-house database. The data used to develop the graphic was provided by the Homelessness Programs & Shelter Services Unit, Housing Services Branch, City of Ottawa. The following source was also consulted:
- Alliance to End Homelessness 2014. Annual Report Card. Accessed April 11, 2016.
- Homeless Hub. City of Ottawa 10-year Housing and Homelessness Plan and Progress Report (2014-2017 ). March 2018.
There is high unmet demand for affordable housing
Most of the affordable-housing supply in Ottawa is rent-geared-to-income (RGI) units within not-for-profit developments that are specifically built and operated to support affordability. Affordable housing can also be provided by the private sector or be under cooperative ownership.
The RGI waiting list includes those whose current housing is unaffordable or inadequate, and those who are homeless. At nearly 10,600 households, the list is the longest since 2004. And there are many more Ottawa households living in unaffordable or inadequate housing (too small or in need of major repair) that have not registered on the RGI waiting list. In 2016 in Ottawa, 23.2% of single parent families, 29.3% of Inuit, and 31.8% of recent immigrants lived in unaffordable or inadequate housing.
Ottawa’s low vacancy rate contributes to affordability challenges.
The average number of social and affordable housing units available per 1,000 people comes from the Ottawa Neighbourhood Study. The comment in the context statement on vacancy rates reflects the widely accepted view that a balanced vacancy rate is 3% -- i.e., three of every 100 rental units are unoccupied and available. Vacancy rates below 3% correlate with upward pressure on rents. See, for example, the 2012 report from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities No Vacancy: Trends in Rental Housing in Canada.
Other sources are:
- The State of Housing in Ottawa: Affordable for Who? ACORN Canada (August 2018)
- Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association. 2016 Waiting Lists Survey Report, Toronto ON.
- Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation. Rental Market Survey. October 2018
- Canadian Housing Observer. Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation. Characteristics of household in core housing need, Ottawa, 2016. Accessed October 2019
The amount spent on shelter puts a large percentage of households at risk
Especially in the lower-income neighbourhoods of the city, a high proportion of households spend over 30% of their income on shelter. When low-income households spend high proportions of their income on shelter, it can be challenging to adequately afford other necessities, such as food.
Research indicates that households spending 50% or more on shelter are at greater risk of becoming homeless.
The low income measure used for this graphic is the Low-income measure after tax (LIM-AT). The LIM-AT is 50% of the median after-tax income of households, but attributed down to the individual level. First, household after-tax income per individual is calculated to account for households of varying sizes. The LIM-AT is then 50% of the median of all these incomes.
Data for this graphic comes from the Ottawa Neighbourhood Study. Sources for information in the context statement are show below.
Home ownership is increasing despite rising prices
Ottawa housing prices have climbed dramatically over the past decade, but have remained consistently lower than the Ontario and Canadian averages.
Despite the price increases, home ownership rates in Ottawa have grown, and are on par with the national average.
The proportion of homeowners carrying a mortgage has gone down, but the median mortgage amount has increased from $111,400 in 1999 to $165,000 in 2012.
The information on price and ownership rates is from the Canadian Housing Observer. MLS Average Residential Price is calculated annually and is a composite of all residential prices. Information on mortgage debt is from Statistics Canada’s Survey on Financial Security, CANSIM Table 205-0002 and reflects provincial averages for all family units (economic unit of 2 persons or more) and all age groups.
- Canadian Housing Observer 2014. Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation feature on housing affordability and need. 2014
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St. Scholastica Academy senior Mary-Brent Brown was recognized as a 2013 National Merit Scholar. This honor is awarded to only one-half of one percent of the 1.5 million U.S. high school students who take the PSAT. National Merit Scholars are chosen based on PSAT and SAT test scores, academic achievement, and a student written essay.
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Earlier this year, when Judy Csillag, Director Community Outreach and Partnerships for The Canadian Centre for Diversity asked me if I would like to participate in a Women of Faith build for Habitat for Humanity, I said yes with no idea of what this would entail. Little did I know that this would turn out to be one of the most meaningful and unusual experiences of my life.
Since I came to Canada twenty years ago, there has always been an urge to give back to this wonderful country that is my adopted land and that has given me and my family a roof over our heads, jobs, security and most of all freedom. I realize that many people don’t have these luxuries in their native lands or take them for granted in Canada. So I volunteer wherever I can but the Habitat experience takes volunteering to a whole new level. Habitat has a vision for a world where everyone has a safe and decent place to live. Their mission is to mobilize volunteers and community partners in building affordable housing and promoting homeownership as a means to breaking the cycle of poverty. To uphold the dignity of every human being, Habitat works with partnerships and a belief of faith in action.
The mission of The Canadian Centre for Diversity is to build bridges between communities and to build a society that celebrates diversity, difference, and inclusion so it’s no wonder that with Habitat, they came up with the idea of a Women of Faith build. Co-Chairs of the project were Rabbi Lori Cohen, Reverend Cathy Gibbs and Tanya Khan. It was a smooth, well planned and well executed project. Thirty women from six faith communities were invited to participate and we met at the Bishop Strachan School for our mandatory training session. But it was not just training. Thanks to the insight of The Canadian Centre for Diversity and Habitat, we got to know each other through various interactions. The energy was amazing and all the women who were there came with a passion for building bridges – not only cement ones but those of the heart and mind. This is when my own interfaith work was truly validated. We were given instructions, directions, enthusiasm, inspiration and a little pink hammer pin! We were women from Sikh, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Hindu and Aboriginal traditions who shared our vision to come together to build homes for those in need.
Bright and early on October 16, I got up feeling like this was going to be a special day. Special it was because it started out with clouds in the sky and then I guess prayers went up from at least six faith traditions and the heavens opened up to smile with the sun. The location for our build was on Kingston Road and we got there sharp on time. At the site we were welcomed by a real crew, members from Habitat for Humanity Toronto, The Canadian Centre for Diversity, our co-chairs, some media and coffee. We got our instructions, a T-shirt saying Women of Faith Build 2008, hard hats with our names on them, steel toed boots and gloves. I’ve never worn a hardhat and boots so I clunked around feeling like I was going to fall (for some of the more petite women, sizes were a challenge because the shoes belonged to the male workers but they made it work by wearing double socks and sometimes mismatched shoes like moi). We were divided in groups of 5 with a leader who from the core building team. We started by standing in a circle while Valerie John from Toronto Council Fire Native Cultural Centre began the day with a smudge ceremony and a universal prayer for peace and off we went. The spirit and enthusiasm was infectious.
At the site, there were five half finished apartments and our mission was to build the back walls. “Yikes” I thought “I’ve never built anything let alone held a real hammer”, but like the others, I was raring to go. We were told we have two coffee breaks and lunch (more than some women get at work!) so off we went following our leaders. The site is quite hazardous if one is not careful because there are beams, wood, equipment all over the place. Mike our group leader was an older experienced worker and he patiently guided us. Our project was carry heavy drywall to the room, measure, cut and paste a plastic vapour barrier over the basic wall and put a dirty black glue on it. (Dirty, because if it gets on anything, you can’t get it off. I was glad I wore a black sweat shirt.) On top of that we had to put drywall and drill it in with nails. Sounds easy but cutting drywall to fit around corners is a challenge. I thought using a drill would be a cinch – not! It takes a steady hand and lots of pressure. If Mike has not guided us, we would have made serious mistakes. I developed a whole new respect for the men who do this work daily.
Now being women, there was a lot of chitter-chatter and we would wander off to see what was happening at the next lot. Some were younger and faster than others. There was a lot of sharing and compassion i.e. when I could not carry heavy stuff, others pitched in. We shared, cared, laughed, worked, exchanged recipes, spoke of our kids and took a break when we were exhausted. But it was one of the most inspiring moments in my life when the first wall was completed. Our communal cry of “Oyeh” was heard all over Kingston Road. People walking by stopped to see this motley crew of women working so hard for a common cause for humanity. It was amusing to see the new fashion statement by women in hijab wearing a hard hat – it was much more comfortable than ours because the hijab acted as a lining. My hard hat kept falling off but one woman told me to wear it backwards and it worked.
At breaks we exchanged notes. A warm vegetarian lunch was provided by Grace Church-on-the-Hill. I went to grab a coffee at the corner coffee shop and the owners were totally impressed by the work we were doing. In our group were three young (17 years old) students from CHAT – Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto. Mira, Danielle and Shira said “it’s an awesome experience to meet all these women”. For most of the women, the cause was inspiring because we had done some fund raising to get here, but more importantly it was the interaction with diverse women that made their day so meaningful. Helen Warner, Public Affairs Director for Church of Latter Day Saints said “I find we have so much more in common than what separates us. Along with homes, we are building relationships.”
Naheed Khokhar from the Ahmaddiya community felt elated at what she called “a brilliant experience” while Valerie John from Council Fire expressed “this is the first time I’m doing something like this. It’s so poignant because it affects a real family so our work will live with them for as long as they reside in this house – it’s a generational thing.” On generations, many women were interested in bringing their youth for a build and we were told it’s easy. They must be over 16, and ready to work one day from 08:30 to 4:30 (although I must boast that as women, we finished early!)
Barbara Wilson, family outreach coordinator for Habitat informed me that most of the work at Habitat for Humanity is volunteer and 60% of volunteers are women. Sally Wasserman, an energetic eightysomething Holocaust survivor, said “it’s absolutely wonderful to be part of a community build. If I can contribute even one nail it’s worthwhile specially meeting all these wonderful women who I would not have met otherwise”. I noted emails and cards being exchanged, women giving each high fives and hugs. Gurwinder Gill who is Director Diversity Services for William Osler Health Centre this was an experience of cultural diversity where women crossed all boundaries of faith and culture putting aside biases in working together for a cause that touched all of them. “It makes me optimistic that if there is a will, we can move towards peace.”
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Anthony Trollope? Isaac Asimov? Anonymous?
Dear Quote Investigator: Recently, I saw a tweet ascribing the following words to the popular Victorian era English novelist Anthony Trollope:
Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
Curiously, when I searched for a citation I found that it was also ascribed to the science fiction master Isaac Asimov. Would you please help me to identify the true originator?
Quote Investigator: In 1863 Anthony Trollope serialized the novel “The Small House at Allington” in “Harper’s New Monthly Magazine”. A character who was an earl offered the following advice. Emphasis added to excerpts by QI:1863 September, Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Volume 27, The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope, Chapter 32: Pawkins’s In Jermyn Street, Start Page 518, Quote Page 522, Harper … Continue reading
And, above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning.
Isaac Asimov was born in 1920 and died in 1992; the saying was attributed to him by 2009. Thus, he did not craft the expression, and the evidence that he ever employed it is very weak.
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Anyway I arrive in Barnstaple at lunchtime and having found my hotel I set out for the Tarka Trail which runs westwards, skirting the estuary of the rivers Taw and Torridge.
It takes me a while to find it but after a few stops and starts I set off on the long grey tarmac road which runs alongside the sand and mudflats of the estuary. It is drizzling but I don’t mind. There is a concrete road bridge ahead of me and as I walk under it I see that one of the pillars has been decorated with a picture of a mermaid in what looks like an old fashioned diving helmet – very strange.
Further on a rusty old fishing boat sits on the sand waiting for the tide…………….
Nothing much happens now, I trudge along with rain dripping steadily from the hood of my jacket, fantasising about supper – but at least it’s not cold.
Eventually I arrive at Fremington Quay where I had planned to turn round and head back to Barnstaple. Looking at the building, which houses a heritage centre and cafe (closed), it dawns on me that the long straight road I’d been walking on is the path of the old railway line from Barnstaple. Further research tells me that by the mid 19th century Fremington Quay had become the most important port between Bristol and Lands End – the main export was clay and imports included coal from South Wales and seed potatoes from Ireland.
From here there is a road leading into the town but I see on my map that there is a footpath off to the left and I quickly find the sign.
The very muddy path leads alongside the water and then opens up onto a tarmac track lined with beech trees and rhododendron bushes. It is pleasant walking and I fall to daydreaming.
Ten minutes later I awake from my reverie to find myself staring at a high metal fence which is blocking my way. I can see, on the other side, the tell tale signs of new house building but as I stare in horror at the prospect of having to retrace my steps I notice a chink in the armour. There is a very narrow space between the end of the fence and a tree, which would then leave me at the top of a slippery slope of newly dug over earth. Oh well – here we go. After a struggle to get me and my rucksack through the tiny space I slip on the mud and only save myself from the ignominy of sliding down the slope on my bum, by grabbing onto a young branch which is in the right place at the right time. Phew!
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Saint John's Bible
Saint John’s Bible, illuminated English-language Bible (2011). It was notable for its incorporation of contemporary themes in its illustrations and for its use of both traditional and computer-based production techniques.
Illuminated bibles, so called because of their lavish illustrations that incorporated gold or silver leaf, were specially commissioned during the European Middle Ages but were superseded in the 15th century by easily and widely disseminated printed Bibles. In the last decade of the 20th century, Saint John’s Abbey and University in Collegeville, Minnesota, U.S., commissioned the British calligrapher Donald Jackson, the senior scribe to Queen Elizabeth II, to participate in the production of an illuminated Bible to celebrate the advent of the new millennium. A team of theologians, biblical scholars, and artists worked from the U.S.; Jackson oversaw the illumination and calligraphy from the U.K. The layout of the Saint John’s Bible was designed on a computer and then transferred to vellum. Both the lettering and the artwork were made by hand.
The Saint John’s Bible comprises seven volumes. References to contemporary events appear in illustrations of scenes from biblical stories (e.g., the Holocaust is referred to in the artwork for a passage of The Book of Ezekiel). In keeping with its designers’ appeal to ecumenism, the Saint John’s Bible uses as its text the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV), which in the late 20th and early 21st centuries was accepted by manyChristian churches.
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The Crafers Hotel in the Adelaide Hills swept up five awards at the 2018 AHA SA Hotel Industry Awards for Excellence, including being named Best Overall Hotel in South Australia.
The hotel has transformed dramatically in the last four years after being purchased in 2014 by Ed and Julie Peter, along with shareholders Brett Matthews and Jodi Brumby. Since then, the Peters have transformed the hotel into a French-inspired gastropub focusing on food, wine and boutique accommodation. It has become a destination pub for many in South Australia, as well as an esteemed F&B offering for the Adelaide Hills community.
Besides the major award of the night, Crafers Hotel also picked up Best Superior Hotel Accommodation, Best Bistro Dining – Metropolitan (joint winner with the Port Admiral Hotel), Best Redeveloped Hotel and Best Apprentice Development and Training.
“It felt truly amazing to be recognised in this way. As a team of owners, builders and designers, we have collectively worked very hard to transform this beautiful old hotel both physically and spiritually,” said Julie Peter.
“The awards are the icing on the cake of nearly four years work. We are excited for our community of loyal locals who have supported us along the way, and for those who make the Adelaide Hills and our hotel a destination from afar. We love what we do and what we can offer our patrons, and we will continue to build on our high standards of food, beverages and service.”
The awards reflected the increasing excellence of venues in the Adelaide Hills, with Uraidla Hotel being named winner of the Best Bar Presentation and Service – Metropolitan award, while Mount Lofty House took out Best Restaurant – Accommodation Division for its Hardy’s Verandah restaurant.
The People’s Choice Award was picked up by The Elephant British Pub in Adelaide’s CBD. General manager Will Taylor was thankful to voters saying he was “extremely proud” of the recognition.
“Considering the high level of competitiveness in our industry, this is wonderful recognition of our hard work and commitment to providing our customers with great hospitality.”
The 2018 AHA SA Hotel Industry Awards for Excellence were held on Tuesday at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre, with over 750 people within the industry in attendance. AHA SA general manager Ian Horne said the quality of the industry was a benefit to the state of South Australia.
“Congratulations to all the winners in the 2018 Hotel Awards for Excellence. South Australian hotels continue to innovate and produce top-quality venues right across the state, something that hoteliers and their staff should be proud of.
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Head to the "Puppet Prom" this Saturday evening from 6-11pm.
The Kentucky Arts Council is launching its annual Give a Gift Made in Kentucky campaign.
The Emerging Artist Awards give the arts council an opportunity to encourage growth among a new generation of Kentucky artists
The KAP grant provides support to nonprofit organizations offering year-round arts services and programs directly for the benefit of the public.
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Brownfield vs. Greenfield (Part 1)
Posted by Charlie Recksieck
aka Existing Code vs. Starting Over
Oftentimes, you don't really "choose" between the two. If you have an existing system or product and it's functioning relatively ok, then building onto or fixing the existing code (brown field) is a no brainer. Similarly, you may have a brand-new feature, function or product that does not exist in your company before (e.g. adding an online chat help system when you did not have one before, a new interface between two of your existing apps, etc.) then the work by its nature will be all new (green field). Generally, rewrite or addition projects are more common than all new code projects - if we create an app and then we have upgraded releases 15 times, then that's 1 green field project and 15 brown field projects.
Here at Plannedscape, on the last 10 projects of ours we've had, 3 of them were brand new, 5 were clearly rewrites/fixes but we also had 2 that would be a grey area of both green and brown (technically if you mix the colors green and brown, you still basically have brown). On those jobs, we have been creating new features, but alongside previous code and using the same framework, references and common functions. But that's neither here nor there.
So how does this relate to your business? When do you have to make a decision? If your current codebase and solutions are solid, then adding to it (brown field) is a no-brainer. Unfortunately, these judgement calls are usually when your existing code is troublesome, or worse. When the development team is the same as for previous versions of a product, those very developers are naturally motivated to say that they did a great job the first time, so the recommendation is to stick with the same foundation and build onto it - no matter what the reality is. It takes both honest, pragmatic developers and understanding management to sort of "start over". But when it's a new team or even just a replacement developer comes on, you often get a more honest assessment of what's going on. In our case, when we've been newly brought on to work with existing code, the reason we've been called in is that the previous programmers were not doing an adequate job. That's built into brownfield projects with a new software team.
One regular client of ours is a situation where we were brought in to provide project management tools and supervisory help for an existing in-house developer working on a complex app. Our initial code review told the company's management what they unfortunately already knew: the right thing to do was a full design of their product. This got them in that place where you don't want to be - needing a huge outlay of cash, planning and time to move forward. It's similar to the dilemma of how much work to put into repairing a used car vs. spending the money on a new one. These are tough discussions for a company to have. With this client, we ended up developing future plans for the new project, but meanwhile we are prioritizing small fixes to extend the current product lifecycle to bring in revenue for the company and for the future development. We really do love this client, but from years of going down the wrong development rabbit hole, they've put themselves in the position of being stuck in the middle with software not great enough to bring in enough money to justify future development and paradoxically needing more money to develop improved software. Everyone is doing what they can - stay tuned on this one.
Another case study of ours was on a potential project last year where they had a fully designed web site developed in India as a prototype and we were to "wire up" the backend, since all of their design was meant to display the data that our code would look up. This startup client had spent a lot of critical money and time on both the development of a database schema and their front-end design. In theory, this project could have been fine. But on our initial analysis we discovered that the web design and the database schema was completely unusable. This client had already been taken on a ride by their web developers. So when we bore the bad news that our strongest recommendation would be for them, us, everybody to start over (which obviously means more money to turn a brown field into a green one), they felt pot-committed and wanted to plow ahead with development with their current shaky foundation. It wasn't a crazy decision, it was based on limited resources (aka money) for this startup. We pulled out of the project; sometimes the smartest decisions we make here are about when to turn down a project. Still, we wish them luck.
Both of these examples show that time and money are the biggest factors into when and why going green field (starting anew with a clean slate) vs. brown field. We probably aren't breaking news here. That should be obvious.
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Filthy Rich premieres September 21, 2020 on FOX.
Season 1 Episode 9 is titled “Romans 12:21” Here is the synopsis from TV Guide: “The Monreaux family must use every resource at their disposal in the hunt for Antonio’s missing son, Jesus. Meanwhile, Jason finally comes clean about all of his deceptions and Margaret makes a huge discovery about the plane crash and her family’s history.”
Don’t miss Filthy Rich “Romans 12:21” airing Monday, November 23, 2020 at 9/8c on FOX.
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I cut up the nine rectangles on the patterned paper and layered four of them on some card stock. They fit perfectly in a little envelope I made using the Lawn Fawn Small Stitched Envelope. Once I adhered the layers, I stamped ‘Happy Valentine’s Day’ from the Crate Paper Main Squeeze set included in the Banana Split subscription on the back of the little card. The heart stamp on the front is also from the Main Squeeze set using Worn Lipstick distress ink. I used the little lips stickers to seal the little envelopes and there you have it… I hope the kids like them!
I made another Valentine’s card and you can check that out on my blog —> here.
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Getting to meet and interact with people from diverse cultures and different regions are certainly one of the biggest perks of being a journalist. People take time out for you, indulge you, talk, explain and often entertain you. You are not considered a hindrance and oft times are awarded warm welcomes. So when Dataquest decide to come out with an issue on emerging cities (later renamed as Future Cities) of India from the IT perspective, I was all excited. I got a great chance to visit cities like Kochi, Trivandrum, Nagpur and Vadodara. I met with people from different companies, from a scientist at BARC in Vadodara to VP from Lord Krishna Bank in Kochi to IT head at Haldiram in Nagpur.
Over a fortnight, I was travelling to all these cities and trying to create a true picture, finding out what makes the cities tick, what are the problems faced and what are the advantages that companies like Infosys, TCS or even IBM have from moving to cities like these. It was an enriching experience, as there was so much that I got to learn from so many people I met. Herein I am putting up the first three profiles of the places I visited. A small disclaimer; the pieces here might differ from the actual ones published due to numerous reasons like sharp editing or paucity of space. I would be putting up a post on my experiences in my personal blog (zewak.blogspot.com) soon enough. The three cities follow:
Kochi: Now the God’s have IT
The idyllic coastal township is set for big things, as now is banking on IT for them.
“Azim Premji is not only one of the richest Indian but also the toughest Indian to convince,” quips Girish Babu. He must know well because as the former CEO of Infopark, and COO of IT parks, Kerala; Babu was trying hard to convince Wipro to set up base in God’s own country. The sprawling Infopark had been operational in Kochi for year or two and a few entrepreneurs had taken space. But there could not be a better endorsement than Wipro and Babu was well aware of it.
Meanwhile, Wipro had also checked out Coimbatore and company officials were keen for a more developed and investor friendly Tamil Nadu over scenic but labor-issues ridden Kerala.
After much hard lobbying, Wipro set a condition; whichever state gives the company SEZ status first, will get the investment. Babu got cracking and within a day or two was ready with the letter and sent it across to the company. It was in September 2004 that Wipro acquired some 25 acres land and set up operations in the Infopark. “With Wipro much of the perception problem associated with Kerala was solved to a great extent and the gates were open for fresh new investments,” reminisces Babu.
Indeed post 2004, Kochi has literally donned new robes. A trip down the port city and one will be amazed at the frenetic activity all round; big billboards featuring Malayalam stars Mohanlal, Mamooty and even Hema Malini, lord over the cityscape. Newspapers are fully of adverts of upcoming luxurious residential projects all over. There is not a single global brand that would be missed at the malls lining the Marine Drive. Kochi, the commercial capital of Kerala, is shining bright much like the hundred of Alapatt and Alukkas gold showrooms spread all over.
A case of infrastructure
From back in the middle ages, Kochi had been a centre for trade and commerce. The port city had traders flocking in from Manchuria to Persia and beyond. It was a simmering pot of cultures and leisure, coaxing a Chinese traveler to comment that “If China is the place where you earn money, Kochi is the place to spend it”. When the Portuguese under the leadership of Vasco Da Gama were shunted out of Kozhikode (Calicut), they landed up in Kochi and set up the first European factory or trading post.
Post independence, Kochi lost the race for industrialization and the economy more or less stagnated even though the big companies were indeed present. “It was indeed ironical, as Cochin always was more progressive of the cities in all of Kerala. There was the prosperous port and refinery company and of course the Cochin Shipyard, the largest ship building facility in India. Yet the city did not much benefit from all these companies,” says MV Paul, deputy director (Systems), Cochin Port Trust.
Yet, Kochi maintains its lead in terms of physical infrastructure and can give any Tier II city a run for its money in terms of infrastructure. The city has a very reliable power supply, with close to 7 power stations in the vicinity feeding power to the city. There is also no shortage of water supply thanks to the Kadambariar river. And the best of all is the International Airport at Nedumbasserry, the first privately built airport in India. Today there are close to 450 landings every week at the airport and was the only airport in India where the Airbus A380 could land.
Close to the airport in Kakkanad, around 25 kms from the city centre, i.e., Ernakulam, are the upcoming IT hubs. The infrastructure is indeed mind-boggling, there are the broad 4-lanes roads and small landscaped gardens at the roundabouts and of course the imposing glass towers. Except for Infopark, there are new IT parks coming up from L&T, Leela, Muthoothu, and of course the SmartCity by a Dubai based conglomerate.
Little wonder, post Wipro, now TCS has also set up shop in the city. Infosys has agreed for investing in Technopark in Kerala and is also considering at some sort of investment in Kochi as well. According to a Nasscom report, Kochi is best suited for BPO, both voice and non-voice. Currently, ACS and Sutherland have big investment in the Infopark and the way they are expanding, the investment seems to be working. “Currently Kochi accounts for around Rs. 1000 crore of IT exports annually, it will overtake Trivandrum in sometime,” says Babu.
Kochi is only the city in the country that is the landing point for both SEA-ME-ME3 (it lands in Mumbai) and SAFE undersea cables that connect the country to rest of the globe. Also, gigabyte router of VSNL gateway lies in the vicinity. Because of this unique characteristic, Kochi is always connected, and also best suited for voice based services due to less loss of time due to latency.
“Kochi is the best city in terms of bandwidth connection, as around 80% of Indian traffic is routed through the VSNL gateway. We are very bullish about the prospect of the city and keen to develop IT across the state through the hub and spoke model, where small centres will mushroom around bigger ones like Kochi and Trivandrum,” concurs KR Jyothilal, special secretary, Department of IT, Kerala.
The genteel Malayalee
If that was not good enough to convince people, there is of course the amazing manpower story from Kerala, the first state that was cent percent literate. Kerala also has the distinction of having the largest pool of English speaking manpower and the highest density of IT professionals. The world may have painted a sordid and a combative picture of a Malayalee that is constantly waving the red flag of protest.
But the reality is much in contrast. Thanks to decades of working in other more developed markets in the UAE and US, the modern Malayalee has a more global outlook that any of his up country cousins. Not only is he (or she) well aware of market dynamics but quite willing to inculcate the values of the service industry. Visit any hotel in the city and you will understand the change. The hammer and sickle are best left to the politicians while every one else seems to be pursuing the good ol’ Gandhi or even Monsieur Washington.
As Kochi is just a few hours away from Bangalore, much of the Malayalee professionals that had shifted to the city due to lack of opportunity are quite willing to head back home. Babu talks of how companies in Kochi realized that they had more walk-ins when they advertised the job openings in Bangalore and Hyderabad rather than in Kochi itself. And thanks to the many colleges in the vicinity there is also the abundance of raw talent. “One should hire the employee for his aptitude and train him for his talent. The professionals of this city have the best aptitude, thanks to it being a commercial city that one can find in Kerala or even in South India” says S Venkataraman, deputy director, Lord Krishna Bank (now Centurion Bank).
While all may seem outwardly fine, there is indeed a lurking fear in the minds of players in Kochi about the future potential of the city, especially the flip-flop between the Congress and the Communist. While the government officials may argue that investment climate is not affected by change of governments. There does seem to be an ever-so-slight slowdown. Take the case of the SmartCity project, it was riled in controversy in Kerala, while both Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh were ready to offer concessions for the project to shift.
“Kochi has as good as a potential as Hyderabad or even Chennai. We have suffered because of lack of political will. Kerala had a head start over the others when we started with Technopark and yet we have lagged. It is a matter of leadership not ideology as even West Bengal is doing well even though it has been ruled by communists for decades. We are really praying for a good leader,” says Benley Noronha, managing director, Nortech Infonet.
For Ajith Brahmanandan, state information officer, NIC (Lakshwadweep), it is a matter of infrastructure and bad planning. “If you travel through the city of Kochi, especially through Ernakulam, what strikes one is the woe-full planning. In fact, there is no plan at all for the city even though it continues to burst at the seams with people and more people. The government really needs to pay attention to the basic infrastructure,” he says.
Jyothilal dismisses these concerns and terms them as teething troubles. “It is all perception. Even though the governments have kept changing, the policies have not deviated. Today the investment climate is independent of politics and everyone understands the value of IT. That is one of the reasons why the CM himself handles the IT portfolio. Even his son and so many other politicians children are working in the IT industry,” he states.
Whatever is the case of the political front. One thing is certain, Kochi is surely the place to be, if you are not already there. From the time Monsieur Da Gama landed (and subsequently died as well) in Kochi, the city has had a whole lots of firsts, be it the first territory to be colonized, the first state to join Indian dominion, the first to have a private airport, etc. the list just keeps going on. The idyllic backwaters, the scenic sea front and of course the innumerable getaways in close vicinity, makes Kochi a tempting place to shift. The reality market is really booming and everyday counts. After all if the one of richest man (supposedly the smartest as well) in India endorses the city, there is little that can really go wrong. Can it?
Nagpur: From Oranges to IT
Zeroing on the Zero Mile City of India
“What else can you get except oranges?” a friend of mine commented, before I set out for Nagpur. The “What else” really baffled me, indeed, come to think of it; there isn’t much that one associates the city with, except the citrus fruit.
With much apprehension, I landed at Dr. Ambedkar airport, only to find chaotic construction all around. There was much frenzy in the air and one could discern quite a few construction cranes in the foreground and the constant din that one associates with them. Five minutes out of the Airport and a first timer like me is bound to be taken aback by the physical infrastructure, the 4-lane concrete roads and the daunting flyovers. It is very unlike any Tier III (or even tier II) city that you will see in India. And that is biggest irony.
Nagpur, the second capital of Maharashtra is the largest city in central India. Located practically at the centre of India, India’s geographical centre (Zero Mile) passes through the city. Thus every distance in India is measured with Nagpur as the starting point. In fact, for quite sometime (to be precise, since the British times) there have been talks of making Nagpur the second capital of India due to its strategic location. Certainly, the infrastructure is worthy of a capital city.
The strength of infrastructure
According to a recent study conducted by UK-based estate consultants Knight Frank, among a host of other cities, Nagpur is ranked at number 1 in terms of physical infrastructure, at par with Chandigarh and ahead of other cities like Vishakapatinam, Jaipur, Kochi, Goa, and others. This is quite a vindication for a city that has largely been untouched by rapid economic developments made elsewhere in the country.
The city is also well connected both by road and railways to different parts of the country. In fact due to its location, Nagpur is the transit point for all the trains that connect the country lengthwise and breadth wise. The city is also connected by air to all the major airports and now even has international flights connecting the city globally. And if that was not enough, with the launch of Multi-modal International Hub Airport at Nagpur (MIHAN) in 2002-03, the city is truly become an important transit location not only nationally, but also for the sub-continent. But more on that later.
The city also had a robust power supply till quite recently. In fact, it had been a power surplus city before the government decided to divert the power to more economic zones like Mumbai and Pune. As of now, there are a couple of hours of planned load-shedding on a daily basis. The residents are agitating against the diversion of power; if they succeed Nagpur will indeed be power surplus again.
An Industrial hub
Spread over an area of 250 sq. km., Nagpur was one of the first cities in India that embraced industrialization. Way back in 1877, Tata’s started the country’s first textile mill, the Central India Spinning and Weaving Company Ltd., in Nagpur. Since then, the city has been the centre of commerce in the Vidarbha region and currently is a large trading centre for a number of commodities and services. A large number of industries are located in Butibori industial area that lies in vicinity of Nagpur. Similarly, there are quite many companies like Mahindra & Mahindra, NECO, Bajaj Auto, Vicco Laboratories, etc. are present in the Hingna industial estate on the western fringes of the city.
IT companies are also waking up to the potential offered by Nagpur, namely in terms of good infrastructure, abundant and cheap labor pool and of course the SEZs. Already a number of companies have taken up space in Nagpur, like Satyam Computer Services and L&T is setting up an Infocity.“Much of the IT business in Nagpur is driven by these companies. There are a few companies that are based in Nagpur and hence local players are benefited. Till few years back not many hardware vendors had a presence in Nagpur but that had changed dramatically. Today every company from IBM to HCL has a representative in the city. Even Microsoft has come here officially and grown by over 900% last year alone,” says Vinod Verma, CEO, Key Computers. “Also the fact that there is no other major city in 300-400 km radius helps the case of Nagpur,” he adds.
One of the major buyers in the region is Indian Air Force that is head-quartered in Nagpur and spends close to Rs. 2-3 crore annually on IT.
Nonetheless, every one in Nagpur seems to be talking of just one thing, MIHAN. Go to any software company or an IT vendor, or even some one who is not related to IT at all, he or she would not only know the complete details of MIHAN, but will also rattle of statistics to prove that it is indeed the best thing that could have happened to the city. Not surprisingly, after decades of neglect Nagpur has finally got a project that it deserves and that too the biggest infrastructure project in India.
Taking a chapter right out of China, the government of India is beefing up Nagpur as a major hub. So around the airport over 2000 hectares of land has been earmarked for the MIHAN project. The government agencies are ensuring that this project is of global quality, thus the construction is high grade and so are all the other amenities, right from bandwidth availability to medical facilities. Little wonder, major companies like Satyam Infotech, GE, DLF, Shapoorji Pallonji, L&T Infotech, Patni Computers and Microsoft have taken up large parcels of land in the SEZ within the project. And that is not all; TCS has also announced setting up of 5000-seater facility in Nagpur. Even MNCs like IBM and Dell has taken up space in Nagpur.
“MIHAN is going to completely change the face of the city. It has been the biggest thing to have happened and all of the players within the city as well as outside it are keenly awaiting its completion,” says Malathi Swaminath, managing director, Zeta Softech. An entrepreneur who set-up shop in Nagpur quite few years back, Swaminath is quite bullish about the prospects of the city and has even taken up space in the project.
Costing around Rs. 3500 per sq. feet, MIHAN does indeed make great sense, especially considering the facilities and the amenities that are provided. “MIHAN makes a lot of sense for sense for IT companies that want to set up shop in Nagpur in a big way. Not only is it cost-effective but as the colleges and residential area is in close proximity, there will not be a shortage of manpower to companies working out of it,” says Rakesh Agarwal, CEO, Mayur Computers.
A scientific hub
That brings us to another big plus point of Nagpur, its educational prowess. Over the years largely due to the presence of innumerable engineering government companies, Nagpur has emerged as a scientific and engineering hub. The city is the home to a number of national level scientific and governmental establishments like the National Environmental Engineering and Research Institute (NEERI), Central Institute of Cotton Research (CICR), National Research Centre for Citrus, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning (NBSS–LUP), Jawaharlal Nehru National Aluminium Research and Development Centre, the Indian Bureau of Mines, India’s Intellectual Property Training Institute, the National Academy of Direct Taxes, the Chief Controller of Explosives of the Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organisation, and the South Central Zone Cultural Centre in addition to a regional office of the Indian Meteorological Department.
The city also has several reputed engineering colleges like the Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Priyadarshini College of Engineering, Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering, Ramdeobaba Kamla Nehru Engineering College, Laxminarayan Institute of Technology (LIT), G.H. Raisoni College of Engineering, as well as several reputed public as well as private colleges like Dr. Ambedkar College and others. According to an industry player, VNIT has recently set up a nano-technology center in Nagpur, one of five in all of India.
“Nagpur biggest strength is its educational institutes. With around 18 engineering colleges in and around the city, there is a steady flow of workforce. The big problem was that till now there was not much opportunity for these people. But that is changing and as benefits from MIHAN and other projects percolate, Nagpur will see reverse brain drain. All the Nagpur citizens that had to leave the city earlier, will surely flock back,” says Chandrahas Chaudhari, technical head (Business Services), ADCC.
“At the very core Nagpur people are very nice and chilled out; they seldom like to settle down in other cities. Also they are very dedicated and the attrition rate is almost marginal,” adds Swaminath. She was born and raised in Mumbai and settled in Nagpur post marriage, but now prefers the city over the hustle-bustle of big metro like Mumbai.
“Nagpur has all the makings of an IT hub, but sadly it has not been the case. According to me the city is very well suited for high-end R&D and has one of the best engineering graduates that you can find anywhere in the country. The only problem is that it gets a tad to hot in the summers,” says AK Maji, director (Acting), NBSS-LUP.
For far too long Nagpur has been a victim of political machinations. The region (Vidharbha) has been wanting to separate from the state of Maharashtra, which does not want to let go because of the immense natural wealth (remember Chota-Nagpur mining belt). The city has dragged along almost valiantly, been relegated to secondary status within the state.
But all that seems to be changing now and those huge cranes near the airport are laboring towards a new morrow. Nagpur’s time seems to have come to reclaim its rightful position under the sun. So next time, someone asks you “what else” in context to Nagpur. Don’t dwell on it much and ask him to get a new perspective because very soon oranges will have to find a new place as all the orchards would be replaced by campuses and IDCs.
Vadodara: Rise of culture
Dewang Mehta and Sam Pitroda, the two people who single handedly changed the face of Indian IT and telecom, found their bearings in Vadodara
It is a common Indian practice to associate cities with individuals. And the more famous and more numerous celebrities a city can boast, the more it’s snob value. So MK Gandhi is intricately linked with Porbandar and Rabindranath Tagore is associated with Kolkatta, Dhirubhai Ambani with Jamnagar. In more contemporary context, Amitabh Bachchan and Allahabad go hand in hand, while Sachin Tendulkar represents Mumbai, so on.
Going by this logic, Baroda, or Vadodara, should be termed as cradle of Indian IT & telecom, as two of its denizens single handedly changed the face of Indian industry. The first one, Dewang Mehta (born in Umreth, on the border with Anand district) to Indian IT to the world and brought the world to Indian IT. The late president of Nasscom was the public face of Indian IT. Meanwhile, Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda or popularly known as Sam Pitroda found his bearings in Vadodara, while pursuing his Masters in Physics and Electronics from Maharaja Sayajirao University. The current chairman of Knowledge Commission and the CEO of C-SAM, is hailed as the father of the PCO and the precursor to telecom revolution.
Yet, the city of Vadodara has largely been untouched by the magic of technology. While the government over the years has actively promoted Surat, Ahemadabad and Gandhinagar; Vadodara has been largely ignored. Ask any citizen and he was look at you askance, no one really seems to have an answer as to why things went the way, they went.
It is quite baffling, considering that the city was at the very forefront of industrial revolution at the turn of the twentieth century. The first modern factory (Alembic Pharmaceuticals) was established in Vadodara in 1907 and subsequently companies like Sarabhai Chemicals, and Jyoti came up in the 1940s. Steadily over the years, Vadodara became a hub for chemicals and textile industry.
If that was not enough, in the late sixties, oil and gas companies made a beeline for Vadodara. Out of the blue, Vadodara was a host to companies like Gujarat Refinery, Indian Oil Corporation. Discovery of oil and gas in Ankleshwar led to rapid development of the city. Even ONGC and GAIL set up there centers in the outskirts of the city. Followed by the oil and gas majors, fertilizers and chemical major like Gujarat State Fertilisers & Chemicals (GSFC), Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited (IPCL, Reliance) and Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Limited (GACL) also set up shop in the region. By the eighties, the city was brimming with activity, and there was a vibrant SMB sector.
That was before the recession set in. Over the next many years, the city stuck by economic gloom. As the whole Gujarat state went downhill on the economic parameters, so did Vadodara. In the nineties, the situation was so bad that a lot of the SMBs had to shut shop or ship out. That was quite the case till the Modi government came in power in the State after which much of the recession was arrested and subsequently reversed. While Vadodara might not have gained from the boom, it certainly did not stagnate.
From industry to IT
The tide might be turning, or at least there are some signs that it could. There has been an awakening of sorts in regards to the use of IT. Pharma and oil majors had driven much of IT adoption in Vadodara, as they happen to be big users of IT. But much of this equipment is either sourced directly from the computer vendors, for instance, ONGC extensively uses Silicon Graphic machines, thus the local channel community is not really benefited. Of course the servicing and the peripherals industry is flourishing in the city.
Many companies are now keen to exploit the vast talent pool that is available in the city. In a recent report released by CII, “Vadodara: Knowledge City”, stated that the city is attracting a large number of investors to create infrastructure for IT and related companies. “Vadodara has a great potential to develop as an IT hub on account of its large English-speaking population and low cost of living. There are at least three IT parks coming up in Vadodara district. We are also considering to offer land of Gujarat Communications & Electronics and another 17 acre site of defunct Priyalakshmi Mill in the heart of the city,” said Raj Kumar, secretary, department of science and technology of government of Gujarat and MD of Gujarat Informatics. According to him, large presence of IT parks and big banners of IT industry would be visible in the next couple of years in the city.
While L&T plans to come up with an IT zone near Vadodara, many more IT parks are also in the offing, in fact Nipium Infotech is planning IT park in association with the Singapore government at the cost of around Rs. 500 crore and is waiting for an approval. There have also been reports that HCL intend to set up operation around the city. Even Pitroda’s C-SAM has a development center in Vadodara.
“Vadodara is fast emerging as a favored destination for companies looking for cost-effective operations and trained manpower. Vadodara might now have highly skilled people available as of now, but that is bound to change as more and more firms set up operations here,” said Yogesh Thakkar, CEO, Rhythm Electronics – one of the leading channel players in the city.
Over a dozen new IT and BPO companies have started operations in the city over the last many years. MNCs are also entering the city through the M&A route, CSC recently acquired local player CSC that provides high-end BPO services from Vadodara center. There is also InteQ IT Services India that operates out of Vadodara and provides RIM services to US clients.
Much of the companies that operate out of Vadodara are 300-500 seaters. Though the biggies are coming in the small way, as of now, TCS has a 200-seater facility in Vadodara, set up especially to work with Gujarat State Electricity Board. “There are a few call centers in city like Fortune Infonet and others. Slowly and steadily Vadodara is catching up as an investment destination. When Dewang Mehta was alive he used to push the city. Sadly after his death, there was not much action,” says Nilesh Kuvadia, CEO, IT Consultancy Group. Kuvadia is also a member of the Baroda Information Technology Group (BITG). BITG currently has around 350 members and has been active for the last 9 years.
A computer savvy city
Like any other smaller city, the biggest asset of Vadodara is the workforce. Thanks to the numerous colleges like Sardar Patel University, Sigma Institute of Management Studies, Parul Institute of Engineering and Technology, and of course MS University, ensures there is a steady stream of well-educated youth flowing into the marketplace year-after-year. “Vadodara’s biggest strength is its well-educated talent pool from the only English-medium University of the state and growing private sector educational institutions. The quality of education is as good as those available at high-tech institutes like IIT Roorkee,” says Indranil Deb, manager (Program), ONGC.
Deb also vouches for the high computer literacy in Vadodara. “The people are very computer savvy and you can find even small-time chemists doing their accountancy on computers. Even in the late 80s, there were students here that were taking up courses on C and C++. The product of Vadodara is as good as any other that you will find in the country,” he states. Currently ONGC operates a high-end Virtual Reality center in Vadodara.
Naresh Kumar Garg, senior scientific officer, BARC, also underscores the same point. “To be honest, over the last many years a lot of amazing work has been done on the e-governance front, especially the computerization of land records. This has led to high computer literacy. Personally, the way Vadodara Municipal Corporation has also gone in for automation is a feat by itself,” he says.
“This city is a heaven for outsiders as the culture is very cosmopolitan, yet not really commercial. I have been in this city for the past 19 years, and cannot think of anywhere else that I rather be,” adds Garg.
Indebted to his highness
Vadodara has a nickname, Sayaji Nagari, it is quite an apt one. Any discussion on Vadodara cannot be completed without mentioning the name of former ruler of the state, Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III, who ruled the state from 1881 to 1939. The visionary ruler is responsible for all that Vadodara has to offer, even today. He was a reformist, and on assuming the power, made primary education free and compulsory, banned child marriages, encouraged fine arts, among other achievements. Maharaja founded Bank of Baroda in 1908 and also University of Vadodara, aptly named after him. To get a glimpse of the amazing personality, visit the Maharaja Fatesingh Musuem, located in the Laxmi Vilas Palace Compound and houses one of the best personal art collection in all of India.
“The Maharaja was so ahead of his time that he had created a man-made reservoir in Ajwa that would take care of the water needs of the city for the next 2 centuries and it is very much doing so,” says Deb.
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Oh dear, there was an accident and now there’s Bashir/Garak everywhere.
Doodle in the top-left: Bashir has obviously brought Garak a book in which everybody lies and assassinates each other and those who aren’t assassinated lie about even existing or something. It is the most romantic book in history.
Doodle in the bottom-left: Screenshot redraw in a way. Just for practicing this cardassian design!
Doodle on the right: Bashir in a skant uniform because why not? I feel like he would wear one. A uniform exists that can show off more of his physical assets and potentially attract people, he’d be there. I don’t think Garak is going for it though, it’s offending his fashion senses with its dull unimaginative cut.
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I think starting a blog has created a monster. Yep all night at work I couldn't wait to get home(forgot my laptop) so that I could type something on my new and exciting blog. But wait, what will I post about when I get there? I didn't reallty think that far into it when I signed up for my very own site. I want to do this every single free moment, does my family & friends really care what I ramble on about on some silly blog? No not likely after all I did say in my first post that I wanted this blog to be a way for them to keep up with what was going on in our lives...and this really isn't our lives it is more like what is going on inside my head. which can get pretty crazy sometimes. anyway I was thinking all night "what ever could I post about...my crankyness at work tonight, well there is this...no that wont due. I don't want to think about it much less let someone read about it. Or what about my routine...when i get home i make sure the girls get on the bus...No not that either. Oh how 'bout Mom and dad living here on my little farm (maybe another day) Well then how about birthdays...today is a friend of ours birthday. This has stirred something inside my heart and it is really bugging me... he isn't making a fuss about it and I get it some people don't. BUT why not? Birthdays are great it is your one day. one day a year that says this is the day God wanted me here and I am going to celebrate it to its fullest. Still no matter how much I try to get people to see this there are still those out there that would rather just let their day go by unnoticed(Stephen too) :( I am the kind of girl who would totally get along with the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland. Celebrating even the "UNbirthday" Not that I'm such a party girl or anything(Lord knows I don't have that kind of time) but come on it's your birthday for crying out loud, live it up and have a little fun for 1 day (and the other 364 days of the year you can go on doing whatever it is you want to do) Celebrate even if your scheduled to work, plan something...anything.
Well so you got a taste of the random stuff that hangs out in my head...Hope you can continue your day with out thinking I am a "special" kind of crazy. Have a great day, check back often to see what all pops into my head and onto a blog page. ha ha I love writing for no reason. (bad punctuation and all) Oh and HAPPY BIRTHDAY JASON! | <urn:uuid:63fac638-6388-428e-a1a7-bdec9c235178> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://tlcsrandomlife.blogspot.com/2011/01/hurry-home-to-post-blog-entry.html | 2017-06-25T01:51:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320386.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625013851-20170625033851-00041.warc.gz | en | 0.978902 | 574 |
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.Melody Beattie
I just kind of opened up and said, 'I feel like a rag doll. I have hair and makeup people coming to my house every day and putting me in new, uncomfortable, weird dresses and expensive shoes, and I just shut down and raise my arms up for them to get the dress on, and pout my lips when they need to put the lipstick on.'Jennifer Lawrence
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Is Amazon building a smartphone to take on Apple? A new report has re-awakened speculation and set the tech world abuzz.
A story Friday from Bloomberg News relies on a pair of unidentified sources, who say that Amazon is working with the Chinese company Foxconn to produce the device. The story adds that the company is scooping up wireless technology patents in a bid to ward off copyright infringement issues.
The popularity of Amazon’s Kindle Fire, a tablet e-reader that delivers content through the company’s Prime service (not available in Canada), had earlier sparked rumours Amazon would dive into the smartphone market. But although the idea is not new its latest appearance caused a flurry of comment and speculation.
“This Kindle Phone is all just a rumor at this point,” noted Shaylin Clark at WebProNews. “Nevertheless it’s a logical move for Amazon. The mammoth online retailer has a thriving content ecosystem already in place. That ecosystem has been a major contributing factor to the success of the Kindle Fire, and would give any Amazon smartphone a definite boost.”
Others have been more critical.
Gizmodo pointed to the Bloomberg article, but in doing so also linked to an earlier column by Sam Biddle. In it, he argued strongly that Amazon should not make a Kindle phone, saying that the tablet’s strengths – simplicity, acting as a conduit for the “huge, rich library of media” delivered via Amazon Prime and being “nice to hold” – are too basic to work as a phone.
“A Kindle phone would pretty much kick all of these lovely qualities down a gulch,” he wrote. “A smartphone, by definition, needs to be way more than the Fire defines itself as.”
And some pundits were already looking past such an announcement, even though Amazon has refused to comment.
Devindra Hardawar called it “not surprising” that Amazon would want to get into the smartphone market. But, as he wrote at VentureBeat, he didn’t think they’d stop there and ultimately would start reselling wireless data services as well.
“Given just how well the Kindle Fire has done, as well as the clear need for a simple prepaid wireless service in the mobile world, an Amazon phone all of a sudden becomes a much more interesting prospect,” he wrote.Report Typo/Error
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Cisco introduced AppHQ, an application ecosystem built specifically to help enterprise users create, manage and deploy applications for its Cius tablet.And this is the second step in the formula for offering a place for developers to create, test and market applications for Cisco’s tablet. Companies will be able to create their own private app stores for employees who use the Cius and the platform also allows IT managers to control which applications can be used on the device……….
Cisco introduced AppHQ, n application ecosystem built specifically for Cisco Cius that provides new ways to create, manage and rapidly deploy tablet applications in the enterprise. Cisco Cius, an Android-based tablet created for the enterprise, combines voice, video, collaboration and virtualization capabilities unlike any other tablet on the market today. With Cisco Cius, organizations can now deliver an optimized tablet with enterprise-grade security, as a natural extension of the enterprise network. The device provides customers with mobility, centralized manageability, virtual content creation and computing capabilities, and a comprehensive suite of collaboration applications. AppHQ provides developers with tools and resources to create, test and market applications for Cisco Cius and allows IT managers to control which applications can be used on the devices. Additionally, companies can create private, custom-branded application storefronts for their organizations where employees can find, publish and procure applications that complement their business environments.
During a series of media events hosted today, Cisco highlighted that CDW, Nervecentre Software, Nottingham University Hospitals, Palomar Pomerado Health, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and Verizon are among customers using Cisco Cius to help employees remove barriers to mobile productivity in the office, around campus, at home or on the road. The AppHQ ecosystem will include Cisco selected, industry-leading business and consumer applications that deeply integrate Cisco collaboration capabilities, as well as validated business-to-business and business-to-consumer applications from developer partners. Cisco will continue to add applications to AppHQ based on customer requirements. IT managers can also select from approximately 200,000 applications in the Android Marketplace. Cisco AppHQ is a highly secure, cloud-based user storefront that provides capabilities for end users and IT managers not found in other application stores today. Some of these capabilities include:
- Testing and validation:IT managers want to know that applications deployed in their environment are appropriate for the enterprise. Cisco AppHQ provides IT managers and users with a “trusted source” for applications, ensuring that every application within AppHQ goes through Cisco validation testing, whether developed by Cisco, third-party Android developer partners, or users within the enterprise. The validation process includes interoperability testing both for the application itself and in typical configurations within the device.
- Store-within-a-Store: Enterprises will have a Cisco hosted, highly-secure and private application store within AppHQ. Businesses can customize the storefront, following their corporate branding guidelines, including use of logos, icons and color schemes. Beyond customization, the store-within-a-store is a platform that customers can use to deploy applications efficiently in their organizations. For example, a financial services company could deploy applications pertaining to their back office operations, such as human resources or payroll apps, and populate those applications on the devices of relevant employees.
- Empowers IT management:With AppHQ Manager, IT will have the ability to allow (or deny) access to application marketplaces by user role or device and to grant (or deny) access to applications by type, source or category. This unique capability will let IT organizations balance the individual freedom of users with the enterprise-class policies on security and cost efficiency.
Cisco AppHQ offers a user-friendly interface to find and install applications and a platform for user feedback about applications. End users can find information about an application, such as the publisher and release date, and install or update apps and even sort by category, such as most popular or new. Cisco Cius offers integrated access to the comprehensive suite of Cisco Collaboration applications, including Cisco WebEx meeting applications, Cisco Quad social software, Cisco Jabber messaging and Cisco TelePresence. Cisco Cius is scheduled for global availability on July 31, 2011. The estimated street price is below $750 USD and Cisco has made available a new promotion called Triple V (for Voice, Video and Virtualization) that could enable further price reductions below $700 USD. Pricing may vary by country. Basic access to Cisco AppHQ is included with every Cisco Cius device. With Cisco Cius, customers benefit from enterprise-class warranty and support with a single number to call. If necessary, a replacement can be obtained in 24 hours. There are also one, two and three-year warranty options from Cisco Services available, which follow an enterprise customer model. | <urn:uuid:0574301d-cd77-41d9-b6fe-598df6b44507> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://thetechjournal.com/electronics/computer/software/cisco-introduced-apphq.xhtml | 2022-01-17T16:41:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320300574.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20220117151834-20220117181834-00595.warc.gz | en | 0.926619 | 984 |
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It’s here! Our sexiest lashes yet… The Midnight Collection! This collection was inspired by those who only enjoy drama in their lashes. ;) This collection is unlike any of our other collections. It is fierce, bold, and unforgettable. Perfect for those nights where you want to be a little extra and in the lime light, because we all deserve nights like that! These occasions include a sexy date night, Vegas nights, girl’s night out, birthdays, holiday parties, etc. All lashes are designed to wow with the long lengths, envious volume and flare for days. We offer 3 different styles: I See You Boo, About Last Night & Make Him Miss Me – fun names for fun occasions! Here’s a little makeup inspiration for all the sexy and bold out there!
I SEE YOU BOO LASHESArtist: Lee Sondra Berovides
Lee Sondra wows us in our "I See You Boo" lashes! This look is letting the eyes speak for themselves. Neutral tones used are not over powering the eyes and are really letting the lashes do it's job - and what a phenomenal job they're doing! ;)
Artist: Risa Flashner
YouTube: Risa Does Makeup
Risa looks stunning in our "I See You Boo" lashes! Talk about the perfect lips and lashes combo - what a knockout! Warm tones around the eyes with a nude eyeliner gives a nice open eye look paired with a beautiful nude gloss.
Aritist: Anna Szwoch
Smokey purple hues paired with our "I See You Boo" lashes are intensely stunning on Anna! We love the monochromatic tones of purple with mattes and shimmer, this look is definitely a show-stopper!
ABOUT LAST NIGHT LASHES Artist: Jereca Balzano
Jereca is all the way fierce with our lashes in "About Last Night" paired with stunning gray lips! This look is for the bold and fearless - we totally are obsessing over these colors she used!
Artist: Christine Lo
The perfect fall glam with our lashes in "About Last Night"! This glam is stunning for any holiday parties & night out on the town - classy yet super sexy!
Artist: Ashley Kaya
We are loving these warm-peachy tones on Ashley! Her eyes are sparkling in our lashes in "About Last Night" leaving us mesmerized!
Make Him Miss Me
Artist: Joanna Vongphoumy
YouTube: Joanna Vongphoumy
Wow! Cat-eye cut crease! Joanna captivates in this cool tone bold glam. You have to have some sass for this glam and Joanna totally owns this look all the way!
Artist: Lauren Tukuafu
This is giving us some serious holiday vibes! Lauren is gorgeous in our "Make Him Miss Me' lashes pairng it with beautiful ombre holiday lips!
Artist: Ashley Kaya
Ashley is so talented meshing the cool and warm tones in this divine look wearing our lashes in style "Make Him Miss Me" - loving the pop of teal to seal the deal!
Which is your favorite lash style? Let us know by leaving us a comment below!
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Android Studio is the official IDE (Integrated Development
Environment) for Android app development and it is based on JetBrains’
IntelliJ IDEA software. Android Studio provides many excellent features
that enhance productivity when building Android apps, such as:
•A blended environment where one can develop for all Android devices
•Apply Changes to push code and resource changes to the running app
without restarting the app
•A flexible Gradle-based build system
•A fast and feature-rich emulator
•GitHub and Code template integration to assist you to develop common
app features and import sample code
•Extensive testing tools and frameworks
•C++ and NDK support
•Built-in support for Google Cloud Platform, making it easy to integrate
Google Cloud Messaging and App Engine, and many more.
•Provides GUI tools that simplify the less interesting parts of app
•Easy integration with real time database ‘firebase’.
•Microsoft Windows 7/8/10 (32-bit or 64-bit)
•4 GB RAM minimum, 8 GB RAM recommended (plus 1
GB for the Android Emulator)
•2 GB of available disk space minimum, 4 GB
recommended (500 MB for IDE plus 1.5 GB for Android
SDK and emulator system image)
•1280 x 800 minimum screen resolution
step 1: head over to this link to get the android studio executable or zip file.
Step 2: click on the download android studio BUTTON.
Click on the “I have read and agree with the above terms and conditions”
checkbox followed by the download button.
Click on the save file button in the appeared prompt box and the file will start
Step 3: after the downloading has finished, open the file from downloads and run
it. It will prompt the following dialog box
Click on next. In the next prompt, it’ll ask for a path for installation. Choose a path
and hit next.
Step 4: it will start the installation, and once it is completed, it will be like the
image shown below.
Click on next.
Step 5: Once “Finish” is clicked, it will ask whether the previous settings need to
be imported [if the android studio had been installed earlier], or not. It is better to
choose the ‘Don’t import Settings option’.
Step 7: After it has found the SDK
components, it will redirect to the Welcome
Choose Standard and click on Next. Now choose the theme, whether
the Light theme or the Dark one. The light one is called
the IntelliJ theme whereas the dark theme is called Dracula. Choose as
Click on the Next button.
The Android Studio has been successfully configured. Now it’s time to launch and
build apps. Click on the Finish button to launch it.
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Today, we’re talking about World Liver Day 2023, which is on April 19th. It’s all about understanding how essential our liver is to our health. We’ll learn how to keep our livers healthy and stay away from diseases. But how?
Just follow the steps in this guide to keep your liver healthy. What’s steps? Let us explain to you! In this article, we’ll discuss six crucial points, such as how to recognize liver cancer and how to live a healthy life in a simple and detailed manner.
Let’s get started!
The Role of Liver in Our Body:
The liver is like a super worker in our body, doing more than 500 important jobs. It helps in breaking down food, protecting us from germs, and getting rid of unwanted stuff in our body. Imagine it as a really busy place inside you, taking care of things like making energy and keeping us safe from sickness. It’s great at cleaning out harmful substances, too. When our liver is healthy, our whole body works better. This means we digest our food well and feel good overall.
What Affects Liver Health So Badly?
Infections, too much fat, and some medications can harm your liver. More people are having liver problems because of drugs these days. To keep your liver safe, it’s good to know about these risks. It’s important to know how to stay away from them. It’s also helpful to know how things like what you eat and how much you move matter to your liver. There are better ways to live that are good for our livers, and we can learn about this.
Now the next section will be very crucial; let’s move forward to this!
How do I identify liver disease?
Liver disease can be tricky because sometimes it doesn’t show signs until it’s pretty serious. But there are some clues to look out for, like not feeling hungry, feeling sick to your stomach, and feeling really tired for no reason. It’s really important to notice these early signs. If the liver disease gets worse, you might see your skin turning yellow (this is called jaundice), feel itchy skin, or notice your legs swelling up. Going for regular health checks can help find these problems early on, which makes treating them easier.
What’s the Link Between Skin and Liver Health?
Did you know that skin problems like acne might be a sign of liver issues? If your liver has trouble getting rid of toxins, they can pile up in your body and affect your skin. If you keep having skin problems, it’s a good idea to check if your liver is okay. Finding and treating liver problems early can stop them from getting worse. It can also help keep your skin clear and healthy.
Now a question arises: “What’s the common disease for liver problems?” Here’s a quick answer:
Jaundice and Fatty Liver:
Jaundice is a common liver problem that makes your skin and eyes turn yellow. It usually begins in the face and can spread, showing there’s a big problem with the liver. Another issue is fatty liver, which means too much fat has built up in the liver. Often, it doesn’t show any signs, but it can hurt the liver if it’s not taken care of. It’s very important to spot these problems early so they can be treated well and keep you healthy.
How Do You Maintain Your Liver Health?
Keeping your liver healthy is easier than you might think. Start with regular health check-ups. Eating a balanced diet, exercising regularly, and staying away from bad things like too much alcohol can really help. In addition to taking care of your liver, these good habits will also make your whole body feel better.
At last, if you want to live a good life, you need to know about and take care of your liver. Now that it’s World Liver Day, you should start living in a way that’s good for your liver and make sure you get checked often. If we notice any liver problems early and live healthily, we can keep our livers working well. Eating right, staying active, and avoiding bad habits like drinking too much alcohol are key. When our liver is healthy, our whole body feels better. So, let’s promise to take better care of our liver. In this way, we can be happy and healthy. Remember that having a healthy liver will make you healthier overall | <urn:uuid:dcffcba4-3456-45c4-bb46-86adc1cf6b72> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://onlinenews.ae/2023-world-liver-day-how-to-keep-a-healthy-liver/ | 2024-02-24T11:57:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474533.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20240224112548-20240224142548-00610.warc.gz | en | 0.946204 | 960 |
The PROMASTER MD Clamp works with the 3685 MD Plate as well as all ProMaster XC-M tripods (every XC-M has an MD plate factory-installed on its yoke).
MD stands for Mini Dovetail. It allows for quick attachment of photographic accessories. The clamp itself has a common 3/8"-16 threaded port allowing it to be connected to accessories like a flex arm, articulated arm, and more. A 1/4"-20 threaded adapter is also included with this clamp.
If you own an XC-M tripod you can connect the MD clamp to its yoke in just seconds. Perhaps you have a Flex Arm pre-attached to the MC clamp and an LED light attached to the other end of the arm. Maybe you are taking macro shots on an overcast day and you want to use a light to add some flair to the photograph. Just connect your MD clamp to the XC-M tripod and use the flex arm to place the LED light in the perfect position. Now you can operate your camera while the light remains in place. When you're finished, it takes just seconds to disconnect.
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Comprehensive planning is a process that determines community goals and aspirations in terms of community development. The outcome of comprehensive planning is the Comprehensive Plan which dictates public policy in terms of transportation, utilities, land use, recreation, and housing. Comprehensive plans typically encompass large geographical areas, a broad range of topics, and cover a long-term time horizon. The term comprehensive planning is most often used by urban planners in the United States.
In Canada, comprehensive planning is generally known as strategic planning or visioning. It is usually accompanied by public consultation. When cities and municipalities engage in comprehensive planning the resulting document is known as an Official Community Plan or OCP for short. (In Alberta, the resultant document is referred to as a Municipal Development Plan.
During the earliest times of American history, cities had little power given to them by State governments to control land use. After the American Revolution, the focus on property rights turned to self-rule and personal freedom, as this was a time of very strong personal property rights. Local governments had simple powers which included maintaining law and order and providing basic services. Cities had little power, if any at all, to direct development in the city.
Cities began to focus on the provision of basic services during the 1840s at a time known as the Sanitary Reform Movement. During this time it became clear that there was a strong relationship between disease and the availability of a quality sewer system. Part of the movement included the development of sanitary survey planning to help bring sewer systems to infected parts of cities. From this planning also developed a new consciousness of townsite location. People began to understand the environmental and social impacts of building cities and developed ways in which to further lower the spread of deadly diseases. Frederick Law Olmsted was a firm believer in the relationship between the physical environment and sanitation, which helped lead to the development of grand parks and open spaces in communities to bring not only recreation, but sanitation as well. The Sanitary Reform Movement is seen by many as the first attempt at comprehensive planning, however it failed to be completely comprehensive because it focused on only one aspect of the city and did not consider the city as a whole.
During the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, cities began to urbanize at very high rates. Cities became very dense and full of disease. As a response to the over population and chaotic conditions, planning became a major focus of many large American cities. The City Beautiful movement was one of the many responses to the decaying city. The movement began in Chicago in 1890 with the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 and lasted until about the 1920s. The focus on the movement was the design and architectural characteristics of the city. Leaders of the movement wanted to push the vision of the ideal city, and demonstrate to the world what cities could look like if they were created to be works of art. The White City was created for the exposition which embodied the visions of the movement with neoclassical designed buildings set against landscaped streets. Visitors to the exhibition began to realize that cities could be much more than dirty, overcrowded places. The movement spread across the United States and influenced many major American cities.
In 1898, Ebenezer Howard published his book entitled "Tomorrow, a Peaceful Path to Reform," in which he developed the idea of a Garden City. This city was a planned development which included different land uses and community services. The communities were to be surrounded by a green belt and included many open spaces and parks within the city. These cities were designed to be completely self-sufficient and focused on decreasing the negative impacts traditional cities had on people's lives. Although these cities were considered to be utopian ideas, two cities were eventually built in this vision, Letchworth and Welwyn, England. The vision of Ebenezer Howard greatly impacted the idea of city planning in the United States for decades and helped in the development of the idea that cities must be planning comprehensively for growth.
After the turn of the Twentieth Century, American cities began to see the need for local development and growth plans. Influential in this planning was Daniel Hudson Burnham who re-created the city plan for Washington, D.C. created by Pierre Charles L'Enfant in 1791. The original plan called for grid iron laid streets crossed by diagonal boulevards, squares, plazas, parks, monuments, and sculptures. However, over time this plan was largely ignored and the city had developed against L'Enfant's vision. Burnham was instrumental in recreating the city plan and helping to return the city to its once intended form. In 1903, Burnham helped create the city growth plan for the city of Cleveland, Ohio and in 1906 he created the city plan for San Francisco, California. Although these were all city development plans, it was not until 1909 when Burnham created the city plan for Chicago that his plans were comprehensive. The plan of Chicago is known today as the first comprehensive plan and it began a movement of comprehensive planning that emphasized planning as a way to not only make cities more beautiful, but to function better as well.
Comprehensive planning process
Comprehensive Planning typically follows a planning process that consists of eight different steps. By following this process, planners are able to determine a wide range of interconnecting issues that affect an urban area. Each step can be seen as interdependent and many times planners will revise the order to best fit their needs.
The planner must first address the issue they are investigating. "To be relevant, the planning process must identify and address not only contemporary issues of concern to residents, workers, property owners, and business people, but also the emerging issues that will be important in the future." Generally, planners determine community issues by involving various community leaders, community organizations, and ordinary citizens.
Once issues have been identified by a community, goals can then be established. Goals are community visions. They establish priorities for communities and help community leaders make future decisions which will affect the city. Stating goals is not always an easy process and it requires the active participation of all people in the community.
Data is needed in the planning process in order to evaluate current city conditions as well as to predict future conditions. Data is most easily collected from the United States Census Bureau, however many communities actively collect their own data. The most typical data collected for a comprehensive plan include data about the environment, traffic conditions, economic conditions, social conditions (such as population and income), public services and utilities, and land use conditions (such as housing and zoning). Once this data is collected it is analyzed and studied. Outcomes of the data collection process include population projections, economic condition forecasts, and future housing needs.
Preparing the plan
The plan is prepared using the information gathered during the data collection and goal setting stages. A typical comprehensive plan begins by giving a brief background of the current and future conditions found in the data collection step. Following the background information are the community goals and the plans that will be used in order to implement those goals into the community. Plans may also contain separate sections for important issues such as transportation or housing which follow the same standard format.
Creating implementation plans
During this stage of the process different programs are thought of in order to implement the goals of the plan. These plans focus on issues such as cost and effectiveness. It is possible that a variety of plans will result from this process in order to realize one goal. These different plans are known as alternatives.
Each alternative should be evaluated by community leaders to ensure the most efficient and cost-effective way to realize the community's goals. During this stage each alternative should be weighed given its potential positive and negative effects, impacts on the community, and impacts on the city government. One alternative should be chosen that best meets the needs and desires of the community and community leaders for meeting the community goals.
Adopting a plan
The community needs to adopt the plan as an official statement of policy in order for it to take effect. This is usually done by the City Council and through public hearings. The City Council may choose not to adopt the plan, which would require planners to refine the work they did during previous steps. Once the plan is accepted by city officials it is then a legal statement of community policy in regards to future development.
Implementing and monitoring the plan
Using the implementation plans defined in the earlier stages, the city will carry out the goals in the comprehensive plan. City planning staff monitor the outcomes of the plan and may propose future changes if the results are not desired.
A comprehensive plan is not a permanent document. It can be changed and rewritten over time. For many fast growing communities, it is necessary to revise or update the comprehensive plan every five to ten years. In order for the comprehensive plan to be relevant to the community it must remain current.
The basis for comprehensive planning comes from the government's ability to protect the health and welfare of its citizens. The power for local governments to plan generally comes from state planning enabling legislation; however, local governments in most states are not required by law to engage in comprehensive planning. State statutes usually provide the legal framework necessary for those communities choosing to participate while allowing others to disengage themselves with the process. The legal provision for comprehensive planning comes from what is called the Standard State Zoning Enabling Act which was written by the United States Department of Commerce in the 1920s. This act was never passed by the United States Congress but was rather a law written for state legislatures to willingly adopt. Many states did choose to adopt the act which provided local governments with the framework to engage in land use planning. Because the act never gave a clear definition for comprehensive planning, the Department of Commerce wrote another act, the Standard City Planning Enabling Act of 1928, which defined more precisely what a comprehensive plan is and how it should be used.
In states that do not require local governments to plan comprehensively, state governments usually provide many incentives to encourage the process at the local level. In Georgia, for example, the state government gives many incentives to local governments to establish comprehensive plans to guide development. Today, almost every county in Georgia has established a plan voluntarily.
However, a comprehensive plan is not usually legally binding. A community's ordinances must be amended in order to legally implement the provisions required to execute the comprehensive plan.
- Anderson, Larz. (1995) Guidelines for Preparing Urban Plans Chicago: APA Planners Press.
- Campbell, Scott and Fainstein, Susan. (2003) "Readings in Planning Theory". Malden, Ma: Blackwell Publishing
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Over the next few days, the media will dutifully repeat the lies of the organizers of the latest attempt to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza. They will tell you that the Mariam is just a ship full of simple women who want peace, who are bringing much-needed medications and humanitarian supplies from Lebanon to Gaza. They will call the women “activists” and repeat their insistence that they have no connection to Hezballah whatsoever.
They will be lying.
The man who is funding the boats, Yasser Kashlak, is actively anti-Israel and does not believe in a two-state solution. The woman leading the Mariam is the wife of one of Rafik Harriri’s assassins who has close ties to Hassan Nasrallah. Their ties to Hezballah are numerous. Hezballah refused to allow a Lebanese pop star to join the women’s boat, saying she was too immodest for their tastes. (Of course they are now denying that they refused her permission, saying it’s Israeli propaganda.)
Kashlak wrote the following to Nasrallah last year:
“In the name of the Palestinian people… we stress that we are taking the path of resistance. Their campaigns will do no good, and history and geography will not lie. We ask Allah to extend your life and the lives of all who support Palestine and the noble resistance.”
And he said this:
Meanwhile, Yasser Kashlak, a Syrian businessman of Palestinian descent who heads the “Free Palestine Organization†and is funding this boat, as well as another that is to carry journalists and parliamentarians, said over the weekend on Hizbullah’s al-Manar television station that he was more and more optimistic that one day these same boats would take “Europe’s refuse [the Jews] that came to my homeland back to their homelands.”
Such a peaceful man. He also said this:
“Gilad Schalit should go back to Paris and those murderers go back to Poland, and after that we will chase them until the ends of the earth to bring them to justice for their acts of slaughter from Deir Yassin until today.†Kashlak, a fervent Hizbullah supporter, called Israel a “rabid dog sent to the region to frighten the Arabs. He said he had a message for Israelis: ‘Get on the ships we are sending you and go back to your lands. Don’t let the moderate Arab leaders delude you, [you] cannot make peace with us. Our children will return to Palestine, you have no reason for coexistence. Even if our leaders will sign a peace agreement, we will not sign.’â€
My prediction: This is what the world media will report when they mention Kashlak’s bonafides:
He said the boat carrying journalists and parliamentarians will carry 12 former American diplomats as well.
If you doubt me, take a look at this article in the Australian, which is one of the few outlets to carry quotes from the Mariam’s organizer. Compare and contrast it with the JPost article. I won’t call it a whitewash, but it doesn’t seem to have gone very deeply into the background of the organizer. The AP article? Well, there isn’t one yet. That one, I suspect, will be a whitewash. But make no mistake: Hezballah is behind the Lebanese flotilla. | <urn:uuid:27c72aa2-34e1-450a-b322-9647b8aa9faa> | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | http://www.yourish.com/2010/06/20/11288 | 2017-12-12T06:16:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948515309.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20171212060515-20171212080515-00145.warc.gz | en | 0.956827 | 766 |
Man's body found in woods behind Thomaston Dunkin' Donuts, police say
Maine State Police detectives are investigating a body of a man found in the woods in Thomaston.
Officials said the body was found behind the Dunkin' Donuts on Route 1 at about 10 a.m. Wednesday.
Investigators believe the body has been there for several months.
They do not believe the person is from Knox County.
Police said the body was badly decomposed and will be taken to the State Medical Examiner's Office in Augusta for examination and identification.
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Olive trees line city streets in Arizona. They thrive in yards and cast scant shade in parking lots. In spring they bloom profusely, and in fall they drop ripe fruit onto cars and sidewalks and into gutters. Olive trees are so common that most Arizonans hardly notice them, except in April when pollen causes allergies to flare up. Because olives are so easy to grow in Arizona, you’d think the place would be packed with olive farmers. Instead, “It’s me and three guys in Yuma,” says Perry Rea.
Husband and wife team Perry and Brenda Rea are the founders and operators of Arizona’s only working olive farm and mill, the Queen Creek Olive Mill. Over 20 years, they’ve grown a small family business into a 100-plus-employee operation. Their 100-acre farm lies in the Queen Creek valley about 40 miles southeast of downtown Phoenix, flanked by the San Tan Mountains to the southwest and the Superstition Mountains to the northeast. Empty creeks and washes wind their way through the wide, flat valley, where the sun shines 330 days a year. On the days it doesn’t shine, the skies bless the valley with about 9 precious inches of annual rainfall.
Most crops require a lot of attention to flourish in the desert, but olives are the exception. These desert-loving trees grow rapidly and robustly in the Queen Creek valley. Olive trees should endure some stress to produce quality oil, and that’s exactly what the Arizona climate provides. Yes, the climate is extremely dry, but the aridity discourages verticillium wilt and molds. Pesticides aren’t needed because the olive fly can’t tolerate summer’s intense heat. Olive trees can survive on minimal rainfall, although they do need strategic irrigation to produce plump and plentiful drupes (the Reas use micro sprinkling and drip irrigation). Arizona’s short winters provide the vernalization necessary for bud set — a couple of months of cold nighttime temperatures with infrequent hard freezes.
Olive trees were domesticated thousands of years ago in the deserts of the Levant (near today’s Turkey-Syria border). Spanish missionaries probably introduced olive tree cuttings to present-day California in the 1700s; these are likely the progenitors of today’s ‘Mission’ cultivar, and may have emerged in Peru as the seedling of an unknown cultivar from Spain. Whether or not this legend is true, someone certainly brought these Mediterranean natives to the New World — an account written in the 1840s describes an abandoned mission with an old and neglected but still-thriving olive orchard. By the late 19th century, olives had become a commercial crop in California. At about the same time, some of the first olive trees in Arizona were introduced on the University of Arizona campus in Tucson as part of a program to experiment with plants for desert suitability. Eventually, olive trees spread all over the urban areas as (mostly) ornamental plantings. Sadly, some urban areas have banned new plantings of male olive trees these days because of the excessive pollen they produce during bloom.
Learning on the Job
The Reas have had to learn about cultivating olives on the job for 20 years. Because they lacked agricultural backgrounds, they first enrolled in a course on growing olives offered by the University of California, Davis, but quickly realized that California growing methods don’t always work in Arizona. The couple also developed contacts with staff at the University of Arizona’s Cooperative Extension office, where the focus two decades ago was primarily on grain crops, cotton, and alfalfa.
How do you learn the ins and outs of growing a crop locally when there’s no one to help you? “It’s been a lot of trial and error,” Perry admits. “Every year we learn something different; every year we get better. We still make mistakes, but they’re not as bad as the ones we made the year before.” Perry keeps copious records on olive growing techniques, irrigation, and cold set (how cold affects the trees’ setting on of flower buds that eventually become fruit). He also takes tissue samples from the trees and has them analyzed for deficiencies to determine which soil amendments are necessary for the upcoming growing season.
A Mix of Cultivars
Because Perry experiments with new trees every year, his records also include notes on cultivars. The Queen Creek olive orchard currently boasts more than 7,200 trees of 16 different types. The oldest trees are ‘Mission,’ the aforementioned California cultivar allegedly developed by Spanish missionaries. ‘Mission’ is very cold-hardy. Although Arizona growers harvest their drupes before the cold hits in mid-December, they must consider hardiness because low temperatures can affect the onset of fruit the following season. Severe freezes, down to 15 degrees Fahrenheit and lasting more than a day, can damage the trees themselves. Luckily, this hasn’t been a problem for the Reas: “In 20 years, the coldest temperature we’ve ever had was 22 degrees for a few hours at 5 a.m.,” says Perry.
The bulk of the remaining olive trees in the Queen Creek orchard are ‘Koroneiki,’ a Greek cultivar (and Perry’s favorite) known for its pungent, bitter oil, and Italian cultivars, including “Pendolino,’ ‘Maurino,’ and ‘Frantoio.’
Aside from cold-hardiness, another reason the Reas grow multiple cultivars is so they can blend oils to create distinctive flavors for their homemade olive oils. For this purpose, they became certified Olive Oil Sommeliers, joining only a handful of others around the world who have been so recognized by the International Olive Council (IOC). Blending is more than just considering the broad flavor categories assigned to cultivars, such as “mild” for ‘Mission’ and “fruity” for ‘Frantoio.’ One of the biggest variables in olive oil flavor is the time of harvest. Olives ripen on the tree over a period of two to three months, progressing from what’s known as “green-ripe” to “purple-ripe.” Perry explains, “If I want pungent, herbaceous, and bitter oil, I’ll harvest olives when they’re green-ripe. If I want rich, buttery oil, I’ll wait until they’re dark on the tree.” Green-ripe olives yield less oil, but they hold the most polyphenols (an antioxidant) and have a longer shelf life.
Harvest usually takes place from mid-October to mid-December, and, as with all farmers, it’s a busy time for the Reas. Some parts of the olive orchard are harvested by hand the traditional way, using rakes; others are harvested mechanically. Olives must be cold-pressed at the mill within 24 hours to meet IOC standards for extra-virgin olive oil. The amount of oil at pressing depends on the cultivar and the time it’s harvested, but 1 ton of olives will generally produce between 20 and 40 gallons of oil. Extra-virgin oil must be stored in tanks that block light and oxygen penetration. Drawing from these tanks throughout the year, the Reas blend oil every six weeks, and bottle every three weeks. Bottles remain on the mill shelves no longer than two weeks to maintain freshness.
Even after harvest, there’s little rest for olive farmers. Arizona’s long growing season encourages rampant vegetation, so pruning is critical during winter when the trees are dormant (typically from about mid-December to mid-February). Heavy pruning encourages fruit production the following season, but it’s labor-intensive and amounts to one of the highest production costs.
To help lower expenses, olive growers around the world are experimenting with higher-density plantings. In traditional orchards, olives are widely spaced in rows 30 feet apart, with 30 feet between each tree. When the Reas started their orchard, they planted conventionally. Today, especially with the ‘Koroneiki’ cultivar, they’re trying what’s known as “medium-density planting.” Trees are planted closely together in a hedgelike arrangement, with rows spaced widely enough to accommodate mechanical harvesters. The planting pattern is for trees to be 8 feet apart in rows spaced 12 feet apart.
According to Perry, planting, growing, and harvesting olives in Arizona is fairly easy, while “marketing is the hard part.” Throughout planting, pruning, watering, harvesting, and pressing, the Reas keep their farm open to visitors — over 500,000 every year. “We’ve been really lucky in terms of agritourism,” says Perry.
The Reas started small, with a modest line of olive oils and public tours of their orchard. Eventually, they converted the original farm shed on the property into a mill building, and added a panini press and gelato freezer after customers complained about the lack of eateries nearby. Now, they have a full-service restaurant on-site and lease the property for weddings and parties. Their busy season for farm tourism is winter, when Arizona attracts snowbirds from northern states and Canada. Marketing to their audience, they host special events year-round, including Canada Week during January. Besides olive oil, they sell a wide range of olive-oil-based products, such as tapenade and pasta sauce, and a variety of other local products. Brenda has developed a popular line of olive-oil-based body care products (see “Olivespa,” below).
During the past couple of decades, the Reas have watched the town of Queen Creek grow rapidly (the mill is located less than 5 miles from downtown). Concerned about the town’s extreme growth, Queen Creek’s Economic Development Commission has zoned 242 acres as an “Agritainment District.” Perry serves on the commission and, with another nearby farmer, was instrumental in proposing this district to protect and preserve the area’s agricultural destinations. “Not a lot of places decide to set aside a part of the town for farm tourism,” Perry points out. In addition to tourists, the new district attracts many locals who are interested in eating local, healthy foods, and meeting the farmers who grow their food.
Arizona’s number of farmers is rising. This is great news for those who prefer local food, but it doesn’t solve the riddle of why more Arizona farmers don’t grow olives. Perry Rea doesn’t have an answer. Perhaps it’s the start-up costs. (Irrigation systems can be pricey.) Or maybe it’s the fact that olive trees are already everywhere in the state, and people tend to overlook the familiar. More than likely, it’s that few in authority are promoting the opportunities olives present.
Back at Queen Creek Olive Mill, the harvests keep increasing every year while the United States imports most of the olive oil it consumes. Olive trees continue to shower ripe, edible drupes onto streets and sidewalks in nearby Phoenix and Tucson. Every fall, a few area folks forage and bring tons of these olives to the mill, where the Reas will press a minimum of 300 pounds of fruit free of charge. The resulting homemade olive oil is split 50-50 with the foragers.
Just imagine that for a second: extra-virgin olive oil that’s both free and local. Many of us would put up with a little extra sneezing for such a luxury.
Olivespa: Oil-Based Body Care
The fastest-growing product line at Queen Creek Olive Mill is owner Brenda Rea’s olive-oil-based bath and body products, marketed under the “Olivespa” label. All the products incorporate olive oil from the mill. The only other ingredients are beeswax, shea butter, coconut oil, essential oils, and sea salt.
When the Rea family first moved to Arizona, one of their children developed chronically chapped hands. Brenda discovered the affliction was eased by liquid castile soap, which is typically made with olive oil. She began using straight olive oil from the mill on her own body, and eventually started to produce body butters, lip balms, and soaps in her home kitchen. After a few very successful years working from home, Brenda brought her Olivespa line to the mill. She and her daughter Joey, along with another employee, hand-craft small batches of each product.
Olivespa products incorporate only extra-virgin olive oil because it contains polyphenols (a polyphenol is an antioxidant) and squalane, which moisturizes skin and promotes its elasticity. No preservatives are added to the products — just like all-natural olive oil, they’ll go rancid with time.
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ACI’s Arctic Shipping Summit will be located in Hamburg, Germany for its 15th edition in the series and will take on a new look for December 2019. ACI are bringing together stakeholders from all parts of the Arctic shipping sector to discuss their involvement in the ever changing Northern Shipping Route.
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Arild Moe, Research Professor, Fridtjof Nansen Institute
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Christine Valentin, COO & Board Member, World Ocean Council
Keld Qvistgaard, Senior Ice Advisor, Danish Meteorological Institute
Mikaa Mered, Professor of Arctic & Antarctic Geopolitics, ILERI
Dr. Anna Jones, Science Leader, British Antarctic Survey
Sonke Diesener, Transport Policy Officer, Naturschutzbund Deutschland e.V.
Dr. Robert Stahlbock, Professor, University of Hamburg
Wibbo Hofman, Area Representative, University of Hamburg
Gudmund Johansen, Lecturer Nautical Science/Navigation/Maritime Polar Operations, The Arctic University of Norway
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Rune Engebo, Senior Project Engineer, Polarkonsult AS
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The ships up to 297m long and 44,04m wide can be dry-docked at the yard, although for repaires not requiring docking even larger ships – up to 300m of LOA can moore at the shipyard’s 6.000m quayside, over half of which is fully equipped with cranage and media facilities.
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Inside Marine is a highly respected magazine covering the whole spectrum of important maritime sectors on a global scale. Covering areas from shipbuilding, superyachts, commercial marine and offshore activities to the latest maritime technologies and in-depth company profiles, the magazine is targeted at and read by directors and the high-end management brackets.
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Universal Freight Organisation (UFO) was formed in January 2000 and today the ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certified association boasts representation in 120+ countries. UFO are proud to have maintained a ‘One Member per Country’ policy (with the exception of USA and China), making them one of the only remaining exclusive freight forwarder networks in the world.
Project Cargo Network (PCN) is an ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certified organisation established to provide a networking platform for the world’s top project cargo specialists. Our Members handle the transportation of oversized and heavy items or shipments that consist of complex components that must be disassembled, shipped and then re-assembled. They offer project cargo management for engineering, procurement and construction companies servicing energy, mining, chemical, petrochemical, pipeline, infrastructure and other sectors. Our fast-growing organisation comprises of 220+ specialists in 105+ countries. Visit www.projectcargonetwork.com.
Cargo Connections was formed in the summer of 2014 and offers Restricted Representation, which means membership will only be offered to a limited number of freight forwarders who offer air, sea and road freight services per country. With a cutting-edge website, Cargo Connections offers innovative membership benefits including a useful Smartphone Service.
Freightbook is a growing online searchable database containing profiles of 1500+ freight forwarders in 140+ countries. To obtain rates and advice on a shipment, please complete our Quote Request form. Our simple but effective system enables you to obtain advice and pricing from all registered freight agents in the country of origin, thus providing a variety of options. Alternatively, please search our database and contact companies directly www.freightbook.net.
Marasi news is a UAE bi-monthly magazine with a major focus on maritime industry locally, regionally and internationally. Marasi News served as the most reliable source of information for the maritime sector offering timely, consistently accurate news, data and analysis from the top decision makers in the industry. The magazine is published by Tactics Media & Information Design.
Marasi News Mission
To deliver the latest news related to Maritime industry and Classification Sector in UAE and the region, and to become the preliminary platform that enhances the awareness and interest about the role of maritime sector for both national and regional economy & security.
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For 152 years HANSA is one of the leading magazines for the maritime industry and the oldest journal of its kind in Europe. Founded in 1864 HANSA was continuously enhanced to a modern, contemporary magazine with a unique coverage of the whole shipping cluster. Today, the monthly is a trusted source of information for decision makers in the maritime industry and provides in-depth and unrivaled analyses and insights covering newest developments and trends in shipping, ship technology, port operations, logistics, law and tax, in the offshore sector and the insurance business as well as in ship financing – up-to-date and technically sound with the highest total circulation of all maritime journals published in Germany.
SAFETY4SEA / GREEN4SEA foster Safety, Environmental Excellence & Sustainable Shipping including Leading Maritime Safety Portal www.SAFETY4SEA.com, Green Portalwww.GREEN4SEA.com, World’s Largest Safety & Green Conferences, attracting 1000+ delegates each every year and print publications (SAFETY4SEA Log, GREEN4SEA Log, RISK4SEA Log and CSR4SEA Log) circulated in excess of 100,000 copies globally.
The international business magazine JURA MOPE SEA published in English, Chinese, Russian, and Lithuanian languages, is well known in the international market and to the transport, logistics specialists, leaders of transport business and politicians of the Eurasian region since 1999.
The magazine is published 6 times per year with the circulation of 4-8 thousand paper copies.
Each issue is distributed in several international transport and logistics events in Europe and Asia, Airports in Lithuania, DFDS Seaways ferries and in other places.
Our readers are the leaders and managers of transport business, politicians, diplomats, scientists, students, analysts of maritime and transport business in more than 150 countries worldwide.
JŪRA MOPE SEA is published by the private company Juru Informacijos Centras (The Center of Marine Information Ltd)
Ship2Shore is one of the most successful on-line magazines in the Mediterranean region and the leading news provider in Italy exploring the financial, economical, political and legal aspects of the transports industry.
News are published daily on the website, whereas a weekly pdf magazine, published on Monday and announced by a newsletter, offers a complete overview of the most important topics as well as in-depth analysis, interviews and further stories.
A free trial is available by signing up on www.ship2shore.it/english
Maritime Matrix Today monthly magazine encompasses and portrays various sectors of the maritime trade including shipbuilding, ship repair, marine technology, logistics, ports, freight forwarding, dredging, coastal shipping, inland waterways, energy management, offshore, oil & gas, environmental issues, maritime infrastructure, shipping law, cruising, leisure boating, manning, training, and marine insurance.
Launched in April 2009, MONTHLY KORSHIP which marks 7th anniversary this year is dedicated to shipbuilding & offshore industries. KORSHIP has approximately 50,000 online and offline subscribers in domestic/overseas shipbuilding industries. In the shipbuilding & offshore industries, about 2,000 companies and employees related to marine equipment, offshore plant facility, equipment, etc., have signed up to receive the issues of KORSHIP, including major domestic shipyards.
In particular, KORSHIP was selected as media partner of world’s leading exhibitions such as KORMARINE, Gastech, SMM, etc., increasing the reliability as a magazine with strong focus on shipbuilding and offshore industries. KORSHIP is the only publication both at home and abroad serving as official media partner of KORMARINE.
Information and Analytical Agency PortNews (IAA PortNews http://en.portnews.ru ) is the leading provider of maritime news in Russia covering both domestic and international markets. On-line news and analytical materials related to port services, sea and river transport, shipping and shipbuilding placed at the agency’s portal are available on open access. The audience of the portal’s Russian and English pages numbers about 8,000 regular readers. Our readership covers the territory from the North-West to the Far East of Russia as well as 60 countries worldwide.
www.rotterdamtransport.com has more than 10.000 pages of free information about the largest port of Europe.
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Uitgeverij Logistiek was publisher of the Rotterdam Transport Handbook, the reference book of the Port of Rotterdam for over 40 years. Since 2015 the complete contents is only available on our English, German and Dutch website.
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The Maritime Standard (TMS) is a Dubai-based media company, which publishes a fortnightly online newsletter that covers developments in the shipping, ports and other maritime industries in the Middle East and the Indian Subcontinent. TMS delivers the most accurate, up-to-date news about the market and has built up the largest circulation of any shipping-related online newsletter in this region.
TMS also publishes the very successful The Maritime Standard UAE Yearbook covering key developments across the country’s maritime sector, the annual publication aims to publicise the UAE’s achievements both locally and internationally, through in depth articles, researched first hand.
Oil and Gas Advancement is an information-centric knowledge sharing platform focused on the latest news in the B2B oil and gas sector bringing to our audiences B2B updates on upstream, downstream, pipeline and transport categories providing information on the latest projects and developments.
Maritime Security Review is striving to be the premier online portal for maritime security news. With a growing readership from across the industry we pride ourselves on keeping you up to date with the issues that matter. We are committed to keeping our service free for all as we believe money should be no barrier to knowledge, and all decisions should be informed.
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By improving awareness of the threat and providing best management practice we can help mitigate the risks to Company and Port Security officials within the maritime industry. Working as one we provide security through community. This is the aim of the CSO Alliance.
The new Superyacht Alliance will be rolled out later in 2019 aimed at Superyacht captains, managers and owners.
By improving awareness of the threat and providing best management practice we can help mitigate the cyber risks to the maritime industry, working as a collective while offering strength through community. This is the purpose of the Maritime Cyber Alliance (MCA)– the second of the two online communities provided by CSO Alliance Ltd. The MCA provides the facility for our members to submit anonymised incident reports to like-minded professionals over a secure, membership-based platform.
Clocate.com is a leading international directory for worldwide conferences and exhibitions. Clocate.com is equipped with a unique and comprehensive search that helps you find easily any event in any category or location. Each event includes detailed information, like, description, dates, location, map, prices, link to the official event’s website and more… If you search for a conference or exhibition in areas such as Industry and manufacturing, Health and medicine, Technology and IT, Business and finance, sciences, education, services (banking, insurance, tourism, Hospitality and more), government, environment, life style and arts, you’ll find it in Clocate.com.
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Does anyone remember Factor Four? Its now a dozen years or so since this visionary book was published promising a revolution in the way we produce things. Subtitled - 'doubling wealth, halving resource use' - Factor Four offered a practical, profitable route to preserving the planet whilst improving our standard of living. It contains a wealth of examples of how we can do this by massively increasing resource efficiency, making more with less, and using massively less energy in the process. Factor Four isn't about some sort of wishful thinking. It showed that we had the technology and ideas then to make changes which would, if implemented, enable us to deal with the problems presented by climate change and peak oil.
One of key players behind the book is a guy called Amory Lovins who founded the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI). Lovins is an environmentalist who advocates 'soft energy paths' which result in the much more efficient use of energy. He has been involved in the development of the 'hypercar' which is much more efficient than conventional models and runs on hydrogen. He followed up Factor Four with another revolutionary book called Natural Capitalism written with L Hunter Lovins and Paul Hawken. if the ideas put forward by Lovins and his co-authors were followed it would amount to a change as significant as the industrial revolution.
Lovins and his co-authors may be revolutionaries in resource efficiency but they aren't revolutionaries in a political sense. They are using the profit motive to try and get capitalists to work in a way that is not environmentally destructive. There is no doubt that companies who follow the ideas in Factor Four will be more efficient and therefore more competitive than their rivals.
So what happened? Well the ideas in Factor Four and Natural Capitalism are just as valid and valuable as they ever were and the work of RMI continues. So why haven't capitalists adopted these ideas and why isn't the industrial revolution that could save the planet already well underway? Well, some companies have used these ideas but far too few and on too small a scale. The real reason why Factor Four hasn't happened is industrial conservatism, vested interests and the perverse incentives of our capitalist economic system. Its just still too easy for companies to continue to make profits by using the old wasteful ways. Billions of dollars have been, and are still being, invested in inefficient plants and technologies which are 'proven'. Companies are unwilling to make the changes when the present system suits them well. Why bother to make new investment when 'obsolete' technologies still enable you to compete anyway? General Motors in the USA is a prime example of this. Up until very recently they have continued to produce 'obsolete' cars because the system allowed them to and they could still make a profit. Governments have been slow to act and have done little to penalise inefficient ways.
Is anything going to change? Are we going to adopt the ideas of people like Amory Lovins? Its seems so obvious that we should. But it also seemed so obvious that Brown and Cameron should have promised real democratic reform after the expenses scandal - to revive our moribund political system. They haven't done it. The sad truth is that things will have to get worse before people like Lovins are listened to. Have you seen The Age of Stupid? Well now you know that we already have the solution to climate change in our hands. The question is will we choose to use it? | <urn:uuid:a23dc71c-ef86-419e-ba42-72db9e0d321c> | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | http://capitalism-creates-poverty.blogspot.com/2010/01/does-anyone-remember-factor-four.html | 2018-02-18T06:56:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891811794.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20180218062032-20180218082032-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.973038 | 694 |
Constitution 3.0: Freedom and Technological Change
Department:WWS Office of Public Affairs and Communications
Audience:Open to the Public
Woodrow Wilson School and The Program in Law and Public Affairs
Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO, of the National Constitution Center, will discuss his new book, “Constitution 3.0: Freedom and Technological Change” at 4:30 p.m., on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall. A book sale and signing and public reception will follow the discussion in Shultz Dining Room.
The National Constitution Center is the first and only nonprofit, nonpartisan institution devoted to the most powerful vision of freedom ever expressed: the U.S. Constitution. Rosen is a professor at The George Washington University Law School, where he has taught since 1997, and is the legal affairs editor of The New Republic, which covers politics and culture from an “unbiased and thought-provoking perspective.” He is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he explores issues involving the future of technology and the Constitution.
Rosen’s essays and commentaries have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, on National Public Radio, and in The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer. The Chicago Tribune named him one of the 10 best magazine journalists in America. He received the 2012 Golden Pen Award from the Legal Writing Institute for his “extraordinary contribution to the cause of better legal writing.” | <urn:uuid:1f7e7d4c-ec8d-420a-8bef-ff58737d4e6a> | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | https://wws.princeton.edu/news-and-events/events/item/constitution-30-freedom-and-technological-change | 2018-09-26T01:10:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267162809.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20180926002255-20180926022655-00442.warc.gz | en | 0.931874 | 317 |
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From Channel Guide: Right around the time that the feature film The Legend of Tarzan hits theaters, Discovery Channel will be debuting a new series of its own to determine who can actually survive in and master the wild like the famed King of the Jungle has — American Tarzan.
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Saturday, November 12, 2011
Rocket Age and Sandylion
Today I have another card featuring the October Afternoon Rocket Age papers. This time I paired them with a robot stamp from a Sandylion Boy Clear set that I bought a while back at Michael's. I thought they worked well together.
The Robot was stamped with navy ink, colored with Copics, then cut out and mounted with pop dots. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink's Birthday Bash Sentiments set and is also stamped in navy.
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How will the stars and planets affect your love life, friendships, career, mood swings and health this month? Look for your zodiac sign below to find out!
Mercury and Venus are aligning for Aquarius this month, which means you'll feel stronger connections with friends. You also might feel the urge to splurge on something new this month, and the stars are encouraging you to treat yourself - especially if it's your birthday month! Try to balance your relationships with some rejuvenating alone time, keeping the romance casual this month.
February is all about hitting refresh. Start doing stretches in the morning or exploring new endeavors to get your creativity flowing again. Be conscious of balance in your life, and make time to do more of the things you love. Try to be more self aware in relationships, and don't be afraid to end anything that's no longer good for you.
You're likely reeling from emotions right now and craving a break from the drama. Give yourself a chance to process everything this month, including how you feel about your career and friendships. You might feel yourself channeling all your love toward special friends and new creative endeavors, but you should have enough romance in you for an exciting Valentine's Day.
Are you starting to feel unhappy or unfulfilled at work? Stop trying to force it by working longer hours or dedicating too much energy. Instead, look for new opportunities to find a healthy work-life balance. You might feel more sensitive to your emotions this month, so use them as a guiding force to determine your top priorities. Even in your emotional state, try to keep things loose and lighthearted in your love life.
If you're feeling a surge of inspiration and motivation, give in to it! February will be a great month for you to take advantage of your potential to explore new opportunities. If you have a big idea at work, collaborate with trustworthy peers to make it a reality. You might not be feeling too lovey-dovey on Valentine's Day, but the planets will align the following week for romantic sparks to fly.
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Asus has introduced its UX21 and UX31 Ultrabooks, branding the devices as Zenbooks. Calling the Zenbook the “essential companion for this new Ultra Era,” Asus chairman Jonney Shih claimed these ultrathin (under 3mm at its slimmest edge) laptops will last more than seven hours, offer second-generation Intel Core i7 processors, and have not just instant-on but a very quick two-second resume time.
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Following quick on the heels of the Acer Aspire S3-951, the first Ultrabook to be launched this week, the 11.6-inch Asus Zenbook UX21will sell for $999 and the 13.3-inch UX31 will sell for $1,099.
These prices are higher than the 13-inch Aspire S3, which is currently the lowest priced Ultrabook at $900. The Zenbook, however, offers a full SSD drive rather than the 20GB SSD just for Windows and traditional 30GB HDD in the Acer Aspire S3.
Comparing the Zenbook UX21 directly to a similarly outfitted MacBook Air, the UX21 will save you about $200. The UX21 base model uses a Core i5 processor, 4GB of memory, and 128GB of SSD storage, but you can upgrade to a Core i7 processor.
The higher-end Zenbook UX31 base model ups the storage capacity to 256GB SSD, adds an SD card reader, and starts at $200 less than the MacBook Air 13-inch model. Plus, it boasts the highest resolution display available of these competing ultraportables: 1600 x 900 pixels, versus the Aspire S3’s 1366 x 768 pixels resolution and the MacBook Air’s 1440 x 900 pixels resolution.
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An interesting feature Asus has added to its Ultrabooks is an instant backup of your data as soon as the battery level reaches 5 percent, so you don’t have to worry about losing your info at the last minute.
Shih also demonstrated the Zenbooks’s instant on and two-second resume time, an advantage over “the competitor” (read: MacBook Air), which can take as long as six seconds to resume after eight hours of standby.
Professional-grade HD audio system, USB 3.0, mini VGA and micro HDMI ports, and a “metallic spun finish” on these 2.4 pound and 2.9 pound laptops are other hallmarks of the Zenbooks. They also come with one more bonus: Asus is also throwing in a protective sleeve.
Ultrabooks are Coming
These Zenbooks are just the start of the influx of MacBook Air rivals, but the specs on paper show it’s a good start. While the Acer Aspire S3 has the lowest price so far, if you want the performance benefits of SSD or an 11-inch Ultrabook, the Zenbook UX21 and UX31 are available. | <urn:uuid:95f264b3-e2eb-46c1-9044-9cc5d2e52d5a> | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | http://www.pcworld.com/article/241767/asus_introduces_zenbook_ux21_ux31_ultrabooks.html | 2017-04-28T04:32:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917122739.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031202-00512-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.903169 | 631 |
How to Find a Suitable ADHD Treatment Center
ADHD is a mental disorder that should not be taken lightly since it causes impulsive behaviors and affect your ability to focus on one thing. Therefore, if your friend or loved one is suffering from ADHD, then you should look for the right treatment. If you want to treat ADHD, then you should look for the best treatment center that will assure you the best services. Finding the right ADHD treatment center is not that easy since several of them are available. The article, therefore, highlights the guidelines to follow when choosing a suitable ADHD treatment center.
First and foremost, take note of programs offered in the ADHD treatment center when looking for the best one. One thing that you should put at the back of your mind is that several programs can be used in ADHD treatment. For this reason, you need to select the one that you are comfortable with. For this reason, you need to look into several ADHD treatment centers and reviews the programs each of them uses. Therefore, make sure you select the ADHD treatment center that has the best program if you want a suitable one. You should not select the ADHD treatment center without the best program if you want a suitable one.
Secondly, take note of the reputation of the ADHD treatment center when looking for a suitable. The reputation of the treatment center is important because it shows you the kind of institution you will use. Therefore, the best way to determine the reputation of the ADHD treatment center is through the reviews of their past clients. You also ask around if you are not sure of the references you are provided with. What people are saying on the internet is also an aspect that can help you determine their reputation. For this reason, make sure you choose the ADHD treatment center that reputable enough when looking for the best one.
The skills and qualifications of the physicians in the ADHD treatment center are the next aspects to look into while searching for the best one. When choosing an ADHD treatment center, you will go for the one where you will be assured quality treatment services. For this reason, start by asking for the certification of the physicians since it will let you know of their qualifications. You also need to focus on the duration the center has been operating since it will show you the skills its physicians have acquired. Therefore, make sure you choose the ADHD treatment center with skilled and qualified physicians when looking for a reliable one.
Lastly, consider the location of the ADHD treatment center if you want a suitable one. ADHD treatment can take a long time, and you will need to stay in the facility before you get better. For this reason, where the ADHD treatment center is located matters to you. You need to consider your preferences when looking for the best ADHD treatment center that is located in the right place. | <urn:uuid:1e331d1a-7a01-49ed-9959-61c7985b966f> | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | https://www.rcnoord.com/why-arent-as-bad-as-you-think-3/ | 2021-08-02T14:49:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046154321.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20210802141221-20210802171221-00105.warc.gz | en | 0.962371 | 559 |
- 6.46 million hashed LinkedIn passwords reportedly leaked online | The Verge
Pay attention, this one's very very important: if you use linked.in, then you need to change your password, *right now*. And they you need to change the password on any accounts you have on any other online sites that use the same password, because it's just been made public, paired with your email address.
- The world’s worst password requirements list
Some of these are mind-blowing. Security is a compromise between usability and safety, whch is why you get password requirements like "must contain mixed case and a number" of things like that, but most of these decrease usability without increasing safety.
- Limerence – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"An involuntary state of mind which seems to result from a romantic attraction to another person combined with an overwhelming, obsessive need to have one's feelings reciprocated"
- cityofsound: Essays: An edible urbanism
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Deborah Byrd is one of science's premier voices—literally. Since the late 1970's she's produced more than 10,000 science radio shows, more than half of those with Earth & Sky, a syndicated short-format series she's co-hosted since 1991. Plenty recently spoke with Byrd about environmentalism's post-millennial renaissance.
You've covered science in print and on the radio for three decades. What principles guide your environmental thinking now?
It's clear that nature is very resilient, and no matter what happens to the human species, the planet will be fine. Earth will go on producing biodiversity on a million-year, a billion-year, timescale. In respect to a human lifespan, that's a long time. So the span we have to be concerned with is the next 100 years, when we and our children live.
Scientists are trying to show that people are coupled to the earth. In the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment that just came out, they used the phrase "ecosystem services." Think about the things nature provides—not just metals out of the ground, but fresh air, clean water, space for recreation. They tried to put this into an economic model.
A lot of environmental thinking has portrayed the natural world as something that should be sacred or inviolable. Does that reflect a conception of people and nature as separate?
That we shouldn't affect the land because we're not entitled to, that we should leave wild lands wild—there's a lot of truth and beauty to that idea, but it's not the reality. There is no place on Earth not affected by humans. At Earth and Sky, we don't see that as a negative idea. It just is.
There will be 9 billion people by 2050. Rather than viewing that with dismay or fear, we've learned by talking with thousands of scientists over the last 15 years that this can be viewed as an opportunity to create a garden world. An opportunity to create an advanced human civilization where people treat each other with respect, where there's social justice and environmental responsibility.
If I go downstairs to the gas station beside my apartment and tell the attendant, "The amphibians are dying," why should he care?
Maybe he shouldn't. Some species are going to die out. We can't save every one. There are 6.5 billion of us on the planet, and we're affecting things. Yeah, some amphibians are going to die, and there's nothing we can do to save them, though the more people that become aware and try, the better it will be.
What about things that aren't inevitable, like drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge?
The more people that realize the earth is not an infinite source of resources for humanity, the better. A hundred years ago, people thought we'd never fish out the seas, and here we are, global fish stocks declining precipitously and accumulating toxins.
It's like when you're a little kid, you don't have to think of anything, because everyone's taking care of it for you. That's how humanity's been for much of its history. A lot of people say we're in our teenage years now, and we've messed up our room really bad. What happens after you're a teen? You become an adult, take responsibility for yourself. That means taking care of the planet—not because there's an intrinsic value to it, but because we're linked.
That realization seems to be popular—environmentalism is more commercially popular now than ever. But what if it's the next Free Tibet?
Things seem to happen in cycles. If I had to guess, I'd say the whole green thing will probably die down a little, then emerge even stronger.
What you're really asking is, do I have hope? Will people ultimately realize that we need to take care of the earth for the sake of ourselves? Will we realize our connection to the planet? Yes, I believe we will.
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My young Fell Pony stallion Willowtrail Black Robin lost his virginity a few weeks ago. I’ve noticed two marked changes in him since then. First he’s mellower around me. I can’t help but wonder if he realizes I play a different role in his herd than I used to. I used to be the only object of his affections and his play drive. Now he understands not only that there can be other objects of his affection but also that I’m the one that makes those girls available to him!
And second, he’s definitely aware of where the girls are. He’s lost interest in eating except when he has to. I’ve read about stallions who lose weight during breeding season, but I’ve never experienced it with my other stallions. I’m having to keep an eye on Robin to make sure he doesn’t get too thin.
Some neighbors dropped by the other day; Sue’s granddaughter took her first pony ride here a few years ago, and they came by to meet six-week-old Madie. Sue’s new partner once had quarter horses and seemed to have a good eye for equines. I appreciated his unsolicited ‘Nice!’ when he first saw Robin. Sue’s daughter’s partner had never been around draft ponies before and asked many good questions. In his early twenties, he got a good laugh out of my frustration with Robin’s fixation on ‘girls’ rather than food, seeming to take Robin’s side unquestionably!
Robin has been keeping an eye on opportunities. This morning when I brought him his first hay, he wasn’t at all interested in me. He was standing at the far fence of his paddock looking out. I was confused, since there weren’t any mares in that direction. Then I saw movement, and a cow moose moved off through the trees. I tried to explain to Robin that I didn’t think that was an appropriate object of his affection, but I’m not sure he understood. She’s the same height at her withers as Robin is at the eyes, for instance!
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The Education and Public Programs Team at the Nixon Library is pleased to remind you that the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) continues to be an excellent source for entertaining and historical content! Simply follow the links below for additional information.
Gift of Richard McLeod to the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives and Records Administration, P.2021.6.a-b
In 1962, Richard Nixon published his first book, Six Crises. The book recounts his personal reactions to each of six crises Nixon experienced early in his political career, chapter by chapter. Nixon completed the book in just 10 months, devoting 14-hour days, dedicating the book to Pat Nixon. The First Edition Introduction to Six Crises reveals Nixon’s initial uncertainty about writing a book, even sharing in the Introduction that writing the book “turned out to be the seventh major crisis” of his life up to that point. Unsure about joining the “literary” ranks, Nixon received encouragement from a number of key figures, including Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower, President John F. Kennedy and close friend and advisor, Adela Rogers St. Johns. The book became an instant best-seller. In 1990, Nixon himself updated the Introduction to the edition published especially for the opening of the Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, California.
The Hiss Case
Rep. Richard Nixon holding a newspaper announcing Alger Hiss having been found guilty by a federal jury. Donated image, Richard Nixon Foundation Collection of Audiovisual Materials, ca. 1926 - ca. 1994: Photographic Materials; 1/21/1950; NAID 16916003
The Hiss case was the first major crisis in Richard Nixon’s political life. Extraordinarily controversial and complex, in this chapter, Nixon recounts a tireless dedication, intellectual rigor, and how birds and pumpkins played a role in the conviction of Alger Hiss. While Richard Nixon served in Congress, he joined the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and became an integral figure in the Hiss case. Nixon’s role in the investigation and conviction of this high-ranking Department of State official catapulted a young congressman from California to national attention.
Excerpts from Senator Nixon’s handwritten notes for the Fund speech (or Checkers speech). Box 10; folder “Sep. 23, 1952. Fund crisis (“Checkers”). RN’s handwritten notes.”; Pre-Presidential Speech File (PPS 208); Nixon Foundation.
Vice President Richard Nixon and his family, playing with their dog Checkers while vacationing in Mantoloking, NJ. Donated image, Richard Nixon Foundation Collection of Audiovisual Materials, ca. 1926 - ca. 1994: Photographic Materials; 8/16/1953; NAID 18558846
Selected as the running mate of Republican presidential nominee Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, then-Senator Richard Nixon’s place on the ticket was threatened when implications of an improper political fund threatened to derail his political career and aspirations. In a gutsy, risky move, Nixon fought back and publicly denied the allegations in a nationally broadcast speech commonly known as the “Checkers Speech.” Nixon itemized his modest family finances and refused to give back Checkers, a black and white spotted puppy gifted to the family. Access to the Checkers Speech is available below:
The Heart Attack
Future Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon Enjoying a Chat. White House Photo Office Collection (Nixon Administration), 1/20/1969 - 8/9/1974: Nixon White House Photographs; ca. 7/1/1952; NAID 7268197
In 1955, President Eisenhower suffered a heart attack that left him unable to perform his presidential duties. Vice President Nixon stepped in and showed quiet leadership during President Eisenhower’s six-week recuperation. Impressed, Eisenhower continued to task his young and ambitious Vice President with roles varying from Goodwill Ambassador abroad to campaign advisor at home.
Vice President Richard Nixon's motorcade drives through Caracas, Venezuela and is attacked by demonstrators. Donated image, Richard Nixon Foundation Collection of Audiovisual Materials, ca. 1926 - ca. 1994: Photographic Materials; 5/13/1958; NAID 16915985
An armed guard watches over an automobile that has sustained damage following a mob attack in Caracas, Venezuela, targeting Vice President Richard Nixon. Donated image, Richard Nixon Foundation Collection of Audiovisual Materials, ca. 1926 - ca. 1994: Photographic Materials; 5/13/1958; NAID 16915991
In 1958, Vice President and Mrs. Nixon traveled to Latin America to promote American goodwill. They faced many Cold War policy protests during their tour. The protests turned violent in Caracas, Venezuela when a mob attacked the motorcade, seriously threatening the safety of the Vice President and Mrs. Nixon. Nixon’s calm resolve prevented the tense situation from developing into a more serious international incident.
unused bullets carried by U.S. security personnel during the attack on the motorcade, shattered glass from Vice President Nixon’s limousine, and a plaque, “Caracas, Venezuela, May 13-14, 1958.” encased in Lucite. Gift from a foreign private citizen to First Lady Pat Nixon, National Archives and Records Administration, FP.1973.39
Khrushchev and the Kitchen Debate
Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev during the "Kitchen Debate" at the American National Exhibition in Moscow. Donated image, Richard Nixon Foundation Collection of Audiovisual Materials, ca. 1926 - ca. 1994: Photographic Materials; 7/24/1959; NAID 16916093
In 1959, Richard Nixon traveled to Moscow for the opening of the American National Exhibition. While in Moscow, Vice President Nixon and Premier Nikita Khrushchev engaged in an impromptu debate about the merits of capitalism versus communism. The spontaneous “Kitchen Debate” took place in a model American kitchen and raised Nixon’s profile as a shrewd and informed diplomat. It was Nixon’s posture in this debate - the virtues of freedom versus the crisis of communism - that helped Nixon secure the Republican Party’s nomination for president in 1960.
The Campaign of 1960
Vice President Nixon speaks to the press gathered at the Ambassador Hotel as election results continued to come in during the early morning hours following Election Day. Los Angeles, CA. Donated image, Richard Nixon Foundation Collection of Audiovisual Materials, ca. 1926 - ca. 1994: Photographic Materials; 11/9/1960; A10-024.188.94.1
In the 1960 United States presidential election, Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy participated in the first ever televised presidential debates. After a grueling and physically demanding campaign, Republican standard-bearer Vice President Nixon lost the election on a razor thin margin to upstart Senator John F. Kennedy. One market research firm “found Nixon winning among radio listeners 43 percent to 20 percent and Kennedy winning among TV watchers, 28 percent to 19 percent. From this poll, some have concluded that JFK won on appearance, not substance.” The 1960 presidential race was history making and changed the course of future campaigns.
For access to the debate in its entirety, click here.
During his writing career, Nixon published ten books about his life and politics. Donated image, Richard Nixon Foundation Collection of Audiovisual Materials, ca. 1926 - ca. 1994: Photographic Materials; A10-024.301.11.4
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The heart is an amazing thing.
But not the one that beats endlessly.
Hidden inside your chest.I’m talking about the one connected to your soul. The heart that gets tugged in different directions.
In the right direction and sometimes in the wrong direction. The heart can be open or closed.If it is open, it can take us places we need to go. But keeping your heart open is not always easy.
Depending on who you are.Heart wide open can leave you vulnerable.
You could get hurt.So you might have a tendency to close your heart.And put up your defenses.
Or depending on your style become a recluse.
Without even realizing it. Closing your heart has a way of coming back to bite you. You can’t get away with it.The repercussions of a closed heart can leave you feeling caged in.You start to get lonely.Life becomes predictable and boring.So you make the decision to open your heart. Immediately you feel playful.You realize opening your heart brings love. And who can live without love? Love is the essence of the heart.
Not many a living breathing thing can live without it.
So become aware of when your heart is closed.
Be aware of fear, anger and anxiety.
Symptoms of a closed heart.
Don’t let those things get a hold of you and rub you the wrong way.
Try opening your heart.
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If I am nothing else, I am an individualist. Make my own decisions, follow the beat of my own drum and all THAT jazz.
In spite of that, last week one of my fave friends, Erica B, posted a comment on Facebook about Purex Complete 3-in-1 Laundry Sheets and my interest was piqued. The purported beauty in this new product? Well, the dryer sheet-esque solution was detergent, softener and an anti-static sheet in one. Who'd have ever thunk it, right? Erica wasn't so sure about it so when I noticed them in Tar-zhay when I (and by "I", I mean Mr TBS and Gareth...for I was surely over in the magazine section) was picking up the patio furniture. At $5.99, a little less than my Tide Complete (and when were laundry products incomplete? Have I been hoodwinked with partial concoctions in the past? Geesh...the marketing!), I was eager to try it. I usually spend about $12 on laundry detergent and dryer sheets; so I was more interested when I saw a potential savings benefit. (insert 'high-five' here)
Lo and behold, I was catching up on my blog reading last night and I saw that one of my other fave friends, AskWifey (y'all...this is one of the sweetest, prettiest, nicest girls I know; who is tied with her sister for being totally awesome---you'll be seeing a lot more of them soon....there's a shoe-shopping trip on the horizon but N.E. Way) had been selected by Purex to test this product. So I thought I'd share AskWifey's experience...LOVE her!
I'll be trying mine out this weekend as I have mounds of laundry to keep me busy. I certainly live 'the life', huh? Woo hoo.
If you haven't, might you try a 'complete (ha!)', all-in-one laundry solution? What are your fave laundry brands?
Click here for a coupon! Yay!
Have a great weekend!
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Dear Jackson and Ashley (and sorta to Jasper and Alice by proxy),
Romeo and Juliet, Ozzy and Harriet, Jay Z and Beyonce, Burt and Ernie, Peanut Butter and Jelly, UC and Moon, Ebony and Ivory. All great couples in history, right? They are M.F.E.O. (made for each other, duh!) as Jessica from Sleepless in Seattle would say. And I feel like it might be time to add Jasper and Alice to that list.
In Eclipse you stole every scene you were in. The banter and sly looks, the half smiles, the eyes, the “ma’m’s.” It was all so golden. As we saw the flashbacks from Rosalie’s life and then Jasper’s, I was holding my breath and saying a prayer to my impromptu alter of David Slade I had erected in our aisle of the movie theater, hoping that he loved us enough to give me what I hadn’t even dreamt of hoping for: The Jasper and Alice meeting in the diner. As Jasper tells Bella about his human life, we see it play out in front of us: riding horses, lion’s mane hair under a cowboy hat, confederate army and then trickery from Maria. Then Alice approaches and Jasper relays how he walked into the diner and met Alice who told him she had been waiting for him. I just knew it would be the perfect moment to drop in a quick glimpse of what that looked life. Sadly, my hopes were too high because we got no such flashback.
We did, however, get one of the best moments of the movie between you two as Alice tells Jasper he kept her waiting and Jasper with that (at times questionable) drawl replies “sorry to have kept you waiting, ma’m” and then the little kiss. I just melted into the seat. I loved that is panned to Bella who was looking on and then glanced away and smiled to herself. I thought that was a great little moment from Kristen that capped one of my favorite scenes.
But I’m still sad we didn’t get the catch a glimpse of the epic first meeting of Jasper and Alice. It’s no secret I’m a big Jasper/Alice fan and want nothing more than for Stephenie Meyer to take a break and write me the untold Jasper/Alice story before they met the Cullens. Who needs that crap, Midnight Sun, that NO ONE wants finished when we could have Jasper/Alice radness to read? DO IT STEPHENIE!! Or DON’T DO IT STEPHENIE if that helps you out more.
Such a missed opportunity to make this movie even better and to give us Jashley whores a little something to salivate over. Every time Jasper and Alice were on screen everyone in the audience sighed and oh-ed and aw-ed over them, so I KNOW I’m not the only would who would have jumped out of their seat for this moment to happen. BUUUTTT this just means more opportunity for it to be included in Breaking Dawn (1 or 2)!!! And with that, as Jasper said “I felt hope.”
Don’t keep me waiting,
Did you feel the same way? Did everyone around you sigh and die everytime Jasper and Alice had a moment? Died. So great. What other moments do you wish would have made the final cut?
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Thank you for telling me to not store up anything in this world. Objects, people, money, my children.
They are all yours.
Thank you for my abundant blessings.
Please help me to know that I don't control my security. You do.
Please help me to learn to relax in your arms rather than worldly relief.
I fear nothing Lord thanks to you in my heart and soul.
Thank you for the spirit that resides in me.
I look forward to the day I'm home with you.
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