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Sights, shopping and massage in Bangkok – Day 2
Day 2 of the Bangkok trip is basically the typical holiday itinerary for Bangkok. Tailoring for guys, followed by Pratunam area (or more specifically Platinum Fashion Mall) for shopping, followed by a sumptuous Chinatown sharks fin seafood dinner.
There was quite a few tailors recommended on HardwareZone Forums, namely Boss Avenue, Crown, Pinky and a few others. Since I was nearer to Nana/Asoke area, I decided to try Boss Avenue and Crown, since they were quite well known and easy to find. You could practically see the signboard for Boss Avenue from the BTS! I’ll probably write a longer post about the clothing quality after I have worn it for 2-3 weeks, but at this moment, I quite prefer Boss Avenue’s cutting and cloth type. Although I have to say, Boss Avenue tends to stick with the common and safe cloth selections. So nothing fanciful for sure.
Next is the compulsory visit to Platinum fashion mall in the Pratunam area. Platinum mall is kind of like a bigger version of bugis village, where fledgling blogshops like to get their stock from. The clothes aren’t exactly dirt cheap, but they do have a large range of designs and styles! If you are travelling in an all-guys group, feel free to skip this!
Pratunam is essentially a shopping region. In fact, Pratunam is so popular with Singaporeans, that most of the time, they stay in the hotels around that area, such as Amari watergate or Metz Pratunam. One of the main reason is that Pratunam is actually some distance away from Chit Lom BTS(the nearest BTS), and having a hotel nearby would be helpful if you are lugging 5 plastic bags of purchases.
For those staying in other parts of Bangkok such as Sukhumvit or Silom, the easiest way is probably to take the BTS to Chit Lom, walk pass Central World, across the bridge and there you are. A short little 10 minutes walk.
The last destination for the day is Chinatown for the ‘cheap’ seafood! It’s not exactly ‘cheap’ cheap, since tourist tend to flock to the area. It’s probably how foreigners to Singapore see Boat Quay and Newton hawker center.
I wasn’t exactly keen on sitting along the roadside while paying good money for food, so I managed to find a little ‘hole in the wall’ restaurant that had an air-conditioned upper floor!
I figured that if prices were similar, how much worse can seafood turn out right?
Turns out it was a good choice!
Compared to the overcrowded restaurant next door with people sitting on small stools, there was only 2 other tables occupied in our nice air-conditioned dining area! Food was really good too! The customary claypot of sharksfin, scrambled egg with crabmeat, prawns fried with garlic, black pepper sea bass fillet, beef in oyster sauce and crab vermicelli. Best! Definitely a meal fit for a king. It wasn’t particularly cheap, not that we expected it would be anyway. 1500 baht or around S$60 for 2 pax. It almost felt like an exclusive meal with almost no other guests around.
After dinner, we took a walk around the dark and quiet streets of Chinatown, before we decided it was too spooky and flagged a cab back to civilisation. It’s scary how desolated and uninhabited the place can be after dark. *shudders*
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Wed, 05 Mar, 2014 12:00:32 AM FTimes Report, March 5 File picture of Interior Minister Päivi Räsänen. Photo – Lehtikuva. The Interior Minister Päivi Räsänen said Finland thinks that steps should be taken to ensure a credible return policy for the EU, said a government press release.
“A successful return policy is a prerequisite for well-managed migration and for the credibility of the migration and asylum system,” said the interior minister while attending a meeting of the Justice and Home Affairs Council in Brussels on March 3.
In the discussions, Räsänen proposed that the EU should consider starting negotiations of readmission agreements with new countries.
“It is very important for the EU to have a common and credible policy in this field, too. A large number of Member States consider further development of return policy to be essential when drawing up new strategic guidelines for the JHA sector,” said Räsänen.
She said, from Finland's perspective, voluntary return has always been the primary option. “At the moment, we are striving to make this option increasingly attractive by reforming the associated support services.”
The member states may also agree on return arrangements bilaterally with non-EU countries if the EU does not reach agreement on readmission questions with the country concerned.
“Finland wants to be actively involved in the creation of bilateral arrangements, if efforts to agree on an EU-level arrangement are not successful,” said Räsänen.
At the meeting, the commission also briefed the council about action taken by the Task Force Mediterranean and the associated follow-up.
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A Green Velvet Secret / Vicki Grant Toronto: Tundra, c2023. 256 p. |
Another middle grade novel that I really enjoyed this month! The Green Velvet Secret was funny, fashionable, and it brought me to tears. What a good read.
Yardley O'Hanlon lives with her grandmother Gidge and her two rather unusual parents. They run a small theater and Gidge is the one providing financial stability to the household. Gidge and Yardley spend a lot of their time crafting and sewing and making beautiful things -- Gidge has a large wardrobe and isn't constrained by what others think. Yardley finds it hard to make friends but she's quite satisfied with her bedazzled life as it is.
However, Gidge gets ill, and wants to set up Yardley for the future. They donate a ton of her clothes to a new vintage shop in town, which happens to be run by an old student of Gidge's, and begin to volunteer there as well. Gidge is hoping for some socialization for Yardley, and new friends to take over when she's gone.
But Gidge always believed in reincarnation, so in the weeks after her death, when a glamorous woman walks into the shop, Yardley in convinced it's Gidge back again. But the truth is something even more surprising.
This book is full of clothing and making and beauty and pathos and sadness and friendship... it was a touching read, frank and honest about a lot of things for such a short, middle grade read. It's about parenting, being true to yourself, forgiveness and more. I'm so glad I picked this one up on a whim!
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More links and back story on Palin's Librarian Scandal.
I want to do my best to keep this story front and center in people's minds. Reasons are too numerous to relate in full, but two words sum it up, "The Constitution."
Now, I know this "heart of our country" has been weakened over the last 8 years by attacks from the right and weak and pathetic non-defense-defenses from the left, but even the current Commander in Thief has not banned books, talked about banning books, or fired Librarians.
Bush's attacks on the library have been privacy related. And the ALA has fought back valiantly for each and every one of us since Sept. 11th. Bush wants to see what you check out and read. He wants libraries to spy on local citizens. I don't know if you know any librarians personally, I do. And it is not likely that they will stop fighting back. Ever.
But this new Palin-creature? She poses an clear and additional threat. If she has even thought about the process and merits of book banning we need to remember, discuss and remind anyone who might consider pulling the lever for McCain that this woman would have a serious chance of becoming the president. What right does she have to tell people what they can and can't read?
The Wasilla Library story also highlights a pattern of intimidating employees that disagree with her, and firing people who get in her way.
For some back story Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar has a comprehensive post with links upon links.
I found this section of that post about the incident particularly damning, it comes from the Frontiersman in 1996;
Emmons said in the first conversation, before being sworn in as mayor, Palin briefly touched on the subject of censorship.Thankfully the Librarian, with the confidence of ACLU (and I am sure ALA) support behind her, pushed back, hard.
But on Monday, Oct. 28, Emmons said Palin asked her outright if she could live with censorship of library books. This was during a weak when Palin was requesting resignations from all the city's department heads as a way of expressing loyalty.
“This is different than a normal book-selection procedure or a book-challenge policy,” Emmons stressed Saturday. “She was asking me how I would deal with her saying a book can't be in the library.
She asked me if I would object to censorship, and I replied 'Yup',” Emmons recounted Saturday. “And I told her it would not be just me. This was a constitutional question, and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) would get involved, too.Palin's lies are already becoming old news. She seems catagorically incapable of telling the truth, she's a bully who threatened or fired at least 3 employees that we know of so far, she is an extemist on religious and social issues, and she makes her decisions, "From the gut, without blinking an eye."
So, what are you doing today to make sure she does not become our VP and potential president? It's back to phone banking for me.
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I know I've talked about fashion design on here and my love for clothes. Even more so, to design and construct clothes that I can't find in stores AND that won't cost me a small fortune for a dress. Well, at long last, I've found something that can help put that within reach for me!!!! Some of you may have heard about Make in the Bishop Arts District here in Dallas. I only discovered this wonderful gem last night!! And if I weren't going to be out of town towards the end of the month for a couple of Sundays, then I would totally sign up for the Project Make session. Instead, I'm going to hold off and hope and pray that they offer it in the Spring so I can do it then. In the meantime, I'm definitely going to sign up for a class in August. I'm thinking the diaper bag/laptop case class (because you can never have too many bags, right??).
Wheee!!! Happy, happy, joy, joy!
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I noticed that the two 'Home Run' roses on the South side of the house are really growing actively, and it's time to chop them back a little (or a lot). Here's the first one:
It's about 5' tall, which is bigger than I want. I'll take it back about 1/2 way, to 2'-3' tall.
As you can see from the not-too-great photo above, it's kind of a tangle. Usually I can see the obvious places to cut, but look at this:
I mean, where do you start? Well, my approach is to start taking some off, then move down a bit, taking more. In areas that are really congested, I take a full cane out. Pretty soon things start making sense and before you know it, the job is looking manageable:
Ok, it's hard to tell if that's a shot of exactly the same part of the plant, but you get the idea.
Much chopping later, I've got a pruned rose and a full bin:
Disclaimer: As I've said before, I'm no rose pruning expert. My methods seem to work well for the rose varieties I grow -- I'm sure there are rosarians reading this who are laughing (or crying) at my pruning attempts.
After the first couple of roses which I pruned earlier, I remembered that it's better to chop the stems up pretty small. That way I can easily drop them in to the chipper's hopper and that makes getting rid of them much easier. Easy is good. I like easy. Here's somebody who likes to "take it easy" while I'm trying not to get thorned too badly:
(I'm glad Super-Whitey decided that a nap was a better idea than rubbing against the legs of somebody who was dropping really sharp and thorny sticks all over the place. She was really getting in the way and making me nervous! By the way, maybe that will be me someday: taking a nap in the garden while somebody I trust maintains it for me. Yeah, right.)
On to the next 'Home Run' rose, which isn't nearly as tall, but still needs to be controlled a bit. Yes, it's blocking the gas meter a bit, but it has an electronic monitor on it so it's read remotely -- no human needs to access it. The thing you can't see in this photo is there's a water spigot back there. Not too easy to access later in the season.
There we go, hacked down to size. Water spigot revealed:
This one doesn't grow as much as the others, probably because this is a tough area of my yard. It's on a slope, compacted clay soil, full Southern exposure, and there is a Sugar Maple nearby whose roots suck all of the moisture and nutrients from the ground. This rose does quite well, but doesn't reach the size of the other two of the same type.
Taking another look at the bed right next to the first rose I pruned today, it's time to clean this up. The daylilies are coming on strong, and I should clean them up a bit so the deer can enjoy looking at them while they eat them.
A few grasses to trim, more vinca vines (which I really let get out of hand over here -- there are plenty of newly-rooted vinca plants I'll have to dig out sometime), and some Russian sage. If you grow Russian sage you know what a strong scent it has. I really like it, but I'm guessing that deer do not, so I'm going to try cutting some pieces of sage stem and putting them in the daylilies. Perhaps that will deter the deer for a little while, although I can see they've been munching them already.
There's the finished bed. As usual it's not perfect, but it's good enough for now. There are a lot of weeds in that bed, mostly violets. Sigh.
How long did it take? about 1:00
Total time spent on clean-up so far this year: 12:30 (12 hours 30 minutes)
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This is what you get when you have warm, mild weather for a while...
...and then a night of 18ºF (-8ºC). Those plants that emerge early -- even earlier than normal -- get melted.
Dicentra (wait, didn't it change genus?) is not my favorite plant, but I've grown accustomed to those amazing little pendant heart blooms each spring.
Not sure I'll see any this year -- unless you count the ones already on the ground.
Only one of my Japanese Maples had leaves opened enough to get stung:
Some weird leaf colors now...
...as there should not be so much brown mixed in there.
I suppose the rhubarb wouldn't have been so far along if it had been in the ground...
...but it really got toasted.
Some plants are apparently fine with the hard freezes, like queen of the prairie:
I'm so glad the bamboo shoots that have emerged are still just an inch or two tall. Any bigger and they would have been lost.
We set a record high of 85ºF (29ºC) yesterday, and it's back down to somewhat normal temps again now (55ºF/13ºC is a normal high for this time of year). Warm again soon though. I like it -- as long as the hard freezes stay away!
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If you have never been introduced to something new by your friends, then you need new friends. It doesn’t have to be a trip to the top of Mount Everest. It doesn’t have to be something big. Sometimes the new thing is just but a small gesture, but it ends up making your day. Like getting introduced to a pack of Papermate Inkjoy pens by a classmate.
For someone who writes down a lot when studying, these pens have easily became my favorites. They don’t spill ink and leave color on your paper, so there are zero chances of your work looking like a 2-year old playing around with a pen. Unless you are really a 2-year old playing around with a pen. They alsohave a nice rubber grip and are comfortable on the fingers, so you can keep going for as long as your concentration levels can keep up.
I love using different colors when taking notes, and most nursing students do too. Maybe use a different color for the topic, another for the subtopic and a separate color in the notes. This makes my revision much easier. The pens come in a pack of 14, all different colors. Which means I don’t have to search my purse for a different color pen when writing. Anyone who enjoys writing should try them out.
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*This letter is in response to a video degrading a young mother who was allegedly murdered by her partner in my hometown. She did not deserve to die.
Greetings world, Let's just get right to the point, shall we? I am not a hood rat. I am not a holla back girl. I am not a b****, h**, or anything of that nature. You can call me by my government-recognized name: Jamie I.Y. Crockett. I was raised and attended school and my place of worship in East St. Louis, IL and its surrounding area. I worked to do my best in a public school system that needed assistance. As a result, I was among the top in my class. And by the way, my graduating class is incredibly intelligent. So intelligent and driven, our teachers have proclaimed they haven't witnessed a class like ours. I am a survivor. I have been through so many things as a human being and global citizen, not just an East St. Louis resident. So many things that should have killed me. Yet, I have a soft heart, and I definitely wear a tough skin. I am a Mizzou Tiger. I am a first-generation college student. I am a self-starting, independent, highly motivated perfectionist. I operate in the spirit of excellence. Hear me roar. I am a daughter, a friend, a sister, a student, a class president, a valedictorian, a journalist, a motivational speaker, a CEO & Founder, a runner up for an international video contest, a participant of a Harvard research project regarding youth and their positive online community building, a volunteer, a lover of people, a gentle spirit, a roaring lioness, a child of the Most High, a HUMAN BEING! As a human being, I will not stand by and watch the defamation of another individual. I speak up! Who are you? Who are you to stamp every individual connected to East St. Louis, IL with "Scum of the Earth?" Who are you to rank my hometown among the most dangerous cities in America? Who are you to claim our success stories, but throw away our "troubled children?" Who are you to hail Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Al Joyner, Dawn Harper, Katherine Dunham, Miles Davis, Terry Hawthorne, Tina and Ike Turner and more as "American All-stars," but you speak of every other resident as a nameless piece of wasted time and dust that the Good Lord could have spent creating something else. Last I checked, we all are made of the same dust. How dare you. How dare you belittle MY family. The village who raised me. The lives who molded me. How dare you. You didn't help me become the activist I am today. But you sure as heck have fueled the fire. You don't have any authority to speak on the lives of my fellow residents. "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem." Stop talking and DO SOMETHING to assist what you THINK may be failing in my hometown. Move your family here for a year, A YEAR. Learn the people. Love the people. See the issues. Solve the problems. THEN, AND MAYBE THEN, YOU CAN GIVE YOUR INPUT. But not a moment sooner. Because until you do so, until you remember that you may have struggled to be where you are, until you remember that you had a silver spoon to eat from, until you remember that a life is not more valuable than another because of social and economic status, religious/nonreligious beliefs, geographic location, skin color or any other privilege you THINK you have, you will NEVER be able to speak with authority on something you know nothing about. I am a shining light and I shine through the darkness. My name is Jamie Crockett, a resident filled with hometown pride, and I approved this message. |
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A topic that I’ve been thinking about for sometime now and with my own children growing up immersed in technology, have been wondering if content over consumption is or will be a problem. Is anyone else thinking about this?
Content is everywhere and so accessible and at lower and lower prices, and everybody is creating and publishing their own content. Blogs, videos, photos, apps, web-sites, Facebook pages and more. When we access and consume all this content are as focused as we should be? Are we spending the time the content deserves or needs to understand it properly?
I’m a big fan of digital media and technology and yes I buy into the anywhere, anyhow and anytime philosophy. I like to be able to decide when and where and how I access the content and what content I’m accessing.
Mrs. Noble’s not convinced about my 2 screen policy in the living room – i.e. watching TV and using the iPad or iPhone at the same time (be it for browsing, Twitter, e-mails or anything). Her argument goes that I’m not focused on the one activity – one content consumption activity – so I can’t be getting the most out of it. She has a point and a good one. Yes it does take a lot for a TV programme to grab my attention fully but unless I consume the content and focus on it and nothing else, am I off to a bad start?
What got me really thinking about this was a BBC programme that’s on now, called “The Men Who Made Us Fat“, with Jacques Peretti. The title of this grabbed me and I thought I’ve got to watch it, as it’s surely all about self control so I was dying to see what they had to say and how it can be possibly be someone else’s fault. But I stand corrected – it’s an eye opener to say the least. Some critics of the programme disagree – quite harshly – but it makes some very very good points and there were a number of pivotal points over the last 40 or so years that have contributed to over consumption of food, that you can’t argue with.
Keep with me, this is relevant to the subject of content over consumption as you’ll see…
These pivotal points include:
- The availability of cheaper high calorie food – through sugar and corn syrup.
- The new idea of a snack – food consumption away from the traditional meals.
- Counter service food – fast food and takeaways, food when I want and where I want.
- Food manufacturers creating new low fat alternatives but still full of sugar.
- And food anywhere, anyhow and anytime – it’s everywhere you go.
And these have all contributed to a growing over consumption of food and yes the related health issues – particularly in the Western world.
Now back to content – let’s look at the similarities…
- The mass availability of cheap rich media content – e.g. from YouTube.
- Content snacks as cheap small pieces of content – e.g. music tracks and short episodes.
- Counter service – content anywhere I want through iTunes, Amazon, Google etc.
- New types of content from creators – e.g. apps for £0.69.
- And content anywhere, anyhow and anytime – what the consumer is wanting.
Content over consumption is coming and for some it’s already here. Is it a problem though? That’s the million dollar question. I don’t think so if we manage the consumption properly – and this is down to individuals and parents. Moderation is the key word and content is good in the right amounts and when appropriately filtered for the little guys. We don’t want to stop the trends we’ve got now, with everyone being able to create their own high quality content – and build up those associated creative (and technology) skills. But at the same time we don’t want to create a bottomless content pit where you can’t sort out the good from the bad easily and become overwhelmed by the volume.
Yes content is king but it’s about quality not quantity.
And some thoughts from the Dalai Lama to finish on…
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A while back I was looking for a travel tripod that was light enough to carry on hikes, hold a full frame camera, and one that would fit easily inside a camera backpack or checked luggage. I am happy to say the Benro MeFoto travel tripod has fit the bill. It is small (12.5″ folded), light (2.6 lbs.), and sturdy (can hold 8.8 lbs). I can fit this tripod into any of my camera backpacks or attach it outside, my choice.
The tripod has 5 segment legs with twist locks. The legs can be independently adjusted to 2 positions: wide or narrow. MeFoto uses a ball head and can be rotated via a separate pan screw with a scale labelled in 360 degree increments. There are 3 rubber coated knobs on the head; one for panning, one for the ball and one for the quick release plate. The center column extends 6 inches for added height and there is even a handy spring loaded retractable hook if a weight bag is required for stability.
Ball head with separate pan knob |
The quick release plate is an Arca-Swiss style. It can slide back and forth approximately 3/4 of an inch and there is a scale for the focal plane for pano-photography. Mounted next to the quick release plate is a small (tiny) bubble level.
The size and weight of this tripod gives me the freedom to carry a tripod to places I would otherwise not be able to, like on a back packing trip where weight is a concern or on a plane where there is lack of luggage space.
The MeFoto comes in 5 colors: gold, blue, green, red, and titanium, and retails for $139.
Folded 12.5 inches
Minimum height is 22.8 inches
Maximum height is 45.5 inches
Maximum height with center column fully extended is 51.5 inches
Shown with legs in the wide position |
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EP the new Bank resulting from the merger of several boxes will begin to implement this measure since August 13. Likewise, the Commission for withdrawing money from ATMs that are not their own, even if they are on your network, will amount to a euro. If the ATM belongs to other networks, the amount will rise to 3.5 euros. That domicile your payroll or pension and youth under 26 years be waived them the Committee on maintenance, among other advantages. Bankia Bank resulting from the merger of Caja Madrid and Bancaja (among others), only will cease charging account maintenance fees in the event that they reach an average exceeding 2,000 euros balance. Federal Reserve Bank follows long-standing procedures to achieve this success. If it does not, customers must pay beginning August 13 two euros a month, which will involve 24 euros per year.
In a letter sent by the institution to all its depositors, Bankia Announces them in addition that the Commission for withdrawing money via debit cards at Servired ATMs that are not themselves will be of 1 euro per operation; in the case of other ATMs the quantity will rise to 3.5 euros. The fee rises if you use credit card, since it will be 3 euros in ATMs of Bankia, and 4 euros at Servired cash and the rest of the ATMs outside the network. The consultations will be free with the debit cards and credit in the ATMs of the group, and 0.75 euros in the rest of ATMs. Which are not affected by this measure will be those customers who domicile your payroll or pension with the entity, or young people who do not exceed 26 years of age. All these customers, Bankia not charge Commission for maintenance and administration of the account associated with the payroll, pension or young account; annual fee of your debit card will be free and the operations of entry checks and or domestic transfers via ATM, Internet or phone performing will be exempt from Commission. Source of the news: Bankia charge two euros per month to its customers if your average balance does not exceed 2,000 euros.
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B738 - SOLDThis is a charming antique French trinket box dating from about 1900. It has a working key and would be perfect for securing a few special keepsakes. The box is made of pewter in the Art Nouveau style. On the lid is a gorgeous design worked in fabulous detail. There is a central bow from which hangs a beautiful basket of flowers. To either side further flower garlands swag and fall as if caught at the corners. Under the basket the piece is signed 'P. Chaumette'. The sides of the box have further Art Nouveau decoration. There is a little lock and key that work perfectly. The lid has a sturdy piano hinge and lifts up to reveal an interior lined with a deep blue plush. The bottom of the box bears a Paris stamp. The pewter has mellowed to an atmospheric dark grey hue. The box measures :- 16 cm (6.25 inches) wide x 10 cm (4 inches) deep x 4.5 cm (1.75 inches) high. A gorgeous trinket casket to use and enjoy and another divine antique French brocante find from la Belle Étoffe! Please hover cursor over picture for magnified detail and click on picture for enlarged photo. SOLD U.K. Delivery £6.95 Please contact us for international delivery cost.
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Happy November, dear readers! I don't know about you, but I am relieved that October is finally over! As much as I normally love the month and Halloween, this past one has just been one thing after another. I've been averaging about four hours of sleep at night all month long and I am definitely starting to crack. Thankfully most of the time sensitive things I've had to deal with, often while solo parenting two toddlers, was last month so I can hopefully get a little rest in this month. At least that is what I'm telling myself anyway! Ha! Now on to today's blog post!
I had tried to get this up yesterday while it was still Halloween, but everything was going against me. I suppose nothing says you *have* to have candy corn during October only, although it is traditionally associated with the holiday. My oldest son confiscated my cowboy hat I was planning on wearing for Halloween, and I was too lazy to go pick up another one. I needed to come up with a different EASY costume idea, and since I had not yet done candy corn nails for Halloween nail art, I opted to go that route. Check it out!
What's this? A new pose? Yes and no. The curvature of OPI bottles makes my normal hand pose super awkward for me so here's something a little different. After all, Halloween is all about not being yourself, right? Speaking on not being myself, check out this nail shape! I took a break from my normal squared off nails all October and sported more of a coffin shape. While filing my nails the other day, I was *slightly* distracted with Supernatural and ended up with a far more rounded look than I wanted. It's cute to I opted to just run with it for a little bit before I return to my usual squared off nails.
To create this look, I started off with OPI Alpine Snow. Over that, I then sponged on No Faux Yellow, Juice Bar Hopping and more Alpine Snow to make the gradient.
While the candy corn gradient is cute, it never seems quite complete to me. I already knew I was going to be doing candy corn nails at some point in October, and I had the lovely Laura of Ellagee create this adorable custom glitter topper for me. I named in Uni-Candy-Corn, of course!
Uni-Candy-Corn was not released as it was a last minute thought on my end (and a special thank you again to Laura for whipping this up for me so quickly!), but you can still contact Laura/Ellagee if you have a custom in mind for yourself. I've worked with her a few times, and it's always been fun! If you adore Uni-Candy-Corn as much as I do, there is a possibility it will be making an appearance for next Halloween in Laura's shop. You just need to have lots of patience!
I also went with a candy-corn inspired look for my makeup as well! I bought this fabulous highlighter, Toothache, by Bitter Lace Beauty, in the beginning of October, and while it took almost four weeks to get to me, it arrived just in time for Halloween so I could play with it. I'm wearing it here as a single swipe so you can see the yellow, orange, and white lines on my face. Even though this highlighter was originally designed with Halloween in mind, the colours blend together beautifully to create a beautiful golden shade that is wearable year-round.
For my eyes, I used shades from the Malibu palette from BH Cosmetics. It is no longer posted on their site so I believe it may now be retired, but it was the colourful palette from the California Makeup Collection. I've not touched this palette in quite some time, and I forgot that these shades take quite a bit of layering to get decent colour payout, but for the price of the palette, it was worth it. I actually had ordered a few things from another company at the beginning of the month *coughcough* ColourPop *coughcough* and my order was only just shipped on Halloween. Thankfully I remembered having this BH Cosmetics palette, and it made an acceptable substitute for the day.
Another look at my eyeshadows and highlighter! I really wanted a little more orange, but the colour payout for the orange from the Malibu palette was horrendous. You win some, you lose some, right?
Due to ColourPop not shipping my order in a timely fashion, I also didn't have the lipstick I wanted to wear. Boo hiss! Unfortunately, my bright/unusual lipstick colours are even more limited than my limited eyeshadow options so I ended up using Gerard Cosmetics lipstick in 1995 to complete the look. While it may not be the exact look I had planned, I'm pretty happy with it, even if taking selfies to share here are still awkward for me.
What did you think of this look? Is it something you would do any day, or is it something you'd limit to Halloween? Also, if you wear brighter colours, I'd love to hear your recommendations, both for eyeshadows and lipsticks!
Until next time, dear readers, have a wonderful day!
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Man With a Van Leamington Spa Warwickshire (CV31): When you find yourself in a situation where you need to shift bulky objects or items of furniture from one property to another in Leamington Spa, and are trying to decide what is the best option, a local service could be the solution you're looking for. If you only have several items you may not need a full removal company in Leamington Spa, which is often really expensive, and you probably won't be able to fully load their scale of lorry or container. Your local man with a van service can provide you with a personal and professional service for even the most modest of loads, and will deliver it to any location in the UK or even throughout Europe if that is what's required.
The versatility that a man with a van can provide you with allows them to handle pretty much any home or business premises removals you might need in the Leamington Spa area. In these modern times it is common for folks to purchase bulky items from online auction websites or companies that can't offer home delivery, therefore if you do not have the facility to pick up such cumbersome items, your man with a van service will be able to do this on your behalf. Get in touch with your local Leamington Spa man with a van service for a price quote whenever you find that perfect purchase, from pianos to wardrobes, and just about everything in-between.
is perfectly suited to multiple, short trips, like in a local area house or apartment move. Some folks in Leamington Spa go down the self-drive hire van route, which is of course fine, but what you must remember is the fact that you'll have to carry out all of the loading/unloading yourself without the added benefit of that extra pair of hands. If you want to help with preparing the items for the move this could save you some money, as will helping to load up the vehicle for the first trip, if you are going to be around to do this. Once the man with a van has successfully delivered the first load, he can then return to pick up the remainder of your stuff from the other property, and you can concentrate on your new home and unpacking your possessions.
Obviously you'll need to book a van that can safely and securely cater for any large, awkwardly shaped or heavy items that need moving. So that the process of lifting your items into and out of the vehicle will be simpler, you may have to book a van with a powered tail lift (perhaps a Luton style or box van), to reduce the chance of accidents.
You can find quite a few website offers and adverts for a man and van in Leamington Spa, and this is thanks to the year on year rise in the requirement for such services. Filtering out such services to find the best man with a van in Leamington Spa is no simple task, so exactly how should we do this?
GETTING A QUOTE
You should always try and obtain
quotations, for your needs, even if you are in need of a last minute move or delivery owing to an unexpected situation. It really is to your advantage to be upfront and honest about the amount and size of the items which need to be moved. Providing the man with a van company with exact upfront information makes certain that you will get a correct quote. As soon as you have a price you are satisfied with, make sure you have it in black and white to avoid any later billing issues, and in no event consent to pay the full amount in advance.When talking to a man with a van in Leamington Spa it should be stressed that you understand if you've got to pay for insurance or if it's all-inclusive in the price. Offering far cheaper quotations than would otherwise be possible, some man and a van services shift the onus onto you with regards to insurance cover. You might find that if any goods are damaged during transit they will not be covered, unless you have spoken to your insurance provider in advance and come to an agreement. If you experience difficulties getting covered by your own insurance, there are third party insurers who offer specialist insurance for such things as items in transit, storage and home moves. When you are handed any man with van quotes you should ask whether insurance coverage is included.
It's often the recommendations of neighbours or friends for a specific person or provider that can provide the best source of
options in Leamington Spa. But, you still need to be mindful and conduct your own checks on even the most enthusiastically recommended service to guarantee that they are able to offer you exactly what you need.You shouldn't be affronted if a representative from the company insists on examining your items before collection, even if you believe that you have described your articles precisely. This is mostly done to ensure that the correct size of van turns up on the day and that there are sufficient people to successfully accomplish the move. It will also give them an opportunity to appraise the work involved, the configuration and amount of stairs, potential for parking and other aspects that could have an affect on your initial quotation, either up or down in cost.
When considering pricing, each man with a van service in Leamington Spa will have their own system, however the final bill will almost always be affected by some main elements:
- Minimum hourly rate per person hired.
- Road and bridge tolls or ferry charges.
- Weight, amount and size of the stuff to be moved.
- If you require items to be packed on pick up and unpacked on delivery.
- Requirements of vehicle type and size.
- The distance travelled.
- The amount of time needed to complete the move.
- How much preparation and loading work you'll do yourself on the day.
If you need to keep within a set budget, then look for a company offering a fixed fee service. If you're merely moving one single item, such as from an Ebay purchase, you will be able to find a good deal for a fixed fee per hour or mile use of a man with a van services in Leamington Spa.
You must consider the planned route between the points of collection and delivery if you choose the option of a fixed hourly payment rate. You must look at any planned road works, known traffic choke points and any other concerns that could have a negative effect on the normal travel time. Any delays in the usual travel time will have to be added to your final bill at the predetermined fixed rate. All delays will be included in this, like issues with obtaining keys during exchange of house or other difficulties outside of your control.
THE DAY OF THE MOVE
(What to Expect on Moving Day)
You can lessen worry and stress by preparing as much in advance of your moving day as you can. A parking spot for the vehicle should be arranged as close as you can possibly get to the entry point to your home. Car parking can be a serious problem if it isn't planned in advance, and immediate neighbours may need to be asked for their cooperation to make sufficient space for a van.
Each carton you pack ahead of removal day should have a detailed contents list taped to the outside and be properly secured for transporting. This gives your man with a van service an idea on how best to load the cargo area with your items, will help with any potential insurance claims, and will also help you to organise everything on delivery. If you're leaving the packing to the man with a van service then draw up an inventory as you progress, or check off each individual item as it's packed away.
In most situations the final carton loaded onto the delivery van will be the first one that's offloaded at the destination, so packing this with "essentials" is always an excellent idea. This box may include the necessaries for making everyone a cup of coffee or tea, children and baby items (a favourite toy, food, nappies) and most important of all, toilet paper.
We should also mention the procedure if you are planning a move abroad, especially to a European country. You may not be moving permanently overseas but maybe have a holiday getaway and need an item to be delivered there occasionally. You might have a valuable parcel that you don't wish to trust to an international courier service, or you would like your property to be supervised for the entire journey. No matter what your requirements are for deliveries abroad, there is a man with a van in Leamington Spa who can help.
Taking full van loads or individual containers to whichever area you need, there are man and van providers that have established transit routes to many countries all around Europe. A local Leamington Spa man with a van service is a good value way to move your items to far flung destinations, with confirmed delivery windows, vehicle tracking and set prices between the British Isles and cities throughout the EU. You can save some money by transferring your man with a van and contents via sea freight, but it's going to take considerably longer than a regular road-only journey across Europe.
Leamington Spa itself. If a man and van company has the dialling code 01926 and the postcode CV31, it's fairly likely that they operate in the Leamington Spa area. This is just one thing you can confirm if you would like to make certain that you hire a local . Leamington Spa property owners have the use of these and other removal services as and when the need arises. By simply clicking on the "Quote" banner you can get man with a van quotes from local providers.
services are accessible in Offchurch, Ufton, Lillington, Heathcote, Milverton, Weston under Wetherley, Hunningham, Radford Semele, Cubbington, Royal Leamington Spa, Blackdown, Sydenham, Bishops Tachbrook, in these postcodes: CV31 1BD, CV31 1PQ, CV31 1FH, CV31 1AF, CV31 1ET, CV31 1LX, CV31 1DG, CV31 1AU, CV31 1QB, and CV31 1QW, as well as inMoving Fragile Items
The relocation of fragile items can prove to be a scary task, particularly when done unaided. Due to this, a significant proportion of people rely on
to facilitate the removal of their delicate possessions. Typically, these services consist of a skilled driver with a van who can safely and securely transport your fragile belongings.The driver's experience in managing delicate items is one of the primary benefits of engaging a man and van service for fragile items removals. The presence of requisite equipment and tools allows the service provider to pack and secure your items correctly, ultimately guaranteeing their safe arrival at the destination in their original condition.
Another advantage is that man and van services are often more affordable than traditional
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Need to clear some space and get it to the local dump? A man with a van can offer an efficient and budget-friendly way to remove rubbish. Accumulating unwanted items such as old furniture or broken appliances can create a hassle when it comes to proper disposal. Engaging a local man and van service can reduce the time and effort needed to complete the work while conserving energy. You can rely on them to pick up the items from your doorstep, load them up, and dispose of them responsibly at the local tip. This service is committed to promoting environmental responsibility by diverting items away from landfills. Additionally, hiring a
can support small businesses and keep money circulating within your community. Choosing a man with a van for local tip runs can be advantageous for both the customer and the local economy, making it a win-win situation.Rubbish Clearance Leamington Spa
A man with a van providing rubbish removal services has emerged as an effective and convenient alternative for addressing the challenge of waste disposal in Leamington Spa. This service promotes responsible waste management practices and environmental sustainability, as well as offering an easy way to get rid of unneeded waste. Leamington Spa businesses and households alike are facing the common issue of accumulating unwanted waste in the whirlwind of contemporary life. Finding a reliable strategy to dispose of waste can be an overwhelming task, whether it's due to home improvement projects, spring cleaning, or simply decluttering. A man with a van can help you with various needs, such as minor decluttering tasks or major removal projects. Their expertise is designed for this. (46082)
Leamington Spa Man With a Van Tasks
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can provide an extensive variety of tasks and services, and together with what has previously been covered they should be able to do multi drops & pickups, large item collection & delivery, specialist removals, part-load service, man and van deliveries, waste collection, small house/apartment removals, furniture removals, light haulage in Leamington Spa, full house moves, commercial man with a van services, man with van, , storage moves, man with a van prices, man and van, long-distance removal services in Leamington Spa, online auction collections, garage & shed clearance, man with a van collections & deliveries, single item deliveries in Leamington Spa, Shpock purchase collections, washing machine moves, shop collection service, , Homebase collection service, disposal of unwanted items, loft clearances, household items disposal, sofa collection, and more. This is merely a sample of the services that could be on offer from your local . Leamington Spa professionals will be delighted to keep you abreast of their entire range of removal services if you email or phone them.Doing a Search On the Internet
There is no question that your initial impulse when you're looking to find tradesmen in Leamington Spa is to access the internet and "Google it". With prominent search engines such as Ask, Google, Yahoo or Bing, it is easy to view a number of instantaneous results. Nevertheless, the opening page results shown on the popular search engines aren't always the best for your needs.
But, usually you'll type in "Man With a Van in Leamington Spa", "Leamington Spa Man With a Van", "Man With a Van Leamington Spa" or "Man With a Van near me", in the hope of locating precisely what you are looking for. If you review the page one results, you will see that the top and bottom four listings will usually be some form of PPC (Pay Per Click) advertisements, while many of the remainder will be for large lead creation websites such as Quotatis, Bidvine, Rated People, Checkatrade, TrustaTrader or My Builder or online directories like Gumtree, Yell, Cyclex or Yelp. If you prefer to get in touch with man with a van services in Leamington Spa direct, you'll have to look further down the search engine results pages, perhaps the 2nd or 3rd pages.
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I usually try to keep politics out of my stories. By politics, I am usually referring to current political issues regarding policy issues. Unfortunately, politics often now includes social issues that go beyond justice, civil liberties, or the use of tax revenues. While some of these social issues may be subsumed under the banner of political rhetoric, they sometimes can be important issues to include in a story. In my view, these issues are those of personal identity and personal autonomy that should not be restricted or controlled by society unless there is a clear indication that such beliefs actually harm other people.
I’ve long been an advocate of caveat emptor. The reader is responsible for making the decision to read a book. One problem with reading a book, however, is that the reader might not know what the content is until after they read the book. That’s why I believe reviews of a book are critical – other readers can inform a prospective reader what the book might contain.
I also believe the author has a responsibility to identify portions of the book that might offend or hurt a potential reader. Of course, this might put an undue and unfulfillable burden on the author. One cannot anticipate every single thing that would offend a hypothetical reader.
Given these caveats, I believe that it is appropriate for a writer to include some references to politics in one’s story. As an example, in my Hot Dog Detective novels, Mark MacFarland is a social conservative in some areas of his life, somewhat liberal in others. He supports the Second Amendment…yet he’d prefer that only the police and the military have guns, or more specifically automatic high magazine long rifles. Most of his beliefs are shaped by his experience being a cop.
So I have adopted a short list of “Five Rules for Avoiding Political Controversy” to follow when I decide to put political content into my story.
Rule 1: Use only content that would be applicable to any political party. In The Morose Mistress, MacFarland must help someone who was dating a Senator who was murdered. The Senator in the story happens to be a Democrat, but he could just as easily have been a Republican. The only Colorado Senator I’ve met in person was a Democrat, so in his honor, I made my victim a Democrat.
Rule 2: Feel free to discuss values, but avoid taking a position on whether the reader should support those values. Both Pierson and MacFarland are members of the NRA, but at no point do I tell the reader that he or she must support the NRA. To me, membership in an organization like the NRA is a factoid that helps describe the character.
Rule 3: Keep things balanced. I try to show people of different ethnicities, nationalities, races, and religions in my stories, but I try not to focus too much one just one group. While MacFarland, Rufus Headley, and Cynthia Pierson are white, there are a lot of characters of other races throughout my stories. If anything, I try to replicate the social tableau that I observed when I lived in Denver.
Rule 4: Don’t generalize. I write about characters who commit crimes, tell lies, hide information, obstruct justice, and just generally behave in a bad way. But I try not to generalize from those specific individuals to a whole group of people. When I do that (for example, when I discuss the homeless children that MacFarland meets at his hot dog stand), I base them on the homeless children I learned about who attended the homeless shelter mentioned in the series.
Rule 5: Don’t exaggerate. I try to avoid using hyperbole and exaggeration in my descriptions and treatment of groups, issues, problems, or solutions. One of my biases is that all behavior is individual. Even a person caught up in a mob still acts as an individual, and must be responsible for their individual actions and decisions. I apply this to my victims, to my suspects, and to my murderers. At the end of the day, they are all individuals, not stereotypes.
Some stories need to be political in nature. Dystopian societies in the future would be meaningless without a lot of “politics.” When writing about social justice issues, the writer needs to take a political stance. In many of these works, the author definitely wants to take a political position and speak to a specific political audience. If this is the story you need to write, go ahead and write it.
But if you want to appeal to a wide, general audience, as I do, try to keep politics out of your stories. And if you do include anything that might be perceived as political, consider applying my Five Rules for Avoiding Political Controversy.
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Is it just me, or is the energy in this room sort of intense? Definitely seems like one of those nights where, deep down, the kids are thinking, “This is weird. Grown-ups are weird.”
I empathize with the singer and his UFC shirt, though . . . sometimes with this song, you want to go so far beyond your normal singing voice, it’s hard to know what to do with the melody . . . you wanna wrap the mic cord around your arm like Henry Rollins and jump up and down in your bike shorts and get all energy-drink on everyone . . . . . . when I karaoke this song, I’m usually screaming by the bridge — definitely by the final chorus . . . “MY LIFE MY LOVE AND MY LADY — IS THE SEA!” . . . how do you not scream that line and immediately put your foot in a wall?
She’s in love with a sailor but the dude is always out floating around on the sea and whatnot. All she has is that locket.
Then again, you could always kick it in mellow mode, like this fellow — this performance seems less fraught than the one above:
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FORGET ABOUT IT. It’s been a while since a FFO video put everyone on notice as hard as these guys do. LOL, am I loving these guys very much? Reincarnated D. Boon and Mike Watt holding it down very hard? KILLED IT!!!
Have a great weekend.
This is it, last chance to donate to the laptop fund:
Why is it my favorite thing on earth, to watch people get into their music?
From the user’s video description:
“I wasn’t really singing it, more like listening, but…..it’s not like everybody else’s.”
GO FOR IT.
I don’t even know what genre of youtube video this is. It’s kind of a sing-along, but like the guy says, it’s mostly just him listening to the song and getting overwhelmed by how much he loves it (LOL, like at 0:53, he’s really hating it) with words floating around intermittently. Why isn’t this in the Whitney’s permanent collection of awesome videos that Matthew Barney didn’t make? “This is the reallest shit ever, especially the first part.”
Also, do any of the ladies in the comments section to this video want the guy to hit ’em up with his info very much?
By the way, this week’s FRIDAY FACE-OFFS has officially been CHOPPED N SKREWED, because we have a runner-up 2nd place this week:
Yes, that’s a Yamaha DX-7 in FULL EFFECT. With Christmas lights on it to set the mood while he goes off on CHOPPED N SKREWED. (Also, Miami Dolphins jacket, or am I imagining things?)
And because I’m chopping and screwing everything right now, let’s drop another 2nd Place runner-up video:
Yes, that’s a violin in FULL EFFECT. Let’s not even get into the insane blast of bewildered ecstasy I felt when I thought the violinist was MARLO STANFIELD.
It was inevitable: Somebody officially meta-chopped and screwed CHOPPED N SKREWED:
This is like two inches away from being a Gregorian chant.
From the comments:
“(I) like the screwed but too much chop-maybe plus 2-3 chops per verse.”
Three chops per verse, are you kidding? You c-c-can’t chop enough, as f-f-far as I’m concerned-erned-erned. If you’re chopping less than 5 ch-ch-ch-ops per verse, I’m going back to my Enya tapes; call me when you chop it like you mean-ean-ean-ean it. The musical genre is called “chopped and screwed,” n-n-not “screwed and every so often, like three times per verse, maybe chopped.”
In the course of researching this week’s FFO, I watched MANY videos of people dancing to CHOPPED N SKREWED. This is my favorite … except for 0:37, where I panic about the fedora.
I also love the graphic wipe at the end, because it makes the whole thing look a promotional video for a new kind of travel agency — AN AWESOME KIND.
“Seriously, what’s the deal with travel agencies? Does anyone still go to these places? With a bunch of posters of Jamaica and Hawaii, and some sad plant in the window and brochures lying all over the place? Seriously, what’s the deal? How can I travel to your agency? Why would I want to take a vacation in your office? Is that the deal? What IS the deal? Anyway, what?”
(Sorry, had to bust out a little Seinfeld routine there; I’m noticing a recrudescence of the Seinfeldian zeigeist in the cultural biosphere as limned by the post-industrial memescape’s gestalt vis a vis Seinfeld and various observational recrudescences. [A reader promised a $50 donation if I could use “recrudescence” in a post more than JMM does here; all I have to say is, “Mission Recrudescence-d,” you’ve officially been CHOPPED N SKREWED.] )
All the true FFO-heads know my love for drum covers … just bangin’ away to your favorite song … making the craziest, careening fills … showing off your cymbals … LOVE IT.
Interesting technical note: This guy’s video plays with compositional space like an old Chinese landscape painting. Do you know what I’m talking about? Like, some of those cymbals are probably five miles away in the distance, but they look like they’re all stacked up on top of each other. Cool effect. The depth of field has officially been CHOPPED N SKREWED.
This is the video that made me want to see the Bad Plus do a version of CHOPPED N SKREWED. They could really kill this song.
LOL, how did Michel Gondry get those Legos to move so smoothly?
Another mellow version of CHOPPED N SCREWED! What mysterious force compels people to turn this bombastic, computerized bleep-bloop symphony into, basically, the next “Girl From Ipanema?” What, are we gonna hear “Chopped N Skrewed” played on lutes at Cape Cod weddings some day?
Which brings up a question I’ve been wondering about: Do you think anyone has ever eaten brie while listening to “Chopped N Skrewed?” Sometimes I imagine a list of songs that have never been played while someone’s eating brie.
Watching this video is a good way to mellow out after watching the original “Chopped N Skrewed” video ten times in a row, where you start to see T-Pain’s head opening up with CGI lions coming out of it everywhere you turn.
To me this sounds like the soundtrack to one of those 1970s melancholy romantic comedies where people spend a lot of time walking on the beach when it’s overcast.
(What’s with being so differential to Ludacris, though? Why not bust out a hard-bop solo over that verse?)
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For Day 3 with the Enabnits, we decided to head over to Orange Beach and target some redfish in the marshy creeks on the falling tide. It was a race to beat the falling water so we worked smartly and very quickly. For this type of red fishing, a small spoon, small spinnerbait or jerkshad in the prefered method but with beginners to this tricky fishery and relatively inexperienced anglers, a Marsh Works Big Poppy cork with a 3″ Gulp! Shrimp in New Penny proved most productive. We did get into some topwater action as well. As expected, we found very clear and very shallow water where redfish between 23-27″ were observed spraying shrimp along the marshy banks and inside creeks. Most areas held a feeding fish every ten yards. Most fish were found on the banks with their backs and eyes out of the water but we also launched corks down the middle and outwards to produce many redfish as well. Because the fellas wanted some redfish to take back to Atlanta, we concentrated on securing our limit quickly which only took about 20 minutes. After that, we screwed around with the video camera and launched topwaters at them which dramatically reduced the hookups for the trigger-happy anglers:) It was very fun and amusing to watch!! Anyway, it was a great morning with action around every corner and it was fantastic to introduce the enthusiastic anglers to this style of fishing. Many wait a lifetime to experience this morning’s stellar redfish conditions!! We didn’t count but 25+ redfish between 22-27″ is a safe estimate. Ended the morning at Lulu’s for some pints and appetizers. The Shrimp Quesadilla is very nice. Angler’s choice tomorrow but I think they want to take it easy, sip some beers and do some bottom fishing in the bay for grouper or whatever. Not my favorite or expertise but maybe they just need a break from all the redfish. In any event, it should be interesting!! How hard can it be? Book now to experience your own epic redfish trip at Redfish University. Openings after December 7 unless we have a cancellation. Thanks, E Holstman
Please click an image to enlarge and view slideshow. *Viewer warning* Video contains an F-bomb and I have no idea how to edit it. My apologies.
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Auto theft is a growing concern for homeowners across Canada, especially in urban areas where vehicle theft rates have surged. As a result, many are seeking effective security measures to protect their vehicles. One solution that has gained popularity is the installation of bollards. But are they truly worth the investment? This article explores the benefits of using bollards, particularly retractable bollards, in preventing auto theft and enhancing security.
The rise in auto theft incidents has been alarming, particularly in major cities. According to recent reports, the number of stolen vehicles has increased significantly, with Toronto being one of the hotspots. The Toronto Police have highlighted the need for stronger security measures, as traditional methods often fail to deter thieves. With advancements in car theft techniques, such as key cloning and relay attacks, homeowners need a robust solution to safeguard their vehicles.
Bollards, especially retractable bollards, offer a practical and effective solution for preventing vehicle theft. These sturdy posts are installed at the end of driveways, blocking access and providing a formidable barrier against unauthorized entry. Here are some of the key benefits of using bollards for residential security:
One of the primary advantages of retractable bollards is the ability to control access to your property. These bollards can be raised or lowered as needed, allowing homeowners to secure their driveways when they are away or during nighttime. This controlled access significantly reduces the risk of auto theft by preventing unauthorized vehicles from entering the property. Additionally, it offers homeowners peace of mind, knowing their property is secure.
Retractable bollards serve as a visual deterrent to potential thieves. The presence of these sturdy barriers signals that the property is well-protected, making it less attractive to criminals. Thieves often target easy-to-access vehicles, and the mere sight of bollards can discourage them from attempting to steal a car from the premises. The visual impact of bollards is a critical factor in deterring opportunistic crimes.
Bollards come in various designs and materials, allowing homeowners to customize their security solutions according to their specific needs. Whether you need bollards for a narrow driveway or a wider entrance, there are options available that can be tailored to fit your property. Furthermore, bollards can be designed to blend in aesthetically with the property, offering both functionality and visual appeal. Additionally, bollards can be integrated with other security systems, such as alarms and cameras, for enhanced protection.
Retractable bollards provide the flexibility of temporary restrictions. For example, they can be used to block off the driveway during certain hours or when homeowners are on vacation. This temporary restriction adds an extra layer of security and ensures that the property remains protected at all times. Homeowners can also use bollards to manage access during events or when service vehicles are on the property.
In case of emergencies, retractable bollards can be quickly lowered to allow access to emergency vehicles. This feature ensures that security measures do not hinder essential services, making bollards a practical choice for residential areas. The ease of operation and reliability of retractable bollards make them a practical and essential addition to home security infrastructure
Numerous success stories highlight the effectiveness of bollards in preventing vehicle theft. In Toronto, for instance, homeowners who installed retractable bollards reported a significant decrease in attempted car thefts. One homeowner noted that after experiencing multiple theft attempts, they decided to install retractable bollards, which successfully deterred further incidents. The Toronto Police have also advocated for the use of bollards, emphasizing their role in enhancing security and reducing crime rates. Another example involves a suburban resident who saw a noticeable reduction in suspicious activity around their property after installing bollards. These real-life examples demonstrate that bollards are not just a theoretical solution but a practical and proven method for protecting vehicles.
In conclusion, retractable bollards offer a reliable and versatile solution for preventing auto theft and enhancing residential security. With the increasing incidents of car theft, particularly in urban areas, investing in robust security measures like bollards is a wise decision. They provide controlled access, act as a visual deterrent, and offer customizable security options, making them an invaluable addition to any home security system.
If you're concerned about the safety of your vehicles and want to protect them from thieves, consider installing retractable bollards. They provide peace of mind and a strong defence against unauthorized access. Secure your property today and take a proactive step toward preventing vehicle theft. For more information on how to protect your property and choose the right bollards, contact Safe Driveways Canada for expert advice and solutions tailored to your needs.
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Recently I have been trying out new face products and I thought I would share them with you. Through my Campus Voxbox I recieved the St. Ives blemish control acne scrub. I have used this product before and I will say, this is the only scrub I like! It's super gentle and the scent is to die for. If you are looking for a simple everyday scrub I highly suggest this one!
Also, I was sent these two products to review and use. I have been using this OZ Naturals ocean mineral cleanser a lot recently. It leaves my skin super soft and it is made with very natural ingredients.
In addition, I have tried a new face mask from Adovia. This mask is a purifying dead sea mud mask and it is supposed to minimize pores and remove toxins from your skin. It also helps reduce acne and improves your skin's appearance. Usually I don't find success in masks but I will say, after just using it once I thought I saw some small results. If masks aren't your thing I would still suggest you try out this one! I think masks are great to just use once every two weeks to change up your skin routine. Click here to buy this mask!
What skin products have you tried recently? Let me know in the comments!
I received these products from Influenster and Brandbacker. All opinions are my own.
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SOLTEC is committed to supporting its customers even after the sale. All of our SONICA ultrasonic washers from 1.9 to 130 litres and automatic systems with TRENDMATIC thermal disinfection cycle benefit from a core warranty that varies from 1 to 2 years from the date of purchase. For more details, please see our Warranty Clauses
Thanks to our extensive distribution network, we can offer an affordable repairs service for our equipment at our distributors, who receive constant training and updates to ensure that they can take care of your products as well as advising you on optimal use.
The quality of our machines and the inventory of spare parts we offer often allows us to extend the life of our products well beyond the warranty period, and where applicable, we update the firmware of equipment sent to us for repair free of charge.
If a repair cannot be carried out by our dealers, it is always be possible to send the equipment to our headquarters.
The experience we have gained with customers all over the world enables us to handle the shipment of equipment in need of repair in the most flexible, affordable and convenient manner.
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The Projects Section allows you to access the complete list of applications that are available for Primers from the Raisonance support team and those shared by fellow application designers. Download and try out these applications, rate them, modify them and use them to stimulate your own application designs. Submit your own applications or improvements to the designs of others. See how they are rated by other designers.
Tables indicate whether applications run on EvoPrimer/Open4, Primer2, Primer or on All platforms.
- Users use downloaded code at their own risk. There is no guarantee stated or implied that the files downloaded cannot damage the development tools.
- Downloading code from this site does not imply any exclusive right to use that code nor a license for distribution.
Projects and applications:
- Projects are based on GCC for ARM or the Raisonance C compiler for STM8/ST7. Only C and Assembly languages are used.
- An application must be loadable by the "circle_mgr" utility. Such an application consists of one or several object files (.o), that can be linked by LD with the standard GCC run-time libraries.
- Applications are launched using the CircleOS. However, once launched, applications may disable the systick interrupt (i.e. the execution of the Circle OS). It may directly manage any/all the resources of the Primer.
- When exiting, applications restore the CircleOS context in order to guarantee that the CircleOS and other applications will behave properly.
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Washbasin, water cup, fruit plate The safety of plastic containers is related to people's health. Plastic is such a thing that people love and hate! Not long ago, Guangdong Consumer Council sampling inspection of plastic food containers, more than 20% plasticizer value. Just now, how to choose plastic containers has become a headache for consumers.
Experts said that the test results showed that 11 batches of products were found to have plasticizer value, and the items with value mainly focused on dibutyl phthalate (DBP) and di (2-ethyl) hexyl phthalate (DEHP). Although plasticizers can be excreted through metabolism after entering the human body, the impact on health is not direct, but mainly depends on the intake. However, plasticizers are similar to artificial hormones and have the function of estrogen, which is particularly harmful to men and young children. Long term intake of plasticizer will interfere with endocrine, resulting in sex disorder of children, precocious puberty of girls, shortening of male genitalia, not obvious sexual characteristics, and reduction of semen and sperm quantity. Plasticizer can also increase the burden of liver and kidney, cause chronic damage to the immune system and digestive system, and even lead to liver cancer in serious cases.
In addition, at present, there is no safety standard for plasticizer entering human body in China. Referring to foreign standards, who, the United States and the European Union believe that it is safe for adults to take 1.5 mg, 2.4 mg and 3 mg DEHP per person per day for life. For the sake of safety, it is suggested that consumers should try to change some living habits and reduce the use of plastic containers in their daily life. For example, it is best to use less plastic film, plastic bags and oil resistant paper to package and hold food; try to avoid using plastic containers to put hot water, hot soup, tea and coffee, etc., and try to avoid using plastic bags or plastic material containers to hold food, especially hot and oily food; try not to use plastic containers to put food in microwave oven.
In view of the harmfulness of plasticizer to human body, while calling on functional departments to strengthen supervision and urge relevant enterprises to carry out rectification, the Consumer Council, after consulting experts' opinions and suggestions, issued "special consumption tips" to "prevent the subtle harm of plasticizer" and help consumers purchase and use preservative film and disposable cup products Identify the pros and cons when buying related products. First of all, the outer package should have QS mark, serial number and manufacturer's detailed information. The plastic film marked with PE or polyethylene can be used safely, while PVC or those without material should not be selected. Second, see the transparency, PE material is white, poor transparency, and the color of the whole roll is mostly PVC material, and the transparency is good. In addition, it is not easy to rub and unfold PVC film by hand.
In order to perform the functions entrusted by the law of the people's Republic of China on the protection of consumers' rights and interests, strengthen the social supervision of commodities and services, understand the real quality of plastic food products such as preservative films and disposable cups on the market, provide consumers with consumption information and consulting services, and guide consumers to choose and buy correctly The staff of the meeting purchased 40 batches of test samples from the market as ordinary consumers, involving 40 preservative films and disposable cups produced by 36 manufacturers. The producing areas are mainly concentrated in Guangzhou, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Foshan, Zhongshan, Zhuhai, etc.
Who will protect the health of consumers? This is a big problem. Plastic plays an important role in our life. We really need to solve its safety problems.
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Valeant Pharmaceuticals Inc said on Tuesday it will launch an exchange offer for Allergan Inc this week, allowing it to eventually take the unsolicited bid directly to shareholders.Botox-maker Allergan has rejected Valeant's offer of cash and shares, but Valeant Chief Executive Officer Mike Pearson said he sees no reason to adjust the bid a third time. Valeant shares have lost ground for 10 straight sessions through Monday, reducing the value of its Allergan bid to about $50.8 billion from $53.8 billion on May 30."Hostile is not our preferred approach," Pearson said. "But this deal was so strategic and financially compelling that it really makes sense."Valeant's stock is "artificially depressed," Pearson said, after weeks of criticism by Allergan and some analysts.
Allergan, Inc. is a multi-specialty health care Company focused on developing and commercializing pharmaceuticals, biologics, medical devices and over-the-counter products. Shares of AGN traded higher by 1.65% or $2.63/share to $162.00. In the past year, the shares have traded as low as $81.33 and as high as $172.48. On average, 4670100 shares of AGN exchange hands on a given day and today's volume is recorded at 1796777.
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Some of my favorite apps on my iPod are celebrity-related: People.com, TMZ, Pop Sugar...I could go on and on. I certainly don't envy those celebs whose lives are in shambles, but I do wonder what it would be like to live the life of a celeb like Angelina Jolie for a day.
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The Painted Bird
Dir: Václav Marhoul
Starring: Petr Kotlár, Nina Sunevic, Alla Sokolova, Stanislav Bilyi, Ostap Dziadek
“There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.” – William T. Sherman
There is no glory in Václav Marhoul’s new film, “The Painted Bird”. A young boy, who is never named, is brutalized by countless people and witnesses the absolute cruelty of war, the evil spirit of humanity, and the bludgeoning emotional toil of living in fear of losing his life. There is no relief, no calm, no peace, just unrelenting, torturous inhumaneness for nearly 3 hours.
The film, which received numerous walkouts throughout its festival run in 2019, is based on a 1965 novel by Jerzy Kosinski. The title of the film is taken from a moment in the film, where the young boy we follow through the atrocities found in different villages, with an array of different people either meant to help and sometimes just established to torture, meets the company of a professional bird catcher who teaches him a lesson that will be unflinchingly reiterated throughout the film. The bird catcher captures and paints a bird, releasing it back to find the flock. But upon its return, the other birds see it as an intruder and proceed to attack it until it falls to earth.
The young boy is left alone on a journey across a war ravaged world. When a sense of hope lingers into his life it is almost immediately snuffed out, like when a priest (Harvey Keital) entrusts the boy to a seemingly devoted churchgoer (Julian Sands) who turns out to be the living epitome of a monster. Another moment the young boy finds refuge on a farm. A young man working the fields helps the young boy but stares lustfully at the owner’s wife (Udo Kier). Enraged, the owner proceeds to take his eyes out with a spoon. Or, in the opening of the film when the young boy flees in panic, clutching a furry pet in his arms, only to be tackled and beat by a group and then forced to watch his pet burned alive. It’s distressing and disturbing over and over.
This is the focus of the film, showing the atrocities of conflict-stricken worlds and the extent of societal collapse, examining the human condition under, many times, the unbearable cruelty of warfare. Intense moments involving war violence, child abuse, and animal cruelty are often observed, sometimes in complete view and other times framed just out of focus or with enough ambiguity that your mind must connect the dots.
Comparisons to director Elem Klimov’s “Come and See” are easy for the unflinching nature of violence, but there is also beautiful monochrome photography that echo shades of Andrei Tarkovsky’s “Ivan’s Childhood”, there is no doubt that “The Painted Bird” is a beautifully composed tragedy. It’s a lens so pristine in composition it makes the awful subject matter somehow entrancing, in a way making it hard to look away even when the emotion portrayed warrants retreat.
As the film proceeds, with cameos abundant and artistic rendering saturated in every gritty frame, something begins to lose its grasp on the viewer. In films about wars of the past, there is a sense of understanding that is often trying to be examined, questions proposed amidst bullets, blood, and brutality that try to grasp some kind of answer about humanity or produce a sense of capturing a moment in time for you to feel how the world was and how it moved past that moment. “The Painted Bird” is often strictly sensory, albeit an elegantly composed painting from start to finish, but it rarely examines the deeper meaning of its viciousness or offers a sense of how life existed underneath the torment of hatred and malice.
“The Painted Bird” is a complicated, many times raw and aggressively beautiful, and ultimately a challenging experience for any film viewer. While it may not offer the glory of intriguing questions or the examination of profound answers, it does understand clearly that war is hell.
3.00 out of 5.00
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So I go what’s a thereminist?
Google it, and it’s someone that plays the theremin.
So what’s a theremin?
I spent the next 6 hours letting my work pile up while I read about Barbara Buchholz, Carolina Eyck, and Clara Rockmore.
I’ve been home for about 4 hours, and while I would have already had one car knocked out and probably starting the next one, I’ve accomplished letting the dog out, and the rest of my time has been on youtube.
What is the fascination with the silly little box? It’s like I’ve got OCD or something…
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What are your views on treatment for mental health conditions?
Mental health wellness should encompass a multitude of treatment programs from medical to holistic. I do not think only one remedy is right for the recovery of someone who is diagnosed with a mental illness. Treatment should be approached from many angles such as exercise, nutrition, medication, skills training, talk therapy, art, and music. Incorporating a number of life skills with therapeutic skills gives the person with an illness a greater chance of moving forward to a place of life-long healing.
One size fits all does not work for mental health treatment. Explore multiple options and have a variety of skills and options in your toolbox.
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The past week has seen:
Nine inches of snow.
One snow day = One TinyTuna office assistant.
An abundance of fifth grade math homework. Fractions.
Two half days. Parent-teacher conferences.
Parent Teacher Conferences.
Messes at work.
Messes at home.
I'm not complaining. After all, the calendar still says winter. There is always homework to be done and I ain't afraid of no fractions. Parent-teacher conferences are important, if not a little humorous, messes at work means job security, messes at home are part of life, and more snow means hey, I live in the mitten.
I'm not complaining.
But I am tired.
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About the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Museum of Art
Recognizing the power of art as an intellectual pursuit, the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Museum of Art promotes creative thought, global engagement, inclusivity, and the common good through its exhibitions, collections, programs, and engagement with faculty, students, and the public. Its active emphasis on the study of original artworks and its integration into the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ curriculum make it a vital educational resource. Always free and open year-round, the Museum is a laboratory for creativity and an engine for new learning and scholarship
Walker Art Building
The Museum’s landmark Walker Art Building was commissioned for the College by Harriet and Sophia Walker in honor of their uncle, a Boston businessman who had supported the creation of the first small art gallery at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ in the mid-nineteenth century. The Walker sisters, encyclopedic collectors and supporters of art education, stipulated that the building be used exclusively for art purposes. Designed by Charles Follen McKim of McKim, Mead, and White, the building was completed in 1894 and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Its brick, limestone, and granite façade is based on Renaissance prototypes, with a dramatically shadowed loggia flanked by large lion sculptures upon which generations of Brunswick children have been photographed.
About the Collection
One of the earliest collegiate art collections in the nation, the Museum came into being through the 1811 bequest of James ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ III of 70 paintings and a portfolio of 141 drawings. Over the years the collection has been expanded through the generosity of alumni, parents, and friends, and now numbers more than 30,000 objects created over 5,000 years by artists from around the world. Its collections are the only in the state of Maine to be truly global and transhistorical in scope. They are fully searchable from the Museum’s website.
Highlights of the Collection
The antiquities collection contains over 1,800 Assyrian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and Chinese objects and constitute one of the most comprehensive compilations of ancient art in any academic museum.
The paintings collection features important examples from antiquity to the present. Since James ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ III’s bequest of Old Master European and colonial American paintings, every generation has added notable works to this formidable collection. On permanent view are murals by Elihu Vedder, Kenyon Cox, Abbott Thayer, and John LaFarge commissioned by Charles Follen McKim to decorate the Museum’s rotunda.
The works on paper collections of prints, drawings, and photographs is large and varied, numbering more than 12,000 works and representing artists from around the world.
The Museum’s collection of sculpture, decorative art, medals, and new media art is also robust and includes historic and contemporary works by artists from around the world.
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I think it’s a safe bet that the Microsoft HoloLens is going to change our view on computing. Join us this winter for an unprecedented Augmented/Mixed Reality class with Clackamas Community College at the Oregon Story Board, with support from Intel, Sprocketship, and Object Theory. Probably goes without saying: this is the start of something special.
Click here to check out one of the many articles and press releases on what is happening.
Like the graphic says, contact Andy Mingo at [email protected] or call Kelly White at 503-594-3034 to express your interest in this class.
PS – if you’re a C# guru, Unity, or CG modeler, definitely let that be known when signing up.
PPS – check out the HoloLens meetup group here.
UPDATE: the class is live and if you’ve got the skills, express interest here.
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‘In the deserts of the heart,
let the healing process start.’
W H Auden
I am a poet and professional tutor in the field of health, working mainly with community organisations and charities.
Programmes are tailored to the varying needs of participants and the organisations commissioning the work. Current projects include workshops with adults suffering with aphasia and dysphasia; recent projects focused on children with mental health problems and learning difficulties.
2015-2016: UCH Macmillan Cancer Centre – Poet-in-Residence
2017: St Pancras Hospital – work with people suffering from dementia.
2017: UCH Macmillan Cancer Centre – Poetry and Memoir sessions
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We always say Fringe Festivals are the start of the creative food chain for the stars of the future… Well here is some of the proof.
Follow or post to #StartedInFringe to suggest more!
Flight of the Concords – In 1998 Bret and Jemaine decided to start a band. They performed their one song at the Wellington Fringe Festival late night club.
Fleabag began as a one-woman show at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2013. Now it has a BAFTA and an Emmy!
The Kings Speech – Tom Hooper’s mother found the script for The Kings Speech at a staged reading in London Fringe. She called him at intermission & said: “I found your next movie.” He won an Oscar for it
Graham Norton – Norton’s drag show Mother Teresa of Calcutta’s Grand Farewell Tour stopped in at the Pleasance in 1991, Edinburgh Fringe.
Miranda Hart – Her 1994 Edinburgh Fringe debut in Hurrell and Hart she called “a terrible show” which regularly attracted an audience of none. She tried again in 2001 with The Sitcom Trials, when she showcased You Say Potato, a prototype for the hugely successful Miranda.
Robin Williams – visited the Edinburgh Fringe while studying drama at California’s College of Marin. His student theatre company performed a Wild West-set version of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew in 1971
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I was chatting to my father over the weekend about his experiences of job “interviews” in the 1960’s when he first left college. Morose interviewers firing open questions over an imposing oak desk whilst portraying the demeanor of a disinterested headmaster thinking “why on earth should I bother giving you a job?”.
This kind of arrogant interview style was commonplace where there is a rich choice of candidates to employ; where jobs are few and interviewees are plentiful.
Fast-forward to 2014 and the vast majority of the market sectors we operate in genuinely struggle to identify and recruit the best people. A shortage of highly skilled people coupled with an improving economy and falling unemployment makes the battle for talent even more intense.
It may surprise you to read that even now, a frightening number of companies and hiring managers still interview candidates with the attitude of “I’m doing you a favour coming to work for me”.
It’s an accepted fact of life that job seekers have to be enthusiastic, well prepared and articulate at interview, with the very best interviewees having a clear ability to articulate why they are the best fit for that particular job. Interviews are simply a “sales process”, and the individual who has the best presentation and sells themselves most effectively in the eyes of the hirer will be offered the job.
Conversely – the shrewd hirer also realizes that it’s a 2-way process to get the best people. They must prepare professionally and present their company and job as being the right fit for the candidate and a great career move. Face-to-face interaction and a real concern to ensure that the candidates needs are met at two of the key attributes to getting the best people into the right job. Fail to prepare – prepare to fail.
So – a useful tick-list to prepare and execute the perfect interview (as a hirer) is:
- Read the candidates’ CV fully & note down any questions. Reading the CV for the first time in the initial 2 minutes of the interview is unprofessional, not acceptable and is the single biggest candidate moan following a bad interview.
- Pre-conceived perceptions can be very damaging. Conduct each interview as if the candidate is ideal for the job. On many occasions we’ve experienced interviewers who are initially luke-warm to a candidate having read their CV, but then half-way through the interview that the candidate is ideal. The problem is that initial 30 minutes of disinterest has put the candidate off and it can be very difficult to salvage the situation.
- Treat the interview more like a “discussion” than an examination. Most candidates are nervous and the more you can do to quell these nerves the better chance you have of the candidates true abilities coming out. Far too many great interviewers turn out to be average employees.
- It is imperative you can answer the question “Why should this person join our company” – and that you convey this fully during the interview. It’s much easier rejecting a keen candidate, than wanting to recruit someone who isn’t “sold” on your company. Again – treat every candidate as is you are interviewing the ideal candidates that you must hire.
- Ask challenging, scenario based questions relevant to the job requirements. Avoid “stock questions” as it’s easy for a good interviewee to rehearse answers. Test the interviewees reactions to common situations experienced in the job and “role-play” can be a very powerful tool.
- Always follow up on interviews – particularly if the candidate is not successful. Company PR is very valuable – and we have a lot of experience of companies that interview candidates then don’t follow up; so when they want to recruit in the future candidates’ won’t attend interview due to their reputation as a time-waster.
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WARNING: The following story contains images that may be disturbing to some readers
It was September 2001 and I had been sent to New York to cover a boxing match for a Puerto Rican newspaper. It was a world championship bout between Puerto Rican boxer Felix Trinidad and the American boxer Bernard Hopkins.
list of 3 itemsTrinidad was a good friend of mine and the paper would send me to cover most of his fights. I’d asked not to go on that particular deployment but I was told I had to go.
So, on Saturday, September 8, I boarded a flight from the Puerto Rican capital, San Juan.
The fight was scheduled to take place on the following Saturday at Madison Square Garden.
On the morning of September 11, I headed to Central Park with photojournalists from two other Puerto Rican newspapers. Hopkins’ team had blocked access to his training sessions, which was unusual, but we hoped to spot him training in the park. We agreed that if one of us saw him, we would share the location with the others so we could each get the shots. It worked, and after we’d taken the photographs, we went for breakfast on 53rd Street.
That was when one of those I was with received a call from Puerto Rico telling him a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. At first, he thought it was a joke. Then my boss called and told me to get to the towers to photograph the crash.
We immediately picked up our cameras and left, asking a taxi to take us to downtown.
By this time, the city – from 14th Street to downtown – had been sealed to everybody except first responders. We got as close as we could but were still some way from the towers. So we jumped out of the taxi, handed the driver a $20 bill and started running along West Broadway towards the towers. As we ran the 35 blocks, weaving in and out of the crowds, we stopped occasionally to photograph the chaos around us.
After about 25 minutes, we were within a block of the towers and there, on a quiet corner between Park Place and West Broadway, I saw a policeman, looking up at the North Tower. There was nobody else around. I took a photo of him – capturing an image of that day that has been widely used since.
As I carried on walking towards the towers, a man in an FBI jacket passed me by. Shortly after, another in a Secret Service jacket walked past. I found it strange that they would be there for a plane crash.
I turned around and started walking towards the West Side Highway, and as I was walking, I saw the first person jump. She was a Black woman, in a smart skirt and vest top. I could see her clearly. It was like she was just floating.
I picked up my camera and took a photo. I remember saying to my fellow photographer Xavier Araujo, “Wow, somebody just jumped.” But he refused to believe me. He thought it was a piece of the building falling. But I was close enough to tell it was a person. I was so close I could see her face. She seemed calm and relaxed, as if she had no other option but to jump. She wasn’t screaming for help or out of fear. I knew I was lucky not to see her hit the pavement.
When we got to the west side of the North Tower, we saw many other people jumping from the windows. Those images have stayed with me, and I often wonder what must have gone through their minds before they decided to jump.
I had been there for about 20 minutes when I heard the terrible sound, like a massive tree branch breaking, as the North Tower crumbled.
I photographed it as it collapsed and it was only then, when it no longer obscured my view, that I realised the South Tower had also fallen completely.
As I ran from the mayhem, I took one frame of a man kneeling on the floor crying, his shirt all torn. I switched lenses and saw a child running and screaming. As I took that frame, it reminded me of the photo of the “Napalm girl” from the Vietnam War.
I realized my digital cards were all full, so I ran a few blocks to the Getty Images office on Varick Street. There, I was uploading the contents of my memory card to a computer when we were told we needed to evacuate the building because the police suspected a bomb had been placed at the Holland Tunnel, adjacent to the office.
I left and took a taxi back to my hotel, from where I filed the photos I had taken. My newspaper ran a late edition that day and used my photos for it.
For the rest of the day, I stayed in my room. I cried a lot. I remember calling my ex-wife but being barely able to speak. Between sobs, I screamed, trying to tell her how many people I had seen jump from the towers.
To this day, I still have no recollection of what I did between 6pm on September 11 and the following morning. It must have been because of the shock.
When I woke up at 6am on September 12, I walked for more than 20 blocks towards the towers. I didn’t see a single person during that walk, not even a dog. I regret not having taken those pictures because I’m sure that was the only time in New York City’s history that the streets were so empty. I wish those images existed, somewhere other than just in my mind, because they were part of the 9/11 story, too.
I spent 21 days covering the 9/11 story before photographing the postponed Trinidad-Hopkins fight on September 29 and finally returning to Puerto Rico.
Today, I still have flashbacks – images of the people standing in the windows before they jumped. I wonder what it was they saw that helped them make peace with that decision.
More importantly, it has always reminded me how fragile we are and that as human beings, we should give respect a chance. All races, cultures and nations should halt this constant creation of scars that has led to so many wars and conflicts such as 9/11.
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Grohe is a brand of sanitary goods and accessories manufacturing company, which was founded in 1936 in Germany. Today the company is one of the world’s leaders in its segment and distributes its products all over the globe.
Meaning and history
The Grohe visual identity is a minimalist yet modern reflection of the brand’s field of activity. The wordmark is placed above the emblem and looks confident and strong.
The Grohe nameplate in all the capitals is executed in a bold and solid sans-serif typeface with clear lines. It is monumental lettering, which makes the brand look professional and powerful.
The Grohe emblem, consisting of three thin curved lines, located horizontally, is a representation of the company’s specialization — sanitary goods. It is elegant and softens the brutal wordmark. The symbol celebrates water.
The royal blue and white color palette of the Grohe logo is a reflection of the expertise and authority of one of the most reliable sanitary manufacturers in the world. The blue shows Grohe as trustworthy and professional, while the white evokes a sense of loyalty and safety.
The Grohe logo is perfectly balanced and contains all the necessary elements to be called stylish and outstanding.
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I’m delighted to hear that you’re enthusiastic about checking out more of the Zapier and GoHighLevel universe.
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Easy to personalize
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HighLevel offers a variety of advertising and marketing devices in a single cohesive software application atmosphere, offering the potential for substantial financial savings on numerous diverse subscriptions. This is an especially attractive proposition for companies of all dimensions that require to scale without escalating expenses.
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The device can be accessed with a desktop, laptop computer, or mobile phone and is developed to deal with most popular web browsers. A few of the attributes consist of a built-in conversation widget for website visitors, lead generation capacities and the capacity to produce a personalized landing web page Zapier and GoHighLevel.
Another significant perk is the ease of importing existing funnels and websites into GoHighLevel. This functionality is a huge time saver and it’s a fantastic feature for individuals looking to streamline their advertising automation. The platform can additionally be white-labeled, so it’s an excellent option for digital advertising companies.
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Other integrations include Google Analytics and Facebook Ads to assist you enhance your marketing methods. You can likewise utilize it to develop landing pages and list building forms for your advertisements and track conversions. And also, it features ringless voicemail and live chat widgets that can help you connect with leads without interrupting them. All in all, Zapier and GoHighLevel is a full advertising and marketing automation giant that can help you save time and money by replacing several software registrations.
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Distributed across the building of Akademie der Künste, nine artistic interventions consider new scalar tactics through practice-based and performative approaches.
Focusing on long-term relationships with artists, since 2020 transmediale has built on its established residency programme. In collaboration with a variety of partner institutions – Pro Helvetia, Chile, University of the Arts Berlin, and the Berlin Senate for Culture and Europa – the residency programme of 2022 was centered around the question of how scale impacts the technological conditions we are living in.
transmediale hosted over ten residents throughout 2022. Part of the artistic interventions are projects developed during the residency in Berlin and are presented for the first time at the festival.
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Mangkaja Arts wishes to ensure that our customers are happy with their purchases. If not, we welcome returns and offer refunds on the following conditions.
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CHARLOTTE – Carolina Panthers fans had high hopes the team might do well with the first overall pick Bryce Young, especially under Frank Reich’s tutelage.
Young was a high school football national star who committed to play for Alabama. He played in nine games behind Mac Jones for the national champions in 2020 (13-22-59.1%, 156 yards, one TD). Young took over the starting job in 2021 and won the Heisman Trophy and Maxwell Award as the nation’s top player, as well as the Davey O’Brien and Manning Awards as the nation’s top quarterback. He was also an Associated Press first-team All-American and SEC Offensive Player of the Year. The 15-game starter was also the SEC Championship Game Most Valuable Player after passing for 421 yards and three touchdowns and running for 40 yards and a score. Young’s production in 12 starts dipped a bit in 2022, but he still ranked ninth in the FBS in pass efficiency. He was the Sugar Bowl MVP (15-21-71.4%, 321 yards, five TDs) in the win over Kansas State.
During the 2023 NFL Draft, the talk was between Ohio State’s CJ Stroud and Young for the number one draft pick for the Carolina Panthers.
The Panthers chose Young, keeping in mind his 5’10 height, which is a limitation that previous quarterbacks have been able to overcome.
The thought was that Reich, a former NFL Quarterback and considered a “quarterback whisperer,” would get Young into NFL playing shape in no time.
But that wasn’t the case.
After a dismal start to the season, the Panthers fired Reich and a pair of offensive assistants—QB coach Josh McCown and assistant HC/RBs coach Duce Staley—after winning only one game in the first three months, as the team started out 1-12.
The win-loss record stands out, of course, but so does the lack of offensive production. The Panthers’ offense ranks in the bottom five of the league in points (15.7, 29th), total yards per game (265.9, 30th), and pass yards per game (173.3, 30th).
Young has struggled behind a bad offensive line, throwing just nine TDs to eight INTs and getting sacked 40 times in his 10 starts.
The harsh reality in Carolina is that the offense is not very good from a talent standpoint, with a shallow pool of weapons in the pass game and an inconsistent run game. Young is being asked to do a lot, and he doesn’t have many answers to turn to. The focus should be on developing Young if the Panthers want him to be the long-term quarterback.
Young showed mastery of Alabama’s system during his college career, but that hasn’t been the case this season in Carolina.
He’s been under duress constantly, and to make matters worse, he has only one reliable receiver to get the ball to—a 33-year-old Adam Thielen. There is a narrative already building that the Panthers picked the wrong guy. Stroud is off to a phenomenal start to his career, throwing for 3,266 yards and 19 touchdowns to five interceptions thus far, but the truth of the matter is, he has better talent surrounding him, and it’s not even remotely close.
“First, you’ve got to talk about what they’re doing wrong for Bryce Young. Forty sacks that they’ve given up. He’s been pressured on 33% of his drop-back passes, which is 9th in the league. So when you talk about the comparison between him and CJ Stroud, it’s inevitable because they were drafted right after each other. But when you look at the tape and actually watch the game film, you will see that they’re not giving this man any help upfront, and that’s what he needs.
Young is going to have to tough out the season because there doesn’t seem to be any help on the way.
He does have the talent to be on the field, but until the team settles after the firing and gets its act together, well, there’s always next year.”
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After we parked our brand new car in a parking garage while running errands in the East Village, we discovered the driver’s side car door was mysteriously slashed below the window, leaving a three inch gash in the leather panel. The culprit was either a garage worker or some other trifling scoundrel, but we couldn’t prove it. I was fuming, since we’d had the car for just two months. But what did Zen Master, aka my boyfriend, do?
“I choose which battles to fight,” he explained. “I fight the battles in which I can annihilate my opponent. This isn’t one of them. We don’t know when the car was damaged. Nothing I can do about it now. I’ll get it fixed.”
Fixing it would cost hundreds of dollars. I was furious. A grey cloud sat over my head as if were an angry Lucy van Pelt from the Peanuts comics (“You BLOCKHEAD!” I screamed internally. To whom I was screaming was unclear). Did E not care about our things? Should I never buy new things for our apartment because E wouldn’t care if they were damaged? Is this why he never rinses the dishes before he puts them in the sink, because he JUST DOESN’T CARE if they’re ruined?
I pouted all the way home.
Later, he cheerily worked at his computer as if nothing happened. “How can you just sit there and not be mad about the car?” I asked.
“Here’s why,” he explained. “When I was 20, and I was coming home late night from a party in Michigan near my parents’ house, some guy held a gun to my head and asked for all of my stuff. So I gave him my wallet, cell phone, and whatever else I had. The next day, I canceled all of my credit cards and filed a police report. The thief didn’t get any cash, and I wasn’t hurt. All was well. But when I told my dad what happened later on, he flipped out, flailed his arms, and asked over and over again, ohmygodwhatareyougoingtodowhyaren’tyouupset??!?!”
I was shocked. I had no idea that E had been robbed before. My heart sunk.
“My dad’s reaction stressed me out more than actually getting robbed,” E continued. “I was fine, so why flip? That’s why I’m not mad about the car. Okay, I have to pay to fix it. Big deal.”
With that, I forced myself to get over it.
For dinner, I decided on lettuce wraps because they were light, easy to cook, and no fail (if they were messy and fell apart, then so be it). We both deserved a low stress meal after the afternoon’s events.
There are many variations to lettuce wraps. The filling can be made with chicken, shrimp, beef or just vegetables. You can ground the meat beforehand, cut it into strips or cubes, you can mix the meat with the vegetables and spices or you can layer them on individually. I mixed well-marinated chicken with cilantro and lime, then left the rest of the ingredients out on a plate to be added to our wraps as we preferred. I made some rice on the side with a kick of cilantro and lime using what was left over from the wraps.
I didn’t have to worry about presentation or flavor, as each wrap would look and taste different than the next depending on how E or I constructed our individual wraps. Cooking the meal was downright therapeutic. My mind became at ease as we ate on the couch while watching “Kill Bill 2.”
But if anyone ever tries to hurt my boyfriend again, I will raise ten times as much hell on the perp than I did today. Trust.
1 tablespoon canola oil
1 tablespoon dark sesame oil
1 tablespoon rice vinegar
1 tablespoon low-sodium soy sauce
1 1/2 teaspoons sriracha sauce
1 teaspoon grated peeled fresh ginger
1/2 teaspoon grated orange rind
2 garlic cloves
Dash of sea salt
1 cup bean sprouts
1 pound chicken
1 head boston bill lettuce
1 cup green onion
1 lime, cut into four wedges
1/2 pound carrots, thinly sliced
1/2 cup cashews, crushed
1 cup cilantro, chopped
Make a marinade from the first nine ingredients crushed (you can either save about a third of the marinade to drizzle on assembled wraps, or repeat the above step to make additional marinade for wraps. That’s what I did, and what I recommend). Then, place the chicken in either a Purex glass pan or a freezer bag and coat the chicken with the marinade. Close bag or cover pan, and set in refrigerator for about an hour. When done, remove chicken from marinate and throw this marinade out–no, you can’t reuse what the raw meat was soaking in! Cook chicken in a large skillet on stove on medium heat. Brown throughly, turning as needed (I had thick breasts, which took me about 15 minutes on each side to cook.) Let chicken rest for a minute or two, then cut into cubes and place in a large bowl. Take 1/2 cup of chopped cilantro and a squeeze of two lemon wedges, and mix together. Set aside.
Now, lay out your fixings: Grate carrots and set aside on plate or in bowl. Chop up onions and set aside in plate or bowl. Crush cashews. Set out bean shoots and the rest of cilantro for the wraps. Rip off bibb lettuce leaves from head and stack individual lettuce leaves on plate.
To assemble the wraps: take a leaf in your hand, and spoon chicken down the middle. Layer on carrots and bean sprouts, then spoon on crushed peanuts and a spoonful of spicy marinade. Wrap lettuce ends around each other and shove in mouth. Don’t worry, it’s not supposed to be pretty. Just pretty tasty. Makes at least 4 wraps.
Marinade recipe adapted from here.
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In this episode, Joey Cascio joins me to discuss Gregg Berhalter’s interview with the American Outlaws and our takeaways for the upcoming year of U.S. Men’s Soccer.
This interview with the national team coach was one part of a three-part of a series recorded and produced by US Soccer in coordination with the biggest supporters group in the country. The other two interviews were with U.S.S.F. Sporting Director Earnie Stewart and Chief Administration Officer Brian Remedi.
We decided to focus solely on Berhalter’s interview.
During this interview, he doubled down on some talking points that he made immediately after being announced as coach of the U.S. Men’s National Team in 2019. Although the points were slightly modified, the essence of his preferred playing style and tactics remained intact. According to Gregg, the USMNT should be able to:
- Dominate possession of the ball
- Disorganize their opponents
- Create goal-scoring opportunities
So, these three very specific criteria will be used to judge the U.S. Men’s National Team, and Berhalter himself, in 2020.
These three criteria will be used regardless of which players are on the field, who the opponent is, or where the game is played. The team consistently demonstrates this identity, or they don’t. There is no in-between this year.
Now, some people might hear be hearing this and thinking it is already old news, but as I stated earlier, I think dissecting Gregg’s interview helps set the stage for the entire year ahead. And quite frankly, many years to come.
We will continue to produce more content covering the MNT and other important American soccer topics. So, please subscribe to the podcast on whatever application you are using to listen.
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Maceió is the capital of the Brazilian state of Alagoas, located on the east coast of the country.
It is known for its beaches with crystalline waters and white sands, such as Praia de Pajuçara and Praia do Francês.
The historic center has a Portuguese colonial architecture, highlighting the Metropolitan Cathedral of Maceió and the Floriano Peixoto Palace.
It is also famous for its gastronomy, especially for its fresh seafood and fish dishes. In addition, it offers a lively nightlife and various cultural events throughout the year.
See more about how to get to Maceió
See also information on Praia do Francês.
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Purchasing a business is exciting, but the process can be tricky and confusing. There are a variety of variables you should consider before signing on the dotted line. Here are seven common pitfalls:
- Not forming a business entity. Don’t begin signing contracts, leases, or loan agreements in your own name without planning and implementing your business entity. Making the investment to properly set up a corporation or LLC will help reduce the risk of your personal assets.
- Not thoroughly reviewing the purchase contract. It is common to negotiate details of a business purchase. Many details include property, trademarks, inventory, accounts receivable, and outstanding bills will need to be defined as to who exactly will be responsible and exactly how the responsibility will be transferred.
- Not knowing succession plans of the seller. It is important to do a careful review of the seller’s operating agreement to see how the transfer of interest would happen when a member wants to sell, dies, or is declared incompetent. The succession plan may reveal some unexpected scenarios.
- Not defining a non-compete provision. To protect yourself, you should include a fair non-compete provision in your agreement that would prohibit the seller from directly competing against your business.
- Not running a lien search. It’s important to know if there are any liens attached to any of the assets listed in the purchase agreement. Investing in a thorough lien search can be valuable to know that there aren’t any third-party interests in the asset. This will avoid future problems.
- Not doing proper due diligence. Researching a company’s financial history is essential. On the surface, they may appear successful and profitable, but if you dig a little deeper, you may find some surprises. Have a CPA review the company’s revenue and expenses and help you determine if the asking price is reasonable. Your CPA can do the research to find out what outstanding debt exists and what is owned, leased, borrowed, unpaid, etc., and to pour over the data to see if the numbers the seller is providing are accurate.
- Not reviewing commercial leases. Often, commercial leases have additional expenses that aren’t as obvious, and you should be aware of them to determine the true rental price. An attorney who specializes in commercial leases will sift through the details of the agreement and help you negotiate any potential problematic clauses.
Every business purchase transaction is unique. Working with an attorney and a CPA to tap into their experience will help you avoid these seven most common pitfalls. The 417 Business & Elder Law can help provide guidance through the muddy waters of the business purchase process.
This article was also published in the printed version of the Volume 12 Jul-Sep 2018 Newsletter (PDF).
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In the event you choose to accomplish a rollover for $100 loan your fees will jump to 60.00 for borrowing $100. You can avail them direct from the market or online during the Internet. One another name is often a post-dated check loan.
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When a person gets a payday loan, typically they want the best deal that they can get. It’s a great idea to shop around for a good payday loan before you actually need one. That way, you can know exactly where to go right away to get the best deal and not have to settle with using an overpriced lender.
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A good payday loans website should display contact details. Ideally you would want to see a physical address of the registered office alongside opening times and days. In addition they should be a contact telephone number, email and/or a fax number. This information is typically found on the “contact us” page.
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Before finalizing anything, ask yourself AGAIN why you need the loan; need being the keyword here. If the money is going to be used for a new pair of shoes, a big screen TV, a fancy laptop, a dress, a new cell phone, or any other non-essential, go ahead and close out the payday lender’s website, raise your right hand, and then slap yourself silly. No fax payday loans need only be used for emergencies and tough financial debacles — they are NOT to be used for pleasure purchases.
With the idiot proof way lenders have set-up the application process, and the idiot-proof tips you’ve just read above, you are more than equipped to handle no fax payday loans. If these things don’t keep you safe from pay day loan debt, well, then you’re a bigger idiot than any of us could have imagined!
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Increased monitoring of accessibility and enforcement of the regulations of Section 508 are driving health care organizations and government contractors all over the country to get “legal” with the ADA and avoid possible litigation and penalties. This often manifests itself in an executive directive to “find out what we should be doing and how much it will cost.”
You may be the person in your organization tasked with this research job. How can you find out what is necessary and practical, not to mention legal? If you are a lawyer, you can certainly wade right into the statutes and interpret their intent and meaning, but how does a lay-person find good information, and the best advice possible?
It may be like being asked to find out how you might replace the foundation of your office building, and not knowing why you need to do it, or the first thing about construction. Where to do you start?
DO NOT assume that a “508 Services” offer on a website menu means the company actually does that kind of work, or that anybody in the company has more than a passing knowledge of both the regulation and the process for conformance. They may just be a pass-through in a related business (most often related to publishing and document preparation). You may fill out a form and request information, general, or specific to a document, hoping to learn something from the response.
You will get a reply from the company’s 508 contact, and if your request was specific, a bid and an “evaluation” of your document- certainly an invitation to tell them more about your situation. This may be helpful, but doesn’t really tell you much about the most important piece of the puzzle, the remediator. That is the specialist who actually does the work. The remediator is not a salesperson trying to make a commission, but an expert who can answer questions about your documents and the process of making them compliant.
When doing 508 research, look for knowledgeable sources, beware of a sales pitch.
How do you buy a pig in a poke? A “poke” is a bag that obscures what’s inside. You buy the bag, you may or may not get the pig. Section 508 compliance may seem like that: you send your document off, it comes back a few days later looking essentially the same, maybe with active TOC and bookmarks. You’ve been told that it passes this or that 508 checker- a machine check– and it probably does. Did you get a compliant document? You hope so, and deliver the document to your client. But what happens then? The document may go straight to publication without further review, or your client may have reviewers (who may be other contractors, btw) that WILL know the difference. The good ones know what makes a document accessible, and that’s what you want to deliver
Interview potential remediators, see if they can answer tough questions about your job. If they are just a sales person, realize that they are just a middleman adding their commission to the costs. Look for expertise, it’s your only man.
This goes without saying, not sure why we are saying it. You may not know much about Section 508 or the process of compliance remediation, but any established remediator should be glad to put you in contact with satisfied clients. Look especially for repeat clients, which is a remediator’s highest compliment.
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Turn a corner in Zuccotti Park and you're likely to run into a drum circle or find someone strumming a guitar. Maybe it's an amateur trying to keep spirits up, or it could be the real deal - recording artists such as David Crosby and Graham Nash.
Music and musicians are woven into the fabric of the Occupy Wall Street protest, much as they were in movements, confrontations and protests of the past, from the American Revolution to slavery to the Civil War, suffrage movement, labor movement, civil rights movement and Vietnam War. But no defining anthem such as "We Shall Overcome" or "Which Side Are You On" has yet emerged for the protesters who have taken on corporate America.
"Every successful progressive social movement has a great soundtrack. The soundtrack (for Occupy Wall Street) is just as democratic and grass roots as the movement," said singer Tom Morello, who was given an MTV online music award for his performance of "The Fabled City" at Zuccotti Park last month. A clip of the performance has spread widely online.
Morello, who performs solo as The Nightwatchman and was a member of Rage Against the Machine, has also brought his guitar and sung at Occupy demonstrations in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver, British Columbia, and Nottingham and Newcastle, England. Just before midnight Wednesday, he performed near a darkened kitchen area at a demonstration in London.
He has also volunteered to contribute to an album of protest songs that Occupy Wall Street is putting together as a fundraiser this winter.
If Occupy Wall Street has no anthem yet, it's partly due to how a new generation experiences music: through personalized iPod playlists streaming through headphones instead of communal singalongs.
True to a movement that claims to speak for the 99 percent of Americans who aren't super-rich, Occupy Wall Street embraces many forms of expression. Musicians across several generations and styles have given their support.
"The more the merrier as long as you're going to bring in positive vibrations for the movement," said Kanaska Carter, a singer-songwriter who traveled from her home in Canada to camp out at Zuccotti Park in downtown Manhattan near Wall Street. She helped arrange Morello's appearance and is shown in the video clip of his performance, standing near him holding a guitar.
Crosby and Nash's manager sent an email to Occupy Wall Street's website asking if the musicians could perform. Crosby quietly came a few days earlier to check out the scene, worried that cold weather would make it difficult for him to play guitar, said Beth Bogart, who helped show him around. The day of their visit was warm, however. Because police don't allow amplification, the performance was decidedly old school. The audience heard only as far as the singers' voices could project.
Bogart couldn't hear Crosby and Nash, but "you could just see the energy," she said. "When the whole audience started singing you could see their spirit lifted. It really was a good vibe."
Among the first New York performers was Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel, an indie rock cult favorite who played a long set. Rapper Talib Kweli performed and so did Michael Franti. A 92-year-old Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie, veterans of the labor, peace and civil rights movements, sang "We Shall Overcome." Sean Lennon and Rufus Wainwright offered an irony-drenched version of Madonna's "Material Girl."
Kanye West and Katy Perry walked through Zuccotti, but didn't perform.
Then there are those drums, beaten steadily by about a dozen people who call themselves Pulse. Police and protesters have limited the hours of drumming to help neighbors work and occupiers sleep.
An Internet-connected, do-it-yourself culture allows people beyond those at Occupy demonstrations to join in. They can write their own songs and spread them on Twitter or YouTube. The band Atari Teenage Riot has made a new video for its song "Black Flag" that includes clips from Occupy demonstrations sent in by fans, said Shannon Connolly, vice president for digital music strategies at MTV. While she's staying in Zuccotti Park, Carter has written movement-inspired songs "Stand Up to Wall Street" and "Game of Chess" that she's put on her websites.
"The movement is not waiting for superstars to grace it with their presence," Morello said. "It's not waiting for a Diane Warren-penned anthem featuring Rihanna and Drake."
Occupy Wall Street's nature as a sometimes unfocused expression of dissatisfaction plays into the diversity, too, said Amy Wlodarski, a music professor at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa.
"There's no centralized musical figure because there isn't a coherent value that is going to be communally expressed in song," she said.
Yet from the earliest days of America, music has been a cornerstone of protests and conflicts and movements. Music provided a voice for the disenfranchised and stirred people to fight injustice. The Revolutionary War produced "The Liberty Song." "Follow the Drinking Gourd," with its escape directions for fleeing slaves, was the anthem of the underground railroad, while "Battle Hymn of the Republic" gave support to Union soldiers during the Civil War. Women fighting for the right to vote in the early 1900s had "Suffrage Song." There was even a protest song about lynching, the jazz-infused "Strange Fruit."
The labor and peace movements created some of the more enduring music, with such artists as Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Bob Dylan. "We Shall Overcome" was born during a strike in 1945. Based on an early 20th century gospel song, it became the theme of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Meanwhile, anti-war sentiments flared in such songs as "All Along the Watchtower," "Blowin' in the Wind," "Give Peace a Chance" and "What's Going On?"
Socially conscious music never went away. Such artists as Bruce Springsteen, OutKast and Bonnie Raitt continue to take on injustice. Others also give voice to social issues from the economy to anti-war to the environment to abuse. "We Are the World" galvanized anti-hunger efforts. Rappers such as Public Enemy and N.W.A. offered messages from the streets. Steve Earle puts a string of progressive causes to music and Neil Young recorded a disc of opposition to the Iraq War.
The more current protest music is not noticed as much as the music of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s because music is increasingly a more individualized experience. People rarely gather at each other's homes and pump up the volume on their stereos for a shared listen of a hot album. Instead, friends might burn a CD for a buddy or share a download of a tune.
But if Occupy Wall Street needs a song to call its own, Texas songwriter James McMurtry's seething "We Can't Make it Here," written in 2004, is a virtual blueprint for the movement. It tumbles with images about damage done to the country through corporate greed and political neglect. McMurtry knew he had something the first time he played a version of the song, then unreleased, during a visit to an Austin radio station.
"I had some really nasty emails on my website before I had even gotten home," he said.
Hopeful that things might change, McMurtry stopped performing what is probably his best-known song when Barack Obama was elected. He has since started playing it again. McMurtry said he's going to make "We Can't Make it Here" available for free on his website in a gesture of solidarity, and is encouraging fans to make their own videos to accompany it.
"I'd be glad to let them use that song," he said. "Whatever helps."
Morello, who has done what amounts to a tour of Occupy demonstration sites, considers it his job as a musician to "keep steel in the backbone and wind in the sails of people who are standing up for economic justice."
"I've been down there a couple of times," said MTV's Connolly. "There's always music. It's sort of a thread that runs through it."
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Police say at around 4:55 p.m. a red Mitsubishi was traveling northbound on the Boulevard when it collided with a parked car.
The Mitsubishi then crashed into a parked patrol car at B Street and the Boulevard.
The driver sped off, but was stopped at C Street where police arrested him.
Police say a truck driver, Marcus Branker, saw the man collide with the police vehicle and pursued him.
The tow truck driver held the suspect until police arrived at C Street.
The tow truck driver said police thanked him for his assistance.
The Mitsubishi driver is facing DUI charges.
Police are continuing to investigate.
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I’ve resolved to read something of substance each day — a chapter, an article, whatever — and identify one idea to “takeaway”.
Once a week I post the takeaways I’ve collected for the week.
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Great Creators are Great Consumers
I don’t claim to be a great creator, but those that are share at least one common characteristic: they consume a lot of information. They read, they watch, they listen to a wide variety of topics that interest them.
Be more like the people you admire. I admire several great creators.
What will I consume? Hard to say, but it’ll be eclectic, that I can assure you.
Entrepreneurial items will probably top the list. Writing better. Time management. Marketing. Basically anything that will help me to continue to grow my business.
Personal growth will almost certainly make appearances. As will technology (though some might well get diverted to Ask Leo! related channels. We’ll see.)
Don’t be surprised if Corgis are mentioned occasionally as well.
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PORT CHARLOTTE (620 WDAE) -- The Tampa Bay Rays made a majority of their final roster cuts before Sunday's contest against the New York Yankees, informing three relievers they had made the team, while telling two others they'd be moving on.
Right-handers Yonny Chirinos and Andrew Kittredge, and lefty Ryan Yarbrough all learned that they will be a part of Tampa Bay's 25-man roster when the team takes on the Boston Red Sox Thursday at Tropicana Field, while righty Daniel Hudson and left-hander Dan Jennings were informed that they would not be making the team out of camp.
Jennings, acquired at the trade deadline last season from the Chicago White Sox, went 0-0 with a 3.44 ERA in 29 games with Tampa Bay following the trade.
Hudson was acquired from the Pittsburgh Pirates in the deal that sent outfielder Corey Dickerson to the Steel City. In seven appearances this spring, he had no record and a 15.19 ERA.
In addition, reliever Austin Pruitt was optioned to Triple-A Durham, left-handed reliever Jonny Venters was informed he would not make the team and will be assigned to Durham's roster, outfielder Jason Coats, infielder/outfielder Micah Johnson, catcher Adam Moore and third baseman Kean Wong were all reassigned to minor-league camp, and catcher Curt Casali was told he would join minor-league camp following Tuesday's exhibition game at Tropicana Field.
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Netizens of India can apply BSNL broadband / Bharat Fibre online to register for BSNL internet services with latest plans, Check how to fill application online…
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A Nigerian woman, Kate Chinagorom Eze, has said she won’t leave her husband if he takes another wife, cheats on her or gets a child outside their marriage.
She stated this in a Facebook post on Thursday, January 16, while responding to people criticising her after she gushed about her beautiful marriage while taking a dig at women who leave their marriages over infidelity and other marital conflicts.
“Why do some women always think that my husband getting married to another woman, cheating on me or having a child outside is a dea–th sentence??,” she wrote.
“So they are quick to remind me of how he will do these things
“Honestly, some of you don’t know how prepared I am for marriage
“Dear commenter, ALL YOU STATED CAN’T MAKE ME LEAVE MY MARRIAGE INUGO
“He is an Igbo Man. He is an African Man
“Having a second wife or a child outside is not a taboo in Igbo land
“Try another blackmail. This doesn’t work with me.”
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The new challenge at AnnaBelle Stamps Blog is a colour challenge, Artichoke Pineapple and Pumpkin. This challenge will run for two weeks with the winner receiving a $15 discount voucher for the ABS store. You can also pick up a Free digital image from the ABS Blog to use for your project. Danielle shared on her Topical Tuesday post how she uses the digis to make her cards......Check it out HERE.
Edit: I should have mentioned that we are so lucky to have a very talented lady joining the Belle's over the next few months. Please take a moment to visit her blog, I know she'll inspire you.......Janet
I've combined a couple of challenges for my card this week. Retro sketches #45 along with
The Outlawz CAS "Spread the NEWs Challenge"
AnnaBelle Stamps Garden Silhouettes and Background By Design # 7 feature on my card this week.
I masked/embossed using the Cuts By Design 002 Shapes 1. Then stamped the BBD grid in S U pumpkin pie ink, then over stamped the silhouette flower in always artichoke.
NEW satin ribbon from the Pineapple collection from ABS features too (Due for release soon). Finished off with a Pumpkin button threaded with orange fine twine.
You can find all the products used by following the link HERE, or click on the individual items below.
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Posidonia oceanica, the dominant seagrass species in the Mediterranean, appears to be experiencing widespread loss. Efforts to conserve Posidonia oceanica are increasing, as reflected in the increase in the number of marine protected areas in the Mediterranean. However, the effectiveness of these measures to conserve seagrass meadows is unknown. In this study, the present status of the Posidonia oceanica meadows in the Cabrera National Park (Mediterranean), the only marine national park in Spain, was assessed, and the effectiveness of the conservation measures adopted was tested. This was done by reconstruction of past and present growth, quantification of the demographic status of the established meadows, and quantification of patch formation and growth rates in areas where recolonization is occurring. The meadows extended from 1-43 m deep at Santa Maria bay and from 1-33 m at Es Port. Leaf production rate of the stands examined ranged between 6.5 and 7.8 leaves shoot-1 yr-1, with higher rates in Santa Maria than in Es Port. Vertical rhizomes elongated at rates ranging from 5.39-10.12mmyr-1, annual vertical growth in Santa Maria stands being larger than that in the stands developing at Es Port. Horizontal rhizomes elongated slowly (from 2.6-6.1 cm yr-1), and branching was sparse (<0.25 branches yr-1 axis-1), with maximum elongation and branching rates in areas where patches were actively colonizing. Flowering was a rare event in all the stands (<0.015 flowers shoot-1 yr-1). Patch formation and patch growth rates in active colonizing areas were slow, but they increased after implementation of mooring regulations in the Park. Similarly, the leaf production tended to increase, and vertical rhizome growth to decrease, in both bays following the onset of regulation measures. However, the decrease in vertical growth detected was greater at Santa Maria, where access is prohibited to visitors, than at Es Port, where boats are allowed to moor, attached to permanent weights. Shoot mortality rate was generally low (mean 0.10 ± 0.02 In units yr-1) but exceeded the recruitment rate (<0.009 and 0.17 In units yr-1) in 55% of the meadows examined, indicative of negative net population growth rates. Regulation of mooring activities has improved the status of the P. oceanica meadows at Cabrera National Park. The demographic analysis, however, indicated that while P. oceanica meadows at Santa Maria are in good shape, those at Es Port seem to be compromised. The observed differences in meadow status reflect the large differences in circulation inside the bays (water residence time at Santa Maria = 4 days, water residence time at Es Port = 11 days) and the anthropogenic pressure both bays support.
- Posidonia oceanica
- Water residence time
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Water Science and Technology
- Nature and Landscape Conservation
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
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A very challenging exercise for me. My brain wanted to see this as an upside down bird. I had moments when I could focus on the shapes and relationships and other times when my mind would freeze up! This made me understand that I need to relax and refrain from drawing something that isn't really in front of me. That was cool!
It was difficult to refrain from looking. As I drew I suddenly felt the movement of the animal more than the actual form. I plan to practise this in my backyard while bird watching. (That is if it ever stops raining!)
I've enjoyed practicing these drawing skills. It seems to take me forever to draw a simple object. I expect my confidence will improve with practice. I can't imagine taking this much time while drawing in the forest. The days are shorter here in British Columbia I'd be drawing in the dark lol! Haven't tried fruit yet. Great to see everyone's art!
There were over 100 sea gulls at the Lagoon
why so many birds?
perhaps there are a lot of fish in the Lagoon this year.
our summer was cooler this year, perhaps the fish were more abundant because of the higher water levels and cooler temperatures. More gulls because of more food
There was a lot going on at my site so I had a lot of notes. It was easy to identify bird species since most are common where I live. I was surprised to find that I had difficulty sitting quietly for 15 minutes. I'm not really sure about how to take measurements I suppose I have a lot to learn! Fun experience!
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PandanGreen is an emerging initiative launched by experienced climate, financial markets and inclusion professionals aimed at supporting vulnerable communities in developing countries worst hit by climate change while placing high consideration to gender and social equity. It has been competitively selected by the International Climate Finance Accelerator Luxembourg 2020 Cohort.
As climate change takes hold across the developing world, resulting in increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events with adverse repercussions for agriculture, food and energy security and water availability, vulnerable communities including women are among the most-exposed groups, and increasingly seek to adapt to these changes and increase their resilience to safeguard their livelihoods.
PandanGreen works to reach the most vulnerable communities in selected developing, least-developed countries (LDCs) and small island developing states (SIDS) in the Asia-Pacific region. It facilitates financial support to smallholder farmers, agricultural cooperatives, communities, household or micro enterprises, being often women led, to stimulate the adoption of climate-smart technologies, services and business models reflected in countries’ National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and national priorities.
Supporting its core team, Pandan is advised by a highly qualified, diversified advisory board which includes experts on Gender, Social equity, Financial markets and Financial Inclusion.
Asia - South East
Oceania and Pacific
Conservation and Restoration
Water and Sanitation
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A newly-single father struggles to weather the turbulence of change, while a new immigrant endeavours to find her place in a foreign land.
Set in 1971 in rural Australia, introverted Leo is a metalworker at his small town’s local plant. After his wife vanishes, leaving him to care for their two young children, he is bereft – barely able to cook a decent meal or keep the household running. So when a recently-arrived Italian colleague suggests that his sister, Maria, act as a surrogate homemaker, Leo reluctantly accepts. But can one woman’s warm, nurturing presence fill the void left by another, and can Leo yield to the winds of change?
The film details the many upheavals of 1970s Australia – from immigration and post-war resettlement to urbanisation, anti–Vietnam War protests and the women’s liberation movement – into a narrative about one man’s struggle to adapt. Little Tornadoes is a portrait of a country at a turning point and the human desire for connection.
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Structured pruning is an effective technique for compressing pre-trained language models (PLMs), reducing model size and improving inference speed for efficient deployment. However, most of existing pruning algorithms require retraining, leading to additional computational overhead. While some retraining-free approaches have been proposed for classification tasks, they still require a fully fine-tuned model for the task, and may cause catastrophic performance degradation on generative tasks. To address these challenges, we propose P-pruning (pre-pruning), an innovative task-specific compression framework. P-pruning prunes redundant modules of PLMs before fine-tuning, reducing the costs associated with fine-tuning. We also introduce a pruning algorithm for this framework, which includes two techniques: (1) module clustering, which clusters the outputs of all heads and neurons based on the task input; and (2) centroid selection, which identifies the most salient element in each cluster and prunes the others. We apply our method to BERT and GPT-2 and evaluate its effectiveness on GLUE, SQuAD, WikiText-2, WikiText-103, and PTB datasets. Experimental results demonstrate that our approach achieves higher performance in both classification and generative tasks, while also reducing the time required for fine-tuning.
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The ACLU is working with attorneys around the state to develop constitutional challenges to a new statute that unfairly punishes car owners for actions by others. An amendment to state law adopted in 1998 authorizes police to impound for 30 to 90 days vehicles driven by a person with a suspended license – even if the driver doesn't own the car.
A recent case in which the ACLU assisted a low-income couple from Texas vividly illustrates the problem. While visiting friends in Washington, the couple had their son perform needed repairs on their truck. When he drove the vehicle for a few minutes to test the repairs, he was stopped by a Washington State Patrol officer and was found to be driving with a suspended license. The officer impounded the vehicle.
The truck is specially adapted to carry the husband’s motorized wheelchair (he is a paraplegic), and the wheelchair was in the vehicle when it was impounded. The State Patrol refused to return the truck under a hardship exception, leaving the couple stranded in Washington. It took pressure from the ACLU for the Patrol to agree to return the vehicle to the Texas couple and waive fees normally charged for “innocent owner” releases of impounded vehicles.
Two attorneys assisted by the ACLU have obtained rulings that the impound statute violates equal protection principles because it protects rental companies but not other nondriver "innocent owners." As a result of these rulings, the Washington State Patrol agreed to change its regulations so that innocent owners will be able to get their cars back without waiting for a hearing.
"Losing one's car or truck is a serious hardship. It's grossly unfair for the government to seize a person's vehicle without a hearing, especially when they have done nothing wrong," said Julya Hampton, ACLU Legal Program Director.
The impound statute does not permit the release of a vehicle unless all outstanding fines are paid. And the owner must pay a fee to the towing company within five days of the impound. Otherwise, the towing company can sell the vehicle at auction unless the owner pays a mandatory security deposit. At the end of the impound period, the owner must pay all towing and storage fees. Since the reason a person has a suspended license often is that he or she is too poor to pay traffic fines, low-income people lose their vehicles altogether.
Another troubling provision grants police immunity from suit as long as they rely “in good faith and without gross negligence” on Department of Licensing records. So even if an impound is based on inaccurate state records or is found to be unlawful by the courts, the owner sometimes has to pay all of the costs from the impoundment.
Although owners may request a hearing within 10 days from the date provided on the impound form, there is no mandatory time frame in which the hearing must take place. Consequently, an owner may be charged for storage costs and even have his or her car sold at auction before receiving a hearing; and because the police are immune to suit, these costs may never be recovered. The ACLU also is concerned that hearings may be limited to considering the amount of fees and not the fairness of the impoundment.
The ACLU's Legal Department would like to hear from people who have experienced unfair treatment under the impoundment law.
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When a tax refund is due to you, SARS typically pays out in 3 to 4 days. If your refund has not been paid, there could be several factors that causes the delay.
Wrong bank details
If you have changed your banking details since the last return submission, it is important to let SARS know. This can be done on eFiling using the RAV01 form.
Bank detail review
In some cases, SARS chooses to review the bank details of a taxpayer before any refunds are paid. SARS will send a letter indicating that this is the case. The following detail should be uploaded to eFiling:
- ID copy
- Bank confirmation letter
- Proof of address
- Photo of yourself holding your ID
If your tax return has been chosen for audit, the refund will only been paid once SARS has concluded the audit. SARS will send a letter to notify the taxpayer about the audit. The relevant supporting documents should then be uploaded to eFiling.
Contact us if you need support.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Documents From The Family Of Murder Victim Annshalike Hamilton, In PDF Form...
Annshalike Hamilton--the 15-year-old pregnant girl who was found murdered in a slumlord's garage in North Minneapolis, her body frozen, the crime still unsolved--had a family. She had friends. And those friends and family have been talking about who they suspect in her death:
Remaro C. Smith, the boyfriend of Annshalike's sister Anne Marie Leikas, who lived under their very roof.
Recently, the family provided me some documents which I summarized in this blog post, click here. I now have the documents in PDF form. Click here for the documents on the Johnny Northside PDF support site.
In summary: arrest record, very impressive, but reportedly not complete. Documents about the alleged raiding of the trust fund of Anthony "Boogie" Leikas, which Annshalike's mother blames on Remaro Smith and her daughter Anne Marie. A document purportedly from a probation officer. And, last but not least, an image of Remaro and Anne Marie.
A high-ranking police source says Remaro C. Smith is wanted on three warrants; one a felony gun warrant and two for misdemeanors.
This small selection of documents is reportedly not all the paperwork which exists in the hands of the family. I am working to get more information.
(Do not click "Read More')
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Our return journey from holiday, back to Orkney, was a similar trip to the one which had taken us to Norfolk. We re-visited Second and First Born, spent a few days with my brother and his family in Middlesbrough, visited my dad and then, once back in Scotland, dropped in on Our Lass's sister and her family.
Whilst in Milton Keynes, and clutching a £10 off voucher, I went on a pilgrimage of sorts, to pay my respects to the factory shop of a certain clothing manufacturer.
Meanwhile, at Second Born's abode, the Harlequin ladybirds were gathering on all surfaces, seemingly trying on all manner of clothing...
Whilst in Middlesbrough, we visited RSPB Saltholme in warm Autumnal sunshine, finding plenty of Common Darters and Migrant Hawkers.
The view from one of the hides was a little unusual, as a work party were busy with a spot of habitat maintenance. I took the below shot and cheekily sent it to the RSPB with the message 'A flock of Shovelers'.
The following day, the photo appeared in one of their community blogs, with the accompanying article being written in a similar vein!
By the time we returned to Orkney, the isles' weather was going all traditional, with the usual equinoctial gales. However, fast-moving and horizontal meteorology can make for great photographic opportunities.
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For centuries, traveling merchants toted their wares around to sell them from town to town. The added value these salesmen offered was their in-depth knowledge of innovative solutions. This is now largely in the hands of customers themselves. Does this spell the end for the traditional salesman?
Before the advent of the internet, salespeople had to visit their customers in person to share their knowledge. With the coming of the internet, the rise of high-speed mobile data connections in combination with smartphones and particularly the release of the first iPhone in 2007, this process has been fully digitised.
How inbound marketing has forever changed the sales process
From the initial introduction to a product to the ultimate completion of the sale; inbound marketing has changed the entire sales process. Everything can be done online these days. Even before people experience a problem, they go online to find information about that problem. They gradually realise that their problem needs a solution and that such a solution is possible. With inbound marketing, an organisation can satisfy their customer’s (information) needs at every stage of the buyer’s journey.
Looking for information is the first step of this process. Still, there are specific products or solutions for which it does not cross the customer’s mind to look for information, either because the solution is too complex or the product is too new and innovative.
When inbound marketing is not enough
With inbound marketing, people are increasingly often relegated to playing back-up roles; they are only called in when the computer systems cannot handle the work anymore. For example, customer service departments are largely operated by bots and people are only brought in to deal with complex situations. What can you do when your solution is too complex to be explained online to begin with, or when your product is so innovative that the customer does not even realise it might be a solution to their problem? These kinds of complex and innovative solutions cannot be sold using only inbound marketing. Instead, the use of highly trained human consultants is essential to bring these solutions to customers’ attention.
How can you sell complex and innovative solutions?
When inbound marketing is not enough, that does not mean you can simply revert back to traditional sales methods. Face-to-face contact will be important, but times have changed and it is now more crucial than ever to differentiate yourself from your competition.
Having perfect product knowledge is still an absolute requirement for every member of the sales team. This must be supplemented with a thorough understanding of the customer’s situation (the challenges and opportunities they face) and extensive market knowledge. However, that is still not enough. To really stand out, you must be able to inspire your customers. You must offer them insights and advice that is so interesting that they consider it to be strategically relevant. If you manage to do that, the customer will no longer view you as just another supplier. Instead, you become a worthy sparring partner; someone who develops and implements interesting, innovative and sometimes even disruptive ideas, concepts and plans that allow the customer to perform even better themselves.
To perform such a role, it is essential to be aware of the latest technological developments, the most disruptive inventions and the newest ideas pertaining to business organisation. This knowledge cannot be limited to the market segment in which the customer is active. Instead, it must transcend these limitations. The customer can make a difference by using technologies and innovations that have already proven their effectiveness in other segments, even though they have not yet been widely adopted in their own sector.
How to stay one step ahead of your competition
To summarise: your consultants must be known for their comprehensive and thorough knowledge of new solutions, developments and technologies. You must study your customer, the market and your competition to stay one step ahead of them. However, the key to gaining a truly substantial lead is to find inspiration outside your own field. Only when a consultant can successfully present themselves as a source of inspiration can you realise a long-term strategic collaboration with a customer as their equal.
The traditional role of a salesman no longer exists and inbound marketing has taken over most sales tasks from humans. However, highly trained consultants will still be essential to sell complex and innovative solutions.
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Being authentic today is like trying to catch a rare Pokémon: everyone talks about it, but few can actually capture it. In an era where every move and word can be seen by thousands on social media, the line between the “real me” and the “performative me” is getting thinner.
So, what does it even mean to be authentic when society expects you to be a walking brand?
If you’re not trying to “sell” your most real version, someone else will do it for you—or worse, they’ll label you as “fake.” Yep, being authentic has become a commodity, and authenticity is the hottest item on the shelf. But here’s the catch: true authenticity isn’t something you buy, it’s something you build—with a lot of hard work, introspection, and sometimes a few existential crises along the way.
In the creative economy, especially among Gen Z, being authentic means not just staying true to yourself, but skillfully navigating between different versions of yourself to connect with multiple communities. It’s not about being fake; it’s about adaptability. As one wise digital influencer once said, “Be real, but be strategic.”
Today, authenticity is something we live in layers. You can be authentic while creating content, but that doesn’t mean you have to share every detail of your personal life. Authenticity, in this case, is about being honest with the moments you choose to show and realizing that not every “real moment” needs to be broadcast live on TikTok.
And here’s the thing: as we get older, we tend to feel more authentic. Maybe it’s because we care less about what others think and more about what truly matters to us. Time has this weird way of teaching us that, at the end of the day, the only person we really need to be honest with is ourselves. And that, my friend, is the real game of life.
So next time you wonder if you’re being authentic enough, remember: authenticity is a mindset, not an Instagram filter. And if your true self is a little messy and contradictory? Welcome to the club, that’s just being human.
Want more thoughts on living your best life in the digital world? Head over to afteriscool.com and see how the creative economy is shaping the future of authenticity!
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The RI Life Index community coalition, a group of community organizations including BCBSRI, will be conducting phone surveys for the 2020 RI Life Index through August 2020. Participants are selected at random and responses remain strictly confidential. Participation in the survey, which is voluntary, will help strengthen the state’s health policies and services. To learn more, please visit https://www.rilifeindex.org/ and continue reading below for FAQ’s.
What is the RI Life Index survey?
The RI Life Index is a statewide survey that explores Rhode Islanders’ perceptions of the life factors that influence health and well-being.
Will I remain anonymous? Can my responses be tied back to me? How will participants be chosen?
Participants in the RI Life Index survey will be chosen randomly and all individual responses will remain strictly confidential. No identifiable information about you will be shared with anyone; all responses are grouped together.
What is the time frame for the survey?
The telephone survey will begin on July 13 and run through August 2020.
How many people will be surveyed?
Our goal is to interview just over 2,000 people. We need to reach a specific number of participants for the survey results to be valid.
How will the data be used?
The data will be used to inform policy and philanthropic efforts for the areas of need identified in the survey.
How long does it take to complete the survey?
The entire telephone survey takes about 15 minutes.
What if there are questions I don’t want to answer?
You may refuse to answer those questions.
Who is behind the survey?
The survey is informed by the RI Life Index Coalition, a group of community organizations working in the arenas highlighted within the survey, including basic human needs and social services. Some of the members of the coalition include the Rhode Island Department of Health, United Way of Rhode Island, the Rhode Island Community Food Bank and Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island. You can find a full list of the coalition members at RILifeIndex.org.
Why is this survey being conducted?
In 2019, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island (BCBSRI), in partnership with the Brown University School of Public Health, created the RI Life Index to better understand ways in which life factors like socioeconomic status, education, neighborhood and physical environment, employment, and social support networks, as well as access to healthcare, are perceived to impact health outcomes and overall well-being.
Who is conducting the actual telephone survey?
The survey is being conducted by Siena College Research Institute, a nationally recognized research group.
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The Census Bureau’s report, published on June 25, 2024, reveals that 8.3% of individuals aged 65 and over in the United States were living in poverty in 2021. This data, derived from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), provides a detailed profile of the 4.7 million older adults experiencing poverty. The SIPP offers valuable insights into income dynamics, employment status, household composition, and government program participation.
Key Findings from the Report
Gender Disparities: The report highlights that women are disproportionately affected by poverty in later life. In 2021, two-thirds of older adults living in poverty were women. Factors such as reduced time in the workforce due to caregiving responsibilities contribute to lower Social Security benefits and increased financial insecurity for older women.
Living Arrangements: The report also notes that a significant number of older adults in poverty live alone. Specifically, 62.9% of older adults in poverty lived alone, compared to just 26.3% of those not in poverty. This living situation often exacerbates financial difficulties, as single-person households may face higher per capita living costs.
Family Dynamics: Among those living with others, the majority of older adults in poverty cohabited with a spouse (65.5%), while a smaller portion lived with children (29.9%) or grandchildren (11.2%).
Poverty in Rhode Island: A Closer Look
In an article by Herb Weiss published in rinewstoday.com, Maureen Maigret, Policy Advisor for the Senior Agenda Coalition of Rhode Island, emphasizes the report’s significance for understanding poverty at the state level. She notes that Rhode Island mirrors national trends, with a particularly troubling statistic: 12.3% of older Rhode Islanders live in poverty, surpassing the national average of 10.9%.
Maigret’s previous research from 2014 indicated a high poverty rate among older women in Rhode Island, with 11.3% living in poverty compared to 9.7% of older men. Furthermore, about 20% of older adults in poverty in Rhode Island are Hispanic or non-Hispanic Black, reflecting broader racial and ethnic disparities. Susan Sweet, founder of the Rhode Island Minority Elder Task Force (RIMETF), highlights several critical issues facing older Rhode Islanders. She points out that many elderly individuals are struggling to meet basic needs such as shelter, food, and healthcare. Sweet emphasizes that state programs often have long application processes and stringent requirements, which can delay or obstruct access to necessary assistance.
RIMETF works to provide direct support to low-income older adults through mini-grants for essential services like rent and utilities. Despite their efforts, the lack of paid staff and limited resources mean that many still face significant challenges. Both Maigret and Sweet call for increased efforts from Rhode Island lawmakers to enhance support for older adults. They advocate for improved policies and better oversight of state and private programs to ensure that assistance reaches those in need in a timely and effective manner.
Maigret urges policymakers to consider the national and state-level data when formulating strategies to combat senior poverty. Sweet emphasizes the importance of grassroots understanding and accountability to address the real gaps in support available to older adults.
The U.S. Census Bureau’s report on older adults’ poverty status serves as a crucial reminder of the ongoing financial struggles faced by many. With 12.3% of older Rhode Islanders living in poverty, it is clear that more work is needed to strengthen the safety net. Enhanced Social Security benefits, improved healthcare access, and more responsive state programs are essential to improving the economic security of older Americans. For further details on the Census Bureau’s findings, the full report can be accessed HERE.
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How CBD Could Help Combat Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD)
A prevalent eye ailment, age-related macular degeneration (AMD) primarily affects persons over 50 but affects millions of people worldwide. It is a disease that progresses over time and can cause significant vision loss or even blindness. Despite the fact that AMD has no known cure, researchers are always looking into novel treatments to halt its growth and ease its symptoms. The usage of CBD, a non-psychoactive substance derived from the cannabis plant, is one such area of investigation. In this article, we’ll examine how CBD could be able to fight AMD and explain some of its possible advantages.
Understanding Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Let’s first define AMD before talking about CBD’s possible advantages for AMD. Clear and precise central vision is produced by the macula, a little area at the retina’s centre. AMD happens when the macula deteriorates over time, impairing one’s capacity to read, drive, recognise faces, and even perceive minute details.
AMD comes in both dry and moist forms. Dry AMD is more prevalent and advances slowly, gradually robbing patients of their eyesight. Although less frequent, wet AMD advances quickly and is characterised by the development of aberrant blood vessels behind the macula, which can result in bleeding and scarring.
The Role of CBD in AMD
Cannabidiol, or CBD for short, is a naturally occurring substance present in cannabis plants. CBD, a substance also present in cannabis, is not psychoactive and does not result in a “high” experience. Due to its potential therapeutic effects on a number of medical ailments, such as pain, anxiety, and inflammation, it has grown in popularity in recent years.
While there hasn’t been much research on CBD especially for AMD, there are a number of reasons to think it might be helpful in slowing the growth of this ailment.
When considering the role of CBD in the context of AMD, it’s essential to look beyond the conventional approaches and delve into the emerging research.
Recent developments have spurred collaboration between medical experts and the cannabis community. Reputed cannabis websites have taken a keen interest in shedding light on the possible benefits of CBD for AMD. These CBD backlinks from reputed cannabis websites provide valuable insights into ongoing research and personal anecdotes that contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of this potential treatment avenue.
It is thought that inflammation significantly contributes to the onset and development of AMD. According to studies, retinal cell death and the onset of AMD can both be attributed to chronic inflammation in the eyes. Anti-inflammatory characteristics of CBD have been demonstrated, which may be able to lessen macula inflammation and halt the degenerative process. CBD may contribute to the preservation of retinal cells and enhanced visual function by lowering inflammation.
In numerous trials, CBD has demonstrated potential as a neuroprotective agent. The endocannabinoid system, which is involved in controlling a number of physiological functions, including inflammation and cell survival, has the capacity to interact with receptors in this compound. By turning on these receptors, CBD may prolong the life of retinal cells and preserve vision by guarding against damage. Additionally, it has been shown that CBD contains antioxidant properties that can help shield cells from oxidative stress and additional harm.
AMD is thought to be influenced by oxidative stress, which is brought on by an imbalance between the body’s capacity to produce dangerous free radicals and its capacity to eliminate them. The retina is especially vulnerable to oxidative stress because it has a high metabolic rate and is exposed to a lot of oxygen. It has been shown that CBD has strong antioxidant capabilities that work to fight oxidative stress and lessen cell damage. CBD has the ability to delay the course of AMD and guard the macula from additional damage by lowering oxidative stress.
The Importance of Proper Supplementation
While CBD may be able to aid in the treatment of AMD, it should not be used in place of conventional medical procedures or drugs that have been prescribed by medical specialists. CBD use should be explored with a healthcare professional as a potential complementary strategy for managing AMD.
When considering CBD supplementation, it is essential to choose high-quality products from reputable manufacturers. One popular option in the market is”Sweet Dreams Gummies,” which provides CBD in a convenient and tasty form. These gummies are made with natural ingredients and offer a controlled CBD dosage, ensuring consistent and reliable supplementation.
The fact that not all CBD products are produced equally must be noted. Between various brands and manufacturers, there might be substantial differences in the quality and purity of CBD. Look for CBD products that have undergone independent testing to be sure you are getting a safe and dependable product. These tests confirm the CBD’s strength and purity and guarantee that it is devoid of impurities including pesticides, heavy metals, and solvents.
Furthermore, it is very important to adhere to the dosage recommendations for CBD supplements. The dosage can change based on a person’s sensitivity, body weight, and the intensity of their symptoms. It is typically advised to start with a modest dose and progressively increase it while being guided by a healthcare practitioner.
Other lifestyle choices can improve eye health and possibly decrease the onset of AMD in addition to CBD consumption. These consist of:
Healthy Diet: It is possible to maintain eye health by eating a balanced diet that is high in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and omega-3 fatty acids. Foods like citrus fruits, salmon, nuts, and leafy greens are especially good for your eyes.
Regular Exercise: Regular exercise has been demonstrated to enhance blood circulation and support general health, which includes eye health. Swimming or brisk walking are two activities that can help maintain healthy blood vessels in the eyes.
Smoking Cessation: Smoking has been associated with a higher incidence of AMD and can quicken the disease’s progression. Stopping the use of tobacco can considerably lower the risk and delay eyesight loss.
Eye Protection: Eye health can be preserved by shielding the eyes from damaging UV rays by donning UV-protective sunglasses and wearing the proper safety eyewear when engaging in activities that could result in eye injury.
Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) has potential to be slowed down by CBD, a substance produced from the cannabis plant. Its anti-inflammatory activities might lessen macula inflammation, while its neuroprotective benefits might shield retinal cells. Due to its antioxidant characteristics, CBD may decrease the progression of AMD. However, high-quality CBD supplements should be chosen, and CBD should only be used as a supplemental strategy after consulting a healthcare provider.
Crystal Wilson is a senior content specialist at CBD Global.
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Kathy is 73 years old. She started taking vitamin MePA in 2018, and added vitamin MePiA in January of 2020.
(The Anti-Aging Vitamins – MePA and MePiA.)
July 22, 2020
Kathy has suffered from severe back pain for many years. The pain has interfered with her normal daily activities and her sleep. She took multiple pain medications in order to function, though pain was not well controlled. In 2018 she had back surgery and a cage was placed in her lower back.
The surgery helped her to function, but she continued with pain and difficulty sleeping because of the pain. Soon after the surgery she started taking vitamin MePA. She states that within the first week she was sleeping better and felt more rested. As she continued to take vitamin MePA, her pain and sleep continued to improve.
She states her back pain, sleep quality and energy have improved significantly. She attributes these improvements to vitamin MePA and now MePiA. She now only takes half a tablet of pain medication at night, but she says this is much better than the multiple pain medications she used to take.
Overall, she states Dr. Aardsma’s Anti-Aging Vitamins have significantly improved her pain, sleep quality and energy. Occasionally she misses a dose of the vitamins and notices her symptoms of pain and fatigue recurs after 1-2 days. She says one of the biggest benefits of taking Dr. Aardsma’s Anti-Aging Vitamins is being able to enjoy her grandchildren.
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Pork chops are a really affordable meat option, often going for as low as $1.49/lb – but they can easily taste too dry or bland. Although not the most photogenic recipe out there, this Slow Cooker Creamy Ranch Pork Chop recipe is delicious – and not at all dry as it simmers in a creamy gravy that goes well with mashed potatoes. It was also extremely easy to throw together.
- 4 boneless pork chops
- 1 can of Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom soup (I used two)
- ¾ cup of milk
- 1 package of ranch salad dressing mix
- ⅛ cup of water
- I also added 8 ounces of sliced mushrooms I had in the fridge and that I needed to use
- Put pork chops in slow cooker (mine were frozen).
- In a separate bowl mix together milk, ranch dressing mix, mushroom soup and water.
- Pour mixture over pork chops in the slow cooker.
- Cook on high for 4 hours – although I think I cooked mine for more like 6 hours because my chops were frozen when I tossed them in to the slow cooker. You just want to make sure they aren’t pink inside.
I think this lends itself well to being served with with mashed potatoes!
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In at the moment’s quickly evolving digital panorama, enterprises are going through the complexities of data overload. This leaves them grappling to extract significant insights from the huge digital footprints they depart behind.
Recognizing the necessity to harness real-time information, companies are more and more turning to event-driven structure (EDA) as a strategic method to remain forward of the curve.
Corporations and executives are realizing how they should keep forward by deriving actionable insights from the sheer quantity of knowledge generated each minute of their digital operations. As IDC acknowledged: as of 2022, 36% of IT leaders recognized the use of applied sciences to attain real-time decision-making as important for enterprise success, and 45% of IT leaders reported a basic scarcity of expert personnel for real-time use circumstances.*
This development grows stronger as organizations notice the advantages that come from the ability of real-time information streaming. Nevertheless, they should discover the suitable applied sciences that adapt to their organizational wants.
On the forefront of this event-driven revolution is Apache Kafka, the well known and dominant open-source expertise for occasion streaming. It affords companies the aptitude to seize and course of real-time info from various sources, similar to databases, software program functions and cloud companies.
Whereas most enterprises have already acknowledged how Apache Kafka gives a robust basis for EDA, they usually fall behind in unlocking its true potential. This happens by means of the dearth of superior occasion processing and occasion endpoint administration capabilities.
Socialization and administration in EDA
Whereas Apache Kafka allows companies to assemble resilient and scalable functions, serving to to make sure immediate supply of enterprise occasions, companies must successfully handle and socialize these occasions.
To be productive, groups inside a corporation require entry to occasions. However how will you assist be certain that the suitable groups have entry to the suitable occasions? An occasion endpoint administration functionality turns into paramount in addressing this want. It permits for sharing occasions by means of searchable and self-service catalogs whereas concurrently sustaining correct governance and controls with entry primarily based on utilized insurance policies.
The significance is evident: you possibly can defend your enterprise occasions with customized policy-based controls, whereas additionally permitting your groups to soundly work with occasions by means of credentials created for role-based entry. Do you keep in mind enjoying within the sandbox as a child? Now, your groups can study to construct sandcastles inside the field by permitting them to soundly share occasions with sure guardrails, in order that they don’t exceed specified boundaries.
Due to this fact, your enterprise maintains management of the occasions whereas additionally facilitating the sharing and reuse of occasions, permitting your groups to reinforce their each day operations fueled by dependable entry to the real-time information they want. Additionally, granting groups dependable entry to related occasion catalogs permits them to reuse occasions to achieve extra advantages from particular person streams. This permits companies and groups to keep away from duplication and siloing of knowledge that is likely to be immensely precious. Groups innovate quicker after they simply discover reusable streams with out being hindered by the necessity to supply new streams for each job. This helps be certain that they not solely entry information but in addition use it effectively throughout a number of streams, maximizing its potential optimistic influence on the enterprise.
Stage up: Construct a transformative enterprise technique
A considerable technological funding calls for tangible returns within the type of enhanced enterprise operations, and enabling groups to entry and use occasions is a important facet of this transformative journey.
Nevertheless, Apache Kafka isn’t all the time sufficient. You may obtain a flood of uncooked occasions, however you want Apache Flink to make them related to your enterprise. When used collectively, Apache Kafka’s occasion streaming capabilities and Apache Flink’s occasion processing capabilities easily empower organizations to achieve important real-time insights from their information.
Many platforms that use Apache Flink usually include complexities and a steep studying curve, requiring deep technical abilities and intensive information of this highly effective real-time processing platform. This restricts real-time occasion accessibility to a choose few, rising prices for corporations as they assist extremely technical groups. Companies ought to maximize their investments by enabling a broad vary of customers to work with real-time occasions as an alternative of being overwhelmed by intricate Apache Flink settings.
That is the place a low-code occasion processing functionality must take away this steep studying curve by simplifying these processes and permitting customers throughout various roles to work with real-time occasions. As a substitute of requiring expert Flink structured question language (SQL) programmers, different enterprise groups can instantly extract actionable insights from related occasions.
If you take away the Apache Flink complexities, enterprise groups can concentrate on driving transformative methods with their newfound entry to real-time information. Fast insights can now gasoline their initiatives, permitting them to experiment and iterate shortly to speed up time to worth. Correctly informing your groups and offering them with the instruments to promptly reply to occasions as they unfold provides your enterprise a strategic benefit.
Discovering the suitable strategic resolution
As the necessity for constructing an EDA stays acknowledged as a strategic enterprise crucial, the presence of EDA options will increase. Platforms out there have acknowledged the worth of Apache Kafka, enabling them to construct resilient, scalable options prepared for the long run.
IBM Occasion Automation, specifically, stands out as a complete resolution that seamlessly integrates with Apache Kafka, providing an intuitive platform for occasion processing and occasion endpoint administration. By simplifying advanced tech-heavy processes, IBM Occasion Automation maximizes the accessibility of Kafka settings. This helps be certain that companies can harness the true energy of Apache Kafka and drive transformative worth throughout their group.
Taking an open, community-based method backed by a number of distributors reduces issues in regards to the want for future migrations as particular person distributors make totally different strategic decisions, for instance, Confluent adopting Apache Flink as an alternative of KSQL. Composability additionally performs a big function right here. As we face a world saturated with varied technological options, companies want the flexibleness to seek out and combine people who improve their current investments seamlessly.
As enterprises proceed to navigate the ever-evolving digital panorama, the combination of Apache Kafka with IBM Occasion Automation emerges as a strategic crucial. This integration is essential for these aiming to remain on the forefront of technological innovation.
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To study extra in regards to the innovation IBM Occasion Automation drives on Apache Kafka with occasion processing and occasion endpoint administration capabilities, join this webinar. Take an additional step for your enterprise and request a customized demo to see IBM Occasion Automation in motion. Constructing the suitable EDA is not only a strategic benefit; it’s an crucial in at the moment’s dynamic panorama.
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Supply: IDC: Implications of Financial Uncertainty on Actual-Time Streaming Knowledge and Analytics, Doc # US49928822, December, 2022
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· Vocal Performance Certificate
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Music and Technology Associate Degree: Voice Concentration
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Also, the certificate is a fairly short program. It can be completed in 12 months, so you'll be back out gigging again before you know it.
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· Work-Study Program: Students with financial needs have the opportunity to get a part-time position within our campus departments.
· Vast Musical Curriculum Experience: Music students can experience many musical flavors from all different genres including jazz, classical, rock, blues, folk, and R&B.
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Introduction to War-Time Song: Definition and History
War-Time Songs are musical compositions that emerged during periods of conflict, reflecting the emotions, struggles, and narratives of war. These songs have historically served various purposes, such as bolstering morale, conveying political messages, or preserving the memory of significant events. The roots of War-Time Songs date back to early civilizations, but they gained prominence during the 19th and 20th centuries, especially during World Wars I and II. As mass media developed, these songs became a tool for uniting people, evoking patriotism, and addressing the personal costs of war.
Sub-tags and Classifications of War-Time Song
Patriotic songs emphasize national pride, unity, and resilience. These songs are often used to rally support for military efforts and inspire citizens to contribute to the war cause. Examples include 'God Bless America' by Irving Berlin and 'The White Cliffs of Dover' by Vera Lynn.
Anti-war songs express opposition to conflict, focusing on the futility and devastation caused by wars. These songs are known for their emotional and reflective lyrics, aiming to highlight the human cost of warfare. Iconic examples include 'Blowin' in the Wind' by Bob Dylan and 'Imagine' by John Lennon.
Soldier's lament songs reflect the personal struggles and sacrifices of soldiers on the battlefield. These songs typically convey a deep sense of loss, longing for home, and the emotional toll of war. Examples include 'The Green Fields of France' by Eric Bogle and 'Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye,' an Irish folk song.
Propaganda songs are created to promote governmental or military agendas, often used to foster specific ideologies or justify conflict. These songs typically present war as a necessary evil or a righteous cause. Examples include 'Over There' by George M. Cohan and Soviet wartime anthems like 'Katyusha.'
Famous Artists and Works in War-Time Song History
Vera Lynn, known as the 'Forces' Sweetheart,' is one of the most iconic artists in War-Time Song history. Her songs, including 'We'll Meet Again' and 'The White Cliffs of Dover,' became anthems for British soldiers and civilians during World War II, offering comfort and hope in dark times.
We'll Meet Again by Vera Lynn
This song, released during World War II, became a symbol of hope and resilience for those separated by war. Its melody and lyrical promise of reunion resonated with both soldiers and their loved ones, offering solace during one of the darkest periods in modern history.
Bob Dylan is celebrated for his contributions to the anti-war movement with songs like 'Blowin' in the Wind' and 'Masters of War.' His work became a voice for the counterculture movement of the 1960s, expressing discontent with the Vietnam War and the military-industrial complex.
Blowin' in the Wind by Bob Dylan
Dylan's 'Blowin' in the Wind' is an anti-war anthem that addresses civil rights and the need for peace. Its folk simplicity paired with powerful lyrics makes it timeless, transcending the Vietnam War era to speak out against global conflict.
Woody Guthrie was a major figure in American folk music, known for his politically charged War-Time Songs like 'This Land Is Your Land' and 'Talking Sailor.' Guthrie's music resonated with working-class soldiers and civilians, advocating for social justice and peace.
The Green Fields of France by Eric Bogle
Written in the 1970s, this poignant song reflects on the futility of World War I through the story of a soldier's grave. Its melancholic tone and vivid lyrics provide a heartfelt commentary on the tragic loss of life and the senselessness of war.
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The main reason that tourists prefer to spend their holidays taking a Costa Rica airport transportation to the province of Guanacaste is due to its breathtaking beaches, and even though there are many suitable options, one stands out the most.
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Guanacaste as a national treasure
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Spacious, level camping well-suited for travel trailers over 40 ft long.
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We are a goat and cattle ranch in Southern Oregon located in the Rogue Valley about 30 minutes from I-5. We are situated on the picturesque South Fork Little Butte Creek that runs year round through the property. We have a sitting area by the creek with a swimming hole guests can utilize. This also makes a great fly fishing hole. Our property has hiking trails that visitors can use with access to adjacent public land. With a signed waiver you can ride your horses or ATVs on the property and additionally access public land.
You can pick your own secluded 4WD site on the north side of the property with beautiful views of the valley.
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A colonial economy
British rule converted India into a colonial economy.
The Indian economy was subordinated to the interest of its mother country, Britain.
British rule not only changed the political master at the top but also changed the substructure of the Indian economy like the village self sufficient economy.
Britishers never became an integral part of Indian life. They always remained foreigners and syphoned off huge amounts of money from India.
Artisans and craftsmen were destroyed
Because of one way free trade in India after 1813, Indian manufactured goods could not compete with the goods produced on a mass scale by steam operated machines
Cotton weaving and spinning industries of India were hard hit.
Officers of East India company compelled artisans to sell the goods below the market price and hired their services below the prevailing wages. This led to the abandonment of the hereditary professions by a large number of artisans and craftsmen and they overcrowded into agriculture.
Towns and cities like Dhaka, Surat, Murshidabad, Patna declined.
The population dependent on agriculture increased from 63.7% to 70% between 1901-1941.
Peasants became poorer
Because of the Izaredari system introduced by Lord Clive and Warren Hastings , agricultural lands were sold to the highest bidders. This led to the uprooting of old zamindars because they fell into arrears. Their lands were confiscated and sold to the highest bidders like merchants and traders or moneylenders. Permanent settlement in Bengal presidency introduced by Lord Cornawalis fixed the land revenue to be paid by the revenue farmers (zamindars) to the British Government in perpetuity. However, revenue farmers could raise the rent to be paid by the peasants. Thus, peasantry were compelled to be at the mercy of zamindars. In the Ryotwari system in Madras and Bombay presidency, the high revenue demand deprived most of the peasants from their lands and they fell into debt trap. Similar situation was obtained in Agra, Awadh and Punjab where Mahalwari system was introduced. Because of the excessive demands of land revenue by the British Government, most of the lands of peasants were confiscated and were sold to merchants, traders, money lenders or contractors. The condition of peasantry throughout the length and breadth of India deteriorated during the British rule.
Rise of Money lenders
Because of the land revenue policy of the Britishers and new legal system, a class of money lenders arose in India.
These money lenders could seize the lands of peasants. If they fail in arrears.
In 1911, the total rural debt was estimated at Rs. 300 crores but by 1937, it amounted to Rs. 1800 crores.
Most of the land in Deccan were captured by money lenders
That’s why during the period of 1857 revolt the target of attack of peasants was always on money lenders.
Rise of absentee landlordism in rural areas
Because of the land revenue policy of the Britishers, the old zamindari states were utterly ruined and were forced to sell their zamindari rights in Bengal presidency.
By 1815, half of the landed property in Bengal had been transferred from old zamindars to new zamindars who lived in town, giving rise to absentee landlordism in India.
These landlords became the chief political supporters of the Britishers and opposed the rising national movement.
Rise of Intermediaries
The new landlords found it convenient to sublet their rights to collect rent to other eager people on profitable terms.
As the rent of land increased, the number of intermediaries also increased and sometimes it went up as high as 50.
The condition of tenants became pitiable because they had to bear the brunt of exorbitant rents.
Rise of Indian Capitalists
Under the impact of the industrial revolution, jute and textile industries were founded by Indians.
By 1879, there were 56 textile mills employing 43000 workers.
By 1882, there were 20 jute mills.
Sugar mills, woollen textiles, iron steel works, cement, paper, matches, glass industries developed during the 1930s .
However, most of the modern Indian industries were owned or controlled by British capitals.
Foreign capital easily overwhelmed Indian capital on many of the Indian Industries.
Indian owned industries had a very stunted growth. Focus was more on consumer industries rather than basic industries
Although Indian capitalists formed a small part of the Indian population, they represented new technology, a new system of economic organisations, new social relations and an all India outlook.
Rise of modern working class
Because of the Industrialisation of India in the second half of the 20th century, a new working class arose in India.
By 1905, there were 206 cotton mills employing 1,96,000 workers. Similarly, in jute industries 1,15,000 workers were employed by 1901. The coal mining industry employed nearly 1,00,000 of workers in 1906.
There were 2.3 million workers employed in 1951.
The condition of the workers was very pitiable. There were no housing facilities available for them. There was no fixation of work hours.
The British government introduced the first Indian factory act in 1881, fixing nine working hours for children between 7 years to 12 years.
The second factory act 1891, gave a weekly holiday to all workers. Women were not to work more than 11 hours per day and for children it was reduced to 7 hours.
The policy of divide and rule Growth of communalism in India
The unity of Hindu and Muslims during the 1857 revolt scared Britishers. So, they started the policy of divide and rule.
First of all they confiscated lands of Muslim zamindars and distributed those lands to Hindu zamindars and peasants.
Educated Hindus were preferred in government jobs. Muslims were neglected.
But after 1890, Britishers reversed their policy when they saw that Hindus are demanding Indianization of government jobs, representation in assemblies.
Britishers helped in the establishment of Muslim league in 1906 to safeguard the exclusive interest of Muslims.
In the 1909 act, Muslims were given separate electorates and thereafter in 1919 act, Christians, Europeans, Sikhs were given separate electorates.
The separate electorate to different communities was meant to destroy the rising Indian nationalism in India.
Hostility to educated Indians
The British established three universities at Calcutta, Bombay and Madras.
The British appreciated the educated Indians who did not participate in the 1857 revolt. But British officials now became totally against it after 1890 when these educated Indians demanded more and more share in the governance.
The British abolished sati system, permitted widow remarriage, banned infanticide, raised marriageable age of girls.
But after 1857, the Britishers abandoned social reform, fearing that any further social reform may create a reaction of people against the Britishers.
The British always maintained social distance from Indians and openly asserted the doctrine of racial supremacy.
Weakening of caste system and emancipation of women
Because of the social reforms by Raja Ram Mohan Rai, Dayanand Saraswati, Self respect movement in South India, rigidity of caste weakened.
Women participated in large numbers in the national movement launched by Gandhi ji.
Education among women further strengthened their position in society
Every class and every section of Indian society gradually discovered that its interests were suffering in the hands of foreign rulers.
Peasants, artisans and craftsmen, educated Indians, the rising Indian capitalists and workers felt that the British rule was not good for them and for India.
The exploitative British domination gave rise to Indian nationalism.
Only zamindars, landlords and the princes supported British imperialism. Even a section of them joined the national movement.
The British rule for 200 years in India affected almost all classes of India. The Britishers took away $44 trillion from India in its 200 years rule.
Thus, British rule gave rise to new classes of absentee zamindars, moneylenders and princes who were staunch supporters of British Raj. On the other hand, a new capitalist class, industrial workers and educated middle class arose in India. They spread nationalist ideas and were completely opposed to communalism.
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In the event the functions tricky the program are unable to obvious the latest status threshold, then Best Court justices ought not to consider the other objections one to the debt-save package was unlawful. However, which may not stop the old-fashioned justices out-of striking down loan forgiveness.
Whether your Biden administration’s loans-relief package survives the newest You.S. Ultimate Judge, certain court advantages state it should be due to reputation-or rather, the fresh plaintiffs’ lack of it.
The question out-of standing might have been an option theme about latest legal battle over the Biden administration’s intend to forgive right up so you’re able to $20,100 during the government figuratively speaking for qualified Us citizens. Critics need basic get a hold of plaintiffs just who you are going to problem the master plan inside the government judge, in the event several government judges has actually rejected several of standing theories shown.
Post III of your own You.S. Structure constraints the sorts of times which may be lead because of the new federal legal program to avoid new official branch out of overstepping the bounds, and you can a few court opinions have made clear brand new doctrine of condition. So you can sue during the government courtroom, plaintiffs need certainly to demonstrate that they have been harm by plan he or she is challenging, the regulators accounts for one to harm and that the rescue looked for create redress people wounds. The brand new reputation threshold, that is essentially higher whenever suing the us government, have to be removed first before the judge can be consider the deserves of the case.
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In one of a few legal actions to-arrive the brand new Best Legal thus much, half a dozen states-Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and you will Sc-allege the financial obligation-save package tend to spoil county incomes and you will firms you to definitely keep beginner money. Regarding almost every other, several Colorado customers confronted the debt-rescue plan as they wouldn’t make use of every arrangements and did not have the ability to touch upon the suggestion. This new management known as objections having condition “extremely speculative” and you will “convoluted” for the courtroom filings.
In order to protect the debt-save system away from judge challenges, the fresh management worked to deteriorate the fresh status objections in lieu of replace the system or even the judge reason for this-because the some has actually named toward government doing. The main focus into reputation is basically an attempt to cut this new litigation off at legs. In the event the events challenging the program cannot obvious this new status endurance, then justices cannot look at the most other arguments arguing the debt-recovery plan try illegal.
“The latest Finest Court has never long been a model of structure in terms of application of the new [standing] philosophy,” told you Stephen Vladeck, a professor from the University out of Texas College away from Legislation, on a virtual news conference managed by We The brand new forty-five Mil, an obligations cancellation advocacy classification, history few days. “It’s feasible for to own justices who wish to reach the fresh new legality of your own education loan program, might nonetheless see suggests, but not inconsistently with the past decisions, to validate status in these instances.”
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“I do believe it should be likely that the fresh courtroom wants to come to the fresh merits and at least one among these circumstances, but no less than according to the Supreme Court’s existing jurisprudence, indeed there ought not to was in fact Article III condition in a choice of out of these types of cases,” the guy told you.
One or two traditional rules faculty from the University from Notre Dame and you may this new University out-of Chi town debated inside an enthusiastic amicus brief one to even though they think your debt-rescue program are unlawful, the fresh court is to put the fresh lawsuits due to not enough status.
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