He had turned 18 a few weeks earlier. The afro he started at Punahou School had grown a bit fuller, but was under control. He was Barry Obama, freshman, from Honolulu. The name, along with those of his two new roommates, was typed on the index card that had been slotted on to the door of Room A104 of Haines Hall annexe in preparation for his arrival. Maybe his face didn't look Hawaiian at first glance, thought Jeff Yamaguchi, who lived down the hall and whose family was from the islands, but it quickly became apparent that he had the easy-going attitude of a Hawaiian local, "that mannerism and style and personality that is very unique and identifiable from tourists… a mentality you develop over time, just 'Whatever.'"
It was autumn 1979 when Obama arrived at Occidental College, a small liberal arts college in Los Angeles. The campus was much like his school in Honolulu, with gentle slopes and flowering landscapes. Its academic expectations were equally high and the weather in southern California sunny. All so familiar, but Obama had come to college in search of something more.
In the end, his stay at Occidental would compose only half of his college experience. Just two school years, when he was 18 and 19, from August 1979 to June 1981. But in the development of the person he was to become, Occidental was significant.
Obama's roommates were Paul Carpenter, a blond southern Californian who occasionally took his friends surfing (bodysurfing, in Barry's case), and Imad Husain, an intellectual Pakistani with a droll sense of humour who grew up in Karachi (though his parents now lived in Dubai) and finished his secondary education at Bedford School in the UK. Barry Obama played a lot of Hendrix, Earth, Wind & Fire and Billie Holiday, but was known in the annexe for his wicked impression of Mick Jagger. He could do the walk, the strut, the face.
The annexe was home to African-Americans and international students from the Asian subcontinent, budding intellectuals and aspiring writers, party animals, surfer dudes and jocks. Barry Obama represented a bit of each of them: he was black and white, surfer, basketballer, writer and perceptive observer, wholly American and yet the son of an African and intimately familiar with Asia from his years in Indonesia. His ability to connect across racial and cultural lines was not merely a superficial art of survival but rooted in his life and being.
Most of Obama's classmates could not see how hard he was working to reconcile the contradictions that life threw at him. They thought he was cool, smart without being pedantic, and seemed to have his act together. To Mark Parsons, who came to know him mostly because they both smoked and spent a lot of time together huddling outside the student union, Obama seemed "almost Zen in walking through all the chaos in our dorm". He displayed one trait that showed he wanted to be a player though: he wore a lot of "stupid hats". He usually wore them cocked, to look cool. Obama also had a peculiar smoking style, a little affectation. He turned his wrist up and cupped the cigarette between thumb and index finger. He smoked a cigarette the same way he smoked a joint. "I have a sense that he smoked because he was addicted, as I was," Parsons said. But, Obama told Parsons, there was another reason. "I remember him telling me he would quit after he got married. He didn't want to quit smoking because he said he would gain weight, but after he got married it would be OK to gain weight. I think it was mostly a joke."
A fellow student, Lisa Jack, an aspiring Annie Leibovitz who went around campus persuading interesting people to let her photograph them, recalls that a friend "started to tell me about this really good-looking guy. His name is Barry and people are talking about him." To have Lisa Jack shoot profiles of you was considered a mark of distinction, and Obama gladly accepted the offer.
At about 11 one morning he turned up ready and eager for his photo shoot. He was wearing flip-flops, jeans and a collared shirt with button-down breast pockets. He brought along a pack of non-filter cigarettes, a wide-brimmed boater hat and a bomber jacket. Jack did not instruct him on the wardrobe or accessories; they were all his idea. He started to experiment, moving around for different poses. It was one of those times when his ambition was unmistakable. He blew smoke like he was on a Bob Dylan album jacket. He put on his hat and cocked it low like he was Hendrix. "I think he was into it," Jack recalled. "He was pleased he had been asked."
In the subjects he preferred, political science and literature, Obama signed up for as many advanced courses as he could take. In any discussion, Obama would listen to everyone else before bringing in his point of view. Jeff Yamaguchi put it this way: "He listens and he listens and he listens, rather than respond immediately to the first thing that's out there. It's like, 'Let's let it percolate for a little. Let's let it simmer.' He reads people really well. He doesn't use the same play for every person. He has different plays in his playbook. He adjusts to the situation."
The four African students at Occidental called Obama their brother; he told them how much he wanted to go to Africa to see his father and his roots. He talked to one of them, Kofi Manu, a Ghanaian, about finding an apartment in their sophomore year, but instead moved into a place with his Pakistani friend Hasan Chandoo. Their place became a regular hangout for the Pakistanis and their friends. It was in this company Obama felt most comfortable. "These were my closest friends," he noted decades later, during an interview in the Oval Office. Race was not a factor. It was an international sensibility that brought them together, Obama said. "I think there is no doubt… they were sort of world citizens, with kind of peripatetic lives. All of them had that sort of shared characteristic of spanning cultures, which I think strengthened our friendships."
The late-night discussions he participated in now were more intense than those of his freshman year, more overtly political, more directed at America's role in the world. Chandoo and the other Pakistanis, along with the writers Obama associated with, had a seriousness of purpose and a worldly sensibility.
His classmates considered Obama "a floater", moving not only from culture to culture but also from political group to political group, dabbling, showing interest, but never staking a home. This was a natural part of college experimentation, to be sure, but in Obama's case it reflected a deeper and longer-lasting trend, one that would define his life in and out of politics: his need and ability to avoid traps. The less entrenched he was, the easier it was for him to get out of something and move on.
He had become part of Occidental's activist network, participating in a vigil protesting against the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela. It led him to give the first public political speech of his life, on 18 February 1981, giving him the first intimations of what it was like to move crowds, large or small, with words. But after only two years at Occidental, Obama was ready to go. In late March he filled out applications to transfer to Columbia in New York. He wanted to go deeper into the American experience, and the black experience. "I figured that if there weren't any more black students at Columbia than there were at Oxy, I'd at least be in the heart of it," he said.
The next four years in New York, from late summer 1981 to midsummer 1985, was a lonely time. As Obama put it himself, decades later, "I was leading an ascetic existence, way too serious for my own good".
He felt no attachments to Columbia, but he did enter into a relationship with Alexandra McNear, a former Occidental classmate. McNear had edited Occidental's literary magazine, Feast, in which Obama had published two poems. In fact, the name Barack Obama, as opposed to Barry, premiered in public in the magazine's inaugural issue. McNear was in New York that summer after her junior year and for nearly two months they were lovers in Manhattan.
When it was time for McNear to return to Occidental, they began a long-distance relationship, conducted mostly through a series of passionate letters. Obama was the central character in his letters, in a self-conscious way, with variations on the theme of his search for purpose and self-identity. In one letter, he told McNear that it seemed all his Pakistani friends were headed towards the business world, and his old high school buddies from Honolulu were "moving toward the mainstream". Where did that leave him? "I must admit large dollops of envy for both groups," he wrote. "Caught without a class, a structure, or tradition to support me, in a sense the choice to take a different path is made for me… The only way to assuage my feelings of isolation are to absorb all the traditions [and all the] classes; make them mine, me theirs."
Here, at 22, was an idea that would become a key to understanding Obama the politician and public figure. "Without a class" meant he was entering his adult life without financial security. Without a "structure" meant he had grown up lacking a solid family foundation, his father gone from the start, his mother often elsewhere, his grandparents doing the best they could, but all leading to his sense of being a rootless outsider. Without a "tradition" was a reference to his lack of religious grounding and his status as both white and black, feeling completely at home in neither race. Eventually he could make a few essential choices in terms of how he would live out his personal life, moving inexorably towards the black world. But in a larger sense, in terms of his ambitions beyond family, he did not want to be constricted by narrow choices. The different path he saw for himself was to rise above the divisions of culture and society, politics and economics, and embrace something larger. To make a particular choice would be to limit him, he wrote in the letter to McNear, because "taken separately, they are unacceptable and untenable".
Looking back on that period from the distance of the White House, Obama recalled that he was then "deep inside my own head… in a way that in retrospect I don't think was real healthy". But the realisation that he had to "absorb all the traditions" would become the rationale for all that followed. "There is no doubt that what I retained in my politics is a sense that the only way I could have a sturdy sense of identity of who I was depended on digging beneath the surface differences of people," Obama said during an interview on 10 November 2011. "The only way my life makes sense is if, regardless of culture, race, religion, tribe, there is this commonality, these essential human truths and passions and hopes and moral precepts that are universal. And that we can reach out beyond our differences. If that is not the case, then it is pretty hard for me to make sense of my life. So that is at the core of who I am."
During his Columbia days, Obama discussed his struggle for identity not only with McNear but with a few friends from the Pakistani crowd. One of his acquaintances in that group was Mir Mahboob Mahmood, known to his friends by his nickname, Beenu. They were never the closest of friends, yet their conversations seemed to bring out Obama's innermost thoughts and hopes.
Mahmood remembered how, "for a period of two or three months", Obama "carried and at every opportunity read and reread a fraying copy of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. It was a period during which Barack was struggling deeply within himself to attain his own racial identity, and Invisible Man became a prism for his self-reflection."
By Mahmood's account, they had known each other only a few months when Obama posed this question to him: "Do you think I will be president of the United States?"
What did this mean? "I think it was a very serious question, and clearly, at least in my mind, this was where he was headed," Mahmood recalled. His answer then: "If America is ready for a black president, you can make it."
When Obama, during the White House interview, was asked about Mahmood's account, he said he could not remember such a conversation, and that people had a natural tendency to apply memories to him retroactively, but added, "If he has a vivid memory of it, I won't deny it." The ambitious path he saw for himself then, Obama said, remained vague. "I don't think I could see a clear path [to the presidency]," he said. "At that age I was much more interested in being a leader outside of politics. If you had asked me during that time what kind of career I'd love to have, more likely I would have said something like a Bob Moses [the civil rights leader], maybe with a slightly higher profile than that."
In a letter postmarked 22 November 1982, Obama wrote to McNear that he would be coming to Los Angeles for the semester break. The day after he sent the letter, his father was killed in a car accident in Nairobi.
A father he had barely known, gone. His grandparents thousands of miles away, and his mother farther away still. It would be hard to overstate the loneliness young Obama felt at that moment, by himself in New York. But in December, when Obama and McNear reunited in Los Angeles, he casually mentioned it. It "was not an emotional telling on his side", she said. They stayed at her apartment for most of two weeks. McNear wrote in her journal then that Obama "was the closest friend I had, and that I really loved him but didn't know if we could sustain a relationship".
She wrote to Obama, expressing the fear that he was becoming less interested in her. He wrote back on 4 April that she was mistaken. He was "burning the midnight oil" to finish his studies, he said. And he was, as usual, consumed by the effort to find himself. "I feel sunk in that long corridor between old values, modes of thought, and those that I seek, that I work towards," he confided.
Obama skipped the graduation ceremonies, finishing his time at Columbia much as he had begun: isolated and apart from the college scene. He had his résumé completed by the time he finished classes. He took temporary employment where he could find it, spending one week supervising a group of temp workers at the New York fire department. It was, he reported, "a fascinating experience affording me a taste of the grinding toil of a low-white-collar job, as well as the ambivalent relationship" between bosses and workers. Here were people talking about sports and life and family in ways that were not fraught with complicated meanings and symbols, he wrote in a letter to his now former girlfriend McNear. "I felt a greater affinity to the blacks and Latinos there (who predictably comprised about three-fourths of the workforce…) than I had felt in a long time, and it strengthened me in some important way."
Obama was six months out of Columbia when Genevieve Cook came along and engaged him in the deepest romantic relationship of his young life. They met at a Christmas party in 1983. Cook was Australian, an assistant-teacher in Brooklyn. Like Obama, she had lived in Indonesia, before her parents divorced, and again briefly in high school. She called him BAH‑rruck, with a trill of the r's. She said that is how he pronounced it himself, at least when talking to her.
He was living on the Upper West Side then and working in a job that paid the rent but did not inspire him. He was still keeping mostly to himself, occasionally hanging out with his Pakistani friends, who partied too much and too hard, he thought, but were warm and generous and buoyant intellectual company, always willing to debate philosophy and the political issues of the day. Cook offered something more. She was three years older, born in 1958. She kept a journal, as he did; brooded about her identity, as he did; had an independent, at times exasperating mother, as he did; and burned with an idealism to right the wrongs of the world, as he did.
Day by day, week by week, Cook's perceptions of Obama, noted in her journal, became more complicated.
…how is he so old already, at the age of 22? I have to recognise (despite play of wry and mocking smile on lips) that I find his thereness very threatening… Distance, distance, distance, and wariness. I am wary – very clear – I really wonder where it's all going, all this with Barack.
Despite Barack's having talked of drawing a circle around the tender in him – protecting the ability to feel innocence and springborn – I think he also fights against showing it to others, to me. I really like him more and more – he may worry about posturing and void inside but he is a brimming and integrated character.
... the sexual warmth is definitely there – but the rest of it has sharp edges and I'm finding it all unsettling and finding myself wanting to withdraw from it all. I have to admit that I am feeling anger at him for some reason, multi‑stranded reasons. His warmth can be deceptive. Tho he speaks sweet words and can be open and trusting, there is also that coolness – and I begin to have an inkling of some things about him that could get to me.
It so delights me that from time to time Barack will talk about the more private, inner aspects of what he sees and feels of our relationship – not out of some need to bring up and solve a problem (which is what I tend to do), but merely to communicate it. It is something I could well learn to do. To trust him, myself, whatever's cooking there in my brain – the good and the cloudy.
But the abruptness and the apparent lack of warmth w/ which B. left them was jarring.
Beenu Mahmood saw a shift in Obama that corresponded to Cook's perceptions. He could see Obama slowly but carefully distancing himself from the Pakistanis as a necessary step in establishing his political identity. For years, Obama seemed to share their attitudes as sophisticated outsiders who looked at politics from an international perspective. But to get to where he wanted to go, he had to change – not cut off the Pakistanis as friends, but push away enough to establish a clear and separate identity. As a result, Mahmood recalled, "The first shift I saw him undertaking was to view himself as an American in a much more fundamental way."
In preparing for his future, Obama disciplined himself in two activities: writing and running. He was what Cook called "a virtuous daily jogger", and that was one of the differences between them. She would run, too, but without his discipline and not as far. "One of the reasons he was maybe such a dedicated jogger was part of him still felt he was the fat boy, which I found hard to see," Cook said later. He had indeed been a chubby boy from infancy through seventh grade, when his body started to elongate. Cook noticed that despite his thin physique, there was still a certain softness to him: "There was this still quite raw and close to the surface aspect of himself which had to do with being the fat boy, or chubby boy, that people laughed at, that no one knew quite where to put, and who had a deeply ambivalent notion of being loved or not."
They talked about race quite often, as part of his inner need to find a sense of belonging. She sympathised with and encouraged his search for his identity. If she felt like an outsider, he was a double outsider, racial and cross-cultural. He looked black, but was he? At times he confessed to her that "he felt like an imposter. Because he was so white. There was hardly a black bone in his body." At some point that summer she realised that "in his own quest to resolve his ambivalence about black and white, it became very, very clear to me that he needed to go black".
Mahmood saw the same thing as Cook: Obama's internal struggle with his racial identity. He related it to his memory of Obama carrying around that dog-eared copy of Ellison's Invisible Man, and also to his memory of the day Obama wondered whether he could ever be president. Trying to embrace his blackness, Mahmood thought, was "probably the biggest shift I saw [in Obama during the New York years]… Barack was the most deliberate person I ever met in terms of constructing his own identity… That was an important period for him, first the shift from not international but American, number one, and then not white, but black."
Early in Obama's relationship with Cook, he had told her about "his adolescent image of the perfect ideal woman" and how he had searched for her "at the expense of hooking up with available girls". Who was this ideal woman? In her journals, Cook conjured her in her mind, and it was someone other than herself. "I can't help thinking that what he would really want, be powerfully drawn to, was a woman, very strong, very upright, a fighter, a laugher, well‑experienced – a black woman I keep seeing her as," she wrote.
• This is an edited extract from Barack Obama: The Making Of The Man, by David Maraniss, published next week by Atlantic Books at £25. To order a copy for £20, with free UK mainland p&p, go to guardianbookshop.co.uk or call 0330 333 6846.


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Odhanavaneswarar Temple, Tiruchotruturai (also called Oppillaselvar Temple) is a Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva located in the village of Tiruchotruthurai, Tamil Nadu, India. The Five Rivers are Vadavaru, Vennaaru, Vettaaru, Kudamuruttiyaaru and Kaaviriyaaru. Shiva is worshiped as Odhanavaneswarar, and is represented by the lingam and his consort Parvati is depicted as Annapoorani. The presiding deity is revered in the 7th century Tamil Saiva canonical work, the Tevaram, written by Tamil poet saints known as the nayanars and classified as Paadal Petra Sthalam.

This temple is known as Dakshina Kailasham(Kailash of the South). This is the place where Nandi(the divine bull of lord Shiva) was born and became the mount for Shiva. The divine wedding of Nandi and Suyasayambikai was held at Thirumazhapadi Vaidyanathaswamy temple in Ariyalur district of Tamil Nadu. This is celebrated as Saptha Stanam festival which includes seven Shiva temples of the region.

There are many inscriptions associated with the temple indicating contributions from Cholas, Pandyas, Thanjavur Nayaks and Thanjavur Maratha kingdom. The oldest parts of the present masonry structure were built during the Chola dynasty in the 9th century, while later expansions, are attributed to later periods, up to the Thanjavur Nayaks during the 16th century.

The temple complex is one of the largest in the state and it houses four gateway towers known as gopurams. The temple has numerous shrines, with those of Odhavaneswarar and Annapoorani being the most prominent. The temple complex houses many halls and three precincts. The temple has four daily rituals at various times from 6:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., and five yearly festivals on its calendar. The temple is now maintained and administered by Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department of the Government of Tamil Nadu.

Legend
As per Hindu legend, Shiva was pleased by the devotion by one of his devotees named Arulalan and bestowed him with a vessel with never ending food giving capabilities. As per another legend, during one time, there was a never ending famine. Sage Gautama performed penance in the place, pleased by which Shiva gave a boon that the place would have never ending food supplied capabilities. The place where paddy grew is referred as arisi vilaintha vayal and the canal is referred as cottrudayan vaaykal. The place was thus referred as Thiruchotruthurai, meaning the banks of the canal where rice grew. Another variant of the legend indicates that Parvathi appeared as Annapoorani and fed his devotees in the place. The place where Ambal fed the devotees was called Annam Paintha Vayal (the field where food was produced). Following the legend, the devotees who participate in the Sapthastanam festival are fed in the temple.

Architecture
The temple is located in Tiruchotruturai, a village in Thanjavur district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is situated on the banks of the river Kaveri, 10 km from Thanjavur, and 3 km from Thiruvaiyaru on the Thirukandiyur - Thanjavur road.
The temple has three prakarams (closed precincts of a temple) and many mandapams (halls). The temple faces east  and is entered via a three-tiered pyramidal rajagopuram (gateway tower). The presiding deity in the form of lingam is housed in the sanctum in square shape. The attached hall, the ardhamandapa measures the same width as the sanctum, while its length is twice the sanctum. The ardhamandapa projects towards the east. The Mukhamandapa has a square structure. There are five devakoshtas that cover the exterior walls of the sanctum. The images of Dakshinamurthy and Brahma are the only ones remaining out of the five. There are two large Dvarapala, guardian deities on either side of the entrance of the ardhamandapa. There are images of Lingas replicating Sapthavidangam and Saptamatrika.

Saptha Stanam

The divine bull Nandi was born in this temple and became the mount of lord Shiva.The divine wedding of Nandi and Suyasayambikai was held at Thirumazhapadi Vaidyanathaswamy temple in Ariyalur district of Tamil Nadu. This is celebrated as Saptha Stanam festival which includes seven Shiva temples of the region. The sapthasthanam festival is conducted at Tiruvaiyaru during April every year. As per Hindu legend, it is the wedding festival of Nandikeswara, the sacred bull of Shiva on the Punarpoosa star during the Tamil month of Panguni. The festival deity of Aiyarappar temple of Thiruvaiyaru is carried in a decorated glass palanquin along with the images of Nandikeswara and Suyasayambikai to the temples in Thirupazhanam, Thiruchottruthurai, Thiruvedhikudi, Thirukandiyur and Thirupoonthurthi. Each of the festival deities of the respective temples mounted in glass palanquins accompany Aiyarppar on the way to the final destiny, Thillaistanam. There is a grand display of fireworks in Cauvery riverbed outside Thillaistanam temple. The seven palanquins are carried to Aiyarappar temple in Thiruvaiyyaru. Hundreds of people witness the convergence of seven glass palanquins carrying principal deities of respective temples from seven places at Tiruvaiyaru. The devotees perform Poochorithal(flower festival) in which a doll offers flowers to the principal deities in the palanquins. After the Poochorithal, the palanquins leave for their respective temples.

Worship practices
The temple priests perform the puja (rituals) during festivals and on a daily basis. Like other Shiva temples of Tamil Nadu, the priests belong to the Shaiva community, a Brahmin sub-caste. The temple rituals are performed four times a day; Ushathkalam at 6:30 a.m., Kalasanthi at 8:00 a.m., Uchikalam at 12:00 a.m., Sayarakshai at 5:00 p.m., and Ardha Jamam at 8:00 p.m. Each ritual comprises four steps: abhisheka (sacred bath), alangaram (decoration), naivethanam (food offering) and deepa aradanai (waving of lamps) for both Odhavaneswarar and Annapoorani. The worship is held amidst music with nagaswaram (pipe instrument) and tavil (percussion instrument), religious instructions in the Vedas (sacred texts) read by priests and prostration by worshipers in front of the temple mast. There are weekly rituals like  (Monday) and  (Friday), fortnightly rituals like pradosham and monthly festivals like amavasai (new moon day), kiruthigai, pournami (full moon day) and sathurthi. Mahashivaratri during February - March is the major festivals celebrated in the temple.

Religious importance

Tirugnana Sambandar, a 7th-century Tamil Saivite poet, venerated Odhavaneswarar in the 28th padigam in Tevaram, compiled in the First Tirumurai. Appar, a contemporary of Sambandar, also venerated Odhanvaneswarar in four padigams in Tevaram, compiled in the fourth, fifth and Sixth Tirumurai. Sundarar, the 8th century Nayanmar revered Odhavaneswarar in a padigam, which is compiled in Seventh Tirumuari. As the temple is revered in Tevaram, it is classified as Paadal Petra Sthalam, one of the 275 temples that find mention in the Saiva canon. The temple is counted as the 13th in the list of temples in the Southern banks of Cauvery. As per accounts in Periya Puranam by Sekkizhar, Sundarar visited multiple Shiva temples in the region and visited this temple. He sung Azhal neer ozhugi anaya in praise of Odhanavaneswarar. Arunagirinathar, the 15th century Saivite saints, has sung praise about the Muruga in the temple. The temple is counted as one of the temples built on the banks of River Kaveri.

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LMI Report May 8 – 12, 2017
Repairing rides on the road
Most businesses that fit on four wheels are filled with food. You won't find hot dogs in Chad Bullock's SUV. Instead, it's loaded with tools to fix vehicular dings and dents.
Kootenay Auto Worx is Castlegar's new mobile repair service. "I provide convenience for the customer," said Bullock. "I come to your home or place of work and complete those repairs right there for you."
http://kootenaybiz.com/businessbeat/article/repairing_rides_on_the_road
CFDC Hosts Agriculture Forum
Community Futures Development Corporation, Boundary, hosts an agriculture-themed forum on May 23 and 24 in Grand Forks
South-central B.C.'s Boundary region offers a wealth of opportunities for sustainable, small-scale agriculture and the increasingly important issue of food security.
Community Futures Development Corporation (CFDC), Boundary, hosts the 13th annual Community Economic Development Regional Forum in Grand Forks, B.C., on May 23 and 24 at the Grand Forks curling rink. The forum is held in a different community each year, and the theme changes according to the priorities of the host area. This year's forum title is "Valuing Agriculture as an Economic Driver."
http://kootenaybiz.com/promoted/content/cfdc_hosts_agriculture_forum
BC election brings uncertainty for business sector, pipelines
British Columbia's election has brought unwelcome uncertainty for the business sector, given the prospect of an ascendant Green Party influencing policy on pipelines, natural gas exports, hydroelectricity and other resource projects.
http://globalnews.ca/news/3441383/bc-election-brings-uncertainty-for-business-sector-pipelines/
Forget tidal – the B.C. advantage is wave power
A new study from the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions quantifies just how much energy those waves contain, and recommends that B.C. take advantage of its world-class wave power to become a kind of "living lab" for ocean energy technology developers.
https://www.biv.com/article/2017/5/forget-tidal-bc-advantage-wave-power/
Thermal coal exports could be B.C.'s Trump card
Offshore market access a potential bargaining chip, regardless of election outcome: analyst
The BC Liberal leader asked Ottawa to ban thermal coal exports through B.C. ports – something that would kill the $15 million Fraser Surrey Docks new coal terminal plans and wipe out $100 million worth of business for Westshore Terminals, where American thermal coal accounts for one-third of its business.
https://www.biv.com/article/2017/5/thermal-coal-exports-could-be-bcs-trump-card/
Rachel Notley vows to work with B.C. government after election splits power
Tuesday's historic election in the western province has plunged Alberta's neighbours into the kind of uncertain minority government not seen in 65 years, though Liberal Leader Christy Clark has vowed to keep governing as premier
http://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/notley-vows-to-work-with-bc-government-after-election-splits-power
Alberta's net financial position has deteriorated by $68 billion in 11 years
Alberta Finance Minister Joe Ceci (pictured above) recently claimed that the provincial government will maintain its spending trajectory, regardless of whether the province suffers another credit downgrade.
With the province having already seen its credit rating downgraded, and with big budget deficits projected for the rest of this government's fiscal plan, it's not clear what evidence could possibly convince the Minister Ceci to realize the current strategy is not working and to change course.
https://www.fraserinstitute.org/blogs/alberta-s-net-financial-position-has-deteriorated-by-68-billion-in-11-years
Keystone XL reaction: Rachel Notley says Energy East, Trans Mountain pipeline expansion still needed
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says U.S. approval of the Keystone XL pipeline does not lessen the need for two other controversial proposals within Canada's borders
http://globalnews.ca/news/3333866/keystone-xl-reaction-rachel-notley-says-energy-east-trans-mountain-pipeline-expansion-still-needed
New $85-million wood-pellet plant announced west of Edmonton
A B.C. company plans to start construction this summer on an $85-million plant in Parkland County that will produce wood pellets as a greener form of fuel.
Pinnacle Renewable Energy Inc. intends to build the facility near the CN Rail line outside Entwistle, 100 kilometres west of Edmonton, according to a news release
http://edmontonjournal.com/business/local-business/new-85-million-wood-pellet-plant-announced-west-of-edmonton
Alberta could be coal-free years ahead of deadline as ATCO plans natural gas transition by 2020
Alberta could realize its goal of phasing out coal-fired electricity years ahead of schedule as ATCO Ltd. announced Wednesday it planned to transition its power plants to burn natural gas by 2020.
"We're actually looking at greening them by 2020, not 2030," ATCO president and CEO Nancy Southern said Wednesday of the company's coal-fired power plants and the NDP government's 2030 deadline to phase them out.
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/business/energy-resources/alberta+could+coal+free+years+ahead+deadline+atco/13360610/story.html
Canadian Tire profit surges 26% despite warm winter, soaring past market expectations
TORONTO — Net earnings surged 26 per cent at Canadian Tire Corp. in the first quarter despite warmer than expected weather in January and February.
http://business.financialpost.com/news/retail-marketing/canadian-tire-profit-surges-26-despite-warm-winter-soaring-past-market-expectations
Legal marijuana will only sip 1% out of$22.1B Canadian booze sales, study suggests
MONTREAL — The recreational marijuana industry is expected to take a sip of less than one per cent initially out of annual Canadian alcohol sales once it becomes legal, a new analysis says.
The Anderson Economic Group, a business consulting firm in New York, says legalization of marijuana would sap $160 million out of the country's $22.1 billion booze sector, rising as use of the drug expands.
http://business.financialpost.com/news/retail-marketing/legal-marijuana-will-only-sip-1-out-of22-1b-canadian-booze-sales-study-suggests
Taxation among First Nations would encourage greater accountability and good governance
Simply put, indigenous citizens would have a much bigger stake in their governance if they paid for it. They would have real control over their communities and destinies if more funds were generated on reserve. Right now, funding and service decisions are made by federal bureaucrats.
Band members would also have a more realistic sense of what services can be funded and supported if they finance those services themselves. And self-taxation would provide bands with a reliable revenue source for their own priorities and community planning.
https://www.fraserinstitute.org/article/taxation-among-first-nations-would-encourage-greater-accountability-and-good-governance
Poor Implementation Undermines Carbon Tax Efficiency in Canada
Poor Implementation Undermines Carbon Tax Efficiency in Canada finds that the theoretical benefits of carbon taxes and cap-and-trade schemes—that they can lower emissions and improve the economy at the same time—are negated by poor implementation such as layering these schemes on top of, instead of replacing existing regulations.
https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/poor-implementation-undermines-carbon-tax-efficiency-in-canada
Only 10.6% of Ottawa's nearly $100 billion in new infrastructure spending is for trade and transportation
The current federal government has explicitly said the goal of its 12-year infrastructure spending plan is to help grow the economy and increase the prosperity of Canadians, particularly middle-class Canadians. The fundamental problem, however, is that only a small fraction of the nearly $100 billion in new infrastructure spending proposed by the current government is earmarked for projects that have the potential to actually improve the economy.
https://www.fraserinstitute.org/blogs/only-106-of-ottawas-nearly-100-billion-in-new-infrastructure-spending-is-for-trade-and-transportation
Trudeau government close to breaking all-time record for per-capita federal spending: Fraser Institute
With the Liberals planning to spend $8,337 per person in 2017, the government of Justin Trudeau is close to breaking the all-time record for per-capita federal expenditures, according to a new report by the Fraser Institute.
The number one spot, however, remains Stephen Harper. The Conservative leader hit a per-Canadian total of $8,375 in 2009 when he was overseeing spending increases intended to counteract the effects of the global recession.
http://www.theprovince.com/news/national/trudeau+government+close+breaking+time+record+capita/13360209/story.html
Apple steps up its effort to emphasize its economic impact
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple is getting more aggressive about emphasizing its role in the U.S. economy, apparently hoping to counter recurring criticism over its reliance on overseas factories.
On Wednesday, Apple for the first time released a state-by-state breakdown of where its 80,000 U.S. employees work, showing that more than half of them are located outside Silicon Valley. It also announced a $1 billion fund aimed at creating more U.S. manufacturing jobs, although it provided few details.
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/apple+makes+commitment+toward+more+manufacturing+jobs/13343338/story.html
As Farmers Worry, Agriculture Department Will Promote Trade
On his second day in office last month, Perdue helped persuade Trump not to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico and Canada, arguing that doing so would hurt U.S. farmers. Trump has said he will work to renegotiate the pact instead.
Perdue said the new undersecretary will work with the U.S. trade representative and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to "ensure that American producers are well equipped to sell their products and feed the world."
https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2017-05-11/new-usda-position-is-intended-to-boost-agricultural-trade
Germany's Siemens to Cut 2,700 Jobs as It Modernizes IT Unit
German industrial conglomerate Siemens AG says it's cutting or outsourcing 2,700 jobs as part of efforts to modernize its IT operations and increase efficiency elsewhere.
https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2017-05-11/germanys-siemens-to-cut-2-700-jobs-as-it-modernizes-it-unit
Netflix to Hire Hundreds for New Amsterdam Customer Hub
Streaming service Netflix says it will hire 400 staff for its new Amsterdam-based European customer service headquarters and plans to announce at least six new original European projects before the end of 2017
https://www.usnews.com/news/business
Mexico warns U.S. of alternatives on trade, points to China
Mexico sent a stark message to U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday, saying an upcoming visit to China in September made it clear Latin America's No. 2 economy "has lots of other alternatives" amid tense trade negotiations.
Mexico is grappling with Trump's desire to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that underpins its economy, prompting the government to try and diversify away from the United States, which takes 80 percent of its exports.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-mexico-idUSKBN18725S?il=0
Sears CEO Lampert blames company's woes on 'irresponsible' media
Sears Holdings Corp (SHLD.O) Chief Executive Officer Edward Lampert blasted the media on Wednesday for "unfairly singling out" the company over the past decade and blamed "irresponsible" coverage for the retailer's woes.
Sears, once the largest U.S. retailer, warned investors in March there was a chance it may not be able to continue as a going concern after years of losses and declining sales.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-sears-shareholders-idUSKBN1862R2
The History and Development of Canada's Personal Income Tax: Zero to 50 in 100 Years
In recognition of the 100th anniversary of Canada's personal income tax (PIT), the Fraser Institute asked a group of accomplished scholars to analyze and assess the emergence, development, and current state of Canada's federal personal income tax. The following provides a short synopsis of the essays.
https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/history-and-development-of-canadas-personal-income-tax-zero-to-50-in-100-years
Nelson city council, prioritize affordable housing
http://www.nelsonstar.com/opinion/nelson-city-council-prioritize-affordable-housing/
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2010 has not been a great year for young, highly-touted Danish talents. Rasmus Guldhammer sparkled on several occasions with HTC-Columbia, but at the end of his neo-pro season, opted to return to his homeland for a year to gain some more experience and maturity before heading back to the highest level.
The same situation appears to be the case with another prodigal talent from Denmark, Thomas Vedel Kvist. Only 20 years old at the time, the Danish rider with heaps of promise signed with Patrick Lefevere's QuickStep team at the end of the 2008 season following a dominating performance at the Grand Prix des Nations in Canada with the QuickStep feeder team, Beveren 2000. There was much hope that he could be the next big Danish star, but little came of it over the next two seasons.
Feltet.dk reports that a crash and slow recovery period certainly did not help the young rider's possibilities, but Patrick Lefevere's team is also a notoriously tough environment for all but the few that succeed early and quickly.
All is not lost for Kvist though. Like Guldhammer, he will return home to Denmark next season to race with a lower level team. In the case of Kvist, now all of 23 years old, he'll race for the Danish powerhouse, Glud & Marstrand team in 2011.
Team director, Michael Skelde, was pleased to announce his big signing.
"It was a childhood dream that came true when Thomas turned professional with QuickStep, but he still has time ahead of him to become a ProTour writer again. At Glud & Marstrand, we have a proud tradition of ex-QuickStep riders. Mads Christensen returned to the ProTour after a year with us, and we also believe that will be the case with Thomas. With Thomas on the team, we will be very strong when we hit the hilly terrain."
Team manager, Christa Skelde, is also excited at the prospect of working with Kvist, not only due to his obvious abilities on the bike, but in terms of helping the rider return to the level that was apparent early on and has been left in the shadows of late.
"We will give him the best support and ballast, so he can blossom again and get back to the ProTour. We have a proud tradition of helping people, and we can go beyond the technical cycling aspect and also deal with the personal and mental things in his luggage."


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Alan Receives a Call From Wei Chen on a Radio Show
Decided to stick the MV to this post because I didn't want to make another entirely separate post for what is simply a commercial. It's not Jetta's Big Day or a masterpiece like that. Here's some more Wei Chen for you, because the song does not show off his vocals well, despite the fact that he, along with friend Su Xing, wrote the rap, and he doesn't get too much screentime. I would post more pics of Alan, but her fanbase in China is smaller and thus no fan-taken pics from this event.
Performing the Jia You! You Have Me song
I'm short on free time as of late, so I thought I'd post this rather quickly instead of the more time-consuming posts I'm still working on, even though this has been on my youtube channel for a while. It's a cut from a radio interview where Alan talks about her theme song for Red Cliff Part 2 (which opened this weekend in China), and Wei Chen is a guest caller . I was going to stick this with the actual MV when it comes out, but oh well.
I never thought I would post on one commercial so much but since the commercial is supposed to be encouraging to students and telling them to achieve their dreams, I guess it doesn't hurt.
For anyone who doesn't understand Mandarin, this is the quick Cliff Notes summary of the conversation:
Alan receives a phone call from Wei Chen, the other half of the Epson song, and doesn't know it's him. He says he's a fan but gets her fan club name wrong because she doesn't have a fan club name (poor Alan, they need to give her one!). Then the host says his name she gets surprised, and starts asking about his health because of how little they were wearing for the MV shoot (Wei Chen said in another video he would like to next film a commercial where army coats were the required wear). He says he's fine and then they start talking about their previous collaboration, when they were the only two selected to represent China at the 9th Asian New Singer Competition in 2006, where within China Wei Chen was 1st and Alan was 2nd. At the final international competition stage Alan eventually lost by 0.005 points to Filipina Maria Donna Taneo (Filipinos are the best at singing and dancing in Asia and you can never convince me otherwise) for the grand prize.
Wei Chen said he was surprised one day to see Alan in the MV for Red Cliff, and was then glad to know that two people working towards the common goal of creating music could both achieve some success in that field, which is the part that I really liked about this video (and Alan too judging from her expressions). I'm a sucker for hearing about how people realize their dreams, and that's one of the things I love about Wei Chen. He's very matter-of-fact about what he wants to acheive with his music.
For the rest of the interview that's not uploaded, Alan states that she plans to have three singles in the first half of 2009. Omg Alan, Avex is singling you to death…where's the full album?
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6 thoughts on "Alan Receives a Call From Wei Chen on a Radio Show"
Francis Weiss on 06/24/2022 at 12:42 AM said:
Thiis is a great blog
Wendy on 01/19/2009 at 1:04 AM said:
Ohhh, it looks like they're going to keep at the regular single releases this year, like what they did late 2008. But her album is definitely confirmed. I got an email from CDJapan earlier this month for a March 4th release.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Dawa_Dolma#Discography
idarklight on 01/17/2009 at 7:57 PM said:
Really? But in the interview, Alan said that she was releasing 5(?) singles, one per month, early this year.
Wendy on 01/17/2009 at 10:12 AM said:
I love alan. <3 She's amazing. She's looking terribly skinny though. Avex has really been working her because I remember for her first Japanese single, she didn't look as skinny. And her eyebags! Aish. Hope she gets some rest before she starts promoting her first album! Which comes out March 4th, I believe. ;)
idarklight on 01/17/2009 at 4:43 AM said:
They wrote the rap for this song together, too?
So Lu Hu has written three songs for him and Allen two. If Allen does one more with him, he'll be even with Lu Hu…lol
but really, this song was all about Alan. It doesn't show off Wei Chen's voice at all.
Maybe the reason why Alan's going on the New Year's show is because Hunan has a contract with Avex, too. But Avex dropped He Jie…so how could they be friends?
yelei on 01/17/2009 at 4:06 AM said:
they look so cute. i like this song :)


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D.A.: Man, 32, accused of slashing at New Dorp station
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A 32-year-old felon has been charged with a slashing at the New Dorp train station, only days before he allegedly threatened police officers with a knife.
Ronald Izzo, 32, of Ebbitts Street, New Dorp, was arrested on Tuesday for the stabbing that occurred on May 10 at about 4:50 p.m. at the train station, according to the criminal complaint and police.
Izzo allegedly accosted the victim, a 60-year-old stranger, while on board a Tottenville-bound Staten Island Railway train approaching the New Dorp station, according to the criminal complaint and police.
"Are you following me?" the suspect allegedly asked the victim, the criminal complaint said.
Izzo then allegedly used an unspecified cutting instrument to stab the 60-year-old man as the senior was exiting the train and stepping onto the platform. Izzo allegedly ran away in the direction of Rose Avenue, authorities said.
The victim had a cut that required stitches, according to the complaint.
Charges in the May 10 incident included assault and criminal possession of a weapon.
During a separate arrest, Izzo allegedly brandished a knife at two male police officers on May 16 at about 9 p.m. inside an apartment on Ebbitts Street, according to the criminal complaint and the indictment.
"Don't touch me, get away from me," Izzo allegedly said as he waved the knife, according to the complaint.
A third male police officer was injured with a pulled muscle while trying to arrest Izzo, who allegedly was flailing his arms and kicking, according to the criminal complaint and indictment.
For the dustup on May 16, Izzo was indicted on charges of menacing a police officer, criminal possession of a weapon and resisting arrest. His case is winding its way through state Supreme Court.
The suspect was convicted of burglary in November, 2012 and sentenced to one year in jail, according to the complaint and indictment.
Izzo is being held at Rikers Island, according to public records.
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Metro Music Festival to run from March 17-23 in Dubai
Twenty-five international to play at five different venues
Photo for illustrative purposes Image Credit: Pixabay
Brand Dubai, the creative arm of the Government of Dubai Media Office (GDMO), announced on March 11 that it will organise the Metro Music Festival, a celebration of global music, from March 17-23. To be held in cooperation with the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), the free-to-attend festival will feature performances by international musicians from a range of musical genres.
The fest will be held at five Dubai Metro stations - Burjuman, Union, DMCC, Al Rigga and Burj Khalifa. And an eclectic line-up of 25 international musicians has been announced.
Mona Al Marri, Director General of GDMO, said: "The Metro Music Festival is a wonderful celebration of Dubai's spirit of cultural diversity and inclusiveness. The festival was created in line with the vision of Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum to create an environment in Dubai for art, music and culture to flourish. The event will convey Dubai's messages of harmony and tolerance in the universal language of music. This initiative is part of Brand Dubai's efforts to develop initiatives that highlight Dubai's unique character as one of the world's most culturally diverse and inclusive cities."
"We are very happy to partner with the Roads and Transport Authority to bring this festival to the people of Dubai. We are committed to working with diverse partners to transform the cultural experience that Dubai offers to both residents and visitors and create vibrant platforms for art and music to flourish. The Metro Music Festival makes a unique statement about Dubai's identity and values and raises its profile on the global cultural map as a hub for artists and musicians from across the world to showcase their talent," she added.
The musicians performing at the festival include traditional musicians, street performers, classical instrumentalists and fusion musicians.
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Home Language Education National Education Policy 2019: Here's a observe adjustments made after row over Hindi
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by Maurice A. Miller August 24, 2022
written by Maurice A. Miller August 24, 2022
Hindi Language Row: As the talk sparked over the imposition of Hindi as the 3rd language in all non-Hindi speaking states, the Centre made some changes in the new schooling coverage, introducing flexibility in the three-language system. The Narendra Modi-led authorities have tweaked the modern draft by using letting students choose their medium of examination.
Hindi Language Row: Changes initiated in the modern draft schooling policy
1. Learning technological know-how bilingually: Students whose medium of coaching is the neighborhood/domestic language will start to research technological know-how bilingually in Grade eight or in advance. Using the end of Grade 10, they talk approximately technological know-how each in their domestic language and English. This will permit college students to think about scientific standards in multiple ways and allow future scientists to speak approximately their work and about technology to their families and local information channels, write about their paintings for a local newspaper, and communicate to youngsters approximately their paintings in their home states and cities to help inspire the next generation. Being technological know-how-bilingual in this way is indeed a boon; most Nobel Prize winners in science certainly file being able to suppose and communicate about technology in a couple of languages. In the current Indian machine, many scientists have a mother tongue, and how this has hindered each their own questioning and their outreach competencies of their communities.
2. Flexibility inside the three-language method: In keeping with the principle of flexibleness, college students who desire to alternate one or greater of the 3 languages they are studying may additionally achieve this in Grade 6 or Grade 7, so long as they can nevertheless exhibit proficiency in three languages (one language on the literature degree) in their modular Board Examinations sometime in the course of secondary school. Since the modular Board Examinations for language proficiency will indeed test only for primary skill ability in each language, any such trade in language choice in Grade 6 would, in reality, be viable if the pupil so desires and might in such cases be supported via instructors and the education machine. Additional picks of languages could consequently be presented in middle college for this cause of preference and flexibility.
3. Foreign language offerings in secondary college: A choice of foreign language (s) (e.G. French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese) might be provided and available to fascinated students to pick out as elective (s) in the course of secondary college. Such a non-compulsory might certainly be non-obligatory. Instead of the united states of America, one factor of teaching foreign languages will encompass translation physical games among Indian and overseas languages.
4. Approach to language getting to know and teachings: During the Foundational degree of education(pre-primary faculty to Grade 2), language can be taught in a laugh and interactive fashion with an emphasis on functionality and interaction (Samskrita Bharati and Alliance Francaise, which are companies in India that train Sanskrit and French respectively, may function superb models for such language coaching, and which can be tailored to other languages if favored). Language coaching could consist more often than verbal exchange (with alphabets and reading fundamental phrases) within the Foundational level. It might flow directly to extra state-of-the-art analyzing and fundamental writing competencies in each language's script within the Preparatory stage.
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The Bell Award
Recognizing your outstanding contributions to the Foundation.
Juliene Popinga receives OSCF Bell Award
The Oregon State Capitol Foundation Bell Award recognizes devoted individuals who make outstanding contributions to the organization. On Jan. 26, 2022, OSCF Chair Judy Hall presented Juliene Popinga with the Bell Award for igniting belief and stimulating involvement in our democracy.
"Juliene's work exemplifies a passion for the relationship between our Capitol, the Oregon story, the shared heritage of Oregonians and the Foundation's mission."
OSCF Chair Judy Hall
From award-winning Capitol History Gateway programming including exhibits, displays and events to 4th grade lesson plans and more, Popinga and the Capitol Visitor Services team she oversees excel at making the Capitol visitor experience educational, fun and memorable.
Thanks to Popinga's forward thinking, when the pandemic temporarily closed the Capitol to the public, the Visitor Services staff was prepared for a smooth transition from providing in-person activities to online virtual Capitol tours and educational cultural events.
"I'm very fortunate to work with an amazing Visitor Services team and committed individuals and organizations that engage in developing experiences for the Capitol visitors. I am honored to be the recipient of the Foundation's 2022 Bell Award and look forward to future opportunities to share Capitol stories and Oregon history."
Juliene Popinga, OSCF Bell Award recipient
Popinga is the third person and the first non-Board member to receive the prestigious award. Frankie Bell — the award's namesake — and former Oregon State Senator Jane Cease received the award in 2021.
Please join us in congratulating Juliene Popinga!
The mission of the Oregon State Capitol Foundation is to preserve our Capitol, share its history and engage Oregonians in our democracy.
Jane Cease receives OSCF Bell Award
On April 14, 2021, the Foundation Board recognized former State Senator Jane Cease for her tireless work evolving the Oregon State Capitol Foundation from a legislative organization to an independent charitable nonprofit in 2015.
While serving as OSCF Chair, Kim Duncan selected Cease to receive the award. Challenges presented by the coronavirus pandemic caused delays in adopting the new policy and presenting the prestigious Bell Award. The award, named after founding member Frankie Bell, recognizes individuals who've made outstanding contributions to the organization.
"It's my honor to present the Bell Award to Jane on behalf of our very grateful colleagues. Her work required vision, tenacity, wisdom and administrative fortitude as she guided the organization to a new stage of independence and expanded capacity."
Former OSCF Chair Kim Duncan
A history of serving Oregonians
Cease served in the Oregon House of Representatives from 1979-1984 and in the Oregon State Senate from 1985-1991. A volunteer on the Foundation Board since 2004, she served as Vice Chair of the organization from 2011-13 and Chair from 2013-2015.
Read Jane's Bio
Colleagues surprise Frankie Bell with OSCF Bell Award
On Jan. 27, 2021, the Foundation board adopted a policy to recognize individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the organization. Next, they surprised founding member Frankie Bell with the inaugural Oregon State Capitol Foundation Bell Award.
"It is with immense pride that we recognize Frankie's foresight and years of hard work. She demonstrates extraordinary commitment and dedication by serving our organization, the Capitol and Oregonians."
Bell — the award's namesake — saw the possibilities of an organization committed to the physical preservation of the Oregon State Capitol and educational programs offered to Capitol visitors and Oregonians. She organized the Foundation's first volunteer board in 1995, two years before the organization's founding by statute. More than 25 years later, she continues to nurture the nonprofit's growth.
Bell was also a key player in creating the Capitol's gift shop and the volunteer and building use programs. She's living proof that one person makes a difference!
Bell Award in the news
About the remarkable Oregonian who inspired the Bell Award
Frankie Bell capped her three-decade career as State Capitol Visitor Services manager by helping to launch the Oregon State Capitol Foundation as a founding member.
Bell, who has a passion for our Capitol and Oregon's legislative process, has worked every regular session of the legislature since retiring. Frankie was a key player in creating the Capitol's volunteer program, building use program and the Capitol gift shop, which make the building more accessible and friendly to visitors.
The Capitol is Frankie's "home away from home," and news reporters and historians often consult her about Capitol history.
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Defender Andy Considine reckons everyone in the Dons squad will have to step up in the new campaign.
For defender Andy Considine the Dons are a team for the working class and every supporter, regardless of financial situation, should be able to see them in action.
Aberdeen's victory against Celtic was a fantastic way to finish the season and secure second place.
Defender Andy Considine accepts losing all three games to Rangers is unacceptable ... but he doesn't accept that run indicates a shift in the balance of power in Scottish football.
Defender Andy Considine today vowed to continue to silence Aberdeen's critics by knocking Apollon Limassol out of Europe.
New signing Gary Mackay-Steven today warned Aberdeen will go on the attack with all guns blazing in Bosnia.
Andrew Considine today warned Rangers' interest in signing skipper Ryan Jack will not derail the bid to beat the Ibrox club in Glasgow.
Aberdeen Player of the Year winner Andrew Considine today challenged the Reds to finish an "incredible" season in glory.
Andrew Considine sealed a Dons double as he was named Aberdeen's Player of the Year and Players' Player for 2016/17.
Aberdeen got over their loss to Rangers with a solid 2-1 victory at St Johnstone.
Andrew Considine today claimed their rage at losing 3-0 at home to Rangers has left the Dons even more desperate to end their campaign on a high.
Dons defender Andrew Considine today expressed joy at claiming his first hat-trick in their astonishing 7-0 victory over Dundee.
Dons defender Andrew Considine is poised to take another step up the club's all-time appearances chart next week.
The top 10 of Aberdeen's all-time appearances list reads like a who's who of club legends.
Derek McInnes has praised the Red Army for helping dig them out of a hole at Rugby Park.
Aberdeen have announced long-serving defender Andrew Considine has agreed a new two-year deal.
Aberdeen are confident the bulk of their first team squad will still be intact when the January transfer window closes.
Dons boss Derek McInnes today confirmed players with deals set to expire will have to wait for talks.
Andrew Considine today vowed to silence the Dons' doubters by proving they are still the second force in Scotland.
Fired-up Andy Considine today warned Celtic the Dons are ready to wreck their treble dream.
Defender Andrew Considine today warned there can be no slip-ups in the Dons' fight for the Premiership title.
DEFENDER Andrew Considine today claimed the Dons are ready to scrap it out against Hearts in the Premiership's top three battle.
DONS boss Derek McInnes today praised the defenders who have helped them cope without the injured Mark Reynolds.


The holiday season can be one of the most profitable times of a year for businesses. People have their wallets open and they are ready to buy thanks to a combination of end-of-year bonuses, the generous gift-giving spirit, and some of the best sales of the year.
For businesses it is a time of profit, but also competition because everyone knows this is a time when customers are ready to spend.
You can give yourself a competitive advantage with the right social media marketing campaigns, especially when it comes to Facebook advertising. In this post, we'll go over six tips to create holiday ads that convert on Facebook, setting you apart from the competition.
Even though each holiday is lumped into the "holiday season," you want to create ads for each individual event within said season. Black Friday and Cyber Monday, for example, should each have their own unique sets of ads.
Even if you're using the same images and offers, switching up the copy to be event-specific will help you increase conversion rates. "Get three months half off for Black Friday" sounds a lot better than "Get three months half off, just sign up by next week." It increases urgency, and when users are creating lists of what they want to blow their budget on, you want to be on that list.
When advertising sales after Black Friday, make sure users know they're still getting a good deal. It's still the gift-giving season, after all, and the idea of getting just as good of a deal after Black Friday can be intoxicating.
Everyone loves the gift giving season, but the pressure surrounding it… not so much. Still, brands can use this to their advantage by creating a sense of urgency.
Urgency always sells, and it can be especially effective around the holidays.
Retargeting allows you to reach out to customers who you know are already interested in what you have to offer, and that's a particularly big advantage come the holidays.
One strategy you can use to increase sales is to utilize segmented lists based on purchase history. Show customers the products and services you know that they're most likely to be interested in.
For example, Verizon's best bet would be to show apple headphones only to users who had purchased iPhones for example; Android users should be shown something else.
Perhaps the most effective holiday retargeting strategy is to focus on website retargeting, where you create custom audiences based off users who have visited your site within a set time frame. Why? Because it may not be your normal customers buying from you this time of year—it may be their friends or family purchasing them a gift. Retargeting ads to keep showing the product to individuals doing gift research can help you boost sales this time of year.
The holiday season is the time to sell, and brand awareness or social engagement campaigns should take a back seat to actually getting sales and traffic to your store—whether it's online or a physical location. All of your ads should contain links.
Just as importantly, you should be choosing the right ad objectives. Facebook's algorithms take your objectives into heavy consideration when distributing your ads, and they'll show the ads to the people they believe most likely to fulfill your stated objective.
When I was worked in a jewelry store several years back, we were told to push these $20 necklaces that people weren't typically interested in when buying $600 pieces. Then I realized by saying "they're perfect stocking stuffers," I went from selling about four a day to nearly 50.
Phrases like "the perfect gift" and "wait until you see their face light up when they open it" will make customers consider your products as gifts, even if they wouldn't have otherwise.
Make your copy holiday-specific. In a weird way, it's like giving customers another use case for your product. It isn't just a new set of headphones; it's a stocking stuffer. That new watch isn't just a watch—you'll wow them when they open this gift under the tree.
It's easy to forget to check in how your ads are performing, especially if they're running on a set schedule and you have a million other things to handle before the end of the year. Still, this task must not be overlooked.
Pause any campaigns that aren't performing well in an ad set, and allocate that budget to a campaign that's working. This will help increase sales while lowering your cost per click (CPC) and giving you the best possible ROI.
This year I was hired to tackle inconsistent ad campaigns for a client, and we paused the campaigns costing $7.95 a click and moved the budget to the campaign costing just under $1.50 per click. With the increased budget and a few small changes to improve the ad's targeting, we ended up getting the CPC down to $0.31.
This strategy is particularly powerful during the holidays, when you have a limited time to get results.
You should also keep a close eye on the engagement your ads are getting. Potential customers in a time-crunch may ask a question on your ad, and move on if they don't get an answer. Address any questions to increase the likelihood of conversions, and to show would-be customers that you're engaged and attentive to their needs.
The end-of-year sales season is your chance to finish the year strong. Customers are ready to buy and you want to make sure they buy from you.
By creating strong Facebook ad campaigns, you'll be able to set yourself apart and put your products and services in front of a highly engaged, ready-to-purchase audience.
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