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Legal Resources/Other
Going out of Business
Kentucky Laws on Going Out of Business/Fire/Moving/Lost Our Lease Sales
365.410 Definitions
As used in KRS 365.410 to 365.480 and 365.992:
(1) "Going out of business sale" means any sale, whether described by such name or by any other name such as, but not limited to, "closing out sale," "liquidation sale," "lost our lease sale," "forced to vacate sale," held in such a manner as to induce a belief that upon disposal of the stock of goods on hand, the business will cease and discontinue at the premises where the sale is conducted.
(2) "Sale" means a transfer of goods from the seller to the buyer for a price less than that for which the goods were originally offered to the public by the person conducting a sale hereunder.
(3) "Fire sale" means any sale held in such a manner as to induce a belief that the goods are being sold at a reduction in price due to damage by fire, smoke, water or otherwise.
(4) "Cost" means that price which the seller actually paid for goods.
(5) "Goods" means all goods, wares, merchandise and other personal property, excepting choses in action and money.
(6) "Person" includes a person, firm, corporation, partnership, association or two (2) or more persons having a joint or common interest.
(7) "Removal sale" means any sale held in such a manner as to induce a belief that upon disposal of the stock of goods on hand, the business will cease and discontinue at the premises where the sale is conducted, and thereafter will be moved to and occupy another location.
365.415 License requirement for fire, removal, and certain other sales
No person shall advertise, represent or hold out to the public that any sale of goods is an insurance, bankruptcy, mortgage foreclosure, insolvent's, assignee's, executor's, administrator's, receiver's, trustee's, removal sale, going out of business sale or fire sale unless he first obtains a license to conduct the sale from the county clerk of the county in which he proposes to conduct the sale.
365.420 Application for license; bond
Any person proposing to conduct any sale governed by KRS 365.410 to 365.480 and 365.992 shall file an application in writing and under oath with the county clerk setting out the following facts and information regarding the proposed sale:
(1) The name and address of the applicant for the license, who shall be the owner of the goods to be sold. If the applicant is a partnership, corporation, firm, or association, the name, position, and address of all partners or officers, the address of the principal office within the state, the date and place of incorporation or organization, and whether controlling interest in the firm or business was transferred within the twelve (12) months prior to the date of the filing of the application.
(2) The name and style in which the sale is to be conducted, and the address of the premises where the sale is to be conducted.
(3) The dates and period of time during which the sale is to be conducted.
(4) The name and address of the person who will be in charge and responsible for the conduct of the sale.
(5) The nature of the occupancy where the sale is to be held, whether by lease or otherwise, and the effective date of termination of the occupancy.
(6) A full explanation with regard to the condition or necessity which is the occasion for the sale, including a statement of the descriptive name of the sale and the reasons why the name is truthfully descriptive of the sale. If the application is for a license to conduct a removal sale, it shall also contain a statement setting forth the location of the premises to which the business is to be moved. If the application is for a license to conduct a fire sale, it shall contain a statement as to the time, location and cause of the damage.
(7) A full, detailed and complete inventory of the goods that are to be sold, which inventory shall:
(a) Itemize the goods to be sold and contain sufficient information concerning each item or class of items, to clearly identify them. That information shall include, but not be limited to, the quantity, make, brand name, model, and manufacturer's number, if applicable. The itemization shall be set out in forms prescribed by the Attorney General pursuant to administrative regulation. The Attorney General may design a particularized form to be used for businesses that because of their nature or the type of merchandise offered or sold are better suited to the use of a specialized form.
(b) List separately any goods which were purchased during a ninety (90) day period immediately prior to the date of making application for the license.
(c) Show the cost of each item or class of items of goods and the total retail value of the inventory, together with the name and address of the seller or supplier of the items to the applicant, the date of the purchase, and the date of the delivery of each item to the applicant. The cost listed shall conform with the costs listed on the inventory used for the applicant's most recent federal income tax return adjusted for sales and purchases; and
(8) Provide a good and sufficient bond, payable to the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the penal sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000), with sureties approved by the court judge, conditioned on compliance with KRS 365.410 to 365.480 and 365.992 and, attached to the bond, a verified statement by the owner or his duly authorized agent:
(a) That the sale is for the purpose designated in the advertising of the sale;
(b) That the inventory contains no goods on consignment or not purchased in the usual course of business for resale, on bona fide orders without cancellation or return privileges;
(c) That no goods will be added to the inventory after the application is made or during the sale;
(d) That the applicant or any person with whom the applicant is or has been associated in the business has not conducted a going out of business sale at the same location within two (2) years prior to the date of filing of the application;
(e) That no means have been established by the applicant for continuation of the business at the same location upon termination of the sale in the case of a going out of business sale; and the business described in such going out of business sale is to be discontinued upon termination of the sale and is not to be continued by the same person, directly or indirectly, by partnership, corporation, or otherwise, under the same name or under a different name at the same location for which the inventory for the sale was filed;
(f) That no goods listed in the inventory have been the subject of a licensed sale conducted within one (1) year prior to the date of the application, unless they were damaged by fire, smoke, or water while in the possession of the applicant.
365.425 Approval of Cabinet for Health and Family Services required
No application for a going-out-of-business sale shall be accepted by the county clerk if the sale involves foods or drugs damaged by fire or other casualty unless the approval of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services has first been obtained.
365.430 Issuance of license; scope of authorization
(1) The clerk, upon receipt of an application giving fully and completely the information under oath as required by KRS 365.420 and upon receipt of the fee provided for in KRS 365.445, shall issue a license to the applicant, authorizing the applicant to advertise, represent, and sell the particular goods so inventoried at the time and place stated in the application and in true accordance with the provisions of KRS 365.410 to 365.480 and 365.992. The license shall be issued in duplicate and shall bear a number and date of its expiration. A license issued under KRS 365.410 to 365.480 and 365.992 shall be granted and valid only for the sale of the inventoried goods which are the property of the licensee. The license shall apply only to the premises specified in the application, and it may not be transferred or assigned. If a licensee under KRS 365.410 to 365.480 and 365.992 is engaged in business in other locations, advertising or offering of goods on behalf of the other locations shall not represent or imply any participation in or cooperation with the sale on the premises specified in the license, nor shall any advertising or other offering of goods on behalf of the premises where the licensed sale is being conducted represent or imply any participation in or cooperation with the sale at other locations. No license under KRS 365.410 to 365.480 and 365.992 shall be issued to any person:
(a) To conduct a sale in the trade name or style of a person in whose goods the applicant for the license has acquired a right or title thereto within twelve (12) months prior to the time of making application for the license.
(b) To continue a sale in the name of a licensee under KRS 365.410 to 365.480 and 365.992 whose goods the applicant acquired a right or title while the sale is in progress.
(2) Paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (1) shall not apply to any person who has acquired a right, title, or interest in goods as an heir, devisee, or legatee or pursuant to an order or process of a court of competent jurisdiction.
365.435 Record of licenses; refusal of license, appeal
Every clerk to whom application is made, shall indorse upon the application the date of its filing, shall preserve the same as a record of his office, and shall make an abstract of the facts set forth in the application in a book kept for that purpose, properly indexed, containing the name of the person asking such license, the nature of the proposed sale, the place where the sale is to be conducted, its duration, the inventory of the goods to be sold and a general statement as to where the same came from and shall make in the book a notation as to the issuance or refusal of the license applied for together with the date of the same. The clerk shall indorse on the application the date the license is granted or refused, and the application and abstract shall be prima facie evidence of all statements therein contained. If the county clerk refuses to issue the license, the applicant may apply to the county judge/executive for a hearing. The clerk shall notify the county attorney who shall appear in opposition to the issuance of the license.
365.440 Bond held three years, surrendered when
Every bond given in connection with any sale under KRS 365.410 to 365.480 and 365.992 shall be kept by the county clerk of the county in which the sale is conducted until the expiration of three (3) years from the final date of the sale as filed, and shall then be surrendered to the principal if he has so requested, otherwise to one (1) of the sureties. If at the expiration of three (3) years the clerk has reason to believe a pending court action relates to the bond, he shall retain the bond until final disposition of the action.
365.445 Duration of license; renewal; fee
A license to conduct a sale issued pursuant to KRS 365.410 to 365.480 and 365.992 shall not be issued or valid for a period of more than thirty (30) days from the start of the sale, and the sale may be conducted only during the period set forth in the license. The license may be renewed not more than once for a period not to exceed thirty (30) days upon affidavit of the licensee that all of the goods listed in the inventory have not been disposed of and that no new goods have been or will be added to the inventory previously filed pursuant to KRS 365.410 to 365.480 and 365.992, by purchase, acquisition on consignment or otherwise. The application for renewal of the license shall be made not more than thirteen (13) days prior to the time of the expiration of the license and shall contain a new inventory of goods remaining on hand at the time the application for renewal is made, which new inventory shall be prepared and furnished in the same manner and form as the original inventory. No renewal shall be granted if any goods have been added to the stock listed in the inventory since the date of the issuance of the license. A fee of twenty-five dollars ($25) shall accompany an application for the license and for each renewal of a license.
365.447 Limitation on acquisition of permits for going out of business sales
An individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other firm shall not acquire more than two (2) going out of business sale permits during a four (4) year period, excluding renewals awarded pursuant to KRS 365.445, unless the Attorney General determines after investigation that there is a legitimate business purpose for awarding the applicant a subsequent permit. The Attorney General may charge the applicant the cost of the investigation. The Attorney General shall promulgate administrative regulations setting out the application to be used, the procedures to be followed, and the charges to be assessed the applicant to initiate and conduct the investigation. The procedures to be used shall include a process that meets due process requirements, including an administrative hearing conducted in accordance with KRS Chapter 13B.
365.455 Posting of application for license; advertising regulations
A copy of the application for a license to conduct a sale under KRS 365.410 to 365.480 and 365.992, including the inventory filed herewith, shall be posted in a conspicuous place in the sales room or place where the inventoried goods are to be sold, so that the public may be informed of the facts relating to the goods before purchasing same, but the copy need not show the cost price of the goods. The duplicate copy of a license shall be attached to the front door of the premises where the sale is conducted in such a manner that it be clearly visible from the street. All advertising relating to the sale shall prominently state the final date of the sale and the number of the license. All such advertising shall be confined to or refer only to the address and place of business specified in the inventory as to be discontinued.
365.460 Removal of goods from licensed premises; effect
Any removal of the goods included in an application from the place of sale mentioned in the application shall cause the goods to become disqualified for inclusion in a going out of business sale, removal sale or fire sale and no license thereafter shall be issued for the conducting of a sale of any of such removed goods at any other place or places.
365.465 Additions to stock for purpose of sale prohibited; evidence
No person proposing to conduct an insurance, bankruptcy, mortgage foreclosure, insolvent's, assignee's, executor's, administrator's, receiver's, trustee's, removal sale, going out of business sale, or fire sale under a license as provided in KRS 365.410 to 365.480 and 365.992 shall order any goods for the purpose of selling and disposing of the same at the sale. Any abnormal purchase and additions to the stock of goods within ninety (90) days prior to the filing of the application for a license to conduct the sale shall be presumptive evidence that the purchases and additions to stock were made in contemplation of the sale and for the purpose of selling the same at the sale.
365.475 Law inapplicable to judicial or farm sales
The provisions of KRS 365.410 to 365.480 and 365.992 shall not apply to sheriffs, constables, or other public or court officers, or to any other person or persons acting under the direction or authority of any court, state or federal, selling goods, wares or merchandise in the course of their official duties. Nor shall the provisions of KRS 365.410 to 365.480 and 365.992 apply to any bona fide farmer who holds any complete or partial dispersement sale of any land, farm machinery, livestock or any other farm implements or produce.
365.480 Injunctive relief; civil penalty
(1) The Attorney General may enforce the provisions of KRS 365.410 to 365.480 and 365.992 by civil action for injunctive relief in any court of competent jurisdiction. In such action to obtain said injunction it shall be sufficient to allege and prove that a violation of KRS 365.410 to 365.480 and 365.992 has occurred or is about to occur, and it shall not be necessary to allege or prove that any person has been misled or deceived by any advertisement or sale, or that any person has been damaged or sustained any loss as a result of any violation of KRS 365.410 to 365.480 and 365.992.
(2) When KRS 365.410 to 365.480 and 365.992 are enforced by the Attorney General through civil action, he may ask for and the court may assess a civil penalty for the benefit of the Commonwealth, not to exceed the sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000), said civil penalty to be in lieu of all penalties set forth in KRS 365.992.


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Q: DocuSign Embedded Sending - Link in Email Message I am using the DocuSign Embedded Sending interface.
In the Email Blurb, I want to add in a link for example:
Sample Link

However, after the setup, the interface changes the blurb setup from string to HTML and what appears under the DocuSign embedded interface is the following:
<a href='http://www.yahoo.com'>Sample Link </a>

Is there anyway I can escape the special characters for the embedded interface?

A: I believe it's possible to achieve what you're trying to achieve (i.e., add HTML to email blurb via API), but you'll have to ask DocuSign to enable a setting for your account. The setting you want them to enable is called Allow HTML input in the API.
Contact either your DocuSign Account Manager (if you have one) or DocuSign Support (if you don't have an Account Manager), to ask that the ability to insert HTML into notification emails be enabled for your DocuSign account (Allow HTML input in the API). If you contact Support (support@docusign.com), be sure to provide your account number and tell them which environment (demo or prod) the account resides in.

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""" Compute the induced Category of a Category.

Induced category of a category C is a category created to describe
images of category C.
"""

import mw_util
import MySQLdb
from _mysql_exceptions import OperationalError

import mwclient

NAMESPACE = {'image': 6, 'category': 14}

class DatabaseException(Exception):
    pass

class CategoryInduced:

    def __init__(self, category):
        self.category = category.replace(" ", "_").decode('utf-8')
        # mwclient
        self.site = mwclient.Site('commons.wikimedia.org')
        # results
        self.categories = []
        self.first_images = []
        # db
        self.init_database_connection()
        # TODO: prendre que des images
        self.query = """SELECT page.page_title
FROM page
JOIN categorylinks ON page.page_id = categorylinks.cl_from
WHERE categorylinks.cl_to = %s AND categorylinks.cl_type = "file"
ORDER BY categorylinks.cl_timestamp ASC
LIMIT 1;"""

    def init_database_connection(self):
        """Initialise the connection to the database."""
        try:
            host = "commonswiki.labsdb"
            self.db = MySQLdb.connect(host=host,
                                      db="commonswiki_p",
                                      read_default_file="~/replica.my.cnf",
                                      charset='utf8')
            self.cursor = self.db.cursor()
        except OperationalError:
            raise DatabaseException("Could not connect to host %s" % host)

    def list_category(self):
        """ Returns List categories inside self.category. """
        cat = self.site.Categories[self.category.replace('Category:', '')]
        subcats = [category.name for category in cat
                   if category.namespace == NAMESPACE['category']]
        return set(subcats)

    def first_image(self, category):
        self.catsql = category.replace("Category:", "").replace(" ", "_")
        self.cursor.execute(self.query, self.catsql)
        cat_content = self.catsql.encode('utf-8')
        first_content = [x[0].decode('utf-8') for x in self.cursor.fetchall()]
        res = [cat_content, first_content]
        return res

    def list_images(self):
        """List of images of self.categoryname"""
        cat = self.site.Categories[self.category.replace('Category:', '')]
        return [image.name for image in cat
                if image.namespace == NAMESPACE['category']]

    def update(self, props, lastContinue):
        for p in lastContinue:
            props[p] = lastContinue[p]

    def induce_categories(self):
        self.categories = self.list_category()
        first_images = [self.first_image(x) for x in self.categories]
        first_images.sort()
        self.images = [x.decode('utf-8')[5:].replace(" ", "_")
                       for x in self.list_images()]
        self.images_count = len(self.images)
        self.result = [first_images[x][0] for x in range(len(first_images))
                       if (len(first_images[x][1]) > 0 and
                           first_images[x][1][0] in self.images)]
        self.result.sort()
        self.results_count = len(self.result)
        self.categories_traversed_count = len(first_images)

    def print_report(self):
        print("--------------------first images--------------------")
        print("%s categories to check" % self.categories_traversed_count)
        print("----------------------images------------------------")
        print("%s images" % self.images_count)
        print("----------------------result------------------------")
        print("%s new categories created" % self.results_count)
        print(self.result)

def main():
    from argparse import ArgumentParser
    description = "Computes metrics about a commons category"
    parser = ArgumentParser(description=description)
    parser.add_argument("-c", "--category",
                        type=str,
                        dest="category",
                        metavar="CAT",
                        required=True,
                        help="The category on which we compute metrics")
    args = parser.parse_args()
    category = mw_util.str2cat(args.category)
    ci = CategoryInduced(category)
    ci.induce_categories()
    ci.print_report()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

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4 dead after Virgin Islands helicopter crash
The aircraft went down near Botany Bay on the U.S. Virgin Island of St. Thomas.
Four people were killed after a private helicopter crashed Monday afternoon near Botany Bay on St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands, according to local authorities.
"There was only 4 passengers on board from our information," Daryl George, Director of the Virgin Islands Fire Services, wrote in an email to NBC News on Tuesday afternoon.
Richard Motta, communications director for the Government of the U.S. Virgin Islands, said Tuesday morning that a fifth person was listed on the flight manifest and was feared missing, but George confirmed later that the person was not on the flight.
A swimmer told the Virgin Islands Daily News they saw plumes of black smoke and smelled a chemical odor coming from the hill where the chopper crashed Monday afternoon.
According to a statement from the Antilles School, a private pre-K-12 school located on St. Thomas, the crash killed senior Tyler Yannone, his parents Daniel Yannone and Neisha Zahn, and another parent whose children previously attended the school. The school identified the parent as Maria Rodriguez.
"Our heartfelt thoughts and prayers are with each family member and loved one affected by this devastating loss," Antilles communications director Ananta Pancham said, adding the school was closed Tuesday and that additional grief resources would be provided in coming days.
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Home > Sports > Football
Suns leading 2-0 in Western Conference semis
The Phoenix Suns' Amare Stoudemire goes in for a dunk against the San Antonio Spurs during the second quarter of game two on May 5. [AP]
PHOENIX, Arizona - The Phoenix Suns shrugged off a sluggish start to beat the San Antonio Spurs 110-102 Wednesday, protecting their home court as they took a 2-0 lead in their NBA Western Conference semifinal playoff series.
Amare Stoudemire was just five-of-16 from the field but finished with 23 points and 11 rebounds, and Channing Frye connected on five of six three-point attempts for the Suns, who played in their Orange "Los Suns" jerseys in honor of the Cinco de Mayo holiday and in protest of Arizona's controversial new immigration law.
Steve Nash and Jason Richardson scored 19 points each and Grant Hill chipped in 18 for the Suns, who had to grind at the Spurs' pace until they started hitting from long range.
The Suns started just one of seven from three-point range, but then made eight of 12.
Tim Duncan had 29 points and 10 rebounds and Tony Parker added 20 points for the Spurs.
George Hill again got the nod as San Antonio's starting point guard with Parker coming off the bench. Parker then started the second half and played a total of 36 minutes.
The best-of-seven series shifts to San Antonio for game three tonight.
"To me it was a great team victory," Suns coach Alvin Gentry said, but added: "At the end of the day, we really haven't done anything except exactly what we're supposed to do, which is hold serve at home."
San Antonio's Manu Ginobili made only two of eight from the field - just one of two in the second half - although he handed out 11 assists.
San Antonio out-shot Phoenix 51 percent to 42 percent, but the Suns out-rebounded the Spurs 49-37, and led in offensive rebounds 18-7.
Phoenix trailed the whole first half, but managed to even the score 51-51 at the break.
Nash credited reserve Jared Dudley for boosting the Suns' energy level with a rebounding performance that included four offensive rebounds among his six total.
"Jared, I thought, was the player of the game," Nash said. "He came in and got a bunch of offensive rebounds, hustle plays."
Spurs coach Gregg Popovich agreed.
"I thought in first half that Jared Dudley changed the whole game," Popovich said. "He came in and he was a monster. He was committed to the board and it was infectious."
Popovich said Frye had the same effect in the second half.
"If he's going to make those threes, that really makes their spacing work," Popovich said. "They were contested - he might have had one that was open - and he knocked them down."
The Suns led 78-76 heading into the fourth quarter.
Stoudemire scored six points in an 8-1 scoring run that saw the Suns take a 103-92 lead with 3:34 remaining.
Parker drained a three-pointer and Duncan dunked off a rebound to trim the deficit to 103-97 with less than three minutes left, but Nash and Richardson responded with baskets to squash any chance of a Spurs rally.
"Every time they needed a shot it seemed like it went down for them," Duncan said.
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Our commitment to higher education "without sectarian or ideological bias," has never changed though our name has:
The National Council of Schools of Religion (1922-1924)
The National Council on Religion in Higher Education (1924-1962)
Society for Religion in Higher Education (1962-1973)
Society for Values in Higher Education (SVHE) (1973-present)
In 1921, Charles Foster Kent, Yale University's Woolsey Professor of Biblical Literature, visited six large secular and state universities. Returning with some dismay, he proposed to prominent friends the need for more and better-trained teachers of religion. Out of his concern, the National Council of Schools of Religion was incorporated in 1922 and granted, the following year, nine fellowships for graduate study in religion.
In 1923, the group of Fellows (re)incorporated under the name of The National Council on Religion in Higher Education with the objective of promoting inquiry into values in higher education. Their goals were "to initiate and support projects and the collection of data bearing upon" the resources that higher educational institutions can direct toward such values inquiry, "to act as a facilitating agency in the enlistment, selection, and professional growth of teachers and other leaders in colleges and universities."
In 1924, twenty-two more fellowships [a.k.a. "Kent Fellowships"] were awarded to a group which included three women. Thus, from the beginning, both genders have been recognized and diversity has been a means to, as well as a goal, the fellowship.
In 1934, at a time of national economic depression, the Board of Directors' minutes read "The Council has survived, has kept its morale, and dares to have plans for the future….We have had to discover what our place is in the life of our times….We are a fellowship that believes in the values of holding together, in a process of fruitful exchange of beliefs and convictions among persons of widely diverse viewpoints and backgrounds…We attach great value to understanding and to mind meeting mind…We are trying to develop and foster the growth of teachers who are intellectually and technically equipped and productive in their own fields, who have paid the price of hard work and discipline and who are expert in the guidance of youth."
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#40 - How to choose the best benefits package for remote teams
If companies want to retain the best talent and attract the best talent, you have to trust that this talent also knows how they want to be treated.
Head of Revenue at SafetyWing
Lona Alia
About Lona
Lona is a remote work advocate and an expert in building remote teams. She is a passionate start-ups advisor, and advisor to the European Union for innovation. Lona will bring her expertise on how insurance works for digital nomads, and how companies can support their employees to work from anywhere in the world.
How to choose the best benefits package for remote teams
Work environments have changed tremendously in the past couple of years, and the COVID-19 pandemic has done a fair bit to kickstart a new remote work movement. Today, employers have to rethink their benefit packages to match the new needs of employees - and that's exactly what Lona Alia, Head of Revenue at Safetywing, is here to talk about today.
She joins host Sandra from a family friendly co-working space in Portugal to discuss how Safetywing chooses which benefits to offer, how to find the right benefit strategy for globally distributed teams, and what companies can do to identify the right and the wrong types of benefits.
Website: https://safetywing.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lonaalia/
Boundless | https://www.boundless.life/
Lano Blog: 7 benefits employer should offer in 2022
More information: 80 benefits for remote employees
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with Lona Alia, Head of Revenue at Safetywing
Sandra Redlich 00:53
Thanks for taking the time to speak with me today. Where are you joining from?
Lona Alia 00:57
Thank you so much, Sandra. I'm joining from Sintra, Portugal, It's a quaint town, about 30 minutes away from Lisbon. I'm here with my family. I have two kids, one is 4 and one is 2, and my husband. We've been doing this nomadic life for the last four years. And we found a company called Boundless Life where they help kind of like work from anywhere families with the logistics, with schooling. So we're in this like community of other families with kids that are living the life of travel exploration around the world.
That sounds really helpful that you would have someone there that helps you take care of your kids, but also helps you and enables you to do your job and focus on on that part of your life as well.
Yes, Sandra 100%. I've been doing this on my own for the last four years. Basically we figure out, you know, the Airbnb, where do we go, the schooling system locally. And then we have to quickly get the kids into the local system, which usually works pretty well. But still, it's very stressful because you don't have a plan. Whereas with boundless, they will give you a home, they will give you cleaning once a week, they have the education center, which is really cool. And they also have all these activities for kids - and also for adults, I had yoga this morning. You have, you know, these things, you can go to the beach, there are so many fun activities planed, and that really brings you like a community that you can kind of like travel around with versus doing it on your own.
Yeah, that sounds lovely. Well, you're the perfect expert then to talk about the topic we want to talk about today, which is the whole system of offering benefits to people, and especially benefits to people that want to work in a more remote environment. We've seen in the last two years especially that the way people want to work has changed drastically. And people, I think, or a lot of companies see that people are not staying in jobs that they're not 100% happy with. So it's becoming more and more important that you as a company and as an employer offer benefits to people that really help make them happy and make them stay. And yeah, keep those people on board that make your company the place that it is. So what benefits should employers offer to attract top talent in your opinion?
Yeah, and I want to just take a step back by saying that at Safetywing, we are a team of 170. And we have zero attrition. So basically, no one wants to leave the company, which is pretty crazy. And that is a direct correlation to what you said, the benefits that we offer at this company, and they're not completely out of this world. There are very, very many benefits that maybe other companies offer as well. But I want to point out that the number one benefit is that freedom and flexibility of working from anywhere and anytime. And I cannot tell you what a life changer this is for most people in the world because it opens the door to living their best life wherever that is, whether it's in a certain country, in a certain city, in a certain place. And then also for parents, having kids, being able to, you know, take them to school, to take them to an activity, to spend quality time with them versus having to drive to an office, because it's telling you to go there. It's really the best. So I talk about a lot about benefits. And really the number one thing that I see is being able to really offer that, you know, freedom and flexibility of work from anywhere.
And is that something that has come up over the last few years where people see, or especially employers see if we're forced to we can make it happen? Or is this something that has been around for a while now, and people are only more open to it after going through the pandemic?
Yeah, this is a really good question. Because I accidentally discovered remote work back in the late 2000s. I really wanted to see the world at the time. And there wasn't such a thing as work from anywhere. It was like you either work from home, you know, if you're in sales, for example, or you have to come to the office. Because I was doing quite well, I convinced my boss to let me work from Paris for the summers. And back then it was seen as like this totally crazy idea, Oh, my God, how are you going to be able to do your work? It's a six hour difference with the East Coast of the US. But I really wanted to do it. So I was like, No, I'm going, so we have to make this work. And I went, and I can't tell you how happy I was being able to, you know, do the things I wanted in Paris, go to cafes, you know, eat really great food, go to the museums. But then also in the evening, I would pickup my work and put in the eight hours and really show that it was possible. And back then, internet wasn't the best. But I was able to do this. So if I was able to do it in the late 2000s, in 2022, it should be so much easier. And really, it's a question that, you know, the tools are there. So something is possible, it's actually very possible. And the pandemic, you know, forced everyone to try it. And we saw that not only is this more efficient, and people are getting a lot more work done. But also it is better for many people. But I do want to stress that working from home is not the same as working from anywhere. So many people equate the two. And that's incorrect, because working from home cannot be that much fun if you do it all the time. So you have to divide the two and say that you should be able to work from anywhere you want. So whether that's an office, a co-working space, a place in Bali, in Portugal, wherever makes you happy. That should be the norm.
What about people that are maybe not 100% interested in fully working remotely, or maybe more interested in other benefits, such as flexibility of choosing the time when to work? Or maybe also, obviously, when we're talking about benefits, a big part of that is also financial benefits. And we've seen benefits change in terms of you know, being an office and the old, 'Oh you've got a fruit basket, and you're getting the newest technology', it's not really that attractive to a lot of people anymore, because we're not fully in the office. But we may not be fully remote either. So what are other benefits that we can offer to make sure that we keep the best talent that we have, and we attract the top talent that we want?
That's a great question and actually what I've seen from surveys is that the number one benefit that it's kind of like almost a baseline, is obviously health insurance, just to make sure that you are taken care of if something goes wrong, you're not stressed out if you have all these bills. In the US, we offer this benefit quite a bit. However, internationally, it's not common. So a lot of people that are hiring through Lano let's say, they might not think about health insurance, but it is a benefit that people are leaving their jobs over because another company is offering those types of benefits. So for startups and scale ups, I will stress that instead of you know, your talent leaving for maybe the bigger companies because they offer those bigger benefits. Make sure to check out you know, health insurance first because that's something that has to be a baseline. And then from there, there's so many fun third benefits. Another one that we have at Safetywing that's amazing is theseyearly team retreats. We do them four times a year. The last few ones were in Slovenia, Mexico, Costa Rica and we're coming up to go to Bali in October. So these are really fun. And they're almost like half a vacation half working. And it really allows teammates to get to know each other better, to co-work, to bond so that the rest of the quarter they can carry on that connection, and do really great work. And it's worked out really well for us. But then there's so many fun benefits out there. There's like, you know, plan subscriptions, which we also have. There's obviously unlimited vacations, and I will stress that you should have minimum vacation at least, because unlimited vacation could turn to no vacation in some cases. So yes, that would be great. We have a 20 minimum day a year, which is four weeks. And obviously, the rest you can take whenever and like you said, working any time. What we recommend is being in the European and the Americas time zones, just because that works for everyone on the team. The Asian time zones are a bit hard, like I see with yourself being in Melbourne. Because you'd have to be up at night. And it's not very conducive to especially, you know, families with kids. But yet, so many fun things like, you know, ergonomic equipment. Can you provide the equipment at home, so people are comfortable? Could it be access to learning platforms? Or maybe a budget that you can improve yourself? Mental health, workout classes, childcare benefits, food and beverage, home delivery, marriage counseling. So many things.
In all of these things, how do you identify what the best benefits are to offer to the people that you have? Or maybe also to a new hire that you want to attract?
We have figured out something that works quite well for us. What we do is that certain Thursdays, which we have a strategy team meeting, we will problem solve one thing that is top of mind. So let's say benefits is something that's coming up, and people would like to review them and vote on what would be the best benefits. What we do is we create a spreadsheet, we break into groups, we brainstorm kind of like on our own, but we share it with others. And then we kind of list all the benefits, and it could be 100 of them on the spreadsheets. And then we independently vote on all of them from a 1 to 9 scale. And then we rank them and we see okay, Which one were the top three benefits that people are asking for in September 2022 for example? And then we review them every six months. So let's say we have all these amazing benefits. We see, Okay, we can't obviously offer all of them. But what are the most important ones for most people at the company? And that way, it's kind of voted from like a bottom up approach versus a top down. And this is something that's been working very well at our company and people are very happy with the benefits were chosen.
So does that mean you regularly have check ins with your staff and with the team to see, what do you think about this benefit that we added? How do you feel? Is there anything else that you would want?
Yeah, as I mentioned, we do this at least twice a year, so we review them. But we also solve in many different ways. So like, for example, meetings, you know, how long should meetings be? Should there be an agenda? Should they be sync or async? There's a lot of things that we decide together as a company versus being told what to do. And that's something that we have to stress that if companies want to retain the best talent and attract the best talent, you have to trust that this talent also knows how they want to be treated. So listening to them in whichever way possible, whether it's through the surveys, whether it's through this type of like braking and prioritization exercise, you have to do that regularly to make sure and keep a pulse on your team.
Are there any false benefits that maybe talking about, you know, you've had the example of we give unlimited vacation days, but you also kind of have to make sure that people not go in the other direction and don't take any vacation at all. Or maybe a company that only focuses on financial benefits, and doesn't fully focus on other benefits that might support an employee's well being and understanding that building a culture is important, culture of the company that where people want to stay and where they feel valued. And while they get a financial value out of it down the road, in the long run, this might not be enough to keep them around. So companies only focusing on one type of benefit is that maybe a mistake that they could make?
Absolutely. And like you said, the first one, I lived in Silicon Valley, for a while. I started my company there, I raised money. So I know the culture quite well. And it was popular for quite some time to have unlimited vacation. But what I noticed is that no one was taking any vacation because the CEO or the higher ups were not having any vacation. That sends a signal to the rest of the company that sure, we have this unlimited vacation policy, but really no one is supposed to take it. So that's absolutely a false benefit. And I would advise to be very careful with that. What we do in our company is that we make sure that if someone hasn't taken our vacation by the end of the year that someone talks to them, and says, Hey, you know, you need to do this, it is actually a benefit to you and the company, because you will come back much more relaxed, calm, full of ideas, when you have the proper rest and recharge. So it's definitely one of them. Another one is options. So we've seen with companies kind of like ballooning their evaluations, and then not really meeting those evaluations, let's say a company has worked out $10 billion of what we saw in 2021, when we saw these extremely high evaluations, and, you know, the stock options were really not worth much after they didn't meet those revenue targets. So the expectations were that, okay, the company's worth a billion dollars, they should be making $800 million a year. But now, in 2022, we're seeing that many of them are not meeting those targets. So their evaluations are going down. And if you had stock options, I believe that you'd have to pay a certain tax amount, even though you haven't exercised them. It's a little bit messy. So I'd say to have like real shares in the company versus certain, I think they're called options to exercise, certain things, especially the ones that are not public companies.
If you are a company just starting out, what can you do to start and set up your benefit program? So obviously, there's a lot of, I want to call them old benefits that people, you know, divert back to, and there's certain minimum standards as well, that depending on where you're based, you have to include, you've mentioned health insurance, there's, you know, in the US, it's not mandated, but there's other areas, other countries where it is mandated. So it's a bit complicated to pick and choose, where do you start?
Yeah, it's a good question. You know, there's a lot of literature about this, blogs, helpful places you can look into but like as your founder, like, I founded myself, it's pretty easy to kind of like ask around and see, okay, what are other peers doing because we want to be on par with what other companies are offering, you know, being a vacuum. So we can just like start, you know, this benefits program with what we think should be there in our own head, because it is a competitive global market. As we mentioned, you have to make sure that you're competitive in whatever country you're hiring. And I think a lot of companies like Lano, obviously hosting this podcast, they have a lot of guidance around this so it's not an issue but like I said, you know, you'll see in certain job postings, you'll see okay, here's the benefits that we offer. It's pretty easy to kind of like gauge and see okay, if this company is similar to mine, they're offering these benefits. I need to have similar benefits to be able to attract talent. And yes, health insurance is something that's almost like a given in many places. Some countries do require it to have it so you'd have to check obviously with the local different countries but then seeing companies like Lano as well as all the partners. You can kind of see okay, so Lano partners with Safetywing, okay, so health insurance I should get. Lano partners with maybe a home equipment company that can get you really good stuff. Oh, Lano partners with XYZ. And you'll see it makes it very easy for you because of the marketplaces that companies have upon their websites, you will see their partners and you will understand the ecosystem and the tools, technologies and benefits that you need to have for your company.
When we're looking at a distributed and remote workforce, how do you come up with a benefit system that caters to everyone's needs, because, you know, if you have a distributed team and people moving around, or even just working from home or working remotely in different parts of the world, obviously their needs are quite different to each other. So if you have a team member that's based in the US, and you have a team member that's based in Germany, there's two different needs that need to be fulfilled. Should you come up with an individually based benefits program? Or is it important to think about these things beforehand and make sure that everyone gets the same things?
That's a really good question. And the best way to answer these things is to experience. That's why, you know, I'm glad that I can speak from experience and having a team of 170 in 52 countries. So we're distributed in 52+ countries, we can say for sure that it's working for us. Or that we have, you know, 100% retention, is that we are offering the same benefits across, we're not doing like a stipend, which a lot of companies do for health insurance, because a stipend is not equal, you know, $100 for everyone is not going to be the same for that person that lives in the US versus a person that lives in Italy. So that's why offering something like Safetywing, or having this type of like health insurance allows you to give the same benefit to everyone, no matter where they live. And that's the beauty of it, because then we feel equal when that's happening. Another thing that we have is all of the other benefits, they're all equal, they have a certain amount or a certain stipend, say like your educational budgets, you know, it's X amount a year, and it doesn't go up and down depending on where you live. Your salary is the same for all of the strategy team members and doesn't go up or down depending on where you live. So a lot of these things, the founders put that baseline at the start of the company, which actually has made their life very easy as we scale. Because if you're doing a lot of customization and doing it per location, you can end up with a logistical nightmare to figure out all of the different things that they have to manage based on location. So I think the way that we've done it, has worked out pretty well for us so far. Obviously, I don't know how it is going to work out in five years. But I would recommend making things as easy as possible onyou. So you don't have to manage as much, you don't have to spend so many hours and have a bunch of HR leaders and people's ops or head of operations, dealing with things that are not necessarily going to bring value.
Talking about the next five years or looking into the future is a good segue into my last question, which is, how can you future proof your benefit systems? And are there any benefits that you see, from your experience and what's happening around you, that you think it's gonna pop up more, and it's gonna become more important to include that in your package?
That's a really good question. And I'm a bit of a futurist myself, I love looking into it. I can't guess the future. I like really being at the edge of what's coming. And really, a lot of that is we take it in through everything that we read. So we look at data or look at stats, we look at reports, and see, okay, what's happening in the workforce? Why are people leaving? Why are they saying what's important to them? Let's say like 10 years ago, or 12 years ago, I was talking about fertility benefits for women, right, so enable women to freeze their eggs. When I was talking about this, it wasn't a popular topic. And it was only amongst founders or female founders in San Francisco. And we discussed these things. And that's where those things start, you know, like you sow a seed from very forward thinking companies or leaders or founders, or employees that are talking through the grapevine, through discord, through certain channels. And you're seeing like, Oh, we're doing this thing in our company, where a side hustle is okay, you know. Oh, the 4 hour or the 4 day workweek versus a 5 day workweek. So these are things that come from the bottom up. And as you see more, you know, people adopting them or people talking about them, you want to bring those to the table to your team and have them vote on them. So we as a team voted months ago on the 4 day workweek, we had that on the table. And so certain things like that you want to be able to figure out, to come into your universe and your sphere of influence, and then bring them to the table to your team and say, is this important to you? And that's how you stay in the forefront. You can't really get your proof today with what's going to happen in 5 years. But you can do what's good for today, maybe even better for today, so that you can attract the best because you have such great benefits. And then you stay on top of that by being able to bring in all of the best practices, the best things that are working for others.
That's an exciting time ahead for us. Thanks for giving us that insight into your world and your work that you do at Safetywing. And enjoy the rest of your time in Sintra.
Yeah, thank you so much. It was a pleasure. And if anyone wants to connect with me has any questions, just go on LinkedIn.
We'll have those links for you in the show notes as well. Awesome. Thank you, Lona.
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Food bridges cultural divides – and there's no time more relevant than now. I interviewed Juliah Rais-Morres – mother of two, freelance landscape architect, caterer, Malaysian-Asian cooking instructor, and founder of "Cooking for HOPE", a project to aid refugees, specifically teenagers who arrive in Germany on their own, without their parents or families.
Juliah was the first Malaysian I met in Heidelberg when my family and I first moved there in August 2014. She made us feel at home with her Malaysian cooking, and she's ever-helpful with handy tips as we settled down to life in the region.
Me: You have recently started a project to aid refugees, specifically teenagers who arrive in Germany on their own, without their parents or families. What inspired you to get involved?
JRM: End of last year, I was in the process of closing down my restaurant Serai, and had wanted to use my remaining stock of food items to cook free lunch buffets for refugee families with small children. However, by the time the authorities got back to me in January, it was already too late to make it happen. The thoughts of wanting to help out the refugees in anyway possible were still with me after Serai closed. I got the idea of helping teenage refugees because of my son Daniel. He loves my food and he loves to cook. When he was travelling in Asia and New Zealand for six months with his friends, I had asked myself almost everyday if he had enough food to eat…. A mother's instinct I guess. Teenage refugees left their homes and their families without knowing when they will ever see them again. They have gone through a lot, and now they are on their own. I wanted to bring some cheer into their lives through food, and decided to make use of my cooking skills – I could teach them how to cook, and share with them European and Asian food culture. Hence the project's name "Cooking for HOPE", which was born in March this year.
Me: On May 28th, you successfully hosted your first cooking session with youths from Punjab, Guinea and Afghanistan. With so much on your plate – juggling a job, conducting cooking courses and running a catering business – how do you manage?
Me: Was it difficult to get to these kids? Who or which organization did you contact first?
JRM: In the beginning it was difficult because I didn't know where to start, who to talk to. I phoned and emailed all possible avenues. My first contact was the city of Heidelberg's "Flüchtlingsrat" – here I found out that new arrivals at Patrick-Henry-Village are taken care of by the state of Baden-Württemberg (and not the city of Heidelberg). I was directed from one person to another – this took more than two months and slowly I was losing hope that I would ever get to the youths. My luck changed when an acquaintance suggested that I should contact various "Jugendheim" (youth homes) in Heidelberg which have quite a few numbers of refugees teenagers in their facilities. I had luck with the Johannes Falkhaus ("Jugendheim" in Boxberg) – they sent eight youths to participate in the first event.
Me: How did your family and friends react to this project? Since you can't do this alone, who are supporting you?
JRM: My husband and my kids have been very supportive –my kids especially found it very cool that I am helping out. When I told my friends, they liked the idea too, and right away volunteered to help.
Me: Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting is coming to an end soon, and to celebrate Eid al-Fitr I understand you have something special lined up?
JRM: Many of the youths are from Muslim countries, and being away from home, they miss all the customs that accompany the month of Ramadan, including traditional foods made with motherly love. I can still recall my first Ramadan without my family – I was 18, studying in Louisiana, and I was crying so hard because I was so homesick!
Eid al-Fitr is an important festival spent with family, and since these youths can't be with their families, I would like to treat them to special dishes, along with a home-cooked meal, which I am sure they have been missing. This is also a good opportunity for me to challenge myself to venture into Middle Eastern cuisine.
Me: Thank you Juliah for sharing your project with us. Your efforts are proof that food bridges cultural divides and brings everyone together!


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The Best Of The Great Circle: Georgian Bay and North Channel
Alan Lloyd
The Great Circle Cruise is a journey down the Heartland Rivers of the Midwest, around the Gulf of Mexico, up the Atlantic seaboard and across the Great Lakes. Ask anyone who has completed this 5,000-mile epic voyage about the best part and each will respond, "Georgian Bay and North Channel."
Geographically speaking, the pristine cruising waters of Georgian Bay and North Channel are both parts of Lake Huron. Georgian Bay is the east side of Lake Huron behind Ontario's Bruce Peninsula, and North Channel is north of Manitoulin Island, the largest freshwater island in the world. Both areas are sheltered from the rough seas and strong winds of the open lake, but do not be lulled into thinking the waters are always calm. My wife, Jean, and I have been trapped in port for several days by small-craft wind advisories in June and September. July and August may have better weather, but those are precisely the months the Canadians come out to play, and ports and anchorages may be more crowded.
There are two routes for transiting this area. I call them the "express route" and the "scenic route." Many captains are intimidated at the prospect of piloting a vessel along a winding channel between rock-strewn islands, so they opt for the wide-open waters of the express route. Sailors also prefer the express route because of the opportunity to actually proceed under sail. I prefer the scenic route because it is…well…more scenic. The Canadian coast guard has done a splendid job of marking the Georgian Bay small-craft route, but do not be put off by the terminology "small-craft route." Small craft defines any vessel less than 65 feet, and boats more than 40 feet regularly travel this route.
Midland, Ontario, near the exit from Trent-Severn Waterway, is the starting point for both the express and the scenic routes to Georgian Bay and the North Channel. But first take a walk downtown to view more than 30 historic murals, most painted by Ontario native Fred Lenz. The largest mural, on a huge grain elevator, can be seen from Midland Harbour. Lenz passed away in 2001 prior to completing this self-proclaimed "pinnacle of his artistic life," but his two sons pitched in to help finish the project.
The Express Route Enter Georgian Bay on the Midland big-ship channel passing west of Beausoleil Island and continue curving left keeping Christian Island on your starboard side. The alpine forest-covered Blue Mountains appear on the horizon 25 miles across the mouth of Nottawasaga Bay. Meaford, the apple capital of Ontario, is the first port of call. The Sykes Street business district is just a short walk from the marina.
When you leave Meaford stay outside the Tank Range marked by cautionary buoys or you will become an unwitting target of the Canadian Army. Follow the west shore of Georgian Bay in the lee of a spectacular shoreline where bluffs rise up 300 feet and crystal-clear water depths plunge to 400 feet. Wingfield Basin is a popular anchorage where range markers topped by a red light guide you in.
The entire Bruce Peninsula from Wasaga Beach north is a popular vacation destination for families from the Toronto area. Tobermory, at the top of the peninsula, is also at the top of places to visit. A scuba-diving base, the deep and sparkling water at the mouth of Georgian Bay is home to Fathom Five—Canada's first National Marine Park with over 20 shipwrecks and 19 islands within its boundaries. Glass-bottom boat tours leave Tobermory several times each day to take visitors over the shipwrecks and to Flower Pot Island, which features two 60-foot-high flower pots, a lighthouse, and walking trails. A modern car ferry connects the Bruce Peninsula to Manitoulin Island. Local legend says the original ferryboat captains used to navigate by the smell of balsam fir and cedar trees. A bus line coordinates with the ferry schedule to take passengers to Little Current or on to Espanola via the Trans-Canada Highway that spans the country from east to west.
You could sail west from Tobermory into the main body of Lake Huron but I do not know why you would want to, unless you happen to live in Detroit or Cleveland. Plot a course north to continue the Georgian Bay route, passing close by Club Island and the east coast of Manitoulin Island on your port side. Then let the Killarney East Light situated at Red Rock Point guide you in. I have not tried this but literature says mariners can activate the foghorn on the lighthouse by clicking their radio mike five times on Channel 19. Killarney is a small boating community located on a channel between George Island and Ontario's mainland. On the same water route taken by the original fur traders in their birch bark canoes, commercial fishing vessels now share the harbor with exotic motoryachts. Next stop, Little Current, is a crossroads as the north-south land route intersects the east-west water route at a swing bridge—the only bridge to Manitoulin Island. Once a railroad bridge, now a single-lane highway bridge, it opens on the hour if boats needing more than 18 feet clearance are waiting.
Cruising west from Little Current the next port on the express route is Gore Bay. Gore Bay is the capital city of Manitoulin Island, but do not expect this capital city to have a wild nightlife to get drunk and land in jail; but you may end up in jail anyway since the local jail is now a museum. A pleasant boardwalk spans the entire waterfront and there is a longer hike along West Bluff to Janet Head Lighthouse in operation since 1879. In summer, the ice hockey rink becomes a farmers' market. If this is your first visit to North Channel you will want to return again and again. Next time, instead of bringing your own boat, fly into Gore Bay Airport and rent a trawler or sailboat from Canadian Yacht Charters.
The final stop on the express route is the tiny tranquil hamlet of Meldrum Bay at the west end of Manitoulin Island. For east-bounders it is the port of entry to call Canadian customs.
The Scenic Route Enter Georgian Bay on the Midland big-ship channel passing west of Beausoleil Island. As your express colleagues zoom off to the left, the scenic route continues ahead through a maze of low-lying rocks. Look through binoculars and the foreshortened view will appear impassable. A few years ago the Georgian Bay Association pioneered a route through this maze and then convinced the coast guard to mark the route with buoys.
You've heard the marketing mantra for success: "location, location, location." How about a restaurant on a remote rocky island accessible only by boat or float plane? That's Henry's Fish Restaurant on Frying Pan Island. When we visited it felt like every boater in Ontario was rushing there. Paul Elliot, the owner, does not take reservations and we were concerned the dock would be full. No worries. He is an excellent boat/air traffic controller juggling the slips among those stopping for dinner and those staying overnight. No one is turned away.
The best place for replenishing supplies before heading into the northern wilderness is Parry Sound, a large community with a taxi service. There is a pleasant walking trail following an old railroad track along the shore of Georgian Bay to a beach park. Tugboats of all sizes convene for Tugfest on Canada's Labour Day weekend to take part in tugboat races. Some tugs are open for inspection, including the coast guard boat that maintains hundreds of buoys marking the channels of Georgian Bay. We thanked the coast guard for keeping us off the rocks and asked them what happened to the buoys in winter when the lake freezes solid. According to one coast guard member, most are left in place as the water freezes around them. If there is a possibility of ice drift to pull the buoy off station, they are stored for the winter and reset in the spring.
Pointe au Baril Lighthouse provides the next photo opportunity. The original version was simply a barrel with an illuminated lantern on top. Now it's a pretty red and white building with washing hanging out to dry between the lighthouse and a nearby tree. The next segment of the marked channel includes a sharp 135-degree turn and is mostly exposed to Georgian Bay weather anyway, so go outside for 20 miles at Pointe au Baril and return at Byng Inlet where range markers and buoys mark the way in.
Now in this remote region where granite islands are sparsely covered with windswept pines, the route gets narrower and rockier. Although the coast guard has done an excellent job of identifying the rocks, the captain must concentrate to stay between the reds and greens and delegate photo-ops to the first mate. Some twists and turns are so tight our next boat will have a hinge in the middle!
Drop the anchor at the Bustards, a beautiful archipelago of pink granite. Bad River, another anchorage surrounded by rounded pink granite isles and bluffs, is just 6 miles along the route. The approach is not bad once you identify the correct set of range markers. It takes confidence to head toward range markers on the rocky shore before you actually see them.
The way ahead lies across the top of Georgian Bay where south winds have a 100-mile fetch. Check the weather situation before leaving the protected anchorage. After 15 miles you can and should tuck into the shelter of Beaverstone Bay leading to Collins Inlet. At the entrance to Collins Inlet is the shallowest water of the entire route—possibly 5 feet in low water years. But again, the channel is well marked and the bottom is soft mud. It is not really an inlet since it is open at both ends; it is a narrow 15-mile cut between high rock cliffs and a pleasure to pass through.
Killarney is the place where you'll find the best tasting fish and chips served from a school bus. This quiet little fishing village was isolated from the rest of Canada until a highway was built in 1962. In July and early August, cruising boats take over this wilderness outpost. Killarney marks the end of the Georgian Bay route and the beginning of the North Channel. At last the captain can relax a little and enjoy the scenery as the passages among the North Channel islands are wider and less complex. Here are so many idyllic anchorages and so short a season.
Just around the corner from Killarney is a very popular anchorage, Covered Portage Cove, where, if you use your imagination, you may see the head of an Indian formed in the high rock bluff.
Not to be missed but requiring a side trip of 15 miles each way, Baie Fine is an anchorage where white quartz mountains border both sides of a long, narrow fjord. At the end of the fjord, a 2-mile-long narrow channel leads to what appears to be a mountain lake. This is "the Pool." Many boaters return to this picturesque spot season after season. Since the bottom here is grassy and it is difficult to get an anchor to hold, some boaters tie to shore. The Pool is within the boundary of Killarney Provincial Park and there are a couple of hiking trails to explore. One starts at the very end of the Pool, but the most popular trail starts at the entrance near an abandoned Jeep. This trail treks through the woods to azure Topaz Lake.
Have your camera ready as you resume cruising the North Channel. The pretty Strawberry Island Lighthouse of 1881 presents a classic photo-op on the way to Little Current Swing Bridge.
Little Current, the largest community on Manitoulin Island, is a convenient center for exploring North Channel. Even big cruise ships berth here. A wharf extends the entire length of the town with the main shopping street adjacent. For a treat, walk along the waterfront toward the bridge until you come to Farquhar's Ice Cream Parlor and try their three-cow special. Visit Turners to stock up on the latest nautical charts and local art and craftwork, and be sure to browse the mini-museum on the second floor. Until recently the only chart available for navigation west of Little Current was based on soundings taken in the 19th century. Depths in fathoms were recorded in a fine italic script that resembled a map for hidden treasure. A framed copy of the chart, known as the "pirate chart," hangs in Turners' museum.
On leaving Little Current my scenic route takes a right turn via the Wabuno Channel. This route takes you close to the La Cloche Mountain Range, where outcroppings of white quartz peek through the pine forest. Give a wide berth to Bourinot Island—the submerged Bourinot Reef extends north of the island.
The most popular anchorage in North Channel is a natural harbor formed between North and South Benjamin Islands. Dinghy ashore and climb a high bluff to admire the scene and photograph boats tucked into coves of pink granite boulders. After sunset—especially on a moonless night—witness an amazing show as trillions of stars dot every inch of the night sky void of city lights.
The scenic route heads north to join McBean Channel that ends at Little Detroit Passage. This very narrow passage has been widened and is now reported to be 75 feet wide, 16 feet deep; wide and deep enough for most cruising boats, but there is a blind bend partway through and most boats issue a securite on Channel 16.
In 1999 a new municipal marina opened on the Spanish River to the north of Little Detroit Passage. A couple of years later the river silted up becoming impassable, however, the river has been dredged and boaters can again enjoy the convenience of a new marina with showers, sauna, laundry, and pumpout. The business center of Spanish, Ontario, is 1 mile north of the river on the Trans-Canada Highway.
The last waterway in our passage of North Channel can be considered either a fairway or a destination of its own. The Whalesback Channel is a north channel within the North Channel, extending about 20 miles in a fairly straight, broad course passing island after island to port and starboard—each island with its own personality. Throw in a couple of peaceful anchorages such as Beardrop Harbour or Long Point Cove and the mini-north channel is complete. Many boaters from Michigan and Wisconsin will spend their entire summer vacation re-exploring these alluring cruising waters.
The town of Blind River—the end of the journey—is never a disappointment for me, but an achievement, a place to celebrate. The Riverside Tavern reminds me of the time Jean and I lived in Ontario in the late 1960s. They had some strange drinking rules back then. For example, you were not allowed to hold a beer glass unless seated; pubs had one room with nice décor reserved for ladies and escorts; and an unaccompanied man had to drink in the back room until his date arrived to escort him, but he could not carry his drink with him! The tradition of "Ladies-Escorts" continues at Riverside Tavern.
If you desire to see more of Canada, hop on a westbound Greyhound and in two hours be in Sault Ste. Marie to visit Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre. Or stay on the bus for three days and visit Vancouver, British Columbia!
Before closing the logbook on the best freshwater cruising venue in North America, you should make one final entry. Blind River is possibly the farthest north that you and your boat will ever venture. At latitude 46 degrees north, it is closer to the North Pole than the equator.
About The Author Alan Lloyd and his wife, Jean, emigrated from Great Britain in 1966. After retiring from General Electric in 1999, Alan divided his time between his hobbies of photography and cruising the Great Circle. Aboard their boat, 2 If By C, Alan and Jean took two years to complete the route the first time around and had so much fun they decided to do it again. Their second trip took four years and they are still cruising. The couple leaves their boat wherever the season ends, ready to resume the following season. Additional information on the Great Circle can be found on Alan's website, www.NavigationNotes.com.
The PDQ Great Circle Passagemaker
Great Circle Loop Information and Resources
Best of the Great Loop: Backwater Gems
Pleasant Interludes On The Way To The North Channel
Down East Circle Route
The Down East Circle Route
Mid-Coast Marvel: Cruising The Heart Of The Chesapeake Bay
Cruising America's Great Loop in a Solar Powered Canal Boat
Northern Exposure: Norway Offers Spectacular Cruising Above The Arctic Circle
Lure Of The Bahamas


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Center for New Music: Early March 2017
Having observed the absence of word from the Center for New Music (C4NM) about this month's activities, I figured I would take some of the more personal notifications I have received as a point of departure for accounting for the first full week in March and that month's preceding half-week. This will be a rather busy time, including a Sunday with performances in both the afternoon and evening. For those who need reminding, C4NM is located at 55 Taylor Street, half a block north of where Golden Gate Avenue meets Market Street. Tickets for all events enumerated below are now available for advance purchase online through the indicated hyperlinks:
Friday, March 3, 8 p.m.: This will be a two-set evening of audiovisual improvisations. In the opening set Bill Hsu will improvise video displays in real time to complement the musical improvisations of James Fei and Gino Robair. The second set will present live coded video created in real-time by Shawn Lawson in response to electronics provided by Ryan Ross Smith from a secret remote location. General admission will be $15 with a $10 rate for C4NM members. Tickets may be purchased in advance through a Vendini Web page.
Saturday, March 4, 8 p.m.: Pianist and vocalist Jenny Maybee will lead her band in a program of new compositions and arrangements on the themes of love, transformation, exploration, and state of being entitled Sacred Landscapes. General admission will be $20 with a $10 rate for C4NM members. Tickets may be purchased in advance through a Vendini Web page.
Monday, March 6, 8 p.m.: Casey Grev will give a solo saxophone recital augmented with electronics and multimedia. The program will consist of new and recent works by Georges Aperghis, Jason Thorpe Buchanan, Ann Cleare, Dai Fujikura, Ravi Kitappa, Alex Mincek, and others. General admission will be $15 with a $10 rate for C4NM members. Tickets may be purchased in advance through a Vendini Web page.
Wednesday, March 8, 8 p.m.: Trumpet virtuoso Andy Kozar, currently based in New York City, will present a program of five recent pieces for trumpet and electronics. These will be "Flutter" (Tyler Harrison), "Deviations from a Theme by Brahms" (Elizabeth Hoffman), "Still Life" (Scott Worthington), "Moving Target" (Jeff Gavett), and "Rahab's Herbarium" (Adam Zahller). On the basis of this excerpt, it would appear that Hoffman's Brahms source has been significantly concealed:
uploaded to YouTube by Andrew Kozar
Kozar will also perform in a set of improvisations with local performers including Tania Chen on piano, vocals by Ken Ueno, and Matt Ingalls on clarinets of different sizes. General admission will be $15 with a $10 rate for C4NM members. Tickets may be purchased in advance through a Vendini Web page.
Saturday, March 11, 8 p.m.: Utter will be a solo concert by Anne La Berge featuring interactive works that weave together performer, audience, and digital technology. "Utter" is also the concluding work on the program, composed by La Berge for flute, electronics, narration, and interactive tablets. There will be three other "flute++" compositions, "Delay/Line" by Sam Pluta, "Modes of Assisted Ventilation" by Hugo Morales, and "Telemachus" by David Dramm. The program will begin with Yannis Kyriakides' "Oneiricon," scored for tablets and musicians without the instruments being specified. General admission will be $15 with a $10 rate for C4NM members. Tickets may be purchased in advance through a Vendini Web page.
Sunday, March 12, 3 p.m.: This will be the first of two concerts to be curated by Danny Clay on the same day. The Cornelius Cardew Choir will perform the second "paragraph" from Cardew's The Great Learning, his settings of seven paragraphs from the first chapter of Great Learning, the first of the so-called "Four Books" that illustrate the core value and belief systems of Confucianism. Cardew composed this piece for his Scratch Orchestra, whose performance of this particular paragraph is available on YouTube:
uploaded to YouTube by tiovelvet
This paragraph was composed for singers and drummers and consists of a single (large) score page. That page is divided into three columns:
a very slow, long-tone melody with one of more words specified for each tone
26 rhythm patterns
a lengthy description that accounts for how the singers deal with the melody, how the rhythmic patterns are to be performed, and an overall description of the entire performance
In the spirit of the Scratch Orchestra, the Cornelius Cardew Choir, founded here on May 1, 2001, brings together professional, amateur, and novice singers who collectively work to turn their ideas into sonic action. While the above video lasts about twenty minutes, Cardew's score specifies that the duration of this paragraph should be about one hour. General admission will be $15 with a $10 rate for C4NM members. Tickets may be purchased in advance through a Vendini Web page.
Sunday, March 12, 7 p.m.: The second concert that Clay will curate will be a solo recital by pianist Adam Tendler. Tendler has prepared a program entitled still that will bring pioneering compositions by John Cage and Morton Feldman together with more recent works by Charlie Sdraulig and Marina Poleukhina. General admission will be $15 with a $10 rate for C4NM members. Tickets may be purchased in advance through a Vendini Web page.
Labels: Cardew, chamber music, jazz, John Cage, Morton Feldman, music
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I am a strong believer that the bedroom should be a place of relaxation. Mine is my go to place when I just want to chill out, listen to my music, write, or read a book, and I have to admit, it's probably my favourite room in the house! So what are my top 5 tips for a perfect bedroom?
For me, freshly washed, line dried linen is the best feeling ever. If I could I would have my linen washed, dried and ironed daily just to give me that snuggle freshness feeling each evening. Obviously, that is never going to happen in my house unless I win the lotto and get a housekeeper, but it is advised to wash bed linen on a two-week cycle, with at least 2 sets to rotate.
Make a statement with a beautiful dressing table! I find a dressing table can set off your personality and your style perfectly. Iain James furniture is ideal for your traditional or antique design, glasses or character design for the more modern or contemporary. The design choice are endless.
This is a must! From Wardrobes to ottomans, I have several storage units in my bedroom as I'm not one for a mess and everything needs to have a place. I can't relax if I've got books on the side, blankets on the chair, clothes dotted around. If it's all put away, it adds to the tone of the room, relaxing.
There is no doubt that lighting creates a chilled mood and fairy lights are very much on trend, and with the right covering or set up can be the perfect finishing touches to any bedroom. I've added a few of my favourites to my lighting board on Pinterest - the ideal place for dreaming up that perfect bedroom.
I know this is a bit of a shocker, but for me, my ideal room has no place for a TV, and whilst we do have a TV in our room I'm not a fan, lets face it, how many of us put it on late at night and fall asleep with it playing away only to wake up at the crucial bit at the end.... tell me it's not just me!
What are your top tips for a perfect bedroom?
Definitely agree about regularly changing bed linen. I always cringe when I hear on the radio surveys which reveal people who don't change bed linen for about 6 months. Yuck.
And my top tip is whenever your wardrobe reaches bursting capacity, sort through your clothes and get rid of stuff you won't wear again.


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Міжнародний аеропорт Кольцово ()  — міжнародний аеропорт, який обслуговує Єкатеринбург та Свердловську область, Росія, розташований за 16 км на південний схід від міста. Щорічний пасижирообіг складає 4,290,000 осіб.

Аеропорт є хабом для:
 Ural Airlines,
 RusLine
 Pobeda

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Летовище «Кольцово» першого класу має дві ЗПС, 60 стоянок для літаків, а також допуск на прийом всіх сучасних типів повітряних суден російського і зарубіжного виробництва, включаючи Іл-96, Ту-204, Ту-144, Airbus A319, 320, 321, Airbus A330, Airbus A340, Boeing 737, Boeing 747, Boeing 757, Boeing 767, Boeing 777.

У 2006 відкрито новий міжнародний термінал. У жовтні 2007 введений в дію новий термінал внутрішніх авіаліній. На місці старого терміналу у 2009 році зведений новий внутрішній термінал, а колишній об'єднаний з міжнародним терміналом. Після введення в експлуатацію нового терміналу пропускна здатність аеропорту наблизилася до 8 мільйонів 400 тисяч пасажирів на рік. У складі аеропорту сучасний готель, термінал ділової авіації. Будується великий логістичний комплекс і вантажний термінал, готель.

Авіалінії та напрямки, жовтень 2020

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Регулярні рейси здійснюються електропоїздом між аеропортом і залізничним вокзалом Єкатеринбурга (4 рейси на добу в обох напрямках, час у дорозі 39 хвилин). Поїзд прямує з усіма попутними зупинками. До 2010 року на лінії курсували електропоїзди-експреси, проте, у зв'язку з невеликим пасажиропотоком, їх змушені були перевести в звичайні приміські маршрути. З 2009 по 2011 на лінії рік працював рейковий автобус РА2. Під'їзні колії і посадкова платформа електропоїзди побудовані спільно аеропортом і РЖД у 2008 році.

Регулярні пасажирські перевезення між Єкатеринбургом і аеропортом виконують автобуси № 1 (від залізничного вокзалу) і № 29 (від селища Істок), а також мікроавтобуси № 01 (від залізничного вокзалу, експрес), № 026 (від станції СТЦ «МЕГА»), № 039 (від Компресорного мікрорайону через центр міста). Час роботи міського громадського транспорту з 05 до 00 годин, крім маршруту № 01, який працює цілодобово. Ціна проїзду 26 рублів, в мікроавтобусі № 01 — 100 рублів. Особистий автотранспорт і легкові таксі можуть безкоштовно під'їжджати до терміналів аеропорту для короткочасної висадки і посадки пасажирів (до 15 хвилин), тривала стоянка автотранспорту перед терміналами можлива за плату. Є також парковка тривалого зберігання і VIP-паркінг.

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  Official website of the airport
  Official website of the airport
 Plan of Koltsovo airport terminals

Аеропорти Росії
Транспорт Катеринбургу
Аеропорти, збудовані 1928