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Cooking outdoors is an essential part of camping. We provide fire pits for each glamping accommodation and tent pitch, tripods with hanging grills and one pot rocket stoves and kelly kettles so that you can make the most of campfire cooking whilst you stay with us. You could also try our wood fired pizza oven.
Cooking kit and a space to sit and relax can be found in the timber framed camp kitchen and the canvas dining tent. We also have a mini freezer for freezing your cool blocks.
Free range eggs are available from the farm gate throughout the season!
Food parcels
Why not pre-order a provisions parcel with local produce from the nearby farm shop and eggs from our hens. Fresh baked bread comes from our local bakery, Wooster's at Bardwell.
Some of our campers arriving in the evening after hours miss out on the local produce, so we are offer a range of provisions parcels that can be delivered to your tent when you arrive. All of the produce is sourced locally or baked or grown at the farm shop! All you have to do then is light the fire and enjoy a bit of outdoor cooking.
Due to a complicated VAT issue it is not possible to pay for food parcels online at the moment, so if you would like to book one please get in touch via phone or email and we will add it to your order this way. We can take in person card payments onsite.
We would be grateful if you could give us plenty of notice so that we can place your order with the farm shop and our local baker well in advance, but it is possible to order up to three days before your stay. We will provide a cool box for items that need to be kept cold.
Parcels cater for between two and four people depending upon your appetite! An option to request a parcel is provided on the booking form. Just let us know which parcel you would like and which bread option you would prefer. Some of the contents may vary slightly from time to time depending upon availability.
|BBQ Parcel £24
|Veg BBQ parcel £20
|Cooked Breakfast Parcel £20
|Light Breakfast Parcel £18
|Full Farmer Breakfast Parcel £25
|4 local beef burgers
4 local sausages
4 marinated chicken kebabs
8 white bread rolls
Salad leaves
Red and yellow pepper
Salad leaves
Corn on the cob/asparagus (depending upon season)
8 white bread rolls
Loaf of bread – white/wholemeal
6 eggs
2 pt milk
|Loaf of bread – white/wholemeal
2 pt milk
Loaf of bread – white/wholemeal
6 eggs
2 pt milk
Wooster's bakery
The bakery is just a few minutes away in the next village, but it is very popular so we can also pre-order bread and croissants for your stay so you don't miss out! Have a look at Wooster's order sheet and let us know what you would like. Please note Will does not bake on Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays.
Wood fired pizzas
If you are feeling adventurous you can try out our cob pizza oven. We know that it cooks fantastic pizzas (shop bought seem to work just as well as homemade) but do feel free to try something creative. We can provide a trug of kindling, a pizza paddle and oven gloves. We are also happy to help get it fired up as it can take a bit of practice. Available to use during your stay, or join us for a communal pizza evening around the campfire on Saturdays during July and August (£2 per accommodation/tent pitch).
Wood, kindling, charcoal and eco firelighters
We have supplies of seasoned firewood and kindling on site and also offer bags of locally made charcoal. It really is incredibly efficient and a half bag will be plenty for an evening's BBQing. And of course we have some marshmallows for toasting too! Eco firelighters are provided free of charge and we also have a flint and steel if you would like to have a go at traditional fire lighting.
|Wood (trug full)
|Kindling bundle (free with first trug full)
|Locally made Charcoal (Full 5kg bag)
|Locally made Charcoal (Half Bag)
|Marshmallows (per bag)


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A week after the late night flight home from Johannesburg to Amsterdam with a plane full of dejected and, in some cases, drunken Dutch fans, and life has suddenly got very, very boring.
The Vuvuzelas have been silenced. There are no more FIFA press briefings to go to. The wife doesn't need to see my accreditation badge before I'm allowed through the front door.
The kids don't talk to their father in a mixed zone. The dog doesn't bark with the same ferocity as a Durban security man very anxious to point you in the right direction of the press center and away from the VIP lounge.
The one bedroomed annex to a Craighall Park guest house that was my home from home for 35 nights is no more. I've escaped that nomadic lifestyle and the long drives to Rustenburg and Bloemfontein and even Pretoria.
And heck yes, I miss it. I miss picking up the South African Star each and every morning to see what the contributors to the letter pages -- the best part of the paper -- have to say about FIFA, the crime rate and the World Cup tourists.
I miss my daily dose of Nelson Mandela update in a country fascinated by the man who turned 92 just last Sunday.
I wonder how Nkela the housekeeper and Divisions the driver and Limited the gardener are getting on now that the World Cup has been and gone in their fair land.
And I wonder how South Africa will cope with their post-World Cup blues if I'm struggling to adapt to the quiet life after the ball is over.
In many ways it reminds me of the Ryder Cup experience in Ireland four years ago, a tournament we had to wait an extra year for in the wake of 9-11 attacks on New York.
The build-up to the K Club spectacular was intense. Ireland Inc. went on stand-by for the great sporting event in the history of the world.
Homeowners in and around Straffan were going to make millions from renting their houses to Yanks desperate to taste the Irish golf experience.
The very golf clubs now struggling to make ends meet were going to make enough in green fees in the week of the Irish Ryder Cup to ensure their long-term survival. Ireland was never going to be the same again after the visit of Tiger and Bubba and Lefty.
How romantic we were to believe that dream. How naive we were as well.
On the Wednesday before Friday's start of the Ryder Cup action I stood on the hill overlooking the 13 green on the Palmer Course and watched as the various players went through in their practice rounds.
Beside me was a very tall man by the name of Colm Keys, a Navan native so tall that children used to stop on the streets of Izumo just to look up at him when we were there with Ireland a week before the 2002 World Cup.
Now the GAA correspondent with the Irish Independent, Colm was in the employ of John Kierans and the Daily Mirror back in 2006 if memory serves me right, and a bloody good job he did for them too.
His penchant for the perfect phrase to sum up any situation came to the fore that Wednesday afternoon as our feet settled into the damp conditions underfoot in the Kildare village straddled by the river Liffey.
"This Ryder Cup is going to be a bit like Hayley's Comet," offered Colm. "You wait a lifetime for it to come around and then it's gone in an instant."
How right he was. Within five days one of the wettest Ryder Cups in history was gone.
The circus tent was lifted, and the pictures of Darren Clarke's tears in memory of his late wife Heather and the pink jackets the European players wore in her honor were already on their way to the memory bank.
The Ryder Cup will be back on European soil this October for the first time since it landed on Irish shores all those years ago.
Like us in 2006, Wales are debutant hosts this time around and I've no doubt they will be "excired and delired" as Gay Byrne used to say in advance of golf's greatest spectacle.
But, like the South Africans, they too should be warned that sporting brilliance is only ever a fleeting reality.
The World Cup is over and the world is already forgetting about South Africa.
We have to get on with our lives, and so do those who enthralled us in Johannesburg and Cape Town and all points South African.
Manchester United play in Dublin on Wednesday, August 4. Ireland play Argentina at the Aviva Stadium the following Wednesday. The Premier League kicks off just three days after that game.
Sport doesn't hang around for memories, and it certainly doesn't hang around for sentiment.
Those of us currently missing the Vuvuzelas and the World Cup will just have to get on with it. Football's Hayley's Comet has been and gone and more's the pity -- 'cos I miss it like hell.
Sideline Views
"The British Open was maybe a week too soon," said McDowell after he finished well down the field. "I could have probably done with using those two weeks after Pebble a bit more wisely, but you want to celebrate and enjoy yourself. I'm down from cloud nine to about cloud five. There was definitely a sense of coming down last week."
After his U.S. Open achievement, McDowell is quite entitled to float on cloud nine for a while.
Now it transpires that Carson was a hurler during his time at Trinity College, and a new poc fada on Stormont Hill in Belfast next month is to be named in his honor. Competitors in the first ever hurling event in Stormont, organized by Gerry Adams among others, will play for the Edward Carson Trophy and will see the hurlers hit sliotars up and down the Prince of Wales avenue that leads to the Parliament buildings.
I'm not sure who will be turning in their grave that day, but I'm sure somebody will.

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Blisters on the Legs From Skiing
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New physical activities often come with new sources of discomfort until your body adjusts to unfamiliar stress and demands. Sports and exercises that require prolonged mobility, including skiing, often cause blisters on the feet and legs when these body parts are exposed to unaccustomed and ongoing friction and pressure. After skiing for awhile, you may develop protective calluses in the same areas where you first had blisters. Blisters and injury can be minimized or prevented by wearing the correct clothing and gear.
Continuous friction and pressure against your skin are the root causes of blisters, including those on your legs from skiing. While snow pants or other garments may put pressure or friction on your legs, the most likely culprit is your ski boots. If your ski boots are too tight, blisters form from continuous pressure on your legs; if they're too loose, they can rub up and down on your legs as you ski. If your legs get sweaty underneath the bundle of clothing you wear while skiing, this facilitates blister formation. The top layer of skin separates from the layer underneath and a fluid that acts as a cushion seeps in between.
Blisters on your legs after skiing don't require any treatment; they go away on their own in a few days. However, if your blisters cause pain or discomfort, you do have the option of popping them. If you're on a ski trip, this may be necessary to prevent the blisters from interfering with your enjoyment of the vacation. Wash your hands and legs with warm water and soap, then sterilize a needle, the blisters and the surrounding patches of skin with rubbing alcohol. Stick the needle just through the top layer of separated skin, at the very edge of each blister. Allow the fluid to fully drain, and wipe it away. Apply a topical antibiotic and cover the wound with a bandage. Avoid putting pressure or friction on the affected areas until they heal.
Appropriate, properly fitting ski boots and ski clothing, including socks, are essential to prevent blisters on your legs during your skiing excursions. There are different types of boots for different types of skiing and terrain. Buy your ski equipment from a knowledgeable vendor who can advise you on the type of boots you need. Make sure the ski boots fit snugly, but not tightly. Acrylic socks minimize friction, notes an article in "The Physician and Sportsmedicine." Douse your feet and legs with baby powder before suiting up to keep them free of sweat. If you know of areas on your legs that are prone to blisters, put a bandage or second-skin type protective product over the spots.
Don't drain blood blisters, cautions the Sports Injury Clinic. These occur when a blood vessel is damaged from friction or pressure that causes a blister and blood seeps into the area between the layers of skin. Blood blisters present greater risk of infection than other blisters. Infection is the primary concern with all blisters, particularly after you pop them. Use a topical antibiotic and change the bandages over your leg blisters twice a day and whenever they get wet or dirty. Leave the top layer of skin on the blisters for extra protection. If you experience increased redness, pain, inflammation, oozing or other possible signs of infection, see a doctor right away.
Writer Bio
Eric Mohrman has been a freelance writer since 2007, focusing on travel, food and lifestyle stories. His creative writing is also widely published. He lives in Orlando, Florida.


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The Fort Frances, Ontario native Steve Arpin told the Fort Frances Times that he had big things planned for 2011, yet can't talk about them yet.
[media-credit name="stevearpinracing.com" align="alignright" width="300″][/media-credit]"I've got incredible plans of what I want to do," Arpin said. "I'm just trying to talk all these team owners into going along with my plan.
"As hard as it is to keep my mouth shut, I have to at this point."
In his plans, he looks to race full-time in NASCAR, either in the Nationwide Series or the Camping World Truck Series.
Most would say this is the off-season for racing that Arpin has entered, however his appointment book would say otherwise.
"We're just really working hard," he remarked. "It may be the off-season, but it's the absolute most stressful time of the year putting these deals together."
Whichever plan works out for Arpin, it'll be another year of learning.
If he goes down the Camping World Truck Series route, he's never raced a truck before.
If he goes down the Nationwide Series route, several tracks will be new and the new car set to be permanently implemented into the series.
"It was a lot different than the cars we're used to running," Arpin told me of driving the car at Daytona. "But they were fun. At times they were a handful, and you really had to be up on the wheel and focused at the job at hand."
Arpin's best showing in the Nationwide Series this past year was a 10th place finish at the Subway Jalapeno 250 on July 2nd at Daytona, driving the new Nationwide C.O.T.
"To come out of Daytona with a top-10 was an amazing feeling for me," Arpin said. "The guys back at the JRM shop have put a ton of work into our restrictor-plate program and I think it showed with the finish we had there."
Arpin is best known, though, for his racing on the ARCA circuit as he won three races and recorded six other top 10s driving the No. 55 for Venturini Motorsports.
"I think of all the places to get your first ARCA win, Salem is just the coolest place in the world," he said in reference to the first win at Salem. "Regardless, you're going to absolutely love it but just the history and looking at who has run there and who has won there is absolutely unbelievable. There's just so much history. Like, almost every driver that's in the Cup Series has raced at Salem one time or another. It's just a really cool place."
Arpin began racing in the ARCA season in 2008 after catching the eye of Eddie Sharp whole driving USAC Silver Crown cars for Carl Edwards.
However, things didn't work out with Eddie Sharp so he made the transition to Venturini Motorsports.
"Before I signed up with Venturini Motorsports, I had talked to Bill Venturini a little bit and we really hit it off good," Arpin said in speaking of how the deal came together. "But we were so far ahead with our deal with ESR that we decided to go with ESR and start in that direction and we really just kept in touch with Venturini. They just watched our performance and about halfway through the year when I talked with them, when my deal with ESR was up, we re-evaluated our program and we realized things weren't going right there we decided to go with Venturini."
Arpin ended the 2009 ARCA Season seventh in points and took home the Most Popular Driver award.
Easily, Arpin could have finished in the top 10 in points this year, though he missed some races as a result of running seven races for JR Motorsports in the Nationwide Series.
"When the opportunity came up to drive for Dale [Earnhardt] Jr. for them seven races, it was a pretty incredible thing that we just couldn't pass up," Arpin reasoned.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. chose to put Arpin in the No. 7 after both Mark Martin and Carl Edwards recommended him. The first meeting between Arpin and Earnhardt Jr. took place at Texas, a week before his first start.
"It was pretty cool," he told me back in June. "I was always a Dale Jr. fan growing up. I liked how he showed a lot of respect and didn't tear up a lot of his equipment. It was neat as the first time I met him, he was sitting in the trailer and you'd never know you're sitting next to Dale Earnhardt Jr."
"Since then, we've been able to hang out a little bit though not that much with both of our schedules. He's also been good at giving me advice whenever I need it and sometimes we walk through what to expect at a track before running it."
The entire experience, however, didn't set in for Arpin till Talladega.
"To be honest, it didn't set in till I was sitting on pit road with Carl Edwards beside me, Kevin Harvick on the pole and saw Dale Jr.'s name on the car," he said. "Just to be involved and to be recognized for what I've done is an honor. It's the biggest accomplishment so far for me with having Tony Eury Jr. as the crew chief and Kelley Earnhardt and Dale Earnhardt Jr. as the owner."
Working with Tony Jr. turned out to be a plus for Arpin as it allowed him to learn a lot.
"Tony Jr. is a great crew chief and mentor," Arpin said. "Even for his age, he's got a ton of experience and has seen pretty much everything this sport can throw at you. He's an awesome guy to have in your corner."
Right out of the gate, he met expectations as he qualified fourth in his first start at Talladega Superspeedway. Though a pit road speeding penalty set him back and a crash late in the race resulted in a 26th place finish.
"It's been a struggle," he said. "We had a really good car at Talladega. The pit road speeding penalty put us behind; we were only speeding by 0.03mph."
The next three races he ran didn't end much better, with the only highlight being a qualifying effort of seventh at Charlotte.
"Charlotte was the means of miscommunication and me not checking my mirrors," he said in reference to the wreck. "You've got to learn every time you're out, whether good or bad, and it's been a good learning experience. Actually, this past month I've learned more then I had up to this point in racing."
In Tony Eury Jr.'s mind, Arpin did well those first couple of races.
"Steve has impressed us with what he's been able to do in the No. 7 Chevrolet with his limited experience," Tony Eury Jr. told me back in June. "There's no doubt the kid has a lot of talent, especially with what he's been able to do dirt racing. He had a couple great qualifying efforts at Talladega and Charlotte over the past few weeks."
"He did have his work cut out for him at Richmond and Darlington, which are two of the toughest tracks we race at. Being a rookie in the series it's not easy to run at those facilities. We've had some growing pains, and caught some bad luck with a couple wrecks, but overall, he's shown promise."
Looking over everything, Arpin called it a good year.
"We were really fast wherever we went. We accomplished a lot of what we wanted to accomplish," Arpin said. "We won more races than anyone else in the series and didn't even race all of the races. It was, all in all, a really good year and opened up a lot of doors. We have a lot of possibilities for moving up next year."
Arpin grew up racing racing on dirt at Emo Speedway so he has gone through a steep learning curve the past couple of years, learning about asphalt racing.
"The hardest thing was to forget all I knew on dirt racing that I thought would help on asphalt," he said. "It was a real eye opener when I started running asphalt. Basically, you got to throw away 98% of what you know about dirt racing."
In this past year with what he has learned, he said it could fill a novel, but noted patience was the biggest lesson.
"Back in dirt racing, you would take the green flag and you would have 20 or 25 laps and that's it. That's the race," he explained. You've got to be 100 percent every lap.
"On the asphalt races, you've got 200 and 300 laps. When you're getting 60, 70, 80 laps on a set of tires, it's really easy to be really fast at the start of a run and then use up your equipment, use up your tires, and then from Lap 40 on, you're really slow."
Arpin's love for racing started at the local dirt track at the age of five.
"I started going to the dirt tracks with my dad and watching dirt track racing with my dad and I've just loved it ever since," he said. "When I was about eight years old, when I found there was a go-kart track that was about 45 minutes away, I just kind of worked my butt off for two years delivering newspapers and all that kind of stuff like that to try to save enough money to buy my first go-kart. By the time I was 10, I had enough money saved up to buy a go-kart and that's where it all started."
Arpin quickly showed that he had the talent as he started winning races at the go-kart and dirt modified level quickly, including a record that still stands today of winning every race at Emo Speedway for three straight years.
His success on dirt at Emo Speedway in Ontario and across the United States caught everybody's attention, including Sprint Cup Series veteran Mark Martin.
Martin was quoted saying on SB Nation that he'd pick Arpin against anybody on dirt.
"I didn't know he said that till I heard Dale Jr. say that on national TV," Arpin said of the quote. "It knocked the wind out of me hearing that. For Mark Martin to go out of his way and say something like that means a lot to me. He's a guy with a lot of respect so you listen if you hear something coming from him."
Arpin has been through his share of adversity as the beginning of 2008 was rough for Arpin, as he would suffer burns on his hands, thighs, and groin as a result of a radiator hose blowing off and spraying him with water.
Away from the track he's got his mind on racing, though he likes spending time with his wife Katrina.
"Thinking about the next time I'm going back to the track," he said when I asked what he likes to do away from the track. "With the schedule, I've been pretty busy and haven't had a lot of time to do much otherwise. When I'm not at the track, I've been running the simulator's to try to get better."
"When I do get time, I like to hang out with my wife (Katrina) as we don't get a lot of time. The other day we played tennis. When we get back from Michigan actually, we're going to take a trip to Charleston."
Though five years down the road, Arpin hopes he's at the Cup Series level.
"My dream is to be in the Cup Series," he said. "I'd like to win the ARCA Championship this year and then keep a relationship going with JR Motorsports next year. Though I don't want to move up too quick as I want to make sure I'm ready when the opportunity comes."
To those who are looking to get to Arpin's level, he says stick with it no matter what.
"Don't get down," he said. "There was a lot of people telling me you can't do it, it's all about the money, but I stuck with it and went after it. If you know you can do it, then keep going after it."
The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of SpeedwayMedia.com.


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By Tom Lang for dbusiness --
To summarize Todd Campbell's business philosophy: Utilize the assets you have and create the best customer experience you can from those resources.
In other words, don't try to be who you're not.
Campbell determined that Forest Dunes' biggest asset is being ranked in the top 100 courses nationally by various golf publications.
In golf-rich Michigan, that's saying a lot.
"We are attracting golfers from around the country that just want to play the top 100 golf courses, to mark them off their list," Campbell says.
By contrast, he adds that the original owners' plans were to make the property a private club, complete with residential homes.
In a remote part of our state, that's asking a lot.
So Campbell's vision has been to focus on high-end public golf and add more overnight accommodations for stay-and-play packages. "Really just push the golf experience."
He suggests amenities like swimming pools and spas have annual operating and maintenance costs, and some of those features are only available for use for six months of the year.
"So let's use the amenities we have, the natural surroundings like Higgins Lake and the Au Sable River system, some great state parks, and use the golf course and accommodations and the fabulous clubhouse we have," Campbell says.
The formula resulted in Forest Dunes turning its first-ever profit last year since the property opened for play in 2002. A key cog in the machine came in 2013 with the opening of the 8,500-square-foot, 14-room Lake Au Sable Lodge that overlooks the lake and the first tee. There are also a number of golf cottages for rent on the property.
"We purchased a business that had never made a dime in its existence (and lost millions), and within two years we've turned a profit," Campbell says. In its first year alone (2012), visitors from 33 different states and from seven different countries used the lodge.
"That building changed our whole life," Campbell says. "We're getting more people that come in, they golf, they dine, and they golf some more. They spend money in the pro shop. And that's our target market. I'd be willing to say this has been one of the biggest turnarounds in the golf industry, and continues to be, in the last decade."
A second golf course on the property is under way. Currently the crew is popping stumps based on routing by famed designer Tom Doak (who has an office in Traverse City). Ideally, the initial work will be completed this year. Shaping would begin next year, with final shaping and seeding to take place in fall 2015 (with a possible 2016 opening).
"Building a second golf course would be suicide if we don't have more accommodations," Campbell says. "So we have more accommodations in the master plan. It's not just great for Forest Dunes. The people coming here are spending money in northern Michigan."


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10 Ways for Writers and Editors to Trim a Piece without Losing a Shred of ContentPosted: November 13, 2015 Filed under: Basic Grammar, Grammar, Word Choice | Tags: APA Style, editing, English grammar, good writing, publishing, Words into Type, writing tips Leave a comment
Just as your time is valuable, so is your readers'. Who wants to read something longer when they could read something shorter?
In most kinds of writing, the fewer words you use to get your message across, the more impact your writing will have. If you use too many words, your readers will have trouble determining what's truly important and will start to pay less attention. They'll start skipping ahead and may miss crucial details and subtle turns of phrase. As a result, sooner or later they'll wind up confused. If they're still interested at that point, they may have to go back and reread. If that seems too tedious, they may just give up. To keep readers riveted, look for ways to reduce verbosity. Read the rest of this entry »


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Remember the days of the Perly's map? Maybe, maybe not depending on your generation. This was way back in the day. Way before Google Maps or any sophisticated GPS device. I remember before we set out in the car, my grandfather would fish out his Perly's from the glove compartment. He would spend a couple of minutes mapping out where he needed to go to ensure he arrived at his destination. There is nothing unusual about that. This is the step that any logical person would take. It defies reason that one would set out on a journey, having no idea how to get there and no plan.
Objectives play an important part in many facets of our lives – careers, life decisions etc. In the training world, objectives are equally necessary and important. They answer the question, what do you intend for the learner to achieve? A training program needs to have a set destination with checkpoints along the way. Objectives not only ensure that you arrive at your destination but also provides markers to assure you that you are on the right path.
There are generally two types of learning objectives: terminal and enabling. Terminal objectives describe the expected level of performance by the end of the training. Enabling objectives define the skills, knowledge or behaviours learners must reach in order to complete the training successfully. Both learner and facilitator benefit greatly from these guidelines. For the facilitator, objectives provide a framework for delivery. For the learner, he/she can readily identify the specific points they need to master.
Okay, so we have established that we need objectives in line with the intended outcomes. Before you set pen to paper or in the digital world, fingers to keyboard, consider these three things:
- What should the learners be able to do?
- Under what conditions do you want the learners to perform?
- How well must the learners perform?
We can break these three questions further into three words: performance (behaviour), condition, criteria. One of the negative things about training programs is that they are ineffective and learners do not see value. The value begins with defining the goals and objectives. Equally, the effectiveness is achieved when the objectives are realized.
We all know the acronym SMART:
Objectives should be all of these things.
This is a good mnemonic to use as an aid. So, while charting the destination, ensure you are SMART about the journey.


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3º ESO. Basketball 2: The court, players´s positions, violations and fouls
-Each player is assigned a position when playing. This position is usually determined by the height of the player.
-NBA teams usually have: two guards, two forwards, and one center.
-The tallest person usually plays "center", while the medium size ones play "forwards".
-The shortest players then play "guards".
-European league teams usually have one guard, two forwards and two centers
Look at this videos explaining each position on the court. Notice they explain ALL positions, dividing guards (point guard and shooting guard) and forwards (small forward or wing man and power forward)
-A violation occurs when the player infracts the rules of Basketball.
-A violation results in the awarding of the ball to the opponents.
-It happens when the player takes more than two steps without bouncing the ball on the floor. This is called Travelling.
-Another violation is when a player stops dribbling and then starts dribbling again or bounces the ball with its two hands at once. We call this a Double Dribble.
-You can also commit a violation if you twist your hand , when in contact with the ball, pass the vertical. This is called Carry, as the hand must always remain on the top of the ball.
-A foul is an illegal action that can commit a player from one team to a player from the adverse team.
-Basketball is generally a non-contact game. If, in particular occasion this is not respected, a foul is committed.
-There are two types of fouls:
The first ones are called defensive fouls. They occur when the offensive player is being fouled by the defender. Defenders should not block, push, trip, strike or hold the player in possession of the ball.
-The second ones are the offensive fouls. For example a player in offense commits an offensive foul when charging into a stationary defender.
-Play stops on all rules violations.
-The opponent gains possession of the ball after a violation.
-After a foul is committed and depending on which type of foul it is, one of two things will happen:
-The opposing team gains possession of the ball, or
-The fouled player shoots free throws.


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Did you know that we have 50,000 to 70, 000 thoughts per day, and 35 to 48 thoughts per minute? Many of these thoughts are insignificant and fleeting, but many others are very significant and meaningful. They come from our values and beliefs, and form the core of who we are as a person. They guide our daily decisions. One of the best ways to recognize and capture the useful thoughts is to write them down. As soon as they are on paper, they are 'trapped' and can be edited and reframed. They can play a stronger role in helping us understand and make sense of our experiences in a positive way.
It is my hope that the four dimensions of reflective learning might inspire and guide you in reflecting and writing about your cancer journey. Perhaps it will assist you with the "why" questions and help you move forward. The ultimate goal of this reflection is that it will add to your body of knowledge about the experience and contribute to your understanding of yourself and the unique plan that exists for your life.
The Four Dimensions of Reflective Learning
I. Thinking Back
Returning to an experience and reflecting on the full impact of that experience after it has taken place may allow the learner to revisit the entire experience from a fresh and different perspective. Learners may uncover previous insights that had been realized but are now buried or simply forgotten.
Questions that may help uncover insights from the past are:
Ø What were your original thoughts at the start of your diagnosis?
Ø What were the factors that helped or hindered your ability to cope with the diagnosis?
Ø What specific skills/knowledge/attributes were necessary for helping you survive your treatments?
II. Thinking Inward
Introspective reflections also bring the learner closer to emotions. According to James Zull (2002), reflecting on a previous experience will be meaningless unless it engages our emotions.
Questions that may lead to an intrinsic connection are:
Ø What are your personal beliefs regarding this cancer experience?
Ø What were the highest and lowest emotional moments of your experience?
Ø What differences has the experience made in your intellectual, personal or emotional development?
III. Thinking Outward
Reflecting on the world around us requires an extended point of view. Identifying the attitudes and opinions of another person, such as an author, a coworker, or a person from another culture leads learners to further consideration of their own belief system. The value in these contrasts and comparisons of beliefs is that it causes the learner to either expand their personal point of view or perhaps becoming more affirmed in their reasons for believing the way they do. Reflecting outwardly may lead to new ideas or theories that can help to explain or make sense of something.
Questions that allow learners to think in an extrinsic way:
Ø How are you looking at this cancer experience now? Can you identify a different point of view?
Ø How might a person from another culture or religion look at your experience?
Ø Have others with a similar experience to yours affected how you view your experience? If so, how?
IV. Thinking Forward
The value of reflective learning is that it allows learners to "reframe" their experience and use it to guide attitudes, perspectives and decisions more effectively in the future.
Questions that may help the learner to understand future life implications from an experience are:
Ø How significant are the outcomes of my experience to my future life?
Ø How has this experience shaped the plans, goals and dreams that I have for my future?
Ø How might what I have learned affect my ability to cope with challenges that I might face in my future?
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Chilka is famous as the abode of the largest coastal lagoon in India, the Chilka Lake. This lake prides in being the second largest lagoon of the world. Owing to the presence of the lagoon that Chilka has, it is one of the most popular tourist destinations of Odisha.
Situated 81 km from the capital city of Bhubaneswar, Chilka lies along the borders of Ganjam district, Khurda and Puri.
Chilka – A Peek Into History
A geological survey has confirmed that Chilka used to be a part of the Bay of Bengal during the late Pleistocene period. The place has an important role to play in the history of India. During the rule of the Kalinga dynasty, Chilka was a bustling commercial centre and a prominent harbour. Ptolemy also talks about the Chilka Lake in his text as an important port.
Tourist Places In And Around Chilka
Tourism in Chilka is mainly because of the world famous Chilka Lake. Apart from the lake, Chilka tourism presents a wide array of tourist activities like boating, fishing and bird watching and wildlife spotting.
Chilka – Concordance Of Nature
Discover the richness of Chilka tourism with the diverse species of birds, aquatic animals and reptiles. Every year during winter, thousands of birds visit the Chilka Lake. Aquatic animals like fish, turtles, crabs, prawns and mollucks inhabit the lake. Limbless Skink and Irawadi Dolphins can also be spotted.
Chilka Weather Condition
The best time to visit Chilka is during the winter months - between October and March. During this period, the place becomes a heaven of several migratory birds worth seeing and we know these birds are the reason behind tourism. Moreover, the weather also remains cool. The temperature in the day time remains pleasant.
How To Reach Chilka
Chilka can be accessed via air, train and road. The Bhubaneshwar airport is the nearest airport and the closest railway stations are Rambha and Balugaon. Buses and taxis can be availed from Puri and Cuttack.


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So, I'm just curious. I can only speak for my own privileged, white experience but I know anyone can learn "social graces". However, is expecting them classist inherently?
I was raised by somewhat uppity parents who came from humble beginnings. Though poor, my grandmothers took pride in their children having good table manners. Thus, I learned good manners - not overly formal at home but still good - and am able to successfully sit through a meal with multiple forks like it is NBD.
My husband, though, led me to think he was raised by wolves (he was not, he has lovely parents) based on his rather abhorrent table manners. Our first date led us to eating at a sushi place (which was lovely) and while I cannot for the life of me use chop sticks, he was right at home with them (he loooooooves Asian food). But the next date, it was a whole 'nother story. I let it go by deciding that I really liked him and I was the one in the wrong.
Meanwhile, I've taken it upon myself to teach our child and my stepkids about how to properly eat in public. My husband would gnaw on a bone. He would suck food off of his fingers. He would smack his lips and go to slurp his soup. After spending enough time around me and my family and after an illuminating conversation my BiL, his wife, my husband and myself, he has come to realize his family was not much for table manners but that social graces would be expected of him if he intended to "keep up" with where I was headed and where he ended up heading job-wise and not hinder himself in certain social situations. My husband's brother was basically trained to eat properly by his now-wife because she was very wordly and he was, too, but his manners did not reflect this. They are both execs now for a large company. Both have to have dinner meetings on a regular business. Imagine how embarrassing it would be to show up to dinner without a clue when your hosts were even more well-heeled than you, I thought. So, finally I felt somewhat vindicated and decided all the kids would learn how to act in "polite company" so that this would not harm them unduly.
But is this all inherently classist? I know there is a lot of cultural capital wrapped up into eating properly in polite company but is that so bad? I have misophonia so part of this is me just NOT being able to hear people slurp slurp slurp their drink or suck on their fingers. It's gross and even with headphones on, my coworker slurping her drink EVERY SIP makes me stabby. Do I think that placing all of this emphasis on what is "classy" is fair? No. But at the same time, I will be damned if I let the kids make themselves somehow less marketable as hires and less-respected by certain types of people when they get older (and the older kids are old enough to to out to eat at a nice place now, which is cool). I hate "may I be excused" so we absolutely do not ask the kids for that and my husband and I both agree it's better to teach them. But I'm sitting here thinking "am I an asshole?" for wanting to stab something every time my coworker slurps. My mind immediately thinks "were you raised by wolves?!" when I know there are lovely people who just don't put emphasis on this stuff like my wonderful but rural, blue collar in-laws who rarely ever ate a meal together as a family and never went to any "fancy" restaurants and are just now letting me make them a medium rare steak because it's better than super well.
But am I just a classist asshole? How were you raised? Did you get this all before you went off to school/took a job or did you learn it as you go? Do you teach your kids these things? If so, why?
So, I'm just curious. I can only speak for my own privileged, white experience but I know anyone can learn "social graces". However, is expecting them classist inherently?


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The success of a training course is the result of a long preparation. Here you can find some useful tips:
Before the training
• Plan everything in advance: agenda, working team, space, materials necessary, eventual local transport, accommodation etc.
• Analyse the motivation, educational background and expectation of each participant. It's important to have a homogeneous group in terms of motivations and skills, in order to deliver a successful TC.
• Before the arrival send all the useful information to the participants, taking in consideration the multicultural aspects and special needs.
During the training
• Follow a gradual learning flow! After an introductory session (presentation of the project, team and participants), it is good to introduce the main topics (e.g.: urban garden and youth work) and, after, details of each topic.
• Once you talk about gardening, bear in mind the idea of the garden as an educational and social tool! It is a training for youth workers willing to use the gardening in their work, not a training for individuals eager to set up an own private garden!
• Interchange theoretical and practical sessions in order to keep high the motivation and concentration. Especially organize gardening activities, putting in practice what was learned.
• Stimulate creativity and diversity! As the participants are coming from different countries, and especially if they are from different continents, give them enough space to meet and exchange personal and professional ideas and knowledge.
• Plan several study visits! Especially for the urban gardening topic, it's very welcomed to know close-up any reality dealing with gardening: community garden, cooperatives, NGO's etc.
• Put yourself in their shoes—or seats. Give frequent breaks, especially for half-day or all-day sessions.
• Encourage participation. Make the session lively by engaging participants in the learning process.
• Solicit feedback on the training session and organize a daily evaluation! It will help to track motivation, the learning path and see if the session succeeds or not.
• Following daily evaluation of the participants and working team, revise the programme!
• Organize public local gardening activities! Valorise your intercultural group, giving the opportunity to run a local activity in a public space, such as a square, garden or any green area. Local people will become more interested and motivated to take bottom–up initiative with the participants of the training! Such public activity will be practical result of the training as well as a small gift to the local community from the hosting group.
• Last day, make a final evaluation with the participants; get feedback about all the framework of the training carried out: agenda, logistics, learning outcomes, results, potential follow-up activities etc. You will take in consideration it during the follow–up activities with the working team.
After the training
• Make a final evaluation with the working team, paying attention also to the working methods used and their impact! The success of a new training is based on the deep evaluation of the previous one.
• Give visibility to the success of your training course! Use testimonies, video, pictures of the programme and places visited! It will help to have a more long and deep impact at local and transnational levels. Your experience could be taken as an example and replicated by other youth workers.
• Provide to the participants a certificate of participation.
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As an arts reporter, it is my job each December to sum up the year's best and worst – a task that I am understandably discomfited by, possessing neither the ego nor the compulsion to make such qualitative pronouncements. Since it is my duty, however, to do just that, my approach is to step back from making any kind of grand statement and focus instead on those shows/artists/artworks that either pleased or displeased me. For what more can I do than express my own subjective response to things that may have garnered entirely different reactions from different viewers at different times?
In discussing the year in food, a grand statement if ever there was one, I must also step back from any kind of assumptive declarations. This is not about the best and worst in food, nor does it aim to make any kind of statement about trends in eating, either globally or locally. Instead, it is a simple recounting of three gastronomically-related things that made me feel excited, healthy, happy and sated in the year that was 2010.
Though my friends at An Endless Banquet were writing about this most delectable of leafy greens as far back as October 2007, it was only a few weeks ago that I discovered its perfection. In Montreal, it is generally known as Lacinato or Tuscan kale, though I have also heard it sold under the moniker Dinosaur kale, a name that is presumably drawn from the lizard-like texture of the vegetable when raw. When cooked, however, it is an entirely different story. In fact, what distinguishes this princely kale from its more proletarian cousins is its texture, which one might compare to a young collard green: toothy yet tender. There is also the taste, though in my efforts to describe it, I find myself groping for adjectives, hoping that earthy and green will suffice.
If this is not enough to send you stampeding to the vegetable stand, kale is also insanely good for you, and incredibly easy to prepare. A few nights ago, for example, we simply sauteed it in a little butter, popped the lid on to create a little steam, and then tossed it with some lemon juice, lemon zest, crushed chilies and a few walnuts. Sitting aside a bowl of lamb-fennel Bolognese, it provided a fresh and crunchy counterpart to the pasta's silky richness. For breakfast, the leftovers made great company for an otherwise guilt-inducing fried egg sandwich.
HAY, HAY OIL and Do-It-Yourself MOLECULAR GASTRONOMY
In order to talk about hay, the least likely of culinary ingredients, I have to first talk about Noma, the Danish restaurant that this year unseated El Bulli as the World's Best. Last summer, I was perusing the interweb when I came across a video of Mark Bittman talking about his trip to the restaurant. In an effort to demystify the complex science that is molecular gastronomy, he was taking the audience through a recipe for one of Noma's signature dishes: potato chips with chocolate and fennel seeds. I was, to say the least, intrigued, and made haste to the Noma website where I put in an order for chef René Redzepi's cookbook.
Jump ahead a few months as, with weighty tome in hand, I sat down to look for something to make for dinner and came across a recipe requiring among many other things, the production of hay oil. Several hours later, having successfully procured a bundle of organic hay from a farmer at the Jean Talon market – an easier task than anticipated, and one that put in me in great favour with the young man who had been packing and unpacking the hay all summer with nary a sale – and having toasted that hay in the oven for over two hours and then macerated it in a layer of sunflower oil, I was one step closer to the completion of my dish: Jerusalem Artichokes and Toasted Hay Oil, Yoghurt and Truffles.
Unsurprisingly, preparing gastronomically molecular dishes at home is no easy feat, even when you have chosen to make the least complicated recipe in the book. First, instead of a team of skilled labourers, you have only you – and if you're lucky, your husband. When you are one (or two) and there are a handful of tasks that need to be completed at the same time, something must fall by the wayside. Here, it was the cutting of the Jerusalem artichoke slices – the peeling and slicing of which in itself took over an hour – into perfect 2cm diameter rounds. Instead, I switched to a more-easily realized hexagonal thematic which cut my prep time to roughly one-third.
Second, unless you are inclined to purchase appliances you will rarely use, you have to make do with more pedestrian items like your regular old oven and blender instead of the intended Pacojet and 180 degree water bath. These appliances work perfectly fine when braising a pot roast or whipping up a smoothie, but fail miserably when the task requires simultaneous blending and freezing (horseradish snow) or 90-degree roasting (pork fat brittle).
Third, you have to venture into heretofore unknown areas of culinary endeavor such as jellies, foams and airs. My proudest moment in this regard was when my 3mm thick organic apple jello discs, made from apple juice that my husband had pressed and strained earlier in the day, actually came out of the pan. Sadly, the satisfaction of that moment was crushed seconds later, when the discs were laid over mounds of steaming braised oxtail and were instantaneously reduced to the juice whence they came. That I did not weep is testament only to my desire to save face in front of my guests.
And finally, when preparing molecular cuisine, you have to come to terms with the fact that after working in the kitchen for 8-10 hours, washing countless dishes, and leaving a huge carbon footprint from having had the oven on for the duration, what you have produced amounts to about four tablespoons of food.
You also have to figure out what to do with the rest of the hay, for hay – as most farmers will tell you – comes only by the bushel. And so, a few months later, my husband prepared what has come to be known in our house as Hay Ham, aka the best ham that anyone who has eaten it has eaten.
Though the recipe can be found online, it is basically a ham that after a day or so of soaking is simmered for three hours in a pot full of water and hay. On a winter day, with the windows sealed tight, the barnyard smell during the first hour of cooking can be a little hard on the nose, but by hour two, the aroma is decidedly more appetizing. And more importantly, the ham itself, when served with a shallot, mustard and tarragon cream sauce and a few raspberries, is truly beyond delicious.
Though this has long been a staple of snazzy restaurants, and is probably, to frequenters of high-end joints, a little bit passé, 2010 was the first year that I embraced the pleasures of cooking and eating a single food prepared multiple ways at the same time. This technique, in addition to making you feel quite snazzy yourself, is also a good way to make a little food go a longer way, which can really come in handy when trying to make a pleasing dinner for 8-10 people without going broke in the process.
For example, though you may feel a little miserly attempting to feed a dozen people with two pork tenderloins, serving small plates with three delicious little bundles – four is too many, two, not enough – is so delightful that it completely overshadows the fact that there is very little food on the plate. That said, since most of us eat significantly more than our bodies actually need, walking away from a dinner party feeling sated instead of sluggish can actually be quite a treat.
This year, for Christmas eve, I prepared a first course of beets three ways. The key to making dishes like this is creating an array of contrasts: red and yellow, raw and cooked, hard and soft, sour and sweet. If I had my druthers, I would have started with different coloured beets, but as I could only lay my hands on some red ones, I had to make do. There were nine of us for dinner and about six large beets, which was just about perfect.
First, I peeled them all, and then chopped four of them into largish chunks. Half of the chunks I boiled, and the other half, I roasted in olive oil. Again, if it were not for the fact that the oven was already on, this would have been extremely wasteful in terms of energy – something to keep in mind. So while one-third of the beets were boiling and one-third were roasting, I took the remaining raw beets and grated them. Because they were not as sweet as the ones we enjoy during the summer months, I added a drizzle of maple syrup and a splash of balsamic vinegar. I also added a pinch of sea salt and a few minced chives for colour. Then I put them aside.
When the boiled beets were tender, I submerged them in a cup of apple cider and dropped in a star anise – an idea, I must confess, that I got from Redzepi. When the beets were done roasting and it was time to sit down for dinner. I removed the star anise, pureed the beets and apple cider, and strained them to remove the extra liquid. On each plate, I put a sprig of dill for colour, a spoonful of beet puree, a spoonful of grated beet, a teeny morsel of blue cheese, and three roasted beet chunks. Delightful.


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The Archer Trial: Key Players
The Archer Trial: Key Players
Following the verdict in Lord Archer's prejury trial, Panorama looks at some of the key characters in this fascinating story.
Lord Archer paid his friend to leave the country once the Monica Coghlan story broke in 1986. Mr Stacpoole says, "He paid me £40,000 to keep my mouth shut". Mr Stacpoole spent eight months in Paris before returning to the UK where monthly payments continued. He was a danger to Lord Archer as he knew about the novelist's infidelities with his long-standing mistress Andrina Colquhoun, and with prostitutes.
When Lord Archer was running for Mayor of London, Mr Stacpoole thought him unsuitable for the job. He later told Panorama "Archer does what the hell he wants to do, and good luck to him, but don't involve everybody else. How long has he lied for? How many times have people helped this man out with lies - I mean he has lied and lied and lied."
For the 1987 trial, Lord Archer asked Mrs Peppiatt to fill in a blank diary from a list of names he provided. But rather than painstakingly rewrite the whole book, she was instructed to simply write up the relevant days. The sides of the volume were bound so that nobody else could see the rest of it was empty.
Everyone in the 1987 trial accepted the diary was genuine. But Mrs Peppiatt kept crucial evidence, including Lord Archer's note of what he told her to write, and most important of all, the original diary which he had concealed from the jury.
Some years after the trial Mrs Peppiatt said, "It wasn't until I had been through that trial with Jeffrey... that I understood how you could manipulate justice to a degree that's almost incredible... As far as I'm concerned justice doesn't exist any more because you can buy it."
Lord Archer famously told Ms Coghlan to go to Victoria station the following morning to collect the money. Michael Stacpoole was caught by the paper offering Ms Coghlan a packet said to contain £2000. He told Panorama it was actually much more.
The scandal caused Lord Archer to resign from the Conservative party. He sued the Star newspaper, which had gone much further than the News of the World in its allegations about him and Ms Coghlan.
During the trial, Lord Archer's tactic was to argue that he had never met Ms Coghlan. Her story was that Lord Archer picked her up in Shepherd Market in Mayfair in the early hours of the morning. They then went back to her hotel in Victoria where the novelist paid her £70 for sex.
The jury backed Lord Archer and rejected Ms Coghlan's account, and he famously won half a million pounds in damages.
Monica Coghlan died in a car crash in April 2001.
She went back to the novelist's apartment with him and had a glass of champagne before they took things further. She told Panorama "He gave me a £50 note, stripped off and we did the deed."
Ms Douglas later heard about the 1987 Daily Star libel case and offered to give evidence. She came to London but in the end the Daily Star's lawyers felt it was too risky to call her. They thought she was telling the truth, but Mary Archer had been such a success on the witness stand that the lawyers feared they might have to pay even more damages if Ms Douglas appeared.
Ms Colquhoun, a former professional photographer, was effectively Lord Archer's London wife, whilst Mary lived in Grantchester.
The novelist found perfect cover for the affair in his overseas writing trips, where he'd take daily strolls along exotic beaches. A documentary team, which filmed him in the Bahamas, say the couple never hid they were lovers.
Ms Colquhoun became a big political risk for Lord Archer after Cecil Parkinson had resigned from the Cabinet for making his secretary pregnant. Angela Peppiatt replaced her as personal assistant to Lord Archer in 1985.
According to Michael Stacpoole, when Margaret Thatcher appointed Lord Archer Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, one of the prerequisites was that he would have to stop seeing Ms Colquhoun. But Lord Archer carried on seeing her, although more surreptitiously, until the affair fizzled out.
Mr Baker contradicted Monica Coghlan's allegations about a liaison with Lord Archer. He swore on oath in support of Lord Archer's story that the two men were actually chatting together in Le Caprice restaurant at that time.
Mr Baker said the novelist then gave him a lift back in his Jaguar to his home in South London. It now looks like Terence Baker lied to save his friend. He was rewarded with more negotiating rights to Lord Archer's books.
He confessed to several of his friends that he had not told the truth in court. This included two ITV executives who have spoken to Panorama.
Mr Baker died of a heart attack in 1991. And according to Angela Peppiatt, Lord Archer was highly relieved by this.
She met Lord Archer through Conservative fund-raising work. The affair started to blossom once Lord Archer came under scrutiny in the race for London mayor.
On one occasion during the mayoral race, at a Conservative ball in Mayfair, the pair disappeared and made love in a car park. Lord Archer's campaign team were unaware of the on-going affair.
Sally Farmiloe recently sold her story of the affair to the News of the World for over £100,000. In it she described her three and a half year liaison with Archer.
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Science fiction and art
Fall 2017. EAD faculty member Antoinette LaFarge has a new essay on science fiction out in the MOSF Journal of Science Fiction. In "Alive in the Now: Ekphrasis in Philip K. Dick and William Gibson", she takes a close look at how descriptions of art function in the work of these two major science fiction writers. What purpose does it serve to conjure up artworks inside a science-fictional world that is itself an imaginary construct? While there is a long tradition of such ekphrastic description in literature, she concludes that it functions somewhat differently in science fiction. Fans of Dick or Gibson will find this a thought-provoking read.


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Agriculture has been the cause of civilization. People settled around rivers in the form of civilized society once they started farming and growing produce, moving away from a nomadic life. Agriculture teaches us a lot about business. I'll tell you a small story before coming to the point.
John, a farmer, had a huge patch of land. It's produce of corn could be in tons. John had a friend, Sam, with a plot of almost the same size. They both decided to begin their careers in farming, making money off agricultural produce.
John decided to grow corn. Sam decided to plant apple trees.
John worked hard in the farm. He knew he had to prepare for the crop every season and that involved a lot of work, preparing the farm, seeding, weeding, fertilizing etc. It was a task to get it done every year but he was happy at the end of the day with the amount of money that he'd get from selling the produce. He was growing richer by the year and started to buy larger chunks of land around.
Sam, on the other hand, had little money always. He had planted his trees in most part of his farm and he also had some crop on the side to allow him a square meal. He was patient and took good care of his trees. He had lots of them, which meant lots of money was also needed to maintain them. He even had to borrow some from John at times, which he promptly returned after selling the harvest.
Years passed. John worked hard in the fields and also had help. He was happy that he created jobs and had provided for families. Sam also had his trees ready for bearing fruit. After eight odd years, Sam had the first fruit from his trees. He took half of the produce to John and gave it to him, for old times sake. He sold the rest and had enough to buy a small field next to his.
That entire year, Sam didn't have to do much. He took care of his trees and spent quality time with his family in the orchard. John, on the other hand, had to work as hard as earlier, and also managed the large team of employees.
Sam earned a little less than John, but it was enough to provide for his family and to give back to the world. John worked harder and earned a little more than his needs/wants.
In the end, when they died, John's children still worked in the farm whereas Sam's children were able to go to the school and got a good education for them because they didn't have to work in the field all the time.
When building a business, please remember to plant trees and not a seasonal crop unless you are in the transit period from being a crop grower to a tree planter.
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Jessica Alba Unable To Find Out Adele's Baby Name While Sending Congratulations Hamper
18 January 2013, 10:02 | Updated: 18 January 2013, 10:26
The 'Set Fire To The Rain' singer is said to be keeping her baby's name locked down to avoid it leaking to press.
Adele has reportedly decided to keep her baby's name secret from even close friends after it emerged that showbiz pal Jessica Alba was unable to find out the name of the UK singer's newborn son.
Sin City actress Jessica was allegedly planning to send the 'Someone Like You' singer a hamper filled with baby-related products until she realised she didn't know the name of Adele's son to write on the card.
"Jess organised a gift basket with baby creams, shampoo, luxury nappies, the sort of things Adele wouldn't want to traipse around LA looking for," a source told the Daily Star this week.
"But after phoning around all their mutual celebrity pals Jessica couldn't find out the baby's name," they explained. "She had to send the gift tag blank."
The 'Rolling In The Deep' singer has kept quiet on the name of her first child, who she and partner Simon Konecki welcomed back in November last year, recently explaining that it's a "very private thing" and she just wants to "enjoy him" herself for the time being.
During the Golden Globes 2013 ceremony on Sunday last weekend (13th January) Adele picked up her Best Original Song award for 'Skyfall' and dedicated the win to Simon and her "lovely son".
Check out a picture of Adele posing on the red carpet of the Golden Globes 2013 last weekend below (Credit: PA):
This week Adele also spoke out about her career plans for the future and confirmed she "can't wait" to get out on tour again after finishing work on her new album.
Adele is widely believed to be gearing up for a comeback performance at the Oscars 2013 ceremony next month (24th February) in Los Angeles, after spending much of the past twelve months out of the public eye with her family.


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Do you know that Facebook can now cater almost all your marketing needs irrespective of business nature and size? Be it online or offline, be it a multinational company or a local beauty salon, Facebook can achieve all your business objectives with its family of apps and ad solutions.
*You might see few campaigns in different names and in different position.
If you have noticed, there are at least 11 different campaign objectives in Facebook Ad Manager's dashboard to cater our diversified business needs. Now we need to know the purpose of each of these campaigns to choose the right one for our business. In this blog we will discuss each of these campaigns so we can choose the right one for us.
First of all, all these campaigns are distributed across three different stages of customer journey, namely: awareness, consideration & conversion. So, to choose the right objective we have to decide our stage of communication first. Whether we are at the awareness stage or conversion stage is really very important question to answer before choosing the right campaign objective.
To start with, at the Awareness stage we have 2 campaigns:
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Brand awareness campaign is usually done to raise awareness for new brands or product launch where Facebook optimize for Ad recall lift (the number of people can remember seeing the Ad if asked within 2 days). These sort of campaigns are done for longer duration and should be supported by a large amount of budget.
2. Reach Campaign:
When the objective is to reach the maximum number of people at lowest cost possible, then we should go for the reach campaign. We can also control the average frequency of our total impressions served through frequency cap in this campaign. Advanced marketers use this campaigns along with TVC and RDC to ensure the maximum coverage.
For the consideration stage we have 6 different categories of campaigns:
3. Traffic:
This is the prime campaign to drive one's website traffic where we can optimize for clicks, reach, impression or landing page view. We can track these website traffic through Facebook pixel which we can use later on for conversion campaign.
4. Engagement:
Engagement campaign is one of the most used campaign format in Bangladesh. This is an alternative of boost post. However, with this engagement campaign we can promote any particular post for engagement, the page itself for like campaign or an event for responses.
5. App Installs:
If our business have an app and we want people to install our apps, this is our campaign to choose. Like the traffic campaign for website, we can also track people who have installed our apps from this campaign through app SDK for remarketing.
6. Video Views:
If we have some video assets and we want maximum views, then video views is our campaign. Here Facebook optimize for the maximum number of views of our videos. Please have a look at the other matrices like, 10 seconds view or view with sound and without sound for a true measure.
7. Lead Generation:
Facebook has this special type of campaign where it collects leads for our businesses in the form of subscription. The interesting part is this campaign can collect a lots of useful data about the people who are subscribing without redirecting him to a new site or typing anything. This is a great tool for lead generation specially in the mobile platform.
8. Messages:
Study finds that 53% people are interested to buy from a business of which they can interact with. Hence Facebook is trying to promote the convenience of communicating or chatting with a business through it messenger platform. So, recently Facebook has given its advertisers two campaign options to drive more conversation with businesses through this Messages campaign objective. Here one will get option to interact with new people who are interested to this business or can send offers through messenger to its existing users.
Finally at the conversion stage we have:
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These are the available campaigns in Facebook for the Bangladesh market. You might see different names for some of these campaigns in your dashboard. Whatever the name is, the functions are same as described here. Feel free to comment if you have any disagreement or query.
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The National Geographic Traveler magazine marked the site 56 out of 100 against criteria including historic preservation and tourism management.
Survey panellists said Stonehenge was a "mess", "over-loved" and "crowded".
English Heritage, which looks after the site, said it was "actively seeking to revamp its visitor facilities" and improve the nearby A303 road.
More than 400 tourism experts rated 94 World Heritage sites in the third survey of its kind for National Geographic.
The lowest ranking destination was given to the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal, which scored only 39 out of 100.
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If you'd rather just to stick with the key points, this is for you. The market is starting to believe that a pause in the Fed's rate hike is a plausible scenario judging by the performance in US yields/DXY. Meanwhile, risk conditions are deteriorating further, led by a sharp bearish reversal in the S&P 500 as US credit and housing are two major conces heading into 2019 (more details below). We didn't see any newsworthy influencing the price of currencies emanating from Brexit or China trade on Monday.
The outlook for currency majors continues to be USD bearish, even if I am spotting some short-term intraday reversal opportunities based on the 100% proj targets met in EUR/USD and USD/JPY. The Sterling is encapsulated in a tight range awaiting new headline triggers out of the Brexit situation. The Aussie might be on the cusp of another push higher judging by where it trades (buy dips market). In today's report, I also note a potential short-side business proposition in EUR/JPY based on sentiment and valuation. Earlier on Monday, I also noted a compelling long that may be building up in the AUD/NZD market after reaching a projected target.
The sell-off in the DXY comes in line with a much more prudent stance by futures and options trades as per the last CoT report.
Not a whole lot of new developments in the fundamental space. The first thing that shocked me this moing was the poor US housing data release as worries are mounting. The huge drop in the US Nov NAHB housing market index, which came at 60 vs 67, marking the lowest since Aug 2015, is certainly a reason for conces. The narrative towards slower growth has been picking up, hence this shocker release is not going to alleviate the uncertain outlook.
It's precisely on this point above that I'd like to elaborate further. A Fed pause or even a sudden peak in rate hikes should not be ruled out as financial conditions in the US tighten. The volatility in the US equities, the worsening outlook for US credit, the more cautious shift in rhetoric by Fed's policymakers, the collapse in Oil price damaging the outlook for inflation, the late business cycle we are at, the twin deficit (budget and trade), the fading fiscal stimulus.
There are many arguments to be made for a potential pause in 2019. Moreover, the fact that a press conference will be given at every meeting from now on is an opportunity for the Fed, if they wanted to press the brakes, to properly articulate the motives.
In the UK, many uncertainties are still surrounding Brexit, but nothing noteworthy in the last 24h as depicted by the compressed range in the Sterling. Spain is reportedly dissatisfied with May's withdrawal agreement, which only adds to the jitters should May find herself in further political pressure if faced with a 'no-confidence' vote. Until now though, she is trying her best to get the job done, even to the extent that she has taken on the role as UK Brexit Secretary too as she battles through muddy waters to honor the people's choice to leave the EU with the best possible terms.
In the trade war between China and the US, some of the positive narratives were somehow unwound over the weekend, after leaders of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) group failed to agree on a communique for the first time in APEC history due to the ongoing differences between the U.S. and China on trade.
Until the G20 summit later this month, the benefit of the doubt is definitely still playing out or else we wouldn't be seeing the strong recovery in the Aussie or in emerging markets for this matter. I still find it very hard to see a potential agreement on trade as the dispute is more a hegemonic one, with the 'made in China 2025' grand vision at the epicenter as a major sticking point as it's in direct collision with Washington's Indo-Pacific Strategy.
Our risk-weighted index has deteriorated sharply towards a retest of the previous day lows. The downward pressure came as a function of the sell-off in both equities and US yields. We knew the environment was dominated by USD weakness, hence why the performance of US equities was critical to gauge risk.
The order flow in the last 24h has maintained the familiar theme of broad-based USD weakness, with the not so subtle difference that the correction in the S&P 500 appears to now be over. The depressed levels in the high yield corporate bonds (HYG ETF* ) last Friday in divergence with the behavior of equities was a red flag.
*HYG is one of the most widely used high yield bond ETFs.. Providing exposure to a broad range of U.S. high yield corporate bonds. The lower the index goes, the worst the outlook for what's often referred to as junk bond or high bond corporates.
The reality we are faced with is that we are finally seeing the flows in equities re-calibrating with the underlying cycle low as depicted by the black lines in the chart above. There is no reason to believe the bearish momentum in the S&P 500 won't stay its course after the mentioned re-alignment of flows + cycle, hence why a recovery of risk courtesy of higher stocks looks like a distant prospect.
If the above premise holds true, and the S&P 500 cannot act as a factor to lift sentiment, we should then see a combination of higher US yields and a continuous weakness in the DXY. On the former, the daily support at 3.31% still offers some respite, although for now multiple topside attempts have been rejected around 3.36-37% on the long-dated 30-year. With respect to the DXY, the index has reached its 100% proj, so I am expecting short-term strength as a potential outcome, although I must say that the outlook is somewhat eclipsed by the bullish breakout seen in the EUR/USD through a key descending trendline. Irrespective of the short-term flows, which might occur, a downcycle structure rules now.
Overall, the outlook for risk sentiment to recover from its current undermined position is a challenging one. While short-term flows may see some relief-rally intraday, that should play into the hands of risk sellers judging by the structure of the market.
In the EUR/USD constellation, the stars are aligning for what may represent a major macro shift in structure. Earlier on Monday, I tweeted the following: "$EURUSD 3 pushes down on the daily, each one weaker in magnitude. Watch a potential break of the confluent area at 1.1435/50. If acceptance above, this may represent a significant macro shift in structure judging by the maturity of the down-cycle. Latest $COT strengthens case"
By the close of business on Monday (5 pm NY), the breakout and acceptance above the trendline has materialized now, which indicates the first real cracks of the bearish structure that began in late Sept. The build-up of gains occurs with the backing of a bullish outside day at the 50% fib retrace of the 2017 run-up.
On the very short-term, the impulsive run-up has now met a market-makers' sensitive area at 1.1454 where profit taking is expected, as it represents the 100% projection target from the previous hourly range. Some intraday opportunities to be a seller might arise. Just be mindful that support will be found circa 1.1420 and 1.14/1395. If the gains extend, 1.1490/1.15 will be absolutely huge resistance.
The ebullient mood in the EUR is also supported by the breakout of structure in the 5-yr German vs US yield spread, as depicted by the blue line in the yield chart above. Interestingly, the rise in the EUR occurs at a time when the German vs Italian 10-year yield spread is trading at year lows, which could create downward pressure near-term. If it doesn't and the breakout of 1.15 is validated, it will be the ultimate sign that the market is moving away from Italy's conces.
I will not be spending much time analyzing the Sterling amid the lack of new technical developments. The only aspects of note include the reduction of volume into an area of resistance at 1.2890/1.29 following a rebound off the 100%proj target. The tapering of volume into an area of high interest does not bode well for buyers. Meanwhile, the UK vs US yield spread continues to argue for lower levels. As usual, be on the watch for Brexit headlines.
Last Friday's confirmation of a bearish outside day has set up in motion what should be the continuation of an offered market. The daily cycle remains up but the last leg failed to neither reach the 100% proj target nor retest the previous high. That has set out a counter-cyclical move with potential credence to compromise the constructive outlook.
As consolation for Yen bears, the latest CoT report indicates a market still overly committed to play USD/JPY longs, but with risk-off conditions firmly in place and what might be a transition into a structurally bullish EUR/USD, it certainly represents a tough backdrop to expect topside overextensions.
The dubious upside potential in USD/JPY is somewhat re-asserted by the large magnitude and impulsiveness of the 2nd cycle down on the hourly. It sets up the stage for a 3rd pushdown, although not before a potential correction from 112.50's 100% proj target.
Be reminded that the weekly close last Friday confirmed a bullish outside continuation candle. Even more critical, price found acceptance above the 0.73/7315, allowing further leeway until the next bullish target at 0.7364 daily resistance. The higher auctions we are seeing has also validated a new up-cycle (2nd).
So, with the higher timeframes firmly bullish, the market should continue inclined to find value in engaging in buy-side business on weakness. As I type, the pair has retraced down towards the third test of its ascending trendline on the hourly, from where a new buys9ie campaign into the recent highs may be seen.
Looking at the correlations, the move higher in the Aussie continues to be guided by the up-cycle in the AU vs US yield spread as well as capitalizing on the weakness present in the DXY.
Heads up for value traders as EUR/JPY is still being dealt at discounted prices if we account for both risk sentiment and yield spread (on down-cycles) while the pair still finds further bids into a key resistance area. It's also worth noting the divergence in its correlation 30-period + volume decreasing. The higher the pair goes, the more attractive the selling proposition may become.
A compelling long that I tweeted yesterday includes the AUD/NZD. We've seen 2 intervals of normal distribution reached 100% proj target / Area of daily support, both time rejection w/ speed + break of structure (high-quality area of interest) / AU vs NZ 5-yr yield spread on a recovery as well / Risk reward of 2.5 to 1 is available.
Bitcoin is making headlines once again, although unlike late last year, this time is for the wrong reasons as the value keeps plummeting. There are many calls being put out, so I thought I'd run a logical normal distribution target based on 2 different intervals. The first immediate target can be found around $4,165.00, that's where we should see the first significant tuaround in prices. The second midterm target expands all the way down to around $3,000.00. I've seen many calls for precisely this number as the next major downside target, and I must say that based on the principles of market efficiency and normal distributions, it does look logical.
Morgan Stanley remains supportive of further USD weakness on the basis that the Fed has recently re-calibrated its narrative towards a more prudent stance on growth as I reported above. According to the bank, there is more catch up to do by the DXY to re-align with the sharp falls in the Eurodollar 2019-2020 spread. Morgan Stanley also touches on the deterioration of US credit and tightening conditions as another source of conce. A point that I've recently harped on, that is, the US is set to lose growth momentum into 2019 as the fiscal boost fades is a key theme the bank also endorses.
I also want to bring to the readers' attention a relevant snippet of information via Credit Suisse, where renewed interest to be a EUR buyer by real-money accounts has been noted. An over-owned USD may see further upside in the EUR/USD they rationalize.
Barclays continues to hold a rather pessimistic stance on the outlook for growth out of China, concluding that a reduction in the 2019 GDP outlook is justified. According to the bank, the risks are emanating from escalating tariff dispute, moderate monetary and fiscal policy efficacy, and the possibility of Sino-US tensions extending to issues beyond trade.
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