''In New World, New Society We Will Unites, Loves, Cares, Supports, Hears Anybody, Respect Anybody, Accept Anybody So That Everyone Receive Fairness And All Will Be Loves And Happy'' -and that is one of many i do in position will trust to people to me.
Hello Everyone I Am FIDEL TUGNAO, A 23 Years Of Age, Single, 5'3'' Height, 43 Weight, A Male And Formal Gay, I Currently Living On My Own In Davao City Philippines Because Of I Am Being Independent Because I Am From A Broken Family-Broken Relationships To Each Other Of My Family Siblings.
I Am Running And Being A Candidate FOR A PARLIAMENTARY POSITION In Our GREAT ASGARDIA(The New World,New Home, New Adventure,New Society).
My Goals And Responsibilities Or Work Are To Help Each And Everyone But It Depends On What The Asgardia(The New Society,Etc.)Propose Or Told To Do Or How/What Our Duty To Each And Everyone Of You The People.
Our New Country-New Home-New World-New Society Will Develop A More Upgraded Financially Responsible Policy ,More Upgraded Equipments-Things-And More... Than Earth Have Currently For The Future And For Us.
I Know All Of You My Dear People/Friends/Etc., Did Not Know Me Well / Already. But I Ask / Beg Your Permission,Help,Vote,Unity,Understanding,Goodheart To Try Me To Show All Of You Who Voted Me To Do What I Share And Said Here That I Am Not Only In Word Or Mouth Or Talk But In Doings Is First.
In The Last Part I Say Do Not Be Worried To Me Because What All Of You Will Be The Decision If Like, Want,Try ,Vote Or Not Is I Will Respect Each Of You The Decision.
Again Thank You Very Much For Giving Atleast Short Seconds/Minutes/Hours To Read My Message. I Always Put You In My Heart As Part Of My Friends And Life.
Focused on what count, You. An ambitious leader, not through words, but through genuine listening.
My name is Brajan Funes. I was born in a little village in the third world country of Honduras. As a child, I grew up using the bathroom at an outhouse, walked on dirt roads to go to school, and slept in the same bed as two of my cousins. At a young age, I moved to the United States where I was raised and had the grateful opportunity to be educated. As a little boy from humble beginnings, to be a part of this regal nation as we explore, discover, support, and embrace one another is a true honor.
I am a very enthusiastic, amiable, and open individual. You are always welcomed to reach out to me and expect expedited and warm replies. I truly believe in the promise of a free, open, and peaceful Asgardian Society. I want to strive to ensure that all Asgardian voices are heard and every citizen feels engaged in our community and growth. This is an exciting time for Asgardia! We have accomplished so much and we move towards the beautiful journey that lies ahead. I want to be a part in uniting us under the common goal of discovery, peace, and freedom. I want you to play a role in this too. Let's join together.
One Humanity – one unity.
· (USA) Federally Licensed InvestmentRepresentative. I currently hold my Series 6, Series 63, and Life/Annuity Licenses.
· Years of experience working in the financial industry, including working for companies like Bank of America and J.P MorganChase. Deep knowledge of financial institution operations and systems.
· Currently studying at Southern New HampshireUniversity for a Bachelor's degree in Finance and Accounting with a specialization in Financial Planning. I have plans to become a Certified Public Accountant and continue education towards a Master's degree.
1. Network, gather and communicate the concerns, suggestions, and feelings of my local neighbor Asgardian citizens to the rest of our nation around the world. Increase awareness and presence of Asgardia in my local community. Seek out talented and capable citizens to participate in the growth of our promising home.
2. Actively engage in communication with our communities in developing a course of action on drafting ideas for an official mobile application for our Nation.
1. Open to ideas. Creativity thrives in an open and synergistic society. It allows for problem solving and development of programs that are supported by the populace, not justselect individuals.
2. Open to criticism. As a leader, one must be open to criticism from those they serve. It is the basic foundation of leadership in an open society. Acting to institutionalize and execute the will of the people is the basis for a truly participatory system.
3. Taking responsibility. A leader must also be ready to accept responsibility for actions. Establishing this trust allows to build networks of trust and action which are crucial for the growth of a society.
It is on these basic constructs that I build my platform. As a candidate, I am committed to the open exchange of ideas, for creative solutions to benefit all citizens. I accept the criticism others may have of my views and positions and stand ready to engage in discourse on the issues with the goal of achieving solutions that meet the needs of society. Finally, I have founded my life on taking responsibility for actions that I control and will continue to do so.
WE ARE ONE NATION, WE ARE ONE PEOPLE, THERE IS ONLY ONE RACE, THE HUMAN RACE. WE MUST SHED OUR PREJUDICES AGAINST EACH OTHER, ONLY THEN CAN WE TRULY MOVE FORWARD AS A SPECIES.
I would like to start my platform off by telling you a little bit about myself.
For the past 12 years since high school i have experienced so much. After i graduated high school i immediately moved to Muskegon Michigan where I attended Baker College of Muskegon, no it wasn't primarily a culinary school, just ironic. During my time there i majored in Business Administration and Restaurant management. See that is where the irony is. During my stay i was able to run for student office where i won the elections as Student Body President Of Residency. I admit my time at Baker was cut short, One of my dear friends became extremely ill, I would consider her a mother.
During my time in Tucson Juggling nursing her back to health and taking care of her daughter i attended Pima community college where i majored in Archaeology. I know miles away from my previous degree. About two years later, i received a call. My sister who is wheelchair bound asked if i would come help her and her family, they were in dire need of help. At this time my good friend had recovered. And again i dropped my personal life and went to the rescue. I know it may seem as though I cannot stick in one place to long. That's not the case. My biggest fault in life, is that my heart is too big. My grandparents raised me to be caring to those who are in need, and i have always held this as my strongest belief. We must help those who are unable to help themselves.
There is a difference between being lazy and being in need. Ever since I moved to Georgia with her I have never left her side. She is family and family and I would never change that choice.
For now that is enough about me. There is so much more i could talk about however we should get to the good stuff..
Why am I running for Parliament?
I truly believe in Asgardia. It is important to lay the foundations for the future, this is what we are doing. In order to be taken serious we have to be serious.. And i bring that to the table ten fold. I want to represent the people, I want to listen to the voices of the people. And i want to make sure those voices are heard and respected.
There are no political parties in my candidacy.
I do not represent my own beliefs.
10+ Years Computer Technology with heavy emphasis on programming and App Deployment and Analytics.
12 Years Home health care, providing quality care for the disabled community.
5 Years 3D modeling and conceptual design.
I represent YOU. The Citizens of Asgardia.
Now i can document ever position i hold on a wide range of issues. However like i said i am here to represent YOU!
Now there are a few things that I focus on and are topics and issues near and dear to my heart.
It is important that all citizens of Asgarida have access to free education. If we are to have our dreams realized it starts with everyone having the same ability as the next to unlock there full potential. I feel in todays society only the privileged are able to reach that goal.
This one is simple. Do you have the same DNA as the person next to you. Ok Cool, You have the same rights as everyone else. Simple short, stop the nonsense.. look at an xray.. Do you see a difference? No.
The children of the world are truly our future. We need to defend, protect and teach our children love and peace. There is so much hate in the world. This needs to stop. Our children are our future.
4. Food & Basic Needs.
Everytime i see someone on tv starving it truly breaks my heart. It seems these days you have to pay for everything. What next Air?
I envision the future of Asgardia being a place that provides basic resources to its residents. No one should go without a meal. Period. Luxery items yes of course there will be an economy. But If a little girl is starving and walks into Walmart and asks for a loaf of bread and is turned away, how does this help?
One of my areas of interests is Aquaponics. Aquaponics is a self contained ecosystem where everything has its purpose. I believe this will be one of the main sources of food in the future. I will have a Blog post that will give a more detail explanation so check my blog for updates.
The list could literally go on forever. In short I am a Candidate for the people.
Elect me and your voice will be heard.
One: I intend to advocate for a scientifically-based approach to environmental issues to prevent the desecration of space. Regulations and practices to protect the atmosphere of space and the protection of all life forms should be agreed to by international treaties. The protection of space is a fundamental need, beginning now.
Two: I intend to advocate for the peaceful use of space free of inter spacial weapons and colonization by earthly nations. Space must always be for everyone without national politics.
With the creation of the worlds first space kingdom, it is very important to establish a documented history of the creation and beginning events that happen. We are living history that will need to be preserved for future generations and as part of the Parliament of Asgardia, my main objective will be to preserve these major events to be archived for all future generations.
As a Historian, I would love to leave my mark to cataloguing the origins of Asgardia. I would appreciate any support and look forward to meeting many citizens of this new kingdom.
Hi John, I've just voted you thinking that you will be an amazing leader. So please read my platform and give your vote for me!!! All the best!!!
Asgardia for the future of humanity!
My platform is extremely simple. I would love to serve in parliament to ensure a free and sustainable Asgardia. With a focus on education and research to help build the technology that will take us into space. I believe for humanity to survive we need to have a viable habitat in the next 25 to 50 years outside the comfort of Earth. This includes the need to develop space travel techniques and technology to push us beyond our solar system.
I am also a Husband and Father to 4 wonderful daughters that I hope one day can explore beyond our solar system.
Hello Joshua, welcome to the first elections of the Parliament of Asgardia. Indeed, your platform is very simple. I hope you will share more about it in the future?
Asgardia represents an opportunity to build a nation like nothing the human race has seen before. We have a chance to break the cycles that have shackled us for all of recorded history. We have a chance to stop the cycle of exchanging one oligarchy for another in the name of progress or revolution. We have a chance to show the Earth a better way to govern. A government without the adversarial proclivity to impose their will on others through exploitation, intimidation or outright military conflict . A government where science and technology are not politicized. A government where people, not profit are prioritized. A government with the simple, yet radical notion that the destiny of humankind lies among the stars.
Well, as Chris suggested it, it is always good to hear a declaration of hope and goodwill but maybe getting more specific would make people know you better. Being more pragmatic as to how to achieve all these wonderful principles you described, would certainly not hurt your campaign! Good luck to you!
A society that prioritises fundamental human needs, and equality of access and support to these needs, is true humanity. Asgardia's present and future should be collaborative, clean, renewable, fair, compassionate, and forward-thinking.
Equality is about everyone have equal opportunities. As a public servant (whether by title or nature) I have always endeavoured to help society and the individuals who make it wonderful. Volunteering, supporting and motivating others has always been a major part of who I am. It started as a love of working in community groups and charities, then it led me into HR, and now I work as an admin manager, (with a sideline in online volunteering and blogging to satisfy my love of the digital lifestyle).
We all life in a digital world, but we don't all live a digital lifestyle. For some citizens, the move to a digital lifestyle has already begun. I'm in that category. Although I have a full-time job that I physically attend, I find that my work, my family, and my social life, all blend into a stimulating and flexible way of life.
This lifestyle is one of the elements of Asgardia that made me so fascinated from the beginning. This nation is about the pursuit of knowledge, and challenging the way we view society. It may be seen as a curious experiment, but it also has the potential to unite people for positive change. We are seeing this already.
But positive change needs a clear direction. Our Constitution is flawed. It is our role as citizens to be vigilant and active in our community and engage with our government to make the changes the result in the vision of Asgardia being realised: a global, unifying and humanitarian project focused on the peaceful use of space, access to knowledge, and protection from space threats.
Online volunteering, online championing, online learning – all of these activities benefit others and help to build strong communities. It is my hope that Asgardia becomes an online haven for anyone wanting to share and build knowledge, always with one's head and heart focused on humanity.
Consent: My aim would be to ensure that a majority is not the sole criterion for passing a decision. Decisions should be made by consensus or consent.
Critique: We should not follow the problematic or damaging ideas of the past, until all other options have been exhausted, and only if we implement improvements to prevent previous problems.
Consideration: Asgardia is one of the most exciting projects of our lifetime. It is easy to get carried away in the excitement and attempt to do too much at once. All ideas and decisions deserve full and detailed consideration, to ensure that we take the best steps forward at all times.
There is a lot of work to do. Patience, diligence and care will get us there.
Lead to explore the unknown, to the deepest of the galaxy.
Defend the Empire of Asgardia at all cost, protect humanity.
Flee in protecting Earth will be punished by Asgardia Law as Earth is our only , first new home. And we cannot be weak when our fellow citizens are endanger.
Protect Asgardia Space against any piracy.
Develop and Design New defenses and Ships for Protecting our Nation and Citizens.
Research New Technology to benefit us to travel, living, protection.
Diplomatic when there has war, will attempt to talk peace. But will not show our enemy that we are weak.
Make more allies with different species. Unite as one alliance.
Disband unnecessary religions and Money, and false politics as they will cause Dogma which we will lost the purpose of leading to new journey.
Space is the finial frontier, there is much to learn, to share, to love and embrace.
Create a system which we should earn stuffs, not pay for it.
Honor system by everyone's name. Higher honor will have more power, more respect, more responsible.
Humanity's future is in your hands, Vote me, so we can develop a true high tech advanced civilization, not the 21st century corrupted world.
I am also a part of light, member of Ashtar Command.
I respect all life, so you should.
Clean the name of humanity from its sins of the past. Let us shape the world better. Imperial Asgardia needs you and me.
Join me, vote for me, we will proof to our citizens and other species that we are worthy people.
Within this Space Nation, I would like to bring my gifts and focus on the later years in the Life of our fellow Asgardians. I believe here on earth we have failed our Seniors, and they are often cut off from Society, alone and depressed. It has always been my vision to build a way of life that includes them, and interweave their Lives within ours, right up to the end. I would like to also Focus on Bereavement Policies, and as the newer Generations come of age to lead, they will have been taught very young, and the life style that includes all people, in all stages of life, creating a Loving Society, Humane treatment, and A better way of Life.
Hello fellow members of the great space kingdom of Asgardia. My name is Alaina Martin, I am from Oregon, in the United States. My hope is that I can utilize my background working with small government and nonprofits along with my education in journalism to work for the collective betterment of Asgardia. I am a small business owner and a proponent for the arts, I have my own media group called Curbside Press that works to spread the arts and promote everyone to find their art. I have worked for local chamber of commerce where I was a manager of membership and communications. With this background I hope to be a proactive member within Asgardia, and personally hope and look forward to seeing Asgardia and all of its citizens flourish.
I believe in equality and always been hopeful that someday a perfect world for all humanity will exist.
A striving community where nobody goes hungry or thirsty and everyone has a roof above there head and decent bed to lay on, a community where everyone works together to get things done and evolve to next level, a community that's always willing to learn and invent for the well being of its citizens and the entire universe.
I represent this striving community.
I represent equality and humanity.
I've always had this sense that I am here for a whole bigger purpose.
Let us all work together for OUR FUTURE.
Keeping an eye on the future by focusing on the present. I will help Asgardians shape a future we will be proud to present to our children.
I am not a politician, I am a geeky guy who likes to help others succeed and reach their potential.
My platform is simple; I want to help shape a great future with promise, growth and prosperity for all while making sane decisions for everyone; and getting old arcade games open sourced.
"Our Future is written in the Stars! Ad Astra!"
1. Admen some of the wording in theConstitution. On a whole it isn't bad for a rough draft. Somewording should be changed and perhaps an Addendum or two, made. I thinkthat like the Head of Nation, Parliament should also have term limits. There should also be in place a way to impeach and elected representativeshould that unfortunately become necessary.
2. To achieve the goal of being recognizedby the United Nations as a country. This is crucial for us in workingwith other countries as an equal.
3. Getting official IDs/credentials out toALL Asgardians, starting with the "Golden 100,000" first.
4. Establishing the SOLAR as a recognizedand legal worldwide currency.
5. Set up the Ministries to help with therunning of the government.
6. Start businesses and commerce. Ido not believe in personal income tax. But I would support a Business Tax, byhaving a business, it is assumed that you will have some sort of income inAsgardia and therefore can share a small amount with Asgardia for the growth ofthe Nation.
7. Establish Grants, Scholarships andEndowments to encourage Asgardians towards achieving their goals in learning,education and creating the future for us all. Endowments might go towardsthe University of Asgardia or a National Online Library. Scholarships togo to college or Trade Schools. Grants for Scientific, Engineering, Computersciences and Medical innovation. We want people to be eager to learn. Eager to build a new world!
8. Taxes. As mentioned, I do notsupport a personal income tax. Donations will be welcomed, but noteveryone has an income that can support 2 countries. I do support anAsgardian Business Tax. A business would generate and income fromAsgardians and non-Asgardians as well. While no taxes are a nice dream,realistically a Nation needs revenue in which to run. To me, this is theless painful measure.
9. Creating other robotic/telepresencesatellites. Not only would they more firmly ingrain the notion of being a"Space Nation", but they would help achieve our goal of planetarydefense, by being able to boost from orbit and push asteroids away from earth,help clean up "space junk" and with telepresence, perhaps startbuilding the framework for a future Space Station.
10. Establishing a contingency plan shouldthe Head of Nation or member of Parliament pass away or become incapacitatedwhile in office.
11. Create fair and just laws. Currently, as a Virtual Nation, these laws would be very few. They mightinvolve revoking Citizenship for serious offenses. Suspension of privileges.Fines. Community service (with proof of completion). Due Process to be carriedout by the Ministry of Justice.
13. A secured "Chat" or videoconference site for Parliament to debate the issues to be voted on.
It is my intention to serve and listento my constitutes in District #1- English, then all Asgardians and lastly if noone voices their opinions on the matters at hand, then I shall have to use mybest judgement for the good of all.
I will not be able to please everyone. That is not possible. There will be debates. There will be compromises. Iam not a politician. What I am is determined to follow the Constitution ofAsgardia, the Core Concepts of Our Nation and the will of the People. Iwant to see the future of Peace and Prosperity that we all long for, come topass. Humanity deserves a second chance to achieve the nobility andgreatness that is its Manifest Destiny. To be worthy of reaching out towardsthe stars. This is Our chance to prove that Mankind can be better than itscurrent Self. That we are capable of growing up, putting the past behindus with all its grievances, violence and hate, and striving towards achieving apeaceful coexistence for us all!
One Humanity - One Unity! Ad Astra!
Thank you! I try my best. There will be disagreements. That goes without saying, but we can at least be civil. After all, respecting others goes along with Asgardia's Core Values. Currently, I am looking for volunteers for my Staff. If anyone might be interested in applying, go to: https://www.facebook.com/Asgard1213/jobs/869902379849209/?source=post_homepage_stream It is my hope to have a great Staff to keep me organized and intouch with the People of Asgardia! I am all set on the Asgardia Official Discord Server and ready to get started!
For clarifying and building upon previous platform. My previous platform was made before Parliamentary Candidacy was made open some parts of it have been removed to reflect this.
First and foremost, I would like to begin by stating that I really dislike the use of caps only for this; such formatting is hard on the eyes, and does not convey the right emotion. So, while you begin to read this I would first like to set the mood, feel free to image myself sitting in a warmly lit den, surrounded by bookshelves, sipping some coffee with a full pot beside myself which I will probably finish by the time you finish reading this. If you really like to know I drink my coffee with milk or cream, normally 4%m.f. milk or thick coffee cream, no sugar, and extremely hot.
The purpose of gathering you here before myself today is to introduce myself and my platform for Parliamentary Candidacy. My name is Sven Eric Robin Aesirson, I am currently 31 years of age, and I have lived a life filled with happiness and sorrow like many of us. I am human, I have made my mistakes, and I always try to learn from them. What I have lived has made me into the man I am today, and under the guidance of my mentors I hope to always better myself so that I may die having made the world a better place. I wish for my lineage to look back on my works and be able to feel proud in their history and that I was a part of their Asgardian future.
I would like to take this time to talk about some things that are close to my heart, and that is the security of communications between Asgardians and how our current voting system as it stands could be exploited by external influences, such as, but not limited to; current global governments that would want to install puppets into our government. This is a problem that is talked about all over the world and I think I do not need to explain my fears too deeply as we should all be aware of the corruption in our current systems all around the world. As it stands there is a growing fear of how safe our communications are, we are having to use many different systems to protect ourselves from the powers that be. Apps like Signal, Discord, WhatsApp are currently fairly safe but for how long? The Chinese are working on a new level of security using quantum computing to increase encryptions, these quantum computers are beyond the range for an average person to get, but if we as a nation purchase one (they have a starting price at $18 Million USD) then we will be able to help ensure the safety of our people and the security of our communications.
Once we have a secure method of communication then we can start to work on a new secure voting system that will help our people get in touch with their local leaders, so they can express their views on subjects before it is taken before parliament. Such a system would give citizens a way to stay in contact with their leaders, find out what is the next batch of topics that Parliament plans to address, and give them a chance to voice their opinion. I also feel that said opinions could be weighed based on the knowledge base of the citizen, but also with giving the citizens access to more information I feel that they will be able to make better informed choices. Then it will be up to the local leaders to take the opinions of their constituents, and along with their own knowledge base, they should be able to make an apt response to follow up the chain of command so that based on all facts and opinions they are presented with. I feel that everyone should have a voice, but the weight of their voice should be based on their knowledge in that field, a plumber might have an opinion on how a house could be wired, and it might even be a great idea, but we trust the electrician and their judgement from years of experience to have the final say. Yet the idea might be seconded by the electrician and they may choose to use the suggestion and it could work for the betterment of all. In these matters we should trust our peers, and take no offence when our ideas are not used.
With that being said, I feel that we should focus on establishing clear lines of communication that are directed and building our infrastructure, as well as building contact between the people and their local representatives. Even an RSS Feed, Notification System, and/or secure communication application for mobile devices as we are a strongly digital nation.This is something that I believe should be one of our highest priorities along with UN Recognition in the early stages of our development.
Self Defense – We should all be able and/or willing to defend ourselves, it doesn't matter who against, we all know it would only be to keep the peace if someone attacked us, or tried to hold us against our will. I would never ask anyone to break a vow of non-violence, I would like to make sure that is known. I feel there is a high probability that there will come a time when we will thank ourselves for having learnt to defend ourselves, with skills such as hand to hand combat. I think it would be wise if we were given or took private lessons in martial arts as well as some kind of basic soldier military training. Such as in Switzerland, they have no standing army, but all their citizens that are physically capable are trained. With this I feel first aid would also be wise.Also knowing a position that you would be expected to fill if there was ever a state of emergency declared would be beneficial to the nation and all the citizens. I feel those who have declared it against their belief system to fight would make excellent logistics personnel and other such roles.
Peacekeeping- I feel that once we are established as a nation it may get to a point where we will need to do peacekeeping mission here on Earth, or off in the stars. This is not something that I see being on the forefront of our agenda, it is more of a topic I feel should be addressed at some point to be discussed at a later date once we are a legal nation and possibly already out in the stars.
Vanguard for Earthlings – This is another topic similar in nature to Peacekeeping, this has to do with the overall defending of Earth and all its inhabitants. There are many forces that could become potential hazards to our planet, and it is a part of our creed I feel, to defend them even if they are still having their own issues and political struggles. Between rouge asteroids, meteorites, extra-terrestrials, and everything we haven't thought of, it will be up to us to do our best to protect our planet, and our people. This is another topic that is not high on our priority list at this point, but is a topic that will need to be discussed further in the future.
Briefly, I would like to state that I am aware that there are going to be a lot of challenges for our citizens as we grow, and to prepare our nation for those days I feel that we should be mindful of all avenue of danger. We need to do what we can in the short term to protect us now, and those habits will help carry us forward for protecting us in the future. We really have no idea what the future has in store for us. But I am sure with a logical thought process and a good imagination, we can think of those that we feel we will face before the rest, and set a timeline of preparations.
History is very important. To learn from our mistakes, we need to be able to objectively look at what we were all taught, from all corners of the globe.Then research which sources of information are correct, and come up with an un-biased, true to the best of our knowledge, world history. I say this because as a young boy growing up in Canada, I was in primary school (elementary to some), and it was the 90s, and my textbooks were printed in the 70s in the USA. Later I learned that a lot of what I had been taught as a child was wrong, so I tossed all that old information out to accept the new information as any sane person would do.
Because of this, I think it is fair to assume that most of us have a lot of information that is incorrect, due to the original sources of our information. We should work on this as a part of developing our own education system, making sure that our children and citizens know as much about our history, where all the people of Asgardia come from, so we can do our best to not make the same mistakes that our previous generations did.
We currently know that the human brain can learn the most in the early stages of development, and the earlier we can start to teach our children, the better off all them will be. We need to nurture them, while still giving them a chance to be children, but we need to not think that children are too young to understand complex things. Children are sponges that absorb a lot of information, and we need to be aware of what we are feeding them, and that they can understand a lot more than what some might give them credit for. As a father of 3, this is very important to me, and I trust my public-school system so little that I have started teaching my 4yo from home and I have never held back an answer from her if I knew it. I also don't 'water down' my explanations and because of that, I feel she will be better off in the long run once she starts going to school. If elected I plan to take the education of our future generations very seriously.
Happiness is a key foundation in the Finnish education system, to them, when people are happy and taught how to cultivate that happiness into a field that excites them that their passion fuels them. This happiness and excitement is what makes them want to learn more about the things that interest them, which has a direct correlation with their information retention.This happiness and lack of pressure to learn by naturally cultivating a desire to learn more is all that is needed to propel their students through life. We do know that stress has adverse mental and physical effects on the human body, and the pressure from parents on their children in many parts of the world leads to suicides out of the fear of letting their families down. I feel that there is something that we can learn from the Finnish, and that we should maybe take a page from their books on how to educate.This includes not having standardized testing, with that in mind I feel as well that we really need to look at all possible ways to educate our people and try to take what is best from all them, and do what is best for future generations for the benefit of all humankind.
With there being lots of online resources available currently, I feel that in the shorter term we can stick with a few of those, but we should look towards the future and found our own university. This university should strive for accreditation, so we can use our degrees and knowledge to help us before we make it into space. The better jobs we are all able to hold, the more intelligent our people are, the more money we will be able to voluntarily pour into the nation to move forward with our dreams of being in space. It would be best for our nation and its people, if we all have the highest standard of education possible. I feel that this will be a foundation to our society.
In a lot of Canada, the elderly is a resource of knowledge and information that are commonly not used to their full potential. One such potential is doubling as day care providers for the young while also teaching our future generations. Doing so helps the elderly feel better and more alive while connection our youth to previous generations, while also taking a bit of the care needs of our children off the hands of their parents. There is an adage of "it takes a village to raise a child" and I feel that this is prevalent information to take into consideration as we develop our nation. Everyone has a role to play and for those of us who may no longer be able to provide for the nation with a youthful body, we can as we age, become a key in developing our future generations by passing on everything we know to them, so they have a stronger start than most of us may have had.
I know that we say right now that everyone is invited to join Asgardia, I get that. What I would like everyone to be aware of is, most nations that may invite everyone to apply to join their nation, or even just visit, will from time to time reject applications. Now before people start jumping down my throat about how everyone is invited and deserves a place with us in the stars. This is not true, and I can prove it to you. Would you right now, like to live with someone that you knew for a fact, was a cold-blooded murderer who likes to eat human flesh and bathe in blood? If you look deep down, you are probably leaning more towards a hard nope. I too feel the same way, with that being said, do I feel that a lot of small misdemeanor crimes should be overlooked when people are applying? Probably, because let's face it, there is a reason for everything and everyone does deserve a chance to explain themselves. For this very reason I feel that it should be treated on a case by case basis, let us look to Australia as an example at to what can happen as a potential for a nation to be pretty much founded by criminals. Are they able to operate on the global scale and do commerce with other nations? Yes. Are they still all criminals because their ancestors were? No.
With that in mind, I would like people to understand my views when I say not everyone is meant for Asgardia, but I do believe that everyone should be given the opportunity to apply, even if they end up being rejected. So, a part of my previous writing about when canvasing for the future and looking for people to join Asgardia I say that we should be aware that everyone that makes it through the gates has an opportunity to do something for the benefit of mankind.That everyone has a different skill set that will help us grow as a nation, and that there should be a place for almost everyone. With that in mind, it is not directly up to us individuals to make that call, we can put the information forward and let everyone apply, and let the processes that I am sure to try and establish, do their part, and filter out those that are looking to do more harm than good.
In the previous section I mentioned that not everyone should make it into Asgardia, this is something that I firmly believe in. For the safety of our people we must understand that when people try to come to us as refuges, that currently not having any land, all we can offer is knowledge and "thoughts and prayers". In the future I hope this is not the case, and with that in mind we need to establish a protocol for doing so, every nation has a protocol for such things, and we as the founders of this nation are almost all refuges in a way. We see the state the world is in and we want to leave it, this should be something that is strong in the hearts of our people. We will have to be aware that other nation who may envy us, or worse, will try to infiltrate us for their own gains, and we need to establish a system to do the best we can to find out the truth. This is going to be difficult to an extent because other nations or peoples with enough skills will have the ability to falsify documentations. I do also feel that we need to take 'whistle blowers' serious, as they are speaking out right now against governments and corporations around the world to try and make it a better place. We need to establish a system for taking in these whistle blowers separately from other people looking to immigrate or come as refuges.
The Solar Coin is something that most of us should have tried to consider by this point, but we should be aware that there will be ways to potentially exploit the system in the early stages. Do we know if it can be tampered with on the generation end? The original plan was that the system would take electricity generated via photovoltaic cells and run that through a software interface and into the blockchain network and "Abra-ka-dabra!" currency! So, how do we verify that the energy coming into the system is actually generated by solar cells? Well, there is currently no way to prove that the system in infallible as it is still growing, but after the approval process is passed, a person could hypothetically modify the system with other forms of electricity generation and this could have both positive and negative impacts. Positive side, running a bicycle hooked up to an electric motor over to your grid to use human power to mine your funds. On the other side, you could use a fossil fuel powered generator to spike the system. A person could also hook up a wind turbine up and use that and it would do the same thing, this being said, a person might be able to get an approval if they used wind or water to help generate power and in turn mine more Solar Coins, but this is merely a speculation at this point.With that all taken into consideration, I think we should all start mining as soon as possible, I just downloaded my wallet a while ago, so I could learn more about the whole system.
So, I feel that it would be potentially wise if we as a people create a bartering platform to help our people share their skills with one another for trade. Now the value of our skills is up to the individual and the government should have almost nothing to do with it other than giving people a platform to do so where we can all list our skills or services that we would like to offer. There are currently apps and websites for things like this, I just feel that we could do this internally and add a rating system where we can all state how we found the quality of work done in trade and if we would recommend them to anyone else.Just as you can rate an "Uber" or "Lyft" driver, this grading system should be under an arbitration service to prevent people from stating service was bad when the goods were delivered as expected, or whatever the case may be. Now I know that a lot of these are going to be a civil lawsuit or claims against the individual, but I believe that they should have their own court system as to not have a negative impact on the greater legal system that I am sure we will establish.
I believe in transparency of government bodies and accountability. I feel that we have the right to know when things are going before parliament, and that we know what they are talking about while representing our nation. I believe in public over sight over parliament and the government. If we are going to be doing things differently from the rest of the world when it comes to founding our nation, a strong point should be our refusal to lie to our people. Lying to the people doesn't help them. If we know the challenges, we are being faced with then we can fight that much harder to solve the problem. I can't really get any clearer than that.
Now when it comes to copyright laws, I think that we should really look them over and have less of an antiquated system revolving around them. Do I feel that people have the right to protect their information? Yes. Do I feel that people should have the right to get recognized for their work? Yes. Do I feel that corporations that make millions if not billions of dollars should have the right to come after us for downloading and sharing a movie after it has already had its box office debut? No. Fairly simple believes, do I feel that there are going to be exceptions to the rules? Yes.I feel that it is something we will have to consider when the need arises, and that we should be aware that we may have to face that soon.
I feel that as we develop as a nation, we will be coming together from all over the planet with different views as to what a Civil Union should "look like". I feel that we need to be objective, and inclusive with belief structures that do not line up with our own. With that being said, the rights and responsibly of the individuals needs to be established and protected. The unions that we will see may question our views as to what is moral and what is not.One thing I will never waiver in is my protection over children and I will never vote to let pedophilia be legal.Other than that, I really don't care what 2 or more consenting adults do in the name of love. So long as we are looking out for our future generations I don't really care who is raising the children so long as the needs of the child are being met. I also feel that when a union happens, that the rights of the individuals should never be compromised.
Space, a place where humans are a commodity that shouldn't be wasted, our genes are important to us as a people, and if we are going to be up in space, with a desire to expand our populations then we will have to make our gene pool as diverse as possible.Polyamory is probably going to be more common place and I feel that accepting it from early on will help us in the long run. The more people breeding with others of more diverse backgrounds the better it will be for the gene pool. It will give future generations more to work with and make for less risks of inbreeding. Now I am not saying that there should be a government mandate forcing people to breed with others that they do not, rather that if we have an acceptance of it from the beginning that nature will run its course.
It is never a pretty sight when there is a divorce of breaking of a civil union. I feel that we need to have fair laws in place to protect everyone, possibly even build 'prenups' into the standard model of civil unions. I also feel that as we will most likely accept things like polyamory, that our laws in civil unions will have to have something in place for situations like that in case there is a breach of the original agreement and a party involved decides that they are done with said agreement.I feel that it should be a fairly clean process as breakups are never easy on anyone. I feel that this is something that we should consider establishing.
When children are involved things get even more difficult for everyone. The children of our nation need to be taken care of, and we need to make sure that there is a system in place that is best for the children while also taking into consideration all other parties. There is a reason why there are lawyers who specialize at this as well as all other aspects of law in our current nations. I feel that we should be similar, yet unique in our approach, that we should always consider the emotions and wellbeing of the children that are involved. Now I also know things will get quite difficult when we take into consideration unions with more than 2 adults, so I feel that not just the biological parents should be taken into consideration in those situations.
I feel that this will be a topic that will come up often, and that we will be spending many hours debating about this over the years.I do not know exactly how I feel about this with the information I have other than, we want to leave for a reason.So, with that in mind, I currently stand with siding with whatever is best for the people of Asgardia first, and the rest of humanity second.
So, I know that this is a topic that I see all sorts of opinions on, currently if there was contact made with us by lifeforms from other planets, they will be far more advanced than us, fact. So how do we react? Well I for one welcome meeting with them, hopefully they are kind. Realistically I know that creatures can do what others may view as unkind, and that a lot of what may be considered moral is merely a social construct.So, I feel that when that time comes, we should be weary of them, yet also try to learn as much from them as possible to benefit Asgardia, while sticking with our founding principles.
As we expand we will need to come up with some set rules for engaging with lifeforms that are less technologically advanced, right now that isn't an issue. I am sure this will come up in some debate at some point. My view, don't mess with the monkeys, don't give them lasers.
I feel that along with security, that networking in the early days will be key to making our visions of Asgardia come true. I would like to see some kind of network established, in the mid ranged timeframe, a satellite network that we could all connect to. In the early days, a private network of some kind just for communication to start off with. In the very early days we are all going to have to do our part to make sure that all Asgardia business we preform will have to be done on the most secure of devices in hopes to protect our interests as a nation.
There are key differences between augmented reality and virtual reality, I feel that we as a nation should take both of those into consideration in the founding of our nation, and how they can benefit us the most. I feel that an augmented reality app would be useful for navigating and meeting with other Asgardians with features to turn our locations on and off, though preferably left on, so it will be easier to find one another in times of need. As I am sure every one of us would love to help within the best of reasonable conditions.Maybe there could be a feature to turn off location for when we want to be hidden which is also fair. Now as far as virtual reality goes, I feel that we should have a digital landscape that we can navigate, it should be large with 0 rendering / background / backdrop other than buildings or objects made by individuals.I feel that we should all be given a digital address that we could log into, that we should make our House of Commons be there, with a text base backup even within the system. It would also be neat if we could be given the option to either design our own avatars in the beginning or to get ourselves scanned and uploaded into the system so then it will be easier for us to recognize one another in person.I know there is a lot to talk about when it comes to VR and AR, and I look forward to having more discussions with everyone about their potential for Asgardia in the future.
First off, I would like to mention that I refer to it as Synthetic Intelligence rather than Artificial Intelligence for good reason, synthetic is man-made whereas artificial is fake or false. The intelligence is not fake, but the method of obtaining it is synthetic as we program it rather than nature. If you care to dispute me on this then please read the work of synthetic intelligence pioneer Dr. William (Bill) Rutherford, Ph.D... This topic has a lot to debate. Do I feel that we are anywhere near true sentient SI (AI)? No.Will we ever reach that point? Possibly sooner than we think. With that in mind, I feel it important that we have a talk on the roles of S.I. in our society. Currently I feel that those machines are merely machines, we are so far from understanding even human consciousness let alone being able to make it with computers. So, for the time being my vote stands for us to limit their use as anything other than tools, they have no rights as they are property. Yet I feel that we should keep working towards making them yet also pay heed to the engineers and tech leaders and scientists of the world today who are trying to warn us against using them or weaponizing them.
Tax the rich, buy bonds, spend money on Asgardia to build the nation. Those who donate should have it marked down, or their donations should become bonds, so then as our nations grown they can be paid back by the nation.
We can have both, but I feel that logic would dictate that it would be wiser to start with a lunar base as we could mine the moon for resources compared to having none with an orbital station. Of course, we must get there somehow and that would have to be an arc to carry us. So, I feel that having 0 gravity training is essential for us and I know for a fact we have someone that can help teach us that and he is also running for parliament.
So, space is a great expanse and I know we will get there eventually as a nation. We need to start to plan for our futures with how we will conduct ourselves not only within, but with outside forces. We don't need to spend a lot of time worrying about that right now, but we do need to know that at some point we will have to create some basic rules for us to follow.
Thank you everyone that made it this far. I know I had a lot to talk about, I really felt a need to explain myself to the level I did. I am sorry if it felt long and drawn out, I swear I can talk fast and could have gotten it out a lot easier that way.
There is lots more that I have opinions on that involve Asgardia. I have a passion for politics and was considering running for local politics but then I found out about Asgardia and I feel that I have found my calling.
I want to represent everyone to the best of my ability, I want everyone to vote for whom ever they feel will represent their views the best. I don't mind if you don't vote for me because we all have different opinions, and if you do vote for me, please send me a friend request and I would love to get in contact with you.
Even if you don't vote for me I also would love the friend request, so we can all get to know one another.
Hi Alisha, I read your platform and think you will be an amazing leader. So please read my platform and give your vote for me!!!! Best of luck!!!


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UCLA scientists find molecular differences between embryonic stem cells and reprogrammed skin cells
UCLA researchers have found that embryonic stem cells and skin cells reprogrammed into embryonic-like cells have inherent molecular differences, demonstrating for the first time that the two cell types are clearly distinguishable from one another.
The data from the study suggest that embryonic stem cells and the reprogrammed cells, known as induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, have overlapping but still distinct gene expression signatures. The differing signatures were evident regardless of where the cell lines were generated, the methods by which they were derived or the species from which they were isolated, said Bill Lowry, a researcher with the Broad Stem Cell Research Center and a study author.
"We need to keep in mind that iPS cells are not perfectly similar to embryonic stem cells," said Lowry, an assistant professor of molecular, cell and developmental biology. "We're not sure what this means with regard to the biology of pluripotent stem cells. At this point our analyses comprise just an observation. It could be biologically irrelevant, or it could be manifested as an advantage or a disadvantage."
The study appears in the July 2, 2009 issue of the journal Cell Stem Cell.
The iPS cells, like embryonic stem cells, have the potential to become all of the tissues in the body. However, iPS cells don't require the destruction of an embryo.
The study was a collaboration between the labs of Lowry and UCLA researcher Kathrin Plath, who were among the first scientists and the first in California to reprogram human skin cells into iPS cells. The researchers performed microarray gene expression profiles on embryonic stem cells and iPS cells to measure the expression of thousands of genes at once, creating a global picture of cellular function.
Lowry and Plath noted that, when the molecular signatures were compared, it was clear that certain genes were expressed differently in embryonic stem cells than they were in iPS cells. They then compared their data to that stored on a National Institutes of Health data base, submitted by laboratories worldwide. They analyzed that data to see if the genetic profiling conducted in other labs validated their findings, and again they found overlapping but distinct differences in gene expression, Lowry said.
"This suggested to us that there could be something biologically relevant causing the distinct differences to arise in multiple labs in different experiments," Lowry said. "That answered our first question: Would the same observation be made with cell lines created and maintained in other laboratories?"
Next, UCLA researchers wanted to confirm their findings in iPS cell lines created using the latest derivation methods. The cells from the UCLA labs were derived using an older method that used integrative viruses to insert four genes into the genome of the skin cells, including some genes known to cause cancer. They analyzed cell lines derived with newer methods that do not require integration of the reprogramming factors. Their analysis again showed different molecular signatures between iPS cells and their embryo-derived counterparts, and these signatures showed a significant degree of overlap with those generated with integrative methods.
To determine if this was a phenomenon limited to human embryonic stem cells, Lowry and Plath analyzed mouse embryonic stem cells and iPS lines derived from mouse skin cells and again validated their findings. They also analyzed iPS cell lines made from mouse blood cells with the same result
"We can't explain this, but it appears something is different about iPS cells and embryonic stem cells," Lowry said. "And the differences are there, no matter whose lab the cells come from, whether they're human or mouse cells or the method used to derive the iPS cells. Perhaps most importantly, many of these differences are shared amongst lines made in various ways."
Going forward, UCLA researchers will conduct more sophisticated analyses on the genes being expressed differently in the two cell types and try to understand what is causing that differential expression. They also plan to differentiate the iPS cells into various lineages to determine if the molecular signature is carried through to the mature cells. In their current study, Lowry and Plath did not look at differentiated cells, only the iPS and embryonic stem cells themselves.
Further study is crucial, said Mark Chin, a postdoctoral fellow and first author of the study.
"It will be important to further examine these cells lines in a careful and systematic manner, as has been done with other stem cell lines, if we are to understand the role they can play in clinical therapies and what effect the observed differences have on these cells," he said.
The stem cell center was launched in 2005 with a UCLA commitment of $20 million over five years. A $20 million gift from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation in 2007 resulted in the renaming of the center. With more than 150 members, the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research is committed to a multi-disciplinary, integrated collaboration of scientific, academic and medical disciplines for the purpose of understanding adult and human embryonic stem cells. The center supports innovation, excellence and the highest ethical standards focused on stem cell research with the intent of facilitating basic scientific inquiry directed towards future clinical applications to treat disease. The center is a collaboration of the David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center, the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and the UCLA College of Letters and Science. To learn more about the center, visit our web site at http://www.stemcell.ucla.edu.
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Authentic Voices Meetup – 6-8pm, 2nd and 4th Tuesdays. Do you have a presentation to deliver? One of the biggest fears people deal with on a regular basis is public speaking. Celeste DeCamps and Michele Marshall can help you develop great communications skills, which are keys to financial and emotional wellbeing. CelesteDeCamps.com or Meetup.com/Authentic-Voices.


Sector includes domestic hedge funds, private equity funds, and personal trusts. Supplementary tables (tables F.101.a and L.101.a) show estimates of annual flows and year-end outstandings of nonprofit organizations.
See table F.6 for derivation of alternative measures of personal saving.
Railroad Retirement Board, the National Railroad Retirement Investment Trust, and federal government life insurance reserves.
Includes cash accounts at brokers and dealers and syndicated loans to nonfinancial corporate business by nonprofits and domestic hedge funds.
Directly held corporate equities, including closed-end fund, exchange-traded fund, and real estate investment trust shares.
Includes public and private defined benefit and defined contribution pension plans and annuities, including those in IRAs, at life insurance companies. Excludes social security.
Includes loans made under home equity lines of credit and home equity loans secured by junior liens, shown on table F.218, line 24.
Includes loans extended by the Federal Reserve to financial institutions such as domestic hedge funds through the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF).


Alright, today's lecture is really the first of two dealing with terminology, though the second won't be until the end of class. Terminology is probably not the most exciting thing to study vocabulary lessons tend to be pretty dry but it is important to learn nonetheless. Having a common language is essential to communication; this is doubly true for Jedi Realists since the majority of our communications rely entirely upon the written word.
While we are going through the terms, keep in mind that every one can be found in the Database section of the website. There you will find extensive realism and fictional encyclopedias. If you have not yet explored this section, I highly recommend that you do so.
Because of our connections to Star Wars, it is really impossible to separate Jedi Realism out of that world. However, we strive to create and use terms that not only continue the ideas we know from Star Wars, but expand upon them as well.
The Jedi Order is the series of guidelines Jedi use when it comes to practicing the Jedi lifestyle. Unfortunately, because each website has its own set of beliefs, there is no one Order.
There are three main groups of seriousness that, as Jedi, we recognize and valid. These are what we call Jedi Ideologies. The first is Jedi Realism, which I have already explained. The other two are Jediism and Role Playing.
Jediism is the belief where people take the Jedi concepts and apply them as an actual religion. This is the most serious of the main Ideologies.
Role Playing (RPG, PRGism) is the least serious. This is when a person takes on the role of a Jedi for entertainment purposes.
There are other, less-known groups that fit into Ideologies.
Fanism (Fanatacism) is your typical Star Wars fan.
Cultism is an extreme usage of Star Wars where their beliefs are deemed as truthful as the Bible.
Jedi Archetypism is where Jedi are viewed as templates or tools. This is similar to the view of the Jedi Mythos and old Jedi Academy websites.
The Jedi Community is the loosely knit group of websites that follow Jedi Realism, Jediism, and Jedi Archetypism. We do not include RPGers, fans, or extreme fans in the community.
The Force Perspectives are the different points of view of how a Jedi applies their beliefs to their lives. JEDI recognizes five separate paths. They are Light Jedi, Dark Jedi, Shadow Jedi, Gray Jedi, and Uber Jedi. We will discuss each perspective in more detail in Essential 2.
Force Groups are people who recognize and use the Force, yet are not part of the Jedi Order. Jedi recognizes six force groups, which, again, will be discussed in Essential 2. I will list them here for you: Sith, Light Sith, Jensarrai, Magick, Gadoman, and the Spectrum Council.
There are several, specific Jedi Majors. These are specialized paths that a person can choose to learn about and practice. Examples include Empathy, Philosophy, Lore, Healer, and Mystic.
And that's it for this brief overview. Again, if you want to see more terms (or explore these further) check out the Database.
Along with your regular response to the lecture, I would like you to list and define three new terms you have learned since coming to JEDI. They can come from any class (or even the database). Just make sure that they aren't fictional terms. How do you feel about each term? Do you think it is accurate and used correctly? Are you sure in its definition, or do you think it should be explored in further depth?


"We just said: 'Look, let's be like marmite.' You're either going to love it or hate it. We just wanted to do something that was different," exclaims Chiara Egan of Nine Yards Design. A bold statement, but one that perfectly describes this dining room. With its floral wallpaper, striking, pink dining table and extravagant furnishings – there's no doubt about it – this dining room certainly makes a statement.
Whether its gut feeling, a secret intuition, or just sheer luck, the vibrant tones of Blooming Perfect 0062 were, as Chiara described, 'blooming perfect!' The vivid hues of the walls certainly demand attention. However, your eye can't help but gravitate to the upcycled dresser coated in the punchy, vibrant tones and Satin Finish of Colourtrend's Sin City 0816 (available in all Colourtrend stores and stockists).
Yes, the mustard hues provide a dominant, striking contrast to the pink walls but not in a way that is jarring. On the contrary, it finds a common ground that is both daring yet complementary – as if they are merely a duo of opposites that bring out the best in each other.
It's difficult to describe this dining room as anything other than a colourful feast. A buffet of small, pink flamingo statues, Aztec printed benches, and stunning gold cutlery and candles. Colourtrend's Pinkathon 0061 (available in all Colourtrend stores and stockists) in Satin Finish lovingly coats the dining table and chairs, while small trinkets and accessories, such as a white, ceramic frog, hide along the wall. Blink and you might miss it, but have no doubt that you will be back again to feast your eyes on the many delights this room has to offer.


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The FDA has approved the first PDE5 inhibitor in a decade for the treatment of erectile dysfunction (ED). Avanafil (Stendra) joins sildenafil (Viagra), tadalafil (Cialis), and vardenafil (Levitra) as the fourth drug approved for this indication. Avanafil will be marketed as having a shorter onset and a shorter half-life than the other drugs in this class. Men should take avanafil as needed 30 minutes before sexual activity with onset of action as quickly as 15 minutes. The approval was based on three randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trials of 1267 patients with ED in which 57% of men achieved erections sufficient for intercourse, up from a baseline of 15% (compared to 27% with placebo). Like other PDE5 inhibitors, avanafil should not be taken with nitrates. Commonly reported side effects include headache, flushing, nasal congestion, nasopharyngitis, and back pain. Avanafil will be marketed by VIVUS of Mountain View, California, as Stendra.
The FDA is requiring new labeling on finasteride — Merck's testosterone blocker used for the treatment of benign prostatic hypertrophy (5 mg as Proscar) and male pattern baldness (1 mg as Propecia). The new labeling addresses sexual adverse events such as libido disorders, ejaculation disorders, orgasm disorders, and even male infertility and poor semen quality. Some of these issues, such as libido disorders and ejaculation disorders, may continue after stopping the drug, while infertility and poor semen quality improve or normalize after discontinuation. The labeling change is based on event reports filed with the FDA, although a clear causal relationship has not been made. Still, the agency is recommending that a discussion of the risks and benefits of finasteride include the possibility of sexual side effects.


Shot for Shannon Ggem, ASID, this small property is a gem tucked away about a half an hour north of Los Angeles in the hills of Malibu. The style and decor is certainly unique to the area, and it was fun to shoot a property that had so much rustic charm. Need I mention the absolutely adorable dog who stood in as a model in a few of the shots? Too cool. I could happily waste away a few weeks in this quiet and private enclave.
I was recently commissioned to shoot this incredible new construction in Los Feliz, CA. This shoot presented it's own series of unique challenges, however the setting allowed for some incredibly dynamic photographs. The first challenge was dealing with the extreme brightness range of the scene - that's bright, midday sun streaming in against a white interior with a dark wood deck outside. Pretty tough to keep it all in check. The following were shot with a set of Pul C. Buff Einsteins.
One of my favorite shots from the day was a result of the sun setting directly in front of the sliding glass doors which opened to an expansive view over the hills. The sun aligned perfectly with the back of the home and filled the entire place with a surreal, golden light. Definitely one of the most intriguing shots I've taken, and the best part is that it was nothing but 100% natural light. You don't always need a truckload of gear to pull off a shot, though getting lucky like this certainly makes it easier.
Lastly, a couple twilight images - we know how much I love these.


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An over-wear concept around the idea of apron-wearing. Focused on new ways to consider what to wear when making things, organizing things, cleaning things, serving things, writing things. And, with the intention of it being transitional from interior space to exterior space. Made to balance interesting form with function, the shapes are centered around the rectangle with the ties determining the draping. All have front pockets for holding important things.


During an AIGA event in San Francisco, Joe Gebbia, co-founder of $2.5 billion dollar company Airbnb discussed the growing trend of "Designpreneurs," or designers turned entrepreneurs. He told the story of Airbnb and gave advice for designers who also want to make their ideas happen in a startup environment.
Airbnb was founded in 2008 by Gebbia and Brian Chesky, who realized there was a need in the market for consumers who wanted to rent unused living spaces. They sought to create an online community that would address this need, and teamed up with Harvard grad Nathan Blecharczyk, who became their technical architect.
After many hardships and maxed-out credit cards, Airbnb became the phenomenon it is today. Clearly, 2 designers plus 1 developer equals a dynamite combination of right and left-brained ingenuity!
A heart symbol on Airbnb's Wishlist page has a lot more meaning than a star symbol!
A great example of this is the feature on Airbnb that allowed users to "star" the properties they liked and save them to a list. When the team was looking for ways to improve user engagement they decided to change the star to a heart, realizing that a heart carried a lot more meaning and aspirational symbolism than a star. Changing this 1 detail "showed [Airbnb] the potential for something bigger," Gebbia told Co.Design in another interview. As a result, user engagement increased 30%.
Great designers put themselves in the shoes of their audience so they can empathize and create designs that address their needs. Fellow designer and co-founder Brian Chesky is so committed to this idea that he lives only as a guest in the homes of Airbnb hosts, and as a result is 1 of the richest homeless people around.
Professional photography makes a huge difference.
Going out and individually meeting your customers is an important entrepreneurial strategy. It's a costly, time-consuming task that would be impossible for a company to do on a large scale with millions of customers. However, using a few non-scaleable strategies will help you build loyalty among your customer base, and give you information that helps improve your product.
Doing just that was the key to Airbnb's success. When Airbnb was still trying to get off the ground, they were based in California while most of their first hosts were in New York City. Investor Paul Graham gave strict orders to go "meet [their] people." Gebbia and the other founders flew to New York, stayed in the homes of their customers, and conducted extensive interviews. An issue they were able to address was that customers were using very amateurish, unappealing photos to advertise their homes. The team rented a nice camera, went door to door, and took professional pictures of their hosts' homes. "It was design research at its best, " said Gebbia.
The trip helped them discover what people needed from the site, and when they implemented those changes, revenue doubled. Gebbia and the team repeated trips to New York every weekend, and revenue continued to explode. Now, Airbnb is able to continue meeting their users on a much larger scale: they have a photography program where they hire photographers all around the world to take professional pictures of hosts' homes.
Doing things that didn't scale directly resulted in expanding their online community, and it's an approach that Airbnb plans to continue. "You can't solve people's problems from behind a computer screen," he emphasized, "It's about going out into the world and meeting whoever you're designing for." Meeting and empathizing with their people wasn't a scaleable strategy, but it clearly helped them become a multi-billion dollar company.
Good design is feedback loop between you and your audience.
A design that is just pretty on the surface — with no meaning or story behind it — has no value. Designers need to be good story-tellers so they can communicate a design's value and function to non-designers, which in Gebbia's case, was tech industry people.
The two C's: Courage and Curiosity.
As a design founder in the early days of Airbnb, Gebbia often had to address issues that weren't design related, because even after designing a brilliant user interface, he had never run a company before. Nevertheless, he and Brian Chesky threw themselves into it.
On Airbnb, sharing is caring (and money in your pocket if you're a host).
The Sharing Economy is "where asset owners use digital clearinghouses to capitalize the unused capacity of things they already have, and consumers rent from their peers rather than rent or buy from a company."(Forbes) Airbnb is the most commercially successful example of this kind of online community. In the last 200 years, production has evolved from craft, to mass production to the Sharing Economy. Embracing this change in society and using design-thinking to create new products that help people share resources (like extra space in your house) is a huge, growing market.
After using Airbnb's incredible online service, I never plan to stay in a hotel again! If something as powerful as Airbnb can be created by designers, who knows what kind of innovative products and services will be created by designers in the future.
As freelancers on and outside 99designs, you're meeting the future CEO's of big startups every day. These people need designers like you to help build companies by creating innovative user, and consumer experiences. You may have already created successful relationships with certain clients because both your personalities and visions work well together — it's relationships like these that lead to collaboration on future projects and startups.
Now, more than ever, traditional barriers to starting a business are disappearing and as Gebbia's story demonstrates, it's even more possible that a designer with a crazy idea can found a business that forever changes how people share resources with each other.
Do you have a desire to be a designpreneur?


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The main objective of the Dressman robot is to dry and press shirts. On placing a damp shirt on the ironing figure, this dummy inflates with hot air in its interior, and thus puffs the shirt up, removing creases drying the garment (it has to be previously wet and undergone a spin-dry in a washing machine).
The device has a heater box inside with a number of different resistance elements. While we are placing the shirt on it, this box stores up heat in such a way that, when the garment is positioned and we press the start button, the whole ironing dummy fills with hot air which presses and dries the shirt. Moreover, the device has an air filter which prevents dirt entering the ironing dummy.
The time for the ironing process is selected by the user. The temperature of the resistance elements is not, only the cycle time, which lasts from 4 to 15 minutes, depending on the type of cloth in the shirt being ironed (a normal cotton shirt usually takes 7-8 minutes). These times are selected on a rotary selector that is on the device itself.
When the ironing process has finished the device blows cold air for 1 minute in order to stabilise the cloth and thus prolong the effect of the ironing.
The size of the dummy adjusts perfectly to that of the garment, allowing the pressing of all kinds of shirts, including short-sleeved ones. Moreover, we can use the apparatus for all kinds of cloth, except for elastic ones, as the air pressure will make the garment.
Apart from the ironing cycles with the rotary selector, we can select a cycle where only cold air is blown simply in order to ventilate shirts and jackets.
The ironing dummy is made up of three different types of cloth, each with a distinct permeability and, thus, allowing more or less hot air to the exterior. The reason for this is that more hot air flow is needed in some areas of the shirt than in others because the cloth thickness is greater or there is a double layer of cloth (for example in the pocket zone or at the cuffs. What is more, ironing dummy can be washed in the washing machine.
One of the advantages of this device is that, while the frame of the iron can get to very high temperatures, the temperature of the dummy never gets to damage the garment. Moreover, the base of a conventional iron crushes the cloth, in such a way that it loses its pristine look after a few ironings. However, with this ironing robot system, the cloth is maintained undamaged for longer periods and the shiny patches that appear on certain materials with conventional irons.
The device measures 173 x 36.5 x 45 cm when in the upright position and, when folded, the height is 119 cm.
Its weight is 28 kg. It has wheels and a handle by which it can be easily moved from place to place.
It consumes about 3300 W or 2150 W. The user has the choice, by pressing a button combination, of having the machine work with 2150 W and, thus, consume less energy.


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Brown Adam is Child ballad 98.

Synopsis

Brown Adam, a smith, is exiled from his family.  He builds a house in the woods for himself and his lady.  One day, he goes hunting.  He returns home to find his lady with a knight—or king's son—trying to persuade her to leave Brown Adam.  She refuses many rich bribes; she will stay with Brown Adam.  When he starts to threaten her, Brown Adam makes himself known and maims him, cutting off his hand.

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Brown Adam

Child Ballads
Year of song unknown
Songwriter unknown

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Women's EmpowermentWomen's Empowerment
AJWS Staff
Paraphrased from Eliyahu E. Dessler, Strive for Truth: The Selected Writings of Rabbi E.E. Dessler, Part Two, translated into English and annotated by Aryeh Carmell (Jerusalem: Feldheim Publishers, 1988), pp. 52-57.
Genesis Rabbah 8:1
Tzedek, Chessed and Women's Empowerment
Aruch HaShulchan, Foreword to Choshen Mishpat
Sifre, Numbers 133
Text Rachel Adler, "The Jew Who Wasn't There: Halacha and the Jewish Woman." Response: A Contemporary Jewish Review, Summer 1973. p.80-81
"A Lay Sermon by a Young Lady," a Yom Kippur Sermon by Ray Frank, 1890
Nechama Leibowitz, New Studies in Exodus, "The Midwives"
Women's Place at Sinai
Making Meaning of the Mitzvot: Session 1 -- Be Fruitful and Multiply
Parshat Vayeshev
Rachel Adler, "The Jew Who Wasn't There: Halacha and the Jewish Woman." Response: A Contemporary Jewish Review, Summer 1973. p.79
Babylonian Talmud, Ta'anit 22a
Babylonian Talmud, Shavuot 20b
Ruth 2:14-17
Merle Feld, "We All Stood Together," A Spiritual Life: A Jewish Feminist Journey, p. 205.
Chofetz Chaim Collection, Laws of Sotah 21
Letter of Support from the Chofetz Chaim to the community of Pritsik, February 19, 1933
Excerpt from "The Tragedy of Women's Emancipation," by Emma Goldman
Judith Plaskow, Standing Again at Sinai: Jewish Memory from a Feminist Perspective (Harper: San Francisco, 1986), p.1.
Women's Empowerment and Leadership: Biblical Figures and Modern Philosophy
Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 75a
Purim: Trafficking, Sex Work and Power in Megillat Esther
Jeremiah 7:5-7
Excerpt from Henrietta Szold's speech at Hadassah Covention, 1937
Samuel II 13:1-14
Babylonian Talmud, Ketubot 67b
Excerpt from Rose Schneiderman's speech as quoted in Leon Stein's "The Triangle Fire" (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1962), 144–45.
Judith Plaskow, "Standing Again at Sinai: Jewish Memory from a Feminist Perspective" (Tikkun Magazine, 1986), p.33, " Feminist Ritual"
BabylonianTalmud, Brachot 19b (Human Dignity)
Text Rachel Adler, "The Jew Who Wasn't There: Halacha and the Jewish Woman." Response: A Contemporary Jewish Review, Summer 1973. p.79b
Women's Fundamental Human Dignity and Equality
Numbers 27:1-11
Susan Weidman Schneider, Founder of Lilith Magazine
Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Character Development and Ethical Conduct 6:10
The View of Women in Biblical Thought
Ramban, Leviticus 19:2
Eishet Chayil: Woman of Valor
Babylonian Talmud, Ketubot 49a
Excerpt from "Minorities Versus Majorities" by Emma Goldman
Blu Greenberg, Statement [from the first National Jewish Women's Conference], Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution (Jewish Women's Archive), #2.
Esther 4:14
Imrei Noam,found in Nechama Leibowitz, New Studies in Exodus (Eliner Library, 1995).
Its YOUR Problem: An Ethical Will, Sort Of
Report from 1917 about founding of Alabama Ladies' Hebrew Benevolent Society of Anniston, Alabama, in 1890
AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Nasso
Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Prophets (New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2001) p.19.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Remarks for Jewish Council for Public Affairs Feb 18, 2002
Babylonian Talmud, Kiddushin 40a
AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Beha'alotcha
AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Vayeshev
Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Marital Relations 3:19
Letter from Rebecca Gratz to Maria Fenno, 1805
Amos 2:6-8
Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Gifts to the Poor 8:15-16
Excerpt from Sylvia Weinberg Radov Oral History on Wednesdays in Mississippi Project
Interview with Bella Abzug, April 27, 1997. "They Thought I was the Secretary."
Mishna, Ketubot 3:4
Prioritizing Our Giving
Ezrat Nashim, "Call for Change," (Rabbinical Assembly of the Conservative Movement: 14 March 1972).
Responsa Mi'lamed Li'hoil 2:83
Albert Vorspan and David Saperstein, Jewish Dimensions of Social Justice (New York: UAHC Press, 1998), p. 94.
When Gender Varies: A Curious Case of Kree and Kteev
Recognizing Women's Unique Vulnerabilities
Judges 4:17-21
AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Pinchas
Ha'emek Davar, Leviticus 26:13
Lori Lefkowitz, Jewish Feminism from Jewish Women's Archive
Aruch HaShulchan, Laws of Tzedakah, 251:10
Sefer Halachot Gedolot 2, Laws of Kiddush and Havdalah, page 100
Women and Leadership, Rabbi Dianne Cohler-Esses [2007]
Henrietta Szold's letter to Haym Peretz on saying Kaddish for her mother, 1916. Reprinted from Marvin Lowenthal, Henrietta Szold: Life and Letters. New York: The Viking Press, 1942.
AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Matot-Masei
Exodus Rabbah 1:15
Deuteronomy 27:18-19
Texts on Protest
Jewish Theological Seminary Press Release to Ordain Women, October 1983
Rabbi Avraham Weiss, "Women and the Reading of Megillah", p. 16
Eliyahu Rabbah, Judges 4:4, parshah 10
Metzudat David, Judges 4:4
Ramban, commentary on Exodus 35:21
Mishnah Shabbat 2:6
Susannah Heschel, from the Jewish Women's Archive (http://jwa.org/feminism/)
Paula Hyman, Gender and the Immigrant Jewish Experience in the United States in Jewish Women in Historical Perspective by Judith Baskin, p. 313
Ecclesiastes Rabbah 12:14
Mishna, Baba Batra 9:1
Esther 1:10-12
Babylonian Talmud, Baba Batra 9:1
Women in Jewish texts
Joan Snyder, Statement on "Our Foremothers," http://jwa.org/feminism/_html/JWA065.htm.
Mishna Gittin, 4:2
Job 24:1-4
Excerpt from Beatrice "Buddy" Cummings Mayer Oral History on Wednesdays in Mississippi Project
Samuel II 14:4-7
"Conversation with Eve Ensler," Interview by Marianne Schnall, Feminist.com, 3 Oct. 2006.
Lynn Gottleib, Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution
Gertrude Weil, "What Judaism Means to Me," late 1960s. North Carolina Office of Archives and History.
Rebekah Kohut's Welcoming Address to the first convention of the National Council of Jewish Women. "Report of the Convention 'Council of Jewish Women.'" The American Jewess, Volume 4, Issue 3, December 1896, p. 127.
Golda Meir, Feminism
Yael Gordon, 1914, as cited in The Struggle for Equality: Urban Women Workers in Prestate Israeli Society, p.6
Affirming Women's Agency
Blu Greenberg, Statement [from the first National Jewish Women's Conference], Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution (Jewish Women's Archive).
Gender Poverty
Judith Plaskow, "Why Female Pronouns for God May Not Be Enough," Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Responsibility, January 9, 1987.
AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Chayei Sarah
Ezekiel 22:6-12
AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Nitzavim-Vayeilech
Debbie Friedman cited in A Journey of Spirit. Prod. Ann Coppel (Jewish Women's Archive), http://jwa.org/feminism/.
Rashi, Genesis 6:2
Social Service and Women's Rights
AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Lech Lecha
Mishna, Gittin 9:3
Shavuot 5770
Babylonian Talmud, Ketubot 22b-23a
Golda Meir, Women's Liberation
Laura Geller, "Jewish Feminism: Go To Yourself!" The Shalom Center, 17 June 2005.
Babylonian Talmud, Baba Batra 139b
Rose Schneiderman on women's strength
Miriam, by Debbie Friedman
AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Ki Tisa
Golda Meir, Leadership
Report of the Female Hebrew Benevolent Society, by Secretary, Rebecca Gratz, 1835.
Excerpts from Dorothy Height Oral History on Wednesdays in Mississippi Project
Texts for Vashti's Den
AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Shemot
AJWS Dvar Tzedek: Parshat Vayishlach
Excerpt from Lillian Wald, _The House on Henry Street_, on the public health nurse's contribution to human welfare, 1915.


text: Repository with starter apps for creating IOT apps on SAP Hana Cloud Platform

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Sidi Koutoubi (* um 1938 in der Region Tahoua) ist ein nigrischer Offizier und Politiker.

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Sidi Koutoubi trat in die französischen Streitkräfte ein, als Niger noch zu Frankreich gehörte. Nach der Unabhängigkeit des Landes 1960 wurde er in die nigrischen Streitkräfte übernommen. Er stand im Rang eines Hauptmanns, als er in der Regierung vom 24. Januar 1983 zum Informationsminister ernannt wurde. Niger wurde in dieser Zeit vom Obersten Militärrat unter dem Vorsitz von Seyni Kountché beherrscht. Koutoubis Vorgänger als Informationsminister, Garba Sidikou, wurde Bürgermeister der Hauptstadt Niamey. Bei einer Regierungsumbildung am 14. November 1983 wurde Koutoubi als Informationsminister von Daouda Diallo abgelöst.

Koutoubi wurde am 4. März 1985 ernannter Bürgermeister von Niamey und löste auch in dieser Funktion Garba Sidikou ab. Sein Amtstitel war zunächst Präfekt-Bürgermeister (préfet-maire) und ab 24. November 1988, mit der Umwandlung Niameys in einen Gemeindeverbund (communauté urbaine), Präfekt-Präsident (préfet-président). Er prägte während seiner Amtszeit die Stadtentwicklung insbesondere durch Maßnahmen im Bereich des Straßenbaus und des Umweltschutzes. Er wurde zusätzlich am 23. Mai 1987 von dessen Generalversammlung zum Präsidenten des Comité Olympique et Sportif National du Niger, des Nationalen Olympischen Komitees Nigers, gewählt. Als Bürgermeister von Niamey wurde er am 19. Mai 1989 von Torda Haïnikoye abgelöst.

Ehrungen
 Kommandeur des Nationalordens Nigers
 Benennung der Verkehrsfläche Place Sidi Koutoubi in Niamey-Yantala (2021)

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Militärperson (Niger)
Informationsminister (Niger)
Bürgermeister (Niamey)
Sportfunktionär (Niger)
Träger des Nationalordens Nigers (Kommandeur)
Nigrer
Geboren im 20. Jahrhundert
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Utawarerumono: ZAN to bout PS4
BETAS • NEWS • PLAYSTATION 4
NIS America Inc. this week said it will release Utawarerumono: ZAN to Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 4 this fall.
Utawarerumono: ZAN is an action brawler that will include 12 heroes to battle hordes of enemies.
The title is the first action game in the series.
In addition, the title will include an online multiplayer mode for up to four users.
The Utawarerumono: ZAN Emperor's Edition will include an art book, soundtrack, mini art prints, paper fan, and collector's box.
God Eater 3 to hunt Nintendo Switch
PS4 No. 2; Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice No. 3 in Japan


Home Entertainment Is DWTS Aric Yegudkin and Girlfriend Masha Belash Married?
Aric Yegudkin has once again returned back on the TV reality show, Dancing With The Stars Australia 2019 with his new partner Michelle Bridges.
Aric Yegudkin is the most popular choreographer and a professional dancer and on the other hand his partner Michelle Bridges is a personal trainer. The TV reality show has started from Monday, 18 February 2019.
Aric Yegudkin was born on 14 November 1985 in Russia. Aric Yegudkina is a famous choreographer and a professional dancer.
It's official! Im back on the dancefloor with #dwtsau. I can't believe I'm training @mishbridges! Never thought I would ever be able to say that 😝😝😝 It's going to be one exciting season of @dancingon10 so stay tuned!
Aric Yegudkin is best known as a professional dancer on the TV reality show, Dancing with the Stars Australia, where he has done a total of seven seasons with the TV franchise.
When Yegudkin was 8 years old, his parents noticed him dancing to Michael Jackson songs and as being Russian, they chose ballroom dance for their son.
Yegudkin is an accredited Dancesport Australia instructor who holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of New South Wales.
He has worked as a choreographer and dancer in the Australian touring stage show called Shake, and Rattle 'n'Roll. Yegudkin has also choreographed and performed in productions of Burn the Floor and Dance, Dance, Dance.
Aric Yegudkin and Masha Belash competed together in the youth category of dancesport as a dance partner in 2001, where they won the Australian National Youth Latin American championship three times. Yegudkin first competed as a professional dancer in Dancing With the Stars Australia in season 3.
Aric Yegudkin and his partner Ada Nicodemou won the first season of the reality dance competition.
Aric Yegudkin was partnered with presenter Emma Freedman For the fifteenth season of Dancing with the Stars Australia and eventually won the competition on 7 September 2015.
Currently, Aric and Michelle Bridges are the cast of Dancing With The Stars Australia 2019.
Aric Yegudkin and his girlfriend Masha Belash has been working as pair since 2001.
The pair together has won the Australian National Youth Latin American Championship three times and many other dance shows.
Aric Yegudkin and partner Masha Belash engaged two years ago have opened their own Sydney dance studio. The couple started a real state business by renting studio space in Randwick. As of now, the couple is living happily.
Though engaged Aric Yegudkin and partner Masha Belash wedding might be on cards, as sources report that Masha Belash could be Aric Yegudkin wife anytime soon.
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Rental firm cashes in on northern Ontario's growing film industry
Thursday September 18th 2014
Films that choose northeastern Ontario as their location won't have so far to go to rent equipment, now that a supplier is opening a branch in Sudbury.
Dan St. Amour, who helped bring the branch of William F. White to the city, said the company has invested $100,000 in a Sudbury warehouse that offers everything from lights to porta-potties.
One of the reasons the company came to Sudbury is because there are dozens of potential films in the works, St. Amour said.
"These are all new productions … it's not moving production from the south up to the north. These are all new scripts that would not all have been able to get produced, because they just wouldn't have had the funding ability down in the south," St. Amour continued.
"I was getting a lot of calls from VPs and production managers about the north and I thought this is one place we're going to have to open up in, and we did."
More opportunities ahead?
The company's expansion into the north makes them eligible for a hefty incentive — as high as $500,000 — from the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund.
With funding help like that, there could be more jobs for young people like Ethan Bubba and Hannah Blaio, who are working as extras in the local film project Holiday Help.
Blaio said the film sets were impressive.
"[There are] big cameras, big lights and stuff like that," the eight-year-old said.
Bubba, 12, said he was amazed by the work that went into shooting a movie.
"We had to do one scene like, fifty times," he said.
Being paid helped with the inconvenience. One young extra said they each received $100 for the day.


The topic for my blog entry—Business—is quite broad, and the word itself has different meanings to different people. I went to business school, worked 34 years in the marketing communications business, spent 27 of those years as the president of a business, and 24-and-counting years as a business owner. Accordingly, I know a little about accounting, cash flow and risk management; I've dealt with human resources, legal and bank fraud issues; and I've made some 2500 different filings for federal and state income, federal and state corporate, social security, Medicare, FUTA, SUTA, sales and property taxes. I have a lot of business experience.
But here's the thing; if someone were to ask me if I felt business is complicated, I'd be hard-pressed to answer "yes." I believe that at its core business is quite simple, as there is really only one thing a company needs to do to be successful; keep its customers satisfied. All the other issues—finance, taxes, compliance, etc.—are really little more than obstacles. To ensure its success, a business needs to have the needs and expectations of its customers be its primary focus.
Naturally, the next question then must be "How do I assure customer satisfaction?", and I have a four-part answer.
1) Identify who your ideal customers are. Identifying the right customers is the critical first step; no one is going to buy a better mousetrap unless they have a mouse problem, and a high-rise apartment dweller is an unlikely candidate to buy your lawn mower.
2) Get to know what is important to them now. Knowing what is important to a customer is critical. For instance, budget-conscious individuals are typically not the best prospects for high-end products—that is unless they can be convinced that the up-front cost of the high-end product will lower their overall expenses.
3) Anticipate what will be important to them in the future. Even if able to convince its pernicious prospects to buy their products today, the long-term success of most companies is predicated on their abilities to satisfy their customers again and again. Given the rapidity of change in today's world, anticipating future customer needs is a requirement. However, while accurate anticipation is a requirement, it is not a guarantee; just because one knows what a prospect seeks doesn't mean they know it better than the competition does. The key is to make it so the prospect believes choosing you is their best choice.
4) Make them feel that your offerings are a better choice than the alternatives. What is the simplest way to get prospects to believe what you want them to believe? Make it real. The easiest way to convince someone that you can save them money is to save them money. There is nothing sinister about trying to convince people; we all do it every day in all parts of our lives. Deception, however, is sinister, and actions speak louder than words. A company that delivers less than it promises will not only fail to solve its prospects' current needs, it will also eliminate itself from consideration to solve future needs, thus effectively eliminating itself from future success.
I recognize that I have not made any great revelations above or magnanimously shared any significant pearls of wisdom, but those were not my intentions. My goal was to illustrate that I believe business is really not all that complicated. There are four key points to always remember – Know your market; satisfy their present needs; anticipate their future needs and always deliver value. That is the approach we've taken over the last 24+ years, and the way I expect we'll approach our business over the next 24.