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Sep 16, 2022 2 min
Adobe is acquiring the popular design tool Figma for a whopping $20 billion.
As usual, it is the big tech eliminating the competition by acquiring businesses. So, not entirely a piece of exciting news.
But, what's exciting is we came across a free and open-source design tool that gets its inspiration from Figma and does a few things better!
Penpot: Free & Open-Source Design Tool in Development
Penpot UI
Penpot is an open-source project in active development. It is in its beta phase following its launch on ProductHunt nearly two years ago.
Here's what makes Penpot interesting:
Free and open-source (of course).
Option to Self-host.
Cross-platform.
Using SVG as the native format.
Web-based.
Featuring industry-standard features (inspired by Figma).
You can watch its official video to know the basics of it:
The major highlight of Penpot is the use of SVG as its native format. With SVG files, you get compatibility with many vector graphics editing tools.
So you do not get locked down with a proprietary file format that can be accessed using a particular application.
Penpot gives you the absolute best of open standards.
The CEO of Penpot, Pablo Ruiz-Múzquiz, mentions more about it:
If you go for SVG (open standard, web, mobile, etc) at the storage level, you can suddenly integrate all your Penpot designs with your code repos. You could make changes to the actual representation of the design itself thanks to SVG and not yet another closed format. That opens the door to massive opportunities for designers AND devs. Also, SVG means we are low-code ready for free. You can pick any element in Penpot and ask for its SVG (and CSS) representation knowing it's actually what it is, no translation. That brings a more trustworthy relationship between designers and devs and allows frontend devs to try out their design skillset.
So, using SVG as the native format has a lot of advantages!
At the moment, the project is in its beta stage and constantly improving with plenty of skilled contributors in the project.
This can turn out to be the most useful open-source alternative to Figma, breaking out of big tech for design tools.
You can self-host it or use the cloud app to test it out. Sign up at its official website to learn and experiment with it.
You can also check out its GitHub page to explore more.
Penpot
This also reminds me of Akira, which aimed to be a native Linux app for UI and UX design. It is still in its early development stage, but such efforts are always appreciated when it involves Linux or the open-source initiative.
💬 What do you think about Penpot as an open-source alternative to Figma?
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Orexigen shares soar as long-delayed weight drug clears PhIII safety hurdle
More than two years after Orexigen Therapeutics ($OREX) began a forced march back through a $100 million Phase III study for its weight drug Contrave, the biotech is back with the news that it scored the positive interim results it needs for a return trip to the FDA. And the drug developer says it can look ahead to a potential approval as early as June 2014.
Orexigen was forced to go back to the drawing board as its rivals--Arena ($ARNA) and Vivus ($VVUS)--were eventually allowed to begin their own troubled marketing efforts for the first new weight drugs in more than a decade. Orexigen, though, found the front door at the FDA slammed shut early in 2011 as regulators demanded a pricey study to determine if the therapy triggered any dangerous heart trouble. Investigators had to recruit 10,000 patients for the Phase III safety study.
San Diego-based Orexigen's shares gyrated up 28% on the news this morning, which was also a boost for its partners at Takeda.
"The interim analysis of the Light Study clearly achieved the goal set by the FDA," said Michael Narachi, CEO of Orexigen, though the company issued no data with the release. "The resubmission will contain an unprecedented amount of cardiovascular outcomes data for an obesity therapeutic, and we are confident these data will support a favorable benefit:risk assessment for Contrave."
In a Phase III study Contrave noted that patients taking the drug were two to three times more likely to lose at least 5% or 10% of their body weight compared with those taking placebo.
If Contrave does go on to an approval, though, it will head into a clouded market. The first new weight drugs--Arena's Belviq and Vivus's Qsymia--have been major disappointments. None of the top 10 Big Pharmas have partnered on these drugs, leaving the field to a group of Japanese companies to play in. Arena and its partners at Eisai, though, believe the tide is turning in their favor as insurers finally start offering reimbursements to members. And Orexigen asserts it has a leading therapy ready to offer, though some analysts have been skeptical that the marginal advantages on weight loss can trigger big sales.
In an interview with Forbes' Matthew Herper, Narachi also repeated earlier boasts that Takeda is the best partner for this drug, citing their willingness to unleash a sales force of 2,000 in their effort to spur market demand for their drug. That may be, but this sector of the drug-development business has been long on promises and short on performance. And that's likely to keep many investors on the sidelines.
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On Monday, it was announced that we were to be getting a new library. I like libraries. People like me like libraries. So while we might criticise stadiums, convention centres etc, we tend to be a bit more accepting of libraries. Books, good. Learning, good. But something about the whole thing didn't seem right to me, so I dug into the numbers a bit.
First, it's meant to cost $89 million. Of that, the council can only cover $60m, with the rest, rather hopefully, to come from charity and philanthropic donations. As I wrote this morning (Pepsi? Partial credit), some councillors would like to see the library opened up for sponsorship. The budget for the building means we can have a small, well designed building, or a bigger, tilt-slab thing. Not both. Not ideal. This is certainly not the "library as the inspirational heart of the new city" that has been championed.
That does not square with the council's vision of building an "uplifting" world-class library that is architecturally striking. The quantity surveyors say that if the council wants a building like that, its $85 million budget will only buy it 7200sq m of floor space. "If the council wants a top-notch, world-class, super-duper building it does not have the money to do it," council major facilities rebuild manager Mike Hannaway warned yesterday.
Before the Blueprint, the Council was preparing to repair and re-open the library. They have budgeted for this, and the figures are in the 2012 annual plan (pdf here, page 19 for the relevant costings). The cost of repairing the library is $8.7 million – and $8.2m of that was to come from insurance, leaving the Council to pick up just $500,000 of extra cost. Under the Blueprint proposal, the library will be moved from the current Gloucester St site, about a block back towards the Square. Is it a better place? Probably – although having a library over looking the Avon wouldn't be half bad either. The government has budgeted up to $19m to buy the new land for the library – more than TWICE the cost of repairing the library. That's just to buy the land. The whole project is 10 times more expensive that repairing the current site.
So why are the government so keen on moving and rebuilding? It's because the current site is where they want to put their giant, uncosted, unneeded Convention Centre. I can see a situation where they bowl the library, build their Convention Centre, and then to help with the "sponsorship" of the new library, SkyCity ends up sponsoring the new library. Seriously, would you put it past this government?
Look, I'd love to have a new library. But is it worth ten times what repairing the current one would cost? Especially when the council's projected debt track is meant to balloon out to 247% of borrowing over the next 20 years or so, I'd argue that we need to take the less glamorous option and repair the current one. And tell the convention centre to get stuffed at the same time.


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Three Ways To Make Your HVAC Business More Valuable Before You Sell
Real-life examples from entrepreneurs — and how HVAC contractors can do the same
KEYWORDS Events in the HVACR Industry / HVAC Sales / Nexstar Network
John Warrillow is the author of Built To Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You and founder of The Value Builder System, where he helps business owners improve the value of their company. At the Nexstar Super Meeting 2020, held Oct. 6-8, Warrillow shared real-life examples of entrepreneurs who have done just that — and how HVAC contractors can apply those same principles to make their own businesses more valuable.
Keep reading for his top three takeaways.
1. Drive up your recurring revenue.
Twenty-nine dollars a month for an HVAC maintenance contract might seem like a really small amount of your revenue, Warrillow said.
"I'd imagine most of you are nodding your head saying, 'Yep, gotta check that box, we already do service contracts.' But here's the thing when you're running a recurring revenue model," he said. "There's a different measuring stick that I think you need to consider, to know whether your recurring revenue model is working. And it's called your LTV:CAC ratio."
LTV stands for lifetime value of a customer. CAC stands for customer acquisition cost, and the ratio compares the lifetime value of a customer versus the cost of acquiring them. For HVAC contractors, it helps determine whether or not that $29/month service contract is lucrative for your company, and how to measure the success of your service contracts model.
To calculate this number, a contractor needs three numbers. First, figure out what it costs to win a new service contract subscriber — radio advertising, television advertising, search marketing, etc.
"Look at all the costs associated with winning a new customer, and divide it by the number of customers you won during that period," he explained. "For example, if you spend $10,000 on radio advertising and you win two customers, your CAC is $5,000."
The second number is the MRR (monthly recurring revenue), which is the service charge — in this example, it's $29/month per customer.
Thirdly, calculate the revenue churn rate.
"If you start a month with $100 of revenue coming in from service contracts and you lose $3.50 from the hundred dollars you had when you started, the month, your revenue churn rate would be 3.5%," Warrillow explained. "Your margin is your cost of winning each new service contract. It has nothing to do with your office expenses, your trucks, etc. — it is what you have left over after you service each service contract subscriber." That means for an HVAC contractor who changes the furnace filters as part of the subscription, the cost of the filter counts, but the cost of the technicians and the trucks do not, because this number is the hard cost associate with servicing each incremental subscriber.
To calculate the LTV, multiply the MMR by the margin, then divide that number by the churn rate.
Warrillow shared the example of HubSpot, a technology firm that uses a service contract model. In their case, the MRR was $429, and they had an 83% margin after the cost to service each new subscriber. This gave them an LTV of $350/year, or just over $10,000 total per customer.
Meanwhile, "if you do the math, it costs them $6,000 to acquire a customer," Warrillow said. "And that's before they pay their salaries, their gas, their office, etc. This economic model doesn't make sense, because the LTV:CAC ratio is 1.6:1. That is a definition of a service contract model, but it's broken."
In HubSpot's case, the company decided to start focusing on larger accounts. Their CAC went up, their MRR per customer went up, and their churn rate dropped from 3.5% to 2% because bigger companies were more stable. That drop increased their LTV to $23,000, which increased their LTV:CAC ratio to 3.5:1. The company ended up raising $100 million of venture capital, and now it's worth more than $1 billion.
"It never would have happened had they not understood their LTV:CAC ratio," Warrillow concluded.
That math helps HVAC contractors know where to put their resources.
"An LTV to VAV ratio north of 3:1 … means it's time to invest in your service contract model," he said. "It's a green light to investors. The private equity community is heavily investing in the home service contracting industry, and that 3:1 LTV:CAC ratio is going to be music through their ears. That's really the secret to driving your recurring revenue up — knowing when to move those dials."
2. Sell less things to more people.
Most companies sell a lot of things to just a few people. The most successful do exactly the opposite, Warrillow said: They sell just a few things to lots of people.
For example, Josh Conway bought his dad's company, Conway Services. At that point, it was a $2.1 million company, with $2 million of that from new construction. Only $100,000 was in service contracts. He made some changes, but by 2008, 68% of his revenue was still from new construction. Then the home industry collapsed in the Great Recession; home values dropped, and new construction dropped off the map. The next year, his company's revenue fell by more than a million dollars, from $6.8 million to $5 million in 2009.
"So he makes a decision to really triple down on service contracts," Warrillow related. By eliminating new construction from his service offering and focusing exclusively on service contracts, Conway was able to grow the business to $10 million of annual revenue by 2010. By selling fewer services, he was able to sell more.
The way to sell those few things is to sell them really well, providing value beyond what every other provider on the market is offering.
"My son, who is 13, struggles with a little bit of asthma," Warrillow said, launching into another example. "When he was young, he had it more significantly — a couple times in the hospital. So if an HVAC company came to me, when my son struggles with asthma, and said, 'Listen, we're going to come in and change the furnace filters, and at the same time we're there, we're going to measure the pollutants in the air and give you a readout of any of the typical allergens that trigger asthma,' what would I pay for that service? It's something truly unique coming from that HVAC vendor, that would have made me buy.
"It's competing through value, which very often [means] take your core product or service and add something to it — differentiate it with another benefit that your customers care about," he continued. "That's really the secret to selling less stuff to more people."
3. Systemize everything.
"The most valuable companies," Warrillow said, "are independent of any one customer, employee, or supplier. And here's the rub: That employee also includes you, the owner."
That means while knowing customers by name is great for delivering amazing customer service, "it also drops your likelihood to sell your company, because acquirers look at that business as, 'Well, without the owner, it's not worth anything.' So when you're running a business that's deeply dependent on you personally, it's not very valuable to acquire."
In contrast, building a company that's very independent of any one employee — including the owner — can make it very valuable.
Warrillow shared the example of Laura Morgan, a British entrepreneur who made a fortune supplying tiny bottles of soap and shampoo for hotels.
"She always dreamed of owning a company worth $10 million — having a $10 million value network," Warrillow said. In 2011, she went to sell her company and got an offer for $12 million.
But during due diligence, the acquirer found out that Morgan herself was central to the business. She owned the relationships with the hotel companies. She owned the relationship with the manufacturing companies in China and Thailand. So the acquirer pulled the plug on the deal. Morgan was left with nothing other than her company back — and the determination not to make that mistake again.
"She doubles down on this idea of creating process, creating systems in her company that are not reliant on her," he related. "Everything from how they build a customer to how a bottle of shampoo is manufactured is documented in her company."
Just five years later, she sold the business for $26 million.
"The lesson is that you need to systematize your company so that it is not deeply dependent on you as the owner," Warrillow said. "Everything from the way you greet customers, to the way you explore their needs, to the way you execute … is such an important part of making your company more valuable."
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CT- Deter wrong doing, preserve law SNAP says
For immediate release: Sept. 18, 2014
Statement by Jim Hackett, Connecticut co-leader of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (203-710-0968, SNAPct@cotse.net)
Deterrence. That's what I want to stress: current Connecticut law deters wrongdoing. That's why current Connecticut law should be preserved.
The message our current law sends is this: "Don't try to hide child sex crimes. With our smart and just statute of limitations, you won't succeed in keeping it under wraps long enough to escape detection. So when abuse reports surface, act promptly and responsibly and protect kids." That's the message we should keep sending. That's the message Archbishop Blair doesn't want to hear. He wants to go back to the old days when a tight, unfair statute of limitations stopped victims who wanted to show the public, through judicial channels, who the molesters were and who their enablers were.
It's tough for a supervisor to call 911 when he or she suspects an employee is assaulting boys or girls. But in Connecticut, that supervisor knows those boys or girls, even decades later, may file lawsuits. They may prove to the public that trusted authority figures acted improperly. That's a strong disincentive for a supervisor who's tempted to act selfishly. That's a strong prod to a supervisor to act responsibly.
A restrictive statute of limitations will save complicit Catholic officials money. More importantly, it will save complicit Catholic officials' reputations and power and careers. We think this is the real reason Blair wants to overturn Connecticut's statute of limitations. And we think this is terribly dangerous and unwise. We hope he fails and kids win.
(SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, is the world's oldest and largest support group for clergy abuse victims. We've been around for 25 years and have more than 20,000 members. Despite the word "priest" in our title, we have members who were molested by religious figures of all denominations, including nuns, rabbis, bishops, and Protestant ministers. Our website is SNAPnetwork.org)
Contact - David Clohessy (314-566-9790 cell, davidgclohessy@gmail.com), Barbara Dorris (314-503-0003 cell, SNAPdorris@gmail.com)
Deter wrong doing, preserve law SNAP says http://www.snapnetwork.org/ct_deterring?recruiter_id=33428


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NAPA tackles issue of federal IT recruitment, retention
MARCH 22'Federal managers can be more creative and flexible in recruiting and retaining information technology workers than they are, the National Academy of Public Administration says.
By Thomas R. Temin
GCN Staff
That was one of the findings in a new NAPA study, which researchers from the Washington academy released today at the FOSE 2001 trade show. The Chief Information Officers Council commissioned the study.
Costis Toregas, chairman of the study panel, said NAPA researched IT labor practices in 30 federal agencies, 29 state governments, and six county and municipal governments, as well as some foreign governments and nonprofit groups, comparing them to practices in business. Toregas is president of Public Technology Inc. of Washington.
The study found that when government pay levels are competitive with industry, successful recruitment and retention comes from workers' perception of quality management, flexible work environment, challenging tasks and the availability of training and professional development.
Industry and, to some extent, nonfederal governments are able to make job offers more quickly than federal managers, he added, an advantage in snaring the best applicants. Still, innovation in recruitment and retention does occur in some agencies, Toregas said, citing the State Department and Social Security Administration.
The NAPA review will have two more phases. In Phase 2, NAPA will come up with possible alternative pay systems for the federal government and in Phase 3 will make recommendations to Congress and the Office of Management and Budget.
The academy plans to finish the second phase in May, acting Agriculture Department CIO Ira Hobbs said. The final recommendations are due this summer.
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St Patrick's Day has become a global phenomenon, with people all around the world celebrating it. It serves as a unifying force in Ireland and let's be honest, it's a good laugh.
I therefore feel it is regrettable that St George's Day does not have even close to the same status as a celebration. Not only is it an essential part of English identity, but it is also a great opportunity to show off English culture to any international students studying at UWE.
It will cost the SU basically nothing to implement and it just seems like a cultural event that is worth recognizing.
This Idea opened on 05th April 2018 and closed for voting on 26th April 2018.
9:51pm on 10 Apr 18 yes please. England doesn't get nearly enough representation in the UK!
3:32pm on 10 Apr 18 Any celebration of English history and culture would have to be accompanied with a serious discussion of the British historical legacy, which sadly isn't a cause for a "good laugh".
1pm on 10 Apr 18 We need to take back the flag from the racist fringe and its association with such. I'm proud to fly the Welsh flag but the flag of St George reminds me of Biffers.


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Miley Cyrus On Being Totally Naked for Her "Wrecking Ball" Video
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Though it's already broken the VEVO record for most views in 24 hours, the Terry Richardson-directed video has also caused a lot of controversy. If you are not sure why, it's due to the simple formula: First you add one, post Hannah Montana Miley. Then, minus the hair and all possible facets of shame. Next, now this is important, you have to add in all the VMA viewers who were sexually assaulted by her performance. Lastly, you have to take the outfit she wore for the VMAs and multiply it by zero, because that's exactly what you get in the "Wreaking Ball Video".
During the Elvis Duran and the Morning Show radio interview, instead of hyping it up, Miley surprisingly downplayed the nudity.
"I think the video is much more [than that]. If people get past the point I make, and you actually look at me, you can tell I look more broken than even the song sounds," she explained of the track, produced by Dr. Luke and Cirkut.
The 20-year-old pop star continued, "The song is a pop ballad that everyone can relate to; everyone has felt that feeling at some point. If people can take their minds off the obvious and go into their imagination and see what the video really means, it is so vulnerable."
Cyrus, as more than 19 million viewers know, spends much of the video in tears. "If you look at my eyes, I look more sad than actually my voice sounds on the record," she pointed out. "It was a lot harder to do the video than it was to record the song. It was much more of an emotional experience."
The former Disney Channel star also revealed that she was nervous about releasing "Wrecking Ball" as the second single off her forthcoming album, Bangerz. "I was actually panicking last night because I felt like for me, with 'We Can't Stop," there was all this anticipation and all this time to build up this one single. I have been so busy right now with 'We Can't Stop' still doing what it's doing…so I feel like I have so much going on."
Cyrus laughed when she was named the unofficial queen of twerking: "For me, anything I do becomes such a big deal. I'm just having fun. Whatever people label it as it doesn't really matter. I always want to switch it up."
I'm crying on the inside too, Miley
Miley Cyrus Says "Wrecking Ball" Video Is About "Much More" Than Her Naked Body (Forevervogue.com)
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It's not often that you get to spend the day with the governor of the Reserve Bank! So here's a quick look at my day, with Radhika Puri and Raghuram Rajan. What a totally fabulous couple. And such lovely, old-fashioned good manners. I really should learn from them. I met them at 8:45 am, and we talked non-stop until 2:00 p.m. Quite a feat, even for a super-talkative person like me!
We started with a visit to Castella de Aguada, the old Portuguese fort, where I explained about all the kingdoms who fought for control of trade on the western coast. There are multiple forts around the bay (Mahim Fort, Bandra Fort, Worli Fort). Clear evidence of the strategic importance of this area.
We saw lovely views of the Bandra-Worli Sea Link.
Driving past Mount Mary, we stopped to see the prayer candles. They are so uniquely Bandra! If you want to have your wishes fulfilled, all you need to do is pray to the Mother of the mount and light a candle. There are wax figurines which you can offer to become a television star, or a movie star, and there was even one for becoming a Hollywood star :) The homes of some big Bollywood badshahs and ranis are nearby, and we saw them as we drove past Bandstand.
At St Andrews Church, we were joined by Father Caesar D'Mello, who showed us around and told us some interesting stories. The church is celebrating its 400th year. "When the Taj Mahal was built, we were already 50 years old", they say proudly.
After the church visit, we started our village walk. We went to Chimbai Village, Ranwar Village and Chapel Road; where we enjoyed the old wooden architecture, the numerous small crosses and the quirky wall art. We went to a designer studio, to see how a old heritage house can be repurposed.
We ended the Bandra tour with chaat at Elco Arcade, where we ordered their seasonal strawberry kulfi, as well as some old favourites of mine (I like the pani puri and the gulab jamun!).
And then because we wanted to get more out of the day, we went to Dharavi, to see what makes the slum economy tick. What a great visit, even though it was completely unplanned. We went to Dharavi Art Room, to meet Himanushu and see the great work he is doing with children and women. We saw the papad-making (cooperative model) and how that worked. We walked into a "multiplex" to watch the migrant population enjoying a Nagarjuna movie. We saw the recylcing industry, garments industry, and all the units busily at work. We met Fahim, who I have been mentoring now for several years. Fahim told the story of how he set up and grew his slum tour company 'Be the Local'. We walked through narrow alleyways, seeing how people lived. All in all, it was quite a day!


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ISLAMABAD: An investigation has been commenced by the Cabinet Committee on Energy (CCoE) on Wednesday regarding contravention of economic merit order of use of fuel in power plants.
It barred the import of furnace oil for a period of coming three months.
The CCoE was presided over by the Minister for Petroleum Ghulam Sarwar was apprised the 2nd LNG terminal was operating at less than its optimal capacity since power plants were operating on furnace oil instead of liquefied natural gas (LNG) which cost less and contravened the merit order.
Also, it was told the power sector had demanded 800 mmcfd of LNG but utilized only 230 mmcfd and the Power Division shared the figures of the fuel being used for power generation by plants.
The CCoE instructed the Power Division to share more details about the utilization of different fuels in power plants.
In response, the Power Division said power plants had been utilizing furnace oil and not LNG, which was less costly fuel.
But the Power Division contended domestically produced furnace oil should be utilized by power plants instead of costly imported fuel.
Hence, the CCOE barred the imports of furnace oil and directed domestically produced furnace oil be utilized in power plants.
The Power Division apprised the committee that furnace oil was being utilized to stabilize fuel supply and in the last few months it was being used by power plants rather than LNG.
This happened even though the 2nd LNG terminal was operating at half its capacity and consumers were paying full capacity payment.
Electricity being produced by power plants using furnace oil costs Rs12 per unit against Rs9 per unit which is an Rs3 per unit differential, resulting in burdening consumers with billions of rupees.
Consequently, the committee on energy reached the conclusion that must-run power plants should be run in order of merit and instructed the Petroleum and Power Division to plan the import and consumption of LNG.


What are permitted development rights? How can I use them on my home?
The government have provided most home owners with a set of rights to extend or alter their homes or place detached buildings within the garden without the need for formal Planning Permission.
Some people have referred to it as 'the planning permission your already have' but may not yet know it.
Yes, that's right - planning consent for extensions or development that you already have in place WITHOUT the need for formal planning permission.
That sort of statement makes for a great strap line but hides a lot of the complexities involved in identifying what you can actually achieve on your particular property without formal Planning permission.
Treat it like a kind of 'Government code' that you have to unravel by reading the legislation, trying to understand what it means & how it can be applied to your particular property. For the novice home owner, it can be a daunting and confusing task but after some time spent researching this web site you should be able to follow through with most principals of permitted development and for the more experienced out there be able to understand the anomalies that have been generated with tactics and strategies on how best to deal with them.
15.5 million homes in England and Wales already have permitted development rights attached to their property.
95% of all homes in the England and Wales have some form of permitted development rights allocation.
All that equates to millions of homes already having un-implemented planning permission for extensions, garden buildings and alterations without further interference from the local Council Planning Department or their neighbours.
That's kind of empowering don't you think!
That's like being given a pre-formed Christmas wrapper empty of any present and all you have to do is fill it with a structure that fits inside the wrapper.
Now that the appetite has been wetted we now need to sit down and adopt a pragmatic approach to counterbalance the hype and spin back into the reality of the real world.
Many will say that permitted development projects will save you time and costs? Well yes if you are prepared to go 'straight into the ground' without first researching and obtaining a formal opinion from your local council. Do you really ant to spend thousands of pounds on a self diagnosed building project devoid of any back-up paperwork?
Do you really ant to own an extended property that you are unable to sell later on because of the lack of relevant paper trail?
No, of course you don't - only the most maverick or cavalier amongst us would engage on such as risky path.
Therefore, in reality and in most cases you will still need to employ a Building Design Agent to prepare plans and apply for a Certificate of Lawful Development through the Planning Dept. which is a piece of paper that formally and legally confirms that your project is totally outside the control of the Planning Dept.
SO WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF PERMITTED DEVELOPMENT?
Remembering that permitted development (PD) is not a subjective issue unlike planning permission that has a wide ranging agenda that includes neighbours, design and impact all of which can be manipulated by third parties.
PD is entirely objective - it is either legal or its not. You can either have it or you cant.
So, provided your project fits inside the 'Christmas wrapper' analogy I was referring to earlier, then the 3 main controlling factors referred to above relevant to planning issues are completely removed.
That means you can understand, appreciate and develop exactly what you want right from the start provided your scheme fits the 'PD wrapper'. That is why doing your research & understanding the shape, size & location of your 'PD wrapper' right from the start is so vitally important.
Go explore this web site, enjoy & ask me any question or issues that you may have if you do not mind parting with a small fee.


New World Renaissance Hotel is superbly located right in the heart of Tsimshatsui's shopping, dining and entertainment heartland. Nearby, all manner of trains, buses, ferries, the Mass Transit Railway and the crossharbour tunnel, give easy and fast access to all parts of the Territory. Every possible pleasure and diversion is right on your doorstep.
The magnificently decorated lobby reflects the true warmth of Renaissance hospitality. Not only is it elegant and spacious but the mixture of earth tones with a touch of modernity gives it a beautifully styled atmosphere. Both business and leisure travelers enjoy an attentive service to even the finest detail. And the next time you check in, you'll discover we've remembered all your preferences and exactly what you expect from us.


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TDC Nevis gives $30,000 to 2008 Culturama Festival
TDC Limited – Nevis, West Indies
Charlestown, Nevis
TDC Group of Companies joined the list of corporate sponsors for Nevis' largest cultural annual festival Culturama, when TDC Nevis Ltd. presented a $30,000 cheque to the Nevis Cultural Foundation through the Culturama Secretariat, on July 24, 2008, at its Pinneys Industrial Site location.
The Company's Managing Director Mr. Ernie France said while he presented the cheque to Culturama Chairman Mr. Halsted "Sooty" Byron, that TDC Nevis Ltd. had been associated with the Festival throughout its 34 years of existence, having provided assistance in the form of gifts and prices for all the participants.
He explained that the chance to assist with the Festival presented a unique opportunity for the Company.
"This is the highlight of the Culturama Festivity and by our sponsorship of this event [senior calypso (kasio) competition], we see this as an opportunity to ensure that a show of the highest and most professional standard is brought to all the patrons who year after year look forward to and attend this event.
"Our sponsorship also assists in ensuring this very important art form is preserved for the benefit of our children and their children's children," he said.
In the past, the Company had provided sponsorship for the Mr. and Miss Talented Youth Pageant but switched sponsorship to the Senior Kaiso Monarch Competition in 2006.
Mr. France thanked the Culturama Committee for the opportunity to sponsor the contest and thanked them for their collaboration as the negotiations were long and hard but cordial.
Meantime, Mr. Byron praised the Company for its consistent partnership with Culturama over the years and voiced his delight with the response to this year's sponsorship of the calypso contest.
"TDC is once again on board with us with our Senior Kaiso Competition this year and certainly it is one of the biggest events for Culturama. We are happy to be associated with TDC. We are happy to have them being associated with this important event, this important aspect of Culturama the calypso. I think everybody would agree that calypso is the heartbeat of any Caribbean festival," he said.
Mr. Byron also underscored the need for partnerships to work toward the development of the calypso art form in Nevis and to find ways to attract young persons to get involved in calypso.
"One of our biggest concerns right now in Culturama and also in the Foundation, is that we need to work towards ensuring that we have our young people both males and females coming through in the calypso art form. We need to be doing a lot more during the year between Festivals to ensure that the Kaiso art form continues to develop and to ensure that over the years we will see young calypsonians graduating in to the Senior Kaiso contest," he said.
The Culturama Chairman also noted that the Foundation had encouraged the reigning Junior Kaiso Monarch "De Inspirer" to participate in the Senior Kaiso Monarch. He described the reigning Culturama Junior Kaiso Monarch and the St. Kitts/Nevis Carnival Junior Kaiso Monarch as having great talent and potential which was undisputed by everybody in Nevis and St. Kitts and Nevis.
"He has great potential but we want to use him as an example to our young calypsonians to depict just how far he can go and how far other junior calypsonians can go as well and also to use him to encourage other young people to become involved in the art form.
"We would want to partner with TDC not only at Culturama time but throughout the year, to ensure that the calypso art form continues to develop. Certainly Mr. France, we would want to continue some discussions with you once this Festival ends to see how we can work towards ensuring the calypso art form develops because it would benefit us as a Cultural Committee and as a Cultural Foundation as well as TDC," he said.
Also present at the event were Manager of the Festivals Secretariat Mr. Antonio Liburd TDC Marketing Assistant Mr. Dominic Matthew.
Culturama 2K8 commences on July 25, 2008 with an opening ceremony on the Charlestown waterfront and later in the evening the Caribbean Culture Queen Pageant takes places at the Cultural complex.
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White Balance Explained
Published 1st November 2017 by Tim Trott
The White Balance setting on cameras and editing software allows changes to the colour balance in your photos, making them warmer or cooler depending on the light conditions you're shooting in. White balance is also used to change the atmosphere in your photo.
Any discussion of the white balance must begin with colour temperature, an attribute of light that's a way of quantifying lights overall basic colour.
The term "colour temperature" is borrowed from physics, where it relates to the spectrum of light that's radiated from a theoretical object called a black body. As you heat up this object, it changes the colour that it emits. Terms like red hot and white hot are manifestations of this principle. As an example, if you heat a piece of metal, first it becomes dark red. As it becomes hotter, it turns yellow. Finally, as it becomes hotter still, it turns more bluish white, or what some might consider white.
In photography, however, the terminology we use for colour temperature (warm or cool for example) is just the opposite of its meaning in physics. Photographers consider blue to be cool and red to be warm.
White balance is a process of adjusting colour cast so that objects which appear white in person are rendered white in your photo. For example, take a sheet of white paper and place it under an indoor incandescent light - it takes on an orange tint - warm. Take that same paper and place it under fluorescent lights it appears much whiter, or even slightly blue - cold. Having the incorrect white balance is responsible for making photos appear very orange when indoors, or photos taken at dawn or dusk appear blue.
Most of the time modern cameras do a pretty good job of selecting the correct white balance profile to use and we need not worry about it, however, there are times when the camera gets confused.
The most common colour profiles and corresponding temperatures and uses are shown in the illustration below.
Auto (AWB) - A simple fail-safe for snapshots, but can vary from shot to shot depending on how the camera meters the scene.
Incandescent - Used for domestic indoor lighting and will colour match more effectively, eliminating the orange colour from indoor photos.
Fluorescent - for use when photographing under fluorescent lighting, however there are many types and this setting often has many options.
Direct Sunlight - Gives neutral colours under midday sun. Often used as a reference for "normal"
Flash - Flash guns have a cold feel about them, using this setting warms them up a little.
Shade - For shooting outdoors in shady conditions, under blue skies but not direct sun light
Cloud - For shooting outdoors in cloudy conditions, overcast with grey skies and a dull light cast
K - Some cameras allow manual colour selection from a list of temperatures in Kelvin.
Colour temperature describes the spectrum of light which is radiated from a black body with that surface temperature. A black body is an object which absorbs all incident light - neither reflecting it nor allowing it to pass through.
Light sources such as natural daylight and tungsten bulbs closely mimic the light created by blackbodies. Other light sources such as fluorescent and most commercial lighting differ greatly. Photographers use the term colour temperature to refer to correlated colour temperature with a similarly coloured black body. The following table is a general guide to the correlated colour temperature of some common light sources.
1000-2000 K Candlelight
2500-3500 K Tungsten Bulb (household variety)
3000-4000 K Sunrise/Sunset (clear sky)
4000-5000 K Fluorescent Lamps
5000-5500 K Electronic Flash
5000-6500 K Daylight with Clear Sky (sun overhead)
6500-8000 K Moderately Overcast Sky
9000-10000 K Shade or Heavily Overcast Sky
Fortunately, most digital cameras contain a variety of preset white balances, so you do not have to deal with colour temperature.
Fixing White Balance
The easiest method is to select the correct colour profile on the camera; however, it may be required to do so afterwards in post-processing.
Most image editing packages have a white balance feature which allows selection from a list of presets, similar to on the camera. There is also often a manual mode, allowing you to manually specify what "white" is and what "black" is. From this, it can generate a colour profile curve which can then be fine-tuned. It should be noted that this option is for advanced users as incorrect settings here will have disastrous results.
White balance adjustments are much easier when you shoot in RAW as the raw files contain the raw data - the camera has not tried to adjust the colour balance, and there is much more information to work with than a JPEG which has a lot of detail stripped out. You can still change the white balance when shooting in JPEG but only by slight amounts. Large amounts will cause the quality to degrade.
Most, if not all post-processing software such as Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Lightroom comes with an auto white balance option.
In Lightroom, you can adjust the white balance in the selected image by selecting an option from the White Balance dropdown list. You can use this to fix the image or you can use it as a starting point and then fine-tune the results.
You can also manually adjust the Temp slider to add warmth or remove it from the image. Drag the slider to the left to add a blue tint to the image (to cool it down), or to the right to add a yellow tint to it to warm the image.
Use the Tint slider to balance out any excess magenta or green in the image. Drag towards the right to add magenta to the image cancelling out any green tint and drag to the left to add a green tint cancelling out any unwanted magenta.
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I cannot believe that the 4th of July is right around the corner! One of the best ways to show patriotism is through style. Here are some of my favorite looks from J. Crew--a company I feel embodies the American prep spirit.


After all the work, preparations, renovations, and installations were completed over the summer, we were so excited to welcome back all of our students and their families. There were a few first day jitters, but for the most part, everyone was feeling right at home in no time at all. Students came with big smiles and were happy to see their friends and their teachers.
Welcome to all of our new students – we know they are going to be a huge asset to our school community!
Kindergarteners are ready to go!
We are wrapping up a week of teacher in-service. The school is ready and the teachers are excited to welcome back all of our St. Patrick students and families. We are sad to see the summer leave us, but we are so psyched about our new library, science lab, bathrooms, gym and painted classrooms! Welcome Back Warriors!
Welcome to our new faculty members.
Our New Science Lab Learner is Here!
Teachers are having fun learning in the new Science lab.
Our teachers are having a great time today learning all the fun things that can be done in our new Science lab. They have been here all day trying out the new equipment, learning the curriculum, and exploring new ideas and techniques! We can't wait to share all the experiments and tools with the students once they arrive!
Group work at its best!
Mission Day Article Appears in the Daily Local!
A great little article about a great day at St. Pat's!


HTC announced its new flagship HTC One smartphone on Tuesday, which HTC Americas President Mike Woodward dubbed "the best phone ever made."
The smartphone, with a 4.7-in. screen, will be sold in mid-March by AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile USA in 32 GB and 64 GB versions, reportedly at a starting price of $200, including a contract.
A laundry list of improvements includes an aluminum case, a new Sense interface, and an Ultrapixel camera for taking better photos in low light. Analysts said HTC was clearly out to improve its smartphone standing globally, having dropped half of its market share in 2012 from 2011 to less than 5%.
The HTC One is based on Android 4.1 but applies a new HTC Sense interface that some analysts compared to Windows Phone 8 for using a series of tiles on the home screen to track updates and streams of information. HTC also sells Windows Phone 8 smartphones that make use of live tiles in the interface.
"The new Sense is definitely a differentiator to stand out from the Android crowd," remarked Michael Gartenberg, an analyst at Gartner and a Computerworld columnist, in an email. "HTC One seems like the flagship Android device at the moment, but given market velocity, we'll have to see for how long."
Some Android purists will object to the new Sense interface because it is an overlay of Android with some cross references to live tiles in Windows Phone 8. The cross references will appeal to some buyers, however, said Carolina Milanesi, also a Gartner analyst.
"The new Sense brings something different to the Android camp, and as you generally have positive feedback on the Windows tiles experience, and [because] people want Android, this Sense might actually appeal," Milanesi said.
Sense offers BlinkFeed, which streams information from various sources.
Most reports prior to the HTC One's release focused on the new camera, which HTC calls the "Ultrapixel" camera. It is not made up of three different light sensors, as some early reports said.
The Ultrapixel camera is able to capture 300% more light than cameras in competing smartphones, which is seful in low-light conditions, HTC said. It works by capturing larger pixels with a sensor on the back of the phone that measures one-third of an inch, according to HTC's specifications.
At the launch event, HTC wouldn't provide the camera's megapixel count, telling reporters and bloggers, including Computerworld's Barbara Krasnoff, that the megapixel is irrelevant. "The era of the megapixel is over," said Jonah Becker, HTC's design director, during the presentation.
According to the spec sheet, each pixel is 2.0 um, an area of 4 square microns -- a pixel size that is twice that of last year's HTC One X, which had an 8 megapixel sensor. While HTC wouldn't say how many megapixels are in the One, Symon Whitehorn, HTC's director of special projects, told CNET and others that the One's camera has 4 megapixels.
Having a 4-megapixel sensor with fewer megapixels forces each pixel to be larger, letting in more light, according to HTC.
Analysts agreed that HTC is correct in saying that megapixels aren't the only factor in a good camera. HTC cited other camera features, including optical image stabilization and a smart flash with five levels of flash that are automatically set by the distance to a subject.
"Megapixels alone in a camera are not enough: You need good software, lenses and sensors to make the experience rich," Milanesi said.
"There's definitely truth to the argument that sensor size is more important than raw pixel count," Gartenberg said. "That's true in dedicated cameras. If HTC implemented well, it could make a difference, especially in low light."
HTC didn't stop at a good camera in the One. The phone maker also mentioned audio improvements with Boomsound, which includes dual front stereo speakers enhanced with Beats Audio technology.
The phone also comes with a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor, rated at 1.7 GHz, and a 2,300 mAh battery. LTE networks are supported on all three U.S. carriers, and near-field communications technology is available, depending on the carrier and the location.
The HTC One weighs 5.04 ounces, and measures 5.41 x 2.69 x 0.37 inches.


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MAIN : Origin of the Dog : Andean Dog
Back to Origin of the Dog in America & the XXI CenturyOrigin of the Dog
The Andean Dog: Known Breeds and it's Relationship with the South American Man
Mendoza España Velia Verónica
Dirección Nacional de Arqueología
The idea that the Andean dog was product of the Spanish conquest--here is who thinks that the no dogs existed in America and if it exist it were "wild" and the domestic ones were brought by the Spanish--began to break with the archaeological foundings done in the Andean territory, of dog bony samples as representations of this animal in different materials (ceramic, lithic and metal). Although this foundings were not studied and it showed only the dog presence and not about the relationship they had with man, it was the base to scientific studies(1). The colonial documents and ethnographic data were the beginning for these studies, and then these make contrast with the archaeological data.
The investigation was done in the high plateau of Bolivia which has a sub-humidity part and an arid part. The sub-humidity part begins in the Titicaca Lake, followed by the Poopo Lake and the Desaguadero River (which is considered to be a semiarid zone) the arid part is desertic and it is formed by the salt deposits (Uyuni, Coipasa and others). The ubication of the archaeological materials and the archaeozoological remains are founded in the North high plateau that is between the Titicaca Lake and the Poopo Lake(2) (Figure 1).
Ubication of the archaeological sites of the north high plateau of Bolivia from which the material of Canis familiaris used in this paper comes.
The results showed that a close relationship between man and dog existed in the Andes, since the Formative period (2 000 B.C.-200 A.D.) to the Inkario (c.a. 1450-1600 A.D.) This relationship is reflected in the different functions that the dog did in the prehispanic times, in the social, religious and economic circles; also the existence of other types of dogs was possible to recognize in the Andean zone, identifying hairless dogs and hairy dogs, and in this last ones existed three kinds. The conclusions of these studies remain in the importance of the dog inside the Andean Weltanschauung.
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In the year 1896 Arthur Posnanky(3) showed in his book "Tiahuanacu. The cradle of American man", the founding of a "mummified dog", which was discovered beside a burial to the Post-Tiwanakua era. Then in 1956, in the center of the city La Paz, Maks Portugal Z., reported the founding of a dog in a burial with human corpses of the Inka epoch. In the 70´s canids bony remains foundings were reported by the archaeologists Browman and Cordero(4), it was also found dog representations in different materials (5); in the 80`s and 90`s archaeologists as Bermann, Manzanilla(6), Lemuz(7) and Paz(8) between others, gave information about the dog's function in the Tiwanaku Culture. For the great part of these foundings the actual ubication is unknown because of the little interest that these animal bones represent for the archaeologists that worked this region. There existed several things--different cultural period presence--the dog in the Andean high plateau, was not known how was the relationship between the Andean societies and their implications, until the "El perro en las sociedades andinas del pasado: un aporte arqueozoologico" (The dog in the past Andean societies: an archaeozoological contribution) (1) was done, work that analyzed and order the archaeological and archaeozoological material available to know the interrelationship man--dog in the Bolivian high plateau.
In the study done a total of 19 archaeological pieces were analyzed: ten bony pieces, three ceramic ones, two lithic ones, two metals, one wood and exceptionally no archaeological material that is a photograph from the year 1896. This material comes from the archaeological sites of: Chiripa, Qiwaya, Santiago de Huata, Tiwanaku, Chuquiña, Tiraska, Jiquilla, Niño Korin and Carangas (Figure 1). Colonial documents were analyzed too, such as the chronicles of the XVII and XVIII century, and the oral history, translated in myths, legends and life experiences of the people who live near the archaeological sites of where the materials come from.
From most part of the bony pieces information was extracted, information with reference of species, age, sex, weight, size, type or form of these specimens, following the determined parameters of Crockford (9) and Valadez (10-13). From the other pieces (no bony ones) this same information was able to take according to the physical characteristics shown. The function determination depended of the context and the taphonomic analysis(14) applied (in bony samples cases). Not all the pieces belong to Canis familiarisb this material gave important results to reach the relationship of dog and Andean societies.
The results, although it were modest (Figure 2) are not meaningless because it let us recognize the morphology of the studied individuals just as its possible uses and so the kind of relationship that the dog had with the Andean man. The details of each case can't be shown in this space, so it was considered better to use it to show the reader the implications of the realized study.
Could it be possible that the Biology, Archaeology and History use (oral and written), can join to know how the relationship man--dog was and also to determine the possible types that were their in the different cultural periods in a regional level (North High plateau), to the level we can generalize this results at a South American level?
From here it is done a summary about the dog use and the possible existent breeds in the cultural periods of the Bolivian high plateau.
Formative Period (ca. 2000 B.C., 400 A.D.). An example of the presence of the dog in this period is found in the Chiripa Culture (1500-100 A.D.), which has its place in the circumlacuster area of the Titicaca Lake. This culture conceived the dog as part of the weltanschauung, using it as offerings in different ceremonies. This use took physical place through its representation in sacred objects (tablet, stele). In both cases this animal was used to show the sexual andean duality (male--female) and space (up--down).
Another important example existed in the Wankarani Culture (1800 B.C.--400 A.D.), located around the Poopo Lake, in this case, the data show that the dog was also a part of their weltanschauung, using its representations (clay figures) as companion to the deceased, showing the conception of life after death that still appears in our culture.
In the phase Late Pana (200-300 A.D.) (Santiago de Huata), bony remains existed that show that the dog was used as food (Figure 2).
As the results show, the types of dogs that existed in the Formative were hairy dogs: one medium type, dolicephalic and another of small size, short legs, dolicephalic and mesaticephalic.
Tiwanaku Period (400 B.C.-1200 A.D.). The Tiwanaku culture extended a lot, occupying territories that actually belong to countries as Peru, Bolivia and Chile. This culture Interacted with the dog inside their weltanschauung and was used in animals and its representations. In the religious part, the dog was used as offering in sacred places possibly attached to water; also took the function of companion of the deceased keeping the conception of life after death, in the economic it was of help in the hunting activities, possibly helping to hunt and picking up the prey. The type of dog that we have evidence it had hair, dolicephalic of medium to big size and straighten ears.
Andean Confederations (1200-1470 A.D.). The Andean Confederations period is composed by several cultures, denominated "aymaras dominion", these were placed in the high plateau, occupying actual territories of Peru, Chile and Bolivia. The mayor characteristic of these cultures was its type of burials that were done in funerary towers known as chullpas. Between these cultures Pacajes, Carangas, Mollo, Lupacas; Quillacas, Soras and others are founded. In this period the interrelationship with the dog is obvious, especially as companion of the deceased, inside the andean conception of life after death.
Inside this period we can see the presence of the hairless dog or K´hala (Figures 2 & 3) in which it is dolicephalic, svelte and has only hair in the head, tail and legs, but also it is reported the existence of a braquicephalic dog with fallen ears, with hair; represented in ceremonial objects (Figure 2).
The Inkario (1470-1532 A.D.). The Inkas occupied a big territory that actually is part of Colombia, Ecuador, Argentina, Chile and Bolivia. The archaeological material and the chroniclers' reports indicate that in this period the relationship man-dog existed in the different functions they did, being the most important:
Ritual symbol, from little metal statues that symbolized the andean duality "yanantin"(15), that explains a same sex couple, as the perfect pair. The use of this company is reflected in drawings and reports of the Indian chronicler Felipe Guamal Poma de Ayala (1534-1615) (16, 17) and also the report of Father Bernabé Cobo (1580-1577) (18), that indicates that Indians, although miserable, wanted their dogs more than their own sons, because they carried them and slept together.
As helper in hunting activities, its function is represented also in the Poma de Ayala drawings.
The functions as home and cattle guardian is founded in evidences of the chroniclers reports such as Poma de Ayala and Cobo.
Its use as food is also registered in these chronicles; but the interesting part is that not everyone did this, because it was a condemn activity by the Inkas, although it is shown that the Huancas, Jaujas and Mochicas ate dog.
The types of dogs we can recognize for the Inkario are very diverse so, we can show: hairy form, braquicephalic with fallen ears, mesaticephalic type, short legs; another with dolicephalic skull, small to big size, straighten ears and at last the hairless dogs or K´halas.
Another important chronicler that gave us information about the prehispanic dog is the Father Ludovico Bertonio, that in his work "Vocabulario Aymara" (Aymara Vocabulary)(19), describes dog's characteristics that have its equivalent in aymara language. In the following part is shown the most relation terms of the dog's physical form:
Dog with big ears that hang a lot = Jinchuliwi
Big dog = Pastu
Very hairy dog = Ch´usi anuqara
Little dog = Ñañu
The facts from other South American regions, specially Peru, are very big, the problem is that they had not been part of studies that wish to comprehend the relation of the dog with the prehispanic andean cultures and its different ways of life, the same thing happened with the breed identification, because there are not studies of these themes in South America, that's why the mistake of affirm that every rest or representation in archaeological material of a dog is K´hala breed or hairless is done, also many peruan investigators affirm that the hairless dog had its origin in Peru; but there are not proofs of that.
Without doubts the study presented here represents the most new about the roll of the dog in the andean zone because although actually frontiers that divide this regions exist, the results shown here can be taken for the higher part of Peru too (mountains).
The relationship man-dog in the Andean societies from the past (Formative to Inkario) in the Bolivian north high plateau, were very dynamic, being part of the social, economic and religious sphere. These relationships were very close creating strong attachments which appear in the different functions in the social and economic activities, of course without resting importance to the affection that we see in many of the functions the dog did. These relationships were good for both because the dog in most of the times was sacrificed and we have evidence that it was in its adult age in good condition.
Since the Formative period the dog was very close with man no matter its age, sex, size, type or form, being part of their weltanschauung, also it exists continuity in this conception until the Colony times. About the breeding determination we can say, taking the Bertonio work, the drawings of the chronicler Poma de Ayala and the analysis result of archaeozoological and archaeological material four types of prehispanic dogs in the Andean zone.
Type 1) Jinchuliwi. Braquicephalic dog, hairy, medium size, fallen ears.
Type 2) Pastu. Dolicocephalic dog, hairy little medium and big size, straightens ears; and with long hair it will be C´husi anuqara.
Type 3) Ñañu. Small dog, short legs, hairy, straightens ears, dolicocephalic.
Type 4) K´hala. Although this denominative is not in the Bertonio vocabulary it is used since the grandfathers, in the fields and in the city; so we considered it correct. The characteristics to this dog are: hairless, dolicocephalic, small and medium size, straighten ears.
The dog was one of the elements in the Andean weltanschauung, it participated in the form of seeing the world (duality, complement, between others) of the prehispanic societies; all this very attached to their religion. If the dog was an important part in the non-ceremonial activities and as companion, this function turn into a ritual when the owner died, because this use was more important when they died so we can find bony remains, representations, myths and beliefs about the dog and it's relation with people's deaths.
With the pass of time and new investigations for South America we will compare results and really see if changes about the dog's function in different religions and epochs existed, in this moment this is the relation of the dog with the Andean societies of the past for the North High plateau of Bolivia region.
Figure 2. Archaeological and archaeozoological analysis results material from Canis familiaris.
Use/Function
Bony (skeleton)
Chiripa (Quispe)
Tiwanaku Postclassic and/or Pacajes
800-1200 A.D.
Male, big size, 61 cm high, head-body length 96,43 cm, weight 14.5 kg, dolicocephalic, possibly had straighten ears, age 5 years, hairy body.
Bony (skull)
Qiwaya
Medium Chiripa
1000-800 B.C.
Male, possibly medium size, dolicocephalic, possibly straightens ears, age 3 to 4 years, hairy body.
Female, possibly medium size, dolicocephalic, probably straightens ears, age 3 to 3 years, hairy body.
Bony (skull part)
Andean Confederations
XIV century
Companion/dowry part
Sex could not be identified, small size, age 3 years, hairy body.
Bony (one rib)
S. Huata (Kollihumachipata)
S/I
?Food?
Small size.
Bony (two rib fragments)
Late Chiripa
Bony (dental parts, teeth, talus)
S. Huata (Lakaripata)
Late Pana
200-300 A.D.
Use surface
Male, small size, age 1 year, hairy body.
Tiwanaku
Classic Tiwanaku
Male, medium size, dolicocephalic, age 7 to 8 years, hairy body.
Bony (maxilla superior part)
Tiraska
Classic and expansive Tiwanaku
400-1 100 A.D.
Death world companion/dowry
Small size, age five months, hairy body.
Ceramic (Keru or ceremonial vase)
Hunt companion
Possibly medium size, dolicocephalic, straightens ears, hairy body.
Ceramic (Little figure)
Jiquilla
1200 a. C 250 B.C.
?Dowry part? Death world companion
Mesaticphalic? straighten ears.
Ceramic (Part of a plate holding part)
S. Huata (El Calvario)
Omasuyos / Inka
1 500 A.D.
Braquicephalic, fallen ears, possibly hairy body.
Lithic (Stella iconography)
Dolicocephalic and mesaticephalic, straighten ears, hairy body.
Lithic (tablet iconography)
1500-1 000 B.C.
Probably male and female, dolicocephalic with straighten ears and short legs, hairy.
Metal (little statue)
Inka?
Males, dolicocephalic, with straighten ears, short legs.
"Mummy dog" photograph
Carangas
Carangas?
1200-1450 A.D.
Death world companion
Probably medium size and adult age, hairless or K´hala.
a. Also known as Andean Confederations period
b. Three pieces (bone, wood and metal) belong to the andine fox Pseudalopex culpaeus
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Velia Mendoza, Archeologist


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Bereavement Support Service and Resources
We are seeking funding for a range of specialist amenities and resources to support our new Bereavement Support Programme. The programme is targeted at vulnerable families who have suffered the loss of a beloved child, offering 1:1 care to individual family members as well as the collective unit.
April 2017 - September 2021
Charity information: Sebastian's Action Trust
To provide holistic support to families who have suffered the loss of a beloved child. We have been able to secure funding to provide specialist workers to deliver one-to-one work with siblings but we now want to extend this provision to parents, to provide vital resources and develop peer support groups which can be used to help families during the most challenging of times.
The project will fund resources for families to help them explain grief and loss to bereaved siblings and other family members, recognising the potential differences in culture, faith, perspectives on death and personal belief. In addition the funding will help reduce social isolation suffered by such families by providing a peer support group which will offer activities and interaction for siblings, parents and whole families.
To reduce the isolation and despair felt by parents, siblings and carers at this time.
» Develop and facilitate a support group so that parents and carers can meet and benefit from mutual support of those who really understand.
Feedback from the support group and monitoring will enable us to understand whether or not this is having an impact.
To provide resources to help families understand and live with their grief.
» We will provide resources which will help families to understand the grieving process and in so doing will feel more empowered to live with loss.
Feedback from parents and carers as well as information from specalist support workers will help to measure whether parents and carers feel more resilient as a result.
The long term change that we hope to see as a result of this project is an improvement in the mental wellbeing of families who use the service. We are also hoping to see a reduction in feelings of isolation and an improvement in people's understanding of their response to grief.
The risk to this project is the continuation of funding for the specialist workers who will coordinate the work. To mitigate against this we will ensure that our Community Fundraising Team works to secure funding from within the community so that the post can be funded into the future, even after the initial funding ends.
All donors will receive a thank you letter, highlighting the impact of their donation and the change that it has enabled. In addition donors will receive a copy of our Newsletter and E-news as well as regular up-dates via social media.
£2,500 Resources Information about bereavement which can be lent to parents and carers
£5,000 Support group Monthly support group for bereaved parents
£2,500 Art and music workshops Holding 12 workshops for parents to explore non verbal expressions of grief
£3,000 Grief retreat A weekend away enabling bereaved parents to share, develop peer support and explore coping mechanism
The project will be located at our Family Services Hub in Crowthorne and at our respite facility in Hampshire. These places offer a chance for families to spend time with trained professionals and receive advice, guidance and support within one accessible enviorment.
Families across the UK who have lost a child are able to access these services although it is expected the majority of those who will benenifit will come from accross Berkshire, Surrey, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Hampshire.
We are a Queen's Award winning charity which puts families of seriously-ill and life-limited children at the heart of everything we do. As a charity run by families for families we understand need and can provide empathic support. Of our paid workforce 40% have direct experience of caring for a seriously-ill child, or are bereaved themselves.
Philippa King
Bereavement Support Co-ordinator and counsellor. Providing one-to-one and group support to bereaved families.


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Home › Book Review › ANGELIQUE
"Nounou," inquired Angelique, "Why did Giles de Retz kill so many children? With these words, one of the world's greatest series of historical fiction begins. It is a translation from French. I have been told that much was lost in a not-very-good translation. But I don't read well enough in French to fully enjoy the books.. Once, I did, but that was a very long time ago.
Nothing will change the way I feel about these books. Most were written long years ago. I read the first of them when I was 13. I still have the book, though the binding is broken and the pages are beginning to turn to dust.
The first book was published in 1957 and I read it in 1960. In those days, I lived in books. I didn't have friends. I was too different. I've always been out of step. Sometimes, a lot, occasionally almost catching up with my peers. But back then … I was weird.
Then I met Angelique.
The fifth child of an impoverished country nobleman, Angélique de Sancé grows up in the Poitou marshlands, a region known as the "Green Venice", halfway between the ocean and the forests. She is a free child, as one with the forest and the marshes, discovering nature's healing secrets with the help of the witch Mélusine. Her logical destiny would be to marry a poor country nobleman, have children and spend her life fighting for a meager subsistence.
Destiny has other plans in store for her. At 17, when she returns from the convent where she has been getting an education, she finds herself betrothed to the wealthy count of Toulouse, Joffrey de Peyrac. He is 12 years her senior, lame, scarred and rumored to be a wizard.
from the review by Harvey Adkins
Angélique's life and adventures inspired me and gave me courage.
Thus the story begins. In subsequent volumes, they will take you through most of the world of Louis XIV. Joffrey becomes the love of Angélique's life. After he is burned at the stake for heresy (and for being too politically powerful), Angélique finds herself homeless, penniless, with babies to protect in the underworld of Paris. Yet she rises up from the gutters back to the glittering court of Louis XIV. Confronts him on the murder of her husband, rebels against him, leads a group of Huguenots to the New World. Builds a colony, fights emissaries of the church and King to retain her freedom. Along the way, she has children — from a variety of fathers, including one resulting from rape — and one is murdered.
With all the power of Crown and Church arrayed against her, Angélique finds a way through and emerges victorious. Bowed, but never beaten. Her defeats are temporary setbacks, her triumphs change the world.
She is deathlessly beautiful. If you are a woman taking on the world, it's never bad to have golden hair and hypnotic green eyes. But Angélique doesn't win the day using sex. When she leads, she carries a gun and a sword. She will kill in defense of her own (and does). She will fight for her family, her home, her beliefs.
She became much more than a fictional character to me. At a time when female role models were few and far between, Angélique was fearless. Unstoppable. No simpering lady of fashion, she was tough. Smart. She suffered the worst life could dish out. She faced down unspeakable challenges. And there were casualties.
Back in the real world, author Anne Golan was fighting her publisher for the rights to her books.
Anne Golon was born 17 December 1921 as Simone Changeux in Toulon, France. She published her first novel at 18 as Joëlle Danterne. During World War II, she traveled by bicycle through France and Spain writing under various pen-names. She helped create France Magazine. Was sent to Africa as a journalist, where she met Vsevolod Sergeïvich Goloubinoff, her husband, Serge Golon.
They collaborated on Angélique. Anne wrote. Serge did the considerable research required by these surprisingly accurate books. The first book in the series was an astounding success. The books were credited to Serge and Anne Golon, (Sergeanne Golon), the names having been merged by publishers who were reluctant to print books written by women.
In 1972, Anne and Serge Golon went to Canada to continue research. Anne wrote Angélique and the Ghosts. Serge died.
Anne continued writing and raising her 4 children. Between 1972 and 1985, she wrote four more books. While battling Hachette for unpaid royalties and rights, Anne Golon lived in extreme poverty. She finally won, leaving her sole owner of the works.
These are the books which were translated into English:
Angélique, The Marquise of the Angels
Angélique: The Road to Versailles (US and the UK with the 1st volume, Angélique)
Angélique and the King
Angélique and the Sultan (aka, Angélique in Barbary)
Angélique in Revolt
Angélique in Love
The Countess Angélique
The Temptation of Angélique (In Canada as: The Temptation of Angélique 1: The Jesuit Trap, The Temptation of Angélique 2: The Downfall of Goldbeard)
Angélique and the Demon
Angélique and the Ghosts.
The English translation of this series stopped abruptly with Angélique and the Ghosts. Anne Golon's fans — like their fictional heroine — wanted to know what had happened to the author. We found her, in Paris, alive, well, and still writing. We learned — as of August, 2009 — there were three yet-untranslated books already in the series:
Angélique à Quebec
Angélique: Route de L'Espoir
Victoire d'Angélique
Ms. Golon also announced 2 more books: Royaume de France, ("Kingdom of France") to follow Victoire, and a 15th and final volume, yet untitled. None of these has been translated. English-language readers — like me — have waited more than 35 years. An entire lifetime during which I have gone from adolescent to a senior citizen.
I've read thousands of books during these long years, but never lost hope for translations of the new Angélique book. Anne Golon is well into her 90s, but like Angélique herself, nothing short of Death himself can stop this remarkable woman.
July 2017: Anne Golon passed away on Friday at the age of 95. She was writing until the end. She inspired me as a girl and instilled the belief I could do anything a man could do. She was a wind behind my back for a lifetime. If you read French, there is an article in Figaro here.
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My mother introduced me to Angelique a I probably read all the books. It was an amazing adventure and great escapism. Just might read them again.
I'm glad I'm not the only one. I started reading them when I was thirteen and the only ones I didn't read were the last three which were entirely in French. By then, my high school French wasn't up to the challenge. I still have most of the books.
It would be interesting to read them in French…
I'm told they are much better in French. If my French were better, I'd give it a try.
Now you have me spooked…. From a German aunt I received the first Angelique book as a birthday present. My parents considered me too young to read that and took it away from me for a while…. Reading your post I thought 'This can't be – because this German aunt would have bought it in German and on the top my head I couldn't imagine such an early translation. In the article in the Figaro however it states that her first book appeared – before being published in France – in Germany!!! I'll never….
I read that book later on but for a long time I was terribly intruiged by the 'lush cover', which probably made my parents decide that this book wasn't for their daughter…. I always got 'hot' titles from said aunt and I'll be forever grateful that she sent me books when I was young. She might have, together with my parents who both were avid readers, helped my life-long affinity and deep love for reading. I used to call that aunt 'raschelnde Wogen des Schilfs' (rustling waves of reed) because on the title of all these books there was always one sentence of 'general description' and that one, especially intruiging, really did it for my unformed, eager and romantic heart. 🙂
Those "lush" covers were SO misleading and had nothing to do with the story. Angelique was published in MANY languages … and her publisher stole all the money. She was 90 when she finally won in court. She never stopped writing, but she also was very poor for most of her life, despite the popularity of her books.
Sue Vincent
I read my way through the series too in my teens. As you say, strong women in a credible world were few and far between in fiction at that time and the recreation of Louis' France was remarkable. I too still have some of those early volumes, tattered and falling to bits.
She was a remarkable writer. I think Angelique became my icon. Angelique could be and do anything. I always hoped they'd re-translate them and bring them back. What a GREAT mini series! I had a brief correspondence with Mdme. Golon in those final years. It was difficult because her English wasn't very good and my French was pretty bad. I hoped she'd live to finish the series. She almost did it. I knew her son in Jerusalem. He was a professor at the University of Jerusalem where I worked. It took me years to realize the connection!
Angelique did most things, as I recall…and I learned an awful lot of history from those books. Wonderful that you corresponded with Anne.
These were the books that got me reading history. That and Thomas Costain. But more Angelique. I kept trying to find out which characters were real and who were made up. In the process, I kept reading more and more history. The books were a jumping off point for many things. If my French had been less pathetic, it might have been better.
Te books still keep surprising me, though I haven't read them in a long time… they were so well written and researched that snippets of history come to life for me through having read them.
Maybe I'll try reading them again. I'm afraid the pages will disintegrate! I also have a few in paperback, but I have them wrapped in plastic, so they are in pretty good shape.
One of these days I will too…when/if I ever get time to read fiction again 😉
The only time I get to read is at night and I fall asleep so fast, I don't get very far. So I just read familiar books. That way I don't miss anything 🙂
Same here… sometimes I manage a chapter, most times, just a page or two 🙂


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Anthony Knipe var en engelsk köpman under 1600-talet.

Anthony Knipe verkade som rådförvant i Göteborg 1635–1643 och var 1639–1643 handelspresident där. 1640 representerade han Göteborg vid riksdagen. Knipe var sysselsatt i handel med mastträd på 1630-talet, och Göteborg stad arrenderade ut masthamnar åt honom. Då ett kortvarigt engelsk handelskompani inrättades i Göteborg 1635, blev Knipe dess representant i magistraten. Som handelspresident arbetade han nitiskt för en reglering av handeln. Han invecklades i flera konflikter inom Göteborgs rådstuga, vilka ledde till att Axel Oxenstierna 1639 besökte staden för att stävja konflikten. Knipes oförmåga att samarbeta med övriga borgare i staden ledde till att han 1649 lämnade Göteborg. Han lyckades därefter vinna förtroendet hos de makthavande i Danmark och utsågs till generaltullförvaltare i Norge. Som sådan väckte han missnöje genom sin vittgående reformiver och kom i spänt förhållande till sina överordnade och suspenderades 1654. Ännu 1657 var han i livet men försvinner därefter ur källorna.

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It is a sad day for us at the Papertake weekly Challenge, after running for 8 years it's time to pull down the shutters and close it up.
Choose Any Previous Challenge Theme!
I used a Falling Snow Stencil, some White Embossing Paste and a sprinkling or Prisma Glitter for the front, it doesn't show up too well in the photos, but it is lovely and sparkly IRL.
Thanks for looking. I hope you will join in the challenge and hope around the DT to say goodbye, it is the end of an era!
For a chance to win my $25 Gift Certificate to Simon Says Stamp you need to join in with the challenge AND leave me a comment on this post.
Beautiful card, Lols!!! So sad it's all coming to an end now. It's been an awesome ride and I've loved working along side you for so many years!! Merry Christmas to you and your family! big hugs!
Love this shaker card! Let it snow seems to be a popular theme at the moment - is it wishful thinking lol?
Such an adorable shaker card. It is so generous of the Papertakeweekly DT to offer such awesome prizes on their blogs! Keeping fingers crossed I win your giveaway ! I have entered the challenge!
This is gorgeous Lorraine. The foxes are so cute and love the design.
I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and best withes for a happy and healthy 2016.
thank you for all your comments on my blog hunny, here i must grovel and say sorry I am so bad at replying, it's going to be one of my New Year resolutions, so watch this space ha ha!!
I was very sad to see that this challenge is closing - it's one of my favourites! I knew you had been there a long time - since 2009? That's awesome! Your shaker card is super cute! I loe the adorable foxes! I am hoping for the fuse tool from Santa! I like to make shaker cards too! Wishing you the happiest of holidays, Lols!
I love shaker cards and those sequins make for a beautiful sparkly effect. Such an adorable image and a wonderful Christmas card.
So cute! Love all these shaker cards you've been making!
I need to put my fuse tool to good use, haven't been able to use it yet, thanks for sharing your card and for the challenge, Merry Christmas and don't worry next year will bring you new opportunities.
Sweet as can be and I'm so excited to see how much you are using your Fuse tool!! ENJOY!!
Happy Christmas and Best Wishes for a wonderful New Year!!!
Beautiful card ,love it.Thanks for the chance.
Such a cute card. I love when other people make shakers but it is so not something I enjoy doing. Merry Christmas, Lols!
This is just super cute, Lols, love it. So sad to say goodbye to Papertake weekly, I have enjoyed playing along. My final entry is number 22, wishing you a very Merry Christmas.
the challenge will be sadly missed by many..! thanks for the challenge and all the great themes too!
Wow, Lols, this is such a cute card, I love the shaker aspect and the little foxes, sequins and the trees are also fabulous!
Thanks so much for giving me some inspiration to go and create a card or two for the PTW final challenge (sob sob), very sad news. That is so very generous of you to also put up a $25 Simon Says voucher, wow! I hope good karma comes right back to you!
I hope you had a lovely Christmas and all the very best for a happy and healthy 2016.
Wonderful card. Foxes are so cute.
Awww gorgeous shaker card, those foxes are so cute!
Such an adorable shaker card!!! I love your image!!!
Beautiful card. Thanks for joining us at cards and more and good luck.
Hi Lols awww so sad when a blog closes, you have made a super cute creation for your last PTW post..must check out your links me thinks I need to kick start my card making..
Fabulous shaker card, cute fox image and all of the embellishments look great. I can just about make out the embossing paste in the background.
Such a darling card with NN's darling foxes cuddling inside the shaker and the 'wintry wonderland' scene on the outside! The trees, snowflakes and patterned border are perfect special touches! Gorgeous! Sorry to hear that the challenge is closing, but we know you'll still be creating here! Thank you for brightening this snowy Monday morning!
I like shaker cards very much. Your one is so beautiful. Thanks for showing it on Paperminutes.
Your shaker card is SO cute! I joined in with the last challenge too, I am really going to miss them. It is my favourite challenge to play along with each week.
The foxes are so cute! Love the shaker snow idea! Thanks for sharing at Crafty Cardmakers and more!
Great card, those foxes are adorable and I love the shaker element.Thanks for joining in at Crafty Boots Challenges this time.
So adorable! I love the fun shaker scene you created!


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Q: How to configure django environment for pycharm on windows? I am new to django development (I was working with MS and Oracle/Java stack). I now how important it is to prepare your dev environment right. I have web server with some small django project I am going to expand, pycharm IDE (checked possibilities and chosen this one) on windows. Project is not in any version control but I am going to put it into git later.
My question is - how to configure environment and import my project into it? Is it possible to put my devproject into virtual machine and edit it in pycharm from windows (tried but didnt know how to do it) or do I have to install django on windows? I am a little reluctant to install all this staff on my workstation but it may be necessary. Is it possible to install django modules only for this project and not pollute my global python environment?
This may be obvious for regular django devs but I am little lost.

A: Since I wrote this answer, PyCharm has greatly expanded their support for virtual environments; and now you can create virtual environments when starting projects.
For more information, see PyCharm online documentation.

I use PyCharm on Windows at work, and this process works for me (since PyCharm doesn't support virtual env in the project creation stage). You have to put the django libraries on your development machine for the code hinting and method signatures to work.
To do this, you need to first install setuptools and then install pip in your system python.
For New Projects

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*First create your virtual environment, this will avoid polluting your base python install.
D:\>virtualenv --no-site-packages myenv
New python executable in myenv\Scripts\python.exe
Installing setuptools................done.
Installing pip...................done.

*Next, switch into this env:
D:\>myenv\Scripts\activate
(myenv)D:\>

*Install django into this environment: pip install django, and any other libs you might need for this project.

*Run PyCharm and File > New Project

*Give your project a name and select Django project from the Project type drop down

*On the next screen, click the button to the right of the python interpreter, and browse to your virtual environment, and select the directory with the python.exe file.
Now your project is setup to only use the virtualenv python.  Once you are done developing, you can freeze your install and replicate it on your testing environment.
Once you are done, you can simply delete the directory myenv to remove the project-specific libs.

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Success with Arts Council Bid!
Today I found out that my bid with the arts council for funding with the National Centre for Craft & Design Exhibition & community iPad workshops, got the go ahead!
This means I can now purchase 30 x iPads, along with lots of other wonderful gizmos, that will enable me to provide iPad workshops to schools and colleges in Lincolnshire.