ASQ: Ages and Stages Questionnaire; DDST: Denver Developmental Screening Test; NDDS: Nipissing District Developmental Screen; RBR: Rourke Baby Record.
Table used with permission from Guttmann, A., Gandhi, S., Hanvey, Li, P., Barwick, M., Cohen, E., Glazer, S., Reisman, J. & Brownell, M. (2017). Primary Health Care Services for Children and Youth in Canada: Access, Quality and Structure. In The Health of Canada's Children and Youth: A CICH Profile. Retrieved from https://cichprofile.ca/module/3/ -accessed July 25, 2017.
Six provinces and territories – Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland & Labrador, Nunavut, the Yukon and the Northwest Territories incorporate formal developmental surveillance or screening as part of an 18-month well-baby visit during routine visits, or around immunization schedules. There is variation in where the screening takes place, which health professionals do it, and the instruments used. Other jurisdictions provide targeted or opportunistic 18-month screening, often without use of formal screening tools. Only Ontario provides additional funding to primary care physicians for this enhanced visit.
1Williams R, Clinton J, Canadian Paediatrics Society. Getting it right at 18 months: In support of an enhanced well-baby visit. Paediatrics and Child Health 2011;16(10):647-50.
2American Academy of Pediatrics. Eye examination in infants, children and young adults by pediatricians. Pediatrics 2003;111:902-7.


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New Warehouse Facility at Harwood Sugar Mill
Media ReleasesBy Kevin Hogan MP 24 April 2019
The new Goods Warehouse and Silo Storage Facility at Harwood Sugar Mill and Refinery is at completion stage and will bring greater job security, Federal Member for Page, Kevin Hogan said. "Two years ago I turned the sod on the construction of a new Warehouse and Silo for Harwood Sugar Mill," Mr Hogan said. "This…
Major Upgrade of Grafton Riverside Precinct
The Riverside at Grafton will undergo a major revitalisation that will make it a tourism hub, Federal Member for Page, Kevin Hogan said. "The Government has promised $6.5 million to upgrade Grafton's Riverside Precinct," Mr Hogan said. "The main focus area will be the 3 kilometre stretch of waterfront extending from Queen Street in the…
Recognising our Local Sporting Champions
Will 13-year-old Taharna Reid obtain gold at the Olympics for Athletics one day and will 14-year-old Angela Muller represent Australia on the National Equestrian Team? Only time will tell, but Federal Member for Page Kevin Hogan is making sure that these 2 young Northern Beaches Sporting Champions are given every opportunity to follow their dreams.…
Kevin Hogan's Morning Tea for Northern Beaches School Leaders
Northern Beaches School Leaders were acknowledged today for the important role they play in school life, by the Federal Member for Page Kevin Hogan. "It was great to have more than 66 students and their parents at the morning tea today," he said. "These students play an important role in the life of their school…
Kevin Hogan announces Whale Trail for Woolgoolga
The announcement of funding for a Whale Trail to be built along Beach Reserve in Woolgoolga was made today by the Federal Member for Page Kevin Hogan. "This is great news for the community and will become a wonderful asset for everyone to enjoy," Mr Hogan said. "The $1.1 million of funding will build the…
Kevin Hogan's Morning Tea for Lismore School Leaders
Lismore School Leaders were acknowledged today for the important role they play in school life by the Federal Member for Page Kevin Hogan. "It was great to have more than 370 students and their parents at the morning tea today," he said. "These students play an important role in the life of their school community…
Will 14-year-olds Jamie Plunkett and Toby Campbell be the next Alicia Coutts and James Magnussen and will 16-year-old Hanna Tait and 15-year-old Krystal McMahon be the next Sally Pearson or Cathy Freeman? Could 16-year olds Jake Lambeth and Tyler Gaddes play for the Australian Men's Hockey Team, the Kookaburras? And perhaps 14-year-old Harriett Irving could…
Kevin Hogan's Morning Tea for Clarence Valley School Leaders
Clarence Valley School Leaders were acknowledged today for the important role they play in school life by Federal Member for Page Kevin Hogan. "It was great to have more than 220 students and parents at the morning tea today," he said. "These students play an important role in the life of their school community and…
More bridges for Clarence Valley
The announcement of funding for the replacement of two bridges was made today by the Federal Member for Page Kevin Hogan. "The two timber bridges were in need of replacing," he said. "The first bridge is on Kungala Road and is a single lane timber bridge that will be replaced with a two lane reinforced…
Kevin Hogan announces Grafton Youth Hub
A new training hub for young school leavers will be established in Grafton, Federal Member for Page, Kevin Hogan announced today. "Unemployment is close to historic lows in NSW. Recently unemployment was at 3.9% in NSW. The youth unemployment rate is also at its lowest rate in 7 years. However we still have more work…
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Being fully aware of the present moment allows for greater appreciation of life and its gifts. Sometimes routine activities like going to work or school, participating in social events, even cooking dinner can impair mindfulness. Stressful situations can be difficult to be mindful through as well. There are, however, some simple, practical ways to improve your mindfulness and get you re-centered in the present.
The world is a noisy place. Thanks to the noise at the office, cars whirring by on the street, conversations at a busy restaurant or the simple hum of all the electronic devices within your home, more than likely, you are rarely in a place of complete and utter silence.
A quiet environment can definitely help you in your mindfulness practice, though. As you are practicing in a quiet environment, take notice of the sounds that emerge within the sanctity of that quiet space. It could be the hum of the refrigerator or the sound of rain. If feelings of anxiety emerge due to the lack of conventional noise, acknowledge them, then give yourself permission to let them go.
Be mindful of your breathing.
Most people, when experiencing stress, tend to hold their breath. When you find yourself in these moments throughout the day, reminding yourself to breathe can be very helpful. Take a moment to take a deep fulfilling breath in through your nose, focusing on how the air feels as it enters your body, then slowly breathe out through your mouth, deflating the belly and relaxing the shoulders.
As you go through the day, be mindful of your breath and if you find yourself taking tense, constricted breaths, give yourself time to recenter and re-balance your breathing technique.
I began using a Spire Stone to be more mindful of my breathing and it is amazing how much it has helped. The stone is a wearable tracker that monitors your breathing and activity level. If your breathing becomes "tense," the stone vibrates, reminding you to be mindful of your breathing. You can even open the app for a guided breathing visual to help you. I used the app at first to learn how to slow my breathing down. I was shocked at how tense my breathing was – the stone was buzzing all the time. Even when I slowed my breathing down to what I thought was relaxed, it was still pretty tense. Using the visual helped me feel what truly relaxed breathing should feel like. It's now much easier for me to correct my breathing and be more mindful when I am tense.
It's easy to focus on the negative aspects of the world and forget to appreciate what makes our lives great. This cycle leads to bitterness and more bad feelings, though, since "where attention goes, energy flows." Include a session of gratitude into your mindfulness practice to keep a focus on the things that you appreciate in your life. One simple technique for expressing gratitude is to make a list of all the things which you are grateful for daily. Writing the ideas down on paper gives a visual reminder of all the things you are grateful for and puts life into perspective when you are not having the best day.


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Access Copyright
Access © or Access Copyright is the operating name of a Canada Business Corporations Act corporation whose official registration name is The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (formerly Cancopy). It is a not-for-profit copyright collective that collects revenues from licensed Canadian businesses, government, schools, libraries and other copyright users for the photocopying of print works and distributes those monies to the rightsholders of those works, such as publishers and authors from Canada and around the world.
Access Copyright covers works published in Australia, Argentina, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the United States.
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When universities sign on to a license with Access Copyright (negotiated by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) or the Association of Canadian Community Colleges), their professors and students are given permission to do certain copying of copyrighted works. The university is generally charged a base rate per full-time student for this license, usually passed down to students in the form of mandatory fees. 2011 AUCC model license A new model, negotiated by AUCC in 2011, would see universities pay a rate of $26 per full-time student. The old agreement, which expired in 2010, charged only $3.38 plus an additional 10 cents per page coursepacks, photocopied compilations of readings designed by instructors and sold to students.[1] Moreover, additional stipulations would proscribe faculty and students from keeping copies of journal articles in personal libraries, or on personal computers or email accounts.[1]
These changes have proved controversial, and numerous universities have opted out of the deal.
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Universities that have opted out:
Athabasca University[2]
Brock University[3]
Carleton University[4]
MacEwan University[5]
McMaster University[6]
Memorial University[7]
Mount Allison University[8]
Mount Royal University[9]
Queen's University[10]
Ryerson University[11]
University of Alberta[12]
University of British Columbia[13]
University of Calgary[14]
University of Ottawa[15]
University of Saskatchewan[16]
University of Toronto[17]
University of Victoria[18]
University of Manitoba[19]
University of Northern British Columbia[20]
University of Waterloo[21]
University of Western Ontario[22]
University of Windsor[23]
University of Winnipeg[24]
York University[25]
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Access Copyright has also started charging universities for e-mailing links to copyrighted information, even in cases where there was no copyrighted material present. They are charging the full price for each link e-mailed.[26]
In late 2019, Access Copyright obtained a court order requiring 300 schools across Canada to supply handouts and lesson plans from the last seven years. The demand, intended to find use of copyright material, was described as a 'logistical nightmare'.[27]
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^ "Copyright at Carleton | MacOdrum Library". www.library.carleton.ca. Retrieved 2015-05-18.
^ "McMaster Daily News: McMaster opts out of Access Copyright License". www.library.mcmaster.ca. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
^ "Ryerson not renewing Access Copyright license".
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"St Thomas Grey, St Thomas Grey, The longest night and the shortest day"
Today is Winter Solstice and also the Feast of St Thomas the Apostle, patron of carpenters and masons.
Interestingly, each December 21st in medieval England, the Sheriffs of York proclaimed a Christmas amnesty for petty criminals in reverence of the high feast of Yule - 'til the twelve days be passed'. What happened after the yule cool-off for dice-players and 'unthrifty' folk is food for thought!
All around old England, poor women and children went 'Thomassing' on this day for Christmas 'goodenings', especially flour for yule bread and wheat for frumenty, a thick wheat porridge flavored with fruit and spices.


What were you born for??
In this cruel world of suffering and refugees and homeless people and war and taxes and divorce and hatred and PMS and Trump you can't help but wonder why it is you turned up on this here planet… right?
I mean, whether we like it or not, we're adding to the problems.
We're simply another mouth to feed. Some more footprints of carbon.
We're the ones having bad days and mood swings and frustrations. We're the ones cursing the check-out counters for the back log of elderly people taking an hour to buy half a litre of milk.
We're either the bosses other people hate or we're the ones spreading hate by bad-mouthing our bosses.
But what are you living for?? Why are you here?
We all won the sperm race. We're all alive today.
We forget that there may be a reason for that.
It's easy to simply exist: eat, sleep, work, facebook, repeat.
It's easy to hang out with this or that sort of person. It's easy to relax in your comfort zone. It's easy to simply be.
In staunch contrast to the gawking beauties of the islands of New Zealand, I've seen more pain and hardship than I have in a long time. I've been more confronted with death and pain and suffering than I'd like. It's bought me a few tears and break downs; but it's also bought me back to life.
Sometimes we get so caught up in comparing ourselves and our abilities with others. It's easy to think that we're not good enough or that our lives are meaningless.
We're selfish, but often self-loathing.
We're rich in so many things, but we all call ourselves broke.
We're too scared to give for fear that we won't have enough.
We're all too scared to try things, just in case we fail.
But if you have legs; go places.
If you have eyes; fill them with beauty.
If you have a voice; sing, laugh and yell for joy.
If you have friends and family; hug them often.
If you have dreams; chase them.
If you have life; make the most of it.
One day we're all going to die. The question is, what legacy are you going to leave behind??


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THERE'S tin and timber shacks – pops of pink, green and blue – framing the roadside lined by sugar cane paddocks and laundry swaying in the South Pacific breeze. Makeshift roadside stalls are peddling tropical fruit picked fresh off the tree and fish plucked straight from the ocean. Lush sugar cane paddocks are punctuated by skinny kids clutching soccer balls and there's a cacophony of chooks, horses and goats. I am being driven along a potholed road, pointing in the direction of lumpy, bumpy emerald hills. The air is scented with frangipani and hibiscus.
I'm back in Fiji, home to big, bursting blue skies and Bula smiles. And I've returned to the Outrigger Fiji Beach Resort, one of my favourite hideaways in the South Pacific. Later this night I'll sip a vodka spiced with Fijian rum and scattered with shards of coconut. It tastes like a sun-kissed day at the beach. But before then, I check into this 18ha resort, perched right on the Coral Sea, and my beautiful bure which signals I am home. Late afternoon, a butler will bring me champagne and canapes, before I feast on lobster and one of the finest Fijian sunsets for dinner.
The next day heralds what the Fijians call a "monkey's birthday", a morning of sun showers which quickly concede to sunshine which is fortuitous, as I am on the new Ecotrax tour, a 23km return cycling trip along dormant sugar cane tracks. This journey begins in a locomotive shed which dates back to the early 1900s with the beautiful Britney, who I've met on previous trips to Fiji. The tracks were once used by the thriving sugar cane industry but floods in 2009 put a halt to this, and many farmers have now turned to lifestyle farming.
On this jaunty journey I will cycle across 10 rickety rail bridges and past two sleepy villages at a maximum speed of 20kmh, part roaring reef and through rainforest which smells like moist mangroves. There's even a Tunnel of Love but there's no such luck for me on this day, as I continue on past curious children, cows, goats and villagers before arriving at Vunabua or "frangipani" beach. Enroute, our guides have collected from the villagers coconuts, in a move which encourages microbusinesses, and whose hydrating waters I sip with gusto after my cycle and bath in the warm waters of the South Pacific Ocean. There's plenty of new things happening in Fiji since my last visit, and I drink it all in with thirst. I've never slept in a bure at Outrigger Beach Resort and lay awake at night, intrigued by the hand-painted tapa ceilings whose different symbols tell a story, a bit like Australian Aboriginal rock art.
A stiff south-easterly trade wind is blowing the next morning when I meet Outrigger Beach Resort Guest Activities Manager and Cultural Advisor Kini Sarai. Kini is poised oceanfront to talk about this resort's environmental and conservation initiatives, which are part of Outrigger's global OZONE initiative. June is world oceans' month, and the Outrigger group takes its role in this story seriously. Here in Fiji, May is the month of tidal surges, which leads to reef erosion, something Kini, staff and guests are trying to stem. There's a fish house made from sea rocks and concrete upon which coral is planted on top and transplanted to the reef.
At Outrigger Beach Resort, coral planting takes place every Wednesday at 10am and is an organised activity for guests. The program, which has been in place for three years, has already resulted in significant improvement to the reef with increased numbers of fish in the lagoon. By December this year, Kini hopes to have planted a football field of coral.
"We are seeing fish that used to be here, returning," he says.
"At high tide, on a good day, we have baby reef sharks, sometimes as many as 100, that come up the beach here.
"Everybody that we take out on this program comes back very satisfied with themselves. It adds to the experience of staying here, we see it as a win/win."
There's more new things to see and do here at Outrigger Beach Resort, which aims to launch a refurbishment program of its rooms next January. Dine at the award-winning IVI Restaurant on a new menu which boasts the likes of sizzled scallops and prosciutto salad; sea snapper and shelled mud crab; and that old firm favourite, flaming crepes for dessert. High on the hill, where there are future plans to build private pool villas, indulge in a traditional Fijian facial and massage at the Bebe Spa Sanctuary. Like the reef itself, every time I visit Fiji I find myself rejuvenating. Nothing quite beats a big Bula hug and that feeling of home. Hope sways like a hammock here, and the hearts, well they're as huge as a South Pacific sunset. Pure Fiji indeed.
The Global Goddess travelled as a guest of Outrigger Beach Resort Fiji http://www.outrigger.com/hotels-resorts/fiji/viti-levu/outrigger-on-the-lagoon-fiji
To find out more about Outrigger's OZONE initiative, go to https://www.outrigger.com/ozone-program/overview
Take an Ecotrax tour with https://www.fiji.travel/us/activity/ecotrax


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FRANCIS JOYON - TROPHÉE WINNER 2017
The Jules Verne Trophée - Sailing Circumnavigation
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TROPHÉE: JULES VERNE - is a race with a prescribed set of rules, limited to sailing yachts, and a predetermined course. The event pitches unlimited yacht designs with unlimited crew numbers against one another at any time of the year, not as an organised race, but an event to suit the competitor. No holds barred. So improving on the speeds of previous title holders.
In our view, Francis Joyon is one the finest sailors the world has ever known. He has competed in and won just about every prestigious yachting event in the world. But are they yachts any longer, or low flying (ground effect) aircraft? At least they still have hydrofoils in the water to generate lift and raise their hulls out of the sea. Other than that, their sponson arms look to be airfoil wings, with airborne rudders becoming the norm. The IDEC Sport is not a foiler, it is a traditional hull design.
The IDEC SPORT was formerly Groupama 3, Banque Populaire VII, Lending Club 2, IDEC 3. She is a racing sailing trimaran designed for transoceanic record-setting. She is one of the world's fastest ocean-going sailing vessels and the current holder of the Jules Verne Trophy for circumnavigation of the world. She was originally skippered by French yachtsman Franck Cammas, with a crew of ten and sponsored by the French insurance company Groupama. She is currently skippered by Françis Joyon.
HISTORY OF THE BOAT
Groupama 3 was launched on June 7, 2006. She was the transatlantic record holder between 2007 and 2009.
During a first attempt for the Jules Verne Trophy (circumnavigation of the world) in 2008, Groupama 3 capsized off the coast of New-Zealand.
She was repaired in France and went for another attempt in 2009. Damage to the port hull led to the attempt being called off after 11 days, and the boat limped into Cape Town for repairs. She then returned to France
Groupama 3 began her third attempt and on January 31, 2010. On March 20, 2010, she became the fastest boat to sail around the world and set a record of 48 days, 7 hours 44 minutes and 52 seconds, improving on Orange II's performance from 2005 by more than 2 days. She lost the record on January 7, 2012, to Banque Populaire V, a larger trimaran.
In 2010, she was retrofitted for single-handed racing to take part of the transatlantic race Route du Rhum. In November 2010, Groupama 3 won the French single-handed transatlantic race Route du Rhum (between Brittany and Guadeloupe), with Frank Cammas at the helm, in 9 days and 14 hours, averaging 16.14 knots.
She was sponsored by French bank Banque Populaire to take part of 2014 Route du Rhum, which she won with skipper Loïck Peyron. In November 2014, Banque Populaire VII won Route du Rhum again, with Loick Peyron, in 7 days and 15 hours, beating the record by 2 hours and 10 minutes.
In 2015, French yachtsman Francis Joyon's sponsor IDEC announced that they now financed the boat. Under this new sponsorship the boat was leased for six months to Renaud Laplanche, the CEO of Lending Club. The boat was restored from her shortened-mast single-handed configuration to a full crew configuration and named Lending Club 2. Lending Club 2 set a new cross Channel record and a new trans-Pacific record.
In September 2015 the boat's sponsorship changed to the IDEC Sport. The team set a new circumnavigation record in 2017 and won back the Jules Verne Trophée with a time of 40 days 23 hours 30 minutes 30 seconds.
LIST OF TROPHY HOLDERS:
2017 – Francis Joyon / IDEC SPORT (31.5m) – 40:23:30:30
2012 – Loïck Peyron / Banque Populaire V (40m) – 45:13:42:53
2010 – Franck Cammas / Groupama 3 (31.5m) – 48:07:44:52
2005 – Bruno Peyron / Orange II (36.8m) – 50:16:20:04
2004 – Olivier De Kersauson / Geronimo (33.8m) – 63:13:59:46
2002 – Bruno Peyron / Orange (32.8m) – 64:08:37:24
1997 – Olivier De Kersauson / Sport-Elec (27.3m) – 71:14:22:08
1994 – Peter Blake, Robin Knox-Johnston / Enza New Zealand (28m) – 74:22:17:22
1993 – Bruno Peyron / Commodore Explorer (28m) – 79:06:15:56
LIST OF ATTEMPTS:
2021 - Charles Caudrelier / Gitana Team 1st attempt - Maxi Edmond de Rothschild & Franck Cammas
2020 - Thomas Coville / Sodebo Ultim 3 1st attempt - foiling trimaran
2019, 2015 - Yann Guichard / 3 attempts - Spindrift
2015 - Dona Bertarelli & Yann Guichard / 1 attempt - Spindrift
2011 - Pascal Bidégorry / 1st attempt - Bank Populaire
2003 - Ellen MacArthur / 1 attempt - Kingfisher II
1998 - Tracy Edwards / 1 attempt - Royal Sun Alliance
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Not just another clean eating espresso bar, Wise Fools Coffee Bar is one of south side's hidden gems so we could not have been more excited to be invited along for a bite. Nestled beside a gym in Moorabbin, the exterior features vibrant street art, while the interior is filled with post-workout eaters and locals looking for a caffeine fix. The menu includes a heavy dose of superfoods and smoothies, as well as serious attention to good coffee. We're still not sure what acai is (but we definitely know an acai bowl is tasty!), but the standout was the smashed avo with chicken and goats cheese - arguably one of the best in town.


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Tampa's Kiley Yard is shut to events because of to water injury, once again
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TAMPA — With almost 1,000 trees planted in a checkered development and divided by running water, which noticed from higher than appeared like a tapestry, Kiley Garden was when celebrated around the world as a marvel of architectural landscaping.
But that transformed a lot more than a decade in the past when the first design and style proved faulty.
The park's flooring doubles as the roof of a parking garage. Water leaked in, boosting fears of a collapse. So a lot of what designed Kiley Backyard garden a spectacle was torn up or removed.
The 4 1/2-acre downtown city park located up coming to the Rivergate Tower at 400 N Ashley Dr. is once more going through drinking water difficulties, as 1st claimed by Axios, and has been shut to gatherings.
There is structural damage to the park and garage with a lot more to come if there are no repairs. The garage continues to be open up.
"Kiley Yard is presently not able to be applied … because of to water intrusion concerns that have been determined by way of an exploratory analysis," reported city spokesperson Lauren Rozyla. "As a precautionary evaluate, the town is not permitting any functions in the house until we acquire whole approval from an engineer to place masses on the leading surface area of the construction. Basic pedestrian visitors is allowed."
The problem is associated to the unique take care of, according to the city's report compiled by the Walter P Moore Engineering firm.
A new waterproofing membrane was put in during the 2006-2008 repairs, the report states. "Over the a long time the membrane began to are unsuccessful, and h2o intrusion into the garage improved."
It's not a affordable take care of.
It could charge up to $11 million, in accordance to the report, and that "does not include things like the price for both retrofit of the present stormwater drainage method or installation of a new" a single to assist with draining, nor will it shell out for changing the garage's ruined electrical technique.
It will not be a rapid repair. It's now been declared that the Gasparilla Tunes Competition will have to request a new location.
Kiley Yard was developed for the Rivergate Tower.
Harry Wolf was commissioned in the 1980s to layout the 31-story creating on the corner of Kennedy Boulevard and Ashley Travel as the gateway to downtown.
The cylindrical design and style is exclusive and fewer intrusive, Wolf earlier told the Tampa Bay Occasions. He additional spotlights on the roof to create a lighthouse have an effect on and designed the connecting glass Cube developing to mimic Tampa's city grid.
He did it all employing the Fibonacci sequence, in which every variety in the sequence is the sum of the previous two — , 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, and so on. Those people proportions ended up employed to attract up the tower's radius, floor heights, dimensions and frequency of home windows.
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Wolf then preferred a park to circulation from the framework employing the Fibonacci collection. Only architectural landscape artist Dan Kiley, who died in 2004, could have pulled it off, Wolf stated.
"He was the dean of American landscape architecture, arms down," Wolf said.
Kiley Backyard garden initially had 800 crepe myrtles separated by runnels and fountains. H2o flowed into the runnels and fountains from a 400-foot overhead canal, which linked the tower to the Cube.
To resolve the previous h2o problems, the swimming pools had been loaded with gravel, the drinking water for the fountains and runnels shut off, and the canal taken off. The trees had been uprooted to repair the roof but never returned.
In recent yrs, activists have sought to restore Kiley Garden's primary look.
"There is still the question of what the top area of Kiley Yard will be restored to" the report states. "The room could be introduced back to its current situation and utilized for activities. The park could be redesigned for new chances to satisfy increasing community demands in other techniques."
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Fletcher Hills Dental Implants and Oral Surgery Center are dental health partners with the Holtville community, about 11 miles east of El Centro in Imperial Valley.
A small town of about 6,000 people, Holtville's major civic event is the annual Carrot Festival in late January or early February that lasts for ten days. Holtville also achieved dubious literary fame because of Milton J. Silverman's bestselling novel "Open and Shut," which chronicled the true crime story of Norma Winters, a Holtville resident who contracted for the death of her husband during the summer of 1974.
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The free upgrade in California! Not the hubby, he's the same old model I've known for 30+ years! Why mess with perfection?
I never learned why, but really. Who cares why? Just enjoy it. Another time at a car rental place, the clerk appreciated my polite children so much that she upgraded us for free… from a car to a brand new van! NICE!
Since day one, I have wanted this blog to be something readers enjoy and trust. That's not changing! I hope the content here is both informative and entertaining (at least on some level). I will continue to provide relevant savings information and fabulous travel tips!
To do even better going into our second year, we are making two changes.
Change One: A professional blog redesign.
Family Travels on a Budget is growing up, and I won't pretend that I have done a good job setting things up. The blog redesign will make it easier for you to find the information you want and it will look better too! If you can't find what you want, I'm not providing the best service. I hope you'll like it.
Change Two: A move from email post notifications to a weekly newsletter.
Also, with a newsletter (the best of the best of the change of plans), I can send you links to discounts. I'll include a section on discounts every week. When you're planning travel, they'll be right there for you. No more need to search posts to find the links!
Sometimes a change of plans is a good thing! This is certainly one of those times.
So what are you waiting for? Join in as we make a change of plans!
Follow Family Travels on a Budget on Facebook to get up to the minute post information — and some fun conversation too!
Follow on Twitter, Pinterest and Google+. Why not jump all in?
It's been a great first year for Family Travels on a Budget! I look forward to year two, with the exciting change of plans, it will be even more fun! What do you think?
Thanks for that! It's an exciting time. I hope the changes will be something that readers like!
Karen,the site looks great! I cant wait to see all your changes.Im learning about all the little details about blogging from you.
I'm proud of what you've done with the blog, mum. It has been cool to see you share your passions! I'm excited to see where this goes!
Happy Blogoversarry! Looking forward to what you do, I'm sure it will be great!
I read each and every post you write. I actually follow the steps to see how I'm doing. 🙂 Youtube is wide open for me, too. YAY! I love that we connected through the world wide blogosphere! THANKS for your encouragement.
I love when we are upgraded for free when we are staying at places. It's always a nice gesture.
Website changes are sometimes necessary as well, let me know if you need help.


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Could you all give me you feedback on something? For those of you that would know, could you tell me which is better out of Colin McRae Rally, Or World Rally Championships. And Would it be better to get it on Playstation 2 or Xbox. This question is for Lavi really but he isn't here.
So tell me about the two games. Cheers!!
I heard a lot of good things from CM rally from a friend of mine. I can't tell you anything about the other one though.
Ive got Colin McRae Rally 1 and 2 on the playstation and it is the best rally game that i have played. Ive also played it on th xbox and would have to say that it is much better than world rally championships. i know that Colin Mcrae rally has been tested by Colin Mcrae himself, so that is a good thing but i dont know about World Rally championships, Im not saying that it is a bad game but Colin Mcrae is a much more realistic rally game with its wide range of vehicles and tracks. And i would have to say that the xbox is a much better choice i dont have one myself but have played many of them, because all of my friends have them, The graphics are better the cpu is faster.
The PS2 is also a great console. The graphics are excellent (although it can depend on the game sometimes, eg, Max Payne has better graphics than Legaia 2) and it is easy to use. It can also play PS1 games and is a dvd player. This, for me, makes it better than the xbox, and my friend who has one says Halo is the only good game on it so far. But i've heard that some really good games are coming out for it soon. I have a PS2 and i can tell you, it's great!


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The 2019 winner was announced on September 21, 2019
2019 SFC Literary Prize Finalists
Gun Love By Jennifer Clement
This Mournable Body By Tsitsi Dangarembga
Where The Dead Sit Talking By Brandon Hobson
The Dark Dark By Samantha Hunt
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2017: Dana Spiotta, Innocents and Others
(Jury: Ellen Litman, Jeffery Renard Allen, René Steinke)
2015: Maud Casey, The Man Who Walked Away
(Jury: Sigrid Nunez, Erin McGraw, Daniel Torday)
2013: David Vann, Dirt
(Jury: Peter Cameron, Jonathan Dee,Kate Christensen)
2011: Jonathan Dee, The Privileges
(Jury: Rick Moody, Darcey Steinke, Francine Prose)
2009: Aleksandar Hemon, Love and Obstacles
(Jury: Heidi Julavits, Jonathan Lethem, Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman, Ben Marcus
Amina Gautier, The Loss of All Lost Things (Elixir Press)
Mohsin Hamid, Exit West (Riverhead Books)
Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone (Little, Brown and Company)
Selah Saterstrom, Slab (Coffee House Press)
Dana Spiotta, Innocents and Others (Scribner)
Deb Olin Unferth, Wait Till You See Me Dance (Graywolf Press)
Paul Beatty, The Sellout (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
Maud Casey, The Man Who Walked Away (Bloomsbury USA)
Stuart Dybek, Paper Lantern (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)
David Gilbert, & Sons (Random House)
Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings (Riverhead)
René Steinke, Friendswood (Riverhead)
Carol Anshaw, Carry the One (Simon & Schuster)
Jami Attenberg, <="" i="">The Middlesteins (Grand Central Publishing)
Tony D'Souza, Mule (Mariner Books)
Christopher Tilghman, The Right-Hand Shore (Picador)
David Vann, Dirt (Harper Perennial)
Kevin Brockmeier, The Illumination (Pantheon)
Joshua Cohen, Witz (Dalkey Archive Press)
Jonathan Dee, The Privileges (Random House)
Yiyun Li, Gold Boy Emerald Girl (Random House)
Marlene van Niekerk, Agaat (Tin House Books)
Brad Watson, Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives (W. W. Norton & Company)
Chris Abani, Song For Night (Akashic Books)
Aleksandar Hemon, Love and Obstacles (Riverhead Books)
Jim Krusoe, Girl Factory (Tin House Books)
Arthur Phillips, The Song Is You (Random House).
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Chris Abani is a novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter and playwright. Born in Nigeria to an Igbo father and English mother, he grew up in Afikpo, Nigeria, received a BA in English from Imo State University, Nigeria, an MA in English, Gender and Culture from Birkbeck College, University of London and a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. He has resided in the United States since 2001.
He is the recipient of the PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, the Prince Claus Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a California Book Award, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a PEN Beyond the Margins Award, the PEN Hemingway Book Prize and a Guggenheim Award.
His fiction includes The Secret History of Las Vegas (Penguin 2014), Song For Night *(Akashic, 2007), *The Virgin of Flames (Penguin, 2007), Becoming Abigail (Akashic, 2006), GraceLand (FSG, 2004), and Masters of the Board(Delta, 1985).
His poetry collections are Sanctificum (Copper Canyon Press, 2010), There Are No Names for Red (Red Hen Press, 2010), Feed Me The Sun - Collected Long Poems *(Peepal Tree Press, 2010) *Hands Washing Water (Copper Canyon, 2006), Dog Woman (Red Hen, 2004), Daphne's Lot (Red Hen, 2003) and *Kalakuta Republic *(Saqi, 2001).
His work has been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, German, Swedish, Romanian, Hebrew, Macedonian, Ukrainian, Portuguese, Dutch, Bosnian and Serbian.
Through his TED Talks, public speaking and essays Abani is known as an international voice on humanitarianism, art, ethics, and our shared political responsibility. His critical and personal essays have been featured in books on art and photography, as well as Witness, Parkett, The New York Times, O Magazine, and Bomb.
His many research interests include African Poetics, World Literature, 20th Century Anglophone Literature, African Presences in Medieval and Renaissance Culture, The Living Architecture of Cities, West African Music, Postcolonial and Transnational Theory, Robotics and Consciousness, Yoruba and Igbo Philosophy and Religion.
He is Board of Trustees Professor of English at Northwestern University.
Ron Currie is the author of the novels Everything Matters! and Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles and the short story collection God is Dead, which was the winner of the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award. In 2009, he received the Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His books have been translated into fifteen languages. He lives in Portland, Maine.
Kate Christensen has published seven novels, including The Great Man, which won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction, and The Last Cruise, published in paperback from Vintage Anchor in June 2019. She also published two food-centric memoirs, Blue Plate Special and How to Cook a Moose, which won the 2016 Maine Literary Award for Memoir. She has taught fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop as well as short workshops in both memoir and fiction at various residencies and MFA programs and will teach a nonfiction workshop at Bates College next spring.
Kate has published my shorter pieces in places like Tin House, the Baffler, Down East, Portland Magazine, Vogue, Elle, Bookforum, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Food and Wine, as well as a lot of anthologies, most recently Why I Like This Story, edited by Jackson Bryer, and The Bitch is Back, edited by Cathi Hanauer. She lives in Portland, Maine and the White Mountains of New Hampshire with her husband and two dogs, and is currently working on a new novel, working title The Infernal World.
Jeffery Renard Allen is the author of two collections of poetry, Stellar Places (Moyer Bell, 2007) and Harbors and Spirits (Moyer Bell, 1999), and three works of fiction, the widely celebrated novel, Rails Under My Back (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000), which won The Chicago Tribune's Heartland Prize for Fiction, Song of the Shank (Graywolf Press, 2014), and the story collection Holding Pattern (Graywolf Press, 2008), which won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. His other awards include a Whiting Writer's Award, a support grant from Creative Capital, The Chicago Public Library's Twenty-first Century Award, a Recognition for Pioneering Achievements in Fiction from the African American Literature and Culture Association, the 2003 Charles Angoff award for fiction from The Literary Review, and special citations from the Society for Midlands Authors and the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation. He has been a fellow at The Dorothy L. and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at The New York Public Library, a John Farrar Fellow in Fiction at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and a Walter E. Dakins Fellow in Fiction at the Sewanee Writers' Conference. More at www.jefferyrenardallen.com.
Ellen Litman grew up in Moscow, Russia, where she lived until 1992. After her family immigrated to the United States, she studied Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh and after graduation spent the next six years working as a software developer in Baltimore and Boston. She took her first writing class in the fall of in 1998. Three years later, she left Information Technology and went off to Syracuse to study writing. Since then, she's been writing and teaching.
Ellen's fiction won first prize in the Atlantic Monthly 2003 Fiction Contest, and she's been awarded 2006 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, as well as fiction fellowships at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Fine Arts Center in Provincetown, and scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. More at http://ellenlitman.com.
René Steinke is a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow. Her most recent novel, Friendswood (Riverhead), was named one of National Public Radio's "Great Reads" of 2014. Friendswood was shortlisted for the St. Francis Literary Prize, and it was an Amazon Book of the Month. Her previous novel, Holy Skirts, an imaginative retelling of the life of the artist and provocateur, Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, was a Finalist for the National Book Award. Her first novel is The Fires. Her essays and articles have appeared in The New York Times, Vogue, O Magazine, Redbook, Houstonia, Salon, Bookforum, and in anthologies. She is the former Editor of The Literary Review, where she remains Editor-at-Large. She has taught at the New School and at Columbia University, and she is currently the Director of the MFA program in Creative Writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University. She lives in Brooklyn. More at http://www.renesteinke.net.
Sigrid Nunez has published six novels, including A Feather on the Breath of God, The Last of Her Kind, and, most recently, Salvation City. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. Among the journals to which she has contributed are The New York Times, Threepenny Review, Harper's, McSweeney's, The Believer, and Tin House. Her honors and awards include four Pushcart Prizes, a Whiting Writer's Award, a Berlin Prize Fellowship, and two awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters: the Rosenthal Foundation Award and the Rome Prize in Literature.
Erin McGraw is the author of six books of fiction, most recently the novels The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard (Houghton Mifflin, 2008), and Better Food for a Better World (Slant Books, 2013). Her short fiction and essays have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Story, The Atlantic Monthly, Good Housekeeping, The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, Allure, and other magazines and journals. She teaches at the Ohio State University, and is married to the poet Andrew Hudgins.
Daniel Torday's debut novel, The Last Flight of Poxl West, will be published by St. Martin's Press in 2015. His novella, The Sensualist, won the 2012 National Jewish Book Award for debut fiction. Torday's short stories and essays have appeared in Esquire Magazine, Glimmer Train, Harvard Review, The New York Times and The Kenyon Review. He is currently the Director of Creative Writing at Bryn Mawr College.
Jonathan Dee teaches in the graduate writing programs at Columbia University and the New School. He is also a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, a frequent contributor to Harper's, and a former senior editor of The Paris Review.
Peter Cameron's books The Weekend, The City of Your Final Destination, and Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You, have all been made into feature films with additional plans for Andorra. He has taught at Oberlin, Columbia, Yale and The New School.
Kate Christensen just release her new memoir, Blue Plate Special. In addition to her six novels, her reviews, columns and essays have appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, Bookforum, Tin House and Elle.
Francine Prose is the author of many bestselling books of fiction, including A Changed Man and Blue Angel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and the nonfiction New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer. Her novel, Household Saints, was adapted for a movie by Nancy Savoca. Another novel, The Glorious Ones, has been adapted into a musical of the same name by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, which ran at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre at Lincoln Center in New York City in the fall of 2007. Her latest novel is My New American Life. She is the president of PEN American Center and lives in New York City.
Rick Moody is the author of Garden State (Pushcart Press Editors' Book Award), The Ice Storm (made into a major motion picture) and his most recent novel, The Four Fingers of Death. His other work includes: Purple America, The Diviners; two collections of stories, The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven and Demonology; and a memoir, The Black Veil, winner of the PEN/ Martha Albrand Award. He has also received the Addison Metcalf Award, the Paris Review's Aga Khan Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Darcey Steinke has written the memoir Easter Everywhere and several novels including, Milk: A Novel, Suicide Blonde and Jesus Saves, and twice been named to the New York Times Most Notable Books of the Year list. Moody and Steinke recently co-edited the collection, Joyful Noise: The New Testament Revisited. Steinke also writes for the New York Times Book Review.
The jury for the award is a literary all-star team featuring:
Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay)
National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction winner Jonathan Lethem (Motherless Brooklyn)
Aauthor and co-editor of The Believer magazine Heidi Julavits (The Uses of Enchantment: A Novel)
Author and professor at the MFA writing program at Columbia University Ben Marcus (Notable American Women)
and, New York Times bestselling author Ayelet Waldman (Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities and Occasional Moments of Grace).


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Exclusive: Children among hundreds of Rohingya detained in Myanmar crackdown
Wa Lone, Simon Lewis, Krishna N. Das
SITTWE, Myanmar/COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - Children as young as 10 years old are among hundreds of Rohingya Muslims detained on charges of consorting with insurgents, according to a police document seen by Reuters that sheds new light on Myanmar's security campaign in the country's northwest.
A Rohingya fisherman walks on the beach in Sittwe in the state of Rakhine, Myanmar March 2, 2017. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun
Thirteen juveniles are among more than 400 people arrested since Oct. 9, when insurgents attacked three police border posts in northern Rakhine State near the frontier with Bangladesh, the March 7 dated document shows.
Police said some of the children had confessed to working with insurgents and that they were being detained away from adult suspects.
A government spokesman confirmed children were detained in the operation, but said authorities had followed the law. He said he knew of only five juveniles currently being held.
Myanmar's leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who took power almost a year ago, is under international pressure over alleged abuses including killings, gang rapes and mass detentions against the stateless Rohingya, about 1.1 million of whom are prevented from traveling freely and accessing basic services in Myanmar.
The government has released few details about the hundreds detained in the Rakhine operation or the charges they face.
The document seen be Reuters lists 423 people held under the colonial-era Unlawful Associations Act. All appear from their names to be male. Their average age is 34, but the youngest is 10 and the oldest 75. One has been crossed out and marked "dead".
Two police captains in Maungdaw, the district at the center of the violence, confirmed the veracity of the 11-page document.
"We police have to arrest those related with the attackers, children or not, but the court will decide if they are guilty, we cannot decide," said Police Captain Than Shwe.
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Myanmar has ratified international conventions that require additional protections for children accused of crimes.
Reuters was unable to establish whether all those provisions, such whether they have been able to communicate with their families or have legal representation, were being followed.
All 13 juveniles below the age of 18 were sent to be detained outside of prison at a Border Guard Police (BGP) facility in the town of Buthidaung, and were not shackled, said the second police captain, who did not want to be identified.
"Some of the children already confessed that they are involved with the attackers group during interrogation," the police captain said. They were not beaten during questioning, he said.
Domestic law says children aged between seven and 12 are only criminally responsible if mature enough to understand the consequences of their actions. Two listed detainees are under 12, while two more are 13.
Zaw Htay, director general of Suu Kyi's office, told Reuters he was only aware of five children currently detained at the Buthidaung BGP camp.
Authorities were under strict orders not to violate detainees' rights, Zaw Htay said, adding: "We will not forgive anyone who does."
Cases had been opened against all 423 people on the list under the Unlawful Associations Act, said the second police captain. Many on the list, which is not a complete record of all those detained in the operation, were also charged with additional crimes, including murder, he said.
"We suspect that these people joined the attackers' training or supported them with funding, or they cooperated during the attacks or were involved in the attacks," he said.
Rights groups such as Amnesty International say the Unlawful Associations Act has long been used to arbitrarily arrest and detain ethnic and religious minorities in Myanmar.
In a statement to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, Myanmar said 526 people were "under interrogation" relating to the conflict. Eight detainees had died in custody, the government said.
The government has set up two "special courts" in Buthidaung, said Rakhine's senior state judicial official, advocate general Kyaw Hla Tun. The government would not block the accused from accessing lawyers, he added.
"We want to process them quickly. There are security concerns with the prison being over capacity," he said.
U.N. human rights envoy Yanghee Lee visited Buthidaung prison, where most detainees are being held, in January. Most did not have lawyers, were not informed of the charges against them and had not been able to contact their families, she said.
Reuters also spoke to people who had been released from detention and later fled across the border to Bangladesh, a journey made by about 75,000 refugees since the conflict began.
Di Dar, 22, said he spent 10 days in a military camp after his village was burned in mid-November. The 300 or so people detained with him were constantly handcuffed and beaten during interrogations, and he witnessed two men killed, he said.
Reuters was unable to corroborate his account, or similar accounts from three other former detainees.
"The soldiers would come three times a day and would beat us for about an hour at a time," Di Dar said. "They asked, 'Did you fight us?' 'Were you involved in the insurgency?'"
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Reporting by Wa Lone and Simon Lewis in Sittwe, Myanmar and Krishna N. Das in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh; Editing by Alex Richardson


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MIUI 14 Early Access Program Announced Ahead of December 1 Release Date
MIUI 14, Xiaomi's Android 13-based software interface for its smartphones, will be launched on December 1. The company's upcoming software update will make its debut alongside the Xiaomi 13 series on December 1. A couple of days ahead of the launch of Xiaomi's upcoming smartphones, the Chinese OEM has introduced an early access program for MIUI 14 in China, which will allow users to try the latest software before it is officially rolled out. Notably, the program is currently limited to users in China, but could be extended to other regions in the future.
According to a report by ITHome, Xiaomi is allowing users to sign up for early access to MIUI 14 in China. The MIUI 14 testing program began on November 28, and will end on December 28 at 11:59pm, as per the report. Users will be required to sign up with the Chinese smartphone maker to try out the upcoming software update.
A user can register only one Xiaomi device — a tablet or a smartphone — for the MIUI 14 early access program, as per the report. Once a device is enrolled, users will not be able to enroll another Xiaomi device with the same account.
The report says that early access will be rolled out in a phased manner. However, at the moment, only users in China will have access to the program, while users in other regions will have to wait for the company to expand testing to other countries.
Xiaomi's upcoming MIUI 14 software update is expected to be based on Android 13, while older Xiaomi phones could get the MIUI 14 update based on Android 12. While the company is yet to announce any details regarding features on MIUI 14, the update is expected to introduce core Android 13 features including improved privacy settings, better theming support, and an improved media player notification.
Meanwhile, Xiaomi 13 is confirmed to launch on December 1. The upcoming lineup will comprise two models: the vanilla Xiaomi 13 and Xiaomi 13 Pro. The upcoming flagship lineup will be powered by a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC. The Xiaomi 13 lineup is expected to run on Android 13-based MIUI 14 when it is launched on December 1.
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Dr. Kanie Siu is Plan International's Chief Executive Officer for the Hong Kong office. She joined Plan International since January 2015.
Kanie is an experienced fundraiser, marketer and administrator. She spent 10 years working in marketing and public relations across a number of commercial industries before joining Oxfam Hong Kong (OHK) in 1998, where she helped pioneer the application of those skills to the non-governmental organisation sector. She quickly rose through the ranks to become the agency's Hong Kong Unit Director in 2011 and Director of Fundraising and Communications in 2013. She was responsible for fundraising, communications and branding strategies in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and mainland China.
While working in OHK, Kanie led the team to develop various fundraising strategies with innovative mindset, lay the groundwork of monthly donation and establish different fundraising projects and channels. All these works brought surging number of donors to OHK so that they could have more resources to implement poverty alleviation initiatives. Kanie was also actively involved in expanding the market of OHK. She launched fundraising and education projects in Macau successfully and did research to promote their work in Taiwan.
In 2015, she was appointed CEO of Plan International Hong Kong, one of the leading international development organizations with 80 years of history that is committed to fulfilling children's rights and ending poverty worldwide. With Kanie's leadership and profound experiences in business and charity sector, scope of works of Plan International Hong Kong was greatly expanded and diversified with doubled charity income in just 5 years. Kanie also puts lots of effort in enhancing local children's right. She takes the lead role to promote Child Safeguarding Policy, Child Participatory Community Development and prevention of child abuse. In the long run, Kanie looks forward to building Hong Kong a Child Safeguarding City, where provides a safe environment for healthy growth of every child and youth, through persevering effort of stakeholders from different sectors. To raise understanding and concern of Hong Kong youths towards girls' right in developing countries, she also led the team to launch the Youth Conference that holds annually.
Kanie has made significant contributions in bringing proven business administration and marketing practices to fundraising work in Hong Kong. She has also conducted fundraising trainings for various NGOs in both Hong Kong and mainland China and sharing of development issues at universities. With her contribution to the philanthropy in both Hong Kong and Mainland China, Kanie has been awarded as one of the awardees in the Second Global Outstanding Young Leader Award organised by YaZhou Zhoukan in 2017.
Andrew Weir, MBE, JP, Board Chairman
Andrew is the Regional Senior Partner of KPMG in Hong Kong and Vice Chairman of KPMG China. He has over 25 years' experience servicing listed companies, public bodies,investment funds and MNCs in Hong Kong, China, Asia and internationally. He chairs the Listing Committee of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and sits on the advisory panels of the Securities Institute, Hong Kong Investor Relations Association and Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).
Andrew was appointed by the HKSAR Government as a council member of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC). He sits on the Belt and Road Committee and chairs the International Working Group and the Global Belt and Road Forum. He was also appointed as a director of the Financial Services Development Council (FSDC) and sits on the FSDC Policy Research Committee.
He has had a number of global and regional roles with KPMG. He is currently the Global Chairman of Asset Management, Real Estate and Construction, and ASPAC Chairman of Infrastructure, Government and Healthcare, which also includes the real estate, hospitality and transport sectors. He is also in the global leadership team of KPMG's Belt & Road Centre of Excellence.
Andrew is Chairman of Pacific Basin Economic Council and Deputy Chairman of UNESCAP on financial services. He was made an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List 2017 for his contribution to trade and investment links between Hong Kong and the UK.
Dr. Darwin Chen, SBS
Darwin Chen's career includes 32 years' service in the Hong Kong Government, during which he served as Commissioner for Television and Entertainment Licensing, Deputy Secretary for Constitutional Affairs, Commissioner of Labour and Director of Buildings and Lands. He was former Chairman of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and currently serves as President Emeritus of the UNESCO Hong Kong Association. He serves on the board of many charitable organisations in Hong Kong and Mainland China as well as international non-profit bodies. He is also Honorary President of the Hong Kong Children's Choir and Honorary Chairman of Habitat for Humanity Hong Kong.
June Leung
June Leung obtained her B.A. degree in Translation at the University of Hong Kong and a Doctorate of Business Administration conferred by European University. She is the founder and chairperson of Beacon Group, a member of BEXCELLENT Group Holdings Limited. With 25-year experience of teaching English as a foreign language, Miss Leung has authored different popular academic publications. Her devotion to raising and maintaining the standard of practitioners in the private tutorial sector at a professional level has led her to become a guest speaker in various public seminars, including the "China Education Symposium 2015 Annual Conference" organised by Harvard University. Miss Leung founded Beacon Uprising under Beacon Fund in 2012, providing additional financial assistance to students from Comprehensive Social Security Assistance and low-income families to enrol in tutorial courses. Over 10,000 students have been benefitted. In 2019, she founded the "Uplift Educational Charity Foundation", a non-profit charity institution, which aims to provide motivation for the youth of Hong Kong and stimulate their learning ability, creativity and positive thinking. In recent years, June has actively participated in charity events and encourages people around her to join the events. She is passionate about helping people in need.
Ralph Szeto
Ralph is the Director of MuseLife, a digital driven social enterprise. He has over 28 years of global & local media, digital marketing & social media agency experiences across the Greater China region.
He is also the Chairman of AIM and a Co-founder of CMRS Group. Ralph has received "2015 Digital Marketer of the Year" by AIM and became the first batch of Certified Digital Marketer (CDM) endorsed by AIM.
Ralph actively participates in various consulting bodies of the HKSAR Government. He is currently an appointed member of CreatSmart Initiative Vetting Committee of Create Hong Kong, Working Group on External Lighting of Environment Bureau of HKSAR Government, Media & Communications Training Board of VTC and Hong Kong Strategy for Financial Literacy (HKSFL). And he has been serving as the Consultant of Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) since 2015.
Ralph joined various social welfare organisations; he is the board member of 3 NGOs – Plan International Hong Kong, Ocean Park Conservation Foundations and Social Career. He is also 2 serving as the Consultant of OpenUp, a teenager anti-suicide project funded by Hong Kong Jockey Club. And he has been serving as the Advisory Committee members and Mentor of Inno Power of Hong Kong Jockey Club and Jockey Club MEL Institute Project organised by Department of Social Work of CUHK.
Besides, Ralph was invited by various local and overseas universities, media, trade and social welfare organisations as a guest speaker, part-time lecturer, trainer and judge. He is currently serving as the Chairman of the Academic Advisory, College of International Education, Hong Kong Baptist University. In December 2018, Ralph received "The Distinguished Communication Alumni Award" from his alma mater, School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University.
Dr. Sandra Tsang Kit Man, JP
Dr. Sandra Tsang, JP, is an Associate Professor of the Department of Social Work and Social Administration of The University of Hong Kong. She is a Registered Clinical Psychologist, a Fellow of the Hong Kong Psychological Society and the Hong Kong Professional Counselling Association, and a Registered Social Worker. Her research, publications and media profile focus on parent education, children with special educational needs, children and youth development and social services development. She serves on the Commission on Children and the Nursing Council after completing her membership on the Social Welfare Advisory Committee and the Equal Opportunities Commission. She is also the Chairperson of the Hong Kong Institute of Clinical Psychologists and advisor to some NGOs.
Board Advisors
Walter Lee
One of the partners of Gallant in Hong Kong, Mr. Lee obtained LL.B. from University of Hong Kong and LL.M. from the University of London. He has significant and extensive experience in anti-discrimination laws, privacy and data protection, and implementation of various codes of practice, providing advice to banks, listed companies, tertiary institutions and NGOs. Regularly advising employers in both public and private sectors on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious employment matters, Mr. Lee also acts for employers in appeal courts, alternative dispute resolution procedures and internal investigation, disciplinary procedures and termination procedures, providing strategic advice and drafting documentation for human resources departments.
He once served on the Environmental Campaign Committee and is the Chairman of Employment Law Committee of The Law Society of Hong Kong. He is also the Vice-Chairman of The Hong Kong Children's Choir and the Honorary Legal Advisor to a local NGO.
Dr. Annissa Lui Wai Ling, JP
Dr. Annissa Lui Wai Ling, JP, a Registered Social Worker, graduated from the Department of Social Work of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1982. She then obtained a master's degree in Divinity and a doctorate in Ministry at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Trinity Western University in 1990 and 2009 respectively. Dr. Lui joined the Hong Kong Lutheran Social Service in 1982 and has worked in youth service, community development, family service, foster care service, and substance abuse counseling since then. Currently, she is the Chief Executive of the organisation. Caring about public and social affairs, Dr. Lui is appointed to several advisory or statutory bodies such as Social Welfare Advisory Committee, Action Committee Against Narcotics, Narcotics Division and Committee on Services for Youth at Risk, Social Welfare Department. She is also a member or advisor to some NGOs.


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