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November 2015 in Time Travel
Swords, time traveling, apocalyptic future, androids, medicines.
So, the dragon ball z saga of the androids, is about a time traveler named Trunks who surprise everyone being a supersaiyan, coming from the future, warns everyone that a tragic future is near, where androids are going to take the world, brings also a futuristic medicine to goku and expains he should take it cause he was to die of a weird heart dis-ease, unknown to his time.
LunaWHDavies7
Android from the future? THE TERMINATOR! At least that's what it sounds like.
Nop, Trunks aint an android @Luna
OskrZS, what do YOU know about AARON MC COLLUM & IDYLWILD GROUP ?
Never-ending change. Transmissions and transitions.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_18 true @Brian
http://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/forum/topics/top-10-illuminati-most-wanted-operatives?page=1&commentId=2859786%3AComment%3A1954422&x=1#2859786Comment1954422
"I have Ascended" doesn't mean "I have my head up my arse", does it?
How many serial killers and TSA worker have stated they are God?
The sad thing is that on MY timeline the madness NEVER ends! The degeneration is a bottomless pit!
Seriously, this is humanity's LAST warning. And I AM delivering it! It's now in the log!
... & that dog is not a whirling dervish... wow ?
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http://hollywoodlife.com/2015/06/05/rush-limbaugh-mocks-caitlyn-jenner-transition-surgery-penis/
http://hollywoodlife.com/2015/06/01/bruce-jenner-surgery-genital-reassignment-full-transition-penis/
http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/4582344/Damn/16
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The greys, as a group, would seem to be rather weak genetically. Most of them are reported to have no genitals, and are unable to sexually reproduce.
There are several types of entities that are known by humans as "greys". There are said to be twenty-two subspecies of greys. There are tall greys that are about 7 feet tall, and there are very short greys that are from 3 to 5 feet tall. There are said to be some greys that have a benign attitude towards humans, although there are few human reports of contacts with such greys. Autopsies performed on a number of greys by the United States government, that came into their hands mostly through saucer crashes, are the very short greys. They have small thin bodies with large egg-shaped heads, which are proportionally much larger relative to its body than the heads of humans. These greys have slanted, large, tear-shaped eyes. They have three or four claw-like fingers, and tough grey skin that is of a reptilian nature. Their internal organs are similar to human internal organs, but are unknown to human biological science and have". obviously developed according to a different evolutionary process.' Their brains are absolutely larger that those of humans, despite their small body size. They have a non-functioning digestive system.
Greys apparently subsist on human blood and other biological substances which they absorb, while they soak in large vats (Harley Byrd, the relative of the late Admiral Byrd, once said, that the greys eat bob-cat stew, that is, a mixture of everything that you would expect an animal called a bob-cat, would eat. They don't exactly eat it but put it on their skin and absorb it.) These somewhat reptilian-like greys also have some plant characteristics. They do digest some sort of food which is converted into energy by their bodies by a process that is similar to the process of photosynthesis used by earth plants. The autopsied Greys had chlorophyll in their bodies for this plant-like function. Their blood is greenish. Autopsies of their large brains have revealed that they actually have two separate brains, separated by a thin bone. There is no physical connection between the "two brains." Some of the autopsies have revealed a crystalline network in their brains which is thought to give them telepathic capabilities.
Most of the Greys on earth (in underground dwellings) are believed to be from, or have ancestors from one of the planets of the Orion constellation of Stars. They are called Grey because of their grey or sometimes called gray skin.
The "Orions" have a very negative reputation in much of the esoteric UFO/ET/alien literature because they have engaged in many conflicts and in much destructive wars with other ETs of this universe, as we saw in the book we used as an introduction to human galactic heritage, The Prism of Lyra. Other esoteric sources inform us that the greys that have perhaps had the most contact with humans, through abductions, in the past thirty years, are from a star system neighboring the Orion constellation, known as Zeta Reticuli. While evidence indicates that many of the greys have been on earth for centuries manipulating human societies, the Zetas are believed to have arrived on the earth in the past 40 years, having made treaties with the secret government of the United States and probably other Earth governments. The Zeta's apparently have a genetic base that is more insectoidal than the more reptilian greys described above. All of the greys almost certainly have their own hierarchy amongst themselves. Most of the greys themselves are servants, or mercenaries, of the lizzies, or the reptilian race. The greys, or most of them, make up what is known as the Orion Empire.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vida_alien/alien_galacticfederations05.htm
My advice is do not engage in any transsexual cosplay, keep your pants up above the waistline and don't attempt to impress other people by blowing your own trumpet.
is this really necesary? @Brian
The Land of Shadows that lies between the "Illuminated Ones" and the Total Dullards remains a GREY Area.
unfair lets be clear once for all how to aavoid it?
Every man and every woman is a star.


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1. Learning to speak memory.
KIERKEGAARD WROTE, 'YOU can only understand life backwards, but we must live it forwards.' He is right. Understanding comes with hindsight, as does the personal resolution of many uncertainties, conflicts and misunderstandings. Many of us would like, in T.S. Eliot's words, 'To arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time.' Yet how can we do this, how can we, to twist Nabokov's title, 'Speak Memory'? Let me first consider the problem at a general level.
Alan Macfarlane. Click to enlarge.
Recovering memories, the work which has made Proust and Wordsworth immortal, has concerned me much of my life as both an historian and anthropologist. Much academic work is actually about memory – anthropology, for instance, is about the 'Remembered Village' in S.N. Srinivas' book title, and history is largely concerned with projecting ourselves back into past memories. All this is obvious in the case of novels, yet it is not so often realized in relation to social sciences and humanities, and, I suspect, the hard sciences as well.
In this yearning, the period of childhood, particularly that most formative age before about thirteen, is the most difficult to retrace. It is particularly so if, as in my case, it was lived through the intensity of a boarding school education. How can one approach one's past?
ONE APPROACH MIGHT be to attempt to do an anthropological study of the process by intensive participant-observation. The holistic, intensive participant approach would be the best methodology to understand schools and childhood. I have attempted this both through filming and playing with children in Nepal and my grand-children in the west. One can go a little way into the mental and moral worlds of growing children. Yet there are obvious limitations.
No-one, to my knowledge, has undertaken a real anthropological investigation of childhood. Malinowski defined the goal of anthropology as "To grasp the native's point of view, his relation to life, to realize his view of the world." In updated words, this might be our aim too in relation to childhood worlds. Yet it would appear to be impossible. By the time one is an adult, it is too late. One might get glimpses of the world of young children growing up by being a teacher or parent. Yet even with teachers and parents, most is invisible. One can get children to write diaries and answer questionnaires, as in Royston Lambert's project.1 Yet this only scratches the surface.
In order to do the job properly one would need to participate fully, to be inside the dormitories at night, play the games in the playground, see the world from the level of a growing child. This is clearly impossible for an adult for ethical and other reasons.
SOMETHING CAN BE retrieved in this way and there are a number of moving and insightful accounts of childhood and education. Yet they all suffer from the defects that afflicts memory – namely that it is patchy and only recalls certain, usually the painful or otherwise special moments. I have found a number of observations of those who have thought about childhood memory give insights into these difficulties.
It is worth quotingBenson, who writes so brilliantly about his childhood, a little more.
THE PROBLEM OF recovering memory comes not only from the fact that one has forgotten so much, but also that what happened since has distorted one's interpretation of what is remembered. We re-interpret past materials, whether written or oral, with the use of hindsight and hence distort the meaning. It is easy to be wise after the event and to allocate praise or blame, to smooth out contradictions or to find premonitions of later events. It seems to me that, as far as possible, it is important to refrain from retrospective speculations. It is also wise to refrain from the anachronistic practice of judging past times by the values of the present. It would be easy to condemn casual snobbery or racism, or just smugness and complacency in our past. This is unhelpful and often unfair unless we fully think ourselves back into a different age with its special pressures and assumptions.
Yet for something more than a pure narrative (if such a thing could exist) the text needs some framework of interpretation, some hypotheses to lift it above the level of merely a set of loosely connected pieces of information. In my own case, I have tried to put my own childhood within the context of the two major over-arching changes of those years. One is the huge societal shift of the 1950s as the effects of the Second World War diminished. Our infancies were lived in the war and under the shadow of that war. The second is the rapid dismemberment of the British Empire begun in the decade after 1947. The largest empire in history was set free in an amazingly short time. This also altered the type of schooling we were starting to receive.
There is also the problem of representativeness, which afflicts all anthropological and historical case studies. All one can do is to recognize the problem. Every life, every school, every village is special and different. Yet there may be deeper commonalities.
For example, the work on which I am engaged, which is centrally about the Dragon School in Oxford, is an account of a rather special school. This has both advantages and disadvantages. It means that the school cannot be held to be representative of preparatory boarding schools of that time. On the other hand, the school appears to us to be interesting both in the way it was run and in the kind of pupils it recruited and what it made of them.
THE DRAGON WAS founded on concepts which went against much of the educational philosophy of late Victorian imperial education, even if it also retained much of an earlier Edwardian tradition of boarding schools in which our teachers had been reared. Unlike St. Cyprian's of the early twentieth century as describedby some ofits old boys, including Cyril Connolly and George Orwell, the school tried to overcome some of the traumas of this kind of socialization. It forms a bridge between the muscular Christian, imperialist, attitudes of the aftermath of Thomas Arnold through to our modern, post-imperial, world.
It is also an interesting school because of the later distinction in a wide variety of fields of a considerable number of its former pupils. The Dragon has helped to shape our national life and it is now helping to educate new rulers who are sending their children to it from China, Japan, India and elsewhere.
So the work can also be seen as a form of 'magical realist' writing. In such writing, which in a way is also the essence of anthropology, the humdrum realism of a prosaic and 'natural' world is made 'magical' and interesting in another place and time because the assumptions of those who encounter it elsewhere are so different.
The world of the British Empire and my up-bringing will no doubt strike most people, whether in Africa, South America or China, as extraordinary even now. It is likely that in another century it will seem a magical and different world even to the British. My own childhood nearly sixty years ago is starting to take on a magical unreality – a foreign country where they do different things for different reasons. If that is so for me, how much more will it be for my great grandchildren or my friends from China or Japan?
THUS THERE ARE many difficulties. Yet the opportunities are unparalleled and unprecedented. It is possible to envisage autobiographical and biographical voyages of a new kind. As is often the case, changes in technology have opened new doors and corridors. The past is suddenly becoming recoverable to a degree which was quite out of the question even ten years ago. This is the result of very recent developments of computers and the internet.
In terms of the collection of materials to aid memory work, the internet makes an extraordinary difference. It enables us to find long-lost friends and family, and to share memories and exchange archives. It helps us locate an immense amount of concealed material in private and public collections, including censuses, wills, journals, letter collections, gazetteers and other sources. And if large sets of material are found (for example, in our case, thousands of letters in Cambridge University Library and the National Library of Scotland), they can be transferred by scans and microfilm to one's own study. Without this, the research would be interminable and too expensive.
At the stage of analysis, the new technologies also alter the game. As I explain below, e-mail and other electronic communications make possible forms of collaboration with others who are searching in the same past worlds, enriching the task enormously. Daily collaboration becomes possible with people anywhere in the e-world. Furthermore, computers, with their new information retrieval systems and databases, make it possible to handle the greatly expanded sets of materials which are now to hand. Without better ordering tools, it would be impossible to keep the large sets of information under control.
Finally, the internet makes it all worth while. Antiquarian research just for oneself or one's children may be fun, but the enjoyment is greatly increased if there is a possibility of sharing the results through wider publication to others. Yet these others are scattered all over the world and the desire to publish at length and in detail would be prohibitively costly with conventional publishing. New desktop and online publishing makes the project something new. Furthermore, the possibility of having layers of detail – a printed and published version, an electronic book, and then a database with much fuller materials for those who want to go deeper, is now available. We live in a new world where we can contemplate the work of memory in an age of electronic reproduction, to paraphrase Walter Benjamin's well-known essay title.
I have found that the best way to extract the memories, buried deep under a subsequent sixty years of accumulated sensations in my case, is to let them bubble up as they will – sometimes unprompted, at other times suddenly recalled.11 With me, it is my mother's letters, my own letters and essays, various diaries, numerous photographs and even toys which jog my memory and force it to 'speak'. So the work starts as a flow of consciousness, to be jotted down as things occur to me.
In the famous 'Art of Memory' devised by the Romans, the technique was that of going on a walk in the mind through a remembered landscape, re-peopling it with faces, events and quotations. This is one way in which to start peopling memory.
1951: Dorset. Alan lower right. From Dorset Days (see below). Click to enlarge.
FOR EACH OF the landscapes I explore in my life there are several paths, through the physical landscape (including sounds, smells, touch), the social landscape (the people who inhabited them, in particular my family and friends), the intellectual landscape (the things I was thinking and learning), the event landscape (the things that happened in each place and particularly strong impressions).
While at first not much is remembered and it is an effort, as I proceed, as seems to have happened with Proust, the more one remembers the more it triggers other memories.
William James's description of how we remember, which fits with Galton and with Koestler and the 'Art of Memory' literature, suggests that what we do is to try to use mnemonic devices surrounding the object to bring it into view – the physical space, the objects, the people, the smells and sounds. This is what I have done for those most-difficult-to-remember first twelve or thirteen years of my life.
Before I started I would have said that I could hardly remember anything. But when I sat down and started to write, turning over old letters and diaries, handling again the physical mementos, (toys, chocolate covers, photographs), as well as visiting remembered places and conversations (actual or electronic) with newly rediscovered friends, I found a rich soup of memories.
THIS WRITING, LIKE like all intellectual work, is a long and complex journey. It is like anthropological fieldwork. At first one does not speak the language and one cannot understand much. But gradually the jumble of sensations start to fit into some simple patterns. As each jigsaw piece joins with another, so one can fit in others.
It is not something one can force, though I think that Nabokov is right to say that concentration can sometimes retrieve things which we thought were lost. But mostly it is waiting calmly. It is all by association and when one gets into the frame of mind, as Proust realized, almost anything can bring back memories. For example, standing on King's College Bridge one day watching small dace under the willows I suddenly remembered other willows and other dace of my childhood.
The project is one of exploration, an ethnography of a past country and a past self – oneself when young and living in a vanished age. Yet one's past is not totally lost or too distant. I can become a participant again – Wordsworth's 'emotion recollected in tranquillity' – and also a more dispassionate observer. For I am now analysing it and trying to understand in a different way to that which when I was living it.
Letter written two months before leaving for the Dragon School. Click to enlarge.
IN SEARCHING THROUGH my papers I have found over a hundred letters I wrote from the Dragon School. We were required to write each week, so there should have been at least 150 letters. To still have perhaps two-thirds of those I wrote (there are only five for my first year, but thereafter they are fairly complete) is encouraging. These are supplemented by another source which has seldom been integrated into a systematic study of letters from a boarding school. These are the letters from parents and grandparents to the child. These letters, written mainly by my motherbetween 1947 and 1955, are complemented by her detailed and observant letters to my father when they were apart (he was a tea planter in Assam) about her visits to me and my progress.
My mother's letters and other sources also allow me to reconstruct the context of home life while I was at the Dragon. I realized that we cannot understand a child in their boarding context without also understanding their family and home life. My life in the period between six and thirteen in the periods when I was not at the Dragon dovetailed with the school experience. It is described in a companion volume, which shows how much my experience and imagination bridged the two parallel worlds.
These letters allow us to begin to enter the mind of the growing children, filtered of course by convention, reticence, assumptions about the interests of the receivers of the letters, yet nevertheless recording much of the daily life of childhood in a detail which it would be impossible to remember. They allow us to examine what struck the child at the time, what was significant, the biases and assumptions of childhood.
The contemporary letters in two directions are supplemented by several other contemporary sources which give depth to the analysis. School reports are occasionally referred to in the literature on preparatory schools, but I know of no systematic analysis of an almost complete series relating to a child. I have the full termly reports for all but one of the fifteen terms I was at the school and also several dozen of the less detailed, but revealing, fortnightly reports which we sent home.
A FURTHER SOURCE of relevant background is the unusually detailed accounts published in the termly school magazine, The Draconian. In particular, the 'Term Notes' by C.H. Jacques, which he later used as the basis for his Century History of the Dragon (1977), are insightful and amusing. They constitute a diary of the school while I was there. The 'Term Notes' are complemented by much else in the Draconian. For example there are accounts of debates, sermons, visits, plays, films, games, many of them extremely detailed, although they are of course written by and reflect the perceptions of the staff and not the Dragons.
School report. Click to enlarge.
A second thing I have found is how faulty memory is, not usually in the experience itself, but the surrounding details of when or where the event occurred or who was involved. With the aid of documents I have re-contextualized many memories, when I caught my first fish, when I learnt to cycle, when I stole from my grandfather. I have also had to revise my whole assessment of the degree to which I was unhappy at the Dragon School.
What I regret is that even with the detail in the documents, not a great deal of new memory has been triggered. I have sometimes managed to capture again the ambient smells, sounds and feelings surrounding a photograph or a letter. Yet very often I feel I may be forcing or imposing memories now that I know an event happened. For, on the whole, I can recall very little of even major events of that time, like going to India for my eleventh birthday holiday, or singing in Iolanthe when I was twelve.
GAZING AT MY past as it unrolls in photos and comments it seems mainly to be the life of a slightly familiar stranger. I feel a little affinity, some ghostly overlap. Yet mostly it seems to be a different person. I recognize the little boy as someone I knew a very long time ago but have almost now forgotten. The past is not just a foreign country where they do things differently; it is inhabited by half-familiar ghosts of one's younger self who seem disconnected strangers, yet are also part of oneself.
Without the contemporary photographs, letters, diaries, school reports and other materials, I would be like an anthropologist who had done fieldwork in another society some sixty years ago and had destroyed all the fieldnotes. It would be an impossible task to write the ethnographic and anthropological account without the primary materials.
Yet one needs constantly to remember that each of the sources is biased. Just to take one example, an over-riding first impression is of how insular the letters were. While Indian Independence and its aftermath rocked India, the Cold War and the Korean War rekindled fears of nuclear war in the late 1940s and early '50s, these events, let alone the two elections which took place in Britain, are hardly mentioned.
Yet I soon realized that along with a slightly head-in-the-sand attitude which my mother admits to, there were also good reasons for this. Personal letters and diaries are not usually where you will find discussion of international or national politics or events – unless they directly impinge on plans. This is worth remembering. The sources I have, like all historical documents, create a bias – in this case away from the general to the particular.
As for letters written from school by young boys, there are, of course, many distortions and omissions in such a source. Included in the book is a chapter which mainly consists of a detailed analysis of classmates' letters – from Jamie Bruce Lockhart and his brother, Sandy – to show in terms of silence and revelation how a boarder's approach to writing letters home appears to evolve trough a preparatory school career. Addressing an adult, especially when one is still learning to control language, can lead into a kind of writing which conceals as much as it shows.
THE ACCOUNT ABOVE describes the first year of my journey; it was as far as I could go. Even with a set of contemporary letters and other materials, a reader may well wonder what biases are created by seeing the past through one pair of eyes. How far are the impressions and memories the result of a particular personality and how far they correspond to a wider reality? Furthermore, I do not remember much with great clarity and in particular I do not have a strong visual memory. These two defects have been partially corrected by an accident.
In March 2010 I hosted a re-union of 'Old Sedberghians' at King's College, Cambridge. I received apologies from Jamie Bruce Lockhart and contacted him. Jamie had been one year ahead of me at the Dragon, but hisyounger brother Sandy was one of my closest friends at the school. Both Jamie and Sandy had shared with me the experience of being at the Dragon and then going on toSedbergh.
It turned out that Jamie had been jotting downsome of his own memories of his early life, for his family, and agreed to see whether he and I(Sandy had died in August 2008) could pool our memories and efforts. Thus began the collaboration on which this book is based.
1949: Jamie, Amber, Sandy. Click to enlarge.
JAMIE FIRST WROTE all that he could remember of the Dragon – again a fairly short essay – before looking at the headings of the sections under which I had been writing.These headings acted as triggers to many further memories. Jamie's memory is both stronger, and more visual (as a painter) and the account was in some aspects richer than Alan's original. But for a while the memory account was kept separate so as to avoid cross-contamination.
Jamie then started to read my full version and responded to it in detail. For a while, he was convinced that the letters he and Sandy had written from the Dragon to his parents had been lost. Perhaps this was behind his feeling that it was dangerous to tinker with memory by using external historical documents which would overlay the memories.
Cricket 2nd XI for Summer 1954. Alan, far left; Jamie, second from right, on the bench. Click to enlarge.
Unfortunately there were no letters from Jamie's parents or his grandparents to him or Sandy, but the quality of the letters sent home by the two Dragons, as we shall see in the finished volumes, was unusual. The discovery meant that we now had over three hundred letters from three little boys, plus a considerable number from my mother, both to me and to her husband in India.
With this mass of data the next question washow to collaborate on the large and delicate task of mixing memory with text. The work was done over the following year, during which time we both continued writingabout our parallel home lives. The details of how we worked are recorded in an extensive email correspondence on all aspects of Dragon Lifeand reflect a rare intellectual collaboration in the revival of memories and joint analysis of schoolboy years.
THE RESULTS OF this first voyage, Dragon Days: Education at an English Preparatory School, the Dragon School, Oxford, covering the period 1947-1955, between the ages of six to thirteen, is published this month. Yet this is just one part of the memory voyage, for those important years can only really be understood within a planned longer trajectory. The Indian roots of my family back into the late eighteenth century will form the first volume. Then, after the preparatory school education here recounted, comes the public school period and life in Wordsworth's childhood valley in the Lake District. Then there are three enchanted years reading history at Oxford in 1960-3 where love, religion and intellectual excitement blended. After further years in Oxford and London University I hope to make more explorations through memory and history. Those doors will open later.
Alan Macfarlane is an anthropologist and historian and a Professor Emeritus of King's College, Cambridge. He is the author or editor of 20 books and numerous articles on the anthropology and history of England, Nepal, Japan and China. Much of his work has focused on comparative study of the origins and nature of the modern world. In recent years he has become increasingly interested in the use of visual material in teaching and research. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society. His essay, "Concepts of Time and the World We Live In" was published the The Fortnightly Review in 2010, and his book The Invention of the Modern World appeared in serial form in The Fortnightly Review in 2012.
This Fortnightly Review article is filed under the following rubrics: Biography and Memoir, History & Travel, Principal Articles.
Publication: Saturday, 10 March 2012, at 10:38.
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How this NGO-turned-ecommerce business grew from 2,300 to 24,000 artisans during the pandemic
By Bhavya Kaushal
Okhai Centre for Empowerment was launched by Tata Chemicals Society for Rural Development in 2008. Kirti Poonia, a participant of TAS, realised that the products made by Okhai deserved the attention of the world. She converted the NGO into a full blown ecommerce business in 2015.
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Kirti Poonia always believed that travelling can teach a person much more than any college degree or educational institute. This prompted her to enrol herself for Jagriti Yatra in 2010, a 15 to 18-day train journey undertaken by like-minded youth and change-makers looking at making an impact in the world. Kirti got to travel the length and breadth of the country - from Bombay to Kanyakumari to Delhi, covering many corners of the country.
When the odyssey was near its end, the last stopover was Mithapur, a small district in Gujarat where Kirti encountered a bunch of women artisans making handicraft clothes and accessories. Kirti reminisces that at the time, she was young and naive, and did not really appreciate that experience fully. "I was more interested in going to the beach at that time."
But, lady luck smiled, and decided to give Kirti an opportunity that would change her life.
Kirti had been working with the Tata Group since 2007. She later got selected for the company's leadership programme- Tata Administrative Services or TAS. As part of the programme, in a serendipity of sorts, Kirti was once again pulled towards Mithapur, which happened to be the birthplace of Tata Chemicals. The Tata Chemicals Society for Rural Development (TCSRD) had launched the Okhai Centre for Empowerment in 2008 to support rural women artisans.
When Kirti came across the artisan women again, she underwent a moment of epiphany, "These women were amazingly talented. I realised that their products were so exotic that the world had to see them."
Moreover, Kirti emphasises that the women were immensely proud of their craft, so much that she knew something more had to be done. She decided to take on the responsibility of Okhai full time and joined Okhai as its Head. The timing was perfect as the ecommerce wave had recently hit the country, which was fast transitioning into an internet economy.
Kirti launched the Okhai website in 2015. Gradually, the products started getting listed on Tata Cliq, Amazon, Nykaa and several others platforms.
There has been no looking back since. The company has continued to grow and scale even during the pandemic year of 2020, although not without unexpected dilemmas and predicaments for the company and the sector at large. But, Okhai came through 2020, and how!
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When coronavirus brought the entire world to a standstill with lockdowns and general fear and anxiety, it obviously affected the handicraft industry. "Sales went down to zero, a lot of orders were cancelled. I knew of several artisans who had about 400 bed covers in stock but no food to put on the table," narrates Kirti.
There were also several media reports of artisans committing suicide, unable to cope from the pressures of the lockdown.
Kirti says this is when a lot of organisations like Okhai working in the same sector, came together to think of solutions that would benefit the artisans and the industry. Okhai collaborated with 10 such organisations including Jaypore, itokri, GoCoop, and Zwende among others.
Where there are problems, there are solutions
The first solution they came up with was to digitally catalogue inventory available with the artisans.
For this, the artisans were taught how to take photographs, make excel sheets of their stock and in some cases, even upload their stocks online. "All this was being taught to them on video calls. It was like a crash course in online sales," says Kirti.
What made this endeavour even more exciting and interesting according to Kirti was the willingness of the artisans to learn even though technology was far removed from their daily lives. The women were also helped by the younger members in their families, many of whom were more tech-savvy.
Kirti adds, "Initially, the women would send us their inventory and stocks with details written on a piece of paper, and it would be a nightmare for us to manage that and collate data." From paper to now being fully digital, the women of Okhai have come a long way in just one year.
In a show of solidarity, Okhai introduced smaller organisations like apparel brand Rangsutra Crafts India Ltd. on its platform during the pandemic to help Rangasutra's artisans sell through their platform, leveraging Okhai's reach. "We didn't want to rebrand them, we wanted to let them have their identity and use our platform." It was a win-win for everyone involved.
A year after the first lockdown was announced, Okhai claims to be supporting 24,000 artisans from all over the country, all selling through Okhai's platform. Okhai has an office in Mumbai, but the sales office, design studio and warehouse are located in Ahmedabad. A total of about 50 people are employed by Okhai on a full time basis.
From an NGO to a standalone business
Okhai started out as an NGO. Today, it is a standalone business that is not just supporting its own people but also lending support to various organisations operating in similar space. It is not raising funds through charities or donations, rather it has empowered women themselves to become self-sufficient.
How has it been able to do so?
"We have always endeavored to raise funds through sales. This intention pushed us to become operationally very strong."
Kirti, who does not originally hail from the development sector but has shown phenomenal results with her social impact enterprise, says that this sector needs "people who think business and deploy marketing strategies." That is how the sector will benefit and get uplifted.
Okhai women work in different ways. Some are engaged full time, some part time, and then there are those who work on an hourly basis. A woman who works full time (eight hours a day) earns between Rs 12,000- Rs 25,000 a month.
What also may have worked for Okhai is their brand identity. The organisation made rural women the face of the brand. "When we started out in 2015, we put pictures of women on social media. This helped connect with real people."
There was also increasing support for smaller brands, and locally and sustainably made clothes, which contributed to the brand's journey, says Kirti.
The business saw its turnover increase by 67 percent in FY21 from FY20. Kirti, however, doesn't wish to reveal the exact numbers publicly. Okhai largely runs independently. It sometimes takes help from the mothership, TCSRD, for growth-driven funds.
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Just when India was getting comfortable with the battle against COVID-19, the second wave struck, the impact of which is turning out to be deadlier.
Commenting on how Okhai is coping with the current situation, Kirti says, "We are trying to figure out what products rural artisans can sell that can generate significant sales. This also includes deciding their price, colour, design, etc."
The brand also launched a store in Kalaghoda, Mumbai in October. Going forward, it plans to launch stores in collaboration with brands that share the same ethos.
Okhai is also trying to expand its outreach to reach 60,000 artisans by the end of FY22, and 1 lakh mark by FY23.
The numbers seem humongous and aspirational but the company plans to achieve this by increasing their online visibility, and also entering the international markets.
Edited by Anju Narayanan
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It's been parent and teachers meetings this past week at D's school, which meant he was getting out just over an hour early. He's doing great by the way. There will be a full school update coming soon for D.
The timing was perfect with the beautiful weather we having been having. Most of the week has been spent out at parks, playing, visiting family, family walks and exploring. The days we did stay home we baked, played games and had fun together. The week was finished by a day at the Spring Fair.
We are now set for the rain again, it's already started this morning but I am so looking forward to summer and all the fun we can get up to!
Has your week been filled with fun in the sun too?


It is a popular-- and also instead terrifying-- statistic that everyone in business globe has actually heard that "90% of the startups fail". If you take a look at these failed companies which when started with much vitality as well as enthusiasm, they hardly ever stop working since the idea or the suggestion of the business itself was bad.
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During this period the school has received £16,600 to improve the quality of sport and PE provision at St Joseph's. Our vision is to create a culture that encourages all our children to be active and have positive attitudes towards physical activity and healthy lifestyles.
The funding will develop a programme which includes high quality physical education as part of the curriculum; competitive school sport opportunities and additional sporting opportunities after school.
We believe high quality physical education and school sport will contribute to a range of outcomes for our children contributing to their physical, mental and social wellbeing.
Employing specialist PE teachers or qualified coaches to work alongside teachers in lessons to increase their subject knowledge and confidence.
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This is certainly an awesome feat Africa is fixing to attain. Truth be told, there isn't any nook or cranny in Africa that didn't have its children grow up on cartoons. Cartoons have always been an integral part of a child's formative years. They spur the imagination, break boundaries, correct vocabulary, and open you to a whole new world of possibilities. Sadly, it seems like the cartoon culture in Africa is dying but a young group of female writers and designers have risen to save the day.
Netflix is set to join forces with Cape Town-based studios – Triggerfish Animation Studios and leading London based Kid's entertainment specialist CAKE to produce an award-winning animation Mama K's Team 4. Netflix, during the week, announced this partnership and the whole of Africa is currently waiting to download as soon as the production is available. I am particularly excited because it's more like a dream come true – let me keep my inner child in check for a second so I don't digress.
Mama K's Team 4 tells the story of four-teen girls living in the neo-futuristic African city of Lusaka, Zambia who are recruited by a retired secret agent still committed to saving the world. The series joins Netflix's growing slate of original animated programming designed for kids and families everywhere, brought to 190 countries by artists from around the world. Written by Zambian, Malenga Mulendema and designed by Cameroonian artist, Malcolm Wope, it draws visual inspiration from retro-'90s R&B and hip hop girl groups - Quartz. It is a beautiful story of 4 seemingly regular Zambian teenage girls who are committed to saving the world.
I TINK that this venture is timely as it is poised to save the cartoon culture among African children, spark up creativity among African writers, designers, and developers, and also inject a huge dose of entertainment to our screens.
GOOGLE LAUNCHES A NEWS INNOVATION CHALLENGE TO ANSWER THE QUESTION OF SUSTAINABILITY IN PR IN THIS POST DIGITAL AGE.
For a while now, word on the street have had it saying "PR is dead". Many have come to accept this reality in the post digital age but some public relations professionals have refused to accept it and are not relenting in their publications.
Back in the day, if you wanted to get authentic information you needed to flip through the pages of newspaper, today, you no longer have to as these information will come to you whether you search for them or not and this has given rise to the rapid spread of fake news. We need that credibility and authenticity that PR brings.
Little wonder why Google is launching the first of its kind news innovation challenge in Africa particularly.
Google's mission is to organise the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Through products and platforms like Search, Maps, Gmail, Android, Google Play, Chrome and YouTube, Google plays a meaningful role in the daily lives of billions of people and has become one of the most widely-known companies in the world. Google is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc - Bizcommunity.
The GNI (Google News Initiative) Innovation Challenge is inviting proposals for projects from news organisations of every size to address increasing engagement with readers and/or exploring new business models in any form such as subscriptions, membership programs, and so on. Traditional publishers, news startups and associations that aim to build innovative digital media projects are all eligible to apply.
The application window for project submissions will open in June, and will extend for one month. More information on eligibility, rules and criteria, and funding will be published on the GNI website - Bizcommunity.
E-GAMING IS ON THE RISE ACROSS AFRICA AND IS CURRENTLY WORTH BILLIONS.
What better way to unwind than to sit on a beach with a glass of Chapman, under the warm sunlight gliding down your skin? I'll tell you. Its when you get online, enter a game (tournament) and take on an opponent in a very distant city hoping you'd emerge as the winner, or connecting with your friends no matter where they are in the world and have the time of your life gaming away.
Gaming has brought some sense of togetherness to many young people across the globe and they each look forward to spending such moments with one another from time to time. Gladly this has also evolved into an extremely lucrative venture as people are making tonnes of money from e-gaming. Online game developers, online gaming companies, sports betting sites, and so on have become a trend that's not likely to go away anytime soon. As fibre and internet access is becoming more and more accessible within the continent, countries like South Africa and Nigeria have started to tap into gaming communities around the world.
e-gaming has become a way of life for many South African gamers who are earning a living from the venture. Brands and businesses are noticing this trend, leading to increased investment into this platform. For example, brands like East Coast Radio and Jacaranda FM have partnered with e-gaming platform Mega8 to adequately harness the potential of this market. SuperSport even has a dedicated channel to e-gaming. This allows electronic sports to be accessible all over the country to drive interest in this growing culture - Bizcommunity. According to Nerve Africa, South Africa's gaming revenue is set to rise to $2 billion in 2019.
e-gaming in Africa is largely driven by Africa's large youth population, easy and affordable access to the internet, increased mobile penetration, and technological advancements. Although the gaming market in Africa isn't properly structured, the potential of this market is simply enormous and should be harnessed.
OVER THE YEARS THE MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS SPACE HAS BEEN SEPARATED BY LINES BUT THESE DAYS, THOSE LINES ARE BLURRING OUT.
If you are familiar with the marketing communications space, you certainly will be familiar with the terms below the line, through the line, and above the lines. Marketings communications specialists have also had a hard time over the years trying to define this line, so if you seem not to fully understand it, it's ok, there are professionals who don't either.
However, this article is neither planned to define the line nor delve into deciphering those three main lines mentioned above but one thing it will do is to bring to your knowledge the new trend in the marketing space that's blurring this line more than ever.
So, I and a colleague decided to go to various agencies to see if they could define the line by describing to us what they do. What we found out spurred me to write this piece.
We went to an agency who said they are a below the agency and found out that they also claim to have extensive expertise in all other forms of advertising. This wasn't peculiar to them as the agencies that claimed aficionado in through the line and above the line marketing were doing the same. Right now, every marketing communications company is practicing something a few have begun to call integrated marketing communications as they have realized that they can no longer live independent of one another.
To run a successful marketing campaign you would certainly need to properly execute strategies on any sides of the line. This way you are surely going to achieve top of mind awareness (TOMA). Agencies who have a hard transitioning have their businesses struggle or worse – die.
Before now it all seemed like everyone knew their place on the line until something called digital started, now there has to be a digital strategy otherwise marketing communications may not be as effective as intended. As a result, the competition is no longer about the medium a client chooses to advertise but about the value the marketing strategy or communication seeks to deliver to both the client and the end user.
In my opinion, marketing communication is no longer through, above, or below the line, it has unequivocally become a journey along the line. Advertising ultimately seeks to deliver a new experience to its end user every other time, create awareness, and persuade them to take action.
SLEEPING IS ACTUALLY AN INVESTMENT THAT ALWAYS CERTAINLY YIELDS MAXIMUM RETURNS.
For a while now, TINK has turned its attention to emerging trends among entrepreneurs. Well who wouldn't? This section caters for the largest source of employment across Africa and accounts for an extensive percentage of the GDP and according to Mckinsey, 22% of the African working age population are starting new businesses every year. This definitely is something to pay attention to.
I am certain you must have heard the phrase "you snooze, you lose". This phrase turns out to be the unspoken mantra amongst entrepreneurs these days. There's always something to do, some task to kill, some deadline to meet, and as such, forget to leave sufficient for sleep. In fact, sleeplessness is being romanticised across the continent. You hear two young people having a conversation and one of them is proud of how he hasn't slept in the past 3 days. If you are found to have slept a whole eight hours and you are assumed to be a business owner, it always comes off as a shocker.
Doctors have said that on the average a person needs between 7-8 hours of sleep but trust me, in Africa those number of hours are too expensive and there are only a few entrepreneurs who can afford the luxury.
Studies show that sleep-deprived individuals have a bigger appetite and tend to eat more calories. Sleep deprivation disrupts the daily fluctuations in appetite hormones and is believed to cause poor appetite regulation. Sleeping right helps you eat right.
Sleep is important for various aspects of brain function. For you to function optimally you need adequate time to shut down your system and let it reboot.
Poor sleepers have a greater risk of heart disease, stroke, and a cold. It's known that sleep quality and duration can have a major effect on many health risk factors as a healthy sleeping culture helps your body repair itself.
Poor sleep is linked to depression. Mental health issues, such as depression, are strongly linked to poor sleep quality and sleeping disorders. It has been estimated that 90% of people with depression complain about sleep quality. Poor sleep is even associated with an increased risk of death by suicide. Those with sleeping disorders like insomnia or obstructive sleep apnea also report significantly higher rates of depression than those without.
I for one I'm usually tired, hungry, and upset when I don't get sufficient sleep. Sleep loss reduces your ability to interact socially and affects your emotions negatively.
So dump the competition of trying to out unsleep your friends, colleagues, and competitors. Try to get some sleep every now and then, it keeps you vibrant, healthy, and most of all, it gets you paid.


In parts 1 to 3 of 'The Commercial Photoshoot', we've discussed what might be expected to take place during a brand photoshoot, from initial contact all the way through to the shoot itself. There is one last stage though, post production - the editing and retouching of the raw imagery taken on the day in order to transform it into the final imagery to be used in Brand marketing materials. Typically this is done by us in house, using state of the art software and powerful computers in order to make the process both quick and efficient.
With all the work which has already gone into the planning and preparation stages of your commercial photoshoot, it can be immensely gratifying to see all the pieces of the puzzle come together when it should.
For the most part, the task of photoshoot preparation is one of organisation and logistics. In the planning stage, it was identified what the outcome should look like and what would be needed to make it happen, the preparation stage involves making sure that on the day of the photoshoot, the sets will be ready or locations booked, all the necessary people are present and prepared, that all the required equipment is ready to go and that the subjects of the shoot are all ready to be captured.
Once you've made the decision to engage an expert commercial photographer to step your brand marketing up to the next level, the first thing you'll need to do is to contact such a photographer to discuss the job and get a quote.
If your business has only just outgrown its current marketing methods you may not have briefed a photographer before, but don't worry Ikon makes it easy.
For industries which have a seasonal turnaround of product ranges, in particular, the textile and fashion industries, it's important to create and prepare marketing assets well in advance. During Autumn & Winter, you're planning your Spring & Summer ranges and vice versa.
At Ikon, we're experts in brand marketing campaign coordination, photography and videography. We have decades of experience in creating imagery which attracts the eye and sells our client's products and services.
When everything seems grey, a little colour catches the eye, so that spark of imagination and that uniqueness of approach can be the very thing which makes your brand's imagery attractive and your competition seem bland by comparison.
As much effort as you put into thinking about how you'd like consumers to think of your business, they're the ones who have the ultimate say on what your brand is.
A photograph has to work hard for you in order to command attention and convey your brand's message. Even before they've read a single word from your sales copy, your audience is already forming their opinion of your company and of your brand image just on the strength of what they've seen.


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A discografia da banda Charlie Brown Jr. contém dez álbuns de estúdio, três álbuns ao vivo, duas fitas demo, um EP e nove coletâneas, além de sete DVDs.

Em 1993, a banda gravou sua primeira fita demo, ainda sem nome para a banda. Em 1995, já com o nome Charlie Brown Jr., gravaram sua segunda fita demo, autointitulada de Charlie Brown Jr..

Em 1997, o Charlie Brown Jr. lança seu álbum de estreia, Transpiração Contínua Prolongada, que vendeu em torno de 500 mil cópias. Em 1999, a banda lança o álbum Preço Curto... Prazo Longo, vendendo em torno de 250 mil cópias. Em 2000, repete o sucesso de vendas no álbum Nadando com os Tubarões, onde teve colaboração da cantora Negra Li em duas faixas do álbum. O álbum ficou marcado por ter sido o último álbum com a formação original do grupo, pois o guitarrista Thiago Castanho saiu da banda após a turnê deste álbum, alegando problemas de agenda.

Em 2001, já como um quarteto, a banda lança o álbum 100% Charlie Brown Jr. - Abalando a Sua Fábrica, sem grande repercussão. Em 2002, a banda lança o álbum Bocas Ordinárias, onde consagrou uma das músicas de maior sucesso de sua carreira, "Só Por Uma Noite". Em 2003, é lançado o primeiro álbum ao vivo do grupo, Acústico MTV: Charlie Brown Jr., em CD e DVD, produzido por Tadeu Patolla e transmitido pela MTV Brasil. Em 2004, a banda lança seu sexto álbum de estúdio, Tamo Aí na Atividade, marcando um dos maiores sucessos daquele ano e também o último álbum com a formação original do grupo.

Em 2005, após uma reformulação, a banda modifica, à exceção do vocalista Chorão, todos os integrantes, e, com isso, também a sonoridade do grupo, com o lançamento do álbum Imunidade Musical, onde foram vendidas 100 mil cópias. Em 2007, a banda lança seu oitavo álbum de estúdio, intitulado Ritmo, Ritual e Responsa, que serviu como trilha sonora do filme O Magnata, escrito por Chorão e protagonizado por Paulo Vilhena.

Após uma nova formação e sua saída da EMI, passando para a Sony Music, em 2009, é lançado o álbum Camisa 10 Joga Bola Até na Chuva, marcando a volta do grupo ao topo das paradas de sucesso, vendendo ao todo 100 mil cópias.

Em 2011, a banda anuncia a volta do guitarrista Marcão e do baixista Champignon à banda. Para comemorar, a banda lança, em 2012, seu segundo álbum ao vivo, Música Popular Caiçara, em CD, DVD e blu-ray.

Em 2013, poucos meses após a morte de Chorão e Champignon, é lançado La Familia 013, o último álbum de inéditas da banda e o primeiro póstumo. Até o final do ano de seu lançamento, o álbum havia vendido cerca de 40.000 cópias, o que lhe rendeu uma certificação de disco de ouro.

Em 2021, oito anos após a morte de Chorão e Champignon, no dia 13 de julho, Dia Mundial do Rock, a banda lança o álbum Chegou Quem Faltava, o terceiro e último álbum ao vivo da carreira da banda, que apresenta uma gravação inédita de um show feito pela banda no dia 19 de março de 2011 no Citibank Hall, em São Paulo. No dia 30 de julho, foi lançada uma nova versão do álbum, intitulada Chegou Quem Faltava - Versão do Chorão, com a adição das falas do vocalista em interação com o público.

Desde 1997, quando lançaram o primeiro álbum, o grupo vendeu em torno de 5,5 milhões de cópias, marcando sucessos como "Zóio de Lula", "Não é Sério", "Só por uma Noite", "Ela Vai Voltar (Todos os Defeitos de Uma Mulher Perfeita)" e "Só os Loucos Sabem".

Álbuns

Álbuns de estúdio

Álbuns ao vivo

Demos

EPs

Coletâneas

Singles

Videografia

DVDs

Videoclipes

Participação em videoclipes de outras bandas
(2000) "Vai Pirar" - Jigaboo ft. Charlie Brown Jr.

Parcerias com outras bandas
 Canção "Vai Pirar" de P.MC e DJ Deco Murphy
 Canção "Vai Pirar" de Jigaboo
 Canção "Marginal Alado", de Sabotage
 Canção "Cantando Pro Santo", de Sabotage
 Canção "Cidadão Comum Refém", do MV Bill.

Outros
 Canção de abertura do programa Legendários

Aparições em outros álbuns e participações especiais em outros projetos
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|1997||12 Top Hits da Pan|| rowspan="20" |Vários Artistas||O Coro Vai Comê!||
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|1998||13 Pop Hits da Pan|| rowspan="3" |Proibida pra Mim (Grazon)||
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| rowspan="2" |2001||Rock Super Positivo
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|Para Sempre Pop Rock||
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| rowspan="3" |2002||11 Hits da Pan|| rowspan="2" |Lugar ao Sol||
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|Radio Brasil - O Som da Jovem Vanguarda||
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|Casa dos Artistas||Como Tudo Deve Ser||
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| rowspan="4" |2003||20 Anos De Rock Brasil - Vol. 4: O Segundo Sol||Proibida pra Mim (Grazon)||
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|Clipmania||Lugar ao Sol||<ref>discogs.com "CD Clipmania"</ref>
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|Universo Brasileiro'''||Proibida pra Mim (Grazon)||<ref>discogs.com "Universo Brasileiro"</ref>
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|Vibe Sound Coca-Cola Vol.1 - Rock Nacional|| rowspan="2" |Só por uma Noite||
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| rowspan="2" |2004||10 Hits da Pan||
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|Malhação 10 Anos||Te Levar||
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| rowspan="4" |2005||10 Hits da Jovem Pan||Champanhe e Água Benta||
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|Meu Primeiro Hit! - Rock||Proibida pra Mim (Grazon)||
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|O Melhor do Acústico MTV||Samba Makossa (com Marcelo D2)||
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|2009||Regravações||"Geração Coca-Cola" (cover do Legião Urbana)||
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|Lado Z Volume 2||Zeca Baleiro||Proibida pra Mim (Grazon) (versão ao vivo do álbum Música Popular Caiçara)||
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|2014||Você Vai Estar na Minha: Duetos'||Negra Li||Não É Sério||
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 Canções em Trilhas Sonoras de Programas de TV ou Novelas
 1998 - "Proibida pra Mim (Grazon)": Tema do personagem Escova (Mário Frias) na temporada de 1998 de "Malhação Interatividade".
 1999-2006 - "Te Levar": Tema de abertura de "Malhação Múltipla Escolha" desde a temporada que estreou em outubro de 1999 até a temporada de 2006.
 2001 - Tudo mudar: Incluída na trilha sonora do seriado teen Malhação Corrupção temporada de 2001 tema de Bia (Fernanda Nobre) e Léo (Max Fercondini).planetadamusica.com/  Trilha Sonora Malhação 2001
 2001-2004 - "Como Tudo Deve Ser": Fez parte da trilha sonora do reality show Casa dos Artistas.
 2003 - "Só Por Uma Noite":Incluída na trilha sonora de Malhação Destinos Cruzados temporada de 2003.
 2004 - "Não é Sério": Tema do personagem Lucas (Guilherme Bernard) na novela "Começar de Novo".
 2006-2007 - "Lutar pelo Que É Meu": Tema de abertura de "Malhação Famílias Modernas" nas temporadas 2006 e 2007.
 2007 - "Be Myself": Tema de Marconi Ferraço (Dalton Vigh), o protagonista da novela "Duas Caras".
 2010-2017 - "Abertura Legendários": Tema de abertura do programa de humor "Legendários".
 2011 - "Pra não Dizer que não Falei das Flores":Trilha sonora da novela Amor e Revolução.
 2013 - "Céu Azul": Tema do casal protagonista Isabel (Juliana Silveira) e Eduardo (Victor Pecoraro) na novela "Balacobaco", da Record.
 2013 - "Pontes Indestrutíveis": Tema de Ninho (Juliano Cazarré) na novela "Amor à Vida".
 2014 - "Meu Novo Mundo": Tema de "Malhação Sonhos" fez parte na trilha sonora da da temporada de 2014-2015.
 2014 - "Céu Azul": Trilha-sonora da novela Império.
 2014'' - "Pra não Dizer que não Falei das Flores":Trilha sonora da série Plano Alto.

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Insights from PHE's Active 10 Campaign
Stream: Strategies for an Active Nation
To help combat physical inactivity in adults, Public Health England launched Active 10, which aims to encourage adults to do more moderate intensity physical activity each day. The campaign focuses on increased intensity of physical activity, rather than counting steps. Just a 10 minute brisk walk a day can reduce the risk of early death by 15%. This session explores how this national engagement campaign targeted adults to get more active, understanding it approach, impact and reach and how it was supported digitally.
Anand Amlani, Head of Marketing - Live Well at Public Health England
Anand Amlani
Head of Marketing - Live Well - Public Health England
Anand is a marketing specialist with 20 years' experience in designing innovative and successful communications programmes. Since joining the public sector he has focussed on tackling some of the most challenging behaviours across society. This includes running the adult physical activity campaign (Active 10), the stop-smoking 'harms' and Stoptober campaigns, sexual health, the pioneering youth focussed Rise Above programme and the development of the Child Maintenance Options service amongst others.
Prior to working on social marketing issues, Anand spent 10 years in the private sector, working in the publishing and financial service sectors on a variety of projects such as brand awareness, digital innovation, sponsorship and acquisition programmes and has extensive experience of engaging consumer and B2B audiences.
His work has won several industry awards including a Gold IPA Effectiveness Award.
Planning and delivering a national physical activity campaign
Collecting a billion data points: the digital tools and methods supporting the Active 10 campaign
Professor Fabio Ciravegna, Professor of Computer Science at University of Sheffield
Professor Fabio Ciravegna
Professor of Computer Science - University of Sheffield
Prof. Fabio Ciravegna is Professor in the Department of Computer Science of the University of Sheffield. His research concerns data acquisition and analysis over large scale. He is the Director of the European Project SETA on Big Data for Sustainable Mobility in Large Metropolitan Areas (€5.5, 14 partners, 2016-2019). He was director for the European project WeSenseIt on Citizen Observatories of Water (€5.2, 15 partners, 2012-2016), and Director of the European Integrated Project IST X-Media on large-scale knowledge management across media (€9.9M, 14 partners, 2006-2010). He has published more than 130 papers.
He has designed an algorithm for active mobility and physical activity using mobile phones that has been adopted by applications involving hundreds of thousands of users. Together with Public Health England he has designed and lead the implementation of Active 10, a mobile app fostering physical activity among the inactive population (over 620,000 downloads). He has lead the implementation and management of the SETA app, adopted by Birmingham City Council to track thousands of free bikes in the city and of Seta4Schools, an app designed to track motorised and active mobility adopted by the City Council of Santander, Spain, to track mobility towards and from 15 schools.
Moreover he has co-created technologies for situation awareness in social media adopted by the emergency control rooms of events involving over a million people and acquired by Football Whispers, a service forecasting transfer of thousands of footballers from dozens of leagues worldwide.
He has co-created two companies: K-now Ltd who commercialise large-scale data analysis technologies - and The Floow Ltd, a global player in the area of data car telematics which last year was one of the 10 fastest growing companies in the UK.


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Edingale Parish Council
Clubs and organisations
History of the parish
Visiting the parish
Open Gardens
Annual transparency reports
Approaching the village from Croxall on the Croxall Road the first thing you see on the left is Gables , a whitewashed cottage dating back some 200 years and of unusually high quality. It stands on the crossroads at the entrance to Pessall Lane with School Lane on your right.
Pessall Lane is a no through road leading to a cluster of small holdings about a mile outside the village. Until recently these were let to tenant farmers though most have now been vacated and some of the buildings sold off as private dwellings or for commercial use.
The houses in Pessall Lane extend between the crossroad and the bridge over the Pessall Brook, a distance of approximately 100 metres and are all post 1930s.
Back at the crossroads on the opposite side is School Lane, like most in the village a no through road, this leading to Pingle Meadow and the River Mease.
On your right is Mary Howard School originally built in 1915 with several more recent extensions.
The next building is School House, almost certainly the oldest building in the village. Its core, a large open hall and cross wing, is believed to date from the 1400s and clearly belonged to a yeoman of considerable means. The schoolroom was constructed in the 1820s.
Opposite on the left is Lilac Cottage built in the 1700s and was once one of the village shops but closed in the 1940s.
Back to the crossroad and continuing into the village there are some council houses on either side. Those on the right were built in the 1930s and the ones on the left in the 1960s to replace a terrace of old cottages.
On the right is Moores Croft, an ancient name of unknown origin. This leads to the Village Hall, playing field and play areas. The current Village Hall was opened in 1977 to replace the wooden building dating from the 1950s.
Continuing along Croxall Road a few metres beyond Moores Croft stands an old oak tree behind which is Woodyard Drive. On this site once stood the Blacksmiths, a shoeing shed, a thatched wheelwrights shop, wood drying room and one of the village's Water Pumps.
At the end of the drive is Forge Cottage and Joe's Cave, a dwelling built on the site of a nuclear bunker constructed during the cold war.
Past The Woodyard on the right stands a house that was at one time the Village Shop and Post Office, long since closed as a result of economic pressures on rural businesses.
Back along Croxall Road, on your left you come to the 'Airey' houses built in the 1940s to replace another terrace of old cottages. On your right you pass The Firs, one of Edingale's larger residences, though sadly empty for many years. It is a Georgian house that was once a farm holding much of the land around the village. It is an old site that used to have a medieval barn in its grounds.
On the left is Blakeways Close leading to Rowley Close, both small new developments built in 1989 and 2001 respectively.
At the bottom of Rowley Close is an area of open ground bordered by the Pessall Brook on the far side and a footpath on the nearside which leads round to the Pessall Lane bridge.
Almost opposite Blakeways Close and on the right is Hatchett Lane. At the bottom of the lane is a small development of houses in Fields Farm Drive on the site of what was once Fields Farm. The original 300 year old farmhouse is still visible and fronts Croxall Road. At the top of the lane there is a footpath which leads through the Churchyard to the River Mease.
Croxall Road continues up a short rise with elevated properties on either side until you get to the top and Raddle Lane is on your left and just beyond on your right, Church Lane, more no through roads.
This marks the point at which Croxall Road becomes Main Road.
Down Church Lane on the left is Schofield Lane with its row of four cottages dating back to the early 1600s.
Past Schofield Lane on the left is Church Farm, the core of which is believed to date from 1620. It is one of the oldest farms in the village though most of the farm buildings, now converted to dwellings, date from the 1800s.
Continuing down the Lane on the left is The Vicarage, unusually large for such a small parish and dating from the time of Queen Anne. No longer connected to the Church it is privately owned.
Below The Vicarage stands Holy Trinity Church, a Victorian building that replaced an earlier Georgian one. There have been at least four churches on this site dating from Saxon times and a Saxon window remains by the vestry.
Returning to Main Road at the junction with Church Lane there lies a mound known as the Tree Roots, so called because of the towering Elm trees that once stood there. They are depicted on Parish Council Chairman's Chain of Office and reproduced at the foot of the website pages.
The mound is rumoured to be a Roman burial mound though if it is the site of a burial it is more likely to be of ancient British origin.
On opposite sides of Main Road and the Tree Roots is the Black Horse Pub and a small row of houses that once comprised the Post Office and the Bakery.
The Black Horse was one of two taverns in the village until the other was demolished in 1971. During its time it has also incorporated a Blacksmiths Shop and been the Village Shop.
On the right further down Main Road is a small close, Holland Court, built on land once belonging to the imposing building next to it, Edingale House Farm. The age of the building is undetermined though the rear is Georgian.
This was farmed for many years by Edingale's most famous resident, Jos Holland, who bred Shire Horses that achieved fame internationally.
The Stableyard and farm buildings next door now form the Stableyard Nursery.
On the opposite side of the road in an elevated position sits Pear Tree Cottage, another old property dating from the 1700s.
Continuing down Main Road on your right are three house built on the site of the Holly Bush, the other tavern in the village, and situated in the bank opposite is another of the village water pumps.
There is a junction with a mini roundabout at this point. Turn right and you leave the village along Harlaston Road in the direction of the nearby village of Harlaston that lies on the other side of the River Mease.
Adjacent to the roundabout is Rose Cottage, the core of which is over 300 years old. This was once the home of the Edingale 'pinner' whose job it was to round up stray animals and hold them in a pen next to the house until their owners could collect them.
Continuing over the roundabout into Lullington Road is Vine House and Briar Oak both built prior to 1800 and opposite is Ivanhoe Cottage and Wright's Cottage which was a shop until 1931.
Less than a mile down the road you pass into Derbyshire before arriving in the village of Lullington.
On the corner of Croxall Road and School Lane, we have the The Mary Howard Church of England [C] Primary School.
This is the official website for Edingale Parish Council, Staffordshire, UK. Our local council is Lichfield District Council.
50 Cornwall Avenue,
Tamworth,
B78 3YB
Email: edingalevillage@gmail.com
Police (non-emergency): 101
Fire and rescue (non-emergency): 0300 330 1000
Parish Clerk: 01827 50230
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Q: Impossible to get Wifi to work on Lenovo X201 tablet after Windows reinstallation I've reinstalled Windows 7 32 bits a year ago on my X201 tablet, and since then I have NEVER been able to get the Wifi to work again. I've been using a cheap router set in Client mode via Ethernet, which works fine (I have network and internet access), but I've had enough of packing all these bits and bobs around with me.
I have tried installing every WAN and WLAN driver listed here, downloaded from Lenovo's website, but the only network connections listed are "Local Area Connection" and "Bluetooth Network Connection". Device manager flags that "Network Controller", "PCI serial port", "PCI simple communications controller" and "Unknown device" do not have drivers installed (under "other devices"). Lenovo does not have any ISO of driver DVD available, which I found ludicrous.
I'm out of options, any help would be very appreciated!

A: I have managed dozens of x201 series laptops and can say I have not seen a more consistent rate of problems with wifi adapters than with this specific series.
In most cases, the internal wifi antenna is damaged/defective and must be replaced. A good indicator of this is when the green wifi symbol will not light up (and the bluetooth symbol is lit), or having the wifi light turn off shortly after enabling wifi (Fn+F5).

Of course, make sure the main wifi switch is set correctly and that you enable all wireless radios with Fn+F5. The switch is on the left hand side of the laptop and on the end closest to the user.
I have had occasional success by uninstalling the wifi network adapter from Computer Management, which forces the laptop to reidentify the adapater on next boot.
Lenovo has suggested running their ThinkVantage System Update tool for all available updates (critical/required/optional). They have insisted that some updates that claim to install merely defer when not all available updates are selected. I can't speak to the validity of this, mostly because it sounds like a support filler statement, but it may be worth trying.

A: I had the same (even a bit bigger) problem after setting an X201 back to factory status.
I went to Lenovo support website http://support.lenovo.com/de/en/products/Laptops-and-netbooks/ThinkPad-X-Series-laptops/ThinkPad-X201/3626/AC9?tabName=Downloads&linkTrack=Mast:SubNav:Support:Drivers%20and%20Software|Drivers%20and%20Software&beta=false
and after I typed in my serial number (without the dash) I was then able to download ethernet and wireless controller and driver. Since I didn't know which was the correct one I took all 5 and simply installed them ... number 2 and 4 did it for me. Everything working now!


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UMNO Revolt Rises Against Malaysia PM
With the filing of a police report late last week by a member of Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak's own political party, the long knives have appeared in Malaysia, seeking the premier's scalp over the scandal-ridden state investment fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd.
1MDB is said to be seeking permission for an extension from Bank Negara, the country's central bank, on nonperforming loans from the country's Tier 1 banks out a concern that if no extension is granted, the banks could be forced to make major provisions.
Although he has made only oblique comments publicly, the man behind the move to oust Najib is former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who publicly withdrew his support for the prime minister via his blog, Che Det, in August.
Kairuddin Abu Hassan, a Penang-based United Malays National Organization deputy district chief, filed the request for a "detailed and comprehensive" investigation including the interrogation of 1MDB's board of directors and representatives of any companies that might be implicated.
While the Penang UMNO branch distanced itself from Khairuddin's actions and threatened to bounce him out of the party, there can be little doubt that forces aligned with Mahathir have seriously increased the pressure. Over the weekend, the 700,000-member Perkasa NGO, a Malay supremacy organization closely allied with Mahathir, denounced the prime minister, saying he had lost the confidence of the country.
"Realistically Najib's situation is untenable," a member of the Mahathir faction said. "Certainly he will fight back but whether he resigns or not point is he is he cannot function as PM."
When Mahathir began his campaign against Najib more than a year and a half ago, it was given little chance. The former prime minister had been out of office for more than a decade and was regarded as a loud but irrelevant force. But political analysts in Kuala Lumpur say his campaign has been gaining traction over the 1MDB issue.
Even at 89, and reportedly seeing a physician for various ailments, Mahathir remains a formidable if flawed figure who during his 22 year reign as prime minister forcefully led an industrialization drive to move the county out of its plantation mentality, at the same time resulting in as much as US$100 billion in bad investments.. He forced the departure of Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, the successor he hand-picked in 2003 as premier in 2009, and set his sights on Najib in the runup to the 2013 general election, charging behind the scenes that Najib hadn't adequately represented the interests of the Malays.
The vehicle for his surrogates' attack on Najib is 1MDB, the five-year-old state investment fund which as of March had amassed debts of RM49.1 billion (US$14.04 billion) against assets of RM51.4 billion, registering losses of M663.5 billion at the end of the quarter, mainly on huge finance costs.
Mahathir and his allies have been dissatisfied with Najib's performance for more than two years over a wide range of other issues as well, however. The 1MDB issue, described as "the mother of the mother of the mother of all scandals" by Democratic Action Party MP Tony Pua in an Asia Sentinel article on Dec. 8, has become the vehicle with which the octogenarian hopes to skewer the prime minister. It has gained additional momentum because of allegations that Jho Low Taek, a hard-partying young friend of the Najib family, may have used Malaysian government guarantees to back the making of The Wolf of Wall Street, a hit movie starring Leonardo di Caprio, and to fund his attempt to take over three of London's most prestigious hotels.
Najib is the chairman of the 1MBD advisory board and the motivating force, apparently on the advice of Jho Low, as he is known, a putative whiz kid who is alleged to have steered the fund first into a disastrous alliance on oil exploration on the advice of a Saudi prince he went to school with in London.
When the exploration failed, opposition figures alleged, the money was invested in forex trades in yen. The trades were not successful and, opposition lawmakers alleged, the money disappeared. That was the first of a long string of financial disasters that put 1MDB deep in the red without adequate capital to meet obligations.
Mahathir, who rarely attacks frontally, sought to use his allies to put pressure on Najib at the UMNO annual general assembly in Kuala Lumpur in late November, in particular seeking to bring a vote to the floor of the body rejecting Najib's stated plans to international leaders to dump the country's imprecise, often-abused colonial era Sedition Act.
Najib short-stopped the plan by announcing in advance that he would not only not discard the sedition act, he would strengthen it "to defend Islam" and other religions. Any attempt to bring the disaster surrounding 1MDB was also turned back. .
Nonetheless, despite having quelled open rebellion, the widespread feeling is that Najib emerged from the UMNO convention weakened. A number of political observers including those inside UMNO have suggested that he will be replaced by Muhyiddin Yassin, the deputy prime minister and UMNO vice president, sometime later this year.
Following Kairuddin's filing of the complaint last Friday, alleging "questionable" business, investment and fund raising transactions and decisions, A. Kadir Jasin, the former editor of the New Straits Times and one of Mahathir's closest allies, wrote on his blog that an additional report may be filed with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, a notoriously political body – ostensibly modeled on Hong Kong's vaunted Independent Commission Against Corruption -- that tends to shovel corruption complaints under the carpet unless there is a political motivation to push them along.
The MACC, as it is known, has a long record of refusing reports of corruption or finding no cause of action after reports have actually been filed. If the MACC takes up the report filed by Mahathir's allies, it raises very interesting questions.
1MDB, in a statement, said "We are aware that a police report concerning 1MDB was filed by a politician in Penang. We have not seen any documentation related to this, so are unaware of the nature of the complaint. However, we are confident that it will have no legal basis. We welcome any investigation into our affairs and the opportunity to rebut malicious allegations."
A delegation led by the 1MDB Chairman, Lodin Wok Kamaruddin, along with two other board members, met with Mahathir to vainly attempt to assuage his concerns. Apparently they didn't deliver the answers Mahathir wanted.
In a thinly veiled entry on his blog, Kadir quoted a source – probably Mahathir himself – saying the former prime minister feels obliged to take up the matter and to speak openly because many parties had come to see him to inform him about the goings-on in the company and that he was disappointed that issues surrounding 1MDB weren't seriously discussed by delegates at the Umno General Assembly.


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