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Our lab’s research focuses on identifying the molecular changes that lead to formation and progression of tumor in patients with hereditary brain tumor syndromes (neurofibromatosis 1, neurofibromatosis 2, schwannomatosis, tuberous sclerosis and von Hipple Lindau). In collaboration with both clinical groups and basic science/mouse modelling groups, our research focuses on translating novel findings to clinical pathology; identifying biomarkers that aid in diagnosis and classification of NF associated tumors; analyzing human tumors to validate novel findings in animal models; and identifying activated pathways that may be targetable by therapy and may help in the development of new treatment modalities by analyzing the effects on treated tumors (in animals and humans). For example, Schwannomas are benign nerve sheath tumors that may arise in people with no underlying genetic syndrome (solitary, sporadic schwannomas) or in the context of two hereditary tumor syndromes: neurofibromatosis 2 and schwannomatosis. Although all schwannomas share the loss of function of the NF2 gene, our hypothesis is that additional microenvironmental factors or epigenetic events are responsible for the clinical manifestations associated with these tumors, such as pain, hearing loss or rapid tumor growth. The identification of these events and of the pathways involved may aid in the diagnosis of the different subclinical types of schwannomas as well as in the development of targeted therapies. Our recent work in collaboration with researchers and clinicians at MGH has unraveled molecular pathways of angiogenesis in schwannomas, leading to targeted antiangiogenesis therapy with clinical improvement in a small series of patients with NF2-associated schwannomas.
Zhao Y, Liu P, Zhang N, Chen J, Landegger LD, Wu L, Zhao F, Zhao Y, Zhang Y, Zhang J, Fujita T, Stemmer- Rachamimov A, Ferraro GB, Liu H, Muzikansky A, Plotkin SR, Stankovic KM, Jain RK, Xu L.Targeting the cMET pathway augments radiation response without adverse effect on hearing in NF2 schwannoma models. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2018; 27:115(9).
Miettinen MM, Antonescu CR, Fletcher CDM, Kim A, Lazar AJ, Quezado MM, Reilly KM, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Stewart DR, Viskochil D, Widemann B, Perry A. Histopathologic evaluation of atypical neurofibromatous tumors and their transformation into malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor in patients with neurofibromatosis 1-a consensus overview. Hum Pathol. 2017; 67:1-10.
Multiple synchronous sites of origin of vestibular schwannomas in neurofibromatosis Type 2.Stivaros SM, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Alston R, Plotkin SR, Nadol JB, Quesnel A, O'Malley J, Whitfield GA, McCabe MG, Freeman SR, Lloyd SK, Wright NB, Kilday JP, Kamaly-Asl ID, Mills SJ, Rutherford SA, King AT, Evans DG. J Med Genet. 2015 Aug;52(8):557-62.
Anti-VEGF treatment improves neurological function and augments radiation response in NF2 schwannoma model. Gao X, Zhao Y, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Liu H, Huang P, Chin S, Selig MK, Plotkin SR, Jain RK, Xu L. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Nov 24;112(47):14676-81.
Identification of a progenitor cell of origin capable of generating diverse meningioma histological subtypes. Kalamarides M, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Niwa-Kawakita M, Chareyre F, Taranchon E, Han ZY, Martinelli C, Lusis EA, Hegedus B, Gutmann DH, Giovannini M. Oncogene. 2011 May 19;30(20):2333-44.
Hearing improvement after bevacizumab in patients with neurofibromatosis type 2. Plotkin SR, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Barker FG 2nd, Halpin C, Padera TP, Tyrrell A, Sorensen AG, Jain RK, di Tomaso E. N Engl J Med. 2009 Jul 23;361(4):358-67. | 2019-04-22T17:00:33 | https://www.massgeneral.org/research/researchlab.aspx?id=1309 |
Discount Dangers is a DaisyBill series on the ways discount contracts incorrectly reduce providers’ reimbursements. With this series, we shine a light on the worst discount practices, and help providers fight back.
Providers should know what they’re getting into when signing a discount contract.
In fact, Labor Code § 4609 explicitly affirms providers’ legal right to know what they’re getting into, and the contracting agent’s legal obligation to make the details clear. Disclosure is crucial to the equitability of a discount contract, and § 4609 mandates that certain key information not be withheld.
Much of that information concerns which payors are entitled to apply discount rates, and how those payors are expected to make the discounts worthwhile for the provider.
In our last installment, we pointed out the contracting agent’s duty to identify the payors eligible to apply a given discount. We also highlighted the payors’ duty to actively direct employees to the providers who offer it. Now, we’d like to take both of those principles a step further.
3. All providers have the right to know, in advance of signing a discount contract, if the discount rates to which they’ve agreed can be sold, leased, or otherwise offered to insurers or employers other than those originally specified.
4. When providers sign on to a discount contract, those providers have the right to know exactly how patients will be actively encouraged to visit their office.
Let’s take a closer look at these rights individually.
Disclose whether the list of contracted providers may be sold, leased, transferred, or conveyed to other payors or other contracting agents, and specify whether those payors or contracting agents include workers compensation insurers or automobile insurers.
The opening paragraph of § 4609 requires that the agent state exactly which insurers and employers are eligible to apply the discount. But that’s not the limit of the agent’s responsibility to the provider. As § 4609(b)(1) states, the agent has to go a step further.
He or she must also disclose the possibility— however hypothetical— of any other payors gaining access to the discount.
This rule is designed to prevent the kind of unpleasant surprise exemplified by “silent PPO” discounts. It’s not enough to simply identify which payors can use the discount; it’s a bare minimum.
To truly comply with the intent of the Labor Code, contracting agents have to let providers know what could happen regarding those discounts— especially if the agent’s intention is to start handing these valuable discounts out to every payor under the sun.
The whole premise of a discount contract’s value to providers is based on one thing: the notion that the contract will bring patients to the provider’s door.
If the first fundamental requirement of a fair discount contract is a limit on the payors who can access it, the second is patient steering. We established in Provider’s Right #2 the requirement to actively encourage employees to visit the providers offering the discount. But again, that’s a minimum.
Payors have to declare how, exactly, they intend to deliver on their end of the bargain.
Whatever payors do to make the contract worthwhile to providers by way of patient steering, they have to specify. Providers are not expected to just take payors’ word for it. They are entitled by law to know the details.
As for what constitutes “active encouragement,” we’ll explore that in our next installment.
DaisyBill has providers’ backs in the fight for proper workers’ comp reimbursement. We offer tools to determine exactly what providers are owed, bill quickly and compliantly, and prevail in disputes. | 2019-04-20T04:58:16 | https://blog.daisybill.com/discount-dangers-provider-bill-of-rights-3-and-4 |
HADOOP-8662 removed the various tabs from the website. Our top-level README.txt and the generated docs refer to them (eg hadoop.apache.org/core, /hdfs etc). Let's fix that. | 2019-04-22T16:36:24 | https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8807 |
Your wife is now twenty-three weeks pregnant. Inside, your baby will have begun to produce insulin, essential for breaking down sugar in his body. Even his proportions will now be quite similar to those of a newborn baby. Click here to view a picture of what the baby will look like at this stage. | 2019-04-24T16:03:27 | http://www.greatdad.com/newsletter/-17-Week/your-baby-is-producing-insulin |
Fall is here. In case you didn't already know that...I mean, I've literally been in denial since Labor Day, but last week as the calendar glared the reality that Fall has indeed arrived, I have no choice but to accept this reality. I was out on a walk recently with my daughter noticing the slightly cooler temperatures and perhaps, maybe a leaf or two along the sidewalk, when my denial slowly began to crack.
I don't hate Fall, but I do love Summer. I love the Sunny days and warmth - I love having need for the air conditioner to be on. I love beaches, wearing my cut-off shorts and tank tops and flip-flops, and never worrying weather I've worn enough layers on a certain day. That being said, I'm gaining a new appreciation for Fall - especially after last year's Fall firsts. And, well, Starbuck's Salted Caramel Mochas have been helping with the transition too.
1. Apple Picking - We went for the first time last year and had a ton of fun. Zion loved riding around in the little Radio Flyer wagon they provided us with as we picked from many different varieties of apples to take home and enjoy.
2. Baking - A huge family tradition in the Fall and leading up to the holiday season is baking - everything from cookies, to candies and even cupcakes too. Pictured above - pumpkin cupcakes with nutella buttercream frosting!
3. Fall Decor - I love the warm colors of Fall, and this year I'm in looking forward to getting a little bit crafty and adding that warmth to our home. I loved making this royal purple and bronze wreath last year.
4. Did I mention I love coffee? I also love making fancy coffee drinks at home. Though I do enjoy coffee year round, I give myself special permission to indulge in fancy coffees (peanut butter chocolate mocha anyone) as we inch towards the holidays.
5. Pumpkin patch! I can't wait for Zion to pick out a pumpkin. We aren't big halloween people, but we still enjoy harvesting a pumpkin or two - and roasting the seeds!
I'm loving the cooler weather, and the fact that now that it's cool we can have more blankets on the bed! | 2019-04-22T16:51:02 | http://www.baxtronlife.com/2012/09/fall-favorites.html |
(partner) collaborator: an associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest; "the musician and the librettist were collaborators"; "sexual partners"
(Partnerships) HRC will lead partnerships with the community to support schools, athletics, and philanthropy.
(Partnerships) These preferred stocks are issued by a partnership’ has its distributions reported on an IRS K1 form. The tax treatment of payment on such preferreds may differ.
(Partnerships) organizations that collaborate to meet goals.
(partnerships) alliances formed among various sectors of the tourism industry. By working together they ensure a better quality product for the consumer and shared business opportunities for the industry.
(Partner) the player with whom one plays as a team against the other two players.
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February is National Wedding Month and in case you didn’t know, Southwest Precision Printers is your one stop shop for wedding invitations in Houston! We have the ability to print save the dates, invitations, RSVP cards, Ceremony Programs, Thank You Cards and give it the special touch you desire! Here is a breakdown of wedding “must-haves” that we can print for you!
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The effects of heroin are horrifying.
Saffron: a safe and sustainable alternative.
America's tackling a problem with no solution.
It's radically upended Mexico's illegal drug market.
The drug that killed Philip Seymour Hoffman and Cory Monteith is re-emerging at a level we haven't seen since the 1970s.
If America banned you from using these words on Facebook, you'd absolutely freak out.
Not only is the decades-long "War on Drugs" not working, but drug prohibition also violates individual freedom. Relegalization would breed responsibility and be a more effective approach. | 2019-04-22T03:07:07 | https://mic.com/topic/opium |
About a year ago I was told by a psychic that I would sell my house (Beechwood Place) and buy a small cottage in a field, surrounded by flowers. I was so excited to hear this and am happy to report that it seems things are falling into place, just as she said they would.
I received a call last night from Michael's mother saying she was going to start simplifying her life because she is getting older. She isn't able to keep up with her gardens like she used to and wants to clear things out. She offered me many of her plants and flowers and without hesitation, I said yes. I can't dig them up until the fall of course, when things calm down a bit and I have a place to put them but I am delighted to think I will have more flowers at the new cottage. She has the most beautiful Butterfly Bush I have ever seen, especially in Maine where they don't seem to do as well. I will have to find the perfect spot for it.
A fresh bouquet picked from the cottage yard.
I do already have some gorgeous flowers blooming all over the property and yesterday I picked a lovely bouquet. There is a large stand of magenta colored Bee Balm (Monarda) and bright yellow Heliopsis in the yard. There are white and pink Cone Flowers (Echinecea) and Gay Feather (Liatris) as well as Whorled Loosestrife (Lysimachia quadrifolia). Of course the wild Queen Anne's Lace and the Heliotrope abound. I added some sprigs of spearmint to the bouquet and the mingled fragrance fills the house.
This is the stand of magenta Bee Balm with white Heliotrope in the background.
Have a beautiful, flower filled day! | 2019-04-26T05:41:28 | http://catchmeadowcottage.blogspot.com/2012/07/surrounded-by-flowers.html |
What advantages does propane have over other energy sources?
There are actually quite a few advantages to using propane as opposed to the other top home energy sources. For one thing, propane heating systems and appliances are extremely efficient, meaning that you’re only paying for the gas that you actually use. Also, you can use propane for tasks as diverse as drying clothes and heating the water in your swimming pool.
Propane is an environmentally friendly fuel as well, so you can use it without worrying about damaging the environment. And the majority of propane used in this country is produced on this continent, which helps to make America more energy-independent moving forward.
Is propane only used for heating?
No. While home heating is the most common way that propane is used, it is far from the only way. In fact, propane can power many of the standard appliances in your home, from your clothes dryer to your stove to your hot water heater. You can even use your central propane tank to power your outdoor gas grill. The more you use propane for, the more money you’ll save in the long run.
Propane gas is an extremely safe source of energy. Propane tanks are highly resistant to damage and must conform to strict government regulations. There are many regulations governing the placement of propane tanks as well, increasing the overall safety of the system. Also, as part of our service agreement with you, we will check periodically to make sure that all parts of your propane system and all of your propane appliances are functioning properly.
Do I need to be home every time I get a propane delivery?
You don’t need to be home for any propane deliveries following the initial one. Our delivery driver will simply leave a slip to alert you to the fact that your tank has been filled. However, if there is a new situation on your property that might impact delivery, such as a new septic tank installation or new power lines on his route to your tank, you should be there so that you can let the driver know so that he can make his delivery safely.
How much will it cost to refill my tank if I bring it to you?
What should I do if I smell gas in my kitchen coming from my cook stove/range?
Call your propane company! You are probably out of gas and need it refilled or exchanged. Most often it is an empty tank that the odorant has concentrated in the bottom of and is releasing the smell into your home. If you go outside and turn off the empty tank, the smell should dissipate within 15 minutes or so. If you have turned off the empty tank and the smell does not go away, let your gas company know immediately.
What is this Hazmat Fee and why am I being charged?
It is a Hazardous Materials Transportation Fee that is charged to us by the government that we, unfortunately, have to pass on to our customers.
Why am I renting your propane equipment?
By leasing our propane equipment, the Annual Cylinder Service Fee makes us responsible for the propane tank(s), the pigtail(s), and the regulator. If a malfunction should occur with the propane tank(s), pigtail(s), and/or regulator, it will be replaced by us at no charge to you. However, if the problem occurs beyond the regulator, we can fix it, but the cost(s) are not our responsibility.
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Software evolves, updates are released and we all tread the moving pavement. So it is even with open-source software projects, such as Drupal and Wordpress. There are few exemptions. To Benjamin Franklin’s death and taxes, we should these days add software updates. And why not? Software projects are complicated and bugs slip out alongside improved functionality. So there is an inevitable iteration of minor and major releases. Minor releases, such as from Drupal 7.1 to Drupal 7.2, are usually evolutionary.
Major version releases, such as from a version 7.n to a version 8.0, are not evolutionary. These are releases that are potentially both revolutionary and/or disruptive. Developers can either crave them or fear them. Each major version promises new and welcome improvements that might merit the popping of champagne corks. But there is the risk that any major version release introduces changes so sweeping that a user is required to question their own loyalty to the brand.
The first Drupal 6 site I built was in 2009. I built between 8 and 10 in the first two years. Having the Drupal Views module to play with was a revelation. It provided the ability to click through an admittedly complex interface to build almost any form of database report to be delivered in standards-compliant code, made as pretty as pie with CSS. This was like being back writing desktop database-reporting solutions, but without needing to grapple with code. Scales fell from eyes. But the pavement keeps moving.
Target user Private, SMEs, non-profits. Private, SMEs, non-profits, businesses. Corporates.
Leap in complexity for the developer compared to the previous version n/a Significant but not problematic. Very considerable.
Drupal 7 followed in January 2011 and I’ve built maybe 20 sites with this major version, most of them being responsive sites. Views has been central to all these systems, and working with it has become almost as natural as breathing. Having an ever-expanding set of third-party modules capable of being plugged into Views has been very special. Having the IP Geolocation Views & Maps module and the Leaflet module, which together run database reports that output data overlaid onto a map, has been nothing short of sensational. In an ideal world, Drupal would stay put just like that, a bit more polish here, a bit of bug-fixing there, minor versions incrementally added, but nothing revolutionary by way of major versions. An ideal world, hhmm.
But that’s not what Drupal 8 is to a small web shop like mine. The evolution from version 7 to version 8 has been revolutionary. A steeper learning curve has been introduced. A slew of new technologies has been wrapped up inside the package, the most notable of which is Symfony, an open-source PHP-based application framework that follows the MVC architecture. Some of Symfony’s components now power Drupal 8 and developers won’t be able to wrangle 8 without wrangling Symfony. In addition, version 8 requires hardware with more grunt. Drupal 8 is targeted at corporates with complex user-bases and high-volume traffic, not the sort of clients that I work with. Drupal’s architecture has changed and it has been overtly positioned in a different commercial space. This is great for those who want to go in that direction. I don’t. So this post summarises what my reaction is to this sea change, and what the challenges and opportunities are.
My needs are simple: I’d like to work with something like Drupal that has something like Views, but with no additional major learning curves. If it could also work with something like IP Geolocation Views & Maps and something like Leaflet so that I can continue to help my clients express their activities in geographic terms, I’d be in heaven. That’s all!
For new clients whose activity does not require a mapping component, I shall provide them with a Backdrop CMS solution.
For new clients whose activity does require a mapping component, I shall provide them with a Drupal 7 solution. When Drupal 7 is end-of-lifed, my hope will be that Backdrop will by then have a mapping solution available and I will perform the transition for them from Drupal 7 to Backdrop. If that mapping option remains unavailable in Backdrop at that time, then I shall endeavour to find a host who is willing to accommodate a Drupal 7 website.
Much as I adore working with Drupal 7, I shall not be moving my skill-set forward to Drupal 8. It is overkill for the overwhelming majority of the projects I work on.
To ensure that the above does not create a negative impression of anything other than Drupal 7, it is worth saying that I consider Backdrop to be a fine piece of work. It is a fork of Drupal 7 which will be very familiar to Drupal 7 developers. It is lighter-weight than Drupal 7 and requires slightly less in terms of server hardware. It is also slightly faster than Drupal 7 (for anonymous users when caching is enabled). In terms of architecture and storage, there are few differences between the two systems. It has also been worked on by many very well-respected members of the Drupal community, particularly Nate Haug (aka quicksketch) and Jen Lampton (jenlampton). Oh, and it has Views baked in to its core. What better?
One more reason to take a closer look at Backdrop is its new Layouts system. This is probably the only aspect of Backdrop that a Drupal 7 shop will not find immediately intuitive. It is a variant of Drupal’s Panels module serving as a page-templating system. Once mastered, it enables designers to establish page regions and pull blocks into these — and do so outside a site’s theme layer. I’m currently using Backdrop for a reasonably complex project and I like what I see.
I consider Backdrop to be an extremely worthy successor to Drupal 7 and once it has its forum up and running so that the Backdrop community can pull in more participants, I believe this will be a thriving open-source project. | 2019-04-23T09:53:49 | https://www.rob-tomlinson.com/blog/drupal-version-8-loyalty-or-farewell |
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I just wanted to let you all know that I’m tonight’s guest on the MyLipAddiction.com Beauty Podcast!
Nice teacup! Where do you buy them? Do you actually use them?
My mom gave me them – some were hers and some were my grandmother’s. These ones I use for display, but I have others that I use for tea.
And thanks so much for being our first guest in the new format!
You will have to ask Cat at mylipaddiction.com, she’s the tech goddess – I was just a guest!
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The Jungle Cruise is an attraction located in Adventureland of the Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California.
The attraction was on the opening day roster of the park and has remained open and largely unchanged in theme and story since then. Aside from alterations and maintenance changes, four completely new show scenes have been added to date. In 1995 the river channel was rerouted to make way for the queue buildings and entrance courtyard of the Indiana Jones Adventure.
While the current version and most previous instances have made use of a comedic spiel, filled with intentionally bad puns, the original intent of the ride was to provide a realistic, believable voyage through the world's jungles. The original spiel had no jokes and sounded much like the narration of a nature documentary.
Sources of inspiration for the attraction include a 1955 True-Life Adventure about a pride of lions, and the movie The African Queen. Imagineer Harper Goff referenced the African Queen frequently in his ideas; even his designs of the ride vehicles were modeled after the steamer used in the film. The project was placed on the schedule to open on July 17, 1955, debut of Disneyland.
When plans began to develop, Bill Evans, the Imagineer responsible for landscaping Disneyland and most of Walt Disney World, faced the daunting task of foresting an entire jungle on a limited budget. Aside from importing many actual tropical plants, he made wide use of "character plants" which, while not necessarily exotic, could give the appearance of exoticism in context. In a particularly well-known trick, he uprooted local orange trees and "replanted" them upside-down, growing vines on the exposed roots. The clean water was dyed brown to prevent visitors from seeing the bottom of the "river," which varies between three and eight feet deep.
In a popular story recounted by Jeff Lange, a writer for weblogging site Jim Hill Media, an experience at the Jungle Cruise helped bolster Walt Disney's obsession with the concept of 'plussing', or continuous improvement. The story claims that Walt overheard a mother visiting Disneyland telling her child that since they had been on the ride the last time they visited the park, they didn't need to ride it again. In horror, he put his Imagineers to work designing upgrades to the ride. Many similar variations of this story exist.
The queue and station are themed as the headquarters and boathouse of a River Expedition Company, located in a (presumably British) colony of the 1930s. The queuing area is cluttered with appropriate props, such as pinned insects, an old radio on top of a bookshelf, and a chessboard with miniature animals and decorated shotgun shells replacing the pieces. The extended queue winds upstairs, underneath an Audio-Animatronic hornbill, and then downstairs again. Big band music from the 1930s plays overhead, punctuated by jungle-related news bulletins, helping to reinforce the setting and threading together the show scenes and boat.
Once aboard the boats, guests are introduced to their skipper and they head into the jungle, allegedly never to return. The first rivers simulated are the Irrawaddy and Mekong rivers, representing tropical Southeast Asia. The boats sail through a dense rainforest, and ancient Cambodian temple ruins where passengers see a Bengal Tiger, giant spiders, king cobras, and crocodiles. Passing a shrine to the elephant-headed Hindu deity Ganesha, the boats enter the Sacred Indian Elephant Bathing Pool where dozens of Indian elephants prance in the water and squirt water at the passing vessels.
The theme transitions to the rivers of Africa and riders see a family of baboons and a safari camp that has been overrun by gorillas. The boats careen past the dramatic waterfall, Schweitzer Falls, between two African Elephants, and large termite mounds. A tableau of the African Veldt follows, showing zebras, wildebeest, and giraffes watching a pride of lions feasting on a zebra beneath a rocky outcropping. Beyond the lion's den, an angry rhinoceros has chased a safari party up a tree. Antelope and hyenas watch from nearby. The skipper then pilots the boat into a large pool, disturbing a pod of hippos that signal their intent to attack the boat. Armed with a gun filled with blanks, the skipper fires into the air to frighten them away.
Drums and chanting are heard as the boats come to headhunter country. The vehicles pass a native village before sailing into an ambush by natives wielding spears, the sound effects for which are usually provided by the skipper.
The boats pass behind Schweitzer Falls (referred to as "the Backside of Water") to enter the Amazon River. Skeletal animal remains and warning signs featuring pictures of dagger-toothed fish forewarn the next show scene, where the boats encounter a swarm of leaping piranha. The guests then pass a pool of water buffalo and meet shrunken head dealer Trader Sam before returning to the dock.
The baboons at the safari camp previously sat on the African termite mounds. A total of six lions have been removed since opening day: one that growled when the African Veldt was added, two lionesses from the Veldt that were fighting over a bloody strand of zebra meat, a lion and a lioness that each had a zebra leg in their mouth, and a dead lion hanging on a spit over a fire in the native village. Also removed from the Veldt were African wild dogs barking at the pride. The native village was originally a dense jungle filled with tikis, masks, and several more natives. Trader Sam previously wore a mask and a gorilla across the channel tried to grab his merchandise.
There are 12 vehicles, with a maximum of 9 in operation at any given time. The boats in 1955 were painted as clean, idealized replicas, but have since been given a more realistic theming reflecting the grunge and wear of actual watercraft due to the addition of Indiana Jones Adventure and its ruggedness. | 2019-04-18T15:47:13 | https://disneyparks.fandom.com/wiki/Jungle_Cruise_(Disneyland_Park) |
I’ve always been drawn to matters of the heart and the amazing connection that exists when you bring family together. Before my career as a wedding photographer, I was a cardiology nurse. I worked with patients intimately and incorporated their families into the treatment and healing process. It was a beautiful time in my life because I was so intertwined with patients as they went through something profound. What I love about documenting a wedding day is that I also work so closely with couples, and with their family. I am able to witness and participate in an event that will forever be remembered and celebrated. It is truly an honor and a privilege to have that close connection to those I’m photographing.
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Israeli political and military leaders mention the tunnel threat nearly every time they speak, and have gained widespread international support for eliminating them. The military in recent days has distributed photographs of tunnels that troops uncovered, and videos of them placing explosives inside and blowing some up. As part of the propaganda push, the military has also invited a few journalists underground for a tour.
My Webster's Second unabridged has as a definition of propaganda, "any systematic, widespread, deliberate indoctrination or plan for such indoctrination: now often used in a derogatory sense, connoting deception or distortion."
That "derogatory sense" and connotation of deception and distortion make "propaganda" the wrong word to use in this spot of the article. The word Israelis use for this sort of thing, and the word the reporter was probably looking for, is "hasbara," or "explanation." It's not as if Israel dug the tunnels as a deception, falsely to portray Hamas as terrorists. It may be public relations to highlight the tunnels, but propaganda isn't the right word.
The word also cropped up in cutlines for another front-page Jodi Rudoren article, which referred to "an anti-Palestinian propaganda video uploaded by the Israel Defense Forces," and also to "an anti-Israel propaganda video by Hamas." | 2019-04-21T00:21:05 | https://www.smartertimes.com/1255/israeli-propaganda |
Betty Rate* : Overall, I Give this Game 4.5 Stars. Not Bad ! I Like "FUN KID RACING MAGIC FOREST".
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About this Game : Immerse yourself into this enchanted fairytale kingdom full of magic, spells and charms! | 2019-04-21T11:02:34 | https://www.ecech.com/2016/11/fun-kid-racing-magic-forest-game-review.html |
Once project funding is secured and the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors authorizes the a project's advertisement, bids, plans and specifications are made available to the public for bidding purposes. Only plans, special provisions, and other bid documents that have been purchased from the Department of Public Works can be submitted with a bid proposal. Plans and specifications that are posted online, exhibited at Builders Exchanges, or as otherwise made available are considered to be for "informational purposes" and cannot be submitted as a valid bid.
The County of Humboldt maintains a central web page for Request for Proposals.
Only those contractors/consultants that have purchased a bid package from the Department of Public Works are placed on a “Plan Holder’s List" which is used to determine whether or not a contractor/consultant is a "responsive bidder". | 2019-04-20T22:33:30 | https://humboldtgov.org/1857/Invitation-To-Bid |
Northeast China is popularly known as 东北 (Dongbei ) in Chinese and historically as "Manchuria". It is mainly composed of China's northmost three provinces including Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang. Harbin is the capital city of Heilongjiang Province. It is China's northmost metropolitan city featuring Russian style buildings and winter's ice and snow activities.
This is the right place to plan your winter dream vacation to the Ice Festival Harbin and Yabuli Ski Resort from Beijing and other destinations. We offer one stop service - airport & railway station transfer, city car rental, city tours, ski resort transfer, train & flight tickets booking, hotel reservation, dining guide and ski resort information for your trip to Harbin and Yabuli Ski Resort.
Our chauffeur services include airport, railway as well as private drivers to pick you up and drop you off at your various destinations including Yubuli and China Snow Town.We keep the most competitive prices and use reputable licensed private hire vehicle operators.
There are two major passenger railway stations in Harbin - Harbin Railway Station and Harbin West Railway Station. Harbin Railway Station is designed for T and Z trains while Harbin West Railway Station for G and D trains. Harbin West Railway Station is about 8 km to the southwest of Harbin Railway Station.
Harbin is a major rail transportation hub, reaching out the northeast and beyond to Beijing, Shanghai, Xian, Guangzhou and main cities in China. For Chinese new year tourist peak season in winter, getting a train ticket is not easy, so booking your tickets well in advance is necessary.
A dozen of trains running daily on Beijing Harbin line including D trains, Z trains, T and K trains. D trains and Z trains are most preferred by foreign travelers due to comfort and speed reasons. There are also daily overngiht K or Z trains going to Harbin from Xian, Shanghai and Guangzhou.
Harbin Taiping International Airport is the second largest in the Northeast International Airport, located 45km in the western suburbs of Harbin.
There are flights to Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Nanjing, Qingdao, Wenzhou, Xiamen, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Shenyang, Dalian, Xi'an including more than 30 large, medium tourist cities with annual transport volume of over 7 million people. It has constructed the air routes with Japan Niigata , Seoul, South Korea, Russia Vladivostok and the Hong Kong SAR.
Harbin Long-distance Bus Station: Just across from the train station, a building next to Bei Bei Hotel.
There are dozens of long-distance bus lines, with the important province to province to neighboring towns and cities: Qiqihar, Wu Da Lianchi, Changchun, Yanji and Dalian.
Harbin is a paradise for winter ice and snow. Harbin is a good summer resort as well.
For winter ice and snow addicts, the best time to visit Harbin is January and early February during the new year period (both the western and Chinese). The exciting yearly ice and snow festival normally starts from Jan 05 each year. Late February most of the exhibited ice and snow sculptures begin to melt.
Harbin is also a mecca for summer holidaymakers. Unlike the scorching weather elsewhere in summer, especially in southern China, Harbin is a great place to visit in summer, when the average temperature of hottest August is about 23 degree Celsius and plenty of rainfall arrives.
Songhua River cuts Harbin city proper into two parts - North and South. The south part is the traditional city center dominated by Daoli Disrict housing most of the historical buildings of Russian influence that give the city its character.
The two major commercial streets - Zhongyan Dajie ( a pedestrian street) and Zhaolin Jie run parallel to each other from northwest to southeast. Another pair of commercial streets also going parallel are Guogeli Street and Red Army Street.
Harbin Railway Station is located south of Zhongyang Dajie in the center of the town, opposite the long-distance bus station. Harbin West Railway Station is about 8 km to the southwest of Harbin Railway Station. Harbin airport is situated 45km west of the city proper.
North of Songhua River is the new development zone. Sun Island (Snow Sculpture Festival in winter), Polarland, Siberian Tiger Park as well as the Ice and Snow World (in winter) are all in the north of Songhua River.
The present number of taxis in Harbin is far from enough to meet the increasing taxi market demand. So, it is not easy and convenient for passengers to take a taxi in Harbin. Very often you have to wait much longer time before you can hail a taxi. Pre-booking a taxi is Harbin is highly recommended. Taxis cost RMB 8 for first 3km, then RMB 1.9 per km.
Airport to city center taxis takes 45 minutes (RMB 100-130). From airport, shuttle buses drop you at the railway station or CAAC office building (RMB 20).
A number of public buses stop at the railway station. The Public Bus No.01 goes from the station through the heart of the Daoli District. Bus 101 and 103 runs along from Shangzhi Dajie from Stalin Park to the railway station.
Harbin is not a big foreign tourist area, except in winter. The choice of hostels in Harbin is pretty limited with plenty of hotels at the top end, but not much for budget travellers.
Harbin is a much developed tourist destination with all the basic facilities. It has many attraction sites that are suitable for family leisure travel.
1. Church of St.Sophia - Harbin St. Sophia Church is the largest Eastern Orthodox Church in China as well in the Far East. It is a landmark in Harbin.
Add: Situated in No.1, Century Av. Songbei District (On the corner of Toulin Street and Zhaolin Street).
How to get there: Take bus No.101 from the Railway Station to the church or bus No.2 from Stalin Park.
2. The Stalin Park - The Stalin Park is located on the southern bank of the Songhua River.
How to get there: Take the Bus No.11 bus from the railway station to the park. In additiona, the Buses No.16, No.2 and No.26 also stop at the park.
3. Sun Island Park - This island is the biggest recreational center in Harbin both popular in the summer and winter. Each year the famous ice festival will be held in the island.
How to get there: Take the bus No.101 or 102 to the ferry in the north of Stalin Park. Take the ferry to the island. Or you may take a taxi to cross the river through the Songhua River Bridge.
5. Siberian Tiger Park - The Siberian tiger is considered endangered. It is the largest felid in the world.
How to get there: Take the bus no.85 or take a taxi towards Daqing on 201 National Highway. Turn left on Songbei Lu near Commercial University.
6. Japanese Germ Warfare Base Museum - In 1939 the Japanese army set up a top-secret germ warefare research center in Harbin.
How to get there: Take the bus No.338 from the railway station to Xinjiang Dajie. or you may take bus 343 from Kunlun Hotel to Xinjiang Dajie. Then walk 10 minutes from the stop.
7. Heilongjiang Provincial Museum - It is the biggest museum in Heilongjiang.
How to get there: Just catch Bus No 64 from Daoli District.
10. Yabuli Ski Resort - Located The resort is one of the best natural skiing resorts in China.
How to get there: You first take the daily tourist trains from the downtown Harbin to Yabuli Town. The one way train ride takes about 3 hours. After arriving at the town, you again take a mini tourist to the tourist ski resort.
Zhongyang Dajie is home to two McDonald's and two KFC branches. To grab a bite, in the basement of Zhongyang Shopping Mall at Zhongyang Dajie 100, you will find a lot of Chinese food to choose.
It is a time-honored Muslim restaurant, named after Donglaishun in Beijing. It is famous for its hopot - the thin-sliced mutton is the main hotpot ingredient.
It is an Indian food chain offering good garlic nan, cashew pilau and butter paneer. The restaurant is good for vegetarian and meat-eaters alike.
Jiaozi is a famous food in China. Dongfang Jiaozi Wang is a well known Jiaozi Chain Restautant. This jiaozi restaurant is regarded as the "King of Eastern Dumpling" serving some of the best jiaozi in China.
This is a 4-storey western food restaurant serving the standard western food in Harbin with good service. It is a cozy place for a romantic meal - Russian red soup, cabbage rolls with cream sauce, a range of chicken, fish and steak are also available.
1. Zhongyang Dajie: The cobblestone lined street is a pedestrian only street lined with Russian resteraunts, French fashion houses, American snack food outlets, Japanese restaurants and more Chinese stores.
2. Guogeli Dajie: Guogeli Dajie, Harbin's second biggest shopping district after Zhongyang Dajie. The street is dotted with Russia-style shops and architectures.
It is on the north side of Dong Dong Zhi Dajie (opposite the main post office), is once one of the largest department stores in East Asia.
There are several shopping centers in and around the commercial center.
Although night is much colder than daytime in Harbin, the nightlife here is more colorful. In your Harbin Winter Tour, viewing the Ice-lantern inside the Sun Island in the evening is the best choice.
During your Harbin Summer Tour, the St. Sophia Square is the most noise. People gather there to chat, stroll, roller skating…… the foreigner tourist take photos as a souvenir. The Music Fountain is more attractive, the fair-sounding music made the atmosphere more harmonious, dreamy. The Harbin people prefer the beer. Harbin is the third beer city after Munich, and Paris.
Not surprisingly, the city used to be nicknamed “Little Moscow”, and though much of the old architecture has been torn down and replaced with sterile blocks and skyscrapers, the place still looks a little like the last thread- bare outpost of imperial Russia.
Leafy boulevards are lined with European- style buildings painted pastel shades, and bulbous onion domes dot the sky- line. It’s possible to eat in Russian restaurants, and the locals have picked up on some of their neighbour’s customs: as well as developing a taste for ice cream and pastries.
1. Wear casually with comfortable sports anti-slippery warm shoes and pay attention to the climate in Harbin.
2. A warning tip : winter in Harbin is bitter cold! You need plenty of pullovers, gloves, socks, a good winter boot and a good jacket to "survive".
3. The Chinese love fireworks, and before, during and after Chinese New Year, everyone sets off huge quantities of fireworks and firecrackers. Take great care while you are out walking even on busy city-centre streets. If you are tempted into buying fireworks, make absolutely sure you know how to light them.
4. With buses, cars, semis, bicycles and pedetrians moving in every direction, road crossings can be daunting.
5. Keep your camera warm: electronic shutter of the camera below at -20 ° C, the battery is easy to be "discharged", the camera is out of order, and the shutter doesn't work. Therefore, after you finish your outdoor filming, please keep the camera the cloak, keep it warm. addition, we must prepare more batteries just in case.
6. Take anti-cold Drugs: be ready for anti-cold tablets and other drug treatment.
Yabuli Ski Resort is located 20km southeast of Yabuli Town. There are two train stations in Yabuli - Yabuli Train Station (in the town) and Yabuli South Train Station (near Yabuli Ski Resort). Several trains pass over Yabuli Train Station including the major trains from Beijing, Harbin, Mudanjiang, Dalian.
In winter tourist season, daily tourism trains will be operated on Harbin Yabuli line using Yabuli South Train Station. Apart from Harbin, Beijing and Mudanjiang are the best place to get to Yabuli by train.
Note: Get off at Yabuli Train Station, then take the local mini bus for Yabuli Ski Resort (RMB 10 for buses, RMB 50 for taxis, 20km southeast of Yabuli Town). If you take the tourism trains from Harbin to Yabuli South Station, you will still walk about 2-5km to your hotels in Yabuli Ski Resort ( better to arrange your train and hotel transfer through your hotel).
No airport near Yabuli. Basically you need to fly for Beijing, Harbin and Mudanjiang where you connect either trains or long-distance buses for Yabuli. From Yabuli Town, you need to connect local mini buses or taxis for Yabuli Ski Resort (RMB 10 for buses, RMB 50 for taxis, 20km southeast of Yabuli Town).
The two bus stations in Harbin offer Harbin Yabuli bus line service.
The Mudanjiang Long-distance Bus Station also offer bus service to Yabuli.
Once in Yabuli Town, you need to take the local mini bus or taxis for Yabuli Ski Resort (RMB 10 for buses, RMB 50 for taxis, 20km southeast of Yabuli Town).
Normallly for snow skiers, the best time to visit Yabuli is from early December to later February next year. With the coming of the Club Med Snow Resort in Yabuli, Yabuli has also become a resort all year around. Each year find a lot of companies hold their business meetings in Yabuli. More and more individual travelers flock Yabuli for summer and autumn outings.
Yabuli Ski Resort is located 20km southeast of Yabuli Town. Yabuli Ski Resort is the official name given to the biggest ski resort in China (Chinese: ) lying about 230km to the south-east of Harbin city and 130km to the west of Mudanjiang city.
Yabuli Ski Resort is composed of several ski resorts big or small with over 10 hotels ranging from basic guesthouse to luxury hotels. Among them there are three most well known ski grounds in Yabuli Ski Resort - Sun Mountain Ski Resort (Melco Ski Resort), Yabuli Ski Resort (same name as the official one for the whole area) and Avaunce (Yabuli) Ski Resort. Each ski resort has its own accommodation choices.
Though only 200 meters apart from Yabuli South Railway Station to the entrance, you are supposed to walk about 2.5km to get to Avaunce Ski Resort, 5km to Sun Mountain Ski Resort or Yabuli Ski Resort. That means both Sun Mountain Ski Resort and Yabuli Ski Resort are more than 5 km apart from Yabuli South Railway Station.
When you get off from the Yabuli South Railway Station, you can take the local shuttle bus to your hotel or ski resort in Yabuli Ski Resort.
The shuttle buses run between different hotels and resorts. You can also stop any shutte buses on the road inside the resort for a bus transfer.
Yabuli Ski Resort is composed of several ski resorts big or small with over 10 hotels ranging from basic guesthouse to luxury hotels.
Among them there are three most well known ski grounds in Yabuli Ski Resort - Sun Mountain Ski Resort (Melco Ski Resort), Yabuli Ski Resort (same name as the official one for the whole area) and Avaunce (Yabuli) Ski Resort. Each ski resort has its own accommodation choices. | 2019-04-20T02:59:07 | http://www.tour-beijing.com/side_trips/beijing_harbin_tour.php |
Duncombe Cemetery is the only cemetery available in Ferryhill for burials. Ferryhill Town Council has been providing the facility for over 100 years and is currently in the process of substantially improving and extending the area.
Land adjacent to Duncombe Cemetery was purchased by Ferryhill Town Council in 2002 to create an extension to the existing cemetery.
The last few years has seen Duncombe Cemetery benefit from funding grants in excess of £100,000. £74,000 alone was awarded by the Countryside Agency and Lafarge Aggregates to enable Ferryhill Town Council to develop a much sought after Memorial Garden for the Town.
Complete with high surrounding walls, to define the garden area, the Memorial Garden incorporates a central grassed area with planted borders, including scented flowerbeds, marble seating, ornamental water feature with fountain and polished, granite wall tablets complete with plaques of remembrance, which families can purchase.
Now complete, Ferryhill Town Council would like to invite anyone interested in purchasing a plaque of remembrance, at Duncombe Memorial Garden, to contact the Town Hall to make arrangements.
Plaques are available at a cost of £170 plus VAT which includes inscription. To download an application form <<click here>>.
Families can also purchase granite benches to go in the Memorial Garden with an epitaph of remembrance for £520 plus VAT and inscription.
Also recently completed is the new Ashes Garden within the cemetery, plots within the ashes garden can be purchased as single plots for caskets of ashes. Once a casket of ashes has been buried in the ashes garden a granite plaque can be purchased from a local Stonemason which must sit on top of the plot and be flat to the ground. For prices for the ashes garden please follow the link below to the burial fees & charges.
For further details about the proposed developments at Duncombe Cemetery, or to purchase a plaque of remembrance, please contact Ferryhill Town Council on 01740 652157.
Plans to convert the former chapel building at the cemetery into a Heritage Centre are also well underway. Two Heritage Centre Exhibition days have been held in the Chapel to gauge the level of demand for a permanent Heritage Centre in the Town. Both events proved hugely popular with over two hundred people attending each day. The Town Council and Ferryhill History Society are still keen to hear people’s views on the proposal to develop a permanent Centre. A survey requesting people’s views was created and completed by over 150 residents. To view the results of the Heritage Centre questionnaire <<click here>>.
Additional grants secured have also seen a new car park and footpath link to the Carrs Nature Reserve which is a Site of Special Scientific Interest be developed.
A healthy, well run and supported 'Friends of Duncombe Cemetery' ground is an important aspect for the future of the Cemetery. The group which are keen to attract new members have already adopted a constitution and devised a set of aims to improve the presentation, conservation and restoration for the respectful enjoyment of the public visiting Duncombe Cemtery and in particular the Remembrance Garden. It is envisaged that with the support of Ferryhill Town Council the 'Friends of' group will evolve, grow and develop, for more information about the 'Friends' group or to become a member please contact Karen Younghusband at Ferryhill Town Hall on 01740 652157.
If you would like to trace the grave of someone interred in Duncombe Cemetery, this can be done by searching the index <<click here>> for a link to the index book. Alternatively, if you would like to find out full details of a burial at Duncombe Cemetery, staff at Ferryhill Town Council can undertake a burial search at a cost of £6.00 + VAT per search, or you could visit the Town Hall and look through the full set of burial books, for this there is no charge. | 2019-04-24T19:46:48 | http://ferryhill.gov.uk/services/duncombe_cemetery.htm |
Contact us at 346-214-4807 for any information related to root canal cost or you want to avail root canal services.
Root canal is an extremely effective way to treat an infected tooth. Endodontic therapy can not only preserve the tooth but also protect it from further damages. Today, with advanced dental technologies and sedation dentistry, dental procedures have become less complicated. Therefore, getting through a root canal is no more a problem. If a deep tooth cavity is left untreated, it can result in severe dental problems. Reach out to us if you are experiencing the discomforts caused by an infected tooth.
The endodontist will do an x-ray of the mouth to check if there are any indications of infection around the bone area.
Then the area around the tooth will be numbed.
The next step would be to apply a dental dam in that area.
The endodontist will then make a hole in your tooth by drilling it.
After that, the food particles and the infected nerves will be removed.
Then the space will be filled with a temporary filling.
Your tooth will be restored with a dental crown after a few days.
If dental procedures are repeated.
If a tooth is chipped.
Why Must an Infected Pulp Be Removed?
To prevent the tooth from getting completely infected.
To prevent bacteria formation from increasing.
To prevent a hole that can appear in the side of the tooth.
What are the Symptoms that May Indicate the Need of Root Canal?
When tooth sensitivity turns into a persistent discomfort.
The color of your tooth appears dark.
A persistent boil or a pimple on your gums.
If the formation of bacteria multiplies near the nerve tissue.
How Can You Prevent Infected Tooth?
A proper oral hygiene is essential. So, along with brushing and flossing, don’t forget to scrape your tongue. Remember that your tongue is a common place for the bacteria to live.
Balance the pH level in your mouth. Thus, don’t eat much acidic food.
Don’t keep your infected tooth untreated. Give Floss Dental – Midtown, TX a call now at (346) 214-4807 to get your mouth checked. We will diagnose the problem and come up with an effective solution to help you get rid of the discomfort that you are experiencing. | 2019-04-20T04:35:41 | https://www.flossdentalhouston.com/services/root-canal/ |
TDWI’s annual BI Benchmark Report enables business intelligence (BI) teams to compare themselves to their peers on a series of organizational and performance metrics. The 2016 BI Benchmark Report is based on a Web survey of 192 BI professionals conducted worldwide in spring and early summer 2016. The results are based on responses from IT professionals, business sponsors, users, and systems integrators in order to focus on the individuals who most directly drive BI initiatives. Responses from vendor representatives, and professors and students without other professional roles have been excluded, as have incomplete responses from all participants. | 2019-04-21T03:01:14 | https://tdwi.org/research/2016/09/tdwi-bi-benchmark-report-organizational-and-performance-metrics-for-business-intelligence-teams.aspx |
Steve Jones believes there is a direct link to roadsides being sprayed with herbicides, such as Roundup, and the loss of Ventnor wall lizards. OnTheWight has been in touch with the Isle of Wight council.
Leader of the Isle of Wight council, Dave Stewart, says he's "done some research" on the IPCC special climate emergency report but believes the ‘climate extinction, emergency everything’ position is "un-evidenced".
Many Islanders travelled to London last year to protest at Trump's visit to the city, so cross-Solent operators may be busy on 5th June for more than one reason. Portsmouth's leader has a few choice words about the President's proposed visit too.
About one out of every 10,000 people are diagnosed with sarcoidosis, a chronic, sometimes fatal disease that is not commonly understood. This Isle of Wight patient helps us to understand more about it during Sarcoidosis Awareness Month. | 2019-04-24T20:42:47 | https://onthewight.com/aaa_layout/featured/ |
Palm Bibinje - Lovely House On The Water!
We will provide all home rules and information to make your stay a pleasant one for you as our guests and for us as homeowners. We will provide phone numbers and answer all your requests and questions. Please let me know of your arrival time and mode of transport. Smoking is allowed but only on the terrace or in the outside courtyard.
We will meet you when you arrive to tour the house and the area surrounding us if you wish. Give you instructions for the house, leave you keys and be out of your way within 30 minutes. We are accessible and ready to be of service 24/7 during your stay and we will happily pass along suggestions as to where to go and what to see during your vacation.
Close to beach, restaurants. Great courtyard. Super clean.
The house is located in the Old Village part of Bibinje on the marina bay. Bibinje center is a 10 minute walk. Fresh bread, home grown fruits and vegetables, home made wines and liquors, honey and olive oil all within minutes walk. Zadar is the 2016 Number 1 European Destination and 10 mins away by car. Restaurants all around us sitting on the sea. Tennis available 200m away. Buses regularly from Bibinje to Zadar. We live on a well known promenade which is full of visitors walking peacefully around the bay and the marina every evening. Car travel is preferred to visit Croatian National Parks of vast natural beauty. Boat rentals are a stones throw away and boar tours to neighboring islands are offered daily.
Beaches, cafe bars, restaurants, food shopping, bakeries, newsstands, automats, pizza all within walking distance. Most exciting for families with children: a new amusement park has opened on the coast only 20km for our door called Fun Park Mirnovec, for a great family day. | 2019-04-24T06:57:08 | https://www.tripadvisor.com/VacationRentalReview-g1943239-d10427639-Palm_Bibinje_Lovely_House_On_The_Water-Bibinje_Zadar_Zadar_County_Dalmatia.html |
My brain itches right now, with this sense that new ideas are waiting to burst forth. I don’t know yet where they will take me but I can see the seeds.
I’ve been rereading parts of Don Quixote in preparation to speak about it in a class I’m teaching. At the same time, I’m reading the book Paranoia and Modernity: Cervantes to Rousseau by John Farrell. Among other things the book talks about the ways in which Don Quixote appeals to the possibility of enchanters, both helpful and malevolent to explain the disconnect between his understanding of reality and reality itself.
My own mind seasons this topic with examples of antivaxxer arguments as taken from facebook. I’m fascinated with the antivaxxer movement not just because at one point I believed vaccines could be dangerous, but because it seems as good an example as any of how groups of people live with totally different understandings of reality. There are people who cry at the thought that their child might marry someone who is vaccinated, for fear of what damage the residual effect of the vaccines might do to the person’s hypothetical grandchildren. Vaccines are for most of us a minor inconvenience and a taken for granted aspect of modern health care, but for some it is a total nightmare. It is a mountain made out of a molehill, if not also a giant made out of a windmill?
How did people go from a time when Don Quixote was read as satire, with Quixote understood to be the fool, to the point where Quixote is a hero? In the musical Man of La Mancha he is fighting against the insanity of the world, bringing dignity and chivalry to the underdogs of society. What happened to our ability to recognize his foolishness as foolishness – a construction of his own brain brought about by reading to many blogs, err, umm, novels of chivalry?
I feel this deep hunger right now, to throw myself into studying the ideas of the classics. How do we find our way out of the fishbowls, the fantasies and world views we take for granted? My bookshelves and library records can attest that I am well-read and yet there are times like now where I feel so ignorant.
I’ve come across this great quote from Francis Bacon, and I don’t know enough about the context to really understand it. Does it reflect what I feel right now, this sense of ignorance about everything, this deep desire to learn more?
For my own part at least, in obedience to the everlasting love of truth, I have committed myself to the uncertainties and difficulties and solitudes of the ways and, relying on the divine assistance, have upheld my mind both against the shocks and embattled ranks of opinion, and against my own private and inward hesitations and scruples, and against the fogs and clouds of nature, and the phantoms flitting about on every side, in the hope of providing at last for the present and future generations guidance more faithful and secure. Wherein if I have made any progress, the way has been opened to me by no other means than the true and legitimate humiliation of the human spirit.
What did Bacon mean by the “true and legitimate humiliation of the human spirit”? I read it an interpret it as the sense of insignifiance I feel when I come face to face with how little I know about anything, but it is very possible Bacon meant something totally different.
I have spent the last few years telling myself I was reading all I can about the 16th to 18th centuries but in truth I have only dabbled. I thirst for more.
I’m an adult but I crave imaginary friends. I want to be able to invite both Francis Bacon and Ralph Waldo Emerson to tea in my mind, to compare their ideas about education. I know that doing so I would be comparing not their ideas exactly but my understanding of their ideas, shaded and colored by my own biases and limits. Still, if that’s the closest I can come, I want to do it. I want to learn everything I can about the great writers.
I participated in a facebook discussion recently about the accuracy of Canadian history curriculum, and at some point someone said she questions whether she has the knowledge to homeschool at all. How do we, as homeschooling parents, wrestle with our own gaps in our education?
For me, I take comfort in the idea that my children’s education does not end when they turn eighteen, but will continue throughout their lives. | 2019-04-23T19:01:13 | http://housefulofchaos.com/just-keep-reading-just-keep-reading/ |
Common Law vs. Civil Law: What’s the Difference?
Some laws are made by the legislature, but others are made in the courtroom. “Common law” is when a decision in a case sets the precedent for similar cases that follow. Here’s the difference between common law and civil law, and why it matters.
If you’re filing a lawsuit, your lawyer might throw around words that are unfamiliar — and you might feel awkward asking a lot of questions.
In this article, we’ll help break down one legal concept that’s important to understand for someone pursuing legal action.
You might already know the difference between criminal law and civil law. A criminal case arises when someone is arrested for committing a crime. There are all types of crimes: white collar (financial or business-related), violence against people, damage to property, traffic-related, and more. Criminal offenses range from misdemeanors (less serious crimes) to felonies and capital felonies (most serious). When someone is convicted in criminal court, the penalty could be a fine, community service, probation, or jail time. There’s no “plaintiff” in a criminal case; the person who was arrested is the defendant and the opposing side is the government (local, state, or federal) as the prosecutor.
Any court action that doesn’t involve an arrest or crime is a civil action. When one person or entity sues another, it’s a civil case and the only remedy is for the plaintiff to recover damages in the form of money. These cases involve a plaintiff (the person or company suing) and defendant (the person or company being sued — and there are often multiple defendants in a single case).
Enjuris tip: Pharmaceutical liability cases are a perfect example of cases that often have multiple defendants. In a pharmaceutical liability case, defendants could include the drug manufacturer, prescribing physician, the hospital or clinic where you were given the drug, the pharmacy, and anyone else in the chain of custody of the medication from manufacturer to patient.
If you’ve filed a civil lawsuit — whether a car accident, medical malpractice, toxic tort, or something else — the first thing your lawyer might do is look at common law, also known as case law.
Each state and federal government has its own set of laws and regulations, which are statutory or regulatory laws. Those laws are set by the government’s legislative branch (state legislatures or the US Congress). The courts (judicial branch) are required to follow these laws, but they don’t create them.
The courts do create laws based on how they rule on particular cases, and those become common law. When a court issues a decision, the basis of the decision — the why — establishes a precedent for future cases with similar facts.
In other words, that case becomes law for cases that follow.
Can a judge make new law because they don’t like the ones from previous cases?
Once precedent is established, it’s not that easy for it to be overturned. In general, when there’s a previous decision with similar facts, the court is bound to follow that reasoning and deliver the same verdict as the previous court. This principle is called stare decisis (in Latin, “decided”).
However, the court might determine that the facts of the current case are sufficiently different from any other case that has come before it, which allows the court to reverse a decision or make a decision based on a different theory of law. In that situation, it’s called a matter of first impression.
When that happens, the judge’s decision must set forth how this case is different and then it would become precedent for future cases. Usually, if a court attempts to set precedent, the case will continue through the appeals process, which means it will be retried in a higher court to determine if the decision should stick or be overturned.
Enjuris tip:“Precedent” usually only controls cases in the same court system. So, if precedent is set in a New York court, it would not apply in Montana. It might be considered “persuasive authority,” which can influence the Montana court to follow the decision, but it wouldn’t be binding.
Palsgraf v. Long Island RR Co., New York, 1928: Even though this is a case from 1928, it set a precedent that still holds today and establishes a rule of law that’s important for many personal injury cases. The Palsgraf case answers the question of liability to an unforeseen plaintiff.
Facts: Helen Palsgraf, the plaintiff, was waiting on the platform for a Long Island Rail Road train. Another passenger was boarding the train just ahead of her with the assistance of a railroad employee, when the passenger dropped a package that exploded. The impact of the explosion caused a coin-operated scale on the platform to fall and hit her, and she suffered injury as a result.
Result: The court ruled that the railroad wasn’t negligent. It had no duty of care to Ms. Palsgraf because it couldn’t have foreseen her injury. In other words, the railroad couldn’t know that if its employees helped the other passenger, he would drop the package, it would explode, and it would set off a chain reaction that would result in her injury. This case set the standard for foreseeability in the law. In tort law, injury is foreseeable if it could reasonably be predicted by an average person in that circumstance.
Lerbakken v. Sieloff and Associates, P.A., US Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, 2018: This recent case changes how financial advisers handle retirement assets in a divorce.
Facts: Brian Lerbakken, the plaintiff, was awarded half of his ex-wife’s 401(k) and all of her individual retirement account in the couple’s divorce settlement. However, when he later filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, he declared the retirement funds were exempt and couldn’t be reached by creditors. In general, there are statutory bankruptcy protections for 401(k) and IRA accounts.
Result: The court ruled that the retirement funds weren’t exempt from Lerbakken’s bankruptcy. The court reasoned that once a retirement account is separated from its original owner (inherited), it’s no longer considered a retirement fund and is therefore available to creditors in a bankruptcy.
When you consult with an attorney, they’ll likely research case law to see if there’s a previous similar case where precedent might apply. They’ll gather all the facts of your situation and carefully study case law to see if there are similar cases because those will help the attorney advise of your chances of winning your lawsuit.
Beyond that, precedent provides your lawyer with arguments in your favor. They’ll look to cases with facts similar to yours and use the court’s decision to make your case. That’s one of many reasons why you should consider hiring a qualified, experienced lawyer.
Find an attorney who’s knowledgeable and comfortable with the area of law specific to your case. If you’ve used a divorce lawyer, that person might not be the right fit for your personal injury case. It’s important to know what to look for as you hire your lawyer for any legal action. Litigation can be costly and time-consuming. You might think you have a great case, but understanding the elements of your lawsuit will help you (and your lawyer) know if it’s worth your time and money. | 2019-04-20T14:34:05 | https://www.enjuris.com/personal-injury-law/common-vs-civil-law.html |
The key feature of jewelry by master goldsmith Arthur King is its organic structure, its ode to nature that is alive and exuberant. Using the lost wax casting method, King’s jewelry expresses this modernist’s desire to reach beyond the confines of traditional jewelry design. His jewelry defines that strand of the modern movement in jewelry which preferred organic and amorphous shapes using free form textured gold settings for gemstones.
A born New Yorker, King’s unique flagship boutique was at 619 Madison Avenue, though over time his jewelry was also sold in London (at Fortnum & Mason), Paris, Havana and Miami. He was known for his use of baroque pearls, and also colored stones such as coral, and rough-cut sapphires, emeralds, and rubies. Diamonds accented many of his pieces. King was honored by various arts and design councils, and one of his important showings was as part of the famed 1961 Goldsmiths’ Hall exhibit in London.
Works by this much honored American jeweler are held by the Victoria & Albert Museum, American Museum of Natural History, Goldsmith Hall and the Stockholm Museum of Modern Art, among others. They are essential to the serious collector of modernist jewelry. | 2019-04-19T15:01:35 | https://mahnazcollection.com/spotlight/tag/Coral |
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There aren't that many "characters" you use on a regular basis, not much more than what's on a laptop keyboard, but even then there's probably a few extra. But there's over 100,000 characters in the unicode standard currently.
My question is why they are actually characters, which are mapped to fonts. I don't understand why they are not just "items" that you select from a dropdown like on the iPhone. This way they could be completely customizable and wouldn't be so limited/static. Not even just talking about the completely graphic-esque ones like the animal unicodes. Even things like diacritics could be something from a dropdown rather than a complicated hidden keyboard combo invoking a font glyph.
Basically wondering, from a more UX perspective, what may be the reasoning behind having so many statically defined, yet complicated, font characters, rather than just having them be "icons" broadly, that don't map to key codes.
an international encoding standard for use with different languages and scripts, by which each letter, digit, or symbol is assigned a unique numeric value that applies across different platforms and programs.
In other words: any sign, symbol or character in absolutely any existing language, pseudo-language, dialect or metalanguage. This applies to any entity, including emojis. Also, once a slot has been assigned, it will never change.
Thus, what you're talking would apply to a font with a limited (and even dynamic) character set. This set of characters will be formed by a given number of unicode slots. If the slot is not assigned or mapped, it won't display anything, or if the font has a .notdef glyph defined, it will display a vertical rectangle (▯, unicode U+25AF) or a question mark (�, unicode U+FFFD ) or a square (□, U+25AF). However, it will depend on the font designer, and sometimes .notdef will render as just a space.
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what are the best fonts for website style baby? | 2019-04-18T16:24:55 | https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/123109/why-so-many-symbols-are-included-in-the-unicode-standard/123122 |
This presentation, given by FertilityCare Practitioners, is appropriate for moms and their daughters ages 9-14. Topics covered will be the menstrual cycle, puberty, and growing up according to God’s plan. We aim to offer moms the opening to talk freely with their daughters about female growth and development and to share their values in a relaxed and fun setting. We will be serving tea and snacks and there will be door prizes! Cost is $15 per family with pre-payment which can be paid online after submitting your registration below or $20 at the door.
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She builds, she games, she vapes (the complete package, they do exist) When she is not logging hours on League of Legends this proud Team SoloMid member enjoys collecting unicorn figures and Miley Cyrus posters.
Our resident bubbly blonde is a #Selfie Queen! Super friendly and loves to chat but don’t be surprised if you loose her in the middle of a sentence to something sparkly. Don’t let the hair and high heals fool you, This mother of four sons loves to play football, ride dirt bikes, motorcycles and dig in and get her hands dirty. She is currently restoring her first El Camino with her hubby Tim.
Favorite Juices: Cuttwood Sugar Bear just stole the Fav spot from 5 Pawns Castle long.
Senior manager of GCV Greenacres. Tim is a junior builder in the Vape world and a Master builder in the Motorcycle world. He may be a Jack of all trades but he is The King of vague questions and even vaguer answers!! Come and let him regale you with amazing stories about winning races and crashing motorcycles while he twists your coils!!
If you walk into the Greenacres store almost two things are certain: Cory will be there and he will be wearing a Star Wars t-shirt under his GCV polo. But don’t let his stout appearance and country accent fool you, he is a big softy at heart, when he is not in the shop there is nothing he enjoys more than a good romcom and a snuggle buddy.
No he is not Kyle Beckerman or one of the twins from the Matrix Reloaded. He is, however, Greenacres’ resident senior builder and connoisseur of aerial drones.
Good Clean Vapes Delray Manager and senior builder, Kat is most well known for her quick wit and interesting colored hair. She has since cured her Bieber Fever with a shot of One Directions heartthrob: Harry Styles. In her spare time she enjoys moonlit walks on the beach, taking selfies and playing with her reptiles. It was recently discovered that she was raised by pygmies in zimbabwe, which actually explains a lot.
Resident geek and senior manager of Good Clean Vapes, Garrett is best known for his love of Star Wars (Episode 4-6 before Lucas messed with them) and his action figures he displays all over the shops. He races motorcycles, listens to EDM and is a Nikola Tesla fanboy. | 2019-04-25T09:43:31 | http://goodcleanvapes.com/team/ |
Thank you for contacting me with regard to your student loan questions. Because of some changes in the student loan law landscape, I have changed how I offer my services.
The good news for you is that in many cases, modifying your student loan payment terms has become a good bit easier. If your loans are government issued or guaranteed, the income based repayment programs have been expanded and, perhaps equally important, the Department of Education website has become much easier to navigate.
If your student loans were issued by private banks, you still do not have a lot of options, but I intend to cover in the paragraphs below the few options that you do still have.
Now, about the change in my law practice. I am still available to answer questions, offer legal advice or help you implement a plan to get your student loan debt under control. However, I can no longer offer free consultations.
I am sure you can understand that running a law practice is a business and I can’t stay in business if I spend my day offering free advice to folks who do not hire me. My experience has been that most of the time folks like you who are researching student loan debt on the Internet are smart enough to understand the (vastly improved) Department of Education web site.
So, in the paragraphs that follow I am going to provide to you at no cost most of what I have been offering potential clients in formerly free consultations. Not surprisingly this free information comes with a disclaimer: the information that follows does not constitute legal advice nor does it create an attorney-client relationship. If you need advice specific to your situation you should retain a lawyer. Finally, the laws related to student loan debt change from time to time and you should not assume that anything you read on the Internet is totally accurate or up to date.
Before you can hope to resolve your student loan debt problem you need to know what you owe and to whom. If you have not already done so, you should set up a file where you keep bills, documentation and collection letters.
The NSLDS site will provide you with a list of all government issued or government guaranteed loans and their payment status. Private student loans do not appear on your NSLDS.
Your credit reports should provide you with information about both government and private student loans. My experience has been that 95% of the time, your student loan information will appear at one or both of these places. Yes, there are exceptions – that’s where you rely on your memory, your gut and, of course, your student loan file.
As of 2019 this page displays 2 columns – “I’m Looking for a Loan” and “I already have a loan.” Under the I already have a loan column there are 8 choices relating to repayment, consolidation, curing default, cancellation of certain loans and deferment.
Most of the folks I speak with are interested in the Income Based Repayment plans. If you click on the IBR section you will find a wealth of information about how the IBR programs work.
The estimator will prompt you to log in to your NSLDS account and it will pull your actual loan information. Further, the estimator will only allow you to choose repayment options that are actually available. The estimator will calculate and display your various options, and once you choose an option, the system will walk you through filling out the paperwork.
Once you complete and submit the paperwork you need to make the payments and update the Department of Education annually (usually) about your income.
The United States Bankruptcy Code says that Department of Education issued student loans cannot be discharged in bankruptcy unless not doing so would create an “undue hardship” for the debtor and his/her family.
As discussed elsewhere on this website, the Brunner case defines undue hardship in most federal judicial circuits and it imposes very strict limitations on what you need to assert undue hardship.
In recent years, however, some bankruptcy judges in some jurisdictions have been backing off Brunner to some degree by agreeing to discharge a percentage of the government student loan. There are not a lot of reported cases because most people filing bankruptcy don’t have the money to litigate this issue. However, the trend is clearly in the direction of a liberalization of the discharge standard.
As discussed on my website, there is no equivalent in the private student loan world to the income based repayment programs that are available for Department of Education loans.
I read Part A as referring to government loans issued by the Department of Education.
I read Part B as referring to private student loans.
Part B excepts from discharge an educational loan that is a qualified education loan as defined in the IRS Code at Section 221(d)(1).
The term “qualified education loan” means in indebtedness incurred by the taxpayer solely to pay qualified higher education expenses.
What if the debtor student was not a taxpayer at the time he/she incurred the private student loan?
What if the private student loan amount was for more than the cost of education?
A number of bankruptcy judges have accepted these arguments to find that some private student loans should not be treated as student loans for bankruptcy purposes. An example of one of these court decisions is the Dufrane case, which you can read by clicking here.
Another option for private student loan debtors is refinance.
There companies out there that offer refinancing options. A helpful website to visit is https://studentloanhero.com. You can also Google “private student loan refinance” for other options, but be careful to avoid scams.
You can use the bankruptcy process to delay collection, and in very limited cases, wipe out private student loans. Bankruptcy can also be helpful in eliminating other debts and providing for the surrender of homes or cars so that you have the money to pay your private student loans. I have been a personal bankruptcy lawyer for over 30 years and I can tell you that student loans are a leading cause of personal bankruptcy.
You can try to work out a repayment plan with your private student loan lender. I rarely see this work but as private student loan lenders come under more political pressure they may begin to loosen the reins a little.
If I had to guess, I would say that there is some chance that Congress will address private student loan debt. In what form and when, I can’t say but it would be wise to keep an eye out for changes.
Anyone who has ever dealt with bill collectors knows what it is like to be harassed for payment. In the case of student loan debt bill collectors can be especially nasty because they know that student loan debt generally cannot be discharged in bankruptcy and that many borrowers do not know about all of their repayment options.
Third party debt collectors are subject to the rules set out in the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and if a collector violates the FDCPA rules you may have a claim for damages against that collector.
Often the best evidence of harassment arises from phone conversations so whenever possible I recommend that student loan debtors record their conversations with debt collectors – student loan or otherwise. Every state has different rules about recording phone calls – some states only require one party (i.e., you) to consent to the recording, while other states require you to get prior verbal permission to record calls.
Many smart phones allow for recording of calls, or you can pick up an inexpensive digital records and earphone microphone.
Learn more about FDCPA violations on my website https://www.fdcpahelp.com.
You also may have a cause of action against your student loan servicing agency for improper reporting on your credit report (a Fair Credit Reporting Act) claim.
I hope that the above information will help you navigate the sometimes troubled waters of student loan debt management and payments. If you are overwhelmed and need to buy a little of my time to clarify what options are out there, to ask for advice about how to proceed, or for help putting a repayment plan into place, please let me know. You can email me directly here. I accept PayPal or credit card payments through PayPal.
However you decide to proceed, I wish you the best of luck and best of success in resolving your student loan issues.
Jonathan Ginsberg has served the Atlanta area community as a personal bankruptcy and student loan debt management lawyer for over 25 years. Contact Jonathan for straight answers to difficult debt problems.
What Can I Do About Private Student Loan Debt?
Loan Modification Help on the Horizon for Private Student Loan Borrowers? | 2019-04-21T08:49:44 | https://studentloandebtsettlementhelp.com/contact-us/phone-consultations/ |
Spring is just around the corner and for young ones who are just beginning to learn their colors, Raindrops: A Shower of Colors is an excellent board book to teach them about animals and the various hues of the rainbow.
More and more I judge toddler books primarily by their illustrations. When my daughters were quite young their little eyes feverishly gazed across the pages of vibrantly-colored books. And while their young ears heard the stories the illustrations really told the story. That said, the illustrations in Raindrops paints the entire story beautifully and the wording is ideal for young children whose brains are constantly learning new things.
What I love most about Raindrops is each page has a see-through raindrop of its respective color.
Why I love this book: Raindrops: A Shower of Colors is a perfect book for young children to read alone when they’re sitting on the floor using their tiny fingers to explore their piles and piles of board books. The illustrations in Raindrops are vibrant enough to capture and keep your child’s attention and the story is simple enough to teach them new insects, animals and colors without overwhelming them or taking away from their favorite things: pictures!
I really, really, REALLY love my iPhone, but I can’t help but think the new Microsoft 7 Phone looks extremely appealing. I haven’t seen one in person. The only thing I know about it is what I have read and watched online, but I’m thoroughly intrigued. | 2019-04-18T20:59:04 | https://mommytoomagazine.wordpress.com/2010/02/17/book-and-tech-wednesday-raindrops-and-the-new-microsoft-phone/ |
The Bay of Naples is one of the most spectacular areas on Earth, with a tremendous wealth of both natural and cultural treasures. It presents beautiful diverse landscapes and an amazing amount of history. The blue waters of the Mediterranean are dominated here by the world’s most famous volcano, Mount Vesuvius, best known for its eruption that led to the destruction of the Roman city of Pompeii.
A particular part of the charm of the Bay of Naples can be found on its three main islands, all different, all beautiful. During this tour you’ll visit all three islands: of course Capri, the most famous, but also the volcanic island of Ischia, and colourful Procida.
We start our tour on the smallest and least known island: Procida. Like its big neighbour, Ischia, also Procida is of volcanic origin. Its beauty lays in its coloured houses and picturesque inlets, which were the setting for the movie ‘Il Postino’. A particular place is the uninhabited island of Vivara, linked to Procida by a pedestrian bridge.
Then we travel on to the biggest of the three islands, Ischia, known as the ‘green island’, with mountains rising up over 2000 feet, and famous for its almost subtropical climate and its thermal spa’s, already since Greek & Roman times. On Ischia we make a number of beautiful and varied walks: from the medieval castle to cave dwellings, through forests and along deserted beaches, through nice historic villages and amazing terraced vineyards. And also do we walk through a number of extinct volcanoes !
Then we travel on to the world famous island of Capri, the last stop on this tour. Capri, unlike the other two islands, is made of chalkstone, just like its natural continuation: the cliffs of the Amalfi Coast. This makes up for its particular features, like the world-famous ‘Faraglioni’, its natural arch and its impressive cliffs. But we will visit of course also its amazing Roman villas and you can also indulge in its fashionable ‘dolce vita’.
Today you arrive in the bustling city of Naples. In case you arrive early you can take some time to go for a short stroll through the colourful streets, soaking up its atmosphere, or visit a museum. Towards the end of the afternoon we meet our tour leader and the rest of the group at the harbour. After a brief welcome meeting, we will take the boat to Procida, the smallest and most colourful of the three islands of the Bay of Naples. After settling in our welcoming hotel, you can relax in its great garden, or sit in its pool overlooking the Mediterranean, with great views on the islands of Ischia. In the evening we dine in the nice restaurant of our hotel.
After breakfast we start a beautiful round walk to discover Procida, considered the most authentic island of the Bay of Naples, with its colourful houses and idyllic fishing harbours. Procida is only a small island, and therefore it’s possible to ‘do’ the whole island in one day. We first pass through the narrow streets and walk up to the historical heart of the island, ‘Terra Murata’, or ‘walled land’, dominated by its castle, from where you’ll enjoy marvellous views. Then we walk down to one of the most picturesque spots of Italy, the small fishing harbour of Corricella. Its unique setting and coloured houses were used as movie set for “Il Postino”. Here we will need some time to look around and take lots of pictures. Along the south-eastern coast we then continue the walk along the wooded headlands of Pizzico and Solchiaro. The walk ends at the charming small harbour of Chiaiolella, where we have the time for a swim on the large sandy beach or drink a glass on one of its terraces, before returning to your hotel. Those who still have energy can extend the walk and explore the small island of Vivara, linked to Procida by a small (pedestrian) bridge. This island, the ridge of an old volcano, is now a nature reserve and one of the last bits of unspoilt nature in the area. We’ll walk through a timeless Mediterranean landscape, through green forests and with the blue sea all around. Along the large sandy beach we then return to our hotel. In the evening we’ll have a great dinner here again.
This morning we’ll have some more time to discover the northern side of Procida. After a last stroll and a drink at the colourful harbour we then take the boat for the short crossing to the island of Ischia, known as the ‘Green Island’, the biggest island of the Bay of Naples. Our first short walk here leads us to one of the most interesting extinct volcanoes of the island, the Fondo dell’Oglio. Then we have a great ‘country lunch’, based on local produce, after which we make the short walk back down to the harbour again. A taxi transfer to your hotel is organised for you, but we suggest wandering around a bit in Ischia Porto, or perhaps visit its famous ‘Terme’ and then do the short walk from the harbour to the castle where we sleep, through the pretty streets of the old town centre. The last short stretch in the fortified island itself is very scenic and has beautiful viewpoints on the city centre. We sleep in an amazing hotel, inside the old medieval castle of Ischia, built on a rocky island off-shore, which certainly deserves to be explored as well. In the evening we dine on fish or some other local specialty, prepared by the chef of the renowned restaurant of our hotel. A great dinner, in a unique spot: the terrace of our hotel, overlooking the whole Bay of Naples.
From our hotel in the castle we walk down through the intriguing alleys of the fortified rock to the bridge which links the castle to the old town centre. From here we start a linear walk along the beautiful south coast of the island, through a spectacular landscape of terraced vineyards and fantastic lava sculptures, with unforgettable views over the Bay of Naples and Capri. The first part of the walk goes over the cliffs, through vineyards sculpted like Asian paddy fields and small hamlets. Then we pass the small hamlet of Testaccio, from where we descend to the large sandy beach of Marina dei Maronti. Just behind the beach there are several narrow canyons with thermal springs, known since Roman times. We take some time to go for a dip! Along the beach we then walk to the charming fishing village of Sant’Angelo, where we take the time for an ‘aperitivo’, before travelling back to our hotel, where again we’ll have a great dinner with spectacular views again, on the terrace of our hotel.
Today we’ll discover the mountains of the island, a chain of extinct volcanoes which occupies the whole central part of the island. First we travel by private bus to the small hamlet of Fiaiano, where we have the time for a coffee. From here we walk through some amazing scenery up to the Monte Epomeo, the highest mountain of the island. We have lunch near the top in a charming restaurant. Then we walk on to the Capo dell’Uomo, Ischia’s second mountain. All this is along easy, comfortable paths. Through forested areas and vineyards, along rock dwelling of monks and hermits, and always with incredible views over the sea, we’ll then walking down to Ischia’s most western village, Forio. After a stroll through its pleasant town centre, we reach its western most point, with its beautiful white church. After a stroll and a drink, our bus brings us along the north coast back to Ischia Porto. In the evening you are free to choose from a large choice of restaurants in the colourful harbour of Ischia or ‘downtown’, ranging from simple pizzerias and cosy trattorie to exclusive restaurants.
In the morning our taxi brings us to the harbour, from where we take the boat to the rightly famous island of Capri. This island was already renowned in ancient times, roman emperors liked to come here as tourists, and since then never lost its fame. We arrive in Marina Grande, the main harbour from where we walk up (optional ‘Funicolare’) through lemon groves and gardens, to the central square of the little town of Capri, the famous ’Piazzetta’, the centre of mundane life. Then we make a beautiful roundwalk around the eastern part of the island, which shows us most of the ‘highlights’ of the island. These are both cultural and natural wonders, always accompanied with beautiful views in an unrivalled Mediterranean landscape. The walk brings us along the ruins of the Imperial Villa Iovis, one of the villas of the Roman Emperor Tiberius, the Arco Naturale, and of the Faraglioni, three rocks off the South coast, may be the most famous and most painted rocks in the world. We have a great picnic lunch in an amazing spot, after which we have the time for a coffee or an ice cream. Walking back to the centre we have the opportunity to visit the Certosa and the Gardens of the Emperor Augustus, from where we can also opt to walk down to Marina Piccola, along the spectacular Via Krupp.
This walk can be extended or shortened in many ways. Late in the afternoon we return to our hotel in the centre of Capri for some relaxation. A nice meal in a relaxed atmosphere is the perfect end for the day.
Today we will discover the lesser know part of the island, Anacapri. Either by a very scenic chairlift or with a beautiful, but demanding walk, we reach the top of the highest mountain of the island, Mount Solaro. From here the views on the whole island, but also the Amalfi Coast, the Vesuvius and the whole Bay of Naples are spectacular. Then we go for a wonderful walk along the savage southern coast of the island, with its impressive sheer cliffs. The walk will bring you to the most western point of the island, where we have a great lunch and could perhaps have a swim underneath the lighthouse. Then along a recently restored footpath, which has a special interest for its flowers we walk along the beautiful West Coast, with great views over the aquamarine Mediterranean. We come along a series of fortresses dating back to the Napoleonic wars, some of which still in good shape and very scenic. Halfway the afternoon we reach the world famous ‘Blue Grotto’ or ‘Grotta Azzurra’. After an (optional) visit, we can either walk or take a local bus back to Anacapri. We go for a short stroll through the characteristic narrow streets of Anacapri, and maybe a drink in the piazza, before returning to our hotel for some relaxation. Dinner tonight will be on your own as you are free to explore Capri’s large choice of restaurants, ranging from simple pizzeria’s to exclusive restaurants.
The tour ends in Capri after breakfast today. By boat you return to Naples (or in case you extend your holiday: to Sorrento, Amalfi, Positano or Salerno). Extra nights can be booked, here or in any other place (upon request).
All nights are spent in beautiful, characteristic hotels, mostly historical buildings (3/4-star). All rooms have en-suite facilities.
Nights 1 & 2: The first two nights are spent on the idyllic island of Procida. Our accommodation is a welcoming 3-star hotel in a beautiful setting, with a great garden overlooking the Mediterranean.
Nights 3, 4 & 5: These three nights are spent in an exclusive hotel in the ancient monastery of Ischia, located on its ‘Rocca’, a small rocky island linked to the main island by a bridge. A wonderful and quiet setting, yet at walking distance from the town centre with its many bars and restaurants and attached to the Aragonese castle.
Nights 6 & 7: The last two nights we stay on the romantic & fashionable island of Capri, with its characteristic houses built onto the steep slopes of the mountains. We’ll stay in a beautiful 4-star hotel, very centrally located. It is family-run and the friendly staff will make you feel at home.
Moderately easy (2): Mostly easy walks, with nonetheless some walking uphill, sometimes on paths with rough surfaces. On some days some stretches are difficult for those suffering from vertigo (but NOT dangerous!). On these days alternative options are available. Extensions or shortcuts are also possible on most days.
The tour starts in NAPLES (Stazione Marittima), a city with an international airport, and connected with Rome and all other major Italian cities by a frequent (high speed) train service. Both from the airport and the train station there are regular shuttle buses to the harbour. A taxi pick-up service can be arranged either from Naples airport or train station.
The tour ends after breakfast on day 8 in CAPRI. A short transfer brings you to the harbour (included), from where you travel back by boat to Naples (or in case you extend your holiday: to Sorrento, Amalfi, Positano or Salerno).
It is possible to include extra nights at the beginning or the end of the tour. The tour can easily be extended with a few days in Naples or Sorrento, or on the Amalfi Coast (see below). Many good accommodations are available. Details and prices on request.
This tour touches the three main islands of the Bay of Naples, which can be reached only by boat. Therefore the itinerary depends on weather, wind & sea conditions, which may cause us to have to make adjustments and changes to the itinerary.
There are no scheduled departures (yet) for this tour for 2018, but on request a tour can be planned at any date for private groups. Just contact us!
N.B. For this tour tailor-made private departures (for groups of minimum 4 persons) can be planned on any date. Availability & prices on request. Prices start from 1590 euro p.p., depending on the season and number of persons in your private group. Special luxury departures can be planned on request.
We can also run an (even more!) upgraded version of this tour, for which we have a large selection of ‘Premiere Inns’, very good hotels, available, many among the world’s best hotels, as acclaimed from Condé Nast Traveler, Travel+Leisure and many others. Genius Loci Travel, as the leading adventure travel company on the Amalfi Coast, can book your room in any hotel you could dream of! Look for the ‘Premiere Inns’ signs.
A shorter, 5-day version of this tour is also available. See also our other Amalfi & Campania tours !
Extension 1: Campi Flegrei. Two days in one of the world’s most interesting areas, both from archaeological as from naturalistic point of view. Can also be visited easily from Procida (half hour by boat).
Extension 2: One or more extra days in Naples are recommended to those who want to visit Naples and/or haven’t already visited Pompeii or the Vesuvius, only 20-30 minutes by local train.
Extension 3: A few days on the famed Sorrentine peninsula. Also from Sorrento, Pompeii/Vesuvius is only 20-30 minutes by local train and some stunning walks can be made here, e.g. to the Land’s End, Punta Campanella.
In the morning you can explore Pozzuoli, the main village of the ‘Campi Flegrei’ (‘Burning Fields’), a volcanic area, full of Greek and roman history. When the facade of the Duomo felt off due to an Earthquake, a Greek temple appered… . Through the old centre and along the big roman amphitheatre you walk to the Solfatara, a still active volcano, and probably the best place in mainland Europe to see volcanic activity from so close by! Then you travel to the Lago d’Averno, where the Romans believed to be the entrance of hell and finally to Cuma, the first Greek settlement in the area, and the home of one of the most famous ‘oracles’ of the ancient world. You make a beautiful walk through the archaeological area and the dunes around it. You can choose to sleep in Naples, or in a hotel literally on the archaeological area of Baia.
The western part of the Campi Flegrei, is an area extremely rich in archaeological findings. We propose a walk, which links together a few of the most interesting Roman heritage sites of the area: the Castle of Baia, the Piscina Mirabilis and the Cento Camerelle, as well as the most interesting parts of the historical town centre of Bacoli. Walk through the so-called ‘Fondi di Baia’, extinct volcanoes, where the traditional agricultural landscape still survives. Then walk up to the Castle of Baia, which now is one of the foremost archaeological museums in Italy, but without the crowds! Then you walk through the village of Bacoli, where of course you’ll have to visit the Piscina Mirabilis and the Cento Camerelle. The walk will then bring you onto the promontory of Capo Miseno, through agricultural land and forest. Views from this headland are among the most extra-ordinary the area has to offer!
Naples is an extra-ordinary city, in all senses. We can book you a great hotel in the heart of the city. From here you can visit the most interesting ‘highlights’, such as the Royal Palace, the royal theatre, the beautiful ‘Galleria’ and the medieval castles, but also stroll through unknown lively (but safe!) neighbourhoods, with their unbelievable history, where you can find in a few square metres Greek, Roman and medieval buildings. Stroll as well through quiet parks and along the sea shore, to relax from the hectic street life in Naples with a rewarding view on the Bay of Naples; of course you can also pay a visit to the world famous archaeological museum, where all the artefacts from Pompeii and Herculaneum are exposed.
In the morning you take the small local train (or taxi) to Pompeii or Ercolano, where you can pay a visit to the excavations. After the visit to the archaeological area you can drive up to the Vesuvius and make a walk around the impressive volcanic phenomena to be seen around the crater: lava flows, pumice fields and grotto’s, culminating in a walk to the top ! There are several walking options, according to your interest and level of fitness. By local train or taxi you then return to Naples. | 2019-04-25T10:00:34 | http://www.genius-loci.it/tour/italy_coasts_islands/naples-capri-ischia-procida-group-tour |
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Since this project was first proposed, a large percentage of the community of Bala Falls have been opposed to it. Citizens have lobbied, marched, picketed, petitioned and railed against this abomination being built in the heart of their town. Immediately downstream of the dam is a favourite public swimming and picnic area that draws local residents and tourists from far and wide. This project will pose a public safety risk; however, there is no Public Safety Plan – it wasn’t included in the initial Environmental Report, nor was it adequately addressed. It was unacceptable in 2012, and it’s still unacceptable – it should never have been approved in the first place.
The vast majority of the community continues to oppose a proposed hydro-electric generating station at the Bala falls (Bala is 25 km north-west of Gravenhurst), which is where Lake Muskoka flows into the Moon River, and eventually flows to Georgian Bay and Lake Huron.
Rob Stewart narrates this short trailer for an upcoming film on Corruption and how money and industry can subvert democracy.
The small town of Bala, Ontario, where Rob spent time growing up, is under threat. A private corporation wants to build a hydro power plant on top of the town’s historic and ecologically significant waterfall, which serves as the town’s main tourist attraction and economic driver. Surveys show 93% of townspeople don’t want the power plant there, but some local politicians are big supporters of the project. The company has tried to crush the townspeople’s hopes of opposing the plant by claiming, “it’s a done deal” for years, despite not having all the appropriate permissions and permits.
The town of 600 people have been fighting this power project for ten years, and they need help to magnify their voice. We got involved to see if a film could change the world again – and we need your help. Visit savethebalafalls.com and sign the petitions and send letters to the government to show your support for environmental protection of these sacred and historic waterways.
It’s Not a Done Deal – the fight for Bala Trailer #1 from Rob Stewart on Vimeo.
Section 65(4), which requires that portages not be obstructed – and the proposed generating station would obstruct the traditional Bala Portage. As requested and required by the MNR, we were able to locate historic documents confirming not only that the portage was south of the Bala north falls, but that it was established before the original Crown land patent was granted. That is, as a result of our claim that the Public Lands Act does not permit the MNR to obstruct the Bala Portage, the MNR requested information, and we provided this information, yet they simply ignored and denied what we provided.
Section 3, which states that if less than 25% of the shoreline frontage of a body of water is Crown land, then the publically-accessible Crown land shoreline cannot be further reduced. And in fact, on the Moon River, there is less than 25% of Crown land frontage, and this would be further reduced by the proposed generating station. The Township was able to show that the MNR did not follow their own required Policy PL 3.02.01 in determing Crown land frontage. However, the MNR simply ignored this policy and presented an incorrect calculation to the Court.
Unfortunately, the end result was that despite the MNR contravening these Sections of the Public Lands Act the Court ultimately decided that Section 28 of the Public Lands supercedes the others, and if the MNR unilaterally decides the lands are unsafe or that the Minister wishes to build a hydro-electric generating station anyways, they can.
There will be a portage of canoes across the historic Bala portage from the Moon River landing to Lake Muskoka. The Wahta Chief will be available for interview.
Bala, Ontario, is located on Muskoka Road 169 approximately 200 km north of Toronto, and 25 km northwest of Gravenhurst.
CTV News and other media will be there too.
If you would like to be part of the flotilla, be at the Town Docks on the Moon River at 10:30 am this Thursday August 28, 2014 with your canoe or kayak (and PFD and marine safety kit).
Otherwise, be at the District property just south of the Bala north falls at 11:00 am.
This event is about the Bala Portage, so no red T-shirts and no signs. Those in attendance will be there in support of Wahta Mohawk and the Bala Portage.
The Wahta Mohawks (formerly the Mohawks of Gibson) arrived in Muskoka in November of 1881 using what is now called the Bala Portage – which has always been south of the Bala North Falls. Historical documents clearly show that other First Nations in the area used this Portage prior to this.
Transportation by water and portaging is traditionally and culturally important to all First Nations, and it is disrespectful that we were not informed of the impact on the Bala Portage by this proposed project. We plan on raising this issue with our political representative organizations including the Iroquois Caucus and Chiefs of Ontario.
We therefore hereby give notice that the communications and information the Wahta Mohawks have received concerning this proposed project have been completely inadequate, and the “Duty to Consult” has not been fulfilled.
Go here to read the entire letter.
There is a lot at stake in a battle that has gone on for close to a decade. Through a “Competitive Site Release” in 2004 the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) made some Crown land available south of the Bala north falls for the development of a hydro-electric generating station (Bala is north-west of Gravenhurst). The MNR is very motivated to see this happen, as not only would it help fulfill the province’s mandate for additional power generation from renewable energy sources, but MNR staff would also no longer need to adjust stop-logs to regulate water flows and levels, or be responsible for the maintenance and repair of the Bala north and south dams – instead, the proponent would have these responsibilities. Unfortunately, the MNR appears to be so motivated that they have shown little concern for the many negative impacts on fish spawning and other habitat problems that would be created.
In 2005 a proponent was awarded “Applicant of Record” status, and since then has proposed at least three different configurations, all of which would also create major public safety and economic problems.
SaveTheBalaFalls.com, the local cottager association, and the public have therefore been actively engaged both in the process and also in ensuring the appropriate government Ministries, agencies, and politicians are presented with the many outstanding concerns and issues.
One major issue is that the Bala Falls landscape is central to Bala and the surrounding area’s recreation and tourism economy as the falls are very visible and accessible, and are the main focus of visits – including literally bus-loads of tourists in the summer. They come to view the falls, to climb on the rocks, and to play in the usually serene water at the base of the falls. There are also residences within 200 feet, as well as long-time and very popular public in-water recreation that occurs within 50 feet, both upstream and downstream of the proposed generating station and the treacherously turbulent water it would create.
Another major issue is that the proposed project would obstruct a traditional and historic Portage, which is still in use. As a result of a request by the MNR, written historical proof was provided to confirm that this Portage was in use prior to the initial Crown land patent, and Section 65(4) of the Public Lands Act prohibits such obstruction. In May 2013 the MNR unilaterally declared that this land was suddenly too dangerous for the public to access – even though their own 2011 Public Safety Measures Plan for this exact area had no such concerns. We have responded with reasons why this proposed project would still be illegal under the Public Lands Act, and await a response on this complicated topic.
Two years ago, the Ministry of the Environment (MOE) told us that in the ten years the current legislation has been in place, there have been more than 50 requests to elevate different proposed hydro-electric generation proposals to an Individual Environmental Assessment. Such further study is the required first step to having any chance of an Environmental Assessment (EA) approval being denied. But the MOE has denied EVERY ONE of these 50 requests. That is, there has never been a “Part II Order” request for elevation approved. This places the fairness and efficacy of the entire EA process in question.
The current situation for the proposed Bala project is that not only are major approvals still required from all four levels of government, but there are legal challenges as well.
And SaveTheBalaFalls.com and the community will continue to ask; would it be safe, would it be beautiful, and would there be enough water over the falls to continue to draw people to Bala. We still don’t have answers, so we continue to ensure decision-makers know the problems.
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Minister of the Environment has confirmed the Director’s decision to deny the requests to elevate the Bala Falls hydroelectric proposal to an Individual Environmental Assessment. | 2019-04-22T18:03:59 | https://www.ontarioriversalliance.ca/category/rivers-mining-logging-hydroelectric-waterpower/moon-river/ |
I've made a few posts before about the music that I listen to when I write. If you're a regular reader of this blog, you won't be surprised to hear that I listened to quite a bit of the The Cure again while writing my new book, Phoenix! But there were some new bands on my soundtrack this time.
This is the first song I ever heard by Sigur Rós. They're a brilliant Icelandic band who make music as epic and huge as the sky. To me, they make the sounds I imagine when I think about the stars singing, as they do throughout Phoenix, from the first page to the last.
This is a song from their untitled album ( ). It's the song I listened to the most in the seven years of writing Phoenix. It's what I was thinking of when I wrote that the stars made "a small, soft, silvery sound, like the chime of a faraway bell." And it's the kind of thing I had in mind when I wrote about how the sound "surged and swelled, rising up into the sky."
The concert that Lucky, Bixa and Frollix go to on Scorpio Six definitely owes something to the various Sigur Rós concerts I've been to in my time... like this one, at Alexandra Palace, back in 2008! Though there were a lot of other concerts in the back of my mind... and lots of other music, too!
Can really see how the Sigur Ros soundtrack would work while you were writing Phoenix - very spacey!
Thank you very much, Lu! It was very spacey indeed. I had the () album in particular on repeat for long stretches of those seven years... it always put me right up there, among the stars, with Lucky. | 2019-04-21T16:27:23 | http://www.sfsaid.com/2014/01/phoenix-inspirations-writing-music.html |
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CommodasUltrasort, the mining brand of Tomra Sorting Solutions, announced in June that it had been made a member of the international AngloGold Ashanti Technology Innovation Consortium. The consortium, based in South Africa, was established in 2011 by AngloGold Ashanti and, including CommodasUltrasort, now comprises 46 industrial companies, eight universities and research institutions known as innovators in their field. The aim of the consortium is to create new ways of thinking and new opportunities for deep level mining.
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CommodasUltrasort has provided sensor-based sorting technology for dry material separation in various minerals and ore applications since 1988. | 2019-04-23T18:37:19 | https://www.e-mj.com/departments/suppliers-report/technology-consortium-adds-commodasultrasort/ |
Midleton Parish – Page 37 – Roman Catholic Diocese of Cloyne, County Cork, Ireland.
There is a bus leaving Carrigtwohill Business Centre on Thursday, 7th December, at 3.00pm, for an overnight Vigil in Knock. Bus €30.00, to be paid before Nov. 20th. Contact Mary Hurley @ 087-9131599 or Joan @ 021-883887 for further details.
Hospital Confessions & Anointings in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Chapel, on Friday next, November 24th at 11.20am.
Ballintotis Festive Fayre will take place on Sunday December 3rd from 11.00am to 4.00pm at Ballintotis Community Centre. Information from John on 086-8778182. The Fayre is themed around Christmas gift ideas and will feature a wide range of exhibitors.
The Rosary will be recited each Sunday in November Holy Rosary Cemetery, at 3.00pm for all buried in the graveyard.
Fr. John Keane, Adoration Coordinator for The Cloyne Diocese is conducting a Holy Hour tonight, Sunday, November 12th, at 8.00pm in The Holy Family Church, Youghal. Please encourage your friends to attend.
Lord Jesus, we ask you to send more servants to your people. Choose from our parishes, from our homes, from our schools and colleges, an abundant harvest for you kingdom: priests, Sisters, brothers, deacons and lay ministers. Amen.
A meeting for Parents of all children who are receiving Holy Communion for the first time, will take place in St. Brigid’s Primary School, on Thursday November 9th at 8.00pm. | 2019-04-21T02:47:13 | http://midletonparish.ie/page/37/ |
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I’ve spent my last few flights reading The Limits of Institutional Reform in Development, by Matt Andrews. It makes a significant contribution to our understanding of why so many institutional reform efforts fail to accomplish much, and how those that succeed are different.
The book is distinguished by the depth of its analytical backing and the thoroughness of its framework. Andrews marshals a broad body of research to carefully build the case for an emerging approach to institutional reforms. If that sounds intriguing – congratulations, you’re a development nerd! For everyone else, proceed with caution: this book is not for the lay reader with a casual interest in government effectiveness. Andrews is an expert on this topic and he’s writing for those who do this work for a living. The result is not light beach reading.
Andrews documents the struggles of donor-supported institutional reforms in developing countries. Such reforms seek to improve governance across a variety of sectors: security, public finances, health, education, etc. However, they rarely have the intended effect of strengthening the target institutions. Instead, the efforts incentivize mimicry of international “best practices” but fail to account for context. In short: the institutions look better without actually being better.
Dissecting the many failures and inferring lessons from a few successes, Andrews outlines a better approach to institutional reform.
PDIA stands for “problem-driven iterative adaptation” – though I prefer Andrews’ alternate formulation of “purposive muddling” for its simplicity. Still, it’s worth breaking down his acronym.
The idea of being problem-driven means that, rather than focusing on the solution being implemented, reformers should focus on the problem being addressed and then seek small incremental steps that move in the right direction. It’s worth highlighting one critical question that some other reviews of this book have glossed over: whose problems do the driving? The book brings some nuance to the development shibboleth of “ownership” with the concept of multi-agent leadership. Clearly, reforms will struggle if they target problems that are only seen as such by outside actors; yet having an internal champion may also be insufficient. Andrews makes the case (in the book and elsewhere) that a range of lower-profile actors throughout the reforming institution must be involved in the problem definition and search for solutions.
The iterative nature of PDIA emphasizes the need to tinker, try new things, and see how they work. Those who think in terms of design research principles should find this intuitive: good design isn’t about a perfect definition of the solution in advance, but rather about a process of iterating toward the optimal outcome. We humbly acknowledge that we’ll fail along the way.
The importance of context is a common observation in development. It’s almost become a cliché – which is a good sign, if you ask me, because it means that we’re ready to go a level deeper. After all: if context matters, how do we actually take appropriate account of it?
Andrews underlines the importance of context in explaining past reform failures. Then he takes us to that deeper level by teasing out how successful consideration of context differs from failures. Prior analytical work (needs assessment, political economy analysis, and so on) doesn’t always improve contextual understanding, as it often proves (in retrospect only) to be the wrong kind of analytical work. Some projects even succeed without much in the way of prior research.
The key lies in flexibility. Projects that successfully account for context do so throughout the course of the project, rather than just in advance. These projects are driven by the problems being addressed, which remain rigid even as milestones, goals, and technical content are adjusted. This allows reformers to reveal and muddle through significant elements of context as they proceed.
Even more importantly, context is not simply a constraint on change. It’s also a target of change. Politics, institutional norms, and other elements of context are precisely what reforms aim to change. A problem-driven learning approach will lead reformers to address these elements as their role in obstructing reforms becomes apparent.
Reforms should focus on the disruptive problems that emerge in particular countries, and designs should allow contextual complexities to reveal themselves while addressing these problems. This requires an approach to institutional reform that acknowledges its endogenous nature and seeks to develop and implement designs actively through a problem-driven incremental process in the context, with local agents occupying the driving seat. This is proposed as the only way in which contextual factors can be effectively accounted for in institutional reforms.
The final chapter turns PDIA on the development sector itself. After all, bilateral and multilateral donors provide significant inputs to both successful and failed reform efforts. These outside actors structure many of the incentives that encourage poor practice: the “projectization” of aid, the international acclaim that encourages isomorphic mimicry, etc.
Andrews sounds a hopeful note that a 2008 report from the World Bank Independent Evaluation Group could serve to disrupt the development sector’s approach to institutional reform. He’s also cautious given the strength of the dominant logic. More work is needed to force reflection on the current approach. This book contributes to that. The entrance of new players (an anthropologist running the World Bank?) could also shake things up.
Throughout the book, I noticed a conspicuous absence of characters – that is, descriptions of the individual people involved in the reform processes studied. The absence has both stylistic and methodological ramifications, but that’s more than I’ll get into here. Head over to Reboot’s blog for the full story on that.
PDIA isn’t an entirely new approach. Andrews admits as much. Elements of it exist throughout current thinking and practice in the development sector. You also see overlapping principles in other fields: designers value iteration, as mentioned; community organizers know problems must be locally defined; and corporate managers know that any change process requires buy-in throughout the organization.
Where this book succeeds is in pulling the pieces together into an analytical framework, and supporting it with an evidence base strong enough to ensure that its implications for development practice are taken seriously. It represents a big step toward better practice.
Full disclaimer: Many thanks to Matt Andrews for graciously providing me a review copy of the book, and apologies to him for the six months it took me to post this review! I ended up buying a Kindle version so I could read while traveling. I’m sure my views would not have been tainted in any case! | 2019-04-21T01:08:41 | https://algoso.org/2013/09/05/purposive-muddling-and-the-limits-of-institutional-reform/ |
Believe it or not, there are several similarities between dating and delivering a memorable and effective client experience. Here are few suggestions to make both go well.
1. Make a great first impression. This is always important, on a first date or the first time you meet a potential/new client in person or on the phone. Be on time. Give the other person your undivided attention. Put away your phone. Don’t rush the meeting. Avoid making assumptions about the other person. First dates/meetings are important for both people to discover if they should move forward together.
2. Listen more than you talk. One of my favorite movie scenes in that oldie but goodie, Beaches, is when Bette Midler talks on endlessly about herself and then says to the other person, “Enough about me. What do you think about me?” That makes for a bad date and a poor client experience.
3. Be sure to share things about yourself and what is important to you. A great first date/meeting is when each person learns about the other person. You’re doing a potential client a disservice if they don’t get to learn why you’re different from other realtors or loan officers.
4. Follow-up if you hit it off. Remember when you had a really good first date, and you were looking forward to hearing from the other person? Or maybe you were the one who couldn’t wait to ask someone out again. When it comes to following-up on a great client experience, you should definitely be the one to follow-up first. Don’t be shy! Letting the other person know why you think working together is a win-win for both of you.
Let me ask, which of these do you think you can do better on your next date or new or potential client meeting? | 2019-04-23T05:21:28 | https://quicksilvatitle.com/2019/01/28/dating-and-the-client-experience/ |
'The summer is always a positive time, with the promise of good times and endless optimism. However, it can be hard to feel motivated when the face staring back at you in the mirror looks tired and lacklustre!
Please remember, don’t be too hard on yourself − the changing seasons can take its toll. No matter your skin type, we’re all dehydrated from the cumulative effects of central heating and changing temperatures. | 2019-04-19T16:41:06 | https://uk.lizearle.com/content/carolines-fresh-skin-secrets |
Farmers irrigate to supplement the precipitation and offset the effects of drought and global warming. Irrigation improves crop yields and also provides opportunities to grow higher value crops, such as fruits and vegetables.
Water and land are precious resources that need to be carefully managed. Farmers conserve water by irrigating on calm, cool, cloudy days so water isn’t wasted, maintaining irrigation systems to ensure there aren’t leaks, using water or energy saving nozzles, using drip irrigation on orchards and vineyards. | 2019-04-20T06:49:47 | https://www.journey2050.com/irrigation/ |
Golden Oaks Farm had tremendous results at this year’s World Dairy Expo held in Madison, WI for themselves and those that have purchased Golden Oaks animals. With 2 class winners, 7 top-ten finishes and breeding the Junior Champion of the International Holstein Show, we are paving the way to breeding and developing elite cattle to compete at national levels. Judging the International Holstein Show was Nathan Thomas of Cable, Ohio and Associate Judge was Eddie Bue of Fithian, IL. Together they judged 387 head of elite cattle. Pat Conroy of IN judged the International R&W Holstein Show with his Associate, Joel Lepage, QC. Big thank you to our crew at the show and back at home to make this year at Expo one to never forget!
Owned by: C&J Hill, F & D Borba, F. Connelly, & T&S Merwarth.
Charlise is a Pine-Tree Sid daughter from a Gold Chip out of Golden-Oaks Champ Rae-ET EX-93 3E.
Cleland Advnt Alexia-Red-ET-1st, 1st Production Award Winner, & Best Udder Aged Cow Class & the Nasco International Type and Production Award Winner & Honorable Mention Senior Champion International R&W Show.
Images: All Rights Reserved by: Cowsmopolitan, The Bullvine & The Red & White Dairy Cattle Association. | 2019-04-19T22:35:02 | http://goldenoaksfarm.com/world-dairy-expo-2015/ |
What makes up a fairy garden?
It’s really only limited by your imagination, but in general a fairy garden can be limited to a small area or container of some sort, or as part of your main garden or as a feature in an existing area. You can buy a beautiful tub, half barrel or similar, or get creative with sinks, tin bathtubs, old tyres or large flower pots– there’s no right or wrong! It will need to contain some miniature plants either in pots or planted, moss, crystals, stones/pebbles, and perhaps a fairy house or two. It’s also possible to incorporate ponds, rivers, and accessories- there are manufacturers producing a wide range of amazing items to fully accessorize your garden, from miniture stepping stones and seats to swings and garden implements. Generally speaking the more unique the better- try beachcombing or countryside walks to find unusual objects, wood, rocks, fossils etc which might come in useful.
It’s a good idea to have everything ready near where you will site your garden before you start so you don’t have to carry your creation to its new home after you have made it- depending on the construction they can be quite heavy! If you are using a deep container, you can half fill it with any kind of rubble, old styrofoam packaging works great, as it will aid drainage and stop it being too heavy. Then you need a layer of good quality potting compost almost up to the top of the container, but gently packed down as you will be planting into this.
If you’re incorporating it into your normal garden bed, then it is a great idea to select a large old tree as your focal point, then grow the plans out from there. I usually select low growing plants, such as creeping thymes, stone plants, creeping rock plants etc. A good hunt around your local Wyevale Garden Centre you’ll be sure to find some treasures. Ask a member of staff for help if you’re unsure, but plants which do well in thin soil will often be a good bet.
Next you want to position your fairy houses and main features, then remove them so you can put your plants in first. You may need more compost to firm everything up after you have put your plants in.
I use fish tank gravel for paths as it’s small and colourful. I have also collected shells, pretty stones, tumbled glass and crystals and other little bits and pieces to go along the edge of paths. Try using a small bowl to make a pond, I prefer to buy fake moss as it looks more authentic and put garden furniture on the moss to make an outdoor scene. Small mirrors also work well as ponds and to reflect light into the garden. You will view your child’s Lego and dolls house furniture in a new light, these cute little pieces suddenly find a new life. As we recently renovated our house, we had many little bits and pieces we could use, recycle or reuse.
As you get more confident, there are little bits of furniture you can make, seats, arches, lights etc. You can use fake flowers too so there is year round interest- many nowadays are so realistic that it’s hard to see the difference. If you’re using a fairy house, you can either make one, or purchase one- there are many models available nowadays in a variety of sizes, shapes and designs.Some of the houses are hollow, so you can put battery tea lights inside and the windows will light up. I’ve found some cheap vintage fairy garden miniatures online at http://www.cheap.forsale/fairy-garden-miniatures.
Making a fairy garden is a great way to spend time with your son or daughter, or even bond with the neighbourhood kids as it really encourages their imagination and it’s a way of letting them participate in an activity often reserved for adults. If you’re making the fairy garden in the front yard it will encourage a feeling of community in your street and the kids will feel involved and valued. Also, introducing children to gardening is educational – it teaches them about nature and the world around them, but also cause and effect, and a little bit about design – all great experience and knowledge for future life. | 2019-04-26T14:40:25 | http://internetkitchenappliances.co.uk/fairy-garden/ |
There are very worrying trends at the Western Australian State Government Planning Department that should seriously concern us in Fremantle. Planning Minister John Day has overruled the City of Subiaco council decision not to allow a 16 storey tower on the former Subiaco Markets site on the corner of Rokeby Road. The Minister has ordered the council to implement a Planning Scheme Amendment that will get rid of the present maximum height of six storeys in Subi and allow for the highrise development in the centre of the city to go ahead.
We in Freo should now be extremely worried that John Day could allow high rise on Victoria Quay or even in our historic West End. If our city started to look like West Perth or Joondalup that could well be the end for Freo as a tourist destination. | 2019-04-20T15:23:27 | https://juliematheson.com.au/2013/07/01/subiaco-highrise-a-worry-for-fremantle/ |
Ten Hills is in the northeastern section of Somerville and was named after Ten Hills Farm -owned by John Winthrop, the first governor of Massachusetts. The farm was along the southern bank of the Mystic River in an area that is now primarily residential with Victorian multifamily homes lining the streets.
The area includes a boathouse that rents out canoes and kayaks in the summer and is just a quick walk or bus ride away from Assembly Mall with its multitude of shops, bars, and restaurants. Grimmons Park in Ten Hills is a small playground that underwent a major renovation in 2009. | 2019-04-18T20:36:49 | https://www.branchoutre.com/listings/ten-hills/ |
Get over the mid-week slump with a fun and inspiring Vinyasa Yoga practice. Move to the rhythm of your breath and connect with your own energy flow. Explore different types of pranayama exercises and poses in unique sequences each week tailored to your requests. Want a chiller practice? Play with the modifications that are supported and stretchy. Want to take it up a notch? Challenge yourself with the up leveled variations of apex postures that strengthen and stabilize. No matter how you walk in, you’ll walk out feeling clearer, freer and with more energy for the end of the week. | 2019-04-25T12:27:21 | https://yogabyallison.com/events/vinyasa-yoga-2-2019-04-17/ |
Everyone gets truly excited at the thought of becoming rich very fast! Various methods exist which cannot just turn a person into a millionaire but a multi-millionaire! However, one should have the required skills and the correct attitude so as to manage to do this.
One strategy like this, which can help people to become rich, is simply participating in lotto 649. Some people wonder how they can win lotto 6/49. The people who possess a strong wish to become wealthy play this game as well as the ones who want to become financially strong.
It is not as difficult to win the lottery, as people believe. However, it is not very simple. One should comprehend well how to play lotto, so as to win.
For a person to win Lotto 649, they should have the correct skills to play the game. To get the best methods, one can go through the lotto black book that describes to a person the winning methods of the lottery game.
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If an individual is able to buy more than one ticket, he/she has more prospects of being a winner of the overall game. However, one needs to be totally clear regarding the concept. Since this is a game of chance, one should not totally invest their faith on these lotto games. If one wins, this is great for them, but if they do not, they should not lose hope.
To manage to be a prizewinner, you need to be persistent and discover the number patterns that can win every time. Only if we observe carefully will we realize that there exists a specific pattern or group of digits that win every time in this lottery game of Lotto 6/49.
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You should take care and continuously monitor the game results to ensure you can have a winning chance! | 2019-04-25T19:41:03 | https://www.lotto-649.org/using-simple-math-formula-win-lotto-649/ |
October 18, 2018 // Franchising.com // Cheshire, CT - Wayback Burgers, one of the nation’s fastest growing burger franchises, is gearing up for the 2018 “Driving Wayback to the Future” Franchisee Convention hosted at Mohegan Sun Casino & Resort in Uncasville, CT from October 21 through October 23.
Hundreds of Wayback Burgers representatives – executives, corporate team members, and franchisees from coast to coast, and around the globe – will attend the convention for three days. All attendees are hungry for updates on exciting new developments at Wayback Burgers, including the unveiling of a new-and-improved Wayback delivery system, and major announcements related to the company’s multi-faceted new partnership with Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA).
One of the convention’s biggest highlights will be the unveiling of a new and improved Wayback Burgers food delivery system and app, which will help franchisees take even better advantage of the booming delivery trend occurring across America, and around the world. It’ll be even easier and more efficient for all franchisees to execute local deliveries – with better food quality for the consumer and better profitability for the franchisees.
Wayback Burgers will reveal the new food delivery system on Monday morning at the general session of the convention and leave it on display at the trade show all day – a perfect opportunity for all franchise partners, and local media members, to get a sneak peek at the revolutionary model.
Another significant moment at the convention will come when Wayback Burgers hands over a ceremonial check to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) for $18,000, reflecting proceeds from a fundraiser that the company and its franchisees conducted nationwide in August. BGCA operates after-school care programs nationally, and Wayback Burgers wholeheartedly believes in its quest to help young people, particularly those who need the most support, reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
The grant is only part of a powerful and multi-faceted new partnership between Wayback Burgers and BGCA, involving several major initiatives and fundraisers. For the next two years, for example, a portion of the proceeds from each burger or sandwich purchased at participating Wayback Burgers will be donated to the group. The company and its franchise partners are pledging an annual donation of up to $150,000, with a minimum of $100,000.
Wayback Burgers is also implementing a workforce-training program for members of BGCA and is planning on adding the organization’s logo on select packaging material and potentially team-member uniforms.
For more information on Wayback Burgers please visit their website (https://waybackburgers.com/) and social media profiles – Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
To download the Wayback Burgers app for your Apple or Android device, please visit https://waybackburgers.com/loyalty/.
And for more information on the Wayback Burgers franchise opportunity, please visit https://franchise.waybackburgers.com/.
Founded in 1991 in Newark, DE, Wayback Burgers is a Connecticut-based fast-casual franchise with a reputation for cooked to order burgers and thick, hand-dipped milkshakes, served in an environment that hearkens back to a simpler place and time—when customer service meant something and everyone felt the warmth of the community. Wayback Burgers has over 427 committed franchise agreements and currently operates in 28 states with over 136 locations nationally and internationally in Argentina, Brunei and Saudi Arabia. Through its executed master franchise agreements, Wayback Burgers plans to open in 34 provinces/countries in the Middle East, Northern Africa, Argentina, Pakistan, Brunei, Bangladesh; Alberta, Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan, Canada; and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with pending letters of intent sent out to South Africa and the UK. | 2019-04-26T08:54:10 | https://www.franchising.com/news/20181018_wayback_burgers_to_reveal_revolutionary_new_food_d.html |
Throwing a party is not an easy thing to do since there are many things you need to prepare very well so it is going to be good. If you are bored with the ordinary party ideas, you may come up with another fresh idea. Try Luau party theme using tropical decorations and unique designs. Of course, you need to prepare or ask for the guests to wear luau party outfit so the party is complete and you can have different party than others.
What Do You Wear To Support Luau Party Outfit?
Tropical theme in Luau party means you need to add something floral, bright and colurful. To support your tropical outfit like in Hawaii, you can wear leis. Do you know what leis are? Leis are the flower necklace made of flower petal and it can be real or not. Usually leis are used to welcome people and they will put it on someone’s neck. It is really big and colorful to start your party. Add some supporting floral accessories like flower hairpin, bracelet or straw hat.
The must wear outfit for Luau party is hula skirts. It is not made of fabrics but grass. Though it looks simple, but the process of making this skirt is difficult. Nowadays, you can find hula skirts made of raffia, plastic or straw. This is good to be paired with your floral tops to support luau outfit for party.
This is something you have to wear in attending or creating luau tropical party called Hawaiian shirts. The shirts are full of flower print with colorful pattern. Usually, it is worn by men but woman can also wear this if they don’t want to wear tank tops.
Hope these ideas about luau party outfit can inspire you to create a new design of party using tropical things with bright colors. | 2019-04-25T02:59:56 | https://www.partyxyz.com/2016/10/13/3-must-wear-things-in-luau-party-outfit/ |
Do you have a song that has the ability to bring you to tears?
Wow. Such power in those words, isn't there? Today, as we celebrate Easter, I think about these words. We so often hear people say 'I would die for ____'. That's pretty easy to say about someone we love. But what about those who we don't? What about the people who don't deserve it? How many of us would truly be willing?
The older I get and the more life experience I gather, the more I stand in awe of that sacrifice. To take on the weight of the world's sins- past, present and future- not just for the innocent, but for the ungrateful, the mockers, the thieves- who are we to deserve that? I cannot even put into words just how grateful I am- today and every day- to have a savior that loves me in my imperfection THAT much.
On this Easter day as you spend the days celebrating Christ's resurrection with your family, I leave you with this song and I hope that it touches you as it does me.
This is such a cool video. I love easter holiday! | 2019-04-19T01:04:41 | https://www.amoderndayfairytale.net/2018/04/here-i-am-to-worship-easter-reflections.html |
Mel’s Drive-In is a 50’s-themed diner on the Sunset Strip that we found while searching for somewhere to eat in the West Hollywood area. Mel’s Diner was the restaurant what was featured in the film American Graffitti, and since then, the diner has expanded to include multiple locations in the Southern California area.
When you arrive at the West Hollywood location, you pull up to park around one of the last googie buildings in Los Angeles. This is the only location that is open 24-hours-a-day 7-days-a-week. Mel’s is continuously shows in TV spots, commercials and movies. The iconic drive-in, although not in use, can be seen in the parking stalls and outer set-up of the diner.
The vibe of Mel’s can be seen by the structure of the building. Guests are greeted with a neon jukebox upon walking in. There are souvenirs available for sale at the cashier’s. We decided to sit at the bar of the diner. The wait staff were all uniformed in 50’s-themed attire. The menu was so long that we had a hard time deciding what to order, but the food came out quickly. At each of the seating areas was a small table jukebox that allows patrons to pick which song they would like to hear in the restaurant.
The food was ended up being better than expected. Ethan ordered a burger, and I ordered eggs benedict. Both entrees tasted great, and we couldn’t help but order a chocolate malt at the end of our meal. The malt came in a classic shake-glass with the left overs offered to us in a metal cup. We inhaled everything that was put in front of us, and we left with our stomachs full.
The crowd at Mel’s consisted of a large mix of people. There were a lot of guests taking pictures of the diner both inside and outside. Keep in mind that guests can pay by walking up to the cashier after the meal. There was also no line when we arrived, but I can imagine that the diner would be busier particularly on weekends in the evening.
Mel’s was very affordable. For two entrees, two drinks and dessert we ended up paying $50. The cost was definitely worth the experience of visiting this iconic Hollywood landmark. | 2019-04-20T12:46:40 | http://la-staycation.com/tag/diner/ |
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Home / uncategorized / What does it mean to be an accountant in 2018?
Following his piece on jobs in accountancy, we spoke to Marcus Williams of Morgan McKinley about what it means to be working as an accountant now, and what the industry might look like in the future.
1. What job roles are we going to see more of in accountancy?
I think the business partnering roles: people who are commercially-minded and good at producing information and articulating what this means to certain people. With lots of change happening in the industry, senior people want consistent information and advice to help them best understand and adapt to this. With certain regulatory requirements and different reporting standards there is always a need for good technical accountants; there’s always going to be a high demand for CFOs and senior people that can produce quality and robust reporting.
Typically, we’ve seen certain jobs, in banks for example, being off-shored to European countries. For example, product controller positions in the banking world. There will always be demand for accountancy roles but they won’t necessarily always be in London because they could be based elsewhere and cost less. I don’t think you’ll see any area of finance gone, it will just be moved elsewhere.
2. Do you think everyone should have a flexible attitude towards their professional future?
If I think about when I first started in recruitment, people would spend a lot longer in a company – six or seven years – but now the norm with the CVs I see is that people are spending two or three years in a role before moving on. I think the trend of staying at one organisation for a long period of time is fizzling out because people want more change.
3. What do you think this change means for young people coming into the accounting industry?
Typically, junior people want change and flexibility. If I asked a candidate seven years ago what their priorities were when looking for a job, it would usually be money, whereas now the focus is definitely flexibility and the ability to work from home.
4. Do you think that this desire for flexible working is a reaction to higher expectations and more stress in our professional lives?
I think flexibility is just about moving with the times, for example giving more to employees who are pregnant or on parental leave. Employers are focusing more on retention of staff and don’t want to let good people go. People have become aware of businesses who are giving their employees flexible working and are therefore gravitating towards working for them.
If I was working for one company who wasn’t offering flexibility, like leaving early on a Friday or working from home one day a week, but a competitor was and I could do exactly the same job but get this flexibility then naturally I would be drawn to the other company. More and more organisations are clocking on to this and adopting flexible working policies now. People like remote working, people like independence, people want to be able to sit in a coffee shop and work. People want face time with clients outside of the office too.
5. How would you recommend people approach their manager to ask for flexible working?
If you’re using a recruiter like us, I would always see it as my duty to ask the client and then inform the candidate. It’s not a good idea to turn up to your first interview and ask if you can work from home. Some people do that! But the expectation if you’re straight out of university or going into a new job is that you’re hungry and want to get stuck in. You’re happy to work twelve hours a day. I would always advise not asking this question at your first interview, but do so a bit later down the line.
6. In what ways do you think regulations such as MTD, MiFID II, and GDPR will affect the accounting industry?
I think they will create more jobs because firms and companies will want more people who understand them and keep up with related developments. People who are specialist in areas such as MiFID II or reporting standards can ask for a salary premium because there aren’t that many people who can do these roles effectively. In particular, there are lots of projects going on around GDPR, so businesses are wanting specialists who can come in and help with processes around it.
7. Do you think these regulations have therefore played a part in changing the role of an accountant to be more focused on advisory and strategic responsibilities?
In terms of advisory, I would say many accounting roles are already very much focused on this, especially at Big Four firms. Accountants working for these firms are definitely getting more and more face time with senior people at different companies. I think in the past people saw regulation as a boring arm to finance compared to the others, but I think now that more and more new regulation comes in, people have picked up on how if they specialise in this area and get lots of experience in it, they can get a higher premium. I think it’s definitely becoming more popular.
8. What about Brexit? What is it going to do to the accounting industry?
At the moment, nothing has changed. If I look at our job volume, and compare it to last year, the jobs we’ve been sent by our clients has actually increased, which is interesting. This might be because people are getting ready for changes.
In terms of the impact, the only thing I can think of is people off-shoring things to different European countries, but in terms of whether it has affected the job volume and our clients who are accountants, I would say no. I think there are niche roles out there, especially in bigger businesses, which focus specifically on what Brexit is going to do but in general it’s business as usual at the moment.
9. What skills do accountants need now?
The perfect accounting candidate is someone who understands the technical side of accountancy, such as financial reporting, financial control, and financial standards like IFRS and UK GAAP but also an individual who understands the commercial aspects of it.
So it’s someone who knows how to produce a set of accounts as well as how to articulate this to senior stakeholders, explain what it means, and give recommendations for things they can do to improve certain systems or processes. The all-round accountant is what people are looking for more. There will always be a demand for certain specialist areas, but a lot of our clients this year have wanted that all-round accountant with the combined technical and commercial ability. When as a recruiter you know you’ve got both you’re pretty confident in selling that person to your client.
10. What advice do you give to individuals who want to move into accounting but haven’t decided on specifics like company, practice area, or sector?
I would suggest sending their CVs off to the Big Four first. Also, to have the ACA qualification is really good, not just for accountancy but also to prove that you’re able to complete it. The ACA compared with the ACCA and the CIMA is the more prestigious qualification. I think if you have that, whether you stay in accountancy or move elsewhere, it will look very impressive. Also the ACA can demand a higher rate sometimes because it involves training for longer and investing more.
To get into the Big Four you need good grades so if you have trained with one of those firms, people will know you are good academically. Some firms also sponsor you to study for a qualification while working. That’s a really good way of getting industry experience while studying, and plus they pay for you to do it.
Typically, there’s an expectation for accountants to have good excel skills and be able to deal with things like macros and use VBA to streamline certain processes. Some of our clients have even inputted a stage where candidates must do an excel test, and at times the candidate will not even be considered if they do not pass it.
11. How do you get a great entry-level accounting job?
People who go into accountancy usually study subjects like finance, economics, and business, though I have seen people who study languages then decide they want to go into accountancy. The main thing is make sure you get good grades. There is so much competition for someone looking for their first job, and the problem is that for someone who has just qualified and they’re looking for their first job in industry, their CV looks the same as so many others.
They’ve been to uni, got good grades, they’ve gone to one of the Big Four, and they have passed their ACA. How does a client know on paper who is good or not? This is where candidates must think about what gives them a competitive edge. This might be internships or secondments, or if you have worked on site at certain organisations that are relevant to the job or industry you are applying for this will be helpful.
12. What advice would you give to an individual wanting to move up from their first job into a higher role?
You always need to think about your value add. You need to show how you’ve improved something or you’ve reengineered something or changed something for the better, such as saving costs or time. Have a list of things you have done in your most recent role, and this will give you something to talk about as you move into your next challenge. Sometimes moving up can be competitive, in a bank for example where so many people are trying to progress, but in a small to medium sized firm you will have a good chance of progressing.
Good companies will not let good people go: a lot of firms are switched on when it comes to staff retention by giving them good financial rewards and flexibility, but another thing companies can do is offer great progression opportunities. Corporate Social Responsibility is massive now, for example getting employees to do charity work. In my firm, we get two days off a year to do charitable work.
I did a piece recently about the gender pay gap. By 4 April, every company of a certain size must release how much they pay their staff. It has created a lot of bad vibes internally, and I think this will create a lot of change overall. There’s going to be some movers and shakers, people will not settle for being paid less for doing the same role. | 2019-04-21T01:11:13 | http://www.aiaworldwide.com.tw/be-an-accountant-in-2018/ |
Torie is a senior at Rocky and loves being involved in the Rocky community, especially through all the clubs the school has to offer. Some of her favorite are Student Council, Drama Club, and DECA. She loves being in the school plays and planning the next dance! You can catch her making sculptures in the art department or trying to sell you food. She does not know what college she wants to go to but wants to study sports marketing. All she really knows is that after college she wants to take a break from school and work as an event planner on a cruise ship. | 2019-04-19T09:25:40 | https://rmhshighlighter.com/staff/?writer=Torie%20Wolf |
This coming טו׳ בשבט (Sunday night January 20 through January 21), our talmidim plan to participate in a special טו בשבט program which will אי״ה take place in Chicago. In a 24-hour period, the entire ש״ס will be jointly learned by close to 500 participants at the Veitzener Cheder, followed by a seudas siyum in honor of the momentous occasion. The Yeshiva undertook to complete the first perek of Maseches Kiddushin (40 blatt), to be completed throughout the day. At last year’s siyum, we were zoche to hear derashos from R’ Shmuel Feurst and R’ Shmuel Dishon who emphasized the powerful impact and the Kiddush Hashem of a tzibur who come together to learn Torah. In addition, we had the opportunity to meet and hear divrei chizuk from R’ Shmuel Keller and R’ Zev Cohen. This year, the learning will culminate in a siyum, with Rabbi Yaakov Bender as the guest speaker. Any community members who are interested in coming along should please contact Rabbi Zeiger for chavrusa arrangements with our bochurim. We are looking forward to partnering with the community for this wonderful Kiddush Hashem. | 2019-04-24T14:44:44 | http://ygosb.com/2018/11/02/shas-for-shiduchim/ |
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The Communication, Culture, and Technology Program is an interdisciplinary graduate program dedicated to identifying, researching, and understanding complex problems associated with today's mediated environment. My specific focus is exploring how organizations and individuals interact in these new spaces.
Students examine and learn over 40 theories that help explain how we process, produce, and understand messages.
Students explore interviewing, focus groups, content analysis, rhetorical analysis, and participant observation to understand complex problems.
Organizations are constituted through conversations. Communication technologies have transformed how we address internal and external stakeholders. In this class we explore blogs, social media platforms, wikis, intranets, and individual communication technologies and how they relate to interaction, decision making, group formation, crisis situations, and strategy.
Students create outward facing electronic portfolios based on reflection and development of narratives focused towards the need of identified external audiences.
New CCT students explore interdisciplinary problem solving and methods. | 2019-04-24T14:41:48 | http://www.jeaninewturner.com/communication-culture-technology-program/ |
"Practice. The more you write the more proficient you will become. Think of it in the same terms as learning a musical instrument - when the skills become second nature, you'll really be able to fly." | 2019-04-18T12:37:34 | http://socialpolitan.org/fiction-writing-craft/blogs/tag/Writing%20Fiction |
Who is Responsible for the Problems in Our State?
Life in this generation is interesting. It poses several questions and for this article I am especially preoccupied with questions concerning the politicians and the general public. Allow me to ruminate on a few. How will life be without politicians? Whom shall we blame for things gone bad or things not done? Without them whom shall we point fingers at, to criticize? Our politicians are so fortunate. They are at the core of all our criticism. Bad roads, they get the brunt of the public. Erratic electricity, they are at fault. Water shortage, again it’s their fault. Everything has to end with the politicians. They are supposed to be magicians and perform tricks, be the maker and create jobs and repair things, and most importantly play God and make everything perfect. Well, it is not surprising that they do feel very important and pretend to be; after all they are the ‘can do it all’ class of people in the eye of the public. Granted, they have a huge responsibility, but dearest public, let us remember that they are not God.
I do not have any inclination, whatsoever, towards any politician, neither do I plan to become one, but let us be sensible and take a look around us. There are some questions we need to ask ourselves. Who dumps the garbage in the street, or clogs the drainage and river with garbage? The public. Who uses excessive electricity and also leaves it switched on, the whole day and night, though not in use? The public. Who pays money to buy a government job? The public. Who has a government job but still looks around for a private job in order to appease their wants? The public. Who builds houses or horrid structures on the road and does not leave space for pavements? The public, again! So whom do we blame?
With advancement and modernity, it is taken for granted that a society and its lifestyles improve. But our society seems to be benefitting nothing from advancement, modernity, and education. Rather, it is on a rush downhill and degrading at a speed not even the fastest driver can achieve. Our civic sense seems to be on the verge of extinction and it looks like we have left behind our principles, our values, and our decency in the past with our ancestors. In our society today, every act of the public comes along with a justification. For instance, it is perfectly okay to buy a government job because everybody does it and that’s the only way to get a government job. Reality check- no matter how honest you are, paying someone or bribing somebody to get a government job is still CORRUPTION: nothing more, nothing less!
When the public itself is corrupt, how in the world do you profess to eliminate corruption? When we have lost our civic sense and are fine with dumping garbage in the street, how can we expect our surroundings to miraculously become a paradise overnight? Let us be rational. Half of the problems around us are all self-made. We have nobody to blame but ourselves.
I applaud ACAUT and all the other several organizations for their efforts to make our society a better place to live in. But my dear public, just a group of people cannot bring complete change. The general mass has to play its part. Until and unless the general mass is willing to sacrifice, we cannot expect total change in our society. We ask for four-lane roads but are not willing to give away an inch of our land. Are they supposed to make four lane roads in the air? We ask for regular supply of electricity and water but we are not willing to be careful with its usage. It doesn’t materialize from Narnia. We ask for a clean city but we are not willing to clean our surroundings.
A humble request; let us stop pointing fingers and stop putting our politicians on a pedestal, but work in our own little spaces to bring change for the better. Let us ask ourselves, “What do I do regularly?”, because what we do regularly has the potential to become a habit, and habits develop into the character of an individual and eventually become the essence of a society. Change has to ultimately begin within. Every individual is responsible in order to bring change in our society. We have to move out of our comfort zone and stop doing things for selfish motives. Our mentality is such that we are obsessed with what will we get in return? If everyone becomes this myopic, development is going to be a difficult goal.
All said and done, our politicians and leaders are still accountable to the public. They have been elected by the public to lead and so lead they should. Let the public be good followers and be wise when they elect someone to lead them. | 2019-04-25T07:56:43 | http://degreeofthought.dottalks.in/who-is-responsible-for-problems-in-our/ |
The nonprofit Cascade Public Media group helps expand community participation through our PBS member station KCTS 9, our digital news site, Crosscut and our year-round events. We help Northwest people learn, grow and make a difference.
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KCTS delivers a wide variety of public television programming over-the-air and online. In partnership with PBS, BBC, American Public Television and more, we feature the best in news, documentaries, drama and educational children’s programming.
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The eye consists of more muscles than most people think. There are muscles that surround the eye from all sides, and they are also attached to the eyeball at many different angles. They are responsible for the movement of the eye which allows people to look at objects without turning their head. However, a Miami Beach eye doctor sees patients who are suffering from issues with their eye muscles that are causing other health problems. People who are not taking care of their eyes correctly may end up dealing with issues related to their eye muscles that can cause a lot of discomfort. There are things that an eye doctor in Miami can recommend their patient do in order to prevent the issues from becoming worse, though.
Your doctor in Miami Beach will explain exactly what the muscles in your eye are supposed to do and why you may be having problems with them. While there are muscles that control the actual movement of your eye, there are also muscles that are inside the eye and help it to function. For example, there are muscles in your eye that allow the iris to expand and contract, allowing the right amount of light to pass through the pupil.
Your eye muscles are responsible for allowing you to follow objects traveling through your field of vision.
Your eye muscles are also responsible for you being able to see objects without damaging your retina.
When overworked, eye muscles can become strained and result in migraines.
The right amount of exercise is important for eye muscles just like any other muscle. If they are underused, they can become stiff and cause pain/discomfort.
Some people only need to be prescribed glasses in order to avoid putting too much strain on their eye muscles. People who are near or farsighted often squint and strain their eyes to try and compensate for their reduced vision quality. However, people who are dealing with headaches because they are looking at a computer screen all day long may only need to take appropriate breaks to prevent from overworking their eye muscles. Some people focus too intently when working on a task, which will put strain on them. With some basic instruction or minor treatments from a Miami eye doctor, people can preserve their eye muscles and prevent damaging them. | 2019-04-24T01:53:33 | http://www.gouldvision.com/blog/digging-deep-into-eye/ |
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Academic Counseling Services (ACS) is the central advising office for all Undecided and Undeclared students at USC. We assist students who are undecided or unsure about their major to find their academic home at USC. We are here to provide information and guidance throughout the exploration process.
Academic Advising is an ongoing process of clarification and re-evaluation of academic goals and plans with active participation between the advisor and the student. It’s more than just scheduling and registration! We are committed to providing students with information about campus resources and offer referrals, and opportunities that help enhance the academic experience including internships, volunteer work, international opportunities, and directive research.
Please note that Undecided and Undeclared students must declare a major before they reach Junior standing (64 total units).
To learn more about the difference between Undecided and Undeclared, click here.
Undecided and Undeclared students are expected to meet with their assigned advisor TWICE each semester. | 2019-04-25T14:51:13 | https://undergrad.usc.edu/services/counseling/undecided/ |
Mark Doty is the author of six books of poems and two memoirs, Heaven s Coast and Firebird A Guggenheim, Ingram Merrill, and Whiting Fellow, he has also received the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN Martha Albrand Prize for Nonfiction He teaches at the University of Houston, and divides his time between Houston and Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Perhaps this type of writing is an acquired taste. It is not, at any rate, a taste I have ever acquired. It has very little to do with art or with painting or with the Dutch - it is subjective (and hence, quite arbitrary) and self-indulgent, and much of it taken up with rather uninteresting memories of his old aunts in Tennessee. It is about mood, and not insight. Just my opinion, of course.
Beautiful. If it gets a little precious, whimsical, or far-reaching at times, that's fine. I'll allow him that. Because it's beautiful.
I participate in my life more completely after reading this book. Contemplating the intimate process of creating and looking at paintings, reading and reflecting on well-chosen words, or thinking, over and over, "that may be the most beautifully crafted sentence or paragraph I've ever read," are gifts I got from this book. I couldn't read it quickly, even though it is short. I would have missed out on too much.
An exquisite and almost devastating rumination on life, death, and the gestures that help us make sense of "memory's theater". I haven't read his poetry (yet) but this is exceptionally lucid prose, biographical or otherwise. Doty says that "when we describe the world we come closer to saying what we are" and then proceeds to tell us, with impressive richness and clarity, how he sees. Given his poet's eyes the journey is remarkable.
This tasty bonbon of a book is, in essence, a love letter to a painting. Yet Mark Doty does more than exquisitely describe Osias Beert's artwork. He also draws conclusions about beauty and the objects we see (or ignore) in our daily lives.I checked this book out of the library, and before I was even finished with it, I had ordered a copy online. That's how much I enjoyed it.
What are the odds of reading two five-star books back-to-back? This one defies description. I stopped half-way through so I could order a personal copy. When it comes, I will re-read it and highlight the many places I was unable to mark in the library copy.
Beautiful and dreamy. "We are instructed by the objects that come to speak with us, those material presences. Why should we have been born knowing how to love the world? We require, again and again, these demonstrations."
Un libro sobre la mirada: el poeta escribe mirando un cuadro con el mismo amor y atención con que el pintor miró el mundo que pintaba. Muy lindo todo. El primer 5 estrellitas de mi año.
This is an exquisite small book of memoir + musings to be savored very slowly, like a Chateau d'Yquem.
A highly poeticized take on the role of the still life -- made more meaningful by having read Doty's previous memoirs.
Read this on my couch-bound, flu-filled weekend, and it still managed to make everything around me seem exquisitely beautiful.
Beautiful reflections on life, death, and a Dutch painting that stirred Mark Doty's heart and mind. I just love him so much. In my book, he can do no wrong!
What an excellent book! I will be giving this book as a gift to many of my family & friends. | 2019-04-22T20:26:33 | http://web-sighted.co.uk/106244-still-life-with-oysters-and-lemon-on-objects-and/ |
April 1st- poem for today.
I plan to post a poem here every day for the month of April, which is Poetry Month. Not necessarily my own, or by the Poeticians, but just random poetry I love…hope you will come back every day and read a new poem. It usually adds a little something something to one’s day…Hope it will to yours. | 2019-04-23T01:11:53 | https://poeticians.com/2010/04/01/april-1st-poem-for-today/ |
Alan holds a diploma in Spa Therapy from The Vancouver School of Bodywork and Massage (Canada) along with Mastery Level status in Ashiatsu Oriental Bar Therapy® from Health and Bodyworks (USA).
His unique style is a fusion of Eastern and Western cultures. Treatments focus on dissolving scar tissue while helping inflammation patterns disappear. Specialization in deep compression techniques utilizing body weight together with passive stretching designed for amateur and professional athletes.
Alan is a Certified, Insured and Licensed Massage Therapist based in Montreal, QC, Canada. General focus on treating sciatic pain from lower back shooting down legs towards feet, muscle strain problems with shoulder and neck, flexibility issues with the hip and leg muscles are some key examples. Range of motion and energy levels are boosted upon completion of a session. So it's an advantage to receive a customized 'tune-up' for noticeable improvement in normal everyday life activities or competitive sport.
Alan is a former amateur baseball pitcher who played in local house leagues for well over the course of fourteen years. He had the great opportunity to try out for the Atlanta Braves Triple-A farm league, but unfortunately couldn't throw his fastest due to a shoulder injury sustained a week prior during a semi-final game. Since then, rehabilitation with a holistic approach has always been a keen interest for healing of self and of course others in need.
Alan also practices Pregnancy Massage, which is great for the expecting mother to maintain good health, circulation, and to help manage aches/pain due to the pregnancy. | 2019-04-22T19:11:40 | https://www.clubsportifmaa.com/en/health-services/massage/alan-michael-wong |
This was partly built in a mixed box of second hand Lego. It has two doors and a piece like a floor to the box that slides away to make whatever is put inside drop away.
I think it is Ninjago but I cannot find what set it belongs to in order to build it.
Do any Lego experts recognise it?
That's great, thank you! Also explains why I couldn't find it in Ninjago.
Is there a reason you keep specifying Ninjago? | 2019-04-22T23:06:56 | https://forum.brickset.com/discussion/27084/need-help-identifying-partly-built-ninjago |
The Michigan Department of Education has released its annual report card and rankings of Michigan's public schools.
A number of West Michigan schools scored very well, while a few did not.
Ten Grand Rapids Public Schools were listed as Priority Schools which "need to improve their attention on student learning." Two Muskegon Heights schools also fell into this category.
Priority Schools are those in the bottom five percent of the annual Top-to-Bottom ranking. As required by state law, Priority Schools are placed under the authority of the State School Reform Office and the schools will be required to implement an intervention model to improve student achievement.
But there is plenty of good news too.
Grand Rapids Public Schools, Spring Lake, Forest Hills, East Grand Rapids, Rockford, Grand Haven, West Ottawa, Zeeland, Hudsonville, and Byron Center all had schools ranked towards the top in the state.
View the complete Michigan Department of Education school scores and rankings. | 2019-04-24T22:50:10 | https://rivergrandrapids.com/michigan-releases-annual-rankings-of-public-schools/ |
There are lots of fun family-friendly events happening for Halloween and Guy Fawkes. Here is our top picks for the best Halloween events and fireworks displays in Tauranga. Find out where your nearest event is here and make sure you mark them in your calendar!
Families are invited to get dressed up and come down to Fraser Cove Shopping Centre for the Trick or Treat Halloween Trail. Children are encouraged to walk the trail around the Centre to collect treats. Plus the kids can enjoy face painting, bouncy castles, spot prizes and more free activities.
Come on down to The Mount Mainstreet shops for a free family fun trick or treat event. There will be multiple shops transforming for the day into a spooky theme. Grab a treat map from any of the shops on the main street, visit the shops on the day, check out their spooky decorations and grab yourselves some free goodies! There will be a Mad Scientist Show at 2pm and a Magician Show at 3pm. So grab your little ones, join the madness by dressing in your Halloween best and come trick or treating with Mount Mainstreet!
My Little Monkeys – Soft Play Hire will be having their own little Halloween theme party for the little ones! Everyone come dressed up as much or as little as you want. A great chance for young ones to dress up. Suitable for children aged 6 months to 4 years old. There will be a soft play set up with ball pits, bouncy castle, climbing turtle, tunnels, bridges, trikes, hoppers and a babies section for under 1 year olds! With all your favourite toddler music!
Cost: $6 per child, $4 per extra sibling & under 1 $4. Cash and Eftpos accepted.
The EastPack Te Puke Treat Trail is happening again this Halloween. Dress up and come to downtown Te Puke to trick or treat. The theme this year is Super Hero / Super Villain with special appearances from Batman, Wonderwoman and The Hits Will Johnston. Come dressed up as whatever you like! The parade will head over to Jubilee Park around 4.45-5pm for prize giving on the stage. Follow their very own Town Crier to the stage.
Bring the family down to the Tav for the kids Halloween party! They will have a few tricks up their sleeves to keep them entertained, Photo Booth will be there to capture the dress ups!! My Little Monkeys – Soft Play Hire will set up an area for the under 2’s! There will be prizes for the best-dressed kids!!
This is a safe alternative to Halloween where your kids will get an opportunity to dress up and enjoy a time of fun, games, entertainment, prizes and of course lollies! This event is free and there will be food to purchase at our sausage sizzle or coffee from the Atrium cafe. This event is for all children up to Year 6 at school. As this is a child-friendly event, please no scary costumes. Parents are required to supervise their children throughout this event.
St Andrew’s Church is hosting a Community Light/Glow Party at the Mount. Wear your favourite costume or glow in the dark outfit. There will be lollies, sausage sizzle, carnival games, glow sticks, disco, cake decorating, prizes and much more. For ages 5-12 years.
Tauranga’s biggest Fireworks Display, as well as the opening round of the Burger King Super Saloon Series. $20,000 of Fireworks will light up the sky to finish off a great nights racing.
The secure Kidz Zone will be open from 5pm with bouncy castles, face painters and more! Buffet meals are available in the speedway lounge. Enjoy an action-packed night out that’s fun for the whole family!
Come and join Fairhaven School for their 21st Annual Fireworks Gala. You can look forward to a night of wonderful entertainment, lots of exciting stalls and activities like the Hoopla Jars, Coin Roll, Dart Throwing, Bouncy Castles, Face Painting, Spot Prizes, a Silent Auction, White Elephant, Mystery Envelopes, Raffles, Food Stalls, as well as our big Bonfire and Fireworks extravaganza!! Not to be missed – start inviting your extended family and friends now for an amazing night of family entertainment!
Cost: Adults $6, Child (5 to 12yrs) $4, Under 5’s Free. Tickets can be purchased at the gate.
St Mary’s Primary School is hosting a fireworks gala. There will be lots of entertainment, fun gala stalls and yummy food. Plus back by popular demand the St Mary’s Wheelbarrow Race.
Cost: Family Pass $25 (2 Adults and up to 3 children), Adults $10 (18 years and older), Child $5 (under 5’s free). Gate sales – Eftpos available at the gate.
When: Friday 7 December 2018, 4pm to late. | 2019-04-18T21:00:34 | http://www.mumsintauranga.co.nz/best-halloween-events-fireworks-displays-tauranga-2018/ |
Pilates matwork is a form of exercise performed largely on a mat using your own body weight. Making it suitable for children and adults of all ages. It is a popular and effective body conditioning method, incorporating both flexibility and strength exercises developed over ninety years ago by Joseph H Pilates. Pilates aims to develop the whole body giving you a longer, leaner, stronger body.
Pilates is a no-impact exercise that strengthens and tones muscles, improves posture, provides flexibility and balance to promote long lean muscle mass. Pilates strengthens the core and helps to keep your back strong, healthy and mobile. We like to think of pilates as being the best thing you can do for yourself whatever your age and whatever your lifestyle is. Or as some of our clients say, ‘ it helps keep all my bits working for longer’! The Core Studio trainers will also give you some techniques you can use while you are driving, working, waiting at the checkout or watching TV!!
In the words of Joseph Pilates ‘in 10 sessions you will feel the difference, in 20 you will see the difference and in 30 you will have a brand new body’! Pilates can be performed from once a week to seven days a week. The Pilates Matwork Class in the Core Studio is one hour in duration.
Modern life means that most of us spend many hours bent over a waist high desk, sitting at a computer or driving a car essentially training our bodies into a rounded posture that cramps the muscles, strains our back and weakens our pelvic floor muscles and inhibits breathing!
This lifestyle is physically and emotionally damaging. The Pilates method can teach you to counteract the damage done and help your re-train your ody to work better by strengthening weak muscles and stretching tight muscles, therefore improving your overall physical fitness and wellbeing. You will feel the benefits of Pilates almost immediately. It’s not a ‘quick fix’ – rather it is a long term investment that will give you core strength and a supple lean physique and, in short, make you feel a whole lot better!
Your Core Studio Trainer will be instructing you in the following principles with suitable modifications based on your need for Pilates. | 2019-04-20T02:38:57 | http://thecorestudio.ie/pilates-mat/ |
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This is a selection of good resources that I needed to use more than once. Usually as different people still have the same questions. While the tools that are linked are rather a representative market overview, most of the other ressources are more of a recommendation by me. A lot of good reads in there.
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He may look like a paperboy, but 5' 7", 157-pound Flames winger Johnny Gaudreau proves the NHL has a place for the pint-sized.
This story appeared in the March 7, 2016 issue of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. To subscribe, click here.
The Gaudreau family property occupies 15 acres in Oldsman Township (pop. 1,773), a sleepy section of southwestern New Jersey. The land is spacious enough to whack golf balls into the woods or shag flies in the front yard. Two soccer nets form a field near the driveway, and a swimming pool tempts guests out back. It was the perfect setup for keeping four active children occupied—particularly the second oldest, Johnny, who once complained after a sleepover, “All we did was sit there and play video games.” It was also the only house around where the kids ate steak and drank milkshakes for breakfast.
A former Division II hockey player who has run a local rink for the past quarter-century, Guy Gaudreau was realistic as he raised his two sons around the game. He worked Johnny and Matty hard on the ice, but he also taught them cold genetic truths. “I just explained that they weren’t dealt a very good hand size-wise,” the 5' 8" Guy says, adding that if they wanted to reach the NHL, their odds might improve by fattening up.
Nothing worked. Nature prevailed. Today, Boston College’s hockey roster lists Matty, a junior, at 5' 9" and 145 pounds, easily the lightest player in Hockey East. And 5' 9" Johnny—the Flames’ 22-year-old left wing, a former Hobey Baker Award winner at BC, 2015 Calder Trophy finalist, two-time NHL All-Star and currently, teammates attest, the most famous person in Calgary—carries the league’s lightest frame, a whopping 157 pounds.
“He looks like he could be your paperboy,” says Jane, his mother. Or, if you prefer, an “altar boy” (Flames president Brian Burke), “stick boy” (teammate T.J. Brodie), “water bug” (Anaheim coach Bruce Boudreau), “little bugger” (Calgary coach Bob Hartley) or “little brother” (too many to name). When Gaudreau reported to his first summer camp as a fourth-round draft pick in 2011, Flames staffers initially thought he was just another fan seeking autographs.
Sometimes it takes even more than on-ice creativity and slick stickwork to get people to look beyond the scale. When he was 17, during preseason camp with the USHL’s Dubuque (Iowa) Fighting Saints, representatives from NHL Central Scouting visited the junior team to measure draft-eligible prospects. At the time, Gaudreau’s weight hovered around the low 130s, not exactly an attractive number for potential suitors.
Sure, scouts praised his skill during his draft year, when he finished second in the USHL with 36 goals in 60 games and Dubuque won the Clark Cup. They marveled at his artful puck control and elusiveness in high-traffic areas, how he could bank pucks off goaltenders’ masks from tight angles and read defenders’ hips to know exactly how to lose them.
His big breakthrough, though, came not when the plane landed in Vancouver and he scored his first NHL goal on his first NHL shot in Calgary’s 2013–14 season finale but rather the following fall. Through five games Gaudreau had no points and mustered only one shot on goal. He missed the sixth as a healthy scratch. Flirting with a demotion to the minors, he returned to the lineup two nights later—“Most nervous I’ve ever been for a hockey game,” he says—and banished any notion he was overmatched.
On a sunny day after practice in mid-February, Gaudreau rolls into a Calgary restaurant freshly shaved, having forsaken his latest attempt at facial hair because too many friends gave him grief. Aside from a few locals eyeing him through the window, lunch passes without interruption. This is unusual. “Oh, yeah, I notice people hiding their phones behind glasses,” he says.
This last detail didn’t matter. The altar boy was on the ice. The congregation was rising to its feet. They’re all believers now. | 2019-04-26T03:43:52 | https://www.si.com/nhl/2016/03/16/johnny-gaudreau-calgary-flames-si-feature-best-small-nhl-players |
Baroness Brady has insisted she has a "sense of duty" to Sir Philip Green’s employees to remain as chairman of his business empire.
Breaking her silence, Baroness Brady said it would be “the easy thing to do” to walk away from Taveta Investments Ltd, the holding company behind Sir Philip’s fashion brands.
But she said she preferred to “remain in post” for the 20,000 employees, among them her daughter, who works for Topshop.
Sir Philip is accused of sexual harassment and racial abuse of staff, who received up to £1 million in payments provided they signed non disclosure agreements. | 2019-04-26T14:53:42 | http://www.vpk-news.com/karren-brady-says-she-has-sense-of-duty-to-sir-philip-greens-employees-including-her-daughter/ |
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School librarian Jolene Gutiérrez spends her days sharing children’s books and her nights writing them. She knows their power to change and even save lives. Jolene is an active member of SCBWI, a Children’s Book Academy scholarship winner and graduate, a We Need Diverse Books mentorship finalist, a Writing with the Stars mentee (with picture book author Stacy McAnulty), a Highlights Foundation scholarship winner, and the winner of the Cynthia Levinson nonfiction picture book biography scholarship to the Writing Barn. Find her at writerjolene.blogspot.com, facebook.com/writerjolene, and twitter.com/writerjolene. | 2019-04-21T14:37:32 | https://www.authorsguild.net/services/members/3407 |
This was taken last week in the small town of Ennigerloh in Westphalia, Germany.
A little while ago I was asked by a group of students from a neighbouring school for advice on the following: they were putting together the contents for a time capsule that they were intending to bury in their school grounds, to be disinterred in 2100. They wanted to include in it a lot of photographs, some shool magazines and some essays. Their intention was to bury this in electronic format, but they were stuck as to what media to use. If they put it all on CDs or DVDs, would these still be readable in 100 years, and indeed would there be the still be hardware that could be used for this purpose? Or should they use a memory stick?
Of course I was quite unable to offer any useful advice. Or rather, I suggested that the only safe thing they could do would be to include it in hard copy, i.e. on paper. I think they may have been disappointed with this advice, as they probably hoped that the president of a technology-savvy university would have some hi tech solution. Perhaps if I had asked my computing colleagues they might have given some advice, but on the whole I suspect we know very little now about what technology will be available in 100 years and whether it will be sufficiently ‘backwards compatible’ to read a DVD from 2009. Paper just seems safest.
But for me that raises all sorts of other issues.Right now one of the great movements in technology applied to the arts and humanities is digitzation – i.e. the conversion of manuscripts, books and art into electronic format. But how durable is this going to be? How can we be sure that what we are digitizing will be in a format that will still work in 2020, never mind 2100. Or are we going to have to reformat all this stuff every few years for the digital repositories to have any functional value? And if so, what about private archives that don’t have curators who can perform this task whenever it is needed?
I am reminded of this because I am the proud possessor of (I think) 38 computer disks in five an a half inch format. They were assembled in 1992. Now, in 2009, they are not exactly unreadable, but it will take an enormous effort to find some equipment that can do that. And what is more, most of the documents on them were created using word processing software called ‘WordStar’ in DOS (if you have no idea what I am talking about, don’t worry, it’s not worth your while finding out). So even if I can find the necessary hardware, I doubt that it will have the software to read the files. In short, the disks are really useless. I am only glad that I didn’t bother transferring them to 3 inch disks when I was contemplating dong that in 1998 – that too would have been a waste, because those disks are more or less also now unreadable. And do you really think you will be able to plug your USB memory stick into anything in 2030? I doubt it.
And so what this makes me wonder is whether the technophobes and Luddites will have the last laugh. Is all the stuff we are now assembling in computer files doomed to be altogether ephemeral? Will the output of this generation, so overwhelmingly stored only electronically, just fade away and remain, untouchable and unreadable, on old computer media in the back of some dusty drawer? Will our era be thought of, in some 1,000 years time, as a dark age from which nothing survived?
The US tax authorities, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), recently conducted a survey of higher education institutions in order to ascertain how well their finances are being managed. The conclusion was, on the whole, positive, and the IRS found that the institutions were prudent and responsible with the resources at their disposal. But the report does identify some ‘red flags’: chiefly these were concerned with the remuneration of management officials and some top academics, as well as the benefits made available to athletics coaches; but another concern was related to ‘risky investments’ in some colleges.
The institutions surveyed also delivered the data to Ernest & Young in order to get their own assessment of the information, and the resulting report was published last week. One of the findings was, at least to an Irish reader, remarkable: that the average salary of an athletics coach was over twice that of a college president. Although I believe sports to be a very important part of what a university should promote, I cannot help feeling that in some American institutions this has got out of all proportion.
From the perspective of the institutions surveyed, the results in general are encouraging. The report is positive about the administration of finances and the existence of policies that help to secure good practice, including policies on conflicts of interest. But with the climate we now have, the question of whether salaries are proportionate to the role being carried out and appropriate in terms of comparability will need to be addressed.
Here in Ireland salaries are much more tightly regulated, but a more general assessment of financial management may come out of the ‘forensic audit’ that the Minister for Education has entrusted to the Comptroller and Auditor General. Although I have been wary of the context in which this audit was requested, it may be that it will help to build confidence in the ability of the Irish universities and colleges to manage their financial affairs, and such confidence is vital if the institutions are to be encouraged to be innovative and reform-minded. The US survey by the IRS may provide some useful comparative material.
One of the key questions for modern journalism is about where to draw the line between news which the public have a legitimate right and expectation to know and items that are really just an intrusion into a person’s privacy. And before we go down that road, there is a corresponding question that needs to be asked of us, the general public: what do we want the media to tell us, and are we consistent between what we say in answer to that question and what we are prepared to read or listen to?
Of course the trigger for such a discussion right now would be the report by the Irish television station TV3 that the Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan TD, has pancreatic cancer, a story they released despite the fact that they knew he had not told all of his friends and family and was intending to do so over the Christmas period. As far as I know, TV3 have not stated why they released the news in this way; the only statement from the station that I have come across was from Andrew Hanlon, Director of News at the station, who said: ‘We held it for two days to enable him to inform his family’. Apart from the attempt to portray the station as having behaved sympathetically, I cannot see in that statement why they did it at all. To be fair, it is perfectly correct to report on the Minister’s illness, as his role is crucial in the government and his personal ability to handle the issues facing the economy is a relevant issue; but there can be no real argument that this needed to be known during the Christmas holiday and could not have waited another week.
My own view is that the station got it badly wrong and behaved inappropriately in a very sensitive matter. The issue here is one of timing rather than of substance. And of course the reason why they did it was that they believed that it would provide them with publicity that would be commercially useful to them; the tut-tutting of the other media was not only not a problem, but perhaps was an additional bonus in PR terms. Such news items work for the media because, in the end we, the public, go for it. We may join the ranks of the tut-tutters, but we do so having read or listened to the item.
The problem in all of this is that it is difficult to formulate a set of principles on the public interest in such matters, or indeed on public accountability for those who exercise power, which is clearly set apart from what is just salacious interest. The French media did not report the existence of François Mitterrand’s illegitimate daughter while he was President, although the story was well known. Was that the correct position? Or was it right to suggest, as some British journalists did at the time, that Mitterrand’s marital infidelity should have been fair game because it showed that he could not be trusted to keep his word, and that this was a matter of public interest?
Generally speaking, it is my view that the Irish media behave with a significant degree of responsibility. But even here we may need to develop a better understanding of what constitutes news that should be printed (or broadcast), and what is simply a matter of private concern that the public does not have a right to know.
Media comment was also almost universally hostile, as in this example.
In fairness to Peter Mandelson, I’m not wholly sure that he said what has been attributed to him by some of the critics. He did (as seen in the quote above) refer to two-year programmes, but I don’t see the immediate evidence that he was holding this up as the general model to be applied. Rather, he seems to have been concerned with the need to have structured programmes that are accessible to those who are not traditional university students. For all that, he said what he said, and he certainly does seem to be contemplating some two-year courses. And if that is so, it is indeed necessary to examine where such courses would fit into both the Bologna framework and, more generally, our understanding of the pedagogy underlying university degrees. The problem is that the rather high volume of the responses may make a dispassionately analytical discussion with the Secretary of State difficult.
This is also an important topic for us in Ireland, and one that should be addressed in the higher education strategic review now under way, and in the resulting discussion. Right now there are three-year and four-year undergraduate programmes in Ireland, and some niche ones that have other structures. It is time to reach an agreement on what educational aims we expect to see satisfied in degree programmes and how the total period of study affects that.
According to the latest information released by online book retailer Amazon, this Christmas, for the first time, e-books out-sold hard copy (i.e. paper) books. The company’s e-book reader, the Kindle, is now more likely to contain a customer’s book collection than a bookcase or a set of shelves on the wall. This raises a number of questions, but perhaps some of the more interesting ones include what this will do to book prices, how writers and publishers will be affected, and what kind of ‘market’ this will turn into.
Take this example. If you would like to buy Colm Toibin’s latest book, Brooklyn, then on Amazon you can get the paper edition for $16.50. But if you go for the e-book (Kindle) version, you will have to pay $13.79. So you’ll get the electronic version at a lower price, but low enough? If you’ve just got the Kindle, and you are full of admiration for your new toy, maybe you won’t think that price too bad. But let us say you’ve had the device for six months, and you start wondering about what this money is paying for, and in particular that neither the publisher nor Amazon have to create and then ship anything of material value to you, then you may start thinking that the price is too high.
In fact, it appears that many customers regard $9.99 as the top price that would be acceptable for an e-book – and I’ll bet my first edition of Dickens’ Bleak House that in another two years or so that price elasticity will have slipped further and the limit will be $4.99. And between now and then you’ll have publishers and agents and Amazon itself arguing about copyright and older titles and heaven knows what else, and before you know it the whole publishing industry will be plagued by piracy and other such stuff.
There is also a rumour that Apple is about to enter this market – wait for an updated version of iTunes with book content for your iPodReader or whatever.
There will be interesting times ahead. E-book readers are here to stay. And e-books provide opportunities for publishing and distribution that could rattle the cages of the large publishing houses and open up some real competition. Let us hope that this is how it will develop.
• In South Dakota (USA) it is illegal to fall asleep in a cheese shop.
• In Vermont it is illegal to whistle under water.
• In New York it is illegal to walk backwards on a public road.
• In China a couple cannot get a divorce if they have lost their marriage certificate.
But my favourite is this one: if you are driving your car in Pennyslvania and you meet horses, the law requires the driver to stop at the side of the road and cover the car with a blanket that has been painted or sewn to blend into the scenery. If the horses are not happy, the driver must disassemble the car and hide the parts in any nearby underbrush. I do hope this law is regularly enforced. | 2019-04-20T18:58:35 | https://universitydiary.wordpress.com/2009/12/ |
Experience the fascinating story of the world's most loved soft drink! Taste over 60 beverages, meet our Coca-Cola Polar Bear, view a fully-functioning bottling line and so much more!
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With 54(!) days left until Christmas, we can’t help to get a little bit carried away with beautiful Christmas decorations and holiday plans. We have already added some stunning pieces to our showroom, so please do make sure that you come in for a browse.
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Tree Frog Treks teaches fun interactive in and after school science enrichment programs that introduce kids to concepts in biology, chemistry, physics, earth sciences and natural history. Our programs also allow them to meet live reptiles and amphibians face-to-face. We've developed themed curricula that cover integrated science topics and reinforce learning through hands-on science experiments, art projects, movement and song. Sessions run for 8-12 weeks depending on your school's scheduling needs. All of our lead teachers have college degrees and all have been trained by Tree Frog Treks to teach our curriculum and introduce children to live reptiles and amphibians.
In presentations led by an energetic and knowledgeable naturalist, we encourage children to see themselves as part of a larger system of natural life in which every organism plays an important part. Our naturalists will introduce children to our creeping, crawling and slithering co-workers, from tiny Leopard Geckos to 14-foot-long Burmese Pythons. We'll bring a variety of amphibians and reptiles, discuss how they're adapted to their natural habitats, and examine what role they play in the ecosystem. Our presentations can be tailored to meet your school's interests. Other themes and curricula are available.
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TMW Record Fair took place at Kauplus Aasia.
Record Fair unites the local movers & shakers under one roof. Record stores, labels, artists and all sorts of melomaniacs, audiophiles and plate-collectors. From underground, above the ground and beyond the ground! The event is curated by Plaaditurg, Tallinn-based weekly record fair, soon to celebrate its first decennial, that has become a monthly must-attend event among the music lovers and collectors.
Misha Panfilov selling his brand new Misha Panfilov Sound Combo – Astral Schlagers: The Singles Collection 2015-2018 (FNR 2019) records at Psühhoteek stall.
Ahto Külvet DJ set introduces Psühhoteek’s hidden treasures. Psühhoteek is independent vinyl-record shop in the centre of Tartu, Estonia. Rare Soviet and East European grooves. Also known for strange formats: flexis, voices, non-music, weird stuff you did not know you wanted. Music that Shazam doesn’t recognize and Spotify will not play. | 2019-04-25T08:10:09 | https://tmw.ee/festival/record-fair/ |
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Forget forever young! These days, women want to be Forever 21. This clothing brand has been in the industry for years and offers women, men, and children hip, trendy, and fashion forward pieces that reflect a fun and modern spin on casual wear. Forever 21 is a family-owned business, earning billions of dollars in revenues every year thanks to its unique fashion and style, unparalleled by any other clothing retailer in the market.
Forever 21 owes its unrivalled product line-up to the brilliant minds behind the brand – a South Korean couple who moved to the United States in search of greener pastures. Little did this tandem know that they would become the owners of a multi-billion dollar enterprise in just a few years.
Don Won Chang and Jin Sook Chang moved from South Korea to the United States in 1981 to get a chance at a better life. It immediately became apparent to Don that those who were involved in the retail industry were, more or less, better off than most people. He wanted the same success, and so decided to try his hand at selling clothing and apparel through a store that was named Fashion 21. It was opened in California in 1984, just three years after the couple moved to the US, and catered mostly to women, providing stylish Korean-inspired fashions. At first, the couple aimed to a US-based Korean market, but were surprised when they were patronized by even US locals. Needless to say, the store was a big hit and earned a total of $700,000 USD in profits in just their first year of operations. The couple soon changed the store's name to Forever 21 and expanded their brand to other areas of the globe. Today, Forever 21 provides fashion finds for both men and women, offering an impressive array of different garments and apparel that display the perfect blend between Asian fashion, American culture, with a Bohemian twist.
These days, Forever XXI enjoys a lofty position among many other leading brands in the business, including the much older H&M. What's truly amazing about Forever 21 is how it managed to soar to such great heights in the fashion industry in such a short amount of time.
Regardless of the secret behind their success, consumers are always happy to get their hands on the latest Forever 21 dresses, tops, shoes, and whatever else the brand manages to serve up. | 2019-04-25T10:44:23 | https://www.thredup.com/products/women/forever-21 |
TSM interview with beginner surfer, Anna Neyfeldt, about surfing in Phuket.
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L3 WESCAM is making history with the announcement today – July 16, 2018 – at Farnborough International Airshow, that the business won orders valued at more than $300 million in new business in the first half of 2018.
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L3 WESCAM’S advanced Electro-Optic / Infrared (EO IR), laser imaging and targeting sensor systems provide unparalleled image stability and long-range detection capability to Defense/Military, Homeland Security and Airborne law enforcement agencies worldwide. Engineered with advanced EO/IR technology and over 40 years of superior gyro-stabilization experience, WESCAM’s MX™-Series has been proven in-theater, and controlled the battle space from every altitude. With thousands of systems fielded worldwide, WESCAM’s systems can be found on over 216 different types of platforms, including fixed-wing, rotary-wing, UAV and aerostat airborne platforms, numerous surface vehicles and marine-based platforms.
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L3 WESCAM announced today that it has won a series of MX™-Series electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) product and in-service support contracts valued at more than $200 million USD during the first half of 2017. | 2019-04-19T04:56:09 | https://www.wescam.com/blog/l3-wescam-making-history-with-record-high-sales/ |
1. What is public procurement about?
3. What do these EU directives say?
4. Is there room for integrating social considerations into the procurement procedure?
6. Options for including advancement of women when procurement is covered by the EU directives.
What is public procurement about?
The first approach, which is favoured by many procurement specialists, is that when the procuring authority decides from whom it is going to buy goods or services, this authority should restrict itself to considering the price and the quality of the goods or service in ist strictest sense; that is, purely economic considerations should be taken into account.
The second approach is that when you decide what and from whom you are going to buy goods and services, you should consider other public interests as well, such as environment protection or good labour conditions for those who produce the goods or who work with these services that you are going to procure.
Obviously, these are both political approaches.
Arguments underpinning the first approach are that procurement is such a complicated procedure that only purely economic considerations linked very closely to the object of the contract are to be taken into consideration. It is sufficient that environmental protection and fair labour rights etc. are regulated in specific legislation.
However, this specific legislation, for example on equal rights and equal opportunities, is not always very effective on its own.
Thus, arguments for the second approach are that public procurement is an additional instrument for promoting the respect of this specific legislation. The chance to get perhaps a public contract is a stronger incentive for potential suppliers to live up to this specific legislation on, for example, equal opportunities. Also, it is possible to link more effective sanctions to a public contract than the sanctions linked to the special regulations on equal opportunities because you could link sanctions like a heavy fine for suppliers that break the contract. Additionally, if public purchasers do not reward suppliers that live up to the spirit of the law, then they give a competitive advantage to suppliers who do not. Would this then be fair?
How can municipalities and cities use their procurement to promote good labour conditions, including the advancement of women?
First, EU law needs to get addressed because specialists on public procurement often tend to say that there is no room to integrate social considerations into public procurement, as it is against EU law. In some cases, EU law seems to be used as a scapegoat in order to prevent changes.
More often perhaps, the reason why public procurement experts tend not to like inclusion of social considerations in procurement is because the law appears unclear. In order not to risk something that might be contrary to EU law or national law on procurement, the conclusion often is not to try at all. An extreme principle of precaution is applied because, of course, procurement is a complicated procedure, it takes long time and, if some of the tenderers are dissatisfied with the outcome, they may go to court and then you may have, in the worst case, to start from the beginning again. So rather than taking that risk, experts often say, ‘Let’s forget about the gender mainstreaming’, or whatever it could be that might be permissible.
It is true that procurement legislation is complicated, and it is true that EU law sets some limits. But it is equally true that there is a scope for integrating social considerations into public procurement, and I want to encourage you to ensure that this scope for integrating social considerations is secured because the law is not that unclear and the scope is not that small, and it is not that complicated!
Numerous public contracts are of great interest to the internal market. Therefore, there is quite a comprehensive body of EU legislation on public procurement. The objective of this legislation is to remove obstacles preventing the functioning of the internal market and to remove the risk that foreign suppliers of goods and services are discriminated against. The aim is not to tell member states on what they are to spend their money, the aim is just to secure that when member states decide on what to spend their money, their decision should be taken in such a way to ensure that it is not discriminating against foreign providers of goods or services.
Two directives are the central legislation on EU level (Directive 2004/17/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March, 2004 coordinating the procurement procedures of entities operating in the water, energy, transport and postal services sectors. Directive 2004/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March, 2004 on the coordination of procedures for the award of public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts). They apply to contracts above certain thresholds. Contracts below the threshold values are not covered. Also, certain so-called non-prioritized services that are in principle covered by the directives are in practice exempted from most of the rules there. Many of these services, which are listed in an appendix, are services typically provided by local authorities, such as education, health service and the like. Thus, such services are exempted from most of the provisions of the directives even when the contract is above the threshold.
This does not mean that you can do whatever you want or like in these cases. You have to respect the general principles of EU law, that is non-discrimination and transparency, at least if the contracts are of interest for the internal market. This suggests that if you deem that a certain contract – even if it is not covered by the directive or even if it is only partly covered by the directive – could be of interest for suppliers in other member states, you have to ensure that the general principles of EU law are respected.
What do these EU directives say?
The directives regulate the procurement procedure, nothing else. They do not impose any obligations on member states as regards what they are to buy. By regulating the procedure, they aim at assuring that no irrelevant considerations affect the choice of a contractor. This means that suppliers from all member states should have a fair chance to compete and to obtain the contract. Therefore, the directives regulate what types of conditions may be applied during different stages of the procurement procedure.
Is there room for integrating social considerations into the procurement procedure?
Since these directives only regulate the procedure, there is in principle no restriction at all on what states decide to buy (unless, of course, you say that you are to buy goods of a certain brand that is produced in your own country. This is not possible). So, for example, when you are going to buy some work equipment that will be used in some of your services, you can perfectly well specify that it must be designed so that it can be used not only by people who are of the same size and the same strength as an average man, but that it can be used by everyone.
Options for including advancement of women when procurement is covered by the EU directives.
The qualification criteria are criteria that decide which suppliers are able to participate in a particular tender at all.
They have to have a certain financial and technical capacity, for example, in order to be able to fulfil the contract in question with the required quality. Of course, this is mostly about the suppliers’ financial and professional qualifications, their previous experience of similar services etc., but there can be room for social considerations as well. For example, the procuring authority can require that, in order to qualify, the tenderers must hand in a written risk assessment for the work in question in order to show that it is competent to manage health and safety issues during the work. Otherwise, they have to show that they have a documented equality action plan, which is to demonstrate that they are able to fulfil the requirements of the equal treatment legislation.
Also, suppliers who have been found guilty of grave professional misconduct can of course be excluded from even competing for the contract. The grave professional misconduct includes for example breach of labour legislation.
After the procuring authority has sorted out the qualified tenderers, separated those who are qualified and those who are not qualified, the next step is to value the tenders from all the qualified tenderers. This means to weigh the quality of the services or the goods they offer against the price that they want to have and find the balance to see what is the economically most advantageous tender. This must be done according to the award criteria that the procuring authority has announced before.
The main thing here is the quality of the goods or services that the authority is going to buy, and it is debated how wide the scope for including social considerations is. There is, however, a room for social considerations, too.
‘What measures will they take in order to facilitate a combination of work and family life during the performance of the contract?’. This could be one additional criteria after the other, which may be taken into consideration.
When the public purchaser has decided which of the tenderers the contract will be awarded to, then the performance of the contracts starts. At this stage, there is a comparably wide scope for including social considerations as one contractor has already been chosen. The possibility to discriminate against foreign service providers is hence not existent any more because the choice has already been made, hopefully without discrimination.
Contract performance conditions are conditions that all tenderers must be prepared to accept in case they are awarded the contract. Therefore, it has to be stated in the invitation to tenders already that in case they get the contract, they will have to apply these conditions during the performance of the contract.
The typical example is that the contractor will have to employ at least two long-term unemployed persons to perform the work comprised by the contract. Another example is that during the performance of the contract, the contractor must show what they do to facilitate conciliation of work and family life for those workers who work on the contract during the period.
It is important, however, that the contract performance conditions are linked to precisely the performance of the contract. You cannot say, ‘If you are going to have this contract, you must see that in all your company’s activities you facilitate to combine work and family life.‘ It can only relate to the work that the contract is about.
A colleague and I made a study in which we compared how six EU member states had implemented the Directives and how they had used this scope for integrating social considerations into their legislations. One of the countries we studied was Germany (unfortunately not Austria).
The central clause in Germany’s federal legislation on public procurement says that “contracts are given to competent, efficient as well as law-abiding and reliable companies. For the contract performance additional requirements may be posed on the contractor, especially concerning social aspects” („Aufträge werden an fachkundige, leistungsfähige sowie gesetzestreue und zuverlässige Unternehmen vergeben und für die Auftragsausführung können zusätzliche Anforderungen an Auftragnehmer gestellt werden, die insbesondere soziale Aspekte betreffen.“ 97 § Gesetz gegen Wettbewerbsbeschränkungen). In the preparatory work, the German Federal Government specifies what it means by “law-abiding” and “reliable”. These terms are constituent elements of the German legal order which everyone must comply with in order to be able to compete for contracts, for example, generally binding collective agreements, the principle of equal pay and the ILO core Conventions which include the Convention on Non-Discrimination (C111 Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958).
Then, each of the “Länder” in Germany have their own procurement legislation, and to the extent that they relate to social considerations, they provide even more room for social considerations. The federal law also mentions “additional requirements for contract execution”, these are “contract performance conditions”.
The Federal Government specifically mentions requirements that serve the interest of promoting equal rights and equal pay for women and men who work with the performance of the contract. So, Germany has its Federal Government’s own word that it is perfectly permissible and even recommendable to include gender equality in procurement procedures.
Thus, to sum up, the advancement of women can be promoted in public procurement. However, the conditions must be elaborated with care and with consideration to all circumstances of the case in question, and at all stages, the criteria applied must be transparent, non-discriminatory and proportionate.
Dr. Kerstin Ahlberg, Institute for Social Private Law at Stockholm University. Her research mainly focuses on European Union Labour Law and Industrial Relations. Recently, she published a study on Public Procurement and Labour in the European Union. Dr. Ahlberg will present the promotion of women by means of public procurement. She will give an overview of the legal framework set by the European Union and answer the question whether the inclusion of gender equality considerations in the procurement process is compatible with European Union and national laws. | 2019-04-22T23:02:50 | http://www.femcities.at/advancement-of-women |
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