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Now I know how Tarzan felt.
There's something deeply cathartic about waking up among the treetops, listening to the birds' morning chorus, soaking up the serenity and feeling like you're the king of the jungle.
Of course, Ao Nang in the Thai province of Krabi isn't exactly Africa, but you get the general idea. Continue reading…
On my last Krabi trip, I stayed three nights at the Ao Nang Cliff Beach Resort. In my review you will find the most important information about the hotel, the location, the rooms and breakfast. In addition, there are many pictures of the infinity pool, which offers a truly unique view.
When you stay somewhere stunning like Krabi in south-west Thailand, the one thing you really need to elevate your luxury travels to something special is a villa with a view. And what a view! Majestic, craggy, sheer limestone cliffs, the pristine, turquoise waters of the Andaman Sea, lush, dense mangrove forests and over a hundred islands to spot. Read on for our pick of the best villas with a view in Krabi, Thailand…
Thailand is often referred to as the Land of Smiles due to the hospitality of its local residents, stunning scenery, and affordable travel costs. But there's another reason the LoS might make you grin: the incredible food. Find out which dishes are a "must-try" while here!
What a view! The sun is setting across the horizon over the Andaman Sea, giving a golden glow to the sky. Half green, and now half golden limestone cliffs adorn the landscape in front of us. It is truly a sight to behold. Everyone around us has stopped whatever they are doing and are completely awestruck by what is transpiring in front of them. After a long tiring day of touring different islands around Aonang in Krabi, this was exactly what we needed.
Traveling solo can be the ultimate way to fully indulge yourself. You have the opportunity to immerse yourself in new surroundings, cultures, and activities without the preferences of a traveling companion getting in the way. Traveling alone allows you to give in to your impulse decisions, change plans last minute, and basically do what you want, when you want.
When you are a card carrying fan of a destination, it's exciting when you get the chance to explore a part of that country that you've never seen before. It's even more rewarding when that part of the country turns out to be an absolute gem.
If you're looking to treat yourself, look no further than the amazing Aonang Cliff Beach Resort. It's the perfect spot to enjoy a relaxing few days, with luxurious rooms and a spa on site if you fancy being pampered. Without a doubt though, it's the infinity pool that makes this resort so special.
When we arrived in Krabi we stayed at the AONANG CLIFF BEACH RESORT, a fantastic resort situated on the Cliffside in Aonang. When we first arrived at Aonang cliff beach we were whisked away in an electric buggy to the back of the resort to an open-air reception where we were checked in by friendly, welcoming staff.
The part of the trip I've been most looking forward to was the week we would spend at the seaside, starting with a few days in Ao Nang, popular beach destination not too far from Krabi. We landed at the Krabi airport quite late in the evening and were picked up by the driver from the Ao Nang Cliff Beach Resort. We were greeted with refreshing cold towels and water, much welcome after the flight and we definitely needed to rehydrate!
Read about Monique's trip to Aonang Cliff Beach.
Just two years ago, I wrote a travel guide for Krabi on ways to save money and travel on a budget. At the time, we were bootstrapping a new business and trying to save every dollar we made, unsure of how long this "digital nomad" lifestyle would actually last.
When travelling I always like to go to at least one place I haven't been before. For the Thailand leg of the trip it was Aonang, located about 45 mins drive from Krabi Airport. Krabi is the gateway to Thailand's southern islands that aren't accessible by air. Aonang is a great place to explore Railay Beach and Koh Phi Phi. You can also get a boat transfer from Aonang to Phuket if you wanted to visit both.
We've got the scoop on one of the best places to stay when visiting Ao Nang in Krabi, Thailand. Ao Nang Cliff Beach Resort is our top recommendation because they offer some incredible accommodations.
Aonang Cliff Beach Resort is built on the hillside in the heart of Ao Nang and boasts an infinity pool with stunning ocean view.
Ao Nang is a typical little beach town that has seen a bit too much touristic development in recent years. Not that I can blame them, but charming it ain't and you are better off getting away from the main road and onto the beach. Continue reading…
Our first visit to Ao Nang was a pretty special one. We'd been travelling for a little while and desperately needed a break from moving around so often. It was really important for us to find somewhere easy and affordable to visit, but still have the destination offer the relaxation and fun we needed.
While I was staying in Ao Nang, Krabi I was working with Alisea Boutique Hotel and Aonang Cliff Beach Resort.
I spent 8 days in Ao Nang and had an absolute blast. This is a location that is perfect for adventurers and lovers of warm weather, particularly those who enjoy the ocean and exploring paradise…sounds like most people! As always I only recommend or list activities that I personally experienced so here is a list of what I got up to, in just over a week in Ao Nang, Thailand.
Krabi is home to many famous beaches and islands. We recently made an escape to one of Krabi's less touristic island, Koh Lanta, before returning to the wilder side at Aonang Beach.
I love love LOVE Krabi. I lived in Krabi for over year and had visited numerous times before. I've traveled the area quite a bit which means I know where to stay in Krabi, Thailand.
What makes a resort the best place you've ever stayed? Is it the view, the location or maybe the facilities? These questions were on my mind when we were on the way to Ao Nang, Krabi. Ao Nang is an oddity amongst the many islands in Krabi.
On my way home for Christmas after completing my recent working holiday visa in Australia, my partner Duffel Travel and I thought it would be a good idea to soak up the sun in our beloved Thailand and escape on a couples adventure to the Ao Nang Cliff Beach Resort….
Upon check-in, cool towels and fresh juice were delivered, already setting the mood for our stay at Aonang Cliff Beach Resort. Service was top notch, and everyone was extremely helpful…
Thailand is one of the most visited countries in the world, and received nearly 30M visitors in 2015, according to UNWTO (United Nation World Tourism Organization). Brazil, a much larger country, received only 6.3M in the same year…..
Aonang Cliff Beach Resort is located within one of the most popular towns of Krabi and consists of both breath-taking views and excellent services.
We recently spent four glorious days in Krabi and everything was absolutely perfect. As we were sat on a long tail boat headed out to the open ocean, suddenly I understood why this beach destination is frequented by many.
So we found an absolute gem, high atop a cliffside. The views of the ocean and sprawling town below this resort are absolutely breathtaking.
Luxurious, gorgeous and centrally located – this review of the Ao Nang Cliff Beach Resort looks at whether it is really one of the best hotels in Krabi.
South Thailand, the land of smiles. The mecca of every single person that visits South East Asia.
A place where nature meets culture. A place where amazing food is cooked and sold in every single corner. A place where you can feel what it truly means to travel instead of just visiting.
Aonang Cliff Beach Resort is a stunning four star resort overlooking the iconic limestone cliffs in the Andaman Sea. My visit here was brief, but very enjoyable!
After Koh Samui, my second stop of my super trip to Thailand was Krabi. I decided to stay in an area very close to Aonang Beach, so the location of Aonang Cliff Beach Resort was perfect!
Krabi is a dream destination for many travelers and loved ones at home. The province attracts with beautiful beaches, which are bordered by striking karst rock. In this article you will get an overview of what you can discover in Krabi.
We were looking for a Krabi hotel that would be relaxing, but not too far from the restaurants and water taxis in Aonang. And then we found the perfect one – Aonang Cliff Beach Resort.
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Ao Nang is a friendly, small tourist town in the province of Krabi. Definitely plan to visit and stay a couple of days. It is surrounded by breathtaking nature, there are high limestone hills with little bays in-between that you should go and discover.
After two lovely nights in the Alisea Boutique Hotel I switched hotels and checked in at the Aonang Cliff Beach Resort on the other side of the town. The hotel arranged a pick-up and at 10.30am sharp there was an air-conditioned mini van waiting outside the hotel to escort me to my new hotel.
As always my misconceptions were quickly brushed to the side once I stepped inside the beautiful Ao Nang Cliff Beach Resort. I think what impressed me the most was that this hotel, despite being located on the main strip in Ao Nang, has created a peaceful oasis where you feel like you are a million miles from the hustle and bustle of the street.
In December 2015 I'd heard whispers of the renovations taking place at the Aonang Cliff Beach Resort. Thailand's best infinity pool was coming! "Swim up to the edge and you'll be at eye level with the ocean" I was told. When I was invited to visit in March this year I couldn't refuse. I had to sea (gettit) for myself.
If you're looking for somewhere relaxing and luxurious to stay in Krabi, look no further than Aonang Cliff Beach Resort & Spa.
Krabi province is no stranger to the revolving door of year round visitors, and they arrive in mass by land, sea and air. But for first time visitors (like me), the Krabi expanse may not be as simple to negotiate for some as for others.
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Why I Voted for Trump—Unabashedly
Most of those few pundits who support Donald Trump—not to mention many of his backers that pop up in comments sections and elsewhere—moderate their approval of the candidate with such caveats as "flawed," "imperfect, " "damaged," "blemished," "not my first choice," etc., etc.
I did that myself on more than one occasion for purposes of what is popularly called "virtue signaling" (I'm no bigot, sexist or whatever, but still...) or, more subtly, to create an atmosphere where my more contrarian readers would listen to my arguments or, at minimum, finish the article. (Hey, we all know Trump's got his problems, but think about this....)
I'm not proud of it. It's a show of weakness on several levels, but basically... I lied.
I have supported Donald Trump unabashedly from the moment I thought it was clear he would win the nomination. (Yes, I know it got somewhat obvious as things went along.)
The question of "flawed, imperfect, damaged, etc." was never of any consequence to me. It was, indeed, factually meaningless. All men and women are flawed. I'm Jewish, not Christian, but I certainly get the concept of "we are all sinners." You have to be asleep twenty-four hours a day not to notice that. They say Churchill was terrible to his subordinates, Eisenhower committed adultery, and on and on...
So this election was never about Donald's peccadilloes to me. Or even Bill Clinton's rancid behavior and his wife's repeated enabling of it.
This election was always about one over-riding issue under which all are subsumed. That issue is the corruption and virtual dissolution of our democratic republic by elites.
This election was and is about the rule of elites over the people, something we have all seen in full bloom in the WikiLeaks releases.
This rule by elites is, to say the least, very far gone, encompassing the media, Hollywood, the academy, Wall Street, Silicon Valley, much of corporate leadership, an unfortunate percentage of the religious establishment, both political parties to one degree or another, and just about every lever of power available in our society—except, perhaps, "We, the people..."
If it is not stopped now, it may never be.
At first blush, or any blush, Donald Trump—a brash real estate tycoon who made much of his money from gambling casinos—would seem an unlikely leader for such a crusade. But I submit it's the contrary (and, no, I'm not virtue signaling—at least I don't think so). The extreme situation we are faced with today—we might call it "crony socialism"—needed and needs an extreme personality both to get our attention and to get change accomplished. Nothing much would have happened, in all probability, with any of the other candidates. This time, of all times, an outsider was necessary.


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Nick Wilson announced Performancing Metrics only yesterday and already we've had a few feedbacks asking to support it. It does look rather good, and the scripting required to enable it isn't that hard to do.
One to keep an eye on methinks.
Much Later… but hey, why limit ourselves to one external stats service! This'll take careful planning, check back in a few weeks!
WordPress Widgets
A bit late to the game, but I've finally got around to trying out the new sidebar widgets that Andy has been working on.
I'm going to make serious use of the delicious widget to bookmark my favourite posts here on WordPress.com. The first being Toni's account of what happened to him at SXSW.
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Senate votes to raise minimum wage
WASHINGTON—Democrats promised last year to raise the federal minimum wage for the first time in a decade if voters gave them control of Congress, but now they're holding it up in a game of chicken between the party's liberal purists and pragmatists.
The Senate voted 94-3 Thursday to increase the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour, from $5.15. The House of Representatives approved such a raise weeks earlier. The sticking point between the two versions is $8.3 billion in Republican-backed tax breaks for small businesses in the Senate version.
House liberals argue that now that they're in charge they shouldn't have to cut deals with the Republicans. Senate Democrats have said that without the tax breaks they can't pass the bill because they don't have a big enough majority to overcome Republican obstruction. And President Bush said that the tax breaks are the price of his support for raising the minimum wage.
If the Democrats don't compromise, the minimum-wage increase might die.
Even Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., the liberal icon who's long championed a minimum-wage increase, said the GOP tax package is one of the "least offensive" possible because it includes incentives for hiring minorities and disadvantaged Americans.
Raising the minimum wage would benefit an estimated 5.6 million workers directly. The annual salary for a full-time minimum-wage employee would rise from about $11,000 a year to about $15,000. Experts say 7 million more who earn slightly more than the minimum wage could benefit from a ripple effect.
The tax-break package contains several provisions. Small businesses would enjoy more liberal rules for depreciating capital improvements, including equipment. Small businesses that can file individual income taxes rather than corporate income taxes would get new breaks. And the Work Opportunity Tax Credit, which offers subsidies for hiring welfare recipients and other disadvantaged Americans, would be expanded.
Democratic leaders say they'll probably keep the legislation in the Senate until some compromise emerges. Meanwhile, minimum-wage workers will get no raise.
"We haven't resolved anything," said Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee. Rangel opposes including the tax breaks as part of a minimum-wage increase.
The posturing and uncertainty are frustrating to a broad coalition of organized labor, community and religious activists, which has agitated for years for a wage increase.
But that coalition, too, is splintered over how to react.
"We are so concerned that the minimum wage be raised in support of low-wage working people and families, that although we would prefer a clean bill, we believe this (Senate) bill should be supported," said the Rev. Paul Sherry, the national coordinator of Let Justice Roll, in a telephone interview.
Soon after, Sherry called back to clarify that "we will support reluctantly the $8.3 billion tax package, but if they tack anything else on, we're in a different ballgame."
In a third call, he said he could no longer say with absolute certainty what position his coalition would take. "We haven't been able to make a decision yet," he said.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., hinted Thursday that once House and Senate Democratic leaders sit down together, they may decide to go for broke, strip the tax provisions and dare Republicans to kill the bill.
"The minimum wage will be increased," Reid said. "The question is, do we need all these business pieces of sugar or not? We will see." Asked whether he thought the "sugar" was necessary, Reid said, "No."
As long as the Democrats are fighting among themselves and delaying action on their own campaign pledge, Senate Republicans have little motivation to bargain.
Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, the ranking minority member of the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, said the tax package is "peanuts" compared with provisions that President Clinton signed into law a decade ago in the last minimum-wage deal.
"And yet we're having this harangue about it," Grassley said. "Aren't we having a win-win situation in a bipartisan way?"
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Shocking footage shows a plane having to take off immediately after a "hard landing" forced it to abort its first attempt.
"As the 777 disappeared behind the hedge before touching down, it slammed down onto runway 25, the spoilers deployed, and the next thing full power was applied for a go around."I've never seen anything like it here at Newcastle Airport. The aircraft then came in for a second approach and landed safely."Upon landing the aircraft was inspected and initially there was thought to be damage to the rear landing gear. Upon further inspection though it was deemed safe to fly and the aircraft departed Newcastle for Dubai 45 minutes later than planned."
Dai Whittingham, chief executive of the UK Flight Safety Committee, told Mail Online : "High winds in themselves are not dangerous but they can certainly be inconvenient, especially if the wind direction is across the runway."All pilots train to land in high crosswind conditions and will have practiced to the aircraft limits in the simulator."
Gardener Mr Winton, 20, of Alnwick, Northumberland, said: "The winds didn't feel particularly strong at first but as we got a bit higher up they suddenly hit.
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The summer after my freshman year of college I remember making the 10 hour drive from Cincinnati to New Jersey by myself. After finally arriving home, I hugged my mom and went upstairs and just slept. I cannot tell you for how long, but the rest did me good. I woke up ready to take on the summer.
It's difficult to talk about rest in the middle of one of the most hectic times of year; however, it's important. Without rest it's easy for you to become burned out and lose love for what you do. When you are restless you become easily irritated and unpleasant to be around. You lose focus and make simple and avoidable mistakes. You need to rest and while that might not always seem possible here are a few steps to change that:
- Do One Thing Less: Maybe it's watching one less hour of television or reading one less blog post (After this one). Eliminate one thing from your schedule that might be using up your time. Do not fill that time with something else, instead incorporate it into your schedule. Build it into your sleep. Enjoy the margin.
- Share The Burden: If you are tired it can be a strong indication that you are doing too much. Share the responsibility by asking someone to help you out. There are people in your ministry and your life willing to help you out. There are people in your ministry and life that have the margin and capacity to share the burden. Take advantage of it and breathe a little easier.
- Write It Out: It's easy to grow frustrated when you lose sight of what needs to be done. Take a minute to write out goals, a check list or a to-do list that will help you stay on track. When you are efficient with your time and energy you'll find that you have some left over. Keep the list visible and share with people to hold you accountable.
- Connect With God: It's so easy to forget that you need God especially when you work for the Church. The Bible study you are planning or the message you are crafting can be fruitful; however, draining at the same time. Make sure you are taking the time to connect with God so that He can fill you and fuel you with the Holy Spirit. Do not be afraid to lean on Him.
Rest when you can so that you can be affective and efficient. The more energy and focus you have the more you will be able to accomplish. And sometimes in order to do more and get more you need to just rest.
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LONDON, United Kingdom — The seemingly unflappable luxury market continues to waver, with growing worries that China's booming economy — the driver for much of the rapid growth of luxury brands in the past few years — is beginning to slow down. As a result, every major luxury brand has been hit, and hit hard.
Big news
• Luxury stocks suffered a steep sell-off in the last ten days of September as hedge funds moved out of the sector en masse due to growing concerns over the Chinese economy. The SLI took a real beating losing 13.6 percent over the month of September compared to only 3.8 percent for the benchmark MSCI.
• Prized assets are nevertheless still changing hands, as demonstrated by the recent sale of heritage leather goods brand Delvaux and a healthy interest in Italian tailoring brand Brioni, fronted by PPR.
• Hermès' plan to create a controlling family holding company was cleared by French market authorities, boosting its defences against LVMH and consequently resulting in its inflated share price easing off.
Going up
• With the whole sector being down, the 1.6 percent drop in the Ralph Lauren share price, perhaps justified by a lower Chinese exposure than its peers, feels like a positive.
Going down
• Much-hyped Prada fell off a cliff, its share price falling by more than 27 percent during September, as much of its IPO valuation rested on the Italian group's relative under-penetration of the Chinese market compared to other leading luxury brands.
What to watch
• Chinese entrepreneurs starting to feel some pain after years of blue-sky growth will have an impact on prospects for the luxury sector. It may be that super-highly priced items (luxury cars, complicated watches) get hit disproportionately more than luxury goods such as handbags or designer clothes, which have lower pricepoints. This would have valuation consequences for the big players in the sector.
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Pierre Mallevays is a contributing editor at The Business of Fashion and founder and managing partner of Savigny Partners, a corporate advisory firm focusing on the retail and luxury goods industry


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Money raised will help New Hampshire's Monadnock Kitty Rescue, which has been trying to raise funds for a new facility, since finding out their landlord will not renew their lease next year.
Kitty Rescue and Adoption, founded by Heidi Bourgois, has been saving stray, abandoned and feral cats and kittens for the past 13 years.
Charley Barry of New Hampshire is the calendar's cover model. He said posing for the shot was out of his comfort zone, but that he was happy to help.
"Any cause to help animals is cause to get out and do something," he told necn.
The shelter raised about $80,000 in 2015 so far, but volunteers hope the "Cats and Tats" calendar will help reach the organization reach its first goal of $125,000 by the end of the year.
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How to Measure Your Website Speed and Load Times
With your website, speed is everything. The latest research shows that you might only have four seconds before web users move on, which means there's little time to make a good impression. Added to that, Google suggests that website creators adopt a mobile first approach to cater for the increasing number of people using mobile devices to browse the web. For Google, that means pages should load in less than a second. Slow sites are likely to pay the price in terms of lower search ranking, so it's important to find out how fast your site loads and where the bottlenecks are. There are several tools you can use to do this. Here's how to measure and troubleshoot website speed and load times.
10 Tools for Measuring Website Speed
How to Measure Website Speed with Google Page Speed Insights
A good starting point for measuring website load times is Google Page Speed Insights. To use it, type the URL you want to check into the on-screen box. Press the "analyze" button.
You will get a a report assessing page speed and user experience along with suggestions for changes you can make to make your website even faster. Each recommendation is a clickable link taking you to more advice on solving page speed issues.
How to Use GTMetrix to Measure Website Page Load Times
GTMetrix also helps with measuring website page load times. It combines information from other online page speed tools. To use it, type your URL into the on-screen box, then press the "go" button.
The resulting report highlights dozens of different aspects of website load times and grades each one from A to F. A traffic light grading system lets you see at a glance which areas of your site work well and which need attention. Each issue is a link which gives more detail when clicked. One useful aspect of this tool is that it ranks the critical issues in order of importance so you know where to start to make the biggest impact.
How to Identify Page Speed Issues with Pingdom
Pingdom has a website speed test tool which works in a similar way to the others listed above. Enter your URL in the on-screen box, press "test now" and you get a report divided into several sections. These include page analysis, a performance grade and a waterfall analysis), helping you identify the most important causes of website slowdown and how to fix them.
How to Find Website Page Load Issues with Webpage Test
Webpage Test is similar to the other tools. However, you can also specify different locations around the globe for the test, as well as different browsers, including mobile browsers. This makes it very useful. The report shows you timings for when your site starts loading and when loading is complete. It also indicates how long it takes a page to load if it is loaded a second time by the same user. The final report include a pie chart breaking down the type of content by load time.
How to Measure Web Page Speed with Load Impact
Load Impact allows you to run a free web speed test by putting the URL into the on-screen box. All tests are public, though you can keep them private by registering for an account. This test takes a bit longer than the others, but simulates real-world browsing scenarios and automatically shows data on content type and distribution.
How to Troubleshoot Web Page Speed with Page Scoring
The website speed test from Page Scoring does not provide any fancy charts. However, it highlights different aspects of page speed such as domain lookups, connection time, redirection time and the loading time of individual assets needed to run your site.
How to Assess Page Speed Scenarios with Internet Marketing Ninjas
The page speed tester from Internet Marketing Ninjas provides information on load times in different scenarios such as when using different Internet connections. It also shows you which parts of your site are largest and slowest. You can easily see whether the people who visit your site will be able to read the content while waiting for images and scripts to load.
How to Find Website Speed Issues with Show Slow
Show Slow is another page speed aggregator, pulling in results from YSlow, Google Page Speed Insights and DynaTrace. It is an open source tool but you will need to sign up to use it. Alternatively, you can download the tool and install it on your server for private results. It provides a comprehensive list of the sources of site slowdown, with links to more information to help you to fix issues.
How to Find Location-Based Speed Issues With Dotcom Monitor
Dotcom Monitor tests your website from a number of locations around the world and then gives you an aggregate score. It also provides a waterfall analysis for each location so you can see if there are any differences in how your site is loading for different locations.
How to Find Site Speed Issues with Google Analytics
Google Analytics includes site speed in its reports. You can find it in the Behavior section. Click on the overview link to see a snapshot of page speed issues and use the Page Timings link to see how individual pages are loading. The Page Speed Suggestions link shows how individual pages could be improved, allowing you to target your most important pages first.
How to Fix Website Page Speed Issues
It's a good idea to test your site to establish a benchmark and re-test at regular intervals.
Once you have identified the bottlenecks on your site, the next step is to fix them. Most of the tools listed above make recommendations. Some of the most common fixes include reducing the size of images, improving your hosting, optimizing your code, using a content delivery network, compressing your site, using caching, optimizing scripts and reducing the number of external services you use.
Finally, if you have a WordPress site, check out our tutorial on speeding up your WordPress site for additional fixes you can make.


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The suggestion that the evidential problem of evil is pretty useless as an argument against the existence of God because it is based on claims about suffering, etc. that are hopelessly "impressionistic" has come up several times recently.
David Hart made the move in response to my contribution to 50 Voices of Disbelief (see this post). And now "Fun with Formal Ideas" runs the same move in a comment on the preceding post.
So it's worth dealing with. Here's the comment on the preceding post (nb by "Eth" commentator means the God of Eth):
"Eth is impressionistic, Stephen, it is not founded in any facts, data or evidence where these may be considered synonymous or statistically significant and relies finally upon a appeal to common sense."
David Hart said:
"Nicholas Everitt and Stephen Law recycle the old (and incorrigibly impressionistic) argument that claims of God's omnipotence seem incompatible with claims of his goodness."
{POST SCRIPT: as TAM's transcript of the radio prog reveals, Denis Alexander also hints at the "It's hopelessly impressionistic" move. Re. huge amounts of suffering, Alexander says: "we simply are not in a position to measure those kind of things, we can measure certain things in science and so forth but..."}
The objection seems to be that assessments of how much good or evil exists are so subjective and unreliable as to be pretty worthless as evidence. Pain and suffering, for example, cannot be given numerical values, or reliably measured using a calibrated instrument in the way, say, mass or velocity can. Ditto happiness, etc.
Does this really deal the evidential problem of evil a fatal blow?
I don't see why.
The evidential problem of evil (and mirror problem in the God of Eth) is based on the empirical observation that the universe is filled with immense amounts of seemingly pointless suffering. This provides us with excellent evidence there is no all-powerful all-good God, in the same way immense amounts of (from an evil God's point of view) seemingly pointless good is excellent evidence there's no evil God either.
Consider a different scenario - a school run by an all-powerful headmaster whom we never see. But we can see how his school is run. Many pupils are beaten senseless, forced to eat shit, and left physically and psychologically crippled by their experiences. Others have wonderful gifts bestowed on them - great food, education, etc. The distribution of these goods and evils appears to be pretty random.
Now consider two hypotheses - that the school is run by a supremely wicked headmaster, and that the school is run by a supremely good headmaster. Both are pretty decisively ruled out by what we observe of the way the school is run.
Notice that the fact that we cannot give numerical values to the pleasures and pains we observe being dealt out, or place them on some sort of objective, calibrated weighing scale, is largely irrelevant. It does not follow that the argument against each hypothesis is based on evidence that is "hopelessly impressionistic".
If that *did* follow, no conclusions about the moral properties of any individual could ever be drawn on the basis of the pleasures or pains they knowingly inflicted. For the reasoning we used would similarly be based on assessments that were "hopelessly impressionistic"!
The "hopelessly impressionistic" response to the evidential problem of evil is, in short, mere smokescreen.
For the evidential problem of evil and my version of it go here. http://journals.cambridge.org/repo_A72V8TEm
What complicates things is that the "hopelessly impressionistic" move is often mixed together with a "no-see-um" move (I think Hart is running a combination of the two - though it's hard to be sure).


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"Two chocolate posts in a row?" I hear you say! I know, it's very naughty, but I just love chocolate!
I love the gooey centre of chocolate brownies, and the chocolate chunks and walnut pieces give a satisfying bite to this yummy chocolate treat. I can't resist trying one while they're still warm!
The recipe I have been using is adapted from the magazine "My Cake Decorating", issue 19.
Makes around 16 brownie squares.
For the brownies, you will need:
250g Butter, softened
300g Soft Brown Sugar
200g Dark Chocolate
4 Medium Eggs
4 tbsp Cocoa Powder (not drinking chocolate as it has added sugar)
75g S.R. Flour
1/2 tsp Baking powder
For the Filling:
100g Chopped Walnuts
50g Chopped Dark Chocolate
50g Chopped Milk Chocolate
For the Filling:
100g Chopped Walnuts
50g Chopped Dark Chocolate
50g Chopped Milk Chocolate
Start by melting the chocolate in a Bain Marie.
Allow to cool until it reaches a coating consistency.
If the chocolate is too warm, it will melt the butter and cook the eggs!
Beat the softened butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
Add the eggs one at a time, beating until incorporated, followed by the melted and cooled chocolate.
Mix thoroughly until even.
Sift the flour, cocoa powder and baking powder and fold in a little at a time.
Once all of the flour mixture has been incorporated, add the filling ingredients and mix.
Heat the oven to 160-170 Celsius and grease and line a 9" square tin.
I used an ovenproof dish as I don't have a square tin. You can also buy foil trays which are perfect for brownies!
Ready for the oven.
Spoon the mixture into the tin and bake for around 30 minutes, or until firm to the touch and starting to crack a little on top.
Leave to cool in the tin before removing and cutting into squares.
Straight from the tin (with a tester strip missing!)
Gooey, chocolatey, walnutty centre!
With yet another tester missing...
These brownies are so more-ish :)
What are your favourite brownies?


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New Year with Saint Francis, "Along the Way" Learning to make choices in a Christian way!
From December 29, 2017 until January 1, 2018, the Franciscan Youth Center in Assisi is organizing our annual New Year's 'Camp' with St. Francis", entitled "IN-VIA" or "Along the Way".
The experience will offer moments of prayer, fraternity, and pilgrimage for young people, 18 to 28 years of age.
The friars are waiting for you with joy, so that we might learn together how to "choose Christianity" and experience a truly special New Year! ... Hurry and make arrangements to join us!!To learn more about the program and how to register, click here.
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Nicole + Ryan // Engagement // The Cleveland Museum of Art
I met Nicole and Ryan at Kayla and Jeff's wedding earlier this year, I instantly knew I needed to be friends with them! A few months later I got an email from Nicole saying that Ryan and her were engaged, needless to say I was over the moon. They wanted to do their photos at The Cleveland Museum of Art, how could I say no?! It's such a beautiful space. (+ we got the most beautiful day in November!) Doing their photos was such a joy. I am so so so excited for you two, I know you are going to do wonderful things together!


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Two blogs I follow have redesigned recently: Jason Kottke's kottke.org back in September, and Andy Baio's waxy.org this month. Both have used their redesigns to muse on the nature of independent self-hosted blogs, rather than just sticking all your writing on Medium and the like.
I can only echo what Andy Baio says:
"Ultimately, it comes down to two things: ownership and control.
Last week, Twitter announced they're shutting down Vine. Twitter, itself, may be acquired and changed in some terrible way. It's not hard to imagine a post-Verizon Yahoo selling off Tumblr. Medium keeps pivoting, trying to find a successful revenue model. There's no guarantee any of these platforms will be around in their current state in a year, let alone ten years from now.
Here, I control my words. Nobody can shut this site down, run annoying ads on it, or sell it to a phone company. Nobody can tell me what I can or can't say, and I have complete control over the way it's displayed. Nobody except me can change the URL structure, breaking 14 years of links to content on the web."
At the very real risk of being both self-indulgent and exceedingly smug: Dirty Feed is one of my favourite things I've ever done. And one of the reasons for that – a couple of guest posts aside in the site's early days – is that it is entirely my own. Nobody else can control it, fuck around with it, or tell me what to do with it. If Dirty Feed moved to a service akin to Medium, I wouldn't find it nearly as appealing to write.
Dirty Feed is, of course, an entirely different proposition to a site like kottke.org, or Daring Fireball. Those kinds of sites earn a living for their writer. I very deliberately not only make absolutely no money from Dirty Feed, but don't ever intend to.
I make my living from directing TV channels, and it strikes me how lucky I am to have a job which I love and doesn't involve writing or running my own business. People talk about the freedom of getting up in the morning and being your own boss, and not answering to anyone. For some people that must work brilliantly. I used to fantasise about it myself.
But these days? I would hate the idea that getting food on the table is reliant on me writing. The fact that I have a job which gives me immense satisfaction and absolutely isn't my own business is something I'm grateful for every single day. (And a lot of that is down to pure luck.)
A steady job and separately being able to do exactly what I want with Dirty Feed is my idea of freedom. Doing things like this would freak me the fuck out. I hold no romantic view of working for myself. I want to work for someone else, please.
Andy Baio's description of the "independent, single-author blog" reminds me of the group blog I was part of between 2005 and 2009: Noise to Signal. I am very proud of some of the things we did on that site, but there's no doubt about it: I'm so much happier working on my own site now, where I don't have to answer to anybody.
What does it say about me that I prefer having absolute control than working as a group? Perhaps nothing positive. Or perhaps it's simply that everybody has to spend their entire life constructively working with others… and it's nice to have something where you can just tell people to fuck off.
Andy Baio:
"But the ecosystem for independent publications is fundamentally broken. Getting discovered, building a readership, and profiting from your work as an independent writer are all much, much harder than they used to be."
As detailed above, I don't have to worry about making any kind of money with my writing. (Which is really just as well.) But people discovering this site and building a readership is still important to me. How is Dirty Feed doing in this area as an independent blog?
Sometimes people are reticent when it comes to talking about their site stats. I'm happy to share some of mine – with the obvious health warning that any website stats have in terms of their reliability. Looking at pieces from last month: slagging off Digital Spy got around 400 hits, as did slagging off an old documentary from 2005. Earlier in the year, some other pieces did better: analysing the pilot of Fawlty Towers got just over 1000 hits1, and looking at the title sequence to Blockbusters got around 1150.
Occasionally a piece will really take off, at least by this site's standards. Looking back to pieces posted last year, my piece on the live 2005 Quatermass Experiment has racked up around 2600 views. My most popular piece over the last couple of years has been on what John Cleese hates about Fawlty Towers, which has had over 7000 hits so far – helped by the 40th anniversary of the show, of course.
These stats are more than some blogs get, but are practically rounding errors compared to some sites. Still, in some ways, I find some of the smaller figures more comforting. An article going vaguely viral is lots of fun, but I find the idea that some people will consistently show up for some of the smaller posts I make on the site to be a lovely thing. If I picture 300 people sitting and reading an article of mine in a room together, that's a lot of people who care about the kind of things I write. I don't need thousands of views to feel good about that.
Still, there's always the posts that don't do much. I thought this piece on Serial might get widely linked to; it's very short, but I thought made an interesting point about a very popular show. Instead, it barely scraped 125 views. The same goes for this article about a bizarre Twitter account; it got no more than 120 hits. (I blame the deliberately boring headline for that – the piece only works if it starts off quite dry before the bizarre shit kicks in, but I think people thought they were going to get something too dull.) Even weirder, this follow-up piece on Blockbusters didn't even scrape 100 views, despite the previous article on the title sequence getting well over 1000. Who can predict what people are going to react to?
Believe it or not, I do have a policy about the kinds of things I post on Dirty Feed. That policy is simple: I usually have nothing to say about anything straightforward which hasn't already been said. You can see this most clearly in the reviews of Doctor Who I used to write. I'm simply entirely the wrong person to write a Doctor Who review: there are so many other people doing that, a large percentage of which can do it far better than me, so what exactly is the point in trying?
Instead, I try and look at material from a different angle. So when I'm writing about the 2005 version of The Quatermass Experiment, I don't compare the show to the original 50s version: I take a look at why the DVD version isn't the same programme which was broadcast live. When writing about Yes, Minister, I don't analyse the show's political standpoint: I talk about how linear television can be more than just a box running in a corner. When talking about Who Framed Roger Rabbit, I manage to twist the conversation around to talk about Python instead.
It's a policy which occasionally opens me up to accusations that I'm missing the point. In some ways, that's exactly what I do here. But the actual point of something is generally better covered elsewhere. I want to go and investigate what's in the undergrowth over there instead, and see if I can dig up something interesting that nobody's talked about.
If I wrote the obvious article, it'd be rubbish because so many people could do it better than I could. I rely on the novelty of the obscure. Although for me, the fun part is that the things I cover on here are often mainstream pieces of work, viewed through a peculiar filter. You can't get a more mainstream sitcom than Hi-de-Hi!… but this is not a mainstream article on it.
By the way, sorry Seb, I nicked your format but made it shit.
It's all very well being proud that I've kept my blog self-hosted and independent. But it's notable that by far the most substantial source of hits for Dirty Feed is Twitter. On a day I post an article, it's often responsible for 90% of my total hits. Sometimes fewer, if some kind soul posts a link on Facebook too.2
Despite Dirty Feed being hosted on my own server and being entirely under my control, there's no avoiding that I rely on an outside service to let people know about what and when I'm posting. If I wanted to leave Twitter tomorrow, I'd find it difficult, because people would no longer find my stuff. I'm effectively tied to it. That's not really a great situation.
One thing Andy Baio says:
"There are undoubtedly new blogs starting, and many more happily spinning along in various niches, but they're not really part of the cultural conversation anymore."
I think I get what he means. But I also wonder exactly what the "cultural conversation" is. After all, we're constantly hearing that the audience for everything is fragmenting. That has its own advantages and disadvantages, but one result of this fragmentation is that it's impossible to nail down what the "cultural conversation" is, because everybody is having a different cultural conversation.
Which means in some parts of my life, blogs are still very important, just as they have been for years. And in other parts of my life, blogs have never been important, and continue not to be.
That's not to say that there isn't a real point here: of course independent, self-hosted blogs aren't as common as they used to be. But I struggle with anyone trying to define what the "cultural conversation" is for the world. We've all got our own cultural conversations going on – and many, many different ones at that.
Recently I've changed the way I've been writing on Dirty Feed. There are fewer long showpiece posts, and more frequent shorter posts. (I've written 20 pieces over the past four months; in comparison, it took me a year to post that many times previously.) The main reason for this is simply to try and get better at writing. To make a ridiculously overblown and pompous analogy: I've criticised the development of Final Fantasy XV for taking ten years; Square Enix would have pushed RPGs forward much faster by making two or three games in that time, rather than obsessing over a huge leap. But in my own small corner of the web, I was doing the same thing: throwing too much into only writing bigger articles. That was no way to actually improve my writing in a consistent manner.
The results have been mixed from a readership point of view: fewer showpiece articles mean there's a smaller chance of a piece really taking off. But I'm more pleased with the site currently than I have been for ages: I've covering everything from bad journalism, to strange abandoned websites, to feminism in the classroom, to edits made to repeats of live programmes, to dodgy podcast archives. It feels like a nice mix of material, and I don't always manage that. Yet it all manages to feel very specific to Dirty Feed rather than the kind of thing which you could read anywhere, which is something I've started to care about more and more recently. I want the site to feel unique, and I think the posts over the last few months fit that quite well.
I have a great deal of respect for Jason Kottke, and a quick perusal of kottke.org's About page shows that he needs no validation from the likes of me. The man has more influence on the web in a day than I'll manage in a lifetime.
Having said that, I'll admit that I find his style of blogging to be slightly unsatisfying. His site is really a linkblog these days, albeit with more thoughtful contextualisation than most. There's certainly no arguing with the success of kottke.org, and it was the current format which gave the site the kind of "velocity" about which I could only dream.
But I always feel like I want something… more. Some longer articles, mixed in with the links. Exactly like Daring Fireball, in fact. We're all different, and both Jason and his audience are happy with the site. Hey, it's still sat in my own list of bookmarks. For me though, I couldn't be happy writing a blog without doing some deeper writing every now and again.
I used to run a personal blog over on ofla.info, between 2004-05. (I deleted it ages ago, which is ridiculous and entirely against my policy these days, but most of it is available on the Wayback Machine.) It's quite interesting to see the beginnings of the kind of stuff I now post here, and which things I now entirely avoid. This piece from May 2005 for instance eventually became this September 2012 Dirty Feed piece. On the other hand, fucking hell, I actually thought this was something I wanted to put on the internet.3
The biggest difference between then and now though, is the sheer number of comments I used to get for even the silliest post over on ofla.info, compared to what I get on Dirty Feed now. And the reason for that is so obvious it's hardly worth saying: the rise of social media.
More than anything else, I miss the fact that longer feedback used to be more easy to come by. People send me some very nice tweets now, but 140 characters isn't as useful as a nice comment, and it's sad to have the feedback to an article buried away on another service which you don't control. Email is rare. I wish people responded to my stuff with their own blog posts which I could link to, and it happens occasionally… but not often. If we want independent blogs to survive, we need to fix the feedback situation. There are plenty of solutions which try, but none of them feel quite right to me yet.
Liking comments sometimes seems an unfashionable opinion these days. Of course, most comment sections on newspaper sites and the like are an absolute shitshow. Moreover, as a white heterosexual man, of course I don't attract the horrific unpleasantness that some do, and I'm aware that saying "wah I want more nice comments" is perhaps a somewhat distasteful request in the context of that vile and abusive behaviour. But still, for quieter sites like this one, comments can be really useful. There must be some kind of solution which would be better for the web as a whole. We've just got to figure out what it is.
Oh, and the long-promised responsive redesign for Dirty Feed? Still in progress. Forgive me for wanting to fix stupid rendering errors first before launching it… unlike some sites.
Though as has been pointed out, I should have called that article "Basil Loses His Cherry". ↩
I'm not on Facebook. I haven't rejoined for a variety of reasons, but chief amongst them is: I'd only really be rejoining to get more hits for Dirty Feed. That doesn't feel a healthy reason at all. ↩
For more on this topic, see this piece I wrote a while back – which, relevantly for this article, contains a really interesting comment, too. ↩


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Namihaya Dome is the nickname for Osaka Kadoma Sports Center. It is one of the leading multipurpose indoor sports facilities in Japan. It includes an arena, heated pool, gymnasium, training rooms, and other multifunctional areas. The retractable dome makes this facility fully functional year-round.
Hotel Sanmarco, Guest House Bear's Moriguchi, and Hotel Agora Osaka Moriguchi are among the hotels closest to Namihaya Dome. Each hotel offers low rates in the core of Osaka. Tsurumi-Ryokuchi Park and Osaka Castle Park are just a couple of the other attractions nearby.
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Namihaya Dome is easily accessible from Exit 2 at Kadoma-Minami Station on the Subway Nagahori Tsurumi-Ryokuchi Line. The pool, training rooms, and skating are open to the public for a small fee.
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This is Pi Day #044
As much as I dread running in the cold of winter, there is a few weeks each year when the seasons transition. The snow begins to melt, the days get longer, and the paths turn into a muddy-icy-dirty obstacle course of treacherous adventure.
This week's comic is inspired by a recent spring group run (even though I'm publishing it on yet another bitterly cold late-winter day!) By the time we returned from a couple hours of dodging ice dams, hopping around puddles, and climbing through not-quite-melted snow drifts we were all a little colder and wetter than anticipated, and at least one of our party was bleeding and due to be a little bruised and battered the next day.
Sigh. Say it with me: Summer is just around the corner. Summer is just around the corner. Summer is just around the corner.
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Hey! Me too! What a coincidence.
This is Pi Day is an independent web comic about fatherhood, running, video games, science, art, independence, integrity, imagination and just generally ... family adventure. It is created, written, illustrated, and promoted by Brad Salomons from a quiet suburb of a remote Canadian city called Edmonton, Alberta.
Looking for more pi? We regularly celebrate at the great circle of math, science and technology culture. This is Pi Day has been calculated as the product of one geeky dad, one curious kid, and an irrational volume of corny dad jokes.
New full strips are published on Saturday mornings (and shorts, appearing randomly whenever I draw them). This is Pi Day will always be free to read on this site, but if you enjoy it please help me out by sharing the link on social media or supporting in other ways.


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Just finished watching Persepolis. It reminded me of a couple of other animations, a neat little bundle that share the same skill. The other two are Arrugas (Wrinkles, 2011) & Chico and Rita (2010). All three have an ability to affably convey a niche tale to a broad audience; the story of an elderly man with dementia aclimatizing to a retirement home; a black Latino love story set in Cuba; and an obscure & ranging tale from the journal of a young woman.
These aren't typical film plots, they are niche. however, through boiling them down and reducing them to their essence (simple smiles we can all communicate with) we have the outline for a tale we can begin to relate to our own lives.
I've always been a fan of King of the Hill & now I think I have found the reason why; its just simply the boiled down essence. If it was live action, I doubt very much I'd watch it/ enjoy it if I did. The same goes for the above three.
I think that so much more comes into it with live action; I think there are atavistic, subconscious things going on.
A good example of art boiled down to their essence is Keith Haring. His work shares the broad understanding of cave paintings; anyone anywhere in the world can relate to it; and that's just it; we are all in it together, all share the common desires, vices, emotions. Boiling it down to the action, or the essence of an emotion - like a perfumer refining his substance to the most concentrated amount - we can all understand.


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Stockholm, Sweden: Slipping, Signs and such
Posted by Christopher Wink on Nov 2, 2008 in Experiences |
Today we toured one of the most historic, beautiful, highly regarded and perhaps least toured cities in Europe - despite it being November and notoriously expensive.
Should we show you historic sights to be had? Not yet.


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Labz Notification 10 of 2011
A written-cum-video initiative to know your corporate legal position as on date
Legal Queries???
What are restrictions in foreign inflow? What are the FDI compliances with RBI? What are the ECB compliances with RBI? What are the FCCB/GDR/ADR compliances with RBI? Is there any annual return with RBI like that under Company laws? What are the consequences of non-filing of returns with RBI? When you are falling under Automatic route of FEMA, is there any reporting requirement with RBI? What happens if the inflow is not under automatic route? Is SEZ mandated by RBI for such reporting? What is the reporting procedure? What are the legal requirements in India when foreign exchange is involved in a company's capital account transaction?
FEMA Compliances, Event Based, Periodical returns to be filed based on the nature of transaction
The compliances under Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) arise, when there is an inflow or outflow of foreign exchange. When dealing with bank accounts situated outside India or in India, you might not realize the indirect effect on foreign exchange which mandate FEMA compliances. In India, most of the current account transaction mandates reporting arrangements, whereas certain capital account transaction require approvals from the Central Bank namely Reserve Bank of India.
FEMA being an ever changing law in India, the legalization of a transaction and its dealings is a voluminous task. The approvals, intimations & reporting have to be done keeping in mind the legal updated applied with practical skills. At Lawlabz we can facilitate the same for your company's transactions. Read More...
Requirement under Indian laws on FEMA Compliances, Event Based, Periodical returns to be filed based on the nature of transaction in India:
Whenever there is an issue, allotment, transfer or conversion of shares, an intimation or approval may be required under FEMA as an event based compliance requirement. This can happen in situations where there is an increase in the shareholding of the company or on induction of new shareholders or an investment is made into the company abroad or when there is transfer of shares in which one party is an Indian or when loans (External Commercial Borrowings) are converted into equity capital. Further, whenever arises an event under FEMA, it comes with a obligation to submit periodical returns as well on a monthly basis for loans related dealing, quarterly basis for FCCB/ADR/GDR related overseas issues and on a annual basis for equity related dealings. Further, there are ceiling limits of 7 days/15 days/30 days/60 days/180 days for various compliances mentioned above. Even further, there is a requirement of certification of procedural compliance of the transaction by a Company Secretary and a certification on valuation of shares through Discounted Cash Flow method by a Chartered Accountant. Any delayed filing beyond the prescribed period also amounts to violation of law which can invite actions from RBI. Hence, in such cases, there is a option of voluntary compounding of offences by disclosing the offence to RBI.
Myth buster on FEMA Compliances, Event Based, Periodical returns to be filed based on the nature of transaction in India:
FEMA compliances are not a mere one-time requirement of reporting whenever there is a requirement of funding or investment or raising money in India or abroad but it goes beyond as a regular procedural requirement once, one of such transaction with a foreign country or foreigner is made. The entire business transaction shall be consulted with an expert as to its impact on automatic route or approval route and how it shall be proceeded with. It may happen, the transaction is under automatic route but as it is taken up by a large enterprise, it may fall under approval route that shall be duly considered. Whenever a foreign exchange transaction happens, it should be considered on a wholesome basis as to its requirements on foreign exchange laws, the accounting treatment of the transactions and the legality of it under the requirement of various corporate laws, industrial laws and sector-specific laws.
Caution point on FEMA Compliances, Event Based, Periodical returns to be filed based on the nature of transaction in India!!!
As the requirements of FEMA are constantly changing as updated by RBI, one shall take caution to ensure whether the reporting requirement on a particular date is in the latest prescribed legal requirement in India. The transacting Indian company shall be in regular touch with their Authorised Dealer (the bank in India) who is responsible for conversion of foreign exchange till the time the bank gets a final confirmation from RBI as to the satisfaction of the legal compliance requirement. The Joint ventures or foreign collaborations shall give due consideration of this legal requirement as this involves a hefty penalty of 3 times of the amount involved or to take the route of compounding to safeguard from violations.
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text: BUSINESS For pilot, meet the CW's young parents 5:00 AM PST 1/12/2009 by Nellie Andreeva , AP FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Empty Shiri Appleby, Kristoffer Polaha and Kerr Smith have been tapped to star in the CW's hourlong pilot "Light Years" for CBS Paramount and director Gary Fleder.The Liz Tigelaar-penned dramedy centers on foster kid Lux (Brittany Robertson) who, on her 16th birthday, tracks down her slacker biological father, bar owner Nick "Baze" Basile (Polaha), and her mother, morning radio host Cate Campbell (Appleby), who haven't spoken since high school, when their one-night stand resulted in the pregnancy.Smith plays Ryan, Campbell's boyfriend and co-host on the show.This is the first mother role for Appleby, who recently turned 30 and mostly has played ingenues or vixens. Her age difference with Robertson is a little more than 11 years. Polaha is 31.Like its predecessor WB Network, the CW tends to go unrealistically young in the motherly department. Lauren Graham was barely 33 when cast as the mom of a teenage daughter in "Gilmore Girls." The project marks a WB reunion for Appleby and Smith, who co-starred on the former network's "Roswell" and "Dawson's Creek," respectively. Appleby, who recently starred in USA Network's "To Love & Die," is repped by ICM and manager John Carrabino.Polaha, who co-starred on the CW drama "Valentine," is repped by Endeavor. Smith, who next appears in "My Bloody Valentine 3-D," is with Gersh and Thruline. (partialdiff) FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Nellie Andreeva firstname.lastname@example.com @thr AP email@example.com @thr


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I am not usually a 'tool' person and held off getting any type of 'new' stamping positioning aide. But, hey, I'm getting on in crafting years and now with some new glasses and a bit of arthritis/carpal tunnel, I'm finding that getting my stamping placement with multiple stamping, or even with wanting to just to a basic two step stamping, it was getting tricky in getting lined up and may have put off getting some stamp sets that needed some jiggery-pokery.
Having seen the Stamparatus in action and how helpful it is with placement, this tool has made me happy.
Stampin' Up! have putt together some helpful videos. This one is for precision placement and uses the set 'amazing congratulations', indeed this is a set that I looked at but was concerned about my positioning. The set was created for use with the Stamparatus which is great especially now I have ordered it!
If you didn't get a Stamparatus in the initial launch, never fear, it is coming to the new catalogue and that is just a few weeks away. Stay tuned as I share some more helpful hints with using the Stamparatus.


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Dr. David Haskell, professor of Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of the South, has received a Dapeng Nature Writing Award. The award is China's first literary prize for books about the natural world. Haskell won the "international" category for his book The Forest Unseen, joining Chinese award winners in environmental and science writing, children's literature, and translation.
The Dapeng awards are part of the city of Shenzhen's month-long celebration of the written word. Shenzhen is an international hub for technology and has grown from a rural outpost to a city of 20 million people in just 30 years. As the city has grown, it has kept half of its land area for parks and natural areas. The city also is home to a large public library, high-tech book vending machines, and the world's largest bookstores. This convergence of commitment to nature and to literature makes the city the ideal location for a revival of the Chinese tradition of nature writing.
Haskell's award is one part of the University's extensive and growing number of connections in the global community. University students, staff, and faculty are involved in research, community development, and collaborative education in more than 60 countries. The University's new Office of Global Citizenship facilitates and advises these many opportunities. Scott Wilson, associate dean of Global Citizenship noted, "David Haskell's award recognizes the importance of Sewanee's extensive global ties, as well as our faculty engagement with global challenges."


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This 7 inch kitchen knife is made from a 7 layer Patternweld that has been very tightly twisted. This is my own variation of the twisted patterns that the Saxon Swordsmiths used in their legendary blades.
The blade has a low tip and very gentle edge curve (reminesent of the Chinese light weight vegetable cleavers).
The handle is walnut, cow horn and buffalo horn.
Materials : 15 N 20 Carbon Steel and 1080 Carbon Steel, Walnut , cow horn and Buffalo Horn.
Big blade length is 7 inches long, just under 2 inches wide and 3.5 mm thick at the handle.
The knife weighs 160 grams.
Price £360 (plus postage)
I offer a guarantee against faulty manufacture for the lifetime of the knives. This does not cover abusive use of the knives or wear and tear. The handle materials on these knives are natural and as such, must be looked after. These knives will not respond well to being left soaking in a sink or (and it pains me to even think of it) put in a dishwasher. I would consider both of these actions as knife abuse. Use them, clean them, dry them and they will remain beautiful for years to come.
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