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1At that time the Roman emperor, Augustus, decreed that a census should be taken throughout the Roman Empire. 2(This was the first census taken when Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3All returned to their own ancestral towns to register for this census. 4And because Joseph was a descendant of King David, he had to go to Bethlehem in Judea, David's ancient home. He traveled there from the village of Nazareth in Galilee. 5He took with him Mary, to whom he was engaged, who was now expecting a child. 6And while they were there, the time came for her baby to be born. 7She gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him snugly in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no lodging available for them. 8That night there were shepherds staying in the fields nearby, guarding their flocks of sheep. 9Suddenly, an angel of the Lord appeared among them, and the radiance of the Lord's glory surrounded them. They were terrified, 10but the angel reassured them. "Don't be afraid!" he said. "I bring you good news that will bring great joy to all people. 11The Savior—yes, the Messiah, the Lord—has been born today in Bethlehem, the city of David! 12And you will recognize him by this sign: You will find a baby wrapped snugly in strips of cloth, lying in a manger." 13Suddenly, the angel was joined by a vast host of others—the armies of heaven—praising God and saying, 14"Glory to God in highest heaven, and peace on earth to those with whom God is pleased." 15When the angels had returned to heaven, the shepherds said to each other, "Let's go to Bethlehem! Let's see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about." 16They hurried to the village and found Mary and Joseph. And there was the baby, lying in the manger. 17After seeing him, the shepherds told everyone what had happened and what the angel had said to them about this child. 18All who heard the shepherds' story were astonished, 19but Mary kept all these things in her heart and thought about them often. 20The shepherds went back to their flocks, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen. It was just as the angel had told them.Luke 2:1-20
I am arrested by the way God broke through the trappings of humanity to accomplish his purposes in sending Jesus to heal our brokenness, to bring us back into relationship with himself. Meditate for just a moment on the way God spurred an emperor to take a census at the exact time Jesus was to be born. Due to this edict, Joseph and Mary needed to make the long trip to Bethlehem. Remembering how I felt when I was nine months pregnant, I don't think Mary thought this was a great idea. As she prepared herself to make the journey, she may have been wondering why. Why did this have to happen now?
I don't know what she thought or how she felt, but I do know that God does not change. If he said it, he will do it. And he used whomever he needs to accomplish it, even Roman emperors. Your situation is not beyond his ability to restore and heal. The journey may not be comfortable — Mary's sure wasn't — but it will be restorative and fulfill his word to you.


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Maya puts away our coffee-cups – I'll rinse them after our walk, along with the produce for lunch – and stands behind me, massaging my neck at the right spot. How did she know? I must've been stretching my neck again, without realising it, keeping my eyes on my laptop-screen, across the table from her. Now in the screen I see her behind me, studying my Illustrator workspace: I'm making a lion's face out of fruit: it's a pro bono assignment for a fundraiser to protect Indian wildlife during Covid. Maya tilts her head, perhaps wondering if this is also one of those double-image illusions I was working on last month. Tilt-headed, she looks like a listening dog.
Laughing, I reach back over my head to embrace my wife. It's an awkward hug but a good stretch. She seizes the opportunity to save my work and lid my laptop.
Masked and gloved, cloth shopping bags in pockets, we walk out of our flat and past the lift. We've avoided the lift: a confined public space with buttons to touch. I follow Maya down the stairs from our 11th-storey flat. We share a bed, but outside our flat we keep six feet apart: sternly setting a good example. For the second wave of the pandemic is devastating India: but life has always been cheap here, and people have wearied of precautions.
Fifty meters outside our gate lies Hullimavu Lake's western corner. The mango trees that gave the lake its name edge its southern end, fronting a lower-middle-class neighbourhood. On our side, the lake stretches a kilometer alongside the smooth blacktop: a promenade, insulating us from the grit of the commercial streets further east.
"Have you thought any more about having children?" I say.
We're both wearing wraparound sunglasses, protecting our mucous membranes; respirator-masks, covering us cheekbone to chin; and a face-screen for good measure. Maya nods. "I have. But I can't decide." I follow her gaze towards the lake.
When we moved to the suburbs four years ago, Hullimavu lake was full, visited by migratory ibises and painted storks; and hosting swans, ducks, and cormorants year-round. Now, ringed by high-rise condos, all drawing on the water-table – for the municipal water-supply, depending on a river whose territorial rights three contiguous states have been disputing, is iffy – the lake has shrunk to a remote patch of silver. Fed by sewage from homes and a slew of tiny factories, luxuriant water-hyacinth covers most of the remaining water; the lake's edges, now dry year-round, have become grassland. At 7am, skinny teenagers are ripping the fencing around the lake and guiding their cattle to this virgin grass. For water buffalo milk is the immunity-boosting trend du jour: providing employment to boys and men who've lost their jobs in factories and shops over the course of this endless series of partial and complete lockdowns.
Maya nods at the lake. "Would you want to have a child in this world, Arun?"
It's Maya who's been tracking the lake's slow death. The monsoon still revives it every summer: briefly. Now even the tiny subsistence-fishing-boats have disappeared. It's Maya who's been staying up late petitioning municipal authorities, organising civic action: starting with her software-engineer colleagues. But it's Maya who can't decide whether this is a world in which to have a child.
"We've been discussing children awhile," I reply. "Would I? Yes, I would… Ma used to say, 'There's always going to be an excuse.' I take that to mean that the best time to do the thing I've been wanting to do, putting off doing, is now."
We walk on. Maya studies the lake's corpse through its violated fencing; I study – six feet away, silhouetted by the slanting light against sections of fencing still intact, still covered with purple-flowered morning glory – Maya.
We've got along well these last fifteen months: considering we've been shut up in our flat, then allowed to walk inside our flat-complex, then allowed onto the streets and shops for four crowded hours each morning. But Maya has withdrawn into herself: many days, I'm the only person she speaks to. Last year she chafed at what appeared unnecessary restrictions, depriving millions of their livelihoods. As this year's second wave has assaulted not only our parents' generation, but our own – Maya has oscillated between shock and grief.
It's been hard for extroverts and softhearted people. As for me, watching Pa for twenty years taught me that a soft heart alone, minus ability or intention to act, is a cancer in your bones.
"Sometimes I think," says Maya, "I've been more affected by your parents' deaths than you."
"That's true," I reply, gently. "We did our best, and now they're gone." After Ma died of Covid, Pa declared his intention of dying broken-hearted; Maya insisted he move in with us; I relented; we tried to cheer him up; but Pa proved as good as his word – dying, not of a broken heart, but of a cancer diagnosis he'd kept secret for four years. He went out with maximum drama, making it hard to love him, even at the end. So I contented myself with pity: he'd never learned the difference. His favourite pastime was to love (pity) poor people on the television; but outdoors, at traffic-lights, he'd turn away with practised obliviousness from beggars knocking at car-windows, and mutter, 'The whole system is broken. What good will my donating ten rupees do?' "We did our best by both, Maya. It's Ma who taught me to do my best and then move on."
"Move on to having a child?" Her voice is muffled behind masks and face-screen; but I hear it wavering.
"You wanted to, Maya, just last year."
"Yes. Before the world turned upside-down."
"But it hasn't really. We're just seeing now the symptoms of a disease that's already in late stage." I nod back over my shoulder. "Four years ago, we used to sip coffee on the balcony while troops of macaques groomed or fought in the tamarind trees. We heard jackals in the night. Remember? They're all gone now. This whole area, including our flat-complex, Maya – that was someone else's home… We've been violating nature for centuries. This pandemic was long overdue."
"Good to see your rationalising tools are still sharp," says Maya, laughing. She's learned to modulate her voice behind her mask – or, perhaps, I've learned to hear the muffled modulations. It's Maya who got me to quit my lavishly-paid, soul-killing corporate-law job, take a break, and retrain in what I'd originally wanted to do: graphic design. "I miss your parents, Arun, irritating as they were. I miss the world as it was, imperfect as it was."
"I miss them too… But, as far as the question at hand: practically speaking, the risk to infants from Covid is low. All this hasn't altered the decision-making of our having a child." I nod right at the lake, then left at the new highrises across the road: some finished and tenanted; others abandoned, half-finished, when the lockdown sent daily-wage construction-workers home indefinitely. These buildings' skeletons loom, gray-brown, over clearcut sand-brown wastes: which used to be scrub forests and plantations we explored at the weekends. "Maya, this was already a shitty world in which to have a child. In my view – no, the pandemic hasn't fundamentally altered that." Those plantations were eucalyptus: fast-growing, thirsty, commercial monocultures. They're been replaced by highrise, thirsty buildings. The landscape looks worse now: but I can't say how much worse it is for the environment. Four years ago, greener, it was already far from pristine.
We've reached the end of the lakeside promenade. We turn into the neighbourhood's main commercial street. The promenade's smooth median-divided blacktop turns into a dusty gray street: dug up a dozen times to extend electrical cables and waterpipes, then cobbled over half-heartedly, the cobbling disassembled by traffic into a steeplechase of pebbles and sand.
"I know it's not exactly relevant to us, privileged as we are: but I have a hard time ignoring all this," says Maya. "It's Wednesday morning, 9am. Shops are now allowed to open 6am to 10am. We should be seeing rush hour. And look."
The streets, formerly crowded with speeding commuters and schoolbuses, and maidservants and housewives dodging rush-hour traffic to do morning shopping, are deserted. Nearly every shop is shuttered. Supply-chains have been disrupted; besides, it isn't profitable to operate only four hours a day: so numerous small businesses have suspended their staffs indefinitely. Only the meatshops, and alcohol-shops – and the odd grocer's and greengrocer's – are open.
Grown men, hugging armfuls of particoloured plastic pinwheels, and rainbow-coloured cotton-candy-looking nylon feather-dusters, hasten uphill towards Bannerghatta Main Road. They're going to hustle, at traffic-lights, what few cars are about: to do the job their five-year-olds would've done, back when they themselves had adult jobs.
Down the steep slope, towards us, tanned face sweat-shiny, a grizzled vendor escorts his rickety open cart piled with yesterday's withered vegetables: his body leaning back, his chicken legs and stick arms straining to keep the cart from racing downhill. He's headed past the half-finished highrises towards our residential neighbourhood.
"Covid began fifteen months ago," says Maya, "And Bangalore's still a ghost town. This will never end. God knows where the people are, god know how they're living. I want more than anything else to have a child. But I just don't know if it's right."
Maya sees the empty streets, the smog-free air, the deserted construction-sites which parthenium and oleander are reclaiming – and she sees only what stands behind them: a nationful of humans locked in, downsized, fired, starving, alcoholic, suffering. I see the empty streets – and I enjoy our leisurely walks: no need now to look over your shoulder worrying about a speeding SUV, carrying your neighbour across town to work, racing other cars, zigzagging around potholes, bumping your elbow. I see the smog-free air – and I feel glad that the earth has got this respite.
Maya was born into privilege. I've had to earn mine. I've learned to find my blessings where I can.
"You're right on both counts, Maya: this is terrible; but people like us always manage. Nobody from your firm or mine has lost their jobs." Most of my work was already online, including meetings with American clients. Maya was already telecommuting twice a week before last year's first lockdown. "We can work from home, get everything delivered home, for the rest of our lives. Our children can study, play, grow up at home. We have always been insulated from all this." I survey the vanishing lake, the clearcut forests, the desolate streets. "To us, all this is just scenery." She turns sharply to me. "I don't say this with pride. I say this as a fact to consider in our decision-making."
We walk in silence, up the steep hill, struggling to breathe through our respirators and face-shields.
Maya not only grew up more affluent than me, she is in most respects out of my league. (For instance, she's the kind of person who sincerely doesn't know what a 'league' is.) The one thing I've always been able to do is calm her. Now, with the world falling apart, I can't even do that. Maya's always leaned neurotic; now, she often agonises over trivial decisions. We were discussing children before the pandemic; so, grasping at straws, I revived the idea.
Now I decide to drop it. It's only making her more anxious. She's been suggesting a trip when lockdown lifts. I've hesitated: for lockdown might lift, only to be reimposed; then getting home might be hard. But now I'll say yes: airlines have done a decent job getting stranded citizens home; at worst, we'll be stuck abroad: we can afford it. We'll visit Indonesia: she's wanted to go for years; I'll read up the history so I can enjoy the sights.
Yes: let's drop having children for now. Maya needs a break; she doesn't need another decision to agonise over.
"We could donate to charity," Maya muses. "We've only been donating 10% of our income." This was my idea: but inspired by Maya. Maya doesn't just have a soft heart: she crosses the road to buy biscuits, then crosses back to place them beside the beggar dozing curled up on the footpath. "Children are so expensive, Arun. If we don't have children, we can give everything away. I lie awake at night thinking about the misery inside those shacks." We're now passing the little boxes, hacked together from sheets of corrugated tin, roofed with sulphur-blue tarpaulin – that flank the street and pass for human dwellings. "Now they've lost their jobs – whatever they were. They're bundled in there, night and day." This street is festooned with open-air rubbish-dumps: deposited by residents who're unserviced (as about a third of the endlessly-expanding city's residents are) by municipal rubbish-trucks. The rubbish-dumps draw street dogs: bringing the slum-dwellers company.
I'm not being ironical. Wealthy folk feed a street dog occasionally, on a whim, for selfies. Poor people, unused to worrying about tomorrow, unskilled in separating themselves from their environment, feed their neighbourhood wildlife whenever they get a meal themselves.
"I can't sleep at night, thinking about all this," Maya continues. "Should we have children? I just can't decide. Mum says I should just have a baby and then everything will be clear. She says, 'That's how most babies come about, and they do fine, don't they?' She's as naïve as a child herself, but I envy her sometimes… I want to make the right decision. But how can you decide anything, when everything's up in – Oh! Sorry."
It's Maya who apologises – to four or five children who've run into the street and almost into her.
We turn to see where they've come from: a pebble-and-sand footpath leading to the abandoned construction-sites. Formerly – when we walked at dawn before commuting to work – we've glimpsed the procession of open-air defecators to and fro the slum. Lacking access to a toilet, the families carry water, in old plastic paint-cans, to wash their bums after a shit far from home in the open fields. We smell the shit now, downwind of an easterly breeze, faint enough to smell merely spicy. The world has changed, but not this. Through all my plasticky facial paraphernalia, I sniff, almost gratefully, this familiar smell.
We turn to watch the children. Barefooted, wearing red gauze frocks and Spongebob teeshirts cast off after one or two wears by the children of people like us. One vagabond wears, fashionably oversized, the uniform of the upper-class school to which some of our neighbours send their children. But these children, skipping uphill, haven't had to get used to remote learning.
Laughing and teasing, they dance across the desolate rubbish-strewn street. They reach the top of the hill, towards which we've been climbing. The red-frocked girl, the tallest of the ragamuffins, points and cries in Kannada, "Race to the lake and back! One two three go!"
They take off. I stand clear. Maya turns to watch them run downhill, towards the emptied lake, towards the toiling old vegetable-vendor. They seem to be falling downhill and, heart in mouth, I wonder whether they'll run into the poor old man. I open my mouth to shout; at the last instant, they veer away from him, their shouts of reasonless joy rending the funereal summer morning. The old man reaches the bottom and turns his cart smartly into the lakeside promenade. I decide we'll buy today's produce from him on our way home. It's a bit wilted: but we'll compensate with butter and herbs. The children touch the lake's fencing to show they've run to the end, and cross the promenade again to dash back uphill towards us.
Maya laughs, and – forgetting social distancing – clutches me, briefly giddy with joy. "Thank god for children!" she says.
I can see hardly anything of her face: still I can make out the look that used to say, 'If we weren't outdoors, and if this weren't India…'
We recover ourselves. Keeping six feet apart, still setting a good example to the desolate streets, we walk down the other side of the hill.


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Deliberate on it- why it's essential. Weight the pros and cons.
Highlight. I prefer to use PDF Expert on Mac; LiquidText/PDF Expert on iPad.
Export it to sumnotes (I hope they have a dropbox integration)
Extract annotations in Word.
Post them on the blog.
Embed documents in Scribd (WordPress doesn't offer PDF uploads in the current plan).
It may sound to be a laborious process, but it isn't.
I am still looking for an alternative to Grammarly. It works well, though, but I like to look for other options.


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EAGLE, IDAHO – The Treasure Valley is home to several fabulous cities that connect one to the other. But there is one that separates itself from all the others, Eagle, Idaho. Where most of the suburbs of Boise lie on the flat valley floor, Eagle is nestled up against the foothills. Some of the other cities water play is what the local parks or sub-divisions offer, where Eagle has the Boise River running through it and Eagle Island State Park to play in. Add to this the vibrant, quaint downtown, the many community events, and neighborhood spirit. Yes, Eagle is in a class by itself when it comes to recreation, character, and charm.
Tucked away in the corner of the Valley, up against the Boise foothills and along the Boise River, you'll find the charming town of Eagle. There is a lot of history to the town of Eagle dating back to the 1860's. Several of the historic buildings you see in the downtown area are the originals from the early 1900's giving Eagle its allure and old-town feel. What was once belittled as the swamp area in the 70's is now home to some of the most expensive riverfront properties in Southwestern Idaho.
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This video shows how to write a construction or contracting business proposal using Proposal Kit. Proposal Kit includes samples, templates, layouts and visual design themes for many different types of construction related proposals including home building, commercial, construction, residential, electrical, HVAC, roofing and other specialties. You can create business proposals, quotes, business plans, reports, studies, RFP responses and other business documents.
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In this video we're going to illustrate how to create a construction related proposal document, report or so on with Proposal Kit. A construction related proposal can cover a wide range of situations that can be anything from commercial to residential. Specialty proposals for say electrical, HVAC, roofing and so on.
It can be used for full-blown construction projects, government RFP responses, small business proposals, small projects and so on, short quotes. So if you look on our website we have an article which talks about specifically how to do a contractor or a construction business proposal. This article will also have links to all the samples.
Now these are completed samples that are included in every one of our Proposal Packs so you can get an idea of how someone else wrote their specific proposal. And you can use these samples as guides. You can even create editable versions of these tagged with your own company.
Use the text in these completed samples as your starting point plus you can customize these layouts, use different design themes and so on. But you see the samples cover a wide variety of different kinds for contracting and construction proposals. Everything from woodworking, masonry, high efficiency, green type proposals, full custom home building and so on.
Also the article will have links off to the construction and contractor related design themes. So we have hundreds and hundreds of design themes for all different kinds of industries. So this article will link off to the ones that are most commonly used for construction, contracting and related proposals.
So a lot of times people will pick a design theme that matches their specific type of business or project. So if you're a roofer you might look at the roofing proposal design theme. If you're a painter you might look at one of the painter or decorator design themes.
If you're an electrician you might look at one of the electrical design themes and so on. Also you don't have to use a design theme that we've marked as specific to your kind of business. We have a plain looking design theme Proposal Pack for Any Business here.
And that is good for businesses who want more of a plain looking design where we haven't added custom graphics and logos such as for people who want to brand the documents to look like their own business using their own logo, using their colors and designs, using their own graphics and so on. So we're going to illustrate this video using our Construction #6 design theme. So whatever design theme you purchase is the one you're going to have available in the Wizard software.
So you don't get every single design theme. You pick one design theme that's the one you purchased and that design theme is what you'll see in the software. So we're going to illustrate this with our Construction #6 design theme.
And you'll see these are just an illustration of what the pages will look like in the Word document when done. It just has some general building style graphics in the background and a hardhat design logo and so on. Your logo can actually be used to replace these logos and using our full-blown Expert edition, our Professional version, you can actually swap out all of these background graphics that we've made with your own logo, your own graphics.
So you can swap out these background photos with your own, you can swap out our logos with your own and so on. You can change these color schemes to color schemes that match your own logo, your own website design and so on. So this is what the pages will look like when we generate Word documents for proposals in Construction #6.
Okay so we have our Wizard software running, we have Construction #6 design theme. And whenever you're going to create a proposal, a quote, a report, any kind of document you just click this Document Projects button. And you can give your project a title this is just for your own purposes.
And every time we create a document the Wizard is going to create a new folder and it's going to put all the documents, spreadsheets and so on into that folder for you. Now you'll see some buttons here - Pick Documents, Company Data, Client Data, Other Data, Multiple Choice. These are just ways of setting up your project with data that's going to get assembled into the document.
So Company Data and Client Data this is going to be name and address information for who's writing the proposal and who it is being written to. This will get merged into the document that gets built. Things like Other Data and Multiple Choice, those are more advanced features for setting up data that you can import into the document and there'll be other videos that go into that.
So Pick Documents is the important button. This is where we're going to select all the pages that are going to make up our construction or contracting proposal. So when you first go into the Pick Documents screen there's a number of tabs up here.
All these tabs are just different ways for you to get pages into your document. The first thing you'll see is some checkboxes. Now there's over two thousand chapters available.
The forty most common ones that are normally used are going to be on the first screen here. So Cover Letter, Title Page, Table of Contents and so on, Executive Summary or a Client Summary, your Company History, your Services, Products and so on. Those are common for most proposals so we put those up front for you to check off easily.
And you can get to all 2,000 plus by clicking this drop down and we can scroll down through all different kinds of businesses, different kinds of proposals and so on. So you can see we have pages of construction and contracting specific chapters. We can just go to that here.
You'll say maybe we need to talk about architectural issues or the suppliers or subcontractors, talk about the permits and licenses needed. If we need to do demolition on a project and so on. Are you going to recycle material.
If you need to talk about that in a proposal and we can just scroll through all three pages of construction specific chapters. Now once you get past the industry specific chapters if we're doing projects or someone we can go and look at project specific chapters. If you're doing grants, just a short quote or so on.
If you need to talk about chapters specific to your company, maybe your references, past projects, things like that. You just come down here and we have them grouped by chapters related to your specific company. Now a lot of people want to get started a little quicker with a premade set of chapters or looking at a sample.
So there's 200 samples here just like we mentioned earlier that we have links off on the website to the ones that are specific to construction. See here we have Commercial Contracting Office Remodel. So that's an actual sample.
Contractor Home Remodel, Custom Home Building. And we can search for a specific sample. So if we want to find a roofing example.
Now these samples are just what one specific company or person wrote for themselves so you're obviously going to do things differently for your own. But you can use these as a starting point. So you can see there's a Roofing Contractor Sample and so on.
Now if we want to get even more layouts we have this Quick Start tab with hundreds of pre-made layouts of chapters. Let's just search for construction and this will narrow that list of hundreds of layouts down to ones that have been tagged specifically related to construction or contracting. So let's say we're doing an office renovation proposal.
Let's just pick that as our starting point and once we highlight any one of these it's going to tell us here the list of chapters that are going to make up that layout. And we can import that into our project and you'll see 14 chapters. So out of that library of 2,000 plus chapters we've immediately got a list of 14 that have been pre-selected for an office remodel type proposal.
And you can see that list of chapters here. Now say if you want to add additional chapters such as there's some things you need to talk about that aren't in this list then you can just go over to Add Templates or Search by Name and add additional chapters. We can go into the construction and contracting page.
Let's say if we want to add a chapter just for the materials that we're gonna be using or add a list of suppliers. Whenever you've checked off chapters you can always look at your list here so you can see it went from 14 to 16 when we added suppliers and materials. Let's say we want to move this chapter.
We can move chapters around. We can reorder the chapters. So if we don't need to add an Impact Statement we can just remove that.
So now we've kind of customized the list of chapters for this specific proposal and when we're done we just click Ok Use Selected Templates. We're back in our project screen and you can fill in the Company Data and you can fill in the Client Data. Whatever you're putting in those screens will get merged into the document when it gets built.
We're just going to leave our defaults in there for now. And when we're all done we click Ok Save Project. And now we'll wait for the Wizard to build our Word document.
Okay now the Wizards generated that proposal layout. We'll open that up take a look at it. And see we didn't actually fill in the Client Data screen so if you had that data would get merged in these tags here.
Here's the proposal using our Construction #6 design theme. You can see the Table of Contents, all the body pages, the Materials, the Suppliers pages that we custom added. As you scroll down you'll see the document here.
The document is ready for you to edit now. Our website URL here that's just because our data was in the Company Data. That would actually be yours or whatever you entered into the Company Data screen.
And using the Expert Edition you can actually do all your calculations for these financial pages, cost summary, budgets and so on in Excel and have the Excel spreadsheet auto-update the Word document. So with the Novice Edition you just have static pages that you would fill in manually and same with all the scheduling pages. The Expert Edition will actually have scheduling spreadsheets you can fill in and it will auto update any schedule pages.
And then the proposal is going to end with the Back Page. Again, all this data is merged from whatever you put in the Company Data screen. So now you just make your edits in Word and when you're done you can click Save as PDF.
You can upload the document, email it, print it and deliver it out however you need. Now in the Expert Edition there are additional things we can do. We can add an invoice into the project after we've created the proposal.
We can add customer letters, checklists, if you have the Contract Packs installed you can add contracts from the contractors collection of contracts. So for example let's just say after the project we were going to come back and add an invoice for the client. We can just click Add Invoice.
Okay now the invoice templates been added into our project. So you can see it here. Now we just open that.
It's just another Word document. Again this is a static page you just fill in with your invoice details. Now this is the Novice Edition so it's a static page.
However use the Expert Edition of our software there will be a spreadsheet that will be linked into the invoice. So you'll do your calculations in Excel and it will auto update into this invoice. And if you use the same spreadsheet linked into your Word document you'll have one spreadsheet that will auto-update both the proposal and the invoice.
And you'll see the invoice has the Construction #6 design theme. We're going to illustrate a second proposal using the Expert Edition and we'll show the Excel spreadsheets working as well. So we're going to illustrate the next proposal with our Electrical #4 design theme.
And note only the design themes you've purchased will be selectable in the list. So this is assuming an electrical company has probably bought the Electrical #4 design theme and they're going to create their proposals with that. So just like before we're going to go into Document Projects.
I'll create a new project this time. We're going to leave the Excel Dynamic Links enabled because we're going to illustrate an Expert level feature with Excel spreadsheets. And last time I went into the Quick Start and picked a layout.
This time we're going to go into the View Samples because we do have an electrical contractor sample. We can just scroll down alphabetically or use the Search button. So we have an Electrical Contractor Sample proposal.
We're just going to import the content. Now this one happens to be a short proposal. Your average proposals are five to ten pages but you can create documents any number of pages you need.
The Novice Edition will limit you to a 10-page document which will cover most people. But if you have complex high-dollar projects, you know you need more than 10 pages, government RFP responses you should get the Expert Edition. If you need the more advanced features for more complex documents.
So now you can see we have these five pages selected. We'll click OK and when we're on the sample screen when you select a sample and import it's automatically going to check this box. So the actual text of the sample is going to get imported into the document automatically.
All right now we've filled in the Company Data screen with some fictional information here. We'll fill in the Client Data screen. Ok, now I filled in the Client Data screen with the name and address information of the person we are writing the proposal to.
Now that we've got our documents picked the Company Data filled in, Client Data filled in. We are creating a Quote - short quote. This time we have Excel spreadsheets enabled assuming we're using the Expert Edition.
And now we're going to save the project and this will build a short quote document and link it into an Excel spreadsheet for the Cost Summary. Okay, now we've generated this short quote and you'll see in the Calculator Spreadsheets tab there is a calculator that's been created. And you can edit the stock calculators.
This one just has some default information in it from the sample but you could add your own line items, your own prices, your own tax calculations and so on. And you can completely customize these spreadsheets. Using the Expert Edition you can actually use your own complete custom spreadsheets.
These will have some basic line items calculations and so on you can use for total, subtotals, deposits and so on. Now the document itself since we've linked it to an actual spreadsheet whenever we open it Word will ask us if we want to update. Since we didn't actually change any values in the spreadsheet itself just click No.
And you can see since we actually filled in the Company Data and Client Data fields that information was merged into the proposal. And you'll see the actual sample content has been pulled in and actually tagged with the name of our fictional company. So you'll see the samples can actually be tailored by our software to be using your information within the body of the sample text.
So this gets you much closer to a finished document you can finish hand editing yourself. You can see the title we gave the project has been put in. We're using a Quote graphic instead of the Proposal graphic.
You can see the accompanying Client Data it's been merged into the front Title Page. And you can see the data from the spreadsheet line-items and costs are directed linked. So if you click these you can see it highlights the entire piece of data.
That means these are linked items so as we change the spreadsheet the Cost Summary will actually auto update. So let's say we change the price of one of these line items, change from two to three thousand. You can see this just changed and you can see the totals have been updated.
Now if your spreadsheet doesn't auto update into the document while you have them both open because it kind of depends on how old your versions of Word and Excel are. The newest versions of everything usually auto update pretty quick automatically. Older versions sometimes you have to manually click an Update Link field.
It's easier to just make your changes in the spreadsheet then save the spreadsheet with the document closed. Then open the document, click Yes when it asks you to auto update, and everything will auto update right away. There you can see our short quote.
Now we'll do the same thing, we'll add an invoice into this project and you'll see this invoice gets automatically linked into the same spreadsheet. Okay, now the invoice has been added to the project and you'll see the invoice now is linked directly into the same spreadsheet. So as you change the spreadsheet it'll auto update both the proposal and the invoice.
Another thing we can do with the Expert Edition is we can add a letter or checklist. Let's say we want to send a customer thank-you letter we can just add that to the project. Okay, now it's added the letter.
I can open that up and you'll see it merges in the client and company data. And you can customize our stock templates, make your own letters, your own custom versions of all these. Since this is a contracting proposal and the Expert Edition will have our General Contractors Contract Pack.
Using the Expert Edition we could add a contract document. So say we want to have the clients sign off on an acceptance of the project we can add a contract acceptance sign-off form. Okay, now I've added that contract to the project.
You'll see it applied the Electrical #4 design theme to the contract and the color scheme and so on. This is just a general-purpose project sign-off document. There's lots of different contracts in there that you might find use for.
For dealing with subcontractors, contractors, employees, problem clients, project sign offs and so on, milestones. And that is how you create any number of contractor or construction related proposals, quotes and so on using many different design themes and many different pre-made layouts.


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If you've ever been a DBA and seen the mess that you get with SQL Agent Jobs without a clean naming standard for your job schedules and job names then you'll appreciate this tip.
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Using PyApacheAtlas to import SQL Server extended properties to Azure Purview
Azure Purview is a compliance and data governance platform in Microsoft's Azure cloud. The platform is currently in public preview and has quite a few features; but, does not currently import any of the extended properties that you may have added over the years to your SQL Server objects.
Living in the new normal as a data engineer
For the past few months most of the world has been in quarantine and you may think that this is the new normal, especially now that "re-opening" has been rolled back or paused in many places.
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SQL 2019 UDF (User defined function) inlining
SQL Server 2019 brings a lot of great new features. Many are introduced by the IQP (Intelligent Query Processing) features and greatly improve query performance.
Which Azure Data Platform service should I choose?
So you've decided to use Azure for your existing or new data project? This blog series is focused on choosing the right technology for your project. It's tough right? So many options and so many variables. This post will focus more on the cost of choices.
May the forced be with you?
Today is May the fourth and I'll start by saying: Happy Star Wars day to all. Since it is May the fourth I figured a Star Wars themed post would be nice.
Azure Data Factory trigger tip
This tip comes from my DBA days working with SQL Agent Job schedules. If you've ever worked on a server where many people created job schedules you'll know exactly what I mean when I say the schedule names can be really annoying.
It's 2020, Do I really need to DBCC CHECKDB?
I'll start by saying that I swear I posted this at some point in the past but I don't see it looking back at old posts. This is from Aug '19; though, I haven't seen any release notes on corruption in Azure.
Let's say you see a request to restore a database backup to an Azure Managed Instance. You do this task and then a few days later the team that asked for the restore says they are having problems connecting to the newly restored backup.
Database classifications have changed
Some time back I wrote about the new data classification features in Azure and SQL Server Management Studio. If you've done quite a bit of work classifying your data using the extended properties, guess what?


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Dear ancestors,
These lyrics are for you, that in two dissimilar lands refreshed, detached by a sea whose waters turn out to be each day more and more confused.
In life you have never encountered, and thanks to the freedom of a sheet and particularly the occasion to write on it - which we should continuously be thankful of, I see you joined, maybe standing in a normal living room, animated by the feeling of the instant and from the unavoidable amount of reminiscences to be traded.
Between the many, the one that happened precisely in July 1914, only to end, for favorable luck of all the characters, just over four years after…
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Healthcare and care through distance spanning solutions
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16 tammi 2020
24 practical examples from the Nordic region
Our new publication Healthcare and care through distance spanning solutions contains 24 practical examples from the Nordic region. What they have in common is that they are implemented, available for the population locally – and proven to work. Another distinguishing feature of these solutions is that they are a collection of digital services that make a big difference to many people around the Nordic region. All 27 million inhabitants in the Nordic region come at some point in contact with one of these solutions, either personally, through a relative or someone else in their vicinity.
The publication is primarily aimed at decision-makers at different levels, but it can be read by anyone interested in the effects of digital solutions on healthcare and care.
If all five countries in the Nordic countries were to implement these welfare technology services, many believe that we may very well be on the path to solving the future challenges in healthcare and care.
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Salvadoran news outlets have been closely documenting the thousands who have been arrested since last week, when the state of emergency came into effect. Detention centers in the capital, San Salvador, are so full that detainees are being sent to jails in rural areas.
While the government has claimed that the 6,000 people arrested since last week are all gang members, evidence is emerging that innocent civilians are being rounded up as they walk through their neighborhood, torn away from their children, friends or relatives and piled onto buses before they are driven off to jails across the country. On Tuesday, a journalist watched as a child with autism was detained, his mother crumpling onto the street, wailing with grief.
The news media has faced withering criticism from government officials, including accusations that they are sympathizing with gangs. A local news outlet, El Faro, was the first to break the news of the government's pact with the gangs, and after that article was published, spyware was downloaded on the phones of most El Faro reporters.
Observers have raised concerns about the independence of El Salvador's judicial system during the state of emergency. Last week, Mr. Bukele took to Twitter to order the investigation of a judge after the judge freed several gang members. Hours later, local news media reported that the judge had been transferred to a remote area in the interior of the country, presumably as punishment.
Under the state of emergency, freedom of assembly has been banned and the right to state-sponsored legal defense upon detention has been suspended. Since the arrests are unfolding in the poorest neighborhoods in the country, the change affects mostly detained residents of those areas.
Mr. Bukele has mocked the international community and rights groups that have expressed concern over the arrests.
"If they love the gang members so much, come get them, we'll give them to them two for one," the president Tweeted recently.


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Steps of love – Episode 22 by Ngozi Lovelyn
Ifunanya was pacing about, anxiously waiting for Beat's call.
Then, she remembered something and quickly called Beat to pause the attack.
"Why? The girl is in sight? Nothing will go wrong" Beat assured
"Just back down…I got a batter idea now. You know, I called you without weighing the outcome. The guy might have a hunch that I have a hand in it. I need to be very smart about this"
While they were still conversing over the phone, Amanda passed, walking as fast as her legs could carry. She placed all her concentration on where she was going and wasn't looking around.
"Listen, the guy won't find out a thing. I can manipulate the situation. You don't have a thing to bother" Beat insisted, while still sitting in the car
"No! I know Victor and how his mind works. Don't you see what is happening? He has forgiven this girl, despite everything that happened. See, just revise and go home. I have a more lucrative plan that will set every feelings Victor has for Amanda on fire. I will brief you later."
"Ok…" Beat complied, ending the call.
Amanda had reached the junction, and started walking slowly after she saw Victor standing by the car, waiting for her.
Her heart was beating fast as her mind continued racing on the best way to behave for Victor to love her even the more. But one thing she was 100% sure off was, her feelings for Victor. They were so real.
And Victor starting walking to her.
He felt like, he was dreaming.
While he was walking to meet Amanda, so many thoughts were playing in his mind.
"I can't believe it's all happening. Having my love, here with me. Love can start in all strange places. True love and its challenges. I'm going to…………." his thought was interrupted by Amanda who fell into his arm and hugging him, tightly.
He returned the hug, kissing her neck, as they continued feeling each other's arms in a firm tight manner.
"I feel like I'm dreaming" Victor said
"I want to remain in your arms like this till the end of time" Amanda wished, as feeling of love kept swallowing them.
"I finally found you my love, I'm not letting go. Now, I want you to say it again. I want to hear it. I want my heart to hear it again. I want my spirit to get fulfilled by the sound of it. Say it baby"
"I love you with all my heart, Victor" Amanda said, in the most romantic tone
And Victor felt something he never felt before as tear dropped.
He never knew what brought about the tear, but he loved every feeling of it.
"I love you too my queen. I will continue loving you for the rest of my life" Victor promised, as they still maintained a hug
Then, Amanda and her mind started dragging on whether to kiss him or not.
"Kiss him now. Just kiss him." her mind urged
"I'm shy…..I'm shy….I'm shy…"Amanda replied, struggling to beat her shy away
"Don't be a bush girl, kiss him now. This is the time. Kiss him!" her mind commanded…
And Amanda planted a kiss on Victor and quickly removed her mouth.
She faced down, feeling shy.
Victor noticed what was happening, and then caressed her cheek gently and smiling warmly.
Amanda was feeling her stomach tightening. She felt the touch deeply and wished for him to kiss her right that moment.
And Victor lifted her jaw and kissed her so passionately.
They kissed, not minding where they were.
Nothing else mattered at that moment.
To be continued
Steps of Love – by Ngozi Lovelyn
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Natural products are now extremely popular among cosmetics consumers, and demand for them is continuing to rise steadily. Desert King International, based out of San Diego, California, has specialized in the production of natural foaming agents since 1978 – including both liquid and powdered extracts from the Yucca schidigera plant. Desert King International produces Baja YE and Baja YD 50 (INCI: Yucca schidigera Stem Extract) for cosmetics, among other industry sectors, and has been the global market leader in the field of Yucca schidigera extracts for the past 40+ years. The Yucca schidigera plant contains a number of steroids, saponins and polyphenols such as resveratrol, and has been used in Mexico for centuries for its anti-inflammatory and anti-arthritic properties.
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Notice the title is all caps. These two words are so important. I am reflecting on their importance over thinking.
Are there things you FEEL you know but can't explain. There is no book, logic, news media, school teacher telling you this is the right thing. They are your beliefs that you may list as WHAT IFs? That would be fun to post what ifs you'd like to share? I'll start:
What if all the children that came across the boarder since Mr Bidan presumable took office are actually now in a SAFE (ware)house type setting (due to their number). Perhaps they were sent here to refill the supply of children for trafficking's purposes. Now, they are in SAFE keeping. Have you heard the saying – – – "never let a good crisis go to waste."? Is that not an easy way to rescue children? Lets also pray for this.
What if Vladimir Putin is simultaneously working to free evil from our earth? Lets also pray for this.
What if We have been dumbed down. Our DNA has been compromised. All for Evil to be able to control us. Evil does not have intuition and discernment.


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The Centre for Exchange, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Jain (Deemed-to-be University) organized a guest lecture on Words of Wisdom- A talk on Industry Related Skills in Humanities and Social Sciences on December 5, 2020.
The keynote speaker for the event was Mr. Aravind Warrior, Head-HR, RapidValue Solutions. The session was to learn about the 3Ps- purpose, passion, perseverance, and practicing the 5Cs, character, competence, communication, collaboration, and commitment to create an impactful life.
He spoke about other skills needed to grow in life both personally and professionally like disciple, punctuality, organization, accountability, creativity, research, hard work, to see every problem as an opportunity, with passion. The participants also learned about the significance of having role models and staying true to oneself, facing challenges, building networks, and a focused attitude.
The guest lecture was a great learning experience for the participants and encouraged them to think critically for developing the power for an impactful life.


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Illustration © Madame Treacle One of the many lessons of 2020 was that finding safe ways to meaningfully connect with others is more important than ever for our mental health, both individually and as a society. While videoconferencing platforms have been popular choices for doing so, people have also been turning to good old-fashioned snail-mail.Continue reading "#StationerySundays (1/3/21) – Building Stronger Ties in 2021"
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#StationerySundays (11/8/20) – A Perfect Time to Give Thanks
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#StationerySundays (10/25/20) – Stamping Out Winter Dread
As Game of Thrones fans have heard many times, Winter Is Coming. In October, with days getting shorter and temperatures getting cooler, some people who suffer annually from Seasonal Affective Disorder are already starting to feel their symptoms kick in. A few parts of the U.S. have already gotten heavy snow, and it's not evenContinue reading "#StationerySundays (10/25/20) – Stamping Out Winter Dread"
#StationerySundays (10/18/20) – Eco-Friendly Greeting Cards
Illustration © JacquieLawson.com While the production of greeting cards ranks relatively low among current threats to nature, the paper, plastics, inks, manufacturing, and printing it typically involves do have an environmental footprint via the harvesting of trees and the toxic byproducts generated from the creation of inks and dyes and from the manufacturing, printing, andContinue reading "#StationerySundays (10/18/20) – Eco-Friendly Greeting Cards"
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By any account, 2020 has been a truly frightening and horrific year for most people in one respect or another, so at first blush, now would seem like an awkward time to celebrate a holiday that revels in the spooky and macabre — especially since there will be far fewer trick-or-treaters wandering about. However, IContinue reading "#StationerySundays (10/11/20) – Embracing Halloween's Lighter Side in a Dark Time"
#StationerySundays (10/4/20) – 5 Ways to Help Your Mail Carrier
As discussed in my August 16th post (not to mention countless news outlets, of course), the U.S. Post Office is struggling mightily at the moment. As the organization grapples with an array of woes, legions of essential workers are processing and delivering our mail every day in the midst of a global pandemic while soContinue reading "#StationerySundays (10/4/20) – 5 Ways to Help Your Mail Carrier"
#StationerySundays (9/27/20) – "Sealed with a…": The Art of Wax Sealing
Shortly after I joined Instagram to promote this blog, snailmailkatie's amazing handmade wax seals on the outside of her envelopes inspired me to level up my notecrafting skill set by learning how to create my own wax seals (two of which are pictured above). Prior to seeing Katie's feed, I had thought of wax sealsContinue reading "#StationerySundays (9/27/20) – "Sealed with a…": The Art of Wax Sealing"
#StationerySundays (9/20/20) – Celebrating "Thinking of You" Week
When I attended the U.S. Greeting Card Association (GCA) webinar described in my August 7th post, I learned about "Thinking of You" Week, which began in the U.K. in 2014 and reached U.S. shores in 2018 with the GCA's sponsorship. Observed annually toward the end of September, it takes on special significance this year (September 21-27,Continue reading "#StationerySundays (9/20/20) – Celebrating "Thinking of You" Week"
#StationerySundays (9/13/20) – Homeward Bound
Around the world, "home" has been front and center in people's consciousness over the past six months — whether as a source of comfort and safety, frustration and hardship, or some combination thereof. With most of us experiencing extended confinement, we have been forced to reckon with our immediate surroundings. In many cases, people haveContinue reading "#StationerySundays (9/13/20) – Homeward Bound"


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If you do any amount of RVing in state or national parks, you know what to expect: you drive in after a long day on the road, you look around and see that half of the sites are empty–but nope, nothing's available. Everything, you're told, has been booked. But guess what? Come back in the morning, and most of those sites are still empty. What the heck is going on?
Now an official audit in Colorado is providing some answers, and they aren't pretty. Lack of staff training in reservation software. Staff setting aside sites for friends and family–or worse, making a few bucks on the side from cash-paying campers. A reluctance to enforce policies. Fear of antagonizing campers who show up too late, too soon or who end up on the wrong site. All of it adds up to millions of dollars in lost revenue for a park system looking at annual budget shortfalls, not to mention thousands of frustrated campers who can't understand why they've been locked out. Worst of all, there's no way of knowing how representative Colorado is of the rest of the country, where similar problems abound.
But let's get to what we do know. The 30-page performance audit of Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW), which manages 4,200 campsites across 32 state parks, was released May 25. Among its key findings:
–36% of the sites were closed for at least one night between Jan. 1 and Sept. 7 last year, at a loss of $1.9 million in forsaken site fees. Of the 374,000 nights that those sites could have been reserved, nearly 53,100 were not available during the camping season; 12% of the closures were for more than a month. Full-hookup sites, which have a minimum standard nightly fee of $41, accounted for the most closed sites.
— Although park managers are allowed to lower campsite reservation fees to encourage occupancy, overall demand was up 16% from the prior year–yet 136,517 reserved nights were discounted a total of $836,921, without any recorded justification. The combination of lost and discounted site fees, plus unjustified refunds for cancelled reservations, cost the CPW $2.8 million in just eight months, equivalent to 19% of the revenues it did collect from campsite reservations. Meanwhile, the agency is expecting an annual budget shortfall of $11 million by 2025.
But it wasn't just site closures that were frustrating campers. A related problem–to which, alas, the auditors gave only minimal attention–is one of campsites remaining vacant due to no-shows. The audit notes that it reviewed a random sample of 25 reservations–out of thousands!–and found "three (12 percent) instances where the campers did not show up at their reservation start time and did not notify park staff that they would be late or would not be able to fulfill the reservation." Park staff, the auditors added, did not cancel any of these reservations to make the sites available for rebooking, "which means that the campsites remained vacant."
Why did these various problems occur? Partly because park managers and staff were poorly trained–or nor trained at all–in using the state's reservation system. Partly because of deliberate misuse and favoritism, with campsites closed to benefit family or friends; moreover, as one park manger told the auditors, "There is definitely a risk that an employee could close a site for personal gain." Partly because of a desire by staff to avoid confrontations with campers: 28 park managers (in a system of 32 parks) stated that staff would close sites "in anticipation of customer service challenges (e.g. people camping at the wrong site, campers showing up on the wrong day, or campers wanting to stay longer)."
Ironically, the problem of sites left empty because of no-shows–some of which may have been booked for as long as two weeks–was seemingly addressed back in 2015, when CPW first published a policy that park staff would resell sites if campers did not show up to claim their reservations. But while the agency's reservation system includes a no-show function to enable staff to enforce the policy, that function was disabled "because CPW does not consider its publicly stated policies to be enforceable because they are not regulatory documents."
As the auditors pointed out, that's a hollow rationale indeed, since CPW has other policies that are not regulations that it nevertheless enforces. Worse yet, CPW last November adopted a no-show regulation, negating its earlier rationale–but inexplicably decided to keep the function disabled unless regional managers requested it be turned on. And according to CPW staff, "regional managers have not requested to have the no-show functionality enabled," and CPW staff "have not asked if regional managers want the functionality." Don't ask, don't tell.
As a result, "27 park managers who resp0nded to our survey stated that they do not release sites" when no-shows occur. "Instead, to prevent customer service challenges, park staff leave the sites empty in case the campers do show up before the end of their reservation."
Damning–and embarrassing–as these findings are, CPW didn't dispute either the facts or any of the auditors' six recommendations to fix the system, so perhaps there's light at the end of the tunnel. And while a couple of the recommendations won't be implemented until next year, one that DPW agreed to implement immediately is the long-overdue no-show policy. "CPW has already turned this feature on" within the reservation system, the auditors reported, "and direction has been provided to staff on how to use" it.
You have to wonder what the feds and other state park systems would turn up in a similar audit, how much lost money they could regain–and how many more RVers would be able to book sites that they currently can't get.
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Student Spotlight: Multitalented artist Emily Neely '17
Emily Neely '17's love of art started as a child when she would hand-copy pictures of horses, her favorite animals, from encyclopedias and books. Her mother noticed her proclivity for drawing and painting and suggested she attend an arts high school, where she concentrated on visual art. As a studio art minor at Dartmouth, she has continued to develop her style and technique while trying to find the intersection between her interests in sociology and art.
When she matriculated to Dartmouth, Neely wanted to take a break from art since her high school was so intensive. However, in her freshman winter she decided to take Drawing I with Enrico Riley.
"I realized then how much I missed it and wanted to do a minor," Neely said. "Art is something that I've been involved with for most of my life, but I just didn't think I was going to do it in college."
Neely has always been attracted to drawing animals, so taking Figure Drawing with Brenda Garand was out of her comfort zone, but getting to constantly practice with models was invaluable.
Taking Painting II with Riley also pushed Neely to grow as an artist because she had been on a hiatus from painting. At home, she does not get to paint because of the many materials and lengthy set-up it requires. Dartmouth is the one place where she can explore this medium, utilizing all of the resources available through the department and Black Family Visual Arts Center.
Neely is particularly inspired by artists like Kiki Smith and Enrique Martínez Celaya. Martínez Celaya is currently the Roth Distinguished Visiting Scholar and will be working and teaching at the College for 10 months. As part of her studio art class, Neely was able to visit his studio and see his works in progress.
"The common theme in their work is that they depict figures and animals — I am drawn to that," Neely said. "They handle them in a way that is unique and not photorealistic, which is what I want to do in my work."
Danielle Jones '17, Neely's friend and longtime roommate, has enjoyed seeing the happiness creating art brings to Neely.
"I know it's very labor intensive, but I know she enjoys doing it," Jones said. "I think that shows through [her art] somehow."
While on the art history Foreign Study Program in Rome, Italy her junior spring, Neely enjoyed seeing the details of works by the old masters in person. She learned from the skill and technique demonstrated in the art and has tried to incorporate those lessons into her own work.
"[In the program], we focused on the artists — how they think and make art," Neely said. "Looking at frescoes, which you have to paint very quickly, we realized that the artists had to know what they were painting, and they did it with such skill."
Neely has made an impression on the studio art professors she has taken classes with, such as studio art professor Colleen Randall, with whom Neely took Drawing II and is currently taking Painting II.
"What I was first impressed with when I was working with her last fall was her sense of imagination and humor," Randall said. "She's also able to place detail in the context of a larger picture — that really characterizes her work."
Randall found Neely's Drawing II final project particularly striking. Neely created a 3-D sculpture using huge drawings of elephants and oriented them in a circle, reminiscent of the effects of a kaleidoscope.
"She's very insightful and sensitive to reading visual images, both her own as well as her classmates' work," Randall said. "She has a very thorough comprehension of the underlying principles and structure of what drives the work of art that she's working on."
Neely's creative mind is not only exercised in studio art classes but also permeates her life and how she interacts with others.
"Her creativity doesn't stop at just her amazing art skills, but I see it in her style, in group projects or classroom discussions," Erika Johnson '17, a friend of Neely's and fellow sociology major, said.
As a sociology major, Neely has become interested in community outreach work, especially related to the arts. Fortunately, as an Outreach Intern at the Hopkins Center, she has been able to gain hands-on experience, which has exposed her to the business and administrative side of art.
Being involved with the Hop has been fulfilling for Neely and has reinforced her interest in pursuing an arts-related career in the future.
"The Hop is such a creative environment," Neely said. "There's a mentality there that is different and open."
Brandea Turner, senior events manager and internship coordinator at the Hop, has worked with Neely throughout her time as an usher, house manager and now as an outreach intern. The internship program provides experience in departments across the Hop and also involves writing for the center's blog. The program culminates in a trip to New York City, which gives the interns insight into how arts administration works in other places.
"This internship has opened [Neely's] eyes to [an] arts career," Turner said. "It has allowed her to explore the idea of what arts can do in a community and what her role could be."
Turner appreciates the creative skills Neely brings to the Hop. Neely designed the invitation for the Great Hop Halloween Hunt, the scavenger hunt sponsored by the Hop's interns, Turner said.
"She brings her knowledge [of art] to the Hop, and then she is learning from the Hop to direct her future steps," Turner said.
Neely's internship has solidified her desire to work in a field that will allow her to explore arts as a way to serve communities, she said.


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They are from the Phoenix 43 Scale Miniatures range available from S and D Models. The guy on the left is supplied with separate head and arms and the guy on the right with separate head and shovel. Not sure why because there is only one suitable pose to apply.
The guy on the left was sold to me as a Driver but having assembled him he has a rather odd pose for a driver, don't you think.
Considering these are not 3D printed (noted for high definition) the definition is remarkable good with individual fingers clearly defined and well detailed facial features. They are moulded in pewter.
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As a key analytics tool for many businesses & marketers, it's always worth paying attention to the latest stats from Google Analytics.
And for the first time, Google has released analytics data collected over the last two years from hundreds of thousands of websites who opted in to share this information anonymously.
The findings reveal some interesting trends, most notably about the correlation between bounce rates, page visits and time on site:
Page visits & bounce rates down
Overall, sites have seen a reduction in pages visited by 0.4% and time on site by -0:26, but curiously they've also seen a decline in bounce rates of 1.2%.
Geographically, UK sites had a bounce rate of 41.5%, comparable to the US but significantly lower than sites from Europe and Asia.
Though the margins are small, is this an indication that sites are distilling their content more effectively and proving to be more 'sticky', yet in doing so requiring users to spend a shorter time on-site in order to find key information?
Or perhaps more users are now being referred through from social networks or blogs with a specific purpose and/or destination?
Equally, Google is improving its ability to serve up more relevant results in the SERPs, highlighting the importance to businesses of providing targeted content on each page of their site.
It's hard to know for sure, but it will be interesting to see how and if the trend continues when the next round of data is released in the future.
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The Wachowski's latest "Jupiter Ascending" is getting an Amazon exclusive German Steelbook release in June
It's fair to say that the Wachowskis have failed to live up to the promise of their early movies, Bound and The Matrix. The only highlight since then was V for Vendetta, which they produced but didn't direct.
Jupiter Ascending isn't going to help – it was delayed from a 2014 release, and, now it's with us, has met with almost universal scorn. The only things the critics can seem to agree on is that the visuals are incredible.
If you want to avoid the embarrassment of being caught seeing this on the big screen, then the Blu-ray release will be just the thing, and on June 25th Amazon Germany are bringing us their exclusive steelbook release, which will include a 3D version of the movie.
Extras and art are still TBC, but you can place your order now.
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The Wachowskis helm this sci-fi action adventure starring Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum and Eddie Redmayne. In the future it is revealed that humans were not born on Earth but the planet was, in fact, seeded by the royal House of Abrasax, the most powerful alien dynasty, 100,000 years ago. After their mother dies, the Abrasax children and heirs to Earth – Balem (Redmayne), Kalique (Tuppence Middleton) and Titus (Douglas Booth) – compete for their inheritance. When Balem, who currently controls the planet, discovers that Earth-born cleaner Jupiter Jones (Kunis) is also an heir he arranges for her to be killed. With the help of interplanetary warrior Caine Wise (Tatum), Jupiter must face Balem as he plans to harvest the Earth. Can she rise to the challenge? The cast also features Sean Bean as Caine's comrade Stinger and Terry Gilliam in a small role.


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The attorney representing New York Giants safety Kamrin Moore says his accuser fabricated allegations against him — allegations that led to his arrest on domestic assault-related charges.
The woman — whose name is withheld as an alleged victim of domestic violence — claims Moore punched her, stepped on her throat and knocked her unconscious during an incident last Thursday. It has also been reported that this woman and another woman, now identified as Moore's girlfriend, engaged in a physical altercation after the former showed up at his residence unannounced.
"The claimant in this matter showed up unannounced and unsolicited at Mr. Moore's home to begin an altercation with Mr. Moore's girlfriend and invent these accusations," attorney Alex Spiro said in a statement released through Moore's NFL agent to NJ Advance Media. "He will be fully cleared of all charges."
An affidavit filed by the Union County Prosecutor's Office confirms that the alleged victim showed up at Moore's home after several of her text messaged had gone unanswered. She also informed police that she was Moore's girlfriend and that the two had been dating since January.
Moore appeared in Linden Superior Court on Monday afternoon.
"While the complaint involves serious allegations, representatives for Mr. Moore are requesting that the media, social media, general public, and Giants fans use extreme caution and not pass judgment upon Mr. Moore until due process has run its course," said Eugene Lee, president of MBK Sports and Moore's agent.
"We remain confident that when the truth is revealed, Mr. Moore will be exonerated and vindicated completely of these baseless charges."
Moore's combined representation issued an additional statement on Monday evening.
The Giants announced on Monday that Moore had been suspending pending a more substantial investigation.


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Seed banks in soil
Chris at woodlands.co.uk tells us about 'soil seed banks'. Growers and farmers know very well how seeds can live in soil, ready to germinate when conditions change. This can be wonderful, terrible or both. Chris's article stirs an old seedbank … Continue reading
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Gardens for wildlife
Here in Britain the gardening season looks good so far. Here's an article about gardening for bees and other wildlife. Untidy gardeners like me are good gardeners for wildlife. It's now a year since hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus) bred in my … Continue reading
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Feature: Protecting the pollinators part 1 – bees and ecology
argylesock says… We need bees and other pollinators. We really, really need them. Here's the first of three articles about pollinators, from the Wellcome Trust blog, which I'll pass on today.
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Genetic engineering in agriculture
As the European Union and the United States approach agreement on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), now's a good time for us Europeans to approach understanding of USian farming. And vice versa. Today I'm looking at the Union … Continue reading
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Fertilisers destabilise grasslands
Here's new evidence that fertilising grasslands can make them less stable. Therefore, fertilised grasslands might become more vulnerable to climate change. This is a serious matter in our hungry world. Here's the science. This research was led by Andy Hector … Continue reading
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Has Owen Gone Off-piste on Offsetting?
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Neonic ban starts today
Today a two-year ban on three insecticides called neonics (neonicotinoids) came into force across the European Union (EU). The neonics are used as seed dressings to reduce pest attacks. Their names are clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam. The neonics have been … Continue reading
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New Marine Conservation Zones around England
New Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs) will soon be created in English seas to protect coral reefs and other marine life. Yesterday Auntie Beeb told us that there are to be 27 new MCZs. 'Announcing the 27 new zones, marine environment … Continue reading