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belief – noun – trust, faith, or confidence in (someone or something). (Source: Oxford Dictionaries)
Belief can be empowering or it can be limiting. Often our beliefs are self-fulfilling. One person's belief that something is impossible will prevent them from achieving it. Another's belief that the very same thing is possible will enable them to achieve it.
"To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful."
Edward R. Murrow
There are three different ways in which I want to explore how belief is important to leadership:
- Belief in your goals
- Self-belief
- Belief in your team's abilities
Belief in your goals
In order to be a leader in your organisation you need to believe in the goals and values of the organisation.
For more on being aligned with and believing in your organisation's values see yesterday's post: Purpose.
If you want to be a credible leader you need to be able to be authentically enthusiastic about your objectives. If you don't believe the organisation's goals are achievable, you won't be able to plausibly communicate your team's objectives to them. The alternative is that there will be a disconnect between the goals of the organisation and those of your team. The end result will be people paying lip-service to the organisational objectives while the leadership team lose credibility. Your goals need to be believable.
Does this mean your objectives should not be challenging or even audacious? Absolutely not, just make sure they are within the bounds of believability. If you can't look yourself in the mirror and believe in the goals, maybe you've gone past stretch-targets and into the realms of make believe. In fact, big, audacious goals are much more likely to inspire your teams than easily achievable goals. I think this may be one of the real keys to great leadership: to pitch the organisation's goals at that tipping point between inspiration and fantasy.
In my opinion, Steve Jobs' true genius was his ability to know how to inspire his teams by setting a standard for their products and innovation beyond what the competition had imagined achievable without going beyond what his teams could actually achieve. I think that one of Steve's mistakes at NeXT was setting their goals too high, leading to overrunning and also making the products unaffordable. He also misjudged the market. Clearly lessons he had learnt well by the time of his second stint at Apple's helm.
Another great example of an audacious yet believable goal was JFK's decision made in 1961 that the USA would put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. This must have seemed barely credible to many, with the US falling behind in the space race. To the teams at NASA, who understood that this was an engineering challenge and that the technology was well understood, the goal would still have been audacious, challenging and inspiring, but, crucially, it would not have been unbelievable fantasy.
As a leader you should have realistic optimism about your objectives. Optimism is important, but so is keeping it real.
A leader needs a healthy self-belief. I am not here talking about an unshakeable arrogance – that is a route to the dark side of leadership. Good leaders need to balance their self-belief with humility and also know their limits. Don't let self-belief become overconfidence or arrogance.
Know yourself, know what you are good at and believe in your own abilities.
Without self-belief, your conviction in the organisation's objectives will feel hollow. You will not be able to inspire your team to believe in those big, audacious goals.
Without self-belief, your conviction in your team's abilities will also feel hollow. How will you get your team to believe they can outperform if you don't believe in yourself?
Without self-belief, when times get tough, you will find it hard to be resilient, to keep going and to keep focussed on your goals.
Great leaders all have self-belief. Is self-belief innate or can it be learnt or acquired? Maybe some people do have a natural tendency toward greater self-belief. I suspect though that this is more nurture than nature. Our early experiences, successes, failures and the encouragement or lack of it from those around us, our parents and teachers, will have shaped our self-belief. If you lack self-belief, you can work on this. Build positive feedback into your daily routine – for yourself and for your team. Find a mentor to help you identify your strengths and build self-confidence.
Belief in your team's abilities
As a leader, you are responsible for your team's motivation. You need to inspire them and get them to believe in their own abilities. You can be a great source of positive feedback to your team, building their self-confidence, helping them to believe they can outperform, helping them believe they can achieve more than they thought possible.
If you don't believe in your team's abilities, they will live up to your low expectations. If you believe they can outperform, they will do their best to prove you right – so long as they believe in you.


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Genesis 36 – We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Biblical Narrative to Bring You This Genealogy
It's a genealogy, everybody. It's literally just Esau's descendants.
It's a genealogy, everybody. It's literally just Esau's descendants.
As we progress through the Bible in our study of thankfulness whose stupid name is so stupid that I am not even going to mention it, we begin to see more instances of the word "thank," especially in the two books of Chronicles. And the trend I observed in 1 Chronicles 16 continues throughout 1 and 2 Chronicles: wherever we see thankfulness, praise is not far behind. This may come as no surprise; after all, as Li'l Spicy said in his famous "Thanksgiving and Praise Are Like Our Right and Left Arms" speech, thanksgiving and praise are like our right and left arms. But why do they belong together so naturally? Let's see if we can figure it out.
We just finished another minor prophet, so today we flip back to trying to learn new things about gratitude, or at least to remember things about gratitude that we've forgotten or haven't thought about in awhile. Here's the scene: David has just come back from victory over the Philistines and brought the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem. There, the citizens make offerings, David distributes food to them, and then Asaph the priest (who also wrote a bunch of the psalms) and his relatives offer thanks to God in the form of a psalm. Welcome back to another installment of our stupidly-named series Totally Hip Gratitude. I have made my bed, and now I must sleep in it. But what can we observe about this passage and what it shows us about thankfulness?
How are you sleeping these days? Lately I've been waking up too early and having trouble going back to sleep. I think the experience of perturbed sleep is common to man: we all have times when the demands of life interrupt the regularity of our sleep. I have a lot of respect for people whose jobs require them to keep odd hours, working at night and sleeping when the sun comes up. You know: police officers, night janitors, the third shift of the Levitical priesthood.

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Hello Kitty x SingPost MyStamp Collection
28/March/2014 | Advertorial, Classic Advertorial Collection, discovery
Hello readers,
I am writing in to share some exciting news!
I m very sure you guys are no stranger to Hello Kitty.
This powerful kitty had totally took over the world,
no girls could resist her Kawaii charms.
even for boys
are very familiar with this kitty, because many boys buy
hello kitty soft toys or other merchandise for their
girlfriend, it made the girls go crazy. In 2014,
Hello Kitty is officially 40 years old!
Just last week, i hang out with my close friends to
get some stationary at bugis around, i realized,
the presence of Hello Kitty is basically everywhere,
even at super markets, there are even Hello Kitty
rice topping! Here are street snaps of the super pretty
Hello Kitty merchandize E V E R Y W H E R E!
In conjunction with Hello Kitty's 40th birthday,
SingPost is launching the most extensive release of
Hello Kitty 40th anniversary MyStamp Collection to date.
There is a total of 5 sets limited edition MyStamp sets showcasing
the evolution of hello kitty! Each set comes with a
special designed collectibles and souvenir stamps sheets.
The 5 sets of MyStamps folder sets are Hello Kitty
MyStamp Book Set, Singapore Set ($18),
Classic Set ($28), Love and Friendship Set ($28),
40th Anniversary Celebration Set ($38).
The signature set among the five sets will be Hello
Kitty MyStamp Book Set ($69.90). This exquisite
designed 8 pages book consists of a souvenir sheets and
even a Hello Kitty tote bag!
Both of the Singapore Folder and MyStamp Book Set will
be released on 16 April 2014.
The Classic Set will be released in June,
Love and Friendship Set in August,
40th Anniversary Celebration Set will be in October.
Are you are Hello Kitty lover? Want all the sets?
Collectors like you could enjoy a special price of
$148 if you place your order before 31st March. Instead
of $181.90 for all 5 sets, you only need to pay $148 and
get a free limited edition lanyard!!
You can purchase the stamp sets separately or buy
them at bundle price of $155, if you missed the
pre-order period!
For more info, please check out
or place your order your sets now, at
I am very sure a lot of you are already very very
tempted to get all 5 sets!! I was given the Singapore
Folder set, and I swear it's really crazily Kawaii!!!
Hesitate no more! Go place your order now before
it's all sold out!
There's one more blog post coming right up next
month on these super pretty Hello Kitty Stamps, that
I shot over the weekend…. I tell you, I'm super
proud of the post, its my most extensive effort advert
post I did this year!
It took me two days to finish
and there will be a mini giveaway coming along
with it, something that a lot of my Instagram followers
requested for! So keep a watch out!


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This invention relates to a video system comprising integrated random access video technologies and video software architectures for the automated selective retrieval of non-sequentially stored parallel, transitional, and overlapping video segments from a single variable content program source, responsive to a viewer's preestablished video content preferences. Embodiments of the video system permit the automatic transmission of the selected segments from a variable content program as a seamless continuous and harmonious video program, and the transmission of the selected segments from an interactive video game further responsive to the logic of the interactive video game. The viewer's video content preferences being stored in the video system, and/or in a compact portable memory device that facilitates the automatic configuration of a second video system. The system's controls also provide an editor of a variable content program the capability for efficiently previewing automatically selected video segments to permit the editor to indicate the inclusion of the selected segments in the program to be viewed by a viewer. The system further integrates fiber optic communications capabilities and the read/write laser disc player capabilities to facilitate the downloading of a variable content program from a source remote to the system.
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Metal art - Haitian art. Steel drum metal art. Turtle design wall hanging.
Well defined, hand cut turtles are shown in this interesting steel drum wall decor. Fine nautical metal drum art design, handcrafted in Haiti.
Steel drum metal art design measures 17" x 24"
"Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out. " James Bryant Conant, Harvard Pesident
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Beginning with the question of " Who is in your nature family?" Who do you look forward to coming home to and tending to at night or visiting on the weekend, or thinking about when you are separated? Draw your family including your nature family members.
This was one of the activities offered to teachers at a recent workshop run by HumaNature Connect (on behalf of the Nursery and Garden Industry Victoria) that helped to structure lessons and discussions with students that would improve young people's sense of 'who nature is in their life' and the idea of kindness and respect as it relates to nature. These lessons and discussions were based on activities in the Respectful Relationships Curriculum.
The discussion had, highlighted that there is still a stigma around this topic of nature connection with people being labelled as 'hippies' and ' off with the fairies' by their colleagues for using the language of emotions and intimacy that characterise connection with nature. One teacher said that a colleague asked her " Why would you go to a workshop on nature connection?" as tho it was the most unimportant topic she could imagine. Nature connection is a buzz word in curriculum and in main stream language yet we have a long way to go in helping not just children but adults as well understand what the concept of 'connection' really means and to feel comfortable in speaking about emotions. We wouldn't talk about our friendships with people as 'human services' but we talk about 'environmental services' as tho our only relationship with nature is a mechanical transaction. The only widely accepted exception is when talking about our pets who have cute faces and a strong sense of perceived aliveness, thus making it easier to feel empathy for them. What if we could bring to life all parts of nature, the clouds, the rocks, the plants. To do this we need to spend time tapping into the less obvious signs of life that we can only feel or notice when we take time to be with different part of nature. Cloud gazing, ripple making, mimicking plants growing, finding rock friends and just being with and feeling into (to help with this look for the book The other way to listen by Byrd Baylor). We also need to put ourselves in natures shoes and ask " What would nature say to you for that act of kindness you have shown it?" "Would nature agree with your idea or plan to improve its health?
These are questions and experiences not only for our young people but ourselves as adults. Have a go…see if you can draw a stick picture of your nature family? (Could be the bird on the balcony, the plants in your house, the worms in your worm farm, the special tree you always sit under when you are on holiday, your dog). See if you can find the words for the emotions that you feel for them (there may be many both good an challenging) and write them next to your drawing. What would your nature family to say to you for your acts of kindness? Write your self a thank you card from your nature family.


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On an almost daily basis, clients and potential clients say to me, I can't move out of the house because that's abandonment, right? I recently spoke at a CLE for other attorneys, most of whom do not primarily practice family law, and some of the attorneys even harbored this misconception. Many people believe that you can forfeit your interest in the marital homeplace by moving out.
Ala. Code §30-2-1 lists several grounds for divorce, including the following at part (3): For voluntary abandonment from bed and board for one year next preceding the filing of the complaint.
As you can see, simply moving out of the marital home when divorce is imminent does not meet the definition of abandonment under this statute. That being said, there are many factors to consider when making the decision to move out, including but not limited to payment of household bills and custody of children, so it is essential to seek legal advice on your specific situation prior to packing your suitcase.


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The trial of a California man accused in the murder of teen cheerleader Sierra LaMar is underway. Her family was clearly distraught as the frantic and disturbing 911 call from Sierra's mom was played in open court before judge and jury. We also learned in court that the suspect was in fact the the owner of a red Volkswagon Jetta caught on video near Sierra's home the day she disappeared while walking to the bus stop.
Teen cheerleader, Sierra LaMar, was last seen by her mother on March 16, 2012, and today, her mother relieves the pain of that morning. Her daughter's suspected killer goes on trial.
That morning was like so many others. Her daughter, Sierra, got ready for school and headed to the bus stop, in Morgan Hill, California. Sierra left for school, but never boarded the bus nor even made it to the bus stop. This bolsters the police belief Sierra was kidnapped walking to the bus stop that morning.
She was absent from school all day. Her cellphone, purse, and some clothing were discovered near the family home. Sierra had never run away before and had nothing happen in her life to indicate she ever would.
But Sierra's body was never found. Attorneys for suspect, 25-year-old Antolin Garcia-Torres, said he he never even met Sierra, that she simply ran away from home and could still be alive.
Although her body was never found, police discovered her DNA in Garcia-Torres' car trunk on a rope. DNA consistent to his was found on Sierra's pants, prosecutors said.
But the suspect's lawyers insist their client masturbated onto tissues he threw from his car window.
Other convincing circumstantial evidence came out in court as well: Sierra's cellphone was discovered near the side of the road just one day after she went missing. Her pink and black Juicy backpack, with her folded clothes inside, was hidden in a shed in the same vicinity. The cell, backpack and clothes were all found in an area near where the suspect's red Jetta was spotted.
We learned in court that it is Sierra's clothes in the backpack that may reveal a possible DNA link to the suspect. It was also revealed in court that Sierra's jeans from the backpack were stained with dirt, and bore reflective particles from the roadway. This minute forensic evidence, according to prosecutors, proves the teen cheerleader was dragged along the street before being forced into the suspect's VW Jetta.
Prosecutors say it's now or never and Sierra's parents agree the case should go forward although there is no body, autopsy or murder weapon. If Garcia Torres walks free, he can never be retried on this offense due to the legal theory of "double-jeopardy."
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Prescriptive Analytics: Pharma's Fortune Teller?
In any industry, the power to predict the future is the holy grail. Thanks to artificial intelligence, we may be closer than you think...
Companies funnel vast resources into research in a bid to peer into the murky future and discern the next frontier. If the gamble pays off, countless lives can be enriched, and entire economies buoyed. If the gamble backfires, markets can tumble and lives destroyed.
The pharmaceutical industry can ill-afford such a high-stakes roll of the dice, but what if there was a way to eliminate uncertainty by predicting the future?
Enter the world of prescriptive analytics. In layman's terms, it refers to the process of employing artificial intelligence to analyze enormous amounts of data. The insights gleaned are then used to evaluate the impact of future business decisions by rigorously testing all possible scenarios to determine the best outcome.
These insights could drive decision-making throughout an organization, from salesforce through to R&D, enabling everything from real-time tailoring of marketing messages to perfectly matching pharma stock levels to demand.
A fully automated analytical system will identify problem areas, changes in a physician's prescribing habits, and what the competition is doing, allowing you to adapt the frequency of HCP visits and tailor messaging to highlight a specific feature.
"This next-best-action recommendation boosts the effectiveness of the reps in the field; it's a vastly different approach and it really supports dynamic decision making across the organization says Doron Aspitz, CEO of Verix, a platform that specializes in data analytics for the life sciences.
"It ensures reps are able to take immediate advantage of the most relevant information such as a newly achieved formulary status within a tight timeframe," he adds.
A graduated scale
Aspitz gauges a company's level of maturity by breaking it down into a series of steps.
If the data journey begins with entry-level sorting and cleaning for simple analysis, he says the next step is the provision of more advanced reports. For sales reps, this allows them to compare and benchmark their performance against their peers and competition.
Prescriptive analytics is not the final stop, however – prescriptive intelligence is one step further. This is the ability to show insights at a more granular level, emboldening a rep with information on exactly what's driving the decision-making at an HCP level.
The apex is then competing on analytics, where sophisticated insights, based on AI and machine learning, are implemented at an organizational level, enabling you to predict future trends, pinpointing important, actionable insights that are relevant specifically to you.
How mature is pharma today?
"Most companies in life sciences are at the 'advanced report' stage, but no further," says Aspitz. "Sometimes a simple report about performance will suffice – for example, when a vice-president of sales is having a cup of coffee and wants to check progress. But, if a sales rep manager really wants to understand what's happening to their HCPs – and where to go next to ensure they scale up performance – you need something a lot more sophisticated, which goes much deeper."
Equally, development is held back when integrated datasets are not available organization-wide. From deciding what drugs to deliver through to where to position a field force, decisions are being made at both a strategic and tactical level by people who need to be empowered with the right materials. "You start to get a lot of ad-hoc solutions and become very siloed in your decision-making, because there are snippets of applications or dashboards scattered all over the organization, leveraging different datasets and different business roles. That stands in the way of optimization."
Aspitz concludes: "One of the advantages of today's advanced analytic techniques is that once you start to embed more sophisticated forms of statistical analysis and machine learning into a business process, and so automate those processes, you're able to make business decisions in the most optimal manner rather than based on six months old data."
Verix will be joining the conversation at eyeforpharma Philadelphia 2018 between the 10th and 11th of April.


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Pharmacy internships provide training opportunities for those who look forward to building a career as a pharmacist and or a pharmacy technician. However, it is not limited to the pharmacology field alone, it is also open for those who specialize in courses that involve retail selling, and customer services. Depending on the company where the internship program is being offered, pharmacy internships can be paid. Typically, interns are required to be at least 18 years of age to qualify.
Pharmacy Internship Opportunities
There are several more positions in this field but here are some of the common pharmacy internships:
- Pharmacist Internships – is suited for those who are currently majoring in pharmacology. It will provide extensive hands-on training. You will learn about the vast information on all possible drug forms of medication, the corresponding drug effects, side effects and much more. A pharmacist intern works more like a healthcare professional in terms of giving the necessary information about drugs to the patients needing it through the assistance of a pharmacy technician. These pharmacy internships will be mentored by certified pharmacists and other specialists like druggists and chemists.
- Pharmacy Technician Internships – this is for students who are trained for the technical aspect of pharmacology. It gives a more direct way of dealing with patients who may need information about drugs wherein they serve to function as health care providers. A pharmacy technician intern is trained by a certified pharmacist who gives all the necessary information to be relayed for each patient. This includes preparation and handling of medicines and a brief or thorough explanation on how a certain drug is used, how to deal with possible side effects and contraindications. This position serves as an assistant to the pharmacist who will also take charge of mentoring the pharmacy technician intern.
- Retail Selling Pharmacy Internships - are intended for those who already have a background in pharmacology but also have taken subjects in connection to marketing and selling. Another term for this position is the pharmacy sales clerk, who takes charge of tending the pharmacy, accepting order slips from customers, preparing drugs based on order slips and collecting payment for it. This position will hone an intern's skills not only in selling but clerical skills as well. The retail selling intern for a pharmacy will take charge of monitoring and keeping records of stocks (drugs) received, inventory of stocks sold and stocks on hand. The training will be led by a certified pharmacist and pharmacy technician.
- Customer Services Representative Pharmacy Internships – may not necessarily require a background in pharmacology but is designed to train interns to assess customers' or patients' needs. They provide assistance in taking care of customers while waiting for available pharmacy technicians. The intern for this field will not only deal with walk-in customers or patients but phone-in customers as well. It is necessary to keep track of customers' records from their names, concerns and needs.
The above-mentioned positions are the most important ones and normally the people working for all four specified fields need to work together as a team. Each position is relevant in handling pharmacy or pharmaceutical tasks and responsibilities. Pharmacy internships are usually offered by pharmacies and drug stores like Walgreens, CVS and other established pharmaceutical companies. Similar to other programs, pharmacy internships are given 3-6 month training period depending on the need of a company.
Benefits of Pharmacy Internships
Pharmacy internships are easy to acquire and it is not always necessary to choose a drug store for an internship venue, because one can choose to apply at popular and highly established pharmaceutical companies. Apart from most pharmacy internships being paid, students will receive experience that is valuable to health organizations worldwide. This will make the students more credible when seeking further career advancements.
Learn more about pharmacy careers at the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP).
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Farewell, David
Endocrine Letterman
The departure of David Letterman from the late night broadcast airwaves has generated much online comment and many nostalgia-driven puff pieces, and I'll try not to add too much to that burgeoning heap. But a few points before the gap-toothed one rides off into the sunset: One, it's easy to forget how big a deal Letterman's move to CBS was, and how it was one of the bigger things to happen in television history — in a TV landscape where the big three networks were still the Big Three Networks. I mean, it was HUGE. Two, we should all thank Mr. Letterman for his contributions to the comic book medium, both his The Dark Knight Returns doppelganger, David Endocrine, and his Avengers-loving self. Three, twenty-two years sure goes fast. I don't feel old, but I'm sure as hell not a teenager anymore, taping the first Late Show on my VCR. Time flies, folks.


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Taiwan Shapes Self-regulating Future for Crypto and Blockchain at BlockCity
What you need to know
The door remains open for Taiwan to be a global player in cryptocurrency and blockchain but wider public support may be needed if policymakers are to be convinced.
Updated to include details of blockchain and cryptocurrency policy guidelines submitted to Premier Lai.
Taiwan's cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem continues to advance even as the Financial Services Commission (FSC) and the central bank drag their feet on crystalizing the country's position on the technology.
Over the weekend, Taipei played host to BlockCity, billed as the largest blockchain festival in Taiwan -- the event featured speakers from as far afield as Gibraltar. Day one saw about 500 people attend the event.
Organized by Blockcamp, a corporate blockchain advisory service and accelerator, and BlockTempo, a Chinese-language media resource for the blockchain community in Taiwan, the BlockCity event comprised a startup expo, hackathon as well as presentations and panel discussions.
Among these was a panel on "Opportunities for Taiwan: A Regulatory Perspective," during which a potential future path for Taiwan's blockchain and crypto community began to take shape.
Chief among the recommendations of the panel, which featured Kuomintang legislator Jason Hsu (許毓仁), was that the FSC open up to the idea of the community regulating itself under a so-called Self-Regulating Organization (SRO).
Japan is the model for this, where crypto exchanges have banded together in the wake of the the theft of US$500 million worth of tokens from an unlicensed exchange in January to provide regulatory and security recommendations to Japan's Financial Services Agency.
Last week, the chair of Taiwan central bank, the 64-year-old Yang Chin-long (楊金龍), told Hsu in a question and answer session that as of now the crypto space in Taiwan is essentially unregulated, although initial coin offerings are treated as a "virtual commodity" and investigations are ongoing by the Ministry of Finance on whether and how they should be taxed.
During that session, governor Yang batted back suggestions that Taiwan could follow Japan's model, suggesting policymakers are waiting for the results of an investigation by the FSC following recommendations put forward by the blockchain community at the end of last year.
Today, governor Yang said that the central bank had tracked the collapse of cryptocurrency prices over the quarter and would recommend that the Ministry of Justice include crypto transactions under anti-money laundering legislation.
In an interview with The News Lens, Hsu said that the reality is that the stance the government eventually takes on crypto and blockchain is a political and not a technological question, and that the FSC is "waiting for the green light" from Premier William Lai (賴清德).
In bid to hasten that go-ahead, Hsu last week presented Lai with a set of guidelines, drawn up in conjunction with members of Taiwan's blockchain and crypto community, comprising a regulatory policy roadmap that the government could follow, and which would give investors the confidence to allocate resources to Taiwan. Lai is said to have welcomed the input and is setting up a team to study the guidelines.
"The guidelines are a mix of Japan and Singapore's model," Hsu said, explaining that Singapore currently has a playbook on developing the space rather than concrete, and potentially restrictive, legislation. "If Taiwan is to foster a friendly environment we should not classify crypto as a currency or a security at the moment – it's better to come up with a new asset class," Hsu said. "Taiwan could be the first to do this. It would give legitimacy around the asset and provide some basic understanding on tax and other regulated measures."
The guidelines outline the plans for an SRO, suggest defining crypto as a virtual asset in the manner of credit points or air miles, and recommend that a body should be established similar to that in operation in France to register and approve ICO applications and to ensure that basic AML and know-you-customer elements are in place. They also advocate offering ICO investors tax credits in line with those offered to angel investors, and suggest the formation of a bespoke committee focused on crypto and blockchain among members of the central bank, FSC, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Economy Affairs, and Ministry of Science and Technology.
Speaking on the panel, Hsu raised the idea of a Taiwan-dollar backed digital currency, the New Taiwan Dollar Token, suggesting that such a project could be funded by allocation a fraction of the estimated NT$50 billion (US$1.72 billion) that it is estimated it will cost to redesign and reissue Taiwan's current set of bank notes.
Last week, Vitalik Buterin, founder of the Ethereum cryptocurrency, hosted an education workshop with central bank and FSC representatives. Buterin was in Taiwan for a three-day workshop on sharding, the mechanism through which Ethereum hopes to overcome its scaling difficulties and achieve a VISA-level network transaction rate.
Buterin being here highlights the advantages and opportunity Taiwan has to develop the crypto space if it gets its approach to regulation, primarily the availability of top class engineering talent at a fraction of the salaries commanded in Silicon Valley.
BlockCity panel member Singer Huang (黃紳嘉), CEO of Inno4G, also emphasized that while Japan is a ways ahead in terms of fostering the cryptocurrency and blockchain, the fact that it is a fairly closed society that is difficult for foreign companies to navigate opens space for Taiwan, as does China's issues with controlling capital flows and its current ban on ICOs. Ditto the fact that the U.S. has a vested interest in restricting the development of the space out of concern crypto could challenge the U.S. dollar's hegemony over the financial system.
Benjamin Soh, CEO of Gibraltar Exchange, added that if Taiwan moves quickly enough, it could emulate Gibraltar's success in becoming a global hub for online gambling despite its geographical limitations by virtue of being first to regulate the space. Gibraltar in January introduced a framework for Distributed Ledger Technology regulations so that companies involved can get licensed and gain access to banking and other services.
Panel member Sean King, CEO of the Singapore-based decentralized exchange GTS and involved in drawing up the guidelines submitted to Premier Lai, said that he had met with representatives of the Taiwan Futures Exchange, who expressed enthusiasm for the idea of changing cryptocurrency futures in Taiwan. "If industry can hedge their exposure to crypto then they are more likely to use it," he said, adding that while his company is registered in Singapore he would be prepared to relocate to Taiwan if the regulatory landscape is more clearly defined.
Achieving that goal requires a level of boldness that Taiwan's financial overseers have yet to demonstrate. While Hsu is a whirlwind of advocacy and constructive proposals, the mission to launch Taiwan into the crypto stratosphere as yet does not command widespread legislative support.
More must be done by the blockchain community to communicate to government and the public the tangible, real-world benefits of their projects. It is unlikely that a fleet of crypto and ICO-funded Lamborghinis on the streets of Taipei will do much to inspire the sympathy of the public or the politicians that represent them.
In this light, a suggestion by the marvelously monikered panelist XDite, CEO of crypto exchange OTCBTC, that ICOs should be viewed not as a channel for startups with only a white piece of paper to their name to access funding, but as an avenue for established companies to move to the next level in the manner of Series A or B venture capital financing is a solid idea.
Moreover, the experience of panel member Kathleen Chu, PR and marketing lead for blockhive, a blockchain-based collaborative platform, of the work the Estonian government is undertaking to invite blockchain innovators into discussions that focus on the people the technology will eventually serve is enlightening.
There is also something to be said for BlockCity's innovative approach to ticketing, which involved launching a so-called Initial Ticket Offering (ITO), under which attendees were able to purchase tickets via smart contracts developed by Taiwan-based Joyso. The company said that about 30 people had taken up the option to pay 0.25 Ethereum for a regular ticket for the two-day event, or 1.25 for a VIP pass.
Blockcamp co-founder Jeremy Firster told The News Lens that the ITO allows people to buy tickets without either the customers or organizers having to use a middle-man like Acupass. "It's to show that you can use crypto. This is one of many examples for BlockCity – how you can use blockchain in many different sectors and industries," he said. "Sharing those experiences is key to helping Taiwan to become a hub for blockchain activity, and dare I say, a BlockCity."
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The Erlanger Historical Society published a History of Erlanger in 1997 cal "From Buffalo Trails to the 21st Century: the History of Erlanger" and it has sold hundreds of copies. Henry Childress' history was a great help in compiling the history of the City of Erlanger.
An Excerpt From The First Part of Henry F. Childress' History of Erlanger (1924)…
Prompted by a love for Erlanger, the people of Erlanger, I have tried to record all of the historical facts which I have been able to procure. My hope is that this effort on my part will encourage some more capable writer to take up the work I have started, and complete it in a more credible manner.
Sincerely, H. F. Childress
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Excess amount of fat deposits in the lower region of the abdominal muscles is termed as love handles. Love handles develop due to the accumulation and development of excess amount of fatty tissues in this area. The bulge is further aggravated due to gravitational pulls from the sides. Love handles destroy one's appearance and make an ugly impression when it comes to looks. Therefore people with these unwanted structures strive to lose them at any cost.
Love handles can be got rid of only through a proper diet and exercising. Though there are some ways to burn fat without exercising, they are not recommended as they won't be giving you any toning of the muscles. On the other hand, there are exercises that will raise your metabolic rate and tone your muscles while you lose your love handles. However, you have to follow a healthy diet along with exercising in order to lose your love handles and keep your abs flat forever.
Exercises that focus only on diminishing your love handles are not much effective. Rather those exercises that tone up your entire body are helpful in losing love handles. In order to burn excess fats that are accumulated, your metabolism should be elevated. There are no specific exercises that can reduce love handles, thus those exercises and workouts that aid in toning up the entire body by burning up excess fats accumulated are collectively referred to as "exercises for love handles".
Here are some exercises picked out of the never ending list of exercises for love handles for you to follow in order to get rid of your love handles. Start now with an appropriate diet and a regular exercise scheduled to get that ugly stuff away!
Cardiovascular Exercises for love handles
Cardiovascular exercises for love handles elevate your body's metabolism and aid in getting rid of love handles in an effective manner. Involve in cardiovascular exercises for 20 to 45 minutes per day. There are indoor cardiovascular exercises as well as outdoor ones. Stationary bicycles, treadmill, stair climbers, ladder climbers, elliptical trainers and rowing machines are indoor cardiovascular exercises. Swimming, biking, jogging, treadmill, running, rowing, hiking and walking are outdoor cardiovascular exercises. Cardiovascular exercises should be accompanied with other regular exercises like crunches, pull-ups and push-ups to get rid of your love handles. In the beginning, it will be a few weeks before you realise any positive changes in your abdominal structure. However, prompt positive effects will be realised in the areas of metabolism and mental alertness within a few days.
Crunches are abdominal exercises. They help you to lose love handles by lowering fats in the abdominal region. Here are three different types of crunches that concentrate more on your love handles. To have an effective reduction of love handles, we recommend you to repeat the below given crunches at least 25 times each.
- Regular Crunches
- Twisted Crunch
- Reverse Crunch
Lie back on the ground over a floor mat and keep your feet fixed to the floor with raised knees. Fold both your hands on the back of your head for support. Now slowly lift up your head and try to touch your knees, while keeping your stomach tight. Return back to the initial position now.
Lie back on the floor and keep your hands folded at the back of your head. Now bend your right knee, stretch the left leg and raise your head slowly and flex to touch the left elbow with the right knee. Now repeat this with the left leg.
Lie back on the ground over a floor mat and keep your feet fixed to the floor with raised knees. Fold both your hands on the back of your head for support. Lift up your knees to come in contact with the elbows. During this exercise, your head and your upper body should not move. They should lie flat on the floor.
Trunk Twists
Stand up straight and place your two feet at a distance of one foot from each other. Turn your waist to the right and to the left alternatively, while keeping the legs and knees stationed. When you turn to your right, move around your left arm in that direction; and when you turn to your left, move your right arm in that direction.
Leg Flapping
Lie down on a floor mat such that your abdomen touches the ground. Raise your head slowly while you place your arms firmly at your sides. Now raise your legs and your knees and flutter them to and fro one by one.
Dumbbell exercise
Take two small dumbbells or two small mineral water bottles. Stand straight placing your feet far apart (shoulder width distance). Bend your arms and hold the dumbbells at close proximity to your body. Twist your hip and legs, while keeping your legs straight as you bend sideways.
Lean to your left from your waist and stretch your right hand to your left. Come back to the initial position and return back your arm to your body. Repeat the same with your right side and stretch your left hand to your right.
Stability-Ball Twist
Lie yourself on your back over a stability ball while keeping your feet on the ground. At your chest level, hold a medicine ball and stretch your arms. Place your buttock on the ball, and slowly turn your trunk to the left till your knuckles point towards the wall. Now get back to the centre and do the same with the next side.
Roll and curl
Start with a push-up like posture, keeping your feet rested on a stability ball, and your hands on the ground distanced at shoulder width. Place your abdomen and buttock tight; bend your knees to roll the ball towards the right of your chest. Stretch your legs to rotate the ball back to the initial position. Now do the same with the left.
Medicine-Ball Twist
Lie on the floor while holding a medicine ball with both the hands with your face upwards. Bend your knees at right angle with your feet on the ground. Do an abdominal crunch by twisting your shoulders to your right while pulling the ball to the right side of your thighs; simultaneously, move your knees to the left. Get back to the initial position and do the same with the other side.


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Perl 5.16
Perl 5.16 brings a lot of changes. Details about them could be found at perl [delta]
- Name: Petr Písař
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- Email: <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 18
- Last updated: 2012-06-06
- Percentage of completion: 0 %
- Development Status:
Completed items
- Get dedicated build-root from rel-engs (f18-perl)
- Define perl_bootstrap in perl-srpm-macros
Items in progress
- Build new perl 5.16 keeping old COMPAT Provides
- Rebuilt Perl packages: 0 of 2087 done (0 %)
Items still to be done
- Rebuild packages needed for minimal build-root
- Rebuild dual-lived packages (otherwise yum recommends --skip-broken and fails)
- Remove old perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.14.*) from perl
- Rebuild other packages: You Fedora::Rebuild dependency solver or ordered sets computed by Paul
- Undefine perl_bootstrap
- Rebuild packages having perl_bootstrap condition in spec file again
- Merge dedicated build-root to rawhide and remove the dedicated one by rel-engs
Detailed Description
Perl releases will be now every year and updates during year will be containing mainly bug fixes. The release 5.16.0 should be stable release, but 5.16.1 should contain bugfixes for issues introduced in 5.16.0.
Benefit to Fedora
Fedora as bleeding edge distribution should be shipping new release of perl as one of the first distributions.
Everything will be rebuilt in testing buildroot dist-f18-perltest. 'fedpkg build --target dist-f18-perltest'
- update perl to 5.16.1
- update/fix/rebuild all perl modules
- rebuild all other dependent packages -> file bugs to maintainers
- in case no basic component is broken, then the packages could be tagged into dist-f18 buildroot
How To Test
Download packages from koji's buildroot dist-f16-perltest or try your packages with rebuild build requirements related to perl.
User Experience
repoquery --whatrequires --alldeps 'perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.1?.?)' | sort -u
Contingency Plan
- changes between 5.14.0 and 5.16.x http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl-5.16.0/pod/perldelta.pod
- packaging guidelines http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Perl
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Project Server 2016 runs as a service application under SharePoint Server 2016. It is included as part of the SharePoint Server 2016 Enterprise installation, though it is licensed separately
Project Server 2016 requires a license in order to operate, and you must enable Project Server 2016 by using your license key before you can create a Project Web App site.
(If you are not sure if Project Server 2016 has already been enabled, use the Get-ProjectServerLicense cmdlet to check.)
To activate Project Server 2016
First, make sure that it's not enabled
Open the SharePoint admin shell
Make sure to run as admin
This means I have no license yet
Run the following command
Enable-ProjectServerLicense -Key <LicenseKey>
Creating a service application
Project Server 2016 runs as a service application in SharePoint Server 2016, so the first thing to do is check to see if you already have a Project Server Service Application configured.
Check for a Project Server Service Application
- In the SharePoint Central Administration website, under Application Management, click Manage service applications.
- Check the service applications list for a Project Server Service Application.
Now the service application is created
Now it will give you the following error if you try to open
You must go to the following in the central admin
Service must be started
It must be started
Now its started
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Sydney attracts significant international style brands to its grand 19th century arcades, elegant pedestrian malls and contemporary shopping centres. An added twenty minutes of indecision, waiting at the deli, or traveling unneeded aisles, is just enough time for children to shed their marbles and result in the parent to flee the retailer, shopping incomplete. They permit foreigners to create accounts with a virtual US address which these foreigners can use while giving US retailers details for shipment of their bought products soon after having paid the sum from the deposit with those US shopping and shipping agencies. This implies the user can stroll considerably closer to the shopping trolley permitting additional help. The loss of income might worsen if the mall sustains massive water damage is forced to close for an extended period of time, during which it would definitely shed market share to competitors. Find websites that use these respective shopping carts and go by way of the checkout method.
Although Jenner's older siblings are typically the ones making headlines, the 14-year-old stole the spotlight when she and Simpson 14, stepped out for a date at The Grove shopping mall in Los Angeles. Situated in the middle of Center City's shopping district, The Shops at Liberty Place function far more than 55 shops and restaurants in a chic, urban setting. No wonder this sort of impediment has been tided over and in this case, a number of shopping and shipping agencies who are assigned with payment and shipment responsibilities on behalf of their customers in abroad who want to have an account with these agencies has come forward to the salvage of foreign customers.
Numerous internet sites will supply items that are exactly the exact same and you may possibly locate differences in pricing and shipping expenses (if they charge for shipping). It hosts an annual sale, the Shopping Carnival in October/November, which is the ideal time for keen shoppers to book tickets to Kuala Lumpur and choose up some fantastic offers on their preferred selection of items. The ideal element is that you would be capable to easily get to the shopping centre from the hotels as it is nearby. First, you will find that you can use an on the web shopping directory from the safety and comfort of your personal home.
On-line shopping has emerged as one of the most well-known things to have happened over the internet. The massive search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN sent 25 % more visits to major shopping comparison internet sites The week of October 23, 2006, compared to the identical period in 2005. By means of del Condotti is the most popular high street label thoroughfare in Rome where shoppers will have refreshingly distinct shopping. Free Payment Modules from Payment Gateway (and other folks) are offered for the major open source shopping carts. With the improve in technology offered these days, you are also going to want a shopping cart that can help you to sell to the more than 400 million individuals that at the moment use Facebook. Hassle-free shopping is what on the internet shopping offers to all buyers across the globe this is something that individuals haven't been capable to obtain ever just before. So if you just had a difficult time at the workplace or have had a fight, avoid shopping.
Do your element in caring about the environment and saving the planet by way of the use of reusable shopping bags and reusable grocery bags. Bergen has usually been a city of traders and you will discover a lot of tempting shopping – from modest, specialised shops to huge department retailers. Place the coupons required for the existing shopping list into the envelope with the grocery list printed on it. Place a verify subsequent to these things on the list that have a coupon. Key comparison shopping search engine for the United Kingdom and other European countries. Finish your profitable shopping foray with coffee and cake at Nostra If your tastebuds are nevertheless tingling for far more, Nieuwe Binnenweg provides lots of genuine bakeries and lunchrooms, not to mention exceptional style boutiques and gift shops.


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Who doesn't love the look of antiques and the unique lines, shapes and patina they bring to a room? Today you don't have to be a collector to have the look because, thankfully, we have many beautiful reproductions and curated selections to choose from.
Eloquence, founded by husband and wife, Kim and Amelia Redmond, is one such company that creates furniture pieces inspired by antique craftsmanship. "Eloquence is a modern interpretation of something classic," says Amelia. "It is romantic, chic and casual. [Our] handcrafted re-editions are inspired by European antiques. Each piece is hand finished with original aged markings that show our appreciation for time-worn beauty."
In addition to designing pieces for the furniture line, Eloquence also sources antiques from Europe that boast beautiful proportions and time-faded patinas. "The beauty in French interiors is that there are so many different looks," Amelia says. "Regardless of the style, the key is mixing the items you love to make your home personal. French homes have a beautiful story to tell … it's personal and curated."
Here are Amelia's favorite ways to create a French mood:
- Beautiful textiles (mixing linens with velvets and silks)
- A gorgeous chandelier or exceptional mirror
- Scented candles and fresh-cut flowers for a glamorous touch
Fore more on Eloquence furnishings, visit eloquenceinc.com.


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Participate in Forrester Research Direct Marketing Survey August 31, 2008Posted by Elana Anderson in Database Marketing, Marketing Technology.
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My former colleagues at Forrester Research have launched a survey focused on marketing technology usage and adoption as well as marketer's relationships with internal and external partners. The survey is global in scope and focused on marketing decision-makers having broad responsibility over direct and relationship marketing programs. In exchange for participating in the survey, Forrester is offering a free copy of a recent report and will also share the research report(s) that result from the survey once they are published.
If you are a marketing decision-maker from a large company, please take 10-15 minutes to respond to the survey. Thank you in advance for your participation!


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There's good news and bad news when it comes to the United States Postal Service (USPS), according to Robert Taub, acting chair of the Postal Regulatory Committee (PRC).
Most attendees at the Direct Marketing Association Nonprofit Federation (DMANF) Washington Nonprofit Conference knew about the bad news but Taub laid it out anyway. The Postal Service ended 2014 with a net loss of $5.5 billion – more than $900 million greater than planned – and in eight years USPS has posted net losses of $51.7 billion. USPS has already seen a $750 million net loss in 2015, and has only 21 days of liquidity at any given time.
Pension prefunding obligations for USPS have deepened the budget crisis and its traditional moneymaker – First-Class postage – has been declining due to the rise of email. The $67-billion operation has laid off nearly 200,000 employees and cut $16 billion in costs.
"In the postal world we have been hearing nothing but bad news," said Taub. "But there is strength in the postal system that can often get overshadowed by the challenges. The strengths are the foundation on which Congress and the (Obama) administration can build."
The Postal Service is the one governmental organization that touches the lives of nearly every American, every day, Taub said. The 240-year-old entity provides "a service people come to expect. Very few people go to their box wondering if the mail will be there. But will the mail always be there?"
Despite the challenges, according to Taub, there are a few bright spots. The rise of e-commerce has driven up the volume of packages and parcels that USPS handles. Overall, year-to-date volume is up 1.1 percent over this time in 2014, and net operating income is $1.1 billion, some $365 million more than last February.
But while 2015 might have started out marginally more positively than 2014, "The fundamental problem is that the Postal Service can't generate the funds to cover its expenses," said Taub. To begin fixing the USPS, he said: "We must first define universal service and what we need from it."
There is a disconnect between what Americans know about the USPS and universal service, what they need from universal service and what they want. A survey showed that "70 percent of participants did not realize that the Postal Service is self-funded," said Taub. "Upon learning that, they lowered their service expectations."
Further, the survey showed that some 90 percent of respondents said their lives would be negatively affected if the USPS ceased to exist, but had trouble articulating exactly why. They were in favor of a more focused service, as opposed to the USPS simply creating new products and delivery options solely to increase revenue. "What Americans need is less than what they want, and they're willing to make tradeoffs," he said.
Taub closed his address by exhorting audience members to concentrate on the strengths of the Postal Service and remember how it touches people's lives and enables them to reach more donors. "Let's keep in mind the good news and take hope that Congress and the Obama Administration can build upon this foundation to find solutions," Taub said. "The strengths will be the engine to ensure the Postal Service will continue to provide services."


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Summer Camps at the Center: The Youth Programs Take a Hike
Learning doesn't only happen during the school year here at the Center! For the past eight years we have partnered with the YMCA-Camp Jones Gulch to provide a fun and educational camp for middle and high school students. This year a group of eleven kids, ages six to thirteen, attended camp in the Marin Headlands. Therethey took daily hikes, learned to shoot a bow and arrow, canoed on the San Francisco Bay and zip-lined. The week of adventuring gave students an opportunity to have fun with peers while developing the skills that our Programs Manager, Steven Lopez, works on with them weekly throughout the year. For our high school students, we had a summer camp through our Future Links Program. The all-girls backpacking trip, also in partnership with YMCA-Camp Jones Gulch, took thegirls to Lake Tahoe. They began on the shores of Lake Tahoe and hiked into the mountains of the Desolation Wilderness. They visited Emerald Bay, Eagle Falls and Upper Velma Lake, challenging not only their communication skills but also their wilderness and hiking abilities. We can't wait until next summer!
Students don't only have fun events during the summer time. The Center also hosts outings to places like Giants games, rock climbing and House of Air. These outings give kids and teens the chance to practice their communication skills in a relaxed and interactive environment. Additionally, it gives parents an opportunity to exchange tips, offer each other support and build community.
Steven, who has been hearing-impaired since birth emphasizes the importance of his role in his student's lives, "They can look at me and see someone who goes through the same struggles as them and understands their frustrations. Who better than your peers to give you the tools to succeed?"
Our summer camps, and family outings for children and youth are supported in part by the San Francisco Department of Children, Youth and Their Families (DCYF). Thank you to DCYF for your continued support!


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¡Guava Libre! Collaboration by Funky Buddha and The Bruery is a 7.5% ABV Imperial Cream ale brewed with Lactose, Guava and Vanilla.
This collaborative brew with our Floridian friends takes a page out of both of our books – a bold, experimental beer with culinary inspiration. Specifically, a Cuban guava party
This sensory getaway transports you to a corner bodega with our friends at Funky Buddha in South Florida to recreate the flavors you'd find in a "pastelito de guayaba." Championing the big, bold flavors that both our breweries are known for, we brewed an imperial cream ale, adding lactose and vanilla to impart sweet, custard-like ribbons, and guava for filling its conceptual authenticity. It's a collaboration that's equal parts inspiration and admiration.
A new Bruery release to the public brings the talents of Funky Buddha from the east coast to the west. Funky Buddha has been a brewery that, just like the Bruery, loves doing special beers that taste super close to desserts. Their experimentations are definitely worth note and while I have not been able to bring their beers to the site as obtaining them is difficult other than online trading, I have had a chance to try them at some beer tasting sessions with friends. For the few I have tried, all were damn top notch. Therefore, as soon as I found out they were collaborating with the Bruery, I realized it could only be pure magic. Let's have a look and see if that truly is the case, cheers!
Rich Guava Pastries, Vanilla, Danish cream Sweetened condensed milk, Guava crème brulee, Guava yogurt, Rich Guayaba Membrillo, banana, dulce de leche caramel, dried apricots, dried apples, grapes, fruit cake, guava cheesecake, stone fruit peaches, apricots, mango, prickly pear tuna, honey dew melon, dragon fruit, passion fruit, strawberries and cherries.
Rich Guayaba Membrillo (Guava preserves block), guava pastries, Danish cream, cane sugar, kiwi, cherries, stone fruit peaches, apricots, mango, prickly pear tuna, honey dew melon, dragon fruit, passion fruit, strawberries, flan, Guava Cobbler, Peach cobbler, dried apricots, dried apples, grapes, fruit cake, guava cheesecake, sweetened condensed milk, guava yogurt, banana, steamed milk, orange juice, candied apples, vanilla, burnt caramel, dulce de leche caramel, piloncillo sugar cone, guava crème brulee, guava pie, toasted rye bread with guava jelly, guava maize atole and agua Fresca de guayabas.
Finishing rich with guava pastry flavor all around, vanilla, caramel, flan, sweetened condesed milk, stone fruit, grapes, apples and lots of tropical fruit. No alcohol in the taste, Pulpy Orange Juice orange and golden full body, creamy, smooth, velvety and refreshing mouthfeel along with a ridiculously easy drinkability.
Another ridiculous collaboration! Damn! Funky Buddha and the Bruery did it! A true pastry of a beer. It was so ridiculous, I finished the beer in one sitting and wanted more. Yeah its really bad when a beer is so damn good you want to finish it in one sitting. So pleasant and delicious and super easy to drink making this one a bucket lister to me. Definitely get this one if you can!
Anime Corner:
Rainbow Mika from Capcom's Street Fighter series was used in this pairing mainly since I wanted to pair this beer on the name pun for ¡Lucha Libre! It was to be paired with wrestling as the movie goes. So Mika was the closest wrestler I could think of that would fit with the colors of the beer in general and it was a good reason too as I have not paired her with a Bruery beer before.


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And, for many people, the quintessential picture of home remains the place we grew up in. This close association between house and residential has lengthy marked anthropological literature. And but, when we think about home, it's usually not the structures themselves but the feelings, practices, and relationships within acquainted spaces which give home a robust sense of belonging. Home may be the scent of a grandmother's cooking, the familiar fuzz of a worn cushion, the seemingly defiant thrill of hanging posters on the wall as a young person, or the knot of tension within the stomach of a kid listening to an argument within the adjoining room. Recent anthropological research have therefore looked past bodily constructions to grasp house when it comes to a various array of practices, significant and imaginative varieties, and feelings which surround a way of groundedness within the world.
He is currently based mostly on the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. If the understandings of home explored above stay grounded in the notion of a bodily house, occupying a hard and fast geographical location, an additional set of views interact with representations and practices of home extra broadly.
This e-book takes the Japanese home in both senses, as website and as artifact, and explores the areas, commodities, and conceptions of neighborhood associated with it in the fashionable era. Your needs today are very completely different to people who lived in houses long ago.
Designed by the award-profitable New York-based firm Ralph Appelbaum Associates, the exhibition is an immersive expertise in which the galleries come alive with objects, photographs, and sound. The exhibition options "please-touch" partitions made out of various materials utilized in residential development over time, from adobe bricks to structural insulated panel (SIP) techniques.
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The revelation of homesickness factors to a novel wrinkle on this in any other case nomadic tale. Despite an overtly transhumant and opportunistic style of housing construction, a sentimental connection to position stays at the heart of Chuuk tradition. As Bollig explains, "They have considerably extra attachment to the imeito, the ancestral residence of the household, in which the parents lived and in the neighborhood of which they are buried.


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City of God or Cidade de Deus (2002)
Directed by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund
Based on the novel by Paulo Lins
Screenplay by Bráulio Mantovani
Starring: Alexandre Rodrigues, Matheus Nachtergaele, Leandro Firmino
As young boys growing up in the ghettos of Rio de Janiero, two young men choose different paths to adulthood. Rocket (Rodrigues) and Zé (Firmino) have both suffered from the corruption that surrounded them from childhood. Rocket has tried to find a way out, working to learn photography. Zé has turned to life as a drug dealer and gang leader. As the two move forward in life, the contrast between their lifestyle choices continues to become clearer.
This stunning film came from the novel by Paulo Lins, first published in 1997. The story took Lins over ten years to complete, and the finished product is a semi-biographical account of his own childhood. Bráulio Mantovani wrote the screenplay for this movie, which was directed by Fernando Meirelles (The Constant Gardener) and Kátia Lund (All the Invisible Children). The film was a commercial and critical success, considered by many critics to be one of the best films of 2002. This film was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, and Best Editing. The cast features a cast of great actors led by Alexandre Rodrigues (Forbidden to Forbid), Matheus Nachtergaele (Trinta), and Leandro Firmino (Julio Sumiu).
The story behind this film is loosely based on actual events in the life of Paulo Lins. Ultimately, the truth and fiction in the story don't seem to matter as the world of the City of God, one of Rio de Janiero's neighborhoods is brought to life. The story doesn't look away from the brutality, corruption, or desperation that affects the lives of the characters. This ability to look those moments in the face make this much more than a gangster movie, or a sentimental look at growing up in the ghetto. In addition to those moments, the film also allows viewers in to see the hopes and dreams of the people. These two sides of every character make this a tough film at times. Despite all of the gritty moments, this is a wonderfully written movie with great dialogue.
The acting in this one is wonderful, especially considering the number of young actors cast in the film. With Rodrigues, Nachtergaele, and Firmino leading the way, this cast does everything right. The brutality of the story is portrayed more realistically than I expected. The violence and psychological tension placed on the characters keeps this movie going at an amazing pace. The acting in this one is amazing. There are no standout performances, just a great job by the cast as a whole.
Visually, this is a stunning movie that captures the lives of the boys with great camera work. The violent moments of the scene are done without any flare. Instead, these moments are filmed just like the rest of the movie. By normalizing their portrayal, the movie conveys a message about theway violence is viewed by the people in the film. Overall, this is a wonderful movie that definitely earned the Oscar nomination for Best Cinematography.
This is a brutal story in many ways. Despite the search for redemption that the story seeks, the overall arc is one of revenge. The action is powerful, and designed to be in your face from the early moments of the film. If you're a fan of gritty films or foreign dramas, this is one for you. I would also recommend this to anyone who likes films like A Prophet, Fallen Angels, or Gomorrah. I give this one 4.8 out of 5 stars.


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A probation officer who's like a 'second mom,' Pam Myers retires
MANSFIELD - Pam Myers knew she could do more to help.
Myers spent about 10 years at the Richland County Sheriff's Office, advancing from corrections officer to sergeant. She supervised transport and court security.
"When you're taking them back and forth to court or jail, you can advise them, but you can't really help them," Myers said of her previous work.
She found her calling with her next job, probation officer.
Myers spent 21 years as a county probation officer. Thursday was her last day on the job.
"I came up here because I wanted to help people," Myers said.
Anna Adkins is one of those people. She credits Myers with saving her from the throes of drug addiction.
"Pam helped me get through the hardest times of my life," Adkins said.
Myers has made her biggest impact with addicts. She is synonymous with Richland County Drug Court, which started in 1997 as one of the first of its kind in Ohio. In addition to her duties as deputy chief probation officer, Myers was the drug court coordinator.
The court started under retired Common Pleas Judge James Henson. It continues under Judge Brent Robinson.
"She has the perfect balance of tough love and consequences for your actions, but she's also willing to give a second chance," Robinson said at the recent drug court graduation. "We're going to miss her. We're not going to be able to fill her shoes."
Those shoes have been in some harrowing places.
A few years ago, Myers was dragged by a moving car — leaving her black and blue from hip to knee — when a woman on probation tried to escape.
"Her father had called me. She had been on the run," Myers recalled. "Dad said she would be there to get money from him at noon."
On the drive to Morrow County, Myers spotted the woman at a cemetery. Myers didn't want the suspect to flee because her young daughter was also in the vehicle.
"I reached in to get the keys," she said. "She slammed it down in drive, and off we went."
A December stakeout in Madison Township left Myers' vehicle in similar shape.
"We got a tip that a guy (on probation) was going to meet his mom to see his little girl," Myers said. "He ran into the rear of my car and ripped my whole bumper off.
"It's always something."
A 1973 Lexington graduate, Myers traveled a circuitous route to becoming a probation officer.
She started as a receptionist in domestic and juvenile court, but was laid off when Judge Ralph Johns lost the next election.
A yearlong stint at the county detention center followed. Myers then got a job at Tappan before working in food service at the former Peoples Hospital.
The hospital would not hold her job when she donated a kidney to her brother, so Myers went to work at a meat market, where she met Steve Arbaugh, a longtime sheriff's employee who helped her get into law enforcement.
"I was there until I came up here in 1997," she said.
Myers added, "I love my job. I love drug court. Your rewards are when people tell you that you saved their life, or they bring their kid to see you."
She describes the job as a combination of parole officer and caseworker.
Myers said she supported the formation of drug court, adding addiction was less of an issue than it is today. Back then, the drugs of choice were crack cocaine and marijuana.
Current plagues are heroin, fentanyl, methamphetamine and posh.
"With the drugs being so bad, people get so crazy," Myers said. "They don't even think about what they're doing or the consequences of it. I'd say that's the biggest change."
There were only four county probation officers early in Myers' career; now there are 13.
"I'm going to miss it," Myers said. "I'll miss the people."
Fellow probation officers Russ Daubenspeck and JoAnn Krausman have been through the wars with Myers.
"She's been over here, and she knows a lot of people," Daubenspeck said. "We can be in Willard or Ashland or wherever, and someone knows Pam."
He said her visibility has made the job easier.
"She's got a big heart. She yells a lot, but it's for their own benefit," Daubenspeck said. "I'll miss her. A lot of people will miss her."
Count Krausman among that group. She refers to Myers as a friend first and a co-worker second.
"Pam is very giving and has a heart the size of the world," Krausman said.
Krausman said she admired her colleague's approach to the job.
"Pam knew that each case had to be individualized in order for success to be achieved, and that is how she supervised," Krausman said. "Pam knew what worked for one person may not work for another."
Myers stayed on top of her cases.
"When Pam asked an individual a question, she already knew the answer, and this was very known by everyone she supervised," Krausman said.
She added, "Pam did not give up on her people regardless of their situation. Pam provided guidance, support, structure and leadership to ensure that each individual realized their own potential and self-worth."
Anna Adkins had Myers as a probation officer on two occasions.
"Pam is a very understanding probation officer," Adkins said. "She's not one who is going to throw you in jail and forget about you.
"I always told her that she was like my second mom. She's a very special woman to me."
Meagan Petty also described Myers as a second mother.
Petty needed five years to graduate from drug court. She relapsed in 2010.
"Pam gave me several opportunities to clean up, and I didn't," Petty said. "I was on a mission to kill myself."
Petty went to prison, which might have been the best place for her. Myers later found a treatment facility for her in Cincinnati and told Petty not to come back to avoid her bad influences in Mansfield.
Petty took Myers' advice. She has stayed in the Queen City since 2014 and works at the treatment center that helped her.
"I still call Pam," Petty said. "She's still such a big part of my life, and she always will be."
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