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Davies-Carr and parents like him no longer face the same set of limitations when bouncing images of their children around the globe; instead of transmitting them to the public, they can send individual video texts and direct messages, or upload to the cloud. Simultaneously, social media gave us the option of engaging with kids (or cats) who belong to our actual friends and family, or even friends of friends -- anyone we can claim a tacit offline connection with. The runaway marvel of something as generic as "Charlie Bit Me" can't be duplicated in an era where we save our attention for youths who retain it over the course of an entire childhood, like Gavin, a contemporary viral kid whose expressive reactions are fodder for endless memes.
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With YouTube overcrowded, Vine shut down, and Instagram and Twitter as cliquey as they are, it's nearly impossible for a viral video to have the impact it once did. What goes viral now are the channels, the people, and the trends or hashtags -- not the individual videos. We fall down the rabbit hole of watching objects crushed by hydraulic press, ice bucket challenges gone wrong, dash-cam crashes, and recreations of the "Harlem Shake" dance, but it's rare for any entry to stand out among the rest. The YouTube clips with genuine traction are carefully engineered corporate efforts -- see: your "Carpool Karaoke" segments or John Oliver investigations. When a truly organic and amateur video erupts -- "Chewbacca Mom," or "Damn, Daniel" -- those same late-night TV hosts who currently rule the viral landscape with professional writers and a slick aesthetic rush to book the unknown guests and annihilate whatever joy we found in their off-kilter, irreverent, grainy smartphone footage. If 2007 was the Golden Age of virality, it's in part because that age was swiftly coming to an end: August of that year marked the appearance of YouTube's first ad.
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The good news is we will never again want for videos to distract from work or entertain during long commutes. We'll always tag hometown friends on the absurd local news story about the school or sketchy bar we went to. We may go so far, on special occasions, as to make people crowd around our laptop to witness "the funniest thing I've ever seen." But nothing can hope to resemble the thrill of hitting play on a video that is right now taking the web by storm, and realizing, as you wait a second for it to buffer, that you are what makes it a phenomenon.
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Touch ID fingerprint reader released as the first of many new features to come to FreshBooks’ award-winning iOS app
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Toronto, Canada – June 23, 2015 – FreshBooks, the #1 cloud-based accounting software designed exclusively for service-based small business owners, is bringing new enhancements to the award-winning FreshBooks iOS app that helps small business owners save time and get paid faster on the iPhone and iPad.
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In its Q2 2015 earnings call, Apple announced it is working with software providers to bring a broad range of innovative mobile solutions to customers. As part of this, FreshBooks is working with Apple to deliver a made-for-business app to allow small business owners to run their business from anywhere.
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Small business owners are leveraging mobile technology to operate their businesses and invoice their clients. The ability to operate their entire business while on the road and using a mobile device that can fit into their pocket, has a significant impact on their bottom line. It brings the flexibility and convenience that comes with being able to work from and check in on their business anywhere, anytime. It also empowers users to be more productive with their time so they can get back to focusing on doing the work they love.
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FreshBooks users are increasingly using mobile to send invoices, track payments, make notes, and log expenses. Users’ clients are also becoming more engaged on mobile: they check their phones up to 150 times a day, providing 150 opportunities for FreshBooks users to get paid. For example, FreshBooks offers mobile-friendly invoices designed specifically for viewing on a mobile screen, making it easy for clients to pay the invoices right from their phone. Mobile adoption is opening up possibilities for small business owners to streamline their workflow so they can focus on growing their business.
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“Service-based small business owners – people who get paid for their time and expertise – are the future of the economy, and their unique accounting needs are incredibly underserved,” said Mike McDerment, co-founder and CEO, FreshBooks. “Much of their time is devoted to tracking their hours, generating accurate invoices, and trying to stay on top of their cash flow. By teaming up with Apple and its market-leading mobile platform, FreshBooks is delivering on our commitment to make running a business easy and efficient.”
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Enhancing security with Touch ID and Passcode FreshBooks recently worked with Apple to release Touch ID and Passcode, the first of many new features to come for FreshBooks customers who use iOS devices. Currently available for download from the App Store, they ensure a simple, secure way for users to log into their FreshBooks accounts on their iPhone or iPad.
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Touch ID is available on iPhone 5S and newer, iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3. It enables the use of a fingerprint as a passcode to log into the FreshBooks mobile app, effectively enhancing user experience by improving the speed and ease of use, while providing advanced security of confidential business information.
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The new Passcode feature offers a second layer of security whenever users open the FreshBooks app on any iOS devices, providing peace of mind that sensitive information within the app remain secure. | |
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The giant Viking owl has three major attacks: chucking a spread of razor sharp feathers at you, dropping spiky ice balls in the arena and dropping eggs in the arena. Dodge the feathers and ice balls and wait for him to drop eggs. The eggs will hatch and wander back and forth, getting in your way. Bop one on the head, pick it up and chuck it at the owl. If he's at the top of the screen, use the platforms on either side of the screen. Just be quick because they'll collapse under your wait after a couple seconds.
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## Nail the owl with three eggs and a blast barrel will appear. Hop on in.
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Mr. Owl will flap his wings causing gale force winds that could knock you off the platform if you're not careful. Walk against the wind and be on the lookout for enemies floating in from the side of the screen. Spot the egg and bop it on the head. Pick it up and either bounce up the other enemies to gain enough height to hit the owl now, or wait until he comes down to your level to charge at you to nail him.
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A bit peeved, the owl will then litter the screen with feathers. Retreat to one of the blast barrels on either side of the screen to avoid them. He'll then drop more eggs. Bop one, pick it up and nail him with it. Three hits and a blast barrel appears. Put the controller down and go make a sandwich. Make sure it's something nutritious. When you're ready, hop in the barrel and proceed to the final phase of the fight.
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The great owl will start chucking volleys of feathers at you (still more painful than it sounds) so do your best to dodge. He'll then drop waves of spiky-helmed mini-owls on you. Weave between the gaps in the ranks until mini-owls with eggshell hats appear. Bop one on the head, pick it up and nail the big owl in the face when he floats down to your level.
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The big hooter will disappear into the sky and drop giant eggs on you. The eggs will explode into three mini-owls with spiky helmets. Dodge them all and eventually the big bad will fall out of the sky and land on the platform in a dizzy spell. Bop him on the head.
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He'll chuck a few ice balls at you and the pattern will repeat. Hit him a total of three times to end the fight.
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Tango: The First Polish Short Film to Win an Oscar, 1980
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Everything that could happen in a room, happening.
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You might recall Blok, a wonderful 1982 experimental Polish animated film, using a single continuous shot to take a voyeuristic tour of the different apartments in a building. From the same era comes Tango — a clever and spectacularly executed 1980 film by director Zbigniew Rybczynski from Polish short-film studio Se-ma-for. The cinematography, capturing multiple events taking place simultaneously in a closed space, was so complicated and required such precision that Rybczynski worked on the film for nearly a year, eating and sleeping on the set.
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In 1983, Tango became the first Polish film to win an Oscar.
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Tango appears on the altogether excellent two-disc DVD Anthology of Polish Animated Film.
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SAN DIEGO -- Aug. 2, 1999 -- Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), pioneer and world leader of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) digital wireless technology, today announced its participation in high-speed packet data trials on Korea Telecom Freetel's (KT Freetel) advanced CDMA technology network, the first IS-95B network in the world. This demonstration, using Qualcomm CDMA Technologies' MSM3000™ chip and high-speed system software solution, shows how KT Freetel's IS-95B network will help expedite a global evolution from wireless voice communications to wireless Internet access, high-speed data services as well as the highest quality voice services. MSM3000-based CDMA handsets will transfer data over KT Freetel's advanced network at speeds of up to 64 kbps, which is faster than existing fixed line networks and more than four times as fast as existing wireless networks.
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"This demonstration was made possible by contributions from many influential members of our industry including Qualcomm and Samsung Electronics," said Dr. Hong, Won-Pyo, vice president, planning and coordination group of KT Freetel. "The MSM3000 chipset is an instrumental component in our initiative to provide a new era of Personal Network Services to our Korean customers."
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"These high-speed data packet trials are testament to a new breed of wireless Internet access and data transfer capabilities that are possible with the newest generation of our customers' CDMA handsets," said Don Schrock, president of Qualcomm CDMA Technologies. "Our MSM3000 system solution is the first in a series of chip and software solutions that will enable the build-out of high-speed data-capable networks around the world."
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Qualcomm's industry-leading MSM3000, a fifth-generation single chipset and system software solution, is currently the only available hardware and software solution to support IS-95B data rates up to 86.4 kbps.
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With over three million Personal Communications Service (PCS) subscribers in Korea, KT Freetel is emerging as one of the world's fastest growing and largest PCS operators. KT Freetel's concept of Personal Network Services (PersNet®) will soon be realized, enabling high-speed wireless Internet access and interactive data communications. PersNet will allow customers to take advantage of electronic commerce, on-line stock trading, on-line banking and travel reservations via access to the Internet through CDMA handsets.
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Qualcomm CDMA Technologies is the leading developer and supplier of CDMA chipsets, hardware and software solutions and tools with more than 50 million MSM chips shipped worldwide. The division supplies chipsets to the world's leading CDMA handset and infrastructure manufacturers including: Acer Peripherals, Inc., ALPS ELECTRIC CO., LTD.; CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.; DENSO CORPORATION; FUJITSU LIMITED; Hitachi, Ltd.; Hyundai Electronics Industries Co., Ltd.; KYOCERA CORPORATION; LG Information and Communications, Ltd.; Samsung Electronics Ltd.; SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.; and Toshiba Corporation, among others.
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Qualcomm Incorporated (www.qualcomm.com) is a leader in developing and delivering innovative digital wireless communications products and services based on the Company's CDMA digital technology. The Company's major business areas include CDMA phones; integrated CDMA chipsets and system software; technology licensing; and satellite-based systems including OmniTRACS® and portions of the Globalstar™ system. Headquartered in San Diego, Calif., Qualcomm is included in theS&P500 Index and is a FORTUNE 500® company traded on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol QCOM.
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Except for the historical information contained herein, this news release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties, including timely product development, the Company's ability to successfully manufacture significant quantities of CDMA or other equipment on a timely and profitable basis, and those related to performance guarantees, change in economic conditions of the various markets the Company serves, as well as the other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's SEC reports, including the report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 27, 1998, and most recent Form 10-Q.
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Qualcomm and OmniTRACS are registered trademarks of Qualcomm Incorporated. MSM and MSM3000 are trademarks of Qualcomm Incorporated. Globalstar is a trademark of Loral Qualcomm Satellite Services, Incorporated. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. | |
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One of the key principles that every Montessori teacher learns during training is to observe. As a high school and college student, observation was usually relegated to my science classes. I guess that makes sense since Maria Montessori was trained as a doctor, not as a teacher. In order to learn about children she researched, she created a natural setting for young children and then she sat back and observed the children.
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It was through her detailed observations that she learned so much about young children. She watched them with no preconceived notions. She wanted to find out from the children how they learned, what was important to them and how to set up the best environment to help them grow and develop.
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As a teacher, when things go awry in the classroom, one of the first things I set out to do is observe the class. Let me give you an example. At the beginning of the year I found that the students had a lot of difficulty lining up at the door (which we need to do several times a day). There was pushing and pulling, arguing and fighting. It was, frankly, mayhem. So, I took a day to observe what was going on during line up time.
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When observing, you want to really just watch without opinion. So, in my example, I noticed that the children were bumping into each other, standing very close together, had a difficult time knowing what was in front of rather than beside the next person, etc.
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What I always want to avoid is being negative with the children. I don’t want to be yelling or telling them what they are doing wrong. I strive always to keep things positive (easier said than done). What is best of all is if I can change the environment to solve the problem and keep myself out of it all together.
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So, what did I do after observing? I placed small pieces of tape equidistant on the floor on which each child would stand. In this way the children were in a line, each person had their own space and there was less pushing and fighting. Did this solution eliminate all pushing and fighting? No. No solution is ever perfect but this one went a long way in solving our difficulties.
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Of course, this example doesn’t really help you as parents. We don’t really line up our children at home! What I do want you to think about is how to observe your children and why it is so important.
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In my last post I talked about setting up the environment to help maximize your child’s development. Observation can help you figure out what your child needs at his/her stage of development. So, let’s think about a few of the developmental domains and how observation can help us help our children:
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- fine motor – watch how your child holds things. Maybe your baby is now able to pick up an object she is looking at with little difficulty. You see your preschooler is now holding a marker with the tripod grip. Your child seems to use his left hand more than his right hand. Your child does not use both hands when drawing, putting together puzzles or eating. So how does this observation help you? If you have a child under the age of one, her fine motor skills will change drastically in this first year. You will want to provide her with toys that will help her refine her grasp and that challenge without too much frustration. Once your child is a preschooler and getting closer to that magical kindergarten age, you may want to make sure he is using both hands together and crossing midline (click here for why this is important). The tripod pencil grip is important for writing in kindergarten. Please note that not all children are developmentally in the same place at kindergarten and the tripod grip is one of these areas that develops at different times in different children. What is important is that you are aware of where your child is as he is entering kindergarten. In this way you can be attuned to things that he might find tiring or frustrating and to give his teacher a heads up.
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- gross motor – watch how your baby moves. Does she try to get that ball that is just out of reach? How long does she work on this before getting too frustrated? Does your preschooler like to climb, jump and catch a large ball or does he prefer to sit on the sidelines? After some time observing we can think about how we are helping or hindering our child’s development. Maybe we are so worried our child is in danger that we don’t let her climb trees or the playground equipment without hovering. Perhaps we are always stepping in at the first sound of our baby’s efforts instead of giving her a little space to work hard towards scooting to that ball that is just out of reach. Often observation (i.e. sitting on our hands so we don’t interfere) helps us change our own behavior by allowing our children to continue their behavior even when it makes us uncomfortable.
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- language/communication – What does your child gravitate toward? What does she like to talk about? What sounds is your baby making? Does she respond when another person repeats her sounds? Does your baby have different types of cries? Does she stop crying on her own sometimes? Are all of her sounds distress or are some just temporary frustration? Does your child use eye contact during communication? What books does your child enjoy? What books does he find boring? What subjects is your child interested in?
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- social/emotional – How does your child solve problems? Does your preschooler look to you (or another adult) to solve her problems for her or can she problem solve on her own? What makes your child happy, sad, angry, frustrated? How often does your child ask for help? How does your child deal with separation? How does he manage when things don’t go his way?
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There is so much I could say about observation. I will leave you with this thought. Take one item about your child/family/situation that drives you crazy. Instead of yelling or talking or reading about solutions…..observe the situation for a day (or two or three). Write down everything you see or hear. Put your emotions aside for a little while. Show your notes to your spouse/partner or a good friend. Brainstorm what you think is going on and how things could change. You may be surprised with the solutions you come up with.
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Here’s my last example (because I love a good story more than empirical evidence!!!) One summer my youngest son participated in a camp at our community park. The camp provided lunch for the participants. I often took my older son (who is diagnosed with autism) to the park to play at the end of the camp period and before lunch. My elder son was typically well behaved. On this particular day, around the time the park was having lunch he was having a melt down (you know, kicking, yelling, not following my direction, etc.). This was quite unusual for him. I looked around at what was happening (the other children were eating) and finally had an ‘aha’ moment. He was hungry. A bag of goldfish crackers later and he was happy, quiet and compliant.
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So I encourage you to observe your children every day. Think about what they are doing, saying and how they are interacting. During times when life is stressful, take a moment (or a day or two) to sit back and observe what is really going on. It is in this kind of reflection that we can help not only our children on their developmental paths but also help ourselves on our parenting paths!
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## Savannah Food & Wine Festival Gives Back to the Community
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The weeklong Savannah Food & Wine Festival has announced the many nonprofit organizations to which part of the festival profits will be donated. The sought-out festival will return to Georgia for the week of Nov. 11 to 17, bringing top chefs, sommeliers, and culinary experts to the area.
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One of the main events at the festival, the Grand Reserve Tasting, hopes to bring in a noticeable amount of profit, of which part will be donated to a local nonprofit organization, The 200 Club of The Coastal Empire. This high-profile event will offer wine bottles averaging more than $50 for those looking for the "ultimate in wine tasting," as well as host a silent auction of items such as one-of-a-kind wine lots, luxury travel, merchandise, and services, while guests can enjoy gourmet appetizers.
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"The 200 Club of the Coastal Empire goals and objectives are honorable and clearly in line with Savannah’s needs. The organization provides immediate financial assistance for surviving spouses and children of local law enforcement officers and firefighters who lose their lives in the line-of-duty while protecting their communities. We are very proud to be associated with the amazing work The 200 Club provides to our community," Michael T. Owens, president of the Savannah Food & Wine Festival, stated in a recent press release.
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Special VIP guests at the Grand Reserve Tasting will include world-renowned sommeliers, winemakers, chefs, and authors such as Lydia and Rob Mondavi Jr., chef Chris Hastings, the Lee Brothers, chef Anthony Lamas, Master Sommeliers Robert Jones and Michael McNeill, and Iron Horse Vineyards.
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According to Hugh Golden, chairman of the Grand Reserve Tasting Committee, the event is the must-attend event for wine enthusiasts. "If you appreciate good wine, the festival has a multitude of events you can attend — if you appreciate great wine, you won’t find a better ticket available in the southeast region to taste extraordinary wine than the Grand Reserve."
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With community being the focal point of this year’s Savannah Food & Wine Festival, giving back and supporting local nonprofit organizations is of high priority to the festival organizers. Besides The 200 Club of the Coastal Empire, nonprofits that will benefit from festival include United Way of the Coastal Empire, Bethesda Academy, the West Broad Street YMCA, and Mom’s Lemonade Stand. | |
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# UT: Utah Recruits Key Joint Strike Fighter Contractor
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The Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) announced that Janicki Industries of Sedro-Woolley, WA, will establish a new Utah precision composites manufacturing facility to support the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program. Janicki Industries is widely recognized as a leading composite fabrication and CNC machining company with capabilities in the aerospace, transportation, and wind energy markets.
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The company was founded as Janicki Machine Design in 1993 by CEO Peter Janicki, and its first innovation was to introduce machined composites to the marine manufacturing industry. Janicki’s proprietary 5-axis CNC mills are specifically designed to handle complex, large-scale high precision projects.
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Janicki Industries is heavily involved in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program. In 2001 Lockheed Martin was selected as prime contractor for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program (F-35 or JSF). The F-35 is expected to be the world’s premier war fighting aircraft through 2040.
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“Our strategic alliance with Lockheed Martin, ATK and Hitco Composites encouraged us to consider locating in Utah,” said John Janicki, President of Janicki Industries. “We gratefully accept GOED’s incentive offer, and we look forward to building long term business relationships within the state of Utah.”
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“The State has targeted seven industry clusters, which will bring sustainable job growth to Utah. Janicki Industries experience in aerospace, defense and composites further strengthens these industries in Utah,” said Spencer Eccles, GOED executive director.
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Janicki currently employs over 350 people in Washington, State. A decision on a final location for the new facility has not yet been made, but it will add an additional 50 people to the Janicki payroll over the next several years. The average project base salary will be in excess of 125% of Davis County average including company contributed health benefits and will generate $20.5 million in new state wages over 10 years. The new employees will be brought on to help Janicki fulfill its contractual obligations to ATK and Hitco Carbon Composites.
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“We are thrilled about Janicki Industries’ decision to expand its operations to Utah,” says Jeff Edwards, president & CEO of Economic Development Corporation of Utah. “Janicki Industries presence further expands Utah’s strength in the advanced composites industry and will be a key component to further growth in this field here in our State.”
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The company expects to make a $19.5 million capital investment in the Utah plant and Based on the capital investment and the number of employees being hired by the company, the GOED Board authorized a post-performance refundable tax credit up to $316,275 over 10 years. During the life of the incentive the State estimates the company will pay more than $1.5 million in new state tax revenue.
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The Hakuba Powder Weekend features skiing/boarding at two awesome resorts a live music/DJ/Party event, free lessons, hot springs and more!
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We will be skiing and snowboarding at Hakuba Goryu & Hakuba 47 snow resorts which feature lots of varied runs for all levels of boarder / skiier. Hakuba Goryu and Hakuba 47 resorts are joined at the top of the mountain, so theres loads of different trails and interesting terrain for you to explore. Both resorts feature runs catering for all levels of experience as well as many beginner, intermediate and advanced park features, and lifts open early. This are is one of Hakubas best most scenic, with spectacular views of the nearby ranges and the Hakuba Valley. There are long & varied on-piste runs, good terrain parks both suited to beginners and intermediates, as well as lots of accessible tree and powder lines for the more advanced skiiers/boarders. There are also many great restaurants and bars all over the mountain.
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There is a big live music party event lined up for the Saturday night at a venue only a few minutes walk from our lodge. There is also a great outdoor onsen very close to our lodge, great for soaking those post ski/boarding muscles. Looking forward to a fun weekend!
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In Oracle 11g, PL/SQL native compilation requires no C compiler, no DBA intervention and is fully supported in a RAC environment. By setting the PLSQL_CODE_TYPE to a value of NATIVE , rather than the default value of INTERPRETED , code is compiled directly to machine code . When the code is called, it is loaded into shared memory, making it accessible for all sessions in that instance. The %_PLSQL_OBJECT_SETTINGS views include the current PLSQL_CODE_TYPE setting for each PL/SQL object.
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Kofi Kingston is not the usual size of a WWE Champion, but he defeated Daniel Bryan for the title. It seems like WWE is straying away from their former logic of only pushing big men. One big man from WWE’s past is Hall Of Famer Superstar Billy Graham. Needless to say, he had some advice for Kofi.
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Graham let loose on Facebook in a pretty heated message where he had some words of wisdom. However, it might not be exactly what Kofi needs to hear and WWE might have a problem with his suggestion as well.
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## “Kofi Kingston…. My Advice
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I am sure Vince will sit Kofi down and say, ” Now Kofi, you listen to every word the Superstar has to say about your run as the first African born WWE World Heavyweight Champion.” Congratulations to Kofi for winning the most important Title in pro wrestling history….sorry you NWA guys…. Notice the word ” Heavyweight ” in his Title…so my man, I urge you to start doing some steroids and add about 50 pounds of solid muscle to your championship body. Vince wont care, honestly. Actually he would be quite pleased with the muscular transformation, as I predict that you young man will have the longest run as WWE champ in modern-day history. Then in just a short time while you are red hot and the fans are celebrating your win, your 2 former partners in crime, E and Woods get jealous and turn on you. In my day there would be some blood in that double cross on you but God forbid….not now. You then have Daniel Bryan for rematches and your two former partners as opponents. The final suggestion, is to get all of my promo material together that you can find in the WWE’s vast library and study my promos. You must be an entertainer as well as a wrestler my man and best of luck with your run !!! S.B.G.”
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You never know how someone can look at a great situation like KofiMania and see room for improvement. It appears Billy Graham has his own idea of what he thinks Kofi Kingston should do. There has since been no sign that Kofi is up for juicing though.
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Before 2012, if a Chilean citizen needed to interact with the state, they needed to complete a costly and time-consuming procedure. They had to work out which agency delivered the service and where its offices were located, and they would contact the agency concerned to find out the requirements that had to be met in order to access the relevant service. The process was organised from the government’s perspective rather than taking a customer-facing view.
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In order to address the problem, the government formally launched ChileAtiende the national citizen service, a one-stop shop, in 2012. The bill creating ChileAtiende was signed by the president, Sebastián Piñera, with Cristián Larroulet, the minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency of Chile, and Bruno Baranda, the minister for social development. These were the departments most closely concerned in its development.
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It was designed by the General Secretariat of the Presidency’s Unit of Modernisation and E-Government. The aim was to create a network that brought government services to the people, delivering a set of procedures for various public institutions in one place. It was intended to:
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- Make savings in time and costs both for citizens and the state through more efficiently organised services.
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- Provide a wide range of different services and products through a variety of easily accessible channels, e.g., enabling citizens to access services via internet or telephone without having to leave their home or workplace.
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Its multi-channel network has around 200 offices across the country, a national call centre (#101), and a digital platform through which citizens can access multiple services and benefits without having to contact multiple government offices. There are also mobile offices in O'Higgins, Bío Bío, Araucanía, Metropolitan and Valparaiso.
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## The public impact
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It is estimated that the implementation has resulted in savings of US$30 million in infrastructure costs. It also saves individual citizens expense in terms of reduced travelling time and access fees.
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The online portal provides 2,240 public benefits and services. “The coverage of the ChileAtiende [office] network is 75%, which means that 13 million Chilean citizens have a ChileAtiende office in their county (commune)."
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## Public Confidence Fair
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In 2012, the view of the general public about the government was that it was slow to respond to the need for a single point of contact for its services to citizens. However, with regard to the ChileAtiende project, in particular, it was agreed that concrete progress had been made. “The interviewed stakeholders collectively agreed that the progress of the commitment to date has been concrete. The achievement is substantial [and leads] towards the … modernisation of the state because it contributes to improved public services and facilitates more efficiency in the processing of a variety of procedures for the country’s public services."
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## Stakeholder Engagement Good
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The main government stakeholders were the General Secretariat of the Presidency, in particular its Unit of Modernisation and E-Government, and the Ministry of Social Development. At the 2012 launch, Cristián Larroulet, the minister for the General Secretariat of the Presidency “thanked all the workers of the Institute of Social Welfare, Fonasa Sernac Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, Ministry of National Heritage, Institute of Occupational Safety, Sence, Dipreca and Capredena, who made possible the launch of this initiative day today."
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There were a number of other government stakeholders, such as the Ministry of National Heritage, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, the Institute of Social Welfare and the Institute of Occupational Safety. “Twenty-four public services participate in the ChileAtiende network, integrated at the national level."
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Jess Hunter, at 20, is by any test, severely disabled. She is also remarkably pretty. I’m not sure that it is even politically correct to say that. One day last month she ventured to our news studio in her cumbersome wheelchair with her “talent manager” and her assistant, and her coach. Jess is one of ParalympicsGB’s prospects for a gold medal in the upcoming Paralympic Games. Her sport is Boccia.
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Her sport is what? Boccia rhymes with Gotcha and is, I reckon, the secret sensation of this month’s Paralympics. It’s just one of the remarkable sports that will take the games into another sphere from the breathtaking Olympics that have gone before. I suppose that its nearest able bodied relative is the French sport of boule, or our own village green game of bowls.
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Jess Hunter was born severely affected by cerebral palsy. She has little or no control over any of her limbs and cannot speak. Her wheel chair tilts her in a 45-degree position half way between sitting up and lying down. Yet this extraordinary Para-athlete trains fifteen hours a week to sustain her position as one the world’s greatest exponents of Boccia. She is aided by an assistant who is not permitted to see the field of play – an area perhaps half a tennis court in size.
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Jess is armed with six Boccia balls of varying weights. Using her eyes to signal which ball she wants to “throw”, Jess then has to line up the ramp from which the ball will be projected. The assistant moves it up, down, left, and right according to Jess’s eye signals. Once in position the jack is placed on a ledge on the ramp. There’s a groove at the back of the ramp and Jess – with huge difficulty locates it with a probe on her helmeted head. She locates the ball and prods with the probe. She repeats the exercise as she plays each of her six balls. Stunningly, her fist ball ends up nudging the jack. Playing in teams of two (Jess’s equally disabled teammate is 17-years-old), the field of play amazingly become a dense contest of tightly pitched balls. Suddenly one of the other contestants will blast the field open taking her own ball close to the newly positioned jack.
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As the play unfolds, I, and my colleagues watching, all forget that we are engrossed in a contest between profoundly disabled young women, who cannot walk, or dress, or talk – playing a mesmerising and completely absorbing sport. For myself, with very little exposure to disability, my Paralympic journey as a commentator training for the games has been one of the most exciting and uplifting adventures of my reporting life.
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I have played wheelchair basketball – one of the most savage sports I ever expect to play. I was crashed into, spun, tipped out, and constantly found the ball ripped from my grasp. Like wheel chair rugby it is an incredibly fast sport, skilled, making, like Boccia, for an extraordinary and all consuming spectator sport.
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As a cyclist though I have to confess that blind cycling is the sport that finally scared the lycra pants off me. A few months back I made my way to the Manchester velodrome to experience the sport. The track was swarming with Olympic and Paralympic cyclists alike. It was here that I encountered some of the British military amputees from the Iraq and Afghan wars. Some had lost a leg and sport incredibly engineered prosthetic that were cleated into the pedal. Others had lost an arm and were aided by brilliantly conceived handle bar grips attached to their artificial arms.
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Blind cycling places you on the back of tandem with sighted rider at the front. I had never been on a tandem, never cycled completely blindfolded, and never ridden a fixed wheeled bicycle on which there are neither gears nor breaks. Oh, and I had never cycled in a velodrome.
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Unsighted, the swoops up and down the sides of the track – the dives and spurts as you go faster and faster – were completely disorienting. I never knew where I was as I buried my head in the back of the rider in front. As we topped 43 mph I feared my ageing legs just would not be able to keep up. I screamed to be allowed to stop. But the exhilaration, the space, the wind, the crowd noise, and yes, once again the sheer sport obliterated my initial obsession with the disability.
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In Jon Snow’s Paralympic Show in the ten days leading up to the Paralympics, I’m going to share this adventure with you – meeting the Paralympians training amongst the rubble in Gaza; talking to the blind footballer whose brilliant left foot finds the ball by hearing the little bell that rings within it; and so much more. One of the most remarkable films in our half hourly nightly show will be an unprecedented access to the Military rehabilitation centre at Headley Court where many supreme Paralympic sportsmen have had their lives rebuilt and transformed. The Olympics may have thrilled us to the core; the Paralympics will take us somewhere else – one of the most exciting “places” I have ever been.
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# High-speed laser drilling of silicon wafers for photovoltaics
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Aachen, Germany – High-speed laser drilling is an important processing step in the production of high-efficiency solar cells, especially in the case of emitter-wrap-through (EWT) solar cells that require 10,000 and more vias to be drilled in each cell.
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Aachen, Germany – High-speed laser drilling is an important processing step in the production of high-efficiency solar cells, especially in the case of emitter-wrap-through (EWT) solar cells that require 10,000 and more vias to be drilled in each cell. Given that the typical duration of a single process step on a production line for solar cells is on the order of one or two seconds, a drilling rate of 10,000 vias per second is the minimum requirement for industrial-scale production.
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The maximum drilling rate currently achievable with commercially available laser sources and galvanometer scanners is 4,000 vias per second. New optical concepts such as the combined use of high-performance galvanometer scanners and optical beam dividers offer a potential means of attaining the required drilling rate. This calls for laser sources with an average power output of several hundred watts and a pulse duration in the microsecond range. A number of different system solutions were set up and compared in order to assess their suitability.
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Parameter studies indicate that pulse duration and pulse energy are critical factors for the efficiency of the drilling process. On the basis of experimental results, a numerical simulation of the ablation process was used to evaluate a number of different laser sources and optical concepts. By applying two coupled Jenoptik Jenlas IR 70 lasers, it was possible to achieve 9,600 holes/s in wafers with 200 micron thickness and 12,500 holes/s in 180 micron wafers.
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The high-speed drilling process developed in this project by Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT relates specifically to a processing step in the manufacture of EWT solar cells in which the back contacts are connected to the emitter layer through electrical feedthrough structures in the silicon. This increases the active surface area of the solar cell and hence its efficiency. The ability to drill holes of a similarly small diameter has other potential applications beyond that of photovoltaic cells, for instance in filter technology.
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The All New 2020 Mercedes GLE, which we will see in October, will be longer than 8 cm (493 in all) and will have a refined but not distorted style.
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The development tests of the 2020 Mercedes GLE , the big SUV known until 2015 with the name Class M (and before that ML), will be presented at the end of the year, which will be presented by the end of the year in a completely new form. With the approach of the debut, Carscoops has published new spy photos where camouflages are limited to the front to the tail, so you can see how the car will be. From them it is noted that the new SUV will have a wider grid than the current one, headlights drop-shaped and rear lights very thin, plus a style detail that is found since the first ML (on sale since 1997): the rear pillar of the advanced roof, which made it possible to obtain a side glass contiguous to the rear window.
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## 2020 Mercedes GLE Redesign & Changes
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The designers of the German company have revised the line of the new generation of the Mercedes GLE that now appears smoother on the surfaces, but also more muscular. The spy photos of the Mercedes Fans site ( below ) reveal for the first time even the interiors, where instead of the traditional instruments with the hands will be present the two side-by-side screens, each of them up to 12.3 “already seen on all the most Mercedes recent. On the central tunnel, there are also two large handles, which in the off-road vehicles serve passengers to stay in the most challenging sections and here also have a rather marked aesthetic function.
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Mercedes GLE 2018will debut at the Paris Motor Show (October 2018) and should “grow” in length up to 493 cm (+ 8 cm), but on more expensive versions the increase in external dimensions should not affect the manageability: for a fee you can, in fact, have active stabilizer bars, which allow the SUV not to “lie down” too much in the corners. The optional front camera will also be available to “read” in advance the road pits, already planned on the Mercedes S-Class flagship. According to the latest rumors, the engines should be the 3.0 367 hp petrol of the 2020 Mercedes GLE 450 and the 3.0 diesel from 286 hp and 340 hp of the GLE 350d and GLE 400d, in addition to the 3.0 petrol GLE 53 AMG (from 435 hp) and the bad V8 4.0 612 hp of the 63 AMG. On the petrol of the 450 and 53 AMG, the micro-hybrid system with an alternator will be provided, capable of delivering 22 hp to improve thrust at low speeds. From the GLE will be derived the Mercedes GLE Coupé, a rival of the BMW X6.
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# The Private Use of Credit Ratings: Evidence from Investment Mandates
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Ever since the global financial crisis in 2008, credit ratings have been subject to increased scrutiny. The main concern with ratings is related to the role overly optimistic ratings played in facilitating the sale of structured securities such as mortgage-backed securities (see, e.g., Benmelech and Dlugosz 2009). As a result, there have been considerable efforts to remove references to ratings in regulation and rules, including in the calculation of capital requirements for banks, brokers and insurance companies. These efforts have been broad in ambition although often hampered by a lack of alternatives.
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This focus on regulation is natural, since a large number of rules include references to ratings (for example, investment grade securities, rated BBB or above, are eligible for favorable treatment under many US federal rules). This has been well analyzed (e.g. Opp, Opp and Harris 2013). However, the original (and still most widespread) use of ratings is not regulatory, but private. Investors and asset managers use credit ratings to classify the risk of fixed income assets. Little has been known about how private investors have changed their use of ratings since the financial crisis.
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In our new ECGI working paper, we examine the private use of credit ratings in investment mandates of U.S. fixed income funds (which manage more than $7 trillion). In these investment mandates, asset managers demarcate the set of investable assets, often with the help of credit ratings. Ratings thus constitute a key technology for delegated asset management. The asset manager Blackrock describes the function of credit ratings in investment mandates as follows: “References to ratings in investment guidelines play an important role in ensuring that end investors’ expectations with respect to how their assets should be managed are clearly communicated”. At any given time, there exist hundreds of thousands of fixed income assets (many more than the number of equity securities available in public markets), and ratings-based mandates allow managers to communicate (and commit to) risk levels vis-a-vis asset owners such as retail investors, endowments, pension plans, and financial institutions.
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Our methodology consists of collecting electronic filings for US fixed income mutual funds and using text analysis to quantify the reliance on ratings. We examine both direct references, through terms such as "BBB", and indirect references, through terms such as "investment grade" or "high yield". Using a sample of mandates from 2010-2017, we document widespread references to credit ratings. For example, the majority of mandates either refer to a specific credit rating agency, a specific alphanumeric rating, or both. On average, 88% of mandates refer to “high yield”, “investment grade”, or other indirect terms. Perhaps surprisingly, we also find that the use of ratings has increased over time. For example, indirect references have increased from 84% to 90% over the 2010-2017 period. This increase is statistically significant and it is also present within a fixed set of funds. In fact, the increase reflects both (i) that funds without references are more likely to close, (ii) that new funds are more likely to refer to ratings, and (iii) that existing funds much more often switch toward using ratings than away from it.
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Most fixed income asset classes were not directly implicated in the mistakes that fueled the crisis. For example, think of corporate bonds, municipal bonds, and, indeed, some kinds of structured assets: credit ratings appear to have reflected the underlying credit risk of these asset classes reasonably well, both before and after the crisis (e.g., Cornaggia, Cornaggia, and Hund 2017). Regulatory reforms have not distinguished much between these types of assets, but perhaps private contracting works differently and distinguishes between potentially problematic and useful ratings? We find small differences across asset types (although structured assets are less important in mutual funds, so we can say less for this area).
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We examine a more limited sample of investment mandates going back to 1999. While we cannot reject a non-increase in ratings use before the financial crisis, we can do so in the period since the crisis. In other words, the increase in (the private) use of ratings has gone from high to almost universal after the financial crisis!
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In our paper, we discuss the implications of this finding. Most importantly, we suggest that the success of ratings in private contracting should give reformers pause: perhaps adequate substitutes are not easy to find. Furthermore, in broad terms, a comprehensive view of credit ratings should acknowledge that, while flawed, and in a few instances dysfunctional, ratings remain a successful system for organizing fixed income markets. On the other hand, any disadvantages related to the use of ratings are important, given how widely used they are.
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Benmelech, E., Dlugosz, J., 2009. The credit rating crisis. In: Acemoglu, D., Rogoff, K., Woodford, M. (Eds.), NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2009, Volume 24. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, pp. 161-207.
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Cornaggia, J., Cornaggia, K., Hund, J., 2017. Credit Ratings Across Asset Classes: A Long-Term Perspective. Review of Finance 21, 465–509.
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Opp, Christian, Marcus Opp, and Milton Harris, 2013. Rating agencies in the face of competition. Journal of Financial Economics 108, 46-61.
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India’s Parliament has approved the country’s budget for the fiscal year beginning April 1, 2013 (Budget) by passing the Finance Bill, 2013 (Finance Bill) on May 2, 2013 with several amendments to the earlier version of this bill presented to the Parliament on February 28, 2013 (see our earlier alert on the Budget proposals of February 28, 2013). While some of these amendments are favorable to foreign investors and lenders, the scope of certain other amendments is unclear.
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Key amendments to the February 28, 2013 version of the Finance Bill approved by the Parliament include the following:
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- Indian tax laws will no longer prescribe the particulars to be contained in a tax residency certificate (TRC) to be issued by the country of residence of a non-resident assessee (in order for such assessee to obtain tax treaty benefits in India). The amendments also delete the language in the prior version of the Finance Bill which stated that a TRC would be necessary but not sufficient for a non-resident assessee to claim tax treaty benefits. However, the assessee may be required to provide “such other documents or information as may be prescribed” in order to obtain such tax treaty benefits. No such documents or information has been prescribed to date.
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- Interest earned by foreign entities registered as foreign institutional investors (including their sub-accounts) (FIIs) or qualified foreign investors (QFIs) on or after June 1, 2013 but before June 1, 2015 on Indian Rupee denominated bonds of an Indian company or Indian Government securities will be subject to a reduced withholding tax rate of 5% (plus surcharge and cess). The previously applicable rate was 20% (plus surcharge and cess). | |
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I likely won't ever get an opportunaty like this again! ...The chance to take an unlimited number of pictures of a wild bird - at less than arm's length!
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During one of my trips into the garage, I heard a 'thumping' overhead. An oriole had become trapped in the rafters and was now trying to get out of the garage through what appeared to be the only exit on her level - a window. ...A CLOSED window. The little thing kept trying and trying, only to thump her noggin so hard she had become dazed. She was so dazed in fact, she willingly stepped onto a broom that I'd reached up near her feet. I let hert loose on the grass, where she just sat there, staring at me. Realizing this was likely going to last for a few minutes, I ran for the camera!
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This was GREAT! An oriole - not able to move an inch and as a result of disorientation, was now willing to be my subject for quite a time. Eventually, it flew into a not yet blossomed snowball bush and rested about a foot off the ground and then safely took off another few minutes later.
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Both my wife and mother love orioles, so it looks like I'll be doing some printing soon.
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Finding Your Unique Voice:
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One of the things that I find so many times when talking to entrepreneurs, is that they haven’t found their unique voice. It’s so important, because it makes you unique, it makes you stand out. That’s exactly what people are craving. They’re craving that authenticity. They’re craving that unique flavor of ice cream that you can only offer. It’s your message.
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If you ever seen the Voice or American Idol, the people that stand out are those who are really authentic. They’re coming from their soul. They figured out what is unique to them and embraced it and allowed for it to come through, their voice, their message, however, you put that out in the world, whether it’s through singing or through blog posts or through visuals, even a product that you create that is just unique to your passion, something that is incredibly you – it lights up your soul – anything that really sparks your joy, that is the uniqueness of you. Find out what that is and then figuring out how to surrender to it, allow for it to become so predominant in your field, in your experience, and you communicate to the world. Because then, it stands out, it’s something that makes you incredibly valuable. It is your unique piece of the pie to the whole collective. It’s what you love because you’re going to naturally do that, whether you get paid for it or not, and it’s so much more enjoyable to find your uniqueness and get rid of all the judgments and the criticisms of being unique. That’s another topic and another post. Just finding your unique voice and noticing what you can delegate. You cannot delegate your uniqueness. It must come from your internal self. It must come from you and your soul and your specialness.
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You can’t really build a business without a team because a business is really a team building effort. It’s an experience and you can become bigger and bolder and more amazing if you have teammates that are on your side, helping you figure out how to produce products and services out there in the world with their support, whether you need video support, whether you need audio support, whether you need technical, graphics, whatever, once you find that uniqueness of your particular message – I remember when I owned the hotel it was – how do I identify this particular hotel versus all the other boutique hotels in the city, how do I make this stand out in comparison to the competition? You don’t want to repeat what other people are doing. Maybe they are successful at what they do, but your success is going to come from your unique self, and once you figure that out, then you can delegate all the other tasks.
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People need more than one teacher. I’m sure that you’re not just listening to me, but you’re listening to exuberant amounts of other teachers. There is a plethora of them in all kinds of niches. I, myself, have multiple different coaches, multiple different teachers, whether I listen to them on YouTube, whether I listen to them through audio books, or I go to their classes or events or retreats, etc., I am constantly absorbing all their information and then whatever really truly resonates to me, I’m going to put into my unique flavor of ice cream. That’s what makes me special in my voice and my message and that’s all unique to me.
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Intro from Jay Allison: Fans of intricate sound design are living at the right moment. More and more podcasts list "sound designer" in their credits - audio wizards who are part composer, part Foley artist, part master mixer, part mood maker.
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We started a series of features on sound design to look at what exactly it is and how it's done. This one is by Haley Shaw of Gimlet podcasts, including The Habitat. Haley says, "At its best, sound design bridges understanding, enhances the impact of the story, immerses the audience, and explores new ways of communicating. But even when going for goosebumps, the intended feeling should emerge from the story, not the design." Haley offers everything from questions to contemplate at the beginning of a project to practical tips for sound designing specific moments. She covers world building, stacking sounds, effects tricks, and the software she uses. All very useful.
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After you read Haley's feature, check out the others in the series. You'll find them here: https://transom.org/tag/sound-design/
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An Intended Feeling
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There are so many processes for manipulating sound, but the way they all make a listener feel is a unified effect. So, I like to define “sound design” as the way to shape an intended feeling through sound and music.
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At its best, sound design bridges understanding, enhances the impact of the story, immerses the audience, and explores new ways of communicating. But even when going for goosebumps, the intended feeling should emerge from the story, not the design — a lot of the work lies in setting aside ego and muting that super gnarly thunder sound effect or incredible (read: incredibly distracting) drum pattern I love so much that just doesn’t belong.
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Most of my work consists of post-production sound design and creating music, so I’ll be addressing those skills here. However, my process for any project starts long before getting my hands on the audio or automating some parameter just right. Here I’ll explore how I get from vague conceptual notions to making acute decisions on what gets included in the final product — all in service of an intended feeling.
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## Macro To Micro
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For each new project, I start with the big picture before targeting smaller details. I create a macro concept based on the overall tone of the project and then use it to inform my decision-making process right down to the smallest choices. Along the way, I inevitably deviate from initial ideas that aren’t working, but starting with a plan focuses me and leads to a more cohesive sound. Plus, who doesn’t love to answer a bunch of hard questions before they even start?
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What is the sonic identity of the project? Who is it? What is its overall character? Is it earnest? Adorable? Nightmarish? Contemporary? Heavy? Is it listener-friendly, or is it trying to catch the audience off guard? If it is branded content, what is the brand?
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How should the intended audience feel about the project as a whole (not from moment to moment)? Who is the intended audience? How do they feel coming away from the project? How would they describe the tone of the project to someone else? How does the project sit with them?
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What is the intended effect of my music and sound design within the project? Subtle and nuanced addition to the narrative? Splashy showstopper? Billboarding or propping up the form of the piece? Invisible smoothing and cleanup work? What is the point of my work?
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These questions are best answered when communicating closely with whoever holds the artistic vision for the project (show runner, producers, director, host, writers, etc.). Whether I pitch my concept to this person or we create one together, getting their input up front keeps me from having to scrap work later.
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## Specify the Macro Concept
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Once I jot down some answers to those questions, I brainstorm with more focus and apply possible action items to the concept. I also start asking relevant logistical questions: What will I need studio time for? Will I need to hire instrumentalists or contractors? How much Foley or location sound is necessary? How much time will each stage of this project take me? | |
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You may not care what is happening to Jerry Shults and his daughter, Amy Herrig, but you should.
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Shults and Herrig, owners of the Gas Pipe head shop stores, are in a business at the margins of polite society. There is certainly no room in my lifestyle for their products. But right now, they are victims of government tyranny, and you should care.
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The Gas Pipe owners were prosecuted by the federal government for drug trafficking and a number of related offenses. But despite the full weight of the federal justice system leveraged against them, Gas Pipe prevailed in court. They won. But in today's justice system, thanks to asset forfeiture, their nightmare isn't over.
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That's because, under today's asset forfeiture practices, the feds were able to seize millions of dollars' worth of cash, airplanes, vehicles, and real estate, including an exotic fishing camp. Though the Gas Pipe owners were acquitted of most charges, they were convicted of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. for misbranding their spice products.
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When I speak to groups about asset forfeiture, peoples' first reaction is generally "this can't be legal. This can't be Constitutional." And it isn't. In order to defend asset forfeiture, governments have to weasel their way around any number of Constitutional provisions.
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For one, asset forfeiture is clearly a violation of the Fifth Amendment's protection against uncompensated takings from private citizens. It's also a violation of the Fifth Amendment protection against being tried twice for the same charge. For Gas Pipe owners to get their property back, they had to again secure counsel and return to court, where the federal government is using the same arguments against them a second time, even though the retailer already won the criminal case.
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How do prosecutors get around the obvious double jeopardy "problem?" In asset forfeiture cases the authorities often charge the property itself with the crime, rather than the persons involved. As if the property committed a crime.
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But it gets even more absurd. In a glaring example that drew the attention of the Supreme Court, the state of Indiana held that portions of the Eighth Amendment do not apply to the states. That's right -- in its greed to justify asset forfeiture, Indiana claimed exemption from a portion of the Bill of Rights.
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Fortunately, the Supreme Court finally acted. In a unanimous decision in February, the court ruled against Indiana, finding that the states do indeed have to comply with the Eighth Amendment, and thus Indiana seizing a $42,000 Land Rover from someone convicted of a $225 offense was a violation of the prohibition against excessive fines.
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But this is only the beginning of what should be the end of abusive asset forfeiture. The court's decision simply gives defendants the right to argue that the forfeiture represents an excessive fine. So it may have a trickle-down effect of reducing some of the more galling instances, but forfeiture remains so lucrative for governments that it will continue until and unless the states and the federal government eliminate it through legislation.
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Over time, asset forfeiture has become an almost unlimited government power. In a staggering 80 percent of civil forfeiture cases, according to the Drug Policy Alliance, property is seized even when charges are never filed against the property owners. Homes have been seized from parents of children convicted of minor drug offenses. More commonly, those unfortunate enough to be stopped for something like a burned out taillight shortly after cashing a paycheck had their cash seized if cops found any illegal substance in the car.
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This is tyranny. Government seizing private property, with neither a conviction nor just compensation, is utterly contrary to both the spirit and the letter of the complaints contained in the Declaration of Independence, and contrary to the rights established by the Constitution. A government that simply takes things because it can, and then puts the burden on citizens to get their property back, is a tyrannical government akin to the abuses Americans originally rebelled against. Asset forfeiture must be stopped.
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For the last several years Sen. Konni Burton was the major force in Austin trying to roll back asset forfeiture in Texas. Unfortunately, at the last election the voters chose not to send Burton back to Austin. We're still waiting for a new champion to pick up this urgent cause in the current legislative session.
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Tom Giovanetti is president of the Institute for Policy Innovation in Irving. He wrote this column for The Dallas Morning News.
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CORRECTION, 2:08 p.m., March 6, 2019: An earlier version of this column incorrectly stated that the Gas Pipe owners were not convicted. In fact, they were convicted of one charge, conspiracy to defraud the U.S. for misbranding their spice products. Also, the column previously said the burden of proof is on citizens to get their property back, but the burden is on citizens to get their property back, while the government must prove its reasons for seizing the property.
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## What's your view?
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Born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, Nestor Torres moved to New York City, where he pursued Classical flute studies at Mannes School of Music, Jazz at Berklee College of Music and Classical and Jazz at New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. During that time he also learned to improvise in the ‘Charanga’ Cuban Dance Music genre, which helped shape and develop Torres’ unique melodic and danceable style.
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This rhythmic and mellifluous sound evolution remains apart in a class by itself with 4 Latin Grammy nominations, one Grammy nomination and one Latin Grammy Award. In addition to 16 solo recordings, Torres’ unique collaborations with diverse artists such as Gloria Estefan, Kenny Loggins, Dave Mathews, Herbie Hancock, and Tito Puente; as well as performances with the Cleveland, Singapore, and New World Symphony Orchestras among many others, are testament to his remarkable versatility and artistry. 2017 brought two diverse album releases for Torres; “Jazz Flute Traditions”, a spectacular tribute to his jazz flute mentors and influences, and “del Caribe, soy!”, a collection of classical compositions by Latin American composers, including the great Puerto Rican icon Rafael Hernandez, alongside contemporary works written for Torres by Tania Leon and Miguel del Aguila.This relentless exploration of musical possibilities without boundaries led to a recent concerto commission by Mariano Morales for a world premiere with Torres and The Lynn Philharmonia.
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In addition to his achievements in the studio and on the stage, Torres is also the recipient of many awards, including two honorary doctorate degrees from Barry University and Carlos Albizu University, for his commitment to youth, education and cultural exchanges.
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## Location: Redding, United States
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Taking on the mentorship duties for a growing Baby Driver—teaching them baby parallel parking, baby basic maintenance, baby title transfers and registration—is no easy task, but it looks like director Edgar Wright may have found someone up for the job. According to Deadline, Kevin Spacey is in talks to co-star in the Shaun Of The Dead director’s latest film, where he’d play the leader of the criminal crew that employs infantile motorist Ansel Elgort.
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Spacey would be joining a cast that already includes Jamie Foxx, Lily James, and Jon Hamm, for Wright’s Drive-ish story of a getaway driver who ends up in hock with a criminal kingpin. The movie will be Spacey’s second-baby related title in the last year, suggesting a new, tiny niche for the House Of Cards actor to nestle into; he was cast in an animated film, Boss Baby, alongside Alec Baldwin last September. (He’s also going to play a talking cat, who was presumably at some point a talking kitten, if we really want to make this baby thing stretch.)
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But all babies—boss, driver, cat, or otherwise—must some day grow, and so Spacey will also be graduating from infant to toddler, with a role in Billionaire Boys Club, also starring Elgort. Rather than being a remake of Richie Rich, though, the movie will tell the real-life story of a Los Angeles investor and fraudster who eventually murdered one of his big-money clients; Spacey would play the big fish in question. (And presumably star in Marvel’s (imaginary) Baby-Fish-Cat Boy when it comes out some time in 2023.) | |
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# Not fade away: Older Canadians are having more sex than ever
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Updated: January 7, 2019
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When Don and Karen met 20 years ago in their mid-40s, they never thought they would still be having sex into their 60s.
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“Back then, 60 was ancient,” says Karen, now 66.
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“I didn’t think I would be alive,” says Don, 67.
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Twenty years later, though, the couple, who asked their that real names not be used, have embarked on a quest to keep their sexual relationship going as long as they can.
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“At 65, you have to decide if you want to stay sexually active, or if you want to fade away. You have to make it a conscious decision to make it what it used to be,” Don says.
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Christina, a 58-year old retired occupational therapist, has been in a relationship with her husband since they met in university in 1979. Now they have two knee replacements and the occasional sore hip, but still search out soft places to be intimate and experiment with sex toys.
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“I like touching and kissing. That has not changed,” she says. Christina also asked that her real name not be used.
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“I think what I noticed amongst other people our age is their kids are grown up, so they are ready to try new things. They are still afraid of what people will say, so it’s still a secret. But they are willing to admit they are sexually active and curious. In a way, they are newbies. I think my husband and I were curious from the time we met and since we met at university far away from our family and friends, there was no judgement.”
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As more and more baby boomers enter their senior years, it appears they are determined not to go gentle into that good night.
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When Ottawa sex therapist Sue McGarvie gave a talk on at the Ottawa Council on Aging — it was called Put a Twinkle in Your Wrinkle — it attracted about 150 seniors.
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There has been a paradigm shift in seniors and their attitudes toward sex, says McGarvie. “We have to technology to make you as sexual as you want. If there is a will, there is a way to do it,” she says. “I don’t want to go quietly into the night, and I don’t know a lot of people who do.”
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Life expectancy is on the rise. Between 1921 and 2005, Canadians gained about 20 years of average life expectancy to about 78 years for man and almost 83 years for a woman. By 2031, the average life expectancy could rise to 81.9 for men and 86 for women. And for many, it means they will be having sex for longer.
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This very special break makes the most of Swedish Lapland’s spellbinding winter landscapes with stays in two stunning hotels. It all begins with the iconic Treehotel, with a night spent on high in one of seven designer cabins suspended in a forest in Swedish Lapland. Then, it's on to the wood-clad cosiness of Loggers Lodge, a seriously stylish private woodland retreat where roaring fires invite evenings of champagne-soaked relaxation and a private outdoor hot tub looks up to the star-strewn night sky. There's also plenty of time for some Arctic exploration, enjoying summer's Midnight Sun with a hike or winter's Northern Lights with an included husky-sled tour.
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Following your flight, you'll be met at the airport and brought to the cutting-edge modernism of Treehotel and its collection of from-the-future cabins in the canopy. While you'll choose between the likes of a mirrored cube, a bird’s nest or a UFO, each features gorgeous views of the snowy pine forests of Harads. After settling in, perhaps step out into the wilds on optional husky safaris and horse-drawn sleigh rides. Then, at the end of a thrilling day, return to the delicious home-cooked food of Brittas Restaurant before settling in for your night among the branches.
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(COLUMBIA, Tenn. – Feb. 4, 2019) - - - Columbia State Community College will host the “Men Empowered, Now United” group to perform “You Don’t Know My Story” Feb. 12 in the Cherry Theater in honor of Black History Month.
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“You Don’t Know My Story” is a series of skits that show how someone can fall down and be able to get back up again.
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“The college promotes and celebrates diversity throughout the academic year,” said Dr. Christa Martin, Columbia State assistant to the president for access and diversity. “The annual Black History Month program this year includes a unique opportunity to showcase a group of men from several organizations and churches in Maury County.”
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The purpose of M.E.N.U. is to establish and maintain fellowship of men for spiritual, emotional, leadership, outreach, guidance and community service. Winston Harlan, founder of the M.E.N.U. group, had a dream to gather men from Maury County willing to make a difference in the community. He wanted to form an organization to guide youth, establish relationships with young men looking for a change and to be a positive influence and leader in Maury County. The members of M.E.N.U. come from different backgrounds, ages, social statuses and religious faiths ¾ all agreed that it was time to put words into action for the common good of Maury County.
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The Cherry Theater is in the Waymon L. Hickman Building on the Columbia Campus, located at 1665 Hampshire Pike. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the programming starts at 6:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public and is sponsored by Columbia State’s Office of Access and Diversity.
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This well maintained 15 yr old bungalow is located in a nice residential area on the East side of Southampton at 347 Peel St. The main floor features hardwood floors, 3 bedrooms, the master having a 4 pc. ensuite, custom kitchen open to the living room area with a gas fireplace and a large dining room. Main floor laundry room with door out to the 20 ft. x 20 ft. garage. Downstairs there is a large family room with electric fireplace, utility room, large storage room, 2 pc. bath and a bonus room which could be a den/office, hobby room etc. This home has natural gas forced air furnace, central air and central vac. Nicely landscaped lot backs on to cedar bush. Covered front porch, entrance and deck at the back with patio doors from the living room. This home has been well cared for since new and is a pleasure to show.
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In recent years, sculpture studies within art and architectural history have grown exponentially, increasingly taking diverse themes into account including materiality, gender, postcolonialism and affect. In the rapid transformations of state power and imperial activity in the 18th century, through into the post-revolutionary political atmosphere of the 19th century, nations appeared to sponsor the celebration of the public citizen and actively projected imperial stability in the midst of change and resistance. Despite its association with permanence, sculpture was charged with representing change: materialising new identities and formulating representational traditions. Architectural sculpture in particular marked sites of urban modernity, such as stations, cultural institutions, civic landmarks and sacred structures; these large and prestigious commissions often sparked public debate around identity and artistic production. As the onset and outcomes of the First World War shaped the power and politics of cultural memory, sculpture took centre stage, with new responsibilities amongst global tensions. Interwar architectural sculpture negotiated and articulated increasing anxieties regarding ornament, historicism, modernism and minimalism. With the arrival of modernism worldwide, some believed architectural sculpture was anathema. Others looked to it as the vehicle to facilitate and embody vitality in bold new architectural experimentation. Architectural sculpture was a crucible for artistic and wider cultural dialogue concerning modern life and modern subjects. The convenors invite proposals for papers that explore architectural sculpture and identity in a global context between 1750 and the present.
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On New Year’s Eve 2017, Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives Armando Martinez, stepped outside a home and suddenly felt as if he’d been struck with a sledgehammer. After he was rushed to the hospital, it turned out that he’d been struck on the top of the head by a falling .223-caliber bullet. A fragment of the round penetrated the top of his skull and lodged itself in the top layer of his brain, requiring surgery to remove it, according to CNN.
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Martinez, who recovered from his injury, became another victim of the strange custom of celebratory gunfire, in which revelers fire bullets into the air that eventually fall back to Earth — and occasionally hit other people. | |
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In collaboration with our partners at the NW Academy Pigeon Press in the final days of 2014 WANT will be featuring a year in review looking at topics ranging from world events to culture. To see the full edition of this article written by Pigeon Press staff, click here.
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Ebola: In 2014, numerous African countries experienced an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus. The outbreak is linked to a two-year old child, who passed away from the disease in Guinea in 2013. The disease then spread to the neighboring countries of Liberia and Sierra Leone. As of October 15th, 2014 there have been 17 cases treated outside of Africa, thus far only two Americans have died from Ebola. However, an estimated 7,000 people in Africa have died so far. TIME Magazine named the doctors who fought against Ebola its Person of the Year.
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Malaysia Airlines: In 2014, Malaysia Airlines lost two Boeing 777s. Flight 370, carrying 239 passengers, disappeared on March 8th over the Southern Indian Ocean, while traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. No debris or wreckage have been found from the flight and the search is the largest and most expensive search for a downed airliner in history. Flight 17, traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, crashed on July 17th, 2014, killing all 238 passengers and 15 crew members. The flight is presumed to have been shot down by Ukrainian rebels.
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ISIS: Ever since the civil war inside Syria erupted in 2011, moderate rebels have worked alongside extremist parts of the Islamic movement. In 2014, the extremists broke away from their moderate counterparts and created their own movement and message. These extremists named themselves The Islamic State In Syria (ISIS) The movement changed from fighting just inside Syria to working within Iraq as well. They have made many videos executing western journalists to show their anti-Christian message. ISIS caused problems within the Syrian rebellion because now moderate rebels are tasked with not only defending themselves from the current government, but from other rebels as well. Within Iraq the threat of ISIS only emphasized tension between the Sunni and Shiite Muslims.
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Russia Invades Crimea: In 2014, after months of public protest over the corrupt Ukrainian government, and its refusal to join the European Union; Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych, was finally ousted. Following this, international intelligence agencies observed unmarked troops and military equipment, believed to be Russian, crossing the Ukrainian-Russian border. The forces congregated in the Southeast pro-Russian province of Crimea. The unidentified insurgents, who Russia claimed were not members of their armed forces, alongside local citizens closed the border between Ukraine and Crimea. In the following weeks, forces from Russia continued to supply the rebel groups with weapons.
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Scotland: Leading up to the elections on September 24, 2014 in Scotland, Scottish citizens were perplexed by a referendum to secede from the United Kingdom. The final vote was 55% no and 44% yes. Even though it did not pass, the reverberations of the event shook the world. Never before did a province of a major world power try to succeed with almost no resistance. The UK government was prepared to accept the vote no matter the outcome, despite the large economic and socials problems that would had happened if the referendum passed. The vote was very close and could lead way for other provinces to seceded in the future.
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Kagin's auction lot coins eligible for Smart Track DNA tagging
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- Published: Feb 23, 2020, 10 AM
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Coins graded by Professional Coin Grading Service and Numismatic Guaranty Corp. sold during Kagin’s Inc.’s auction in conjunction with the American Numismatic Association National Money Show Feb. 27 to 29 in Atlanta are eligible for Coin World’s SmartTrack DNA tagging.
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Kagin’s has partnered with Coin World to provide the Near-Field Communication (NFC) encryption technology ID tags as a way to combat counterfeit coins and provide useful information to coin collectors and others within the numismatic hobby.
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“The SmartTrack DNA tags are scheduled to be available to dealers and collectors’ coins in April, but we are pleased to announce that we will be applying them to the Kagin’s auction coins before they are available to the public,” stated Rick Amos, chairman and CEO of Amos Media Co., the owner of Coin World.
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Amos said it will be at the discretion of auction lot winners whether they want to avail themselves of the tagging option. Auction lot winners will receive instructions to have the SmartTrack DNA tag applied after they have received their lots.
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“Our auction coins will be within the early release of the SmartTrack DNA tags and we think the technology will have an immediate and lasting value for coin enthusiasts,” said Don Kagin, president of Kagin’s Inc.
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Key features of the Coin World app include digital authentication of the coin, detailed coin information and history, inventory management, as well as transferring coins in/out of inventory with an acquisition or upon a sale, and want list creation. The app also provides a customizable user profile that includes features such as registration of coin ownership (in case of theft or loss of a coin), creating an alias to provide anonymity or privacy from other users across the platform, and real-time pricing.
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Cai Ling felt that her mistress’ recent behavior had been getting increasingly unfathomable. But Cai Ling understood that Bai Luochu always had her reasons for doing things a certain way. As a servant, it was already a blessing to be able to listen to her mistress rant. Naturally, Cai Ling didn’t have extravagant hopes. She realized that doing her job properly was the most important thing she could do.
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At the First Prince's residence, Ming Lu hopped into the study room and spoke to Pei Rumo, “Master, when this servant was preparing to exit the residence, I happened to come across Young Lady Luo Chu’s servant girl. Make a guess. What do you think she was here to do?”
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When Pei Rumo saw that his attendant was behaving without proper etiquette, he helplessly shook his head. He didn’t wish to crack down on Ming Lu’s enthusiasm, hence, he asked, “I cannot guess it. Why don’t you tell me what has happened?”
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In 1999, P&H gained control of Mace in Wales and England when it was able to acquire Booker Wholesale Foods. The Mace store symbol has under gone several ownerships in its Great Britain history. In 2005, Palmer and Harvey acquired the entire rights to the Mace brand. This acquisition finally unified the brand with Palmer & Harvey as the owner.
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In the past, Mace stores have experienced defections from retailers because of the trouble of changes in regular ownership (Mace had changed ownership three times in a very short span of time). The acquisition by Palmer and Harvey contributed significantly to solving the problem, as well as allowing the Mace brand to recover from past defections. Prior to being owned by Palmer and Harvey, the company Aberness Foods previously ran Mace stores in Scotland. When Palmer and Harvey took over Mace, 25 stores decided to defect to SPAR.
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In the area of Northern Ireland, the Musgrave Group owns the Mace brand. Mace came to be owned by Musgrave when it acquired JJ Haslett. Mace stores in Northern Ireland do not have the same look as Mace stores in Great Britain.
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Since 1962, Mace was trading in the Republic of Ireland. Initially, there were a number of wholesalers that operated the brand. Currently, Mace in the Republic of Ireland is under BWG Foods. Before being owned by BWG, Mace’s ownership was split between Vantage Holdings and Mangans Wholesale. In 2000, BWG bought the ownership rights that belonged to Vantage Holdings and 8 years after, BWG then bought the whole of Mangans Group, which included the ownership right to Mace.
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In the whole of Ireland (both south and north), Mace stores have a more advanced range of store services, as compared to Great Britain. A majority, if not all, of Mace stores offer “to go” hot food and “bean to cup” hot beverages. The stores are also normally larger, while the smaller stores are re-named as “Mace Express.”
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It’s time to help a sheep that is inside a cardboard box! What? That’s right, as you read it is a great game full of adventure, fun and colors. In this opportunity, we will tell you about the possibility of downloading Sheep Up! a copy that was released to the market by the company Bad Seed SRL and that has generated a considerable amount of downloads, as well as a good acceptance by the user. To install Sheep Up! in a simple and instantaneous way, you will only have to click on the download link that is at the end of the note, but first we recommend that you do not stop reading the following paragraph.
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## Sheep Up! for Windows Phone
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Do not waste more time and launch yourself into the funniest and most colorful adventure in a cardboard box. You are the only hope for a small toy sheep stored in a cardboard box along with other old toys. Help the sheep jumping to escape and reach the top of the box for freedom. Sheep Up! It is a fantastic and fun game where you will have to complete many levels of game. Addictive and with a multi-directional control tilt, it offers a wide variety of game elements, many cool Power-Ups, nice and colorful settings, an original soundtrack, and much more.
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Sheep Up! It is available on mobile devices that have a Windows 8 Mobile operating system or with later versions.
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I’ve been busy at work and I almost forgot about SNBC this week that I didn’t even have time to plan leave. Hope to see all of you there. Although SCA’s website didn’t specify the time, I’ve gotten word from one of the competitors that the final day on Saturday, 27 February will start at 11 am, and will end approximately at 4 pm. As Ben Ruane has pointed out in the comments below, SCA has updated their page with the schedule. As with all SNBC’s since 2007, the competition keeps getting tougher each year, thus raising the bar and hopefully, we will see more of a coffee culture in Singapore. Good luck to all the competitors, and we hope this year’s finalist will improve Singapore’s global standing to under #20.
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And a shout-out to all the readers attending, free free to comment on this blog (not the facebook post) about the results or any other tidbits. Thanks in advance.
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[googleMap name=”Suntec City Convention Centre” description=”Room 303 and 304″]1 Raffles Boulevard Suntec City, Singapore 039593[/googleMap]
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Today’s gathering, January 17 2010, was called up at the last minute, and the attendees were the usual Gang of Four: me, Melvin and Steve at Kai Seng’s pad. Peter was away in Geneva while Adrian was selling bakkwa (roasted pork slices.) As you can remember from the previous meetup, I, on behalf of the group expressed our enthusiasm and reminded Steve to, most of all, show up with the salsa. He did and thanks to Adhe who is wonderfully consistent, we finished the salsa in one sitting. Kai Seng also prepared ice lemon tea and had cream puffs. Adrian, though absent, gave us a sampling of his bakkwa. As this gathering was called up last minute and that Steve had just returned from a business trip, most of us were caught without roasted coffee so much so Kai Seng and Dawn had to miss their daily americanoes to allocate for the group. I had a roast muckup the day before too on my Idido Misty Valley.
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Wow! While Steve was the undisputed champion of machine mods, Kai Seng has practically every latest gadget known to Man and was the envy of us all. Steve mentioned KS definitely had all his priorities right, marvelling at all his worldly goods. It’s techie geek pad EXXTREME, sporting a Dell Zino with BlueRay connected to his HDTV, a handheld wireless trackpad-keyboard all-in-one, a WDTV media player, a Nexstar HDD dock with eSATA, a Canon Vixia HF200 camcorder, and a nice roaster, of course. A La Marzocco GS3 or a Kees Van Der Westen Speedster would have completed this picture with a sweet note. I remarked about how we coffeegeeks are techie geeks at heart, and Steve followed up by saying that the research process leading right up to our purchase was meticulous and tbat anything that was lacking thereafter would immediately be corrected by some modifications. Did I get that part right?
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Kai Seng, Melvin and I made a few espressos while I took turns with Melvin to try out the Vixia. Coffees drank today were Kai Seng’s Ethiopian Kuza, Melvin’s Kenyan AA, and my re-roasted Idido Misty Valley. The day before, I had overloaded my roaster with beans and after a 15 minute roast, was dissatisfied with the results and decided to re-roast half of the batch. Fortunately, the re-roasted batch tasted good, albeit a bit fresh and lacking body.
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We adjourned to the rooftop where the roaster was situated. Kai Seng uses a professional gas fired drum roaster. We each had brought our own greens and Kai Seng was at the helm roasting them. We were blessed with a good wind and despite the heat, it was comfortable enough to lounge around in the shade. The 1st and 2nd cracks could be heard clearly over the drum rotation of the beans, and a sample of the beans could be easily taken out at any point during the roast to be examined for colour and consistency. Sight and sound are the 2 senses we use to determine when to end the roast, including all other methods we have employed in our coffee roasting, be it a popcorn popper, a DIY over-the-stove drum roaster, an i-Roast or a GeneCafe. The drum roaster also had the knack of rapidly cooling the beans upon exiting the drum, which is a major plus as you would want the roast to end instantaneously. It is akin to photography and its decisive moment. Our decisive moment makes or breaks the roast.
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After the roasting, we went back downstairs where Kai Seng wrapped things up by showing us how he kept the greens, which would warrant a separate post. All in all, it was an enjoyable get-together as usual and a great stress reliever. I am so looking forward to our next gathering. We thank Kai Sneg and Dawn for graciously hosting this fantastic meeting of the like-mindeds.
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Stay tuned to this blog for upcoming videos of the event and a sure-fire way to preserve your green coffee ala Kai Seng.
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One of the chief purposes of this blog was to write down my cupping notes for the coffees I’ve roasted (however somewhat limited they are to my lackluster ability and tastebuds to define the nuances of the tastes.)
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And looking at my own notes, I’m always roasting the few same coffees, Ethiopian Sidamo, Yrgacheffe, Panama Gesha, and of course, who can forget the evergreen Brazil Formosa, and my favourite Sweet Maria’s Italian Espresso Blend and Espresso Vivace’s Dolce.
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I hope you readers (however few – sorry about the inferiority complex, it’s a growing trend) can help me out by listing in the comments below about the coffees you’ve had the pleasure of tasting, good and bad (listing here means on this blog, not on Facebook, not on Twitter.) No holds barred. It could be the Nespresso Ristretto you just had in the office a few hours ago, or the godshot made from your Silvia, or the great cup you’ve just had in Blue Bottle or Intelligentsia or Ritual or even at a corner of a flower market in London. Or 15th Ave Coffee & Tea. Whatever. Please state where you had it. This could be seen as a survey of what my readers drink. To help you out on your tasting notes, I’ve included a taste wheel below. Please push your senses.
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I thought about letting this one go. But Melvin happened. And I just have to borrow his tagline for this post.
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It was an ominous feeling to have heard Steve say those words. You just had to be there.
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We talked about the Aeropress. About how good a cup of coffee it makes. But it just was not espresso, the way Aeropress had marketed it as.
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And then, Steve introduced the N word into our lives and we never looked at him the same again. | |
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# Things to Be Aware of When Choosing a Successful Weight Loss Program
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Do you have a weight loss problem? You should never feel that you are alone because they are many people in New England who are suffering from unhealthy weigh . So you should not worry yourself because you are not alone. . Therefore it is good to know the tips that you should ask yourself when choosing a weight loss program or a weight loss center. There are various things that you should know about the weight loss center.
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One of the factors you should consider is what you will be looking for at the weight loss or weight program. you will be able to identify the best weight loss center by the tips they are offering you to use to lose your weight. Making you feel secure during your training should be the first thing you should get from the weight loss center. Those are some of the essential things that the weight loss program should ensure that you get.
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The more skilled and experienced your doctor is the more he will be able to help you lose weight faster. You should know what level of education does your training staff has or do they qualify to be your trainer. Ask also if they will be able to give you the right measures of what you need to lose your weight. Do some research about your doctor or trainer and try to find out about his history from his past clients or patients. This will help you to know which is the best fat loss center in New England.
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Make sure that you are aware of any danger that may be associated with a weight loss session. Ensure that your health is not affected by your weight loss classes. If there are any risk make sure that the weight loss center can provide you safety measure that will prevent you from any health problem. In case of some medical test that you are going through is good to let your training staff to know and also connect him with your doctor so that your trainer will be aware of the things that you should not do.
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It is good for you to know the budget required for your weight loss program. Get yourself familiar with the fees structure of your weight loss program and know the things that are included in it. the requirements may include the products that you will be using during your training session or the times you will be attending your tests with your training staff. Make sure that the cost matches the service s that you will be getting from the weight loss center. Make sure that you are not receiving fewer services than you are paying for.
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## RABBLE ROUSER: Don’t let refugees ruin West
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The plight of hundreds of thousands of refugees (predominately Muslim) fleeing war-ravaged Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan for sanctuary in Europe and North America cannot be humanely overlooked, even by the most callous among us.
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However, the harsh reality of the planned destruction of our Western culture and liberated society by the radicalized Muslim imams and their murderous thug followers who easily infiltrate the “open door” policy of national admission cannot be dismissed as “Islamophobia.”
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The naive in the prosperous West who oppose security verifications and quotas have conveniently forgotten how the Dutch, British, French and Spanish and the United States, as well as other European and Asian nations, have been targeted by hateful and disgruntled Muslim immigrants. Easily recruited by Muslim religious fanatics who have taken advantage of their newfound liberties and free speech protections, as well as the Internet, the radicalized young gleefully commit barbaric terror attacks on the very host population that welcomed them.
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Unfortunately, America and the West are reaping what they have sown over decades of misguided, disruptive and imperialistic policies in the Middle East. Inclusive is the conspired destabilization of governments considered the antithesis of “democracies,” along with the glaring lack of understanding of cultural, political and tribal differences in that huge region by our supposed “experts” who lack the competency to properly advise their elected political bosses.
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This nightmarish “harvest” culminates with the disastrous, unforgivable and monstrously costly (in irreplaceable lives and unpaid debt) military invasion of Iraq, resulting from the war hysteria and apelike chest pounding approach to problem solving by the myopic regime headed by President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
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The fate of much of the Middle East may have been set on a downward spiral that may take a century or more, if ever, to recover.
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The growth and power of extremism, unparalleled hate against any and all not in mind manipulation with this dark evil (ISIS or whatever thuggish movement will evolve next) and the desire to eradicate modern Western civilization will be our burden to face.
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How we choose to deal with this threat will determine the future of Europe, North America and rest of the planet.
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As the West struggles with the growing mass exodus of Muslim immigrants into their open lands, will the face of what we once knew as Europe or North America be irrevocably altered? How many of these hundreds of thousands (perhaps millions) will truly assimilate into our way of life? Or will they aggressively force the host to become like the guest?
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Help the oppressed, but within reasonable limits. Sanctuary is not limitless. Our way of life is also at risk and cannot be piously put in danger by the posturing of religious and political leadership. Even the simplistic politically correct among us and the opportunistic elected officials must recognize this truth.
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## The writer lives in Eastampton.
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This chart gives you the alphabet to stitch the initials. You can use it to stitch the favourite initials on towels, boxes, bags, wherever you want. For the box you might need a top opening at least 3 x 3 in (7.5 x 7.5 cm) wide. Please refer to any craft shop to buy a box and cover it with decorated paper. The design will be mounted on a Skirtex panel or pliable felt panel and then glued to the box. Lastly the top of the box will be covered by decorated paper with a top squared opening to display the stitched initial.
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Finishing materials: wooden box, decorated paper
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Only half the paint in my room is completely unacceptable. Took off for the Park with Corvis to clear our heads. I am off now for some good Home Despot action. I should probably eat something today; painting is surprisingly labor intensive. If I keep this up, I am sure you, dear Reader, will experience a tale unfold of Dan slowly becoming mentally disfunctional and insane. I felt better -- giddy -- in the open air. Then I walked through the grocery store, shopping in a disconnected state, with a bill 2x my typical large purchases. I'm probably not fully OK to drive. And now there is snow on the ground! Fun fun fun fun fun.
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The Miami Heat are going to the NBA Finals. Bam Adebayo scored a season-high 32 points and grabbed 14 rebounds as the Heat closed out the Eastern Conference Finals in six games, rallying for a 125-113 win over the Celtics.
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Boston took its largest lead of the night at 96-90 before Adebayo and Tyler Herro sparked a 26-6 run that put the Heat in control. Jimmy Butler scored 22 points in earning his first trip to the Finals. Herro finished with 19 points, more than half of it coming down the stretch. Jaylen Brown had a team-high 26 points for the Celtics, who have been eliminated in the East finals three times in the last four seasons. Jayson Tatum had 24 and a career-high 11 assists in the loss, while Marcus Smart and Kemba Walker each scored 20. The Heat square off against the Lakers on Wednesday.
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In NBA news, Minnesota Timberwolves guard Malik Beasley has been jailed on charges of drug possession and receiving and concealing stolen property. The Athletic first reported Beasley's arrest Saturday night at his suburban Minneapolis home. ESPN reported that police obtained a search warrant for the residence after a complaint that Beasley brandished a weapon at a person. Officers found marijuana and guns in the home.
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The Buffalo Bills improved to 3-0 this season despite blowing a 28-3 lead in the second half. Josh Allen hit Tyler Kroft for a three-yard touchdown pass with 15 seconds left to give the Bills a 35-32 win over the Rams. Allen's fourth touchdown pass of the day came after Los Angeles scored 29 consecutive points to go ahead by four. The Rams were poised to match the third-largest comeback in NFL regular season history after Jared Goff led the team to touchdowns on four straight drives, capped by Darrell Henderson's 1-yard run with 4:30 remaining. Los Angeles almost got the ball back on downs in the closing seconds, but a pass interference call gave Buffalo new life.
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## Elsewhere in the NFL:
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Nick Mullens threw for 343 yards and a touchdown to lead the 49ers to their second win at MetLife, 36-9 over the error-prone and winless Giants. Jerick McKinnon, Brandon Aiyuk and Jeff Wilson provided rushing TDs on a near flawless day for the Niners.
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Xavier Rhodes and T.J. Carrie each returned an interception for a touchdown and Philip Rivers added his 400th career TD pass as the Colts clobbered the Jets, 36-7. Rivers moved into fifth on the all-time list for completions, he became the sixth player to amass 60,000 yards passing and also became the sixth QB with 400 TD throws.
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Rex Burkhead scored three touchdowns and Bill Belichick became the third coach in NFL history to reach 275 regular-season victories in the Patriots' 36-20 win over the Raiders. Sony Michel racked up 117 yards on just nine carries and Cam Newton was 17 of 28 passing for 162 yards, a touchdown and an interception for New England.
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Joe Burrow tossed a pair of touchdown passes to Tee Higgins in regulation and Carl Wentz dove into the end zone for the tying score in the final minute as the Bengals and Eagles played to a 23-23 tie on Sunday. Philadelphia's Jake Elliott lined up for a 59-yard field goal with 19 seconds left in overtime, but a false start on Matt Pryor forced the Eagles to punt it away and play for the tie.
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Baker Mayfield threw two touchdown passes, Nick Chubb ran for two more and the Browns moved over .500 for the first time since 2014 with a 34-20 win over Washington. With their second straight win under first-year coach Kevin Stefanski, the Browns are 2-1 for the first time since 2011.
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The Packers are 3-0 after Aaron Rodgers passed for 283 yards and three touchdowns in a 37-30 win at New Orleans. Green Bay receiver Allen Lazard caught six passes for 146 yards and a TD, including gains of 48 and 72 yards on long throws that set up touchdowns.
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Nick Foles replaced Mitchell Trubisky in the third quarter and tossed three touchdown passes over the final 6 1/2 minutes of the Bears' wild 30-26 comeback win over the Falcons. The Bears improved to 3-0 for the first time since 2013 after becoming the latest team to rally from a huge second-half deficit versus Atlanta.
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DK Metcalf made up for a huge first-half blunder by catching a 29-yard touchdown pass from Russell Wilson with 1:47 remaining in the Seahawks' 38-31 victory against the Cowboys. Wilson is the first NFL QB to throw 14 scoring passes in the first three games of a season after tossing five more versus Dallas.
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James Conner ran for 109 yards and the go-ahead touchdown midway through the fourth quarter as the Steelers rallied past Houston, 28-21. The Steelers improved to 3-0 for the first time in a decade by holding the 0-3 Texans under 60 total yards in the second half.
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The Lions ended an 11-game losing streak by stunning the previously-unbeaten Cardinals, 26-23 on Matt Prater's 39-yard field goal as time expired. Matthew Stafford threw two touchdown passes and the Detroit defense picked off Kyler Murray three times.
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The Buccaneers were 28-10 winners over the Broncos behind Tom Brady's three scoring strikes. Former Bronco Shaq Barrett celebrated his return to Denver with a pair of sacks, one for a safety.
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Stephen Gostkowski made his career-high sixth field goal of game, a 55-yarder with 1:48 left that lifted undefeated Tennessee to a 31-30 victory over the Vikings. Derrick Henry rushed for 119 yards and two third-quarter touchdowns while Ryan Tannehill passed for 321 yards for another comeback after trailing most of the game.
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Carolina's defense forced three Chargers' turnovers and Joey Slye kicked five field goals in the Panthers 21-16 victory near Los Angeles. Teddy Bridgewater was 22 of 28 for 235 yards and a touchdown in helping the Panthers end a 10-game losing streak.
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Authorities say Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana and his wife confronted a home intruder who attempted to kidnap their 9-month-old grandchild over the weekend in California. After a tussle, law enforcement officials say Jennifer Montana pried the baby out of the woman's arms.
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The Raiders are being investigated by the NFL for allowing an unauthorized person in the locker room following the team's home opener. A person familiar with the investigation tells The Associated Press that the employee entered the Raiders locker room without a credential following Monday night's 34-24 win over New Orleans.
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The Patriots have placed starting center David Andrews and rookie linebacker Josh Uche on injured reserve. Andrews sat out practice all week with a hand injury and Uche was hampered by a foot injury.
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There are a host of changes in The Associated Press football poll after several conferences changed course and elected to play a season. Ohio State, Penn State and Oregon returned to The Associated Press college football poll on Sunday, weeks before they start playing. Clemson remained No. 1 with 55 first-place votes, followed by Alabama at No. 2 with three first-place votes. Third-ranked Florida is just ahead of Georgia and Notre Dame, while Ohio State, Auburn, Miami, Texas and Penn State round out the top 10. Oregon is 14th. Defending champion LSU and Oklahoma both took tumbles in the poll. LSU fell from 6th to 17th, and the Sooners dropped from third to 16th. | |
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Today I had a 10:30 appointment with a phycologist for clearance to proceed with the treatment. I started out by telling her that my story may be a new one for her. She later told me that when I said that she thought… No way… Well, way!
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I’m pretty sure most of is that have lost loved ones in tragedies such as 9/11 are capable of handling the unknown in ways that others don’t understand . For me, I try to stay prepared for the parts of a situation that are known. Sometimes that causes me to try and control the uncontrollable. Thankfully when that happens, I have a plethora of loved ones to pull me back. Apparently, that is very healthy… Who knew. I told her of my fiancé and father in laws loss on 9/11, I told her of my mothers battle and conquering of esophageal cancer, my best friend destroying the leukemia that tried to take her (you go Jen), my adoption of Rosie and my diagnosis of MS. I told her of each medication that failed and how I sought out a way to end the life altering side effects. I told her of the family and friends that support and help me everyday. She sat there as most do with her mouth open as I spoke. She said your story is both tragic and uplifting. I said my story is just one filled with blessings. At the end she told me to write a book. I think that means I am cleared. She was an lovely woman and I am very glad I had the chance to meet with her.
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More to come later as I meet with Dr Burt for the final clearance at 3:00. Please pray all goes well. I have come so close to turn back now.
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For the first time in my composing career, I hit a writer’s block some months ago which made me decide to put aside my proposed second violin concerto and have a break. After a vacation in UK (May/June 2015) and on returning to the US I felt able to compose again but decided to embark on something altogether different – a sonata for cello and piano. This is proceeding really well and quickly. The first movement is complete and the second is almost finished. I feel two more movements will be appropriate.
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Delighted to say I have just completed my first attempt at a string trio, a difficult genre necessitating the discipline of composing without the resources a second violin offers. Feel I have been successful and am very pleased with it.
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I’ve now moved on to a second violin concerto, an exciting prospect.
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Dear Pippa Biddle,
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I recently saw your blog post about “voluntourism” and it irritated me enough to want to respond. I promise to talk about myself and my experiences as much as you did, and maybe together we can make some kind of conclusion – a part of writing that you kind of skipped out on.
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In high school, I travelled to Tanzania as part of a school trip. There were 14 white girls, 1 black girl who, to her frustration, was called white by almost everyone we met in Tanzania, and a few teachers/chaperones.
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Ah, okay. This is the obligatory sentence about the evils of whitey that justifies the headline. Well, in high school I worked almost full time at Alexandria Buick Pontiac GMC. I was one of the only white people in the dealership, FWIW.
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$3000 bought us a week at an orphanage, a half built library, and a few pickup soccer games, followed by a week long safari.
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$3000 would probably have bought my friends and me a shit ton of Grey Goose and maybe a weeklong beach trip. However, my public high school definitely taught me I shouldn’t start sentences with dollar signs. This isn’t a Ke$ha song.
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Our mission while at the orphanage was to build a library.
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My mission at Buick was to build a better car buying experience.
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Turns out that we, a group of highly educated private boarding school students were so bad at the most basic construction work that each night the men had to take down the structurally unsound bricks we had laid and rebuild the structure so that, when we woke up in the morning, we would be unaware of our failure. It is likely that this was a daily ritual. Us mixing cement and laying bricks for 6+ hours, them undoing our work after the sun set, re-laying the bricks, and then acting as if nothing had happened so that the cycle could continue.
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Turns out that I, as a high school student who skipped math and psych class regularly, was not qualified to save GM from going bankrupt.
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Look, Pippa, I don’t even know where to start here – likely because your sentence was so fucking long I got confused.
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Turns out that you, as a group of presumably rich high school students with no background in manual labor, weren’t qualified TO FUCKING BUILD HOUSES???? No. Freaking. Way.
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What “men” were doing this?? The men that organized your trip? Local men that worked alongside you? I don’t know, because you never tell us.
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And how do you know that this was happening? Your only evidence is that you were unaware and “it [was] likely.” That isn’t exactly the strongest argument I’ve ever heard.
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Basically, we failed at the sole purpose of our being there. It would have been more cost effective, stimulative of the local economy, and efficient for the orphanage to take our money and hire locals to do the work, but there we were trying to build straight walls without a level.
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Basically, if your sole purpose of volunteer work is to build a structure and not to have a lasting impact on people’s lives, you’re doing it wrong.
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Basically, if your sole purpose was to do something you had no experience doing, you’re ridiculously naïve.
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Basically, if your budget was such shit that no one bought a level, you should really take this up with the organization that sent you.
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That same summer, I started working in the Dominican Republic at a summer camp I helped organize for HIV+ children. Within days, it was obvious that my rudimentary Spanish set me so far apart from the local Dominican staff that I might as well have been an alien.
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So you went to Tanzania to build a library, and then you went to the Dominican Republic to help HIV+ children? You don’t speak Spanish, and I assume you don’t speak Swahili (what the hell did your fancy education even get you?). Where is the consistency or your passion? You’ve made it clear that helping people wasn’t your priority in Tanzania…just building a library. You don’t bring skilled work to the table, you don’t have a medical background, you don’t speak another language…why aren’t you picking a region you care about or a task you care about and focusing on that?
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My background is in Arabic. I majored in it in college (along with Middle East Studies), and I minored in French. I continue my education now with conferences and independent research on the region. I have many friends from the region, and I’ve traveled extensively. I have an understanding of certain countries and their cultures (Lebanon, Syria, Pakistan) from my studies, my travels, and my friends. If I had the ability, I would go to Lebanon and help out with Syrian refugees, even if just for a week…but I likely wouldn’t do any volunteer work in Tanzania or the Dominican Republic.
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However, I have stopped attending having finally accepting that my presence is not the godsend I was coached by non-profits, documentaries, and service programs to believe it would be.
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This is the only sentence in your entire post that you place blame in the correct place.
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It turns out that I, a little white girl, am good at a lot of things. I am good at raising money, training volunteers, collecting items, coordinating programs, and telling stories. I am flexible, creative, and able to think on my feet. On paper I am, by most people’s standards, highly qualified to do international aid. But I shouldn’t be.
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It turns out that you, as a little white girl, aren’t actually listing any qualities that would make you good at volunteering in developing nations. The Peace Corps has its fair share of problems, but I would wager it’s considered the standard for international volunteer work…and what you just named has nothing to do with what they’re looking for. Instead, they list things like “those with specialized skills” and “Spanish or French” speaking abilities. Last I checked honkies can speak French and have specialized skills. Even the little folk. Even the ones with vaginas.
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Before you sign up for a volunteer trip anywhere in the world this summer, consider whether you possess the skill set necessary for that trip to be successful. If yes, awesome. If not, it might be a good idea to reconsider your trip. Sadly, taking part in international aid where you aren’t particularly helpful is not benign. It’s detrimental. It slows down positive growth and perpetuates the “white savior” complex that, for hundreds of years, has haunted both the countries we are trying to ‘save’ and our (more recently) own psyches.
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Pippa, why is your only blame on the people who just want to help? Why is your knee jerk reaction to talk about white savior complexes, instead of focusing on the crappy organizations that accept these kids into their programs? The organizations that don’t make an effort to match people up with something that they could actually connect to? At NO POINT here have you backed up your claims of white people being the problem. I suppose on your little high school trip the black girl rocked it and was totally effective? If not, how can you call this white savior complex? How do you explain her? What the fuck issues do you have?
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I’m sorry you didn’t find whatever you were looking for on your trips, and I’m sorry that your private boarding school didn’t produce a better writer. | |
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About Standard Large AC Rooms
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These rooms have a pool or garden view from their attached balcony or garden terrace.
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Facilities at Standard Large AC RoomsAir Conditioned Room, Hot and Cold Running Water, In-room Refrigerator, Private Balcony/Verandah, Safe, TV with cable connection in each rooms.
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Max:Price starts:₹ 6300
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About Superior Rooms
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The rooms on the ground floor have garden terraces, the upper floor rooms have attached balconies.
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Some of them are in the main building, some further away in the property. All have king size beds
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Facilities at Superior RoomsAir Conditioned Room, Hot and Cold Running Water, In-room Refrigerator, Private Balcony/Verandah, Safe, TV with cable connection in each rooms.
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Max:Price starts:₹ 8800
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About Superior Garden Cottages
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These cottages are in the garden closest to the beach. They have a sit out and bedroom with queen size bed
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Facilities at Superior Garden CottagesAir Conditioned Room, Hot and Cold Running Water, In-room Refrigerator, Private Balcony/Verandah, Safe, TV with cable connection in each rooms.
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Make the Upscale Beach Resort at Calangute your home to enjoy the best of the Goan sun, sand, and sea.
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Goa turns a dull day into a party with its positive vibes and, of course, its beaches. You can never have enough of this little coastal state and will find enough reasons to keep coming back again. Although it is culturally divided into two parts, the touristy North Goa and the historically rich South Goa, the entire length and breadth of the state offers what you’re looking for — a relaxed and laid back holiday. The Upscale Beach Resort at Calangute is the perfect place to unwind during your holiday in Goa. It is located right on the Calangute Beach, yet away from the maddening crowds. The private beach experience that the resort offers will appeal to the sea lovers while the lush garden leading up to the beach is enough to seal the deal for a nature lover. The anytime access to the beach and the sea makes this resort popular among vacationers in Goa.
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The foundation of this family-owned resort dates back to 1986. Since then, the Upscale Beach Resort at Calangute has been pampering its guests with the little luxuries. The property features exclusive sunbeds reserved only for those staying at the resort. You might not want to vacate one, thanks to the 24/7 sea views. The resort also features artifacts, such as statues of Buddha and also laughing Buddha. The in-house multi-cuisine restaurant at the resort offers scrumptious a la carte menu and special homemade desserts. What else would you need to add zest to your beach holidays?
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There are more than 100 rooms divided into three types of accommodation at the Upscale Beach Resort at Calangute —Standard AC rooms, Standard large AC rooms, and Superior AC rooms. While most of these rooms offer breath-taking views of the garden, sea-facing, and pool-facing rooms are also available. Each of these rooms is equipped with all the essential amenities you might need during your stay, including a fridge and a TV. Besides these room categories, the property also has Garden Cottages and Beach Garden Cottages. From well-appointed rooms and lip-smacking cuisines to fabulous views and first-rate amenities, the property has everything to spoil you silly during your holiday.
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- Breakfast (buffet)
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- All applicable taxes
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- Extra occupancy charges apply for extra children above 6 years and extra adults.
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- Lunch, dinner, and other food and beverages
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Terms & Conditions
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- The check-in time is 1 PM and check-out time is 11 AM.
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- Bookings should be for minimum 2 nights
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- Early check-in and check-out are subject to availability.
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- Smoking allowed only in balconies.
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- Friends of guests, outside food, and pets are not allowed. | |
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I was eleven years old when my mother enrolled me in the Boy Scouts of America. There was a Troop at my elementary school, and eleven was the minimum age to become a Tenderfoot Scout, the beginning rank in the Scouts at the time I joined. I don’t recall asking my mother if I could join the Scouts. I’m not even sure if I knew they existed. But I think it was part of my mother’s efforts to socialize me. At about the same time, she signed me up for Little League baseball as well.
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My scouting career was brief. I went camping once, and also attended a regional meeting where boys received their merit badges. The problem was that I could not get the hang of knot tying, an essential requirement of scout-craft. As I recall, there were three knots I needed to learn: the square knot, the clove hitch, and the half hitch. One thing, however, from my short time in the Scouts, has stayed with me, the Scout Motto: “Be Prepared.” For some reason, the idea resonated with me.
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Once Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts, was asked for what should a Boy Scout be prepared. He replied: “Why, for any old thing.” It’s a surprising answer when you think about it. Is it possible to be prepared for “any old thing?”
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My favorite book when I was a child, and still my favorite book, my comfort book, is Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days. I re-read it every couple of years. I’ve read it aloud to my wife, who seemed to enjoy it enormously. To her, I read the annotated “The Whole Story” edition published by Viking with illustrations by Jame’s Prunier. (Prunier spells his first name with the apostrophe).
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I think I love the book so much because its main character, Phileas Fogg, perfectly exemplifies the idea of always being prepared. The description below is from the translation done by Frederick Paul Walter and is the version I am currently reading.
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Phileas Fogg was one of those mathematically correct people who are never in a rush, always prepared, economical in their every step and movement. He never took a stride too many and always went by the shortest route. He didn’t stare off into space. He didn’t indulge in unnecessary actions. Nobody ever saw him excited or agitated. He was the least hurried person on earth, yet he always arrived on the dot. Even so, you can appreciate why he lived a solitary existence, an existence free of all social intercourse, as it were. He knew that friction was a part of life, and since friction is time-consuming, he never rubbed anybody the wrong way.Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days, trans. by F. P. Walker
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Oh, how I admire Phileas Fogg! It’s still a fair question, though: Is it possible to be prepared for everything that comes your way?
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After my time in the Army, I spent a couple of years at Mississippi State University studying philosophy before applying to graduate school. It’s tempting when learning philosophy to try on a philosopher’s world-view, to take it for a test drive. I became enamored with the teachings of the late Australian philosopher, D. M. Armstrong. I was drawn especially to his assumption, stated in Sketch for a Systematic Metaphysics, that “all that exists is the space time world, the physical world as we say.” I have to confess, however, that it didn’t fit me at all. My test drive crashed on the rocks of reality. Here’s what happened.
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During a routine physical examination, blood was drawn from me and sent to a lab for analysis. Not long afterward, I received a note from the lab that I found alarming. It said that I needed to make an appointment with my doctor as soon as possible to discuss an anomaly in my blood-test results. Well, I wasn’t prepared for that. All of a sudden, I saw my life slipping away, my body returning to the soil, and me, the most important person alive, descending into an abyss, an extinction — a nothingness. Professor Armstrong’s philosophy slipped from my mind as easily and quickly as clothes come off on the way to a pond in the scorching heat of a Mississippi summer.
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Don’t get me wrong. My reaction had absolutely nothing to say about the truth or falsehood of D. M. Armstrong’s philosophy. It said something only about me, about my inability to use it to be prepared for what everyone faces. Eventually, life will end; my life will end. Pragmatically, if for no other reason, I needed to find a different philosophy, a way of life that would help me prepare for the end of my life, odd as that sounds.
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There is an astonishingly beautiful passage in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Act V, Scene 2. It is a dialogue between Hamlet and his friend Horatio concerning Hamlet’s upcoming fencing match with Laertes.
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You will lose this wager, my lord. |
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