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The 'Jingle Trucks' and the emergence of Truck Art
Earlier in June, I shared a piece about Pakistani Truck Artist Haider Ali and his homage to George Floyd. It resonated with many people. At the same time, I was also writing a separate piece around the cultural landscape and art scene in Pakistan. Originally, I had planned to include something about Truck Art, which I have always been intrigued and charmed by. I even wrote about it but in the end, I had to exclude it from the final version. But words are never wasted, and here I share some of that in an extended version.
Anyone who has visited Pakistan, seen it on screen or in pictures, would have encountered the vibrant, highly distinctive, and perhaps even outlandish, painted trucks. This form of decorating and customising trucks is popular in South Asia, but the designs and passion displayed are quite exceptional in Pakistan. Over the years these truck designs have transformed and evolved from depicting religious iconography and Sufi saints to a much more dynamic art-form. The lively and loud paintings incorporate animals, fauna and flora in a psychedelic array of colours. The artwork is paired with poetry, calligraphy, popular idioms, and popular iconography to represent an individual expression of the trucker's identity and background. On the surface, they may appear the same but deeper inspection reveals the regional identity and character of the person and the location. Although it is thought that specialism in truck art was prevalent in NWFP/KP, it has travelled through migration of labour to the port city of Karachi, where it has found fertile ground and flourished.
The exact origins of this kind of art-form are unknown, but it does date back to the early 20th century. According to Paracha, a more restrained version of this art-form was present in the subcontinent in the 1940s. That of course would also have something to do with the lack of accessibility to the materials used to paint and decorate these trucks. Paracha suggests that, "It first appeared on trucks and lorries driven by Sikh transporters who would paint a portrait of their spiritual Gurus, or those who helped form the Sikh religion. The portraits were painted with the loudest of colours. Simultaneously, Muslim transporters and drivers began to paint portraits of famous Sufi saints on their trucks and lorries."
On Pinterest there is a popular quote suggesting that "In the 1920s, the Kohistan Bus Company hired Ustad Elahi Buksh, a master craftsman, to decorate their buses to attract passengers. It was not long after that truck owners followed with their own designs. Within the last few years trucks and buses have been further embellished with full lighting systems."
Another source elaborates and suggests: "This extraordinary tradition has its routes in the days of the Raj when craftsmen made glorious horse drawn carriages for the gentry. In the 1920s, the Kohistan bus company asked the local Michaelangelo, Ustad Elahi Buksh, a master craftsman to decorate their buses to attract passengers. Buksh employed a community of artists from the Punjabi town of Chiniot, whose ancestors had worked on many great palaces and temples dating back to the Mughal Empire."
The special edition of Granta in 2010 also suggests that there were links with the "ornate horse-drawn carriages of the Raj to the pioneering craftsmanship featured on the Kohistan Bus Company's fleet in the 1920s."
The vast majority of the privately-owned Pakistani trucks are decorated with any combination of paint, wood carvings, mirror work, hammered metal work. They are heavily decorated and most often highly personalised to driver's vision or interests. No one truck is the same. The truck drivers spend large sums of money on customising their trucks, which are not just "painted" but also involve structural work to modify the interior and exterior. According to Jamal Elias, in 2007 the cost of customising these trucks could go up to Rs. 400,000 (US$7,000 at the time), which included having the "coachwork completed on a Bedford truck, the iconic vehicle of Pakistani truck arts. In contrast, the cost of decorating a triple-axle unibody vehicle such as a Hino or Nissan in the Balochistan style was between US$12,000 and US$16,000." (Elias, 2012). The vast majority (96%) of freight in Pakistan is carried by trucks for transporting goods and this art-form by extension then generates livelihoods for many households.
Samina Zia Sheikh (2018) writing about the expansion of truck art as popular culture notes how, "Decoration of these trucks gives us clear idea of competition between owners of these vehicles in execution of outrageous and daring images, designs and ornamental patterns. These aesthetically adorned vehicles are pleasure for the eyes of observers. Truck art represents a truck driver's journey that drives this vehicle for long hours."
The 'jingle trucks' as they are referred to sometimes play an important function for the drivers. Sheikh notes that the, "Hanging chains on the front and back-fenders with different shapes like bell, hearts, pīpal leaf or pān kā pattā attached with ghungrū, give off delightful jingling sound whenever vehicle hits furrows or ditches on road. Nazir Hussain is an expert in this field and, working since sixteen years, tells that this work is not only an element of embellishment but has its significant importance in decoration and otherwise. Jingling sounds of chains on rough roads works well on the psyche of truckers and helps them concentrate on driving more watchfully. He said, the sound of ghugrū and zanjīr keeps the driver active and awake during long routes of driving."
Master of Truck Art "Haider Ali"
Profile of Haider Ali
Karachi based artist, Haider Ali, has played an important part in taking this art-form to an international audience with his first exhibition in 2002 at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. The festival was important because, for the first time, it allowed international markets and artists to see and experience this work first-hand, as painter Haider Ali and bodywork expert Jamiluddin shipped a truck from Karachi to Washington DC. For Haider, who has worked for many years, it is important that young artists are trained properly, especially if this craft is to carry on and grow.
Haider Ali's family originally belonged from Jullundur before the 1947 Partition of Punjab. His family migrated and settled in Karachi, which has become a hub for Truck artists. The whole neighbourhood around Garden Market in Karachi is devoted to truck decorations. Haider recalls that the market started around 1955 and gradually grew as the usage of trucks started growing in the 1960s. He recalls how truck owners would come and request that they paint images often associated with their own homes, villages and interests. These moving visual memories of home would travel with them while they criss-crossed the land and breath of Pakistan.
Haider Ali Truck Artist – Profile
At the same time Elias suggests that, "Pakistani truck is a cultural vehicle in the sense that it carries in it and on it an array of cultural messages and expectations…It is also the most widespread expression of visual material culture in the country, saying more about the visual regime of Pakistan than other forms of art and visual expression that are traditionally treated as legitimate windows into the beliefs, practices, and dispositions of members of Pakistani society at an individual and a collective level." (Elias, 2012)
This unique form of self-expression has today taken on a completely new life in popular imagination. It has carved out a space in the re-branding of modern Pakistan and usage now extends far and beyond the world of Trucks. Popular amongst tourists, keen to take a little piece of Pakistan, the world of Truck art is also very reminiscent of Canal Barge art.
Jamal J. Elias. 'Truck Decoration and Religious Identity: Material Culture and Social Function in Pakistan.' Material Religion 1 (1): 48–70. 2005.
Jamal J. Elias, 'The Politics of Pashtun and Punjabi Truck Decoration.' In Bashir, Shahzad, and Robert D. Crews. Under the Drones: Modern Lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands, Harvard University Press, 2012. Pp. 192-214. Ebook.
Samina Zia Sheikh, 'Impact of truck art, as popular culture on Pakistani society', International Journal of Multidisciplinary and Current Research, Vol. 6, Sep/Oct 2018.
Nadeem F. Paracha, 'The elusive history and politics of Pakistan's truck art', Dawn, 19 August 2016.
Pakistan's Truck Art by Matthieu Aikins, for the Pulitzer Centre, May 2013.
GRANTA 112 Pakistan, 2010.
Anna Schmid, 'Truck Art as Arena of Contest', Journal of Social Sciences, 4:4, 235-241, 2000.
Moving Museums: The Art of Pakistani Trucks, RadioFreeEurope.
Canal Barge art
Jingle Trucks
Kohistan Bus Company
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Vilaplana es un municipio español de la comarca catalana del Bajo Campo (Tarragona). Según datos de  su población era de  habitantes. Dentro del término municipal está situado el despoblado de La Mussara.

Historia
Desde su creación formó parte del condado de Prades formando parte del término de Aleixar. La primera documentación escrita sobre la villa es de 1297 y se la cita con el nombre de Villam Planam. Parece ser que la repoblación fue lenta y no es hasta el siglo XIV cuando el municipio empezó a tener una cierta relevancia. En el siglo XVIII pertenecía aún a la señoría del ducado de Cardona.

En febrero de 1714 la villa fue atacada por las tropas felipistas por haber dado cobijo a algunos seguidores del Carrasclet.

En 1872 los jefes carlistas se reunieron en esta población, decidiendo continuar con la guerra. En 1873 algunos liberales del pueblo se hicieron fuertes en la iglesia. Fueron atacados por guerrilleros carlistas, entre ellos Pasqual Cucala, y finalmente fusilados en Albiol.

Cultura

La iglesia parroquial está dedicada a la Natividad. Se construyó entre 1736 y 1739 sobre el antiguo templo románico. Es de estilo barroco y para la decoración se utilizaron los elementos del antiguo templo, así como el altar y las campanas. El campanario se añadió en 1744. En su interior se encuentra una imagen románica de la Virgen de la Leche. Fue restaurada en 1919.

Dentro del término se han encontrado algunos restos romanos así como una importante necrópolis del neolítico. También hay pinturas rupestres.

Vilaplana celebra sus fiestas en enero, coincidiendo con la festividad de San Sebastián, el 12 de octubre, y el 15 de mayo, festividad de San Isidro.

La víspera de la festividad de los Reyes Magos se celebra en Vilaplana una tradición conocida como Passar el rastre. Ese día, los niños del pueblo salen a la calle arrastrando latas y otros objetos metálicos. Según esta costumbre, los niños hacen ruido con el fin de que los reyes magos no se olviden de pasar por el pueblo y de dejar ahí sus regalos.

Deportes
El principal deporte que se practica en Vilaplana actualmente es el fútbol sala. Consta de un equipo federado en la federación de fútbol sala de Cataluña.

Economía
La principal actividad económica es la agricultura, destacando los cultivos de olivos, avellanos y almendros.

Referencias

Bibliografía
 Tomàs Bonell, Jordi; Descobrir Catalunya, poble a poble, Prensa Catalana, Barcelona, 1994
 Artículo en la Enciclopèdia Catalana (en catalán)

Enlaces externos

 Ayuntamiento de Vilaplana
 Información general
 Datos estadísticos

Municipios del Bajo Campo
Localidades del Bajo Campo

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Our Space Future on Display: The 2013 Int'l Space Apps Challenge
ROM Director and CEO Janet Carding (right) presenting at the opening the 2013 Toronto Space Apps Challenge on April 19th.
Just over 200 local potential space movers and shakers spent the weekend solving problems and building new applications for space derived data at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) as part of the 2013 International Space Apps Challenge and the only real unanswered question at the conclusion on Sunday was something which none of the participants could really address.
Why weren't there more Canadian space organizations sponsoring and formally contributing?
After all, as noted by "idea hacker" and "community builder" Heather Leson, who spent the weekend sending out tweets to promote the event, "these people are the people you'll want to hire."
There were certainly individuals on hand over the weekend, "engineers who have worked on two Canadian robots, Canadarm2 and DEXTRE, currently deployed on the International Space Station (ISS)," according to the April 19th, 2013 Canadian Press article "Hackers of the world unite, this weekend," who assisted as mentors for the various teams.
But US and international space organizations were the ones who insured that the appropriate tools were available to build useful applications. For example, according to Toronto organizer Jonathan Moneta, NASA provided "access to all the data that they produce from all of their spacecraft everywhere."
According to event sponsor B-Notions Chief Evangelist Greg Carron, the real secret to success for an event of this type wasn't just access to the raw NASA data. The real secret is access to the various NASA application programming interfaces (API's). These are libraries of software technical specifications which allow applications and data sets to communicate with each other.
"The NASA API's are a challenge to developers," said Caron, because of their variety and the disparate nature of the tools they use.
The TO based "Renewable Energy Explorer" team on Friday night. According to Victor Vucicevich (third from right), the intent was to build "a simple web application (which) tells you what type of renewable energy is the best option in terms of cost, future projections, output, and location." To see what they had to work with, check out Renewable Energy Explorer on the International Space Apps Challenge website.
Of course, most of the attendees weren't all that concerned with the perceived difficulties. They wanted to build something useful and two Toronto teams were singled out for global judging, which suggests that they did something very useful indeed.
Not just a local connection. Space Apps Miami connecting to Space Apps Jakarta during the challenge.
These are the Aurora Localization via Starfields project (a contestant in the Aligning the Stars challenge) and Museum of Intergalactic Species project (a contestant in the Adopt-a-Spacecraft: Voyager 1 challenge).
As the only other Canadian city competing formally in this years event, Winnipeg participants also singled out two challenges to pass along for global judging.
These were the Living on Mars project (a contestant in the Off The Grid challenge) and the ArdIMU V4 project (a contestant in the ArduSat challenge).
Of course, Toronto and Winnipeg were competing against, co-operating with and contributing to dozens of challenges from 80 other locations around the world. It will be interesting to see both the final results of this years competition and whether or not Canadian organizations like the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and others will take a more proactive role in next years event.
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Went to watch Il Divo concert at Indoor Stadium last night 18 January 2007, with my cha-bo-lang.
The 4 can really sing, one beautiful song after another non-stop though I must say that some songs lim peh don´t understand what they were singing at all BUT who cares, their voices blend so well with one another.
Some familiar tunes (although in a different language) which me know were Unbreak My Heart, All By Myself, Unchained Melody, My way, Without You etc.
At one stage, my cha-bo-lang told me to listen to them with my eyes close cos it had another kind of feeling. Me only close my eyes for a meer short 15 seconds then quickly open my eyes again. Scared ser-ka-lee fell asleep then no good. (No good because the tickets darn expensive lor).
They are handsome, they can sing so well, they are charming, their charisma no horse run, they are just fantastic.
One issue which me think can improve was the sound system, too loud but luckily the 4 have very powerful voices to overcome the loudness.
Another issue (to me) was the length of the concert, only slightly more than 1 and a half hours. Think me kena pampered by most Hong Kong and Taiwanese artists when they held their concerts in Singapore with Concerts running averagely from at least 2 and a half to 3 hours, some even went as far as 4 hours.
At the end of the concert, me just got one question, why lim peh cannot sing like them huh?
"why lim peh cannot sing like them huh?"
Then answer lies in 6 alphabets.
Il Divo can sing because they were born with the gift to sing and they practised long and hard to perfect their craft. That's the difference between someone who sings for a living and someone who doesn't. Going to KTV or Party World to relieve our crave for singing might be a tormenting experience for people who think we can't sing and have to endure it. Nevertheless, it sure is an enjoyable experience.
With regards to loudness, that's what concerts are supposed to be like.
I attended an Alan Tam concert in the late 1980s at World Trade Center and i already found it deafening. I bet i would definitely go deaf if i attended a heavy metal or rock concert.
No, me give Eric´s concert a miss cos me dont really listen to his songs.
Thanks for dropping by. No la, although me cannot sing as well as Il Divo but guess me should be above average. (Many victims who had the chance to listen to lim peh´s voice agreed that me can sing rather well - especially me flex my muscles in front of them).
Hmmm, so far never tried lullaby to cha-bo-lang yet, scared the result is reversed and keep her awake through the night.
You leh? You can sing bo?
Yes, you are very right, many times, me love to torture friends in ktv.


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Hm. This seems like a variant on the "social media is conversation" line. At some point, it is actually fair to evaluate whether a person is simply on a mailing list or an active participant in the life of the organization as a donor, volunteer or activist.
I have worked for too many nonprofits that counted hundreds of thousands of "members" on the barest of qualifications. Here's a list: they donated once four years ago; they once attended an organizing meeting; they signed a petition with a door canvasser; they asked to received the newsletter; a board member thought they should be on the mailing list; they signed an online petition; they're a politician on our issue and they spoke at our rally; they volunteered in the summer of '99. "They signed up on Causes once" will be the next.
Those mystery people -- whose data is often never collected, whose interests are not really known, who never return to the organization -- are then counted on websites, in newsletters and in letters to public officials as the OVERWHELMING support that the nonprofit has for its mission.
Marketing, even for nonprofits, is too often smoke and mirrors.
That the Washington Post can use a similarly thin measure to evaluate the success of a tool used directly to raise money should be no surprise. If we want our nonprofits to be evaluated across a range of factors, perhaps we should do that ourselves. It would be great to see nonprofit leaders take greater steps to measure the impact of their efforts, to create true memberships, and to evaluate -- if it ain't about the money -- how people who have a small encounter with the organization online then are turned into active donors and volunteers. Where are the real measurements of the success? And I don't mean of this month's campaign but of a body of work against a stated mission.
Until there's more truth in that, I think we get what we deserve from the Post.
Finally, about this "they don't get it." We need to ditch that thinking; it's about as effective as a teenager stomping their feet about how out of touch their parents are. Or the new worker in the group who knows so much more than the workers who were there before. This isn't a "conversation" in which only some get listened to, right? There is wisdom in the tools that came before social media marketing. Let's not forget that.
I think these are all lame excuses, quite frankly. Causes was aimed at helping nonprofits raise money and it has failed there. Let's face it, social media is not as hyped as it was sold to nonprofits and it's about time some of the snake oil gets exposed and we are starting to take a really hard and critical look at ourselves at what works and in what way and what is social media hype. And let's just say, there is plenty.
I would also pose that the WP is not incorrect in noting that the discussions are happening amongst a very small social media consultant and analyst elite that is largely talking amongst itself. I travel all around the world, and let me tell you, the NGO picture of use of technology is grim out there -- with only very few organizations understanding what social media is and how to use tools in their work. To say that this is is all old news is not quite true for about 99.9999 percent of the world.
And let me remind you again that Causes hyped the FUNDRAISING potential of peer-to-peer communications on Facebook - and yes, that is failing pretty miserably. Given that, we better start fessing up to some of the uncomfortable truths and realities of how social media is actually not delivering for nonprofits -- to better and more realistically advocate for what is real and realistic for nonprofits the world over.
Well, let's face it, most nonprofits don't know how to effectively use Causes to raise money and promote their organization. Causes is a tool, a means to an end, a device built within this mini-CRM (that is FREE for any group to use). Where Causes has failed is in teaching orgs how to successfully channel the tools into building groundswell and constituents. Nonprofits failed in making a clear case for adopting it and folding into their plans (for a variety of reasons: know-how, capacity, time, detracting from other list-building duties, etc).
The WP article was too simplistic with explaining the origins and machinations of Causes. They should have balanced the story with some actual groups doing well in Causes, as well as explained the failures. Nonprofits need to realize that procurement takes time, strategy, and effort. Sure, low yield, but a yield nonetheless and a great tool in a social media tactical plan. Too bad the Post may have sunk it.


A viral pro-vegan video surfaced on Facebook last week claiming that signing your children up for 4-H is child abuse. Vegan News—the source of the video—is a popular vegan website that claims they are fighting "the largest holocaust in history" against the meat eating population.
Brandon Kirkwood, the founder of Vegan News, is the creator of the video. In it, Kirkwood calls 4-H a "terrorist organization" and goes on to explain all the terrible things your child would be subjected to if they join the organization.
Kirkwood's main argument is that learning to raise a farm animal and then selling them constitutes child abuse. Adding, "4-H brainwashes children into losing their compassion for animals," and says these children would probably not be vegan after their session ends.
In reality, 4-H is a great organization that teaches children responsibility and prepares them for future careers in health, science and agriculture. Through camps and public programming, 4-H is able to reach around six million children in urban, suburban, and rural communities. The specific program Kirkwood is attacking is only one of many options available to children that is designed to teach the participants real world skills.
By shaming these children—who have just joined 4-H to educate themselves and do something productive with their time outside of school—Kirkwood is also shaming adults that do this for a living in real agricultural jobs. Trying to discredit hundreds of thousands of hard working people who work in the agriculture sector because you don't make the same diet choices is bizarre to say the least.
Child abuse is a serious claim that should not be thrown around haphazardly. Though vegan activists have been known for extremist ideology and protests, I think Brandon Kirkwood is completely devoid from reality at this point.


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Mike Pence's Team Boots Reporters After Audio Emerges Of Trump Saying He Can Grab Women 'By The P***y'
The journalists had been promised they could cover the nominee's departure from a Toledo restaurant.
By Michael Calderone and Nick Baumann
Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence's team kicked reporters out of the restaurant where he was eating Friday after a 2005 video emerged of his running mate, Donald Trump, making lewd and explicit remarks about women.
Pence's traveling press pool — the rotating group of reporters and photographers who are tasked with following the Republican vice presidential candidate for the larger press corps — were "removed" from Tony Packo's Cafe in Toledo, Ohio, after the first stories about the video hit the internet.
The Pence campaign had promised the pool that it could cover Pence's departure from the restaurant, which would include Pence "looking at Trump's signed hot-dog bun."
"As far as we know," Pence himself wasn't aware of the stories as they broke, reported Vaughn Hillyard, the NBC News reporter on print pool duty.
The Washington Post first reported on the video of Trump's making degrading comments toward woman with "Access Hollywood" host and "Today" show co-host Billy Bush.
In the video's audio, Trump claims he tried to have sex with a married woman and says he can grab women "by the pussy" because he is a celebrity. The bombshell clip immediately ricocheted through social media and was played on cable news networks.
In a note to reporters, Hillyard described the press pool being removed as the story broke.
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A Pence spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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When music is everywhere and is your constant companion ‒ old and new genres, often as a compilation, and ever more frequently heard via headphones ‒ when music has become a product, how then do we listen?
"There are many ways of listening, and it is important to be open to these different ways. The musical experience is subjective," states Alexander Refsum Jensenius, head of the Department of Musicology at the University of Oslo.
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In other words, it is time to reclaim the listening experience and to pay more attention to it in musicology.
And no sooner said than done. Now researchers at the University of Oslo are encouraging more critical thinking with regard to both creating and listening to music.
"Musicology has taken a new direction," says Peter Edwards, a postdoctoral fellow in the department. He is also a guitarist and composer.
There is no longer the same emphasis on notation and the reading of musical scores.
The shift away from a focus on the musical work and on score analysis started in the 1980s in the United States, and then in England, according to Edwards.
"We generally speak of a wave, a new way of thinking in terms of musicology. For example, there has been a great emphasis on music and identity, music and gender, and cultural studies. But listening has not featured to the same degree as a discipline in its own right," he says.
There are many questions ‒ and there are answers, but not to everything. And there are not supposed to be answers to everything, either.
"Music is abstract, but at the same time very physical. If we had all the answers to what music is, to what it means to create and listen, we would not be researching it," Jensenius reminds us.
"Musicology has more in common with theatre studies than with literary studies, but music as performance is a discipline that is at the starting blocks," says Tanja Orning, cellist and substitute associate professor.
"Listening is undergoing continuous change," asserts Tanja Orning, substitute associate professor at the department. She is a cellist and composer, active in the fields of contemporary and experimental music.
"It is influenced, not only by the music that is being listened to, but also by changes in society in general. Cultural, sociological and historic factors all have a part to play," she says.
Music today is also part of general noise pollution.
"It is misfortunate that listening is not taken seriously enough. Listening to music requires effort. It is deadly serious, at least to some people. I fear that proper, concentrated listening with the whole self is about to be lost. That is one of the main reasons why we now offer students listening as a new, research-oriented subject," Orning says.
This autumn students at the university will be able to choose a subject which covers music from the 20th century. A wide range of genres will be listened to, from James Brown to Lachenmann, from Ligeti to The Beatles, from Mahler to Nordheim, and beyond to Nordic folk music.
They don't need to be able to read music for this.
"Anyone can study this subject. You only have to be interested in listening to music," says Orning, who will teach the anatomy of sound and the intersection between the body and the instrument.


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This post is for those who plan to ship items for their stay to their Disney resorts, or who wish to ship items home from their resort. It's a work in progress, so if you have any additions or corrections, please post them in this thread, and I'll do my best to keep the FAQ up to date.
Note: Since FAQ threads can quickly get very long, all off-topic posts will be removed without comment or notification.
Wow, I never thought of sending anything ahead to my resort. What kinds of things do people send?
All sorts of things - air mattresses, luggage, medical supplies, groceries and snacks, cases of water, pool toys, Christmas gifts and decorations. Some guests pack and ship the items themselves, some prefer to order from Amazon, Walmart or other retailers.
Is there anything I can't or shouldn't ship?
The major carriers won't ship alcohol for delivery to consumers, so you'd need to carry that with you or get it locally, either at a resort shop, Speedway store on property, liquor store, etc.
Check your shipper's website for more information about restricted items.
Any carrier that you like. The postal service (USPS) delivers WDW mail to a central location, and Disney then distributes mail to its destination. This may mean that your package takes just a bit longer to get to its destination. Other delivery services such as UPS or FedEx deliver directly to the resorts.
Tip: UPS shipping can cost less if you take your package directly to a UPS depot instead of a commercial location like The UPS Store.
Tip: When shipping through the postal service (USPS), unless you pay for special services like Priority Mail or Express Mail, tracking is often not updated at each stop. So don't be alarmed if your package seems "stuck" somewhere for a few days, it's probably moving along to its destination and just hasn't been scanned recently.
Will Disney charge me for receiving a package?
If the package is being delivered to a resort with a convention center, yes. For all other resorts, no. Disney has outsourced the handling of package deliveries at resort convention centers to outside companies, and all packages delivered to those resorts go to the convention center.
Resorts with convention centers are: Grand Floridian, Yacht Club/Beach Club/Beach Club Villas, Boardwalk Inn/Boardwalk Villas, Contemporary/Bay Lake Tower, and Coronado Springs.
You will be charged a handling fee for each package you receive. The fee is based on weight. For packages that are less than 5 pounds, it's $3. For packages from 5 pounds to 20 pounds, it's $5. Packages heavier than 20 pounds have a $10 charge.
Note: it's been said that packages shipped via the post office do not go to the convention center, and therefore there is no handling fee. I have not been able to confirm this, though, so please don't come back and yell at me if you get charged for your USPS delivery.
How far in advance of my trip should I send it?
It's suggested that you try to get it there within a week of your arrival date. I haven't heard of any packages being refused or sent back because they arrived too soon, but resorts have only so much space for holding packages, and I'm sure the resort staff would rather not be storing packages for weeks on end.
How do I address the package so that it will get to my resort?
There's no need to put your reservation number on the label; in fact, Disney recommends that you do not do this for security reasons.
Resort addresses can be found in the second post of this thread.
Once I arrive at the resort, how do I get my package?
Ask at the front desk. They may be able to give it to you right there, or Bell Services might bring it to your room (tips are appreciated). If you're staying at a convention resort, you'll probably need to go to the business center at the convention center to pick up your package. Business centers are open from 8:00am to 5:00pm daily (Monday thru Friday), Saturday 8 am to 10 am, and are closed on Sundays.
What about sending souvenirs and stuff home?
If you don't have a box, you can pick one up in the resort gift shop. You can bring your package to the front desk, or the Guest Services/Concierge desk. If your resort has a convention center, shipping services are also available at the Ricoh Business Center inside the convention center. Handling fees in the $10 range should be expected in addition to postage charges. If you're able to print your return shipping label at home before you head to WDW, that'll be a timesaver.
I wish they had this sort of service for the cruises!!
Thank you so much for the information! It helped a lot when I wanted to ship some snacks from Amazon to my Disney hotel .
Do any of the stores at Disney Springs participate in shipping to your WDW resort hotel? And if so, is there a list of which ones?
I have a couple questions about non-food deliveries, especially for any international travelers who have had parcels shipped to disney.
I want to have some t-shirts delivered for our vacation. It sounds like all hotels are charging to receive packages? We're staying at the Poly, if it matters? The shirts are made in the US, so the cost of shipping + the 5$ package fee at the hotel is still much cheaper than shipping to my home in Canada. I see the details in the first post about the address/parcel information, but i have one more question: how far before my reservation can I order something so the hotel will hold it? We fly in on 15 December—if I order shirts now and they're mailed soon, will the Poly hold it for a full month?
I have always read that you shouldn't have a package waiting for longer that 7 days from your arrival, a month is a long time for it to get misplaced.
that sounds like a good time frame, thanks I'll ask the seller to ship much closer to our arrival date.
Decided to try out this service on my most recent trip to the All-Star Music resort. I needed a new phone case, so I ordered one through Amazon a couple days before my arrival. I put the address in the format shown at the start of this thread (name, guest, arrival date, then resort address). The package was in my room the second day of my stay and a $5 package fee was added to my room charges. Simple as can be. I would definitely recommend using this service in the future if needed.
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Nil unless Bell Services is delivering it to your room.
Also, the $5 fee is a receiving fee not a holding fee. You could pick it up immediately after it was delivered (ie no holding) and there is still that fee for them receiving it. The fee should be automatically charged to your room account and is per package.
Has anybody experiences with ordering items from shopdisney.com to a Disney resort? The items I'm interested in, are only available at the US-onlinestore (not at the parks) and cannot be shipped internationally. So I'm looking for a possibility to get them while staying at CSR from 3/16-3/22 and this was my only idea. How many days before should I place this order (customized item)?
How many days before should I place this order (customized item)?
I had a prepaid package from USPS that needed to be sent and I just went to the concierge and asked them. They said they'd put it with their outgoing mail. No issues and the package was delivered to where it was supposed to go.
Yes I've already read these, but when I add the items to my bag, there is written "Please allow 1-3 weeks for delivery." And as I'm unsure how long they would keep a package and I'm only there for one week, I have no idea when I should place the order.
Is it safe to assume that I will be charged for each box if Amazon ships my order in multiple containers?
Can someone confirm Caribbean Beach Resort shipping/mailing address? I have someone who has asked me to ship something to her and gave me the address 1114 Cayman Way instead of the 900 number. I want to make sure I get it to her!! Thanks in advance for steering me straight!
The official address is now 1114 Cayman Way. However, there have been recent reports of guests having issues with some delivery services not recognizing that as a valid address and had to use the old 900 Cayman Way and there stuff was successfully delivered to Bell Services. So unfortunately, I am not 100% sure which you should use because it depends on the service. So I might suggest trying 1114 and if it doesn't work, then try 900.
Can someone please provide me some information? I've read most of this thread but a lot of posts are 4 years old.
I called and the lady said it would be at Bell service but I honestly don't even know if she's right or who's right.


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Bhubaneswar: Odisha on Thursday witnessed two parallel agitations, one against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), National Register of Citizens (NRC)and NPR (National Population Register), and another in support of them. While a number of social organizations supported by the Congress and the Left parties under the banner of "We the People of India" staged agitation […]
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While a number of social organizations supported by the Congress and the Left parties under the banner of "We the People of India" staged agitation against CAA, NRC and NPR in the state capital here, another rally in support of them were organized at Puri town.
Both the rival groups held the rallies in the name of "Save Democracy and Save Constitution" on the 72nd death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
People from different sections of the society including members of the Muslim community took lead in the rally in Bhubaneswar.
Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) president Niranjan Patnaik, party's senior leader Pradip Majhi, senior CPI(M) leader Janardan Pati addressed the rally seeking complete scraping of the CAA and not to go for NRC and NPR.
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In a memorandum to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, the "We The People of India" said: "We urge you to take a clear and unambiguous stand on opposing CAA and refusing to implement the dangerously linked NRC and the NPR."
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About the award:
Jeanne C. Mowe was the first Executive Director of the American Association of Tissue Banks. She drafted the first Standards for Tissue Banking and created AATB's accreditation program for tissue banks. She also served on the Surgeon General's Task Force on Organ Donation and on the executive committee of the American Council on Transplantation. After her passing in 2003, Mowe's dedication to AATB through her 20 years of service was memorialized in the Jeanne C. Mowe Distinguished Service Award.
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2020 — Jeff Orlowski, LifeShare Transplant Donor Services of Oklahoma
2019 — Jeff Cox, United Tissue Resources
2018 — Bruce Stroever, Retired
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1998— Donald J. Prolo, MD, Clinical Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University
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1996 — Gary Friedlaender, MD, Yale University School of Medicine, Dept. of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation
1995 — Mary St. J. Douglas, Center for Transfusion and Transplantation Medicine, Naval Medical Research Center
1994 — Jerome K. Sherman, PhD, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Dept. of Anatomy
1993 — Peter Mazur, PhD, Group Leader, Theoretical and Applied Cryobiology, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
1992 — Henry J. Mankin, MD, Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
1991 — Charles R. Baxter, MD, University of Texas Health Science Center
1990 — Kenneth W. Sell, MD, PhD, Professor & Chairman, Dept. of Pathology, Emory University School of Medicine (posthumously)
1989 — C. Everett Koop, MD, Surgeon General of the United States
1988 — Marshall R. Urist, MD, Orthopaedic Surgeon/Researcher, Bone Research Laboratory, UCLA School of Medicine
1987 — George W. Hyatt, MD, Professor Emeritus, Department of Orthopaedics, Georgetown University School of Medicine


May 15 (UPI) -- Jonathan Marchessault scored twice in the Vegas Golden Knights' Game 2 win against the Winnipeg Jets, evening their Stanley Cup playoff series at 1-1.
Vegas pulled off the 3-1 win Monday at Bells MTS Place in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Winnipeg won Game 1 Saturday on its home ice.
"They weren't good enough last game and they knew that," Golden Knights coach Gerard Gallant told reporters. "They had to respond tonight and they did in a big way."
The Golden Knights lit the lamp first, getting a score from Tom Tatar 13:23 into the first period. The veteran left wing missed his first attempt at the Jets' goal, but stayed with the puck. He got it back behind the net and wrapped around the goal on Connor Hellebuyck's glove side.
Then Marchessault got it going.
The Golden Knights center got the puck after Reilly Smith forced a turnover about four minutes after the Tatar score. He skated over the blue line and had a one-on-one with Hellebuyck. Marchessault got the puck to his backhand before netting the score through the net minder's five hole.
Neither team could net a goal in the second frame. Winnipeg cut the lead in half 7:17 into the final frame. Kyle Connor had the puck on the left flank on that play. He beat Marc-Andre Fleury on the power play with a wrist shot from an impossible angle, just between some space under his armpit.
Marchessault brought back the two-goal advantage 1:28 later. He got the puck again after a Jets turnover. William Karlsson stole the puck before firing a quick pass to Smith. The Golden Knights right wing skated up the left side before passing to his right and finding Marchessault, who again went to his backhand for the score.
Game 3 of the Western Conference finals takes place at 9 p.m. Wednesday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.


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Written by Stephanie Francesca Pereira Published on 31 May 2019
How the rise of corporate venture capital is playing out in Southeast Asia.
Global corporate venture capital (CVC) deals reached "historic highs" in 2018, according to CB Insights. In other words, business giants around the world are spending more on innovative newcomers than ever before.
There are two ways CVC funds can be set up: Either as an independent arm of one corporation or a dedicated unit within it. In both cases, the purpose is to invest in external companies to participate in their future financial gains and to help them grow by creating synergies between the newcomer and the established business.
Traditional, independent venture capital (VC) firms, by contrast, aren't affiliated directly with a single large corporation. This has its own advantages and disadvantages, which we'll get to later.
CVC deals in 2018 were up by 32% from 2017 and the total amount CVCs spent on startups went up by 47% in the same period, CB Insights found. Last year, 264 brand new CVC firms invested for the first time. That same year, CVC firms spent USD 52.95 billion across 2,740 deals globally, and Asia scored 38% of them.
On this continent, most of the activity takes place in China, Japan, and India, where startups-turned-stalwarts like Tencent and Alibaba are gaining momentum along with traditional players such as Japan Airlines and Dentsu, who are just entering the scene.
However, one of the largest CVC-backed investment in 2018 took place in Southeast Asia: Toyota pumped USD 1 billion into Grab's Series H financing round, alongside Yamaha (USD 150 million), Hyundai (USD 250 million), Microsoft, and many others. Grab called its deal with Toyota the "largest-ever investment globally by an automotive manufacturer in the ride-hailing sector."
The growing appetite of CVC in the digital sector is a phenomenon that affects startups from San Francisco to Jakarta. Corporates are doing it because they don't have much choice.
Second time's a charm
2018 wasn't the first significant spike in CVC investments in the tech era.
The first boom happened in the late 1990s. But the economic tide turned and only a few of the early internet startups delivered on their promises. Harvard Business School professor Henry Chesbrough describes what happened next as a "pattern of advance and retreat." Around the year 2000, corporate investments a plummeted some 80% in just 12 months.
Today, startups once again threaten to upend and disrupt traditional industries—with incumbent businesses realizing that they have to evolve to be part of the digital landscape. This time, it looks like CVC is here to stay.
This is especially true for Southeast Asia, where the top conglomerates have traditionally controlled large swaths of overall business activity. But in this era, some of the conglomerate's advantages are fading. Investing in and striking deals with emerging digital leaders is a way to stay relevant.
"Corporates [that develop CVC arms] tend to fall under the category of incumbent businesses which are operating in a maturing industry, looking for new avenues for growth," says Nicko Widjaja, the CEO of MDI Ventures, the CVC arm of Indonesia's largest telco, Telkom Group. These giants know they're ripe for disruption by newcomers. "With Telkom Indonesia, it was no different," says Widjaja.
"[Telcos] are operating in a maturing industry; voice calls and SMS have been going down significantly in the past decade and have been replaced by Skype, WhatsApp, Blackberry, etc. Additionally, mobile phone and SIM card penetration in the country has reached nearly 100%, thus limiting further growth."
Nicko Widjaja, CEO of MDI Ventures, Telkom Group's CVC arm.
Meanwhile, VC funding for startups in Southeast Asia hit an all-time high in 2018. It was an inflection point where saturated industries were met with a tidal wave of hungry digital disruptors.
CVCs finally laid down longer-term investment strategies for what was previously seen as a risky playing field, Widjaja explains.
"Entering the digital space is inevitable for corporate firms," Willson Cuaca, founder and managing director of an independent venture capital firm, East Ventures, points out.
"However, let's put CVCs into two categories: those that belong to traditional businesses such as family-run businesses, conglomerates, and telcos and those that are part of digital companies like Tencent, Alibaba, Google, and Microsoft. The majority of CVC firms in Southeast Asia belong to the former and I believe they have been beneficial to the overall startup ecosystem here."
CVC firms—especially the ones linked to traditional businesses—tend to be more strategy- than finance-driven compared to traditional VC firms. Rather than focusing on the potential financial gains from an investment, they look to invest in products or companies that complement or improve their corporation's existing divisions.
It's something that MDI Ventures terms the "Bits by Bricks" concept, where existing "bricks" (corporates) can support "bits" (startups) in their growth by linking them up with the existing corporate network, infrastructure, and assets.
"What [we have] that startups lack is massive amounts of underutilized assets. Partnerships with us may result in the activation of these assets. For example, what Telkom Group has in abundance is telecommunications infrastructure, which is a critical requirement for the new age currency: data. Through data, incumbent businesses are able to operate more effectively and increase their average revenue per user," says Widjaja.
CVC firms that over-emphasize the synergy value creation aspect of their investment can ultimately lose sight of maximizing the value and growth potential of their startups.
MDI Ventures says this realization led to a shift in focus. "Our portfolio companies' financial health and success are now our main priority," Widjaja says.
The intent is to generate larger financial returns in the form of capital gains for MDI Ventures based on a mutualistic partnership—beyond just writing a check, the firm provides its portfolio companies with "value-adds" that help strengthen their position in the market.
"We give startups access to market by opening Telkom's doors for our startups to gain access to our network and resources, a growth engine where they can go to market with Telkom as a partner or gain Telkom as a customer, and corporate development activities which include activities such as hiring, business development, legal support, and so on," says Widjaja.
Among the startups that have benefited from MDI Ventures' investments thus far are homegrown Kata.ai, which partnered with Telkomsel and another subsidiary to create a customer service chatbox, as well as Wavecell and Codapay, which gained access to distribution channels for their products through a number of Telkom's subsidiaries.
Avoiding conflict of interest
If CVC firms provide such big upsides for the startups they back, the stage seems set for them to sideline traditional VCs who have historically held the upper hand in startup financing, yet East Ventures' Cuaca doesn't necessarily agree.
"Whether it's a traditional VC or CVC firm, what is key is the mindset and culture—it's all about value creation, and whoever brings the most value to the table will survive. CVC firms have some advantages in the sense that they allow startups to leverage their existing assets, networks, and financial muscle as well as their operating experience. But traditional VC firms bring their own set of benefits to the table as we have a more independent mindset, less conflict of interest, and are able to move with more velocity and decisiveness," he says.
East Ventures avoids investing in competing businesses to have less friction and create more cohesiveness, Cuaca explains. And he points out that traditional VCs can also provide startups with networks as they work with prominent family offices, founders, and high net worth angels that bring many connections and valuable knowledge to the table.
Willson Cuaca, founder and Managing Director of East Ventures.
"Our managing partners also have experience running startups ourselves in addition to the helicopter view of the Indonesian and Southeast Asian startup ecosystem that our vantage point provides," says Cuaca.
Widjaja agrees, admitting that the amount of corporate compliance along with low risk tolerance and a rigid investment spectrum can make it difficult for CVC firms to be as nimble as their VC counterparts.
"Our investments have to fall in line with the parent company's strategic direction which may not always align with the current trends and nature of the startup industry," he says. "The CVC firm's parent company is usually part of the Investment Committee or is the committee, which can make it quite difficult to get investments approved."
Some CVC firms invest off of the corporation's balance sheet, Widjaja adds, which makes the process even more rigorous as each investment requires a capital call from the parent company's finance department. The people in it may have less knowledge of the startup and venture capital space.
Still, their differing advantages mean there is a place for both types of VC within the Southeast Asian startup ecosystem—and they can work together.
So far, most prominent investors tend to prefer the traditional VC model, because it is seen as more tolerant to risk and more flexible in its operations, says Widjaja.
Making bold, risky bets and getting into a deal fast can lead to the types of returns that put VCs on the Midas List. Writing a check within hours of meeting a founder for the first time is a cherished trope in the world of VC—whether it reflects reality or not.
CVCs may seem slow by comparison. "We have only had two exits—both in 2018," Widjaja says. "[But] these exits have proven that liquidity for a venture such as ours in Indonesia is not impossible or a myth." He credits these successes to MDI's shift in focus from "synergy first" to "financial returns first."
Widjaja welcomes the idea of working with VC firms in the future to drive growth across the ecosystem. "Working with prominent and legitimate investors, regardless of whether they're a traditional VC or CVC firm, provides validation for our own investments."
East Ventures itself is a success story for VC and CVC partnerships in Southeast Asia. In March 2018, it launched a new venture capital firm EV Growth together with Sinar Mas' CVC arm SMDV and Yahoo! Japan Capital. While East Ventures' focus thus far has been on early stage startups, EV Growth will leverage on its partners' collective strengths to raise Series B funding rounds and beyond. It has made five investments to date, with the most recent being a USD 45 million Series B investment in Singaporean cashback startup Shopback, in addition to earlier investments in Sociolla, Moka, IDN Media, and Warung Pintar.
Still, being selective is crucial, and East Ventures only brings on board limited partners who are willing to be fast and think progressively. It's a philosophy that it also holds when working with CVC firms.
"The positioning and vision of both the VC and CVC firm will determine their strategy and how well they operate [together]. That's why it's important that when East Ventures engages with CVC firms we ask them: 'What is your objective to invest?'" Cuaca says.
"CVC firms must understand trends before they disrupt their businesses, and understand how to leverage on and maximize their existing assets in this digital economy. Strategically, they can help startups with testing labs via their traditional assets. However, this will only work if CVC firms really understand the velocity and product development cycle of the startup."
The CVC boom of the late '90s may have been a short-lived phenomenon, as the digital sector was not yet mature and traditional industries still had room to grow without radically changing their ways. This time around VC, startups, and CVC have no choice but to collaborate to keep pace with digital transformation. The corporates are here to stay.
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By: Ariana Figueroa - February 3, 2021 2:22 pm
A teacher stands in front of a classroom as students raise their hands. (Photo by Getty Images)
WASHINGTON — The president's pick to lead the U.S. Education Department said Wednesday that he wants teachers at the front of the line for vaccinations as local leaders debate reopening schools amid the pandemic.
Miguel Cardona is President-elect Joe Biden's nominee for U.S. secretary of education. (White House photo)
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Education secretary nominee says teachers should be prioritized for vaccines

by Ariana Figueroa, Iowa Capital Dispatch
February 3, 2021

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Ariana Figueroa covers the nation's capital for States Newsroom. Her areas of coverage include politics and policy, lobbying, elections and campaign finance. Before joining States Newsroom, Ariana covered public health and chemical policy on Capitol Hill for E&E News. As a Florida native, she's worked for the Miami Herald and her hometown paper, the Tampa Bay Times. Her work has also appeared in the Chicago Tribune and NPR. She is a graduate of the University of Florida.
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