NB This sequence appeared in my most recent monthly Frond Yoga newsletter. If you would like to join my mailing list and have information of upcoming UK classes, workshops, detox day retreats and international retreats then please get in touch via beckymay@frondyoga.com.
In yoga philosophy, we are comprised of more than our visible 'flesh and bones' bits. We also have an invisible energetic body. Just as blood vessels move our blood around the body, we also have a dense network of nadis (energy channels), which move prana (vital energy or life force) around the body. Yoga practices such as asana, pranayama and meditation help to increase our flow of prana, literally enlarging our energetic body (yes, we actually grow bigger, even if we can't see it!). The central energy channel is called shushumna nadi, which is found as a central column in the body, roughly following the location of the spine. Along shushumna nadi are seven main 'energy transformers' or chakras, which help to generate more prana and increase the flow of prana around the body. Each chakra is associated with particular physical and emotional conditions. When the chakras are 'open' then prana will flow easily and we will feel balanced, physically and emotionally. But, more often than not, our chakras are closed or blocked in some way, leading to feeling emotionally 'stuck' in certain areas of our life, or suffering from repeated physical problems in certain parts of our body.
This is a vast topic, and I am barely scratching the surface of the outermost layer here, but during the Turkey retreat I put together the following 'chakra opening' sequence in order to bring awareness to the different chakra areas and the physical and emotional conditions associated with them, in the hope that regularly repeating the sequence could begin to help release any blockages. The best thing to do is give it a go, trying to hold each posture for between five and ten breaths, and notice if you feel any particular discomfort or emotions at any point in the sequence. If so, note which chakra these are linked to. This might be a clue that there's some work to be done in that area.
Located at the base of the spine. Associated colour = red. Associated element = earth. Linked to feelings of connection with the earth, feeling safe, secure, calm and grounded. Physically linked to bowels, legs and feet. If it's blocked you may feel flighty, edgy, unsafe, alone, 'up in the clouds' or too much in your head. You may also struggle to feel connected to earth and the 'bigger picture'.
Begin in a crossed legs position and place your hands on the floor in front of you. Really try and feel your connection with the earth beneath your hands and your pelvis, hips and legs. Know you are part of a huge ecosystem, and you are protected and fully supported by the earth. Take some deep breaths here through the nose, trying to initiate each inhale right at the base of the spine and complete each exhale deep in the pelvic bowl.
Then come into this version of malasana (garland pose), with feet out-turned and hands in prayer position. Sink deep into hips and lift out of the lower back, bringing the chest forward and shoulders down. Use your upper arms to push your knees outwards (it's fine to keep the hands on the floor if you can't balance in the posture without them).
Push through the feet to come to standing and bring the feet together to stand in tadasana, mountain pose. Close the eyes and try and find stillness in the posture. Feel very strong in the legs by drawing up on the kneecaps to firm the thighs, and root down through the feet. Try and emulate the mountain after which the posture is named – rooted, steady, part of the earth, strong.
Move slowly into vrksasana, the tree pose. This time emulate the tree, growing in both directions. Rooting downwards through the feet into the earth and reaching upwards through the fingertips to the sky. Strong yet flexible. Focus on feeling strong in the standing leg (again firm up the front of the thigh) and then swap sides after a few breaths.
During these postures let your awareness rest at muladhara at the base of the tailbone and imagine a spinning wheel of red light there. Alternatively, as you breathe in and out repeat in your head the mantra for this chakra, 'lam', on each breath.
Located below the navel, just above muladhara. Colour = orange. Element = water. Linked to our feelings of sensuality, sexuality, creativity, pleasure, playfulness, fun and joy. Physically linked to reproductive and urinary systems. If blocked you may struggle to allow yourself to enjoy life and have fun. You may feel joyless and struggle with sexual relationships or feel creatively blocked. It can also be over-stimulated when you over-indulge in pleasurable activities in an ultimately self-destructive way (e.g. addiction).
Open the legs wide with feet out-turned and gently rest your hands on the tops of your thighs for the goddess or horse pose. Sink low into your hips until you feel a stretching in the inner hips and thighs. Spend a few breaths here then take the hands upwards, palms facing each other. Keep sinking low into the hips as you reach upwards at the same time.
Change the leg position to upavishta konasana (wide leg angle pose) and place the hands on the floor in front of you. Feel a gentle stretch on the inner hips and thighs. If you wish to go deeper then take the hands forward after a few breaths.
During the postures let the mind's awareness rest at svadhisthana below the navel and imagine a spinning wheel of orange light there and try and open yourself up to the postures with a playful, happy attitude – maybe try smiling your way through them! Alternatively, as you breathe in and out repeat in your head the mantra for this chakra, 'vam', on each breath.
Located at solar plexus. Colour = yellow. Element = fire. Linked to our feelings of self-esteem, self-belief, confidence, proactivity and decisiveness. Also linked to the digestive system. If blocked, you may feel fearful, anxious and lack belief in yourself, be unsure of who you are. You may also suffer from digestive problems. If over stimulated you may have an inflated ego and exhibit arrogance or false confidence.
Come to table top position and stretch out the opposite arm and leg, focusing on drawing in moolha bandha (lift up on perineal muscles) and uddiyana bandha (draw navel towards spine to engage deep transverse abdominals). Hold for a few breaths and swap sides. Feel strong and grounded through the hand and foot left on the floor and supported at your core.
If you want to work harder, do the same from plank and/or forearm plank. Make sure the hips don't creep upwards as you lift hand and foot – try and keep the body in a straight line.
Take navasana (boat pose). Lift out of your lower back and raise your chest skyward, as if inviting in the sun's energy to enter your solar plexus and send prana straight to manipura. Hold for five breaths before coming down, and repeat at least three times. Challenge yourself to cross the lower legs and lift up on an inhale in between each attempt, even if you can only get your hips off the floor – believe that you can do it!
Finish with a gentle seated twist with one leg bent and hooked over the other, straight leg, to stimulate the digestive organs.
During these postures let the mind's awareness rest at manipura at the solar plexus and imagine a spinning wheel of yellow light there. Feel the heat and life in your body and appreciate your inner strength, which allows you to hold the postures, even when it becomes difficult. Alternatively, as you breathe in and out repeat in your head the mantra for this chakra, 'ram', on each breath.
Located at the centre of the chest. Colour = green. Element = air. Linked to our ability to love ourselves, others and the world, and to our ability to accept love from others. Also linked to lungs and circulatory system. If blocked, you may find it difficult to build meaningful relationships with others, perhaps due to trauma and abuse that you have previously suffered. You may suffer from a lack of self-love and self-worth.
Sit in dandasana (staff pose) with your hands about ten centimetres behind you, fingers pointing forward. Lean into the hands and lift your chest upwards towards the sky, opening your heart. Try and soften the whole chest area and feel the rib cage rise and fall with the breath.
Lie on your belly and place your elbows under your shoulders with parallel forearms on the floor to come into bhujangasana (sphinx pose). Draw your shoulders back and down and open your chest to the front, focusing on inflating the chest with your inhales. After a few breaths, if you wish for a deeper backbend then begin to straighten the arms to come into cobra pose, but keep the shoulders down, away from the ears.
If your back feels open enough, stay lying on the belly and take dhanurasana (bow) or half bow pose. For full bow, bring both feet towards your buttocks and hold the fronts of the ankles. Try and keep the feet together, and maybe even the knees, as you begin to push the feet into the hands, which will draw your shoulders and chest off the floor. You don't need to lift high with this – just come to a comfortable place and focus on breathing into the mid to upper back and chest. Inflate the lungs and the rib cage with the breath. You may start to naturally rock forwards and backwards slightly as you breathe fully, in which case just go with it. Feel like you're breathing love in and sharing it with the world as you breathe out.
For half bow, just lift one foot up at a time, hold for a few breaths and swap sides.
Come onto your back and bend the knees and place your palms by your sides. On an inhale lift up into supported bridge and take the arms overhead and down to the floor behind you. Breathe fully into the front of the chest, trying to lift it higher and higher with each breath.
Roll out on an exhale and then take a soft forward fold as a counter posture to the back-bending.
During these postures let the mind's awareness rest at anahata at the heart centre and imagine a spinning wheel of green light there. Try and soften the front of your chest and focus on loving feelings, towards yourself, others and the world. Alternatively, as you breathe in and out repeat in your head the mantra for this chakra, 'yam', on each breath.
Located at the base of the throat. Colour = blue. Element = ether. Linked to our ability to know ourselves well and to communicate our truth to others with compassion. Also linked to our respiratory system. If blocked, you may struggle to make yourself heard, to form and give opinions or you may be very shy. You may also often feel tight in the throat, unable to breathe fully. Conversely, if over-stimulated you may be insensitive with your words and dominate conversations, drowning out others voices and being too opinionated/talking too much and too loudly.
Come to seated and place one shin in front of the other. Rock forward and take the hands to the floor quite far in front of you, then drop the hips. Draw the shoulders down and take a deep inhale. As you exhale, open your mouth wide, stick out the tongue as far as it will go, look upwards and breathe out noisily through the mouth for simhasana (lion breath) in a kind of hissing, roaring sound, like a lion. Repeat at least three times. Try and relax the throat as you do so and just let the breath go naturally – don't be shy, try not to hold it back!
Lie on your back and take the legs up into the air and back behind you for halasana (plough pose). The chin should be drawn into the chest, creating jalandarabandha (chin lock). If the feet touch down then interlace the fingers and place the arms on the floor otherwise continue to support the back. You can take a few breaths with straight legs then, if you wish, bend the legs so the knees come to the outside of the ears for karnapidasana.
Gently roll out using core control and take matsyasana (fish pose) as a counter posture. To come into this, lie on your back and bend the elbows (keep them close to your sides) and take hold of your outer hips. Lift the chest upwards, arching the spine actively, and take the head back, then move your hands to rest on the front of the thighs. If you wish to go further, walk your elbows outwards until you can place the top of your head on the floor, maintaining the arch in your spine, then place your hands on your thighs, so you're just resting on legs and head. When in the posture, relax the throat and the front of the chest and breathe deeply. To come out, place the elbows back down to take the weight, then bring chin to chest and come up slowly.
During these postures let the mind's awareness rest at vishuddha at the base of the throat and imagine a spinning wheel of blue light there. Try and soften your throat and cultivate an audible ujjayi breath by contracting the throat muscles, as you would if you were whispering. Let the breath flow, try not to hold it back at all. Alternatively, as you breathe in and out repeat in your head the mantra for this chakra, 'yam', on each breath.
Located between the eyebrows. Colour = purple. Element = mind. Linked to tuning into and trusting our innate wisdom and intuition, tapping into and fine-tuning our 'sixth sense'. If blocked, you are likely to be too much in your head, trying to 'work everything out' with your mind, rather than listening to your gut feelings and trusting the voice of intuition that rises when we sit in peace and allow it to emerge. If over-stimulated, you can use these abilities to inflate your ego, for example by abusing 'psychic powers' to boost your own sense of self/dominate others.
Take balasana (child's pose) and make sure the forehead connects with the floor or the backs of your hands or a block. Focus your awareness on the space between your eyebrows as you take slow, deep breaths here, feeling the back rise and fall.
Come to sukhasana (easy seated pose) or lotus or cross-legged or kneeling (whatever feels comfortable for you). Extend upwards through the spine and relax the shoulders and rest the hands in jnana mudra on the backs of the knees (first finger touches tip of thumb and the remaining three fingers extend). Take some slow, deep breaths through the nose. Then let the breath come naturally and simply take your awareness to the space between your eyebrows and notice what arises. If any thoughts or particular emotions arise, acknowledge them and let them blow through – don't get involved. If you have a question that is occupying you at the moment, perhaps ask this now, directing your query to your ajna chakra. Believe and trust that you have all the answers you seek inside you already – give them space to arise through this simple ajna focussed meditation. You can also imagine a spinning wheel of purple light between the eyebrows. Feel like you breathe in purple light to this area and, as you breathe out, the light spreads through your body, bigger and brighter with each breath.
Located just above the crown of the head. Represented by a thousand-petalled lotus of the full spectrum of colours. This chakra opens only when all other chakras are open and prana is flowing unhindered. It is linked with our sense of merging into oneness with everything else – a state of samadhi or unending bliss, resting in the seat of knowledge of the truth of who we are.
If you have headstand in your practice already, then take a headstand for at least ten breaths. Then counter pose with child's pose.
Finally, come to a comfortable, lengthy savasana (corpse pose). Support the backs of the knees or the back of the head with a bolster or cushion if required, and make sure you're warm enough, use a blanket if needed. Spend at least ten minutes lying down in deep relaxation, allowing all muscle effort and tension to drain away. Stay alert within your deep relaxation and notice what arises – perhaps feelings of warmth, love and contentment may spread through the body and, you never know, maybe even bliss, cosmic oneness and other samadhi-like feelings may make an appearance!
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Maya the bee composes a rain dance unleashing a storm that blows away Willy's cap. He has just received it as a present from Lady Cassandra, so you will need to get it back. During the quest, you have to help the other animals that have got in trouble because of the rain. All the familiar characters make an appearance: Maya, Willy, Ms. Cassandra, Grimelda, Flip the Grasshopper, the guards and many more.
The game is intended for children from three to six and consists of eight minigames linked by a plot. There are three difficulty levels and each game trains different aspects: memory, timing, hand-eye coordination, logic or ecology. The entire game is programmed in Macromedia Director and requires Quicktime for some animations.


A number of years back some very wild claims were being made about the future of big data. Some were suggesting that traditional market research would be obsolete within a decade. The hype seems to have died down now as people have grappled with the new digital technologies and started to work out what it works for and what it doesn't. Generally speaking, rumours of the demise of traditional market research have been greatly exaggerated.
Broadly speaking, big data refers to the collection of massive amounts of real-life data, from what people are searching for online to their actual purchases. The logic went something like, 'Why ask people to tell you what they think they will do, when you can collect data on what they are actually doing?' Whilst this may have started as a merely observational exercise, increasingly, companies claim they can segment customers according to personality types and influence their behaviour with targeted messaging. Although they later downplayed their contribution, Cambridge Analytica are widely suspected to have helped influence both, the presidential campaigns of Trump and the UK Brexit referendum.
One of the frequent criticisms of big data is that it can tell you about the what, but not the why. It may give you detailed intelligence on what people are doing, but market research is more interested in the beliefs and emotional drivers that influence behaviour. Aside from being able to map trends, big data is also poor at looking into the future and exploring hypothetical situations. If a company wants to know how its new product will be perceived and will fit into the market place, and test concepts and messaging, then you need to put that messaging in front of real people and ask them.
Social media and online content monitoring is a subset of big data, focusing on content mined from popular online social media platforms and other internet resources. There are a growing list of tools available which will accept complex search terms to focus on very specific content. There are also a growing list of potential uses for this type of research.
Social media research can be used to either monitor awareness of a subject before and after marketing campaigns. Pharma companies may use it at medical conferences to evaluate response to the release of critical pivotal trial data. Increasingly they may use it to identify online influencers. Whilst traditionally Pharma has sought to partner with Key Opinion Leaders from the top flight of academic researchers, there is a new wave of digital influencers who are sometimes no more than digital savvy medical students with massive followings on Twitter. Likewise, for rare diseases like Haemophilia, sometimes a parent of a Haemophiliac child may run a blog with thousands of followers in the haemophilia space, so identification of influencers in the new digital media has become as important as building relationships with traditional academic KOLs.
Likewise, some patient support groups involve individuals that are pro-actively engaged and highly educated about their own condition. So, if one can gain access to their forums, one may discover that patients are aware of an impending drug launch in their disease and are already discussing potential pros and cons of this new agent.
Monitoring of social media is also used for PR and reputation management. I have seen this used effectively to gain early warning of the kind of negative story that can go viral within hours and cause a great deal of damage unless dealt with early.
Alternatively, some may want to look at their presence with respect to a particular therapeutic area in the online space. A large pharma company which had a very strong reputation in the fields of Growth Hormone and Haemophilia, wanted to assess how they were portraying themselves online. They frequently carried out sponsorship of events with patient organisations and support groups in both areas and were interested to see how they were being portrayed online in comparison with competitor companies. The research was also able to highlight an urgent need to tell positive stories, to counter a wall of negative online content in both conditions.
One of the main limitations with social media monitoring, centres around what can and can't be accessed. Quite rightly, much of our content online is protected from public view and exploitation. Private Facebook content for instance, cannot be accessed by Social media search engines, although content on public Facebook Groups is fair game, which means some content from popular patient support groups in conditions like Asthma can be collected. (Whilst private Facebook content is not available to social media search engines, the degree to which Facebook sells data to private bidders lacks transparency and is under close scrutiny of regulatory bodies at the moment.) Twitter is all publicly accessible, but content is limited by the format, so is often of limited value.
Probably the least effective way to use it that I have seen, is to find out what people are saying about a company's products. A number of years back, I was beta-testing some social media software for a company and we were doing live demos at a trade fair. A couple of executives from a German yoghurt brand were interested in what customers were saying about their brand. I set up a quick search and clicked go! Nothing came up. A lot of firms assume that somewhere out in cyberspace thousands of people are talking about their products. Much of the time that just isn't the case. People tend not to spend a lot of time talking about products unless they are very unhappy with them. (Then you are hardly dealing with a balanced sample.) Having said that though, social media have been added as one of the channels through which Pharma companies are supposed to track Adverse events and product complaints.
So, one of the important learnings, is that the content of social media conversations is limited to a relatively narrow range of topics. It is well understood in the market research world that people are very poor witnesses to their own behaviour. In short, they often say they will do one thing, but actually end up doing something else entirely in reality. This disconnect between how we portray ourselves and how we actually are, is even wider on social media. Sitting safely in our homes we feel comfortable projecting a version of ourselves that may be wildly at odds with reality. But there are also social norms in terms of what people discuss. Being forced to sort through vast quantities of social media content is an eye opener. Most content is depressingly banal. Market research is often interested in emotional triggers that drive decision making, but people are rarely confessional about their insecurities online. People are quite content to express outrage and anger, but rarely reveal vulnerabilities.
So, another limitation with searching social media content is that you have no control on the subjects that people talk about. Even when able to access the conversations of asthma sufferers in a public Facebook Group forum, one may have to wait an eon till somebody starts a thread about the product or brand that you are interested in hearing about. Then as a researcher you have no control over the content or direction of that conversation. That's partially why many market research agencies have taken to setting up their own artificial social networks to populate with panels of patients with different conditions in which they can at least guide and control the conversation. They can be run like virtual focus groups that run for days and weeks at a time capturing patients' thoughts and feelings in real time when they occur, instead of in the artificial setting of a focus group studio.
The final challenge about monitoring of social media and online content is simply how to sort and deal with the vast quantities of material. There are companies out there that claim to be able to assess sentiment of an article automatically. Frankly I'm still a sceptic. I worked with a social media search engine that had built-in qualitative coding tools, but it was very labour-intensive trawling through hundreds of pages of content looking for important themes and trying to establish whether a piece of content is positive or negative for your client. And that's the point. Sentiment is relative and depends on where you are standing. A drug launch may be positive for the pharma company that launched it, but negative for their competitors. I haven't yet seen evidence of an AI that is capable of making those kinds of decisions accurately. Which means it has to be done the slow (and somewhat dull) way using the human mind!
In future, undoubtedly, big data will become more prevalent and more effective. Google started by recording what we search for, then monitoring our emails, but now they have sensors in our houses and our phones which reveal our whereabouts and daily movements. If they ever work out how to process all this vast blizzard of data, they will be closer than ever to understanding what makes us tick. But in the meantime, I still feel strongly that there is no substitute for two people having a guided conversation about why they do what they do. It's not perfect, but it's still the fastest way we have to unlocking what people's hopes, beliefs and fears are around any given subject.


There has been a great deal of discussion about the British Columbia Cannabis Act, but there has not been a solid breakdown of all of the offences under the Act. In an effort to provide a helpful guide, this post summarizes all the offences laid out in the Cannabis Act.
What is particularly interesting about the penalties in the Cannabis Act, is that many of the offences for possession, production, and distribution mimic those in the proposed federal regulations. This would mean that police have the opportunity to charge individuals under the provincial law or the federal law.
In last week's episode of Driving Law with Kyla Lee, I sat down with Roy Ho of Acumen Law Corporation to talk about ICBC and insurance breach investigations. In particular, Roy and I discussed how your insurance is affected by impaired driving charges and how ICBC will breach insurance coverage after an impaired driving incident. For anyone affected by an impaired driving case involving an accident, this episode is a must-listen to know whether ICBC will provide coverage in a DUI accident.
In the second half of the episode, Roy and I also discuss the changes to British Columbia's Insurance Vehicle Act and coverage for minor injury claims.
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Share Which Books Are You Packing For The Holidays?
All of the books, and some of the gifts. Forget the sweater. Off the Shelf's packing approach to the holiday season. You can find more bookish content and recommendations at OffTheShelf.com.


In 2001, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) created eleven separate SmartZones throughout the state, including Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti. The purpose of the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti SmartZone (LDFA) is to provide capital needed for the facilitation of the commercialization of research products being developed at University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan University and the development of private high technology enterprises that, but for this organization, would be deferred, or located outside of the SmartZone area.
The SmartZone is the programmatic name given by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) to a district established under state law ("a certified industrial park"). The district is technically called the Local Development Finance Authority (LDFA), but these terms are interchangeable. The SmartZone is equal to the Downtown Development Authority (DDA) district in the City of Ann Arbor and a portion of a DDA district in Ypsilanti. The purpose of the district is established by four foundational documents.
Agreement between Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti.
Agreement between Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti with MEDC.
The SmartZone is funded from the State of Michigan, and without the SmartZone, these monies would otherwise not be received locally. The formula for determining the amount which the State will invest in the SmartZone is determined via a tax capture. Presently, the tax capture revenue is collected only within the geographic boundaries of the Ann Arbor DDA, since the portion in the Ypsilanti DDA is being used for other purposes. The tax capture is based on the increase in taxable value due to new development and appreciation above the base year of 2002. These dollars come from taxes committed to schools and are, by law, repaid to the local school district by the state so their funding remains whole. So in effect, the State funds the LDFA.
The governing body, known as the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti SmartZone Local Development Finance Authority (LDFA) consists of a nine-member board of directors of which six members are appointed by the Ann Arbor City Council and three members are appointed by the Ypsilanti City Council. The LDFA operates under a set of bylaws that were initially approved by the Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti City Councils. Proposed changes or amendments to the bylaws are adopted by the LDFA's Board of Directors and submitted to the Ann Arbor City and Ypsilanti City Councils for approval.
The time and location of LDFA 2019-Meeting Calendar.pdf are published through the City of Ann Arbor's normal meeting notification process and are available online. The Smartzone is included in the City of Ann Arbor's Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) as a Component Unit, and therefore, its financial statements are audited.
Business Incubator – capital and operating support.
Business Acceleration Support and Services – due diligence, intensive services, supporting accelerating opportunities.
Business software access for clients.
Administrative services – accounting, legal, etc.
Rather than hire and create a separate organization, the SmartZone Board has historically contracted with outside entities to perform services. The largest service provider has been Ann Arbor SPARK. Ann Arbor SPARK is a regional economic development non-profit organization dedicated to economic prosperity of the Ann Arbor region. It receives both public and private funds to achieve its mission.


I don't know if this has been covered before. I am new to computerforums.org, but it seems that there are a lot of newbie questions being posted. It is hard to sift through legitimate questions that time is best spent upon, and those questions that could easily be answered by googling/a little research. It is obvious that a lot of posts here are people that will create an account to post their question and then possibly never log in again. This is probably a waste of server space and clogs up the forums. This is just my opinion. Most forums enforce a minimum post requirement before you can create a new thread. This ensures that users are contributing to the forum as well taking things away from it, reduces spam, and creates a tighter-knit community. Maybe such a thing wouldn't be such a bad idea around here. Just my two cents.
People are looking for a quick answer while in a blind panic. If you make them post in a thread 10 times before they can post a thread about their problem, they're not going to bother. They'll go to another forum that doesn't have that policy.
Agreed. We all start as newbies and most people who end up staying past their newbie question stay because of the quality help they got. Personally, I never would have stayed if I had to post x amount of times before I could open a new thread.
It is obvious that a lot of posts here are people that will create an account to post their question and then possibly never log in again.
Par for the course on this type of forum. Nothing you can do about it.
I guess that makes sense guys. Thanks.


Metrotown Animal Hospital is proud to serve the pet owners of Vancouver and surrounding area. Our veterinary clinic and animal hospital is run by Dr. Manjinder Hans, who is a licensed, experienced Burnaby veterinarian.
Also take a moment here to take a virtual tour of our veterinarian's office in Burnaby.
A graduate of Guru Angad Dev Veterinary & Animal Sciences University in Ludhiana, Punjab, India, Dr. Manjinder Hans studied further at Missouri State, USA. Before opening his own clinic, Metrotown Animal Hospital, in Burnaby in 1998, he worked as a veterinarian in Vancouver.
Dr. Manjinder Hans has an interest in skin and ear issues and musculoskeletal problems (anterior cruciate ligament surgeries) in dogs and cats. His interests outside of his work life are sports, mainly tennis and watching ice hockey (Go, Canucks), and he loves spending time with his wife and kids!
Dr. Naresh Gaind is associate veterinarian at Metrotown Animal Hospital. He attended the College of Veterinary Science at Punjab Agricultural University. Dr. Gaind received his bachelor's degree in veterinary sciences and animal husbandry. He has been working as a veterinarian since 1990. He loves to read books and travel. He is most interested in small-animal surgery and medicine.
Dr. Upender Tomar is associate veterinarian at Metrotown Animal Hospital. He attended the College of Veterinary Science at Punjab Agricultural University and received his bachelor's degree in veterinary sciences and animal husbandry. He moved to British Columbia along with his family.
Dr. Tomar's hobbies include biking, reading and hiking. His favorite sport is badminton. He enjoys watching ice hockey; of course, his favourite team is the Vancouver Canucks.
Dr. Tomar is married to Sunita Tomar, and together they are parents to two children, Anu and Ishaan.
Kirsten Nelson is the veterinary assistant at Metrotown Animal Hospital. She has a veterinary assistant diploma and canine first aid certificate from Granville Business College.
Kirsten brings with her more than 7 years of experience in the veterinary services, and she is excited to be a part of a facility that provides the most comprehensive veterinary care available.
Kirsten is working to implement new practices for excellence in client relations, on par with our medical services. Improving and fine-tuning the communication technologies already in place in MAH is also her prime area of focus.
Kirsten has a true love for animals and has 4 cats of her own.


Google Maps Easter Egg - How Far Can You Swim?
Look at the Directions to find out how to get across the atlantic ocean.
This Used to Work (I saw it). It no longer works. They must have taken it out.
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IF you go from Japan to China, it says "Jet-Ski across the Pacific Ocean."
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It only says We could not calculate driving directions between Florida, FL and London, UK.
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Still exists as "Kayak Across the Pacific Ocean" in a different place.
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Certification v collective marks at the UKIPO
Trademarkroom
It has become clear to us that collective and certification trade marks are not commonly understood. You may find when filing a trade mark that these options appear when choosing your chosen application route. But what do these really mean?
It is noted that a certification mark, as defined by section 50(1) of The Trade Marks Act (hereinafter referred to as the Act) as:
"A certification mark is a mark indicating that the goods and services in connection with which it is used are certified by the proprietor of the mark in respect of origin, material, mode of manufacture of goods or performance of services, quality, accuracy or other characteristics."
In short, the trade mark will not be used by the proprietor but rather by the authorised users who note that the goods and services have a particular characteristic. As a result, use can be authorised to anyone who can demonstrate use of said goods.
On the other hand, a collective trade mark can be defined as the following (noted in Section 49(1) of the Act):
"A collective mark is a mark distinguishing the goods or services of members of the association which is the proprietor of the mark from those of other undertakings."
This type of mark is simply used as an indication to the relevant goods/services from a set sole owner.
If you have any questions in relation to the above definitions or have a trade mark question, please do not hesitate to contact the Trademarkroom team today.

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Bugzilla – Bug 90165 round corners in tables Last modified: 2018-05-23 17:41:47 UTC
Bug 90165 - round corners in tables
Summary: round corners in tables
Installation (show other bugs)
(earliest affected)
5.0.2.2 release
Other All
medium enhancement
Not Assigned
Whiteboard:
Table-Borders Writer-Tables-Enhancements
Show dependency tree / graph
2015-03-22 21:50 UTC by jlbraga
libreoffice-ux-advise philipz85 qubit rb.henschel
Crash report or crash signature:
Description jlbraga 2015-03-22 21:50:05 UTC
HI. How about to make round corners in tables possible ?
Comment 1 Robinson Tryon (qubit) 2015-03-23 13:32:16 UTC
(In reply to jlbraga from comment #0)
> HI. How about to make round corners in tables possible ?
Hi jlbraga,
Thanks for the suggestion! Could you explain a little more about what you'd expect regarding round corners? Are you thinking about tables in Writer, or use in other components as well? Would the corner parameters be configurable?
Status -> NEEDINFO
In the meantime, please note that there are some workarounds that might be helpful:
http://en.libreofficeforum.org/node/5707
[cc: jay, as he might have some good insight here]
Comment 2 jlbraga 2015-03-23 13:59:14 UTC
(In reply to Robinson Tryon (qubit) from comment #1)
> (In reply to jlbraga from comment #0)
> > HI. How about to make round corners in tables possible ?
> Hi jlbraga,
> Thanks for the suggestion! Could you explain a little more about what you'd
> expect regarding round corners? Are you thinking about tables in Writer, or
> use in other components as well? Would the corner parameters be configurable?
> Status -> NEEDINFO
> In the meantime, please note that there are some workarounds that might be
> helpful:
> http://en.libreofficeforum.org/node/5707
> [cc: jay, as he might have some good insight here]
Wherever it is possible to create tables, there should be a table and/or cell format option to make the corners round. Also, there could be an option to choose the curvature intensity (or percentage). It is possible to do this to cells and tables in HTML/CSS, why can't it be possible in an office suite?...
Comment 3 Adolfo Jayme 2015-03-24 12:45:40 UTC
> It is possible to do this to cells and tables in HTML/CSS
And why do you think this has something to do with ODF?
To make cells more presentable if someone wants to put them around some text, like in a title, or a header, or around a spreadsheet, or in the first line of the spreadsheet, etc....
(In reply to Adolfo Jayme from comment #3)
> > It is possible to do this to cells and tables in HTML/CSS
> And why do you think this has something to do with ODF?
Comment 5 QA Administrators 2015-10-14 19:50:34 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
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No, I don't mean a cell which must be partially drawn by hand, I mean a cell that's created automatically like every cell, but with configurable corners. It's possible to configure the intensity of the cell's border, the colors, etc., why not the cell's corners as well? It's an enhancement to the cell's styling. And by "cells" I mean tables as well...
Comment 7 Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired) 2015-10-19 21:07:33 UTC
Yes CSS provides a border-radius property to modify the border of a block-level element, but should such a feature be included in an office suite? I would assume that it would provide very little benefit to the amount of work involved in implementing it within dialogs and modifying the odf to support it and of course also having to deal with issues of compatibility, as other office suites dont provide the feature.
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css3_borders.asp
I'm not saying it has to be written in CSS code...I'm saying the feature should also exist in LibreOffice. As for compatiblity, it could of course be compatible with CSS in case the table was cut/copied to a webpage, but the other programs who couldn't open the table with the borders, didn't have to open the table with the borders, they could open it with the regular ones...
I don't understand much about coding, but I guess it's possible to do it.
An office document creator should permit the maximum customization/personalization of the pretended document. This would be a feature that other suites don't offer...
I wanted to say this:
I'm not saying it has to be written in CSS code...I'm saying the feature should also exist in LibreOffice. As for compatiblity, it could of course be compatible with CSS in case the table was cut/copied to a webpage, but the other programs who couldn't open the table with the ROUNDED CORNERS, they didn't have to open the table with the ROUNDED CORNERS, they could open it with the regular ones...
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She was born Mary Douglas Nicol in London on February 6, 1913. She was the daughter of a popular landscape painter, Erskine Nicol, and Cecilia Frere. Mary herself was interested in art and archaeology at an early age. As a child she frequently travelled to France with her parents. There, she visited a museum of prehistory and was allowed to participate in archaeological digs where she found ancient stone tools. She also visited the French caves at Font de Guame and La Mouthe, which are famous for their prehistoric paintings. As a result of her father's death in 1926, Mary and her mother moved back to London. She rebelled against the constraints of the Catholic schools to which her mother sent her. In 1930, she began auditing university courses in archaeology and geology. She soon established herself as an authority on flint points and was recognised for her mastery of scientific illustration. She was introduced to Louis Leakey in 1933. Louis invited her to join him in Africa to draw the stone tools he had found. Three years later (after Leakey's divorce from his first wife Frida) they were married. They had three sons (Jonathan in 1940, Richard in 1944, and Philip in 1948).
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Ukip and Tories on the attack over immigration
By Jenny Booth, Times Online
Friday April 15 2005, 1.00am, The Times
The UK Independence Party (Ukip) launched its general election manifesto today with the message: "We want our country back."
Roger Knapman, the party leader, said that only withdrawal from the European Union would give Britain back the control over its borders it needed to reduce immigration.
He said that immigrants to the UK should take a Britishness test which they would have to retake until they pass.
"We will make sure those who are legally here will have a knowledge of British traditions, beliefs and customs," Mr Knapman told a press conference in London.
He said that Ukip's policies on immigration were credible, as opposed to Labour, which had failed for eight years to control the influx of people, the Tories did not want to


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"The science is now all-but-settled on global warming, convincing new evidence demonstrates, but Al Gore, the IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change) and other global warming doomsayers won't be celebrating," writes Lawrence Solomon, executive director of Energy Probe, in Canada's Financial Post.
"The new findings point to cosmic rays and the sun — not human activities — as the dominant controller of climate on Earth."
The findings, published in the journal Nature, come from CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, one of the world's largest centers for scientific research involving 60 countries and 8,000 scientists at more than 600 universities and national laboratories, according to Solomon.
CERN — the organization that invented the World Wide Web — built a stainless steel chamber that precisely re-created the Earth's atmosphere.
"In this chamber, 63 CERN scientists from 17 European and American institutes have done what global warming doomsayers said could never be done — demonstrate that cosmic rays promote the formation of molecules that in Earth's atmosphere can grow and seed clouds." And the cloudier it is, the cooler it will be, Solomon notes.
"Because the sun's magnetic field controls how many cosmic rays reach Earth's atmosphere (the stronger the sun's magnetic field, the more it shields Earth from incoming cosmic rays from space), the sun determines the temperature on Earth."
So when the sun's magnetic field is strongest, fewer cosmic rays impact the Earth, which in turn leads to decreased cloud formation and warmer temperatures.
The link between cosmic rays and global warming was first proposed by two Danish scientists in 1996, and was immediately denounced by the IPCC.
But CERN scientist Jasper Kirkby, a British experimental physicist, accepted the Danes' theory. He told the scientific press in 1998 that it "will probably be able to account for somewhere between half and the whole of the increase in the Earth's temperature that we have seen in the last century."
It took Kirkby nearly 10 years to convince the CERN bureaucracy to proceed with his plan to create the chamber that replicates the Earth's atmosphere and has produced the recent results.
But CERN "remains too afraid of offending its government masters to admit its success," observes Solomon, author of "The Deniers: The World-Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud."
CERN told Kirkby and his team to downplay the results by stating "that cosmic radiation is only one of many parameters."
Solomon concludes: " CERN, and the Danes, have in all likelihood found the path to the Holy Grail of climate science. But the religion of climate science won't yet permit a celebration of the find."
Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Resigns Over Global Warming
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Is Al Gore now a help or hindrance to the global warming cause?
Al Gore's Climate Reality Project is broadcasting its message to 24 time zones across 24 hours
Screen grab from the introduction of Al Gore's Climate Reality event. Photograph: climaterealityproject.org/NASA
Death by Powerpoint. I have suffered this torture too many times over the years. We all probably have.
So I was a little nervous this morning logging into Climate Reality – Al Gore's 24-hour global-warming warning – as to what I might discover. And, I have to say, my heart immediately sank.
A no-doubt sincere presenter from the Solomon Islands was showing slide after slide of extreme weather events around the world that have occurred over the past year and linking everyone, it seemed, to the rise in anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. As anyone who follows the climate debate closely knows, that is a very contentious peg on which to hang your hat. That kind of talk traditionally requires lots of caveats and careful explaining. Done with abandon and raw emotion – as this presenter seemed to be doing – and you are quickly labelled in some quarters as a climate "alarmist".
And, for me, this is one of the key challenges the Climate Reality project faces. Who exactly is it trying to convince with its urgent, sometimes breathless campaign? Is it preaching to the converted? If so, it is doing a good job.
Or is it trying to win over climate skeptics? I suspect not. I get the sense from Climate Realities tone and focus that it believes skeptics are a lost cause who are beyond redemption or reason.
That leaves the middle ground – the unconverted. Al Gore did a tremendous job connecting with this constituency in his hugely successful, Oscar-winning An Inconvenient Truth in 2006. No single person has ever done as much as Gore to raise global comprehension of both the causes and dangers of climate change.
But that was a long time ago now. The politics of climate change is much more polarized and fraught now than back then – even if the science is, it would seem, hardening – and, for right or wrong, Al Gore is a hugely polarizing figure, particularly in his homeland. Whatever he does or says in this arena – no matter how cogent or sensible - will attract scorn and derision from those that just can't see past the man. And that is a huge problem for those who still want to see the world urgently address, as Gore says, the reality of climate change.
I might have misjudged the potency and reach of Climate Reality – I didn't, for example, like its idea of asking people to donate their Facebook and Twitter accounts – so please do share your own thoughts about its strengths and/or weaknesses below. Has there been a segment of the Climate Reality broadcast that you thought worked really well and hit home the "reality"? And will you be tuning in for Gore'sfinal-hour presentation?
However, I still think there is an important, if difficult, question to be asked: despite all his efforts over the past three decades to raise awareness on this issue, is Gore now a help or a hindrance to the cause he cares so passionately about?
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Al Gore's five loaves and two fishes
By James Delingpole Environment Last updated: September 21st, 2011
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Not content with having invented the internet, the great Climate Science communicator Al Gore appears to have developed still more miraculous skills of late: the ability to turn 17,000 into 8.6 million – just like that.
The figures refer to the number of "views" for Gore's special "24 Hours Of ManBearPig" which this column helped celebrate the other day. Gore claims that as many as 8.6 million flocked to his thrilling festival of climate fear; but a nasty cruel man called Charles the Moderator at Watts Up With That? has "done the math" and reckons the figure is probably more like 17,000. And that, he believes, is a generous estimate. (H/T John from CA).
So whom are we to trust? An evil climate denying website run by evil climate deniers? Or a loving family man who has selflessly made it his mission to travel the world acquiring as large a carbon footprint as possible in order to spread the word that we should all drastically reduce our carbon footprints?
I'm with Gore, obviously. Not only has his knowledge and insight proved hugely influential on our own beloved Prime Minister's climate policies – "I've just had a meeting with Al Gore. He really knows his stuff", David Cameron once told a distinguished businessman who'd come hoping for a quiet word about his economically disastrous environmental policies – but it's quite obvious that he really is a man with the power to work miracles.
Just look, for example, at the magical way he has managed to make his fortune grow. In 2000, the year he lost the presidential election, he was worth a modest $1-2 million. Now his fortune has swollen to well over $100 million, thanks to partly to his $100,000 plus speaking engagements (which have earned him at least $10 million) and partly to his canny green investment decisions (such as his decision to pull his investments out of the Chicago Carbon Trading exchange before it collapsed due to global lack of interest in trading an Emperor's New Clothes commodity invented by Enron's Kenneth Lay and championed by an even dodgier Hawaiian/Kenyan born Chicago lawyer).
Not everyone, unfortunately, seems to share my enthusiasm. Indeed it is being whispered in some quarters that Al Gore has become nothing but an embarrassment to the green movement. And this from some of his former biggest fans!


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// See the LICENCE file in the repository root for full licence text.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using NUnit.Framework;
using osu.Framework.Allocation;
using osu.Framework.Graphics;
using osu.Framework.Testing.Input;
using osu.Game.Configuration;
using osu.Game.Rulesets.Osu.UI.Cursor;
using osu.Game.Screens.Play;
using osu.Game.Tests.Visual;
using osuTK;

namespace osu.Game.Rulesets.Osu.Tests
{
    [TestFixture]
    public class TestSceneGameplayCursor : SkinnableTestScene
    {
        public override IReadOnlyList<Type> RequiredTypes => new[]
        {
            typeof(OsuCursorContainer),
            typeof(CursorTrail)
        };

        [Cached]
        private GameplayBeatmap gameplayBeatmap;

        private ClickingCursorContainer lastContainer;

        [Resolved]
        private OsuConfigManager config { get; set; }

        public TestSceneGameplayCursor()
        {
            gameplayBeatmap = new GameplayBeatmap(CreateBeatmap(new OsuRuleset().RulesetInfo));
        }

        [TestCase(1, 1)]
        [TestCase(5, 1)]
        [TestCase(10, 1)]
        [TestCase(1, 1.5f)]
        [TestCase(5, 1.5f)]
        [TestCase(10, 1.5f)]
        public void TestSizing(int circleSize, float userScale)
        {
            AddStep($"set user scale to {userScale}", () => config.Set(OsuSetting.GameplayCursorSize, userScale));
            AddStep($"adjust cs to {circleSize}", () => gameplayBeatmap.BeatmapInfo.BaseDifficulty.CircleSize = circleSize);
            AddStep("turn on autosizing", () => config.Set(OsuSetting.AutoCursorSize, true));

            AddStep("load content", loadContent);

            AddUntilStep("cursor size correct", () => lastContainer.ActiveCursor.Scale.X == OsuCursorContainer.GetScaleForCircleSize(circleSize) * userScale);

            AddStep("set user scale to 1", () => config.Set(OsuSetting.GameplayCursorSize, 1f));
            AddUntilStep("cursor size correct", () => lastContainer.ActiveCursor.Scale.X == OsuCursorContainer.GetScaleForCircleSize(circleSize));

            AddStep("turn off autosizing", () => config.Set(OsuSetting.AutoCursorSize, false));
            AddUntilStep("cursor size correct", () => lastContainer.ActiveCursor.Scale.X == 1);

            AddStep($"set user scale to {userScale}", () => config.Set(OsuSetting.GameplayCursorSize, userScale));
            AddUntilStep("cursor size correct", () => lastContainer.ActiveCursor.Scale.X == userScale);
        }

        private void loadContent()
        {
            SetContents(() => new MovingCursorInputManager
            {
                Child = lastContainer = new ClickingCursorContainer
                {
                    RelativeSizeAxes = Axes.Both,
                    Masking = true,
                }
            });
        }

        private class ClickingCursorContainer : OsuCursorContainer
        {
            protected override void Update()
            {
                base.Update();

                double currentTime = Time.Current;

                if (((int)(currentTime / 1000)) % 2 == 0)
                    OnPressed(OsuAction.LeftButton);
                else
                    OnReleased(OsuAction.LeftButton);
            }
        }

        private class MovingCursorInputManager : ManualInputManager
        {
            public MovingCursorInputManager()
            {
                UseParentInput = false;
            }

            protected override void Update()
            {
                base.Update();

                const double spin_duration = 5000;
                double currentTime = Time.Current;

                double angle = (currentTime % spin_duration) / spin_duration * 2 * Math.PI;
                Vector2 rPos = new Vector2((float)Math.Cos(angle), (float)Math.Sin(angle));

                MoveMouseTo(ToScreenSpace(DrawSize / 2 + DrawSize / 3 * rPos));
            }
        }
    }
}

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Freelancing is on the increase with more people looking to work for themselves. So here are 5 tips to help get you started as a freelancer ahead of Freelance Heroes Day.
I know the gurus and lifestyle types will tell you that being a freelancer means that you can live the laptop lifestyle, casually doing business whilst you lounge on the beach sipping cocktails. They will tell you that you can work when and where you want. Well, let me break this to you gently. that only works when you've built up lots of passive income that doesn't require too much of your time. The rest of us mere mortal freelancers have to make do with working all our and essentially exchanging our time for money. So whilst you are in this phase you need to have a set routine of the hours that you work, where you work and set clear boundaries. If you're working from home then people will rock up during the day and drop by for a brew. This is where you have to be careful that your day doesn't run away from you and you end up only doing a couple of hours work.
Set clear working hours for yourself and enforce them on others so that your Mum doesn't pop round for a cup of tea mid-afternoon and clients know it's not ok to call you at 10pm. Granted now you're freelance you can have some flexibility, but if you don't do the work you won't get paid so set some working hours.
I've talked about the importance of having a dedicated working space before in How To Work From Home, but honestly, having that dedicated working space makes soooooooooooo much difference.
Since I moved house last year and was able to have a dedicated room in the house for an office, it's made a huge difference. It's my room and nobody comes in unless they are invited in. It also means that I can leave the camera equipment set up, which saves me loads of time when I'm making videos. Also, I can make things in the office how I like them so that I have a better environment to work in. I also use a co-working space too for when I need a more professional office or meeting rooms. It's also a place I can go to if I just want to escape the house and work in a different environment.
If you don't have the luxury of a spare room or an actual office, then try to create a separate working space. Even if it's just a desk in a corner. Having that dedicated working space means that you know when you sit down there you are in work mode. Try not to have it in your bedroom as that's for relaxing and sleeping. And don't use your kitchen table as a desk. I know it makes a great story when you become super successful, but, your dining table if for eating your dinner off, not working on.
Clients have this really annoying habit of hiding. They don't come and knock on your door and ask to hire you. They hide everywhere. So you've got to be looking for them everywhere. Make sure you constantly have one eye open looking for new business and make sure that potential clients know where to find you.
So as well as looking out for clients all the time, you want to make sure that everyone you know is also on the lookout for clients for you. Tell everyone and anyone that will listen what it is you do and that you are freelance. You aren't taking a wage from someone else anymore. It's just you and you'd kinda like to keep the roof over your head.
and as if I don't say this enough, but I shall say it again. If you are a friend or a family member of someone that is freelance/self-employed/micro biz or buddy entrepreneur, then please help spread the word of how amazing they are and that how worthy of being hired they are. Become their biggest cheerleaders.
This is probably one of the biggest mistakes that freelancers make. Not marketing themselves.
There's a sure thing in freelancing and it's that it will always be feast or famine. We often go along quite happily with work coming in and clients all paying on time and we don't think about our own marketing. And then the famine will come. A client will go bust on you owing you money or they won't need you anymore. The incoming leads may start going slow or the phone may go quiet. This is why it's so important to never stop marketing yourself.
A great way to market yourself is by demonstrating your skills in what you do. So if you're a graphic designer then make sure you are posting great images and graphics. If you're a copywriter then you should be posting amazing blog posts at least once a week. Just don't be that social media marketing person that wants you to hire them or buy their course and their own social media looks like tumbleweed is running it.
And a bonus tip here is to look for ways to create passive income for when the client works does go slow. Doing things like creating ebooks or courses that you can sell through automation is a great way to build up passive income and create multiple income streams. The safest way to freelance and protect your income is making sure it's not all coming from the one source. It's never good to have all your eggs in one basket.
What is your top tip for getting started as a freelancer? Let me know in the comments below.


Google Europe Blog: Google Campus is coming to Spain!
and Campus Tel Aviv. We've seen incredible momentum in these two spaces. In 2013, startups at Campus London raised more 34M GBP, and created more than 570 jobs. We recently announced new Campus locations coming to Warsaw, Poland, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Seoul, South Korea. Entrepreneurs at Campus Madrid will benefit from this global network of Campuses, including our Campus Exchange program, giving entrepreneurs access to other workspaces around the world.
In addition to global opportunities, we will run many new programs in our Madrid location, including Campus for Moms, CampusEDU and Office Hours with Googler mentors.
We decided to open a Campus in Madrid because of the thriving entrepreneurial spirit in Spain.
We have seen the booming entrepreneurial community in Spain and are excited to join the local community in making it even stronger. Our hope is that Campus Madrid will supercharge tech entrepreneurs, strengthen the startup ecosystem and encourage even more innovation in Spain, Europe, and beyond.
We look forward to opening our doors next year and filling Campus Madrid with startups!
Google began as a startup in garage, and supporting startups remains a very important part of our DNA. We continually see that when people are empowered to dream big and are empowered to take action, that entrepreneurs turn those ideas into growing companies, creating a powerful startup community, solving big problems, and supporting a thriving economy.
So today we're thrilled to announce Campus Madrid, a new home for innovation in Spain. Campuses are Google's spaces for entrepreneurs to learn, connect, and build companies that will change the world. At Campus, entrepreneurs get unparalleled access to mentorship and trainings led by their local startup community, experienced entrepreneurs, and teams from Google.
Two years ago we opened our first Campuses, Campus London and Campus Tel Aviv. We've seen incredible momentum in these two spaces. In 2013, startups at Campus London raised more 34M GBP, and created more than 570 jobs. We recently announced new Campus locations coming to Warsaw, Poland, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Seoul, South Korea. Entrepreneurs at Campus Madrid will benefit from this global network of Campuses, including our Campus Exchange program, giving entrepreneurs access to other workspaces around the world.
Hi when is it gonna be open?
Will portuguese startups be able to join the Google Campus Madrid?
So.. how can Spanish start-ups apply?
I would like to attend this event, how can I subscribe to the updates about it??!
It´s great to see Google coming to Madrid. Please inform us how and when we could apply for being in the campus!.
hi!! I tried to talk to Mary in the last Startup Summit in Las ventas, please check out our web site www.santodomingocn.com We have the place you need!!
And of course it is open tu every startup who want to be in Madrid!
Hi, any news about when the campus will be open?
Campus Madrid opens today: https://www.campus.co/madrid/en/events !!
Hi! I am reading this great creation of google, I would like to know if Mexico has a campus like this to startups and enterpreneurs like me, we are a lot.


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Welcome to the Spring/Summer 2019 Mt. Bethel Children's Consignment Sale! Please read these instructions carefully before entering any items into the online system. Email us if you have any questions.
This sale features quality children's/tween clothing, accessories, toys, books, furniture, and more for the Spring/Summer season. No Fall/Winter items will be allowed. See our Acceptable and Unacceptable Item list for other exclusions.
Each consignor number is limited to 125 items. Consign your best quality children's items. Our shoppers are looking for clothing and children's items in great condition. If you have more than 125 items, you may register for another consignor number. This will require a different email address than your first consignor number.
There is an $8 registration fee per consignor number used. Sale proceeds will be split 70 percent to the consignor and 30 percent to the sale. The registration fee and portion of sales that will go to the sale is tax deductible. The Seller Report and Donation Report, available at the conclusion of the sale, can be used for tax purposes. Be sure to run those reports before April 30, 2019.
You must enter your items, make sure your mailing address is correct, and print your tags and inventory sheets by Tuesday, March 12, at 11:59pm.
Checks will be mailed to the name and address listed in your consignor account within a week of the sale.
If you register to consign for this sale and decide not to sell, you must unregister by Tuesday, March 5, 2019. If not, you may not be allowed to consign at the next sale.
Tags must be printed on white cardstock using black ink. This allows our scanners the best possibility to scan the tags at checkout. Do not use colored card stock or regular weight paper for tags. The colored cardstock doesn't scan well and regular weight paper is more likely to tear and fall off your item, making it harder to sell. Inventory sheets should be printed on regular weight white paper.
The minimum price for an item must be one dollar ($1.00). Fifty-cent increments are allowed.
All items will be discounted by 30 percent on Saturday, so please check the "Discount All Items" option after entering your items. All items will be discounted regardless, but this will allow these tags to be scanned at checkout instead of being manually entered, causing slower lines.
Unsold items that are not donated may be picked up between 4-5pm on Saturday, March 16. Please bring your photo ID as we randomly check at item pick-up. Any items not picked up by 5 pm will be donated to our mission partners at 5:01 pm.
Please consider donating your unsold items. All unsold items that are donated go to support local, national, and worldwide non-profit organizations.
Before the system opens, you can begin pulling together your items, spot cleaning and mending clothes, hanging clothes on wire hangers, washing toys and sports equipment, and making decisions about what you would like to sell.
As soon as the system opens and you register for the sale, you can begin entering items. The system will remain open until Tuesday, March 12, at 11:59pm. You must print your tags and inventory sheets before then.
Organize your items according to the chart below. This will save you time when you enter them into the tagging system. Many of the fields autofill based on the previous entry, so organizing them by Item Type and Category is a huge time-saver.
exersaucers, large toys. Print large item tag here.
Check your items against our acceptable and unacceptable list and check for any recalls.
Wire hangers and safety pins are required. We will not accept items on plastic hangers or hung with straight pins.
Hang clothes with the hook pointing to the left (like a question mark) when looking at the front of the item. Affix the tag to the upper right side of the item. (See diagrams below).
Safety pin sets securely together by hanging the shirt first, then turn the hanger over and safety pin the pants by the waist to the top of the hanger. Use only one hanger per set. Sets tend to sell better than individual items (especially under size 10).
Pants alone should be pinned by the waist to the top of the hanger. This prevents them from sliding.
Make sure clothes are cleaned, ironed, and mended. We do not accept clothing with stains, tears, or smoky smells. To maintain the highest quality, these items will be removed from the sales floor.
Please use numerical sizing only. Small, medium, and large sizing varies greatly between manufacturers. If your item is small, medium, or large, estimate a numerical size so it can be placed with like-sized items on the sales floor.
For baby items with a size range (e.g., 3-6 months), use the smallest number size listed.
Sizes accepted are Newborn to 20 in Girls/Juniors and Newborn to 20 in Boys.
Boutique: Check your items against the Boutique Brands List. Select the Boutique Boys or Boutique Girls Category and write a good description. Make sure items labeled "Boutique" are boutique quality in new, excellent, or good condition. If a boutique item has a worn appearance, consider selling it on the regular clothing racks.
Shoes: Shoes must be placed in Ziploc bags with the tag taped to the inside of the bag. Do not box shoes. Shoes and laces must be clean and in excellent condition. Bring your best!
Toys/Games/Books: Toys must be in working order and MUST have working batteries. This includes all items including ride-on toys, playmates, etc. If we cannot see that it works, we will not accept it. Toys and games must be clean and have ALL pieces. Toys with multiple parts should be sealed in Ziploc bags and taped shut. Please no "grab" bags or fast food giveaway toys.
DVDs/Blu-rays/Computer games/Video games (Gameboy, NintendoDS, Disney Infinity, Sega, Wii, XBOX, PS4): We accept DVDs/Blu-rays that are rated G and PG only, video games for game systems rated E or E-10 only, and computer software for children. DVDs/Blu-rays, computer software, and handheld games need to be in their original cases. No VHS tapes.
Loose articles: Loose articles such as bibs, belts, hair bows, etc. must be placed in clear Ziploc bags with the tag attached to the outside of the bag. Tape bags completely shut to keep items secure. No loose pieces or open boxes.
Large furniture and toys: Secure multiple pieces together so it is clear they are to be sold as one item. At Item Drop-off, you will affix your printed tag to our special large item tags then place the large item tag where it is clearly visible and secure. No hand-painted furniture.
Price: You set the price! A good rule of thumb is to price it what you would be willing to pay for it, keeping in mind quality, name brand, and condition, usually 20-35% of retail. Also keep in mind that certain sizes of clothing are more abundant than others, especially 18 months and smaller.
Click on the link for item entry and tag printing. Sign in using your consignor number and password. Forgot your login information? Contact us. Enter items by category in the order listed above to save time.
If you need to stop, you can save your work for later.
When you have finished entering your items, make sure you have selected the "Discount" option. All items are discounted 30% on Saturday, and this saves time scanning them, keeping the line moving faster.
The system will close on Tuesday, March 12, at 11:59pm. You must have your tags and inventory sheet entered and printed before then.
Allow time to safety pin the tags on your clothes and affix them to your other items. For large items, bring your printed tags with you to Item Drop-off so they can be affixed on-site to our large item tags and then affixed to your item.
Remember to sign up for a drop-off time. Please keep your scheduled drop-off time.
Bring your inventory sheet printed single-sided on white paper. Print a second copy for your records.
If you are donating ALL items that do not sell, you can drop your items off along with your printed inventory sheet. There is a separate line and entryway for "Donate All" consignors to make the process faster and lines shorter for all of our consignors.
Be prepared to spend 20 minutes or more for Item Drop-off. You need to be able to bring all of your items into the drop-off area where they will be inspected before they are placed on the sales floor.
Clothing needs to be dropped off separated by gender and then by size. All other items should be grouped by category (shoes, toys, accessories, etc.) to make the drop-off process smoother.
Volunteers will receive your clothing, shoes, and accessories at the drop-off tables. You will then be directed to the designated locations for your remaining items, including large item tagging and drop-off.
Bring in large items last. We usually have a few hand trucks and helpers available if needed. You will need to affix the barcoded tag you printed for your large item onto a large item tag, and then affix them to your item. In the event you forget to do this ahead of time, we will have extra tags on site, along with cable ties, pens, and tape.
Please be patient at Item Drop-off. The process may go quickly, or it may take a little more time.


Alumnus Conor Gearin ('15) is proof of the versatility of a liberal arts education. The biology and English double major is currently a freelance reporter and poet in MIT's graduate program in science writing. And, he was recently published in The Atlantic magazine.


1. In a large skillet over medium heat, brown ground beef along with the onions, garlic and mushrooms until thoroughly cooked.
2. While the beef is cooking, bring a pot of water to boil and begin to cook egg noodles according to package directions.
3. Remove ground beef and remove excess liquid if needed.
4. Place pan back on stove over medium heat and add butter. Once butter is melted add flour to pan, stir and let it absorb butter.
5. Add beef broth and whisk vigorously to remove any lumps, turning the heat up to high, bringing it to a boil for 2-3 minutes until it thicken slightly.
6. Reduce to medium heat and whisk in sour cream and cream of mushroom soup. Add fresh mushrooms. Stir until mixture is thoroughly incorporated.
7. Add salt & pepper. Taste and add more if needed.
8. Add ground beef back to mixture a cook for 2-3 minutes.
9. Plate your egg noodles and then add your stroganoff on top and enjoy!