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10 New Entries in the World of Cool Wearable Tech
Wearable tech gadgets are everywhere in the news these days. From smartwatches to wearable fitness devices, the world of wearable tech is slowly on the verge of becoming the next big thing in technology. And why not? The whole purpose of this branch of technology is to make your life easy and more convenient. Here are 10 best wearable tech introduced recently which can do wonders to your life if used well.
Samsung Gear 2 Neo Smartwatch
Get real time smartphone notifications and fitness alerts on the Samsung Gear 2 Neo Smartwatch. Thanks to this piece of wearable tech, your digital information will now be available right from your wrists. The purpose of this smartwatch is to help you stay connected with the digital world without feeling distracted at any point in time.
Jawbone Up2 Fitness Tracker
Fitness trackers never looked so good. On the outside UP2â"¢ is the thinnest, sleekest, style-savvy tracker out there. On the inside, Smart Coach generates fitness insights and activity plans that make reaching your goals that much easier.
UP3 Advanced Tracker By Jawbone
The world's most advanced tracker. Everyone has had a life changing experience sometime. This is one of those times. UP3â"¢ is simply the most advanced tracker you can buy. Its classic, durable design will stand the test of time.
ZafeBit is a wearable smartwatch that can alert your friends in seconds if you get into an emergency. Your ZafeBit watch has two different personal safety alarms, one silent alarm that will notify your friends that you are in an emergency plus a loud 110db sound alarm that will notify all people around you.
Mycestro Wearable Mouse
Use gestures to control your cursor on the computer screen. The Mycestro Wearable Mouse takes the entire operation to a new level with the help of gesture control. It's ideal for use on planes or conferences or any other place that lacks the presence of horizontal surfaces. In fact, by using this mouse you can actually make your presentations way more interesting and super fun.
Sleep Shepherd Sleep System
The Sleep Shepherd® is the first at home sleep device that monitors your brainwaves in real time and uses a biofeedback loop to help you fall asleep quickly through the use of specially engineered tones.
The most advanced wearable in the world - use multiple applications and control with simple gestures. HIRIS is here to simplify your life. Use it with or without your gloves, when your hands are wet or dirty: the Air Touch function make HIRIS usable in any situations. From monitoring your heart rate and fitness performance to enabling you to control almost any connected device, HIRIS is the only wearable computer that brings style and infinite functionality together as one.
Misfit Flash Activity Tracker
Staying in touch with your regular fitness schedule is going to be super stylish when you wear one of these Misfit Flash Activity Trackers. It's a sporty activity tracker that can be worn as a wristband or even clipped to your clothing if required. The tracker provides you with real-time tracking of steps, distance, calories burned and sleep quality.
The Movo Wave
The Movo Wave is the first wearable device made for everyone. Available for only $29.99, the Wave seamlessly fits into everyday life, helping people understand their daily activity by tracking steps, distance traveled and calories burned.
Adidas MiCoach
Set and achieve your weekly goals or setup personalised training plans. Which ever way you prefer to train, FIT SMART will provide simple to understand guidance of your workout intensity to keep you on track. Measures real-time heart rate, calories, pace / speed, distance and stride rate all from the wrist with no additional sensors required.


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Saturday, 12 May 2012
Song Bird
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Such a professional card Emma, love the layout, image, colours. Just gorgeous. I have just arrived back from the Port Sunlight show and I'm sure I saw some of your samples on the stand. You are very professional and talented in all you create. You so deserve all your recognition and all your hard work is very worthwhile, trust me. Tracy xReplyDelete
A truly stunning card Emma, but then they always are. I wish mine were as perfect as yours.ReplyDelete
Oh my this is stunning, love what you've done with this. Great work. Zo xxReplyDelete
- Anonymous12 May 2012 at 18:41
Completely & utterly gorgeous.ReplyDelete
That is simply stunning Emma.ReplyDelete
C xx
I'm with you on letting these stunning stamps do the talking, Emma. This one was my favourite and I love how you've used that MS punch to set it off. It's a really beautiful, elegant card.ReplyDelete
Hope you have a good week, I won't be around much, so forgive me for not visiting. I'm going into hospital on Tuesday so will be out of action for a few days.
Catch up with you soon.
hugs Lisax
- Anonymous13 May 2012 at 20:46
Hi Emma, this is another gorgeous and perfectly made card. You are so precise in your work and they look just as stunning IRL - I played 'spot Emma's cards' at Happy Stampers today, lol! The samples weren't labelled but I think I'd know your work anywhere.ReplyDelete
I couldn't get near Barbara - they'll have to put a big screen up and give her a microphone next year, so we can all see and hear her, lol!
Hi EmmaReplyDelete
What a fantastic card - love it. Also thank you so much for your lovely comment over on my blog about my new DT position - I'm so excited and so pleased to be working alongside people as talented as you - just look at the list of DT's you are on - inspiring!
Take care and speak soon.
PS Also well done on making the front of that magazine cover that must be SOOOO exciting and well deserved. XX
I love this card Emma, I have a bit of a 'thing' for birds, and have to admit to being a bit of a birdy geek :-).ReplyDelete
it is a fabulous stamp, and may just need to head over to Clarity and relieve them of one.
Thanks for visiting my blog. Things are hectic at home so I havn't had a chance to craft for a week.
Take care, Claire
Ciao, Emma. Your cards are very very elegant!ReplyDelete
Hi Emma, another beautiful creation. That sentiment is lovely.ReplyDelete
Hope you had a great weekend,
Liz x
PS, look out for my hubby, he is in your neck of the woods working until Friday!
I love this design but I have an aversion to crafting anything to do with birds, don't ask me why but whether its cards, cross stitch, scrapbooking, I can't abide birds on anything. Its a great image though and so professionalReplyDelete
what a stunning card! artistic in every way...amazing stamps and love the colour choice as well...the quote is perfect as well...beautiful!ReplyDelete
Thank you for all your comments and messages, they are all appreciated and I hope you'll come back and visit again soon...
Emma ~xx

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Monday, January 18, 2016
Grit and Grace
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I find working in a 'loose' way is difficult. I m still trying. Your pages are amazing and you are managing to experiment whilst still working in your distinctive style. I love the beautiful paper and the torn edges in your sketchbook too.ReplyDelete
Kim, these pages are just lovely to look at. The earthy tones and whimsical figures and touches make it so wonderful. I am sure the course is a good one, I love Katie's work too.ReplyDelete
The torn edges of your sketchbook remind me of an old scroll. I love that look! Happy week to you.
I love that wonderful, whimsical rabbit face! And your colors are so atmospheric.ReplyDelete
Nice to hear you are enjoying the course.ReplyDelete
I have enjoyed seeing each of your pieces.
Hi Kim. Lovely work. Have fun loosening up!ReplyDelete
Is it cold outside? Keep warm. xo
Loving these pages! I know what you mean about loosening up....lately I'm so tight I'm afraid my fingers might snap off when I try and draw....lol :-/ReplyDelete
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The Wiebergs are fixtures in the St. Elizabeth area. Stanley and Sandra Wieberg have lived in Iberia and worked in Jefferson City for several decades. They organized car pools for locals to get to work in Jefferson City for most of that time, and they've been playing a few dollars on the Missouri Lottery all the while, too. Persistence finally paid off for the couple when they won the $3.3 million Lotto jackpot on Feb. 24. Stanley said karma also might have had something to do with their luck.
The day he bought the winning ticket, Stanley had a car in for maintenance. The mechanic who worked on his vehicle left a very expensive power tool in the car. Being a retired mechanic, Stanley knew how much the tool was worth and took it back to the dealership. The worker was very relieved.
"We took it back, and I guess that's the reason," he exclaimed. "Maybe doing the good deed paid off."
They found out they were winners when one of their daughters shared that a winning ticket had been sold at C & D Market, 722 Highway 52, in St. Elizabeth.
"I texted her back and said, 'I wonder who that was. It must be nice," recalled Sandra.
"What were the numbers?" asked Stanley.
Sandra pulled up the numbers on MOLottery.com.
"I started reading the first couple," said Sandra. "Then he started naming the rest. I'm like, 'How do you know?'"
"Because they're here on this ticket," replied Stanley.
C & D Market received a $5,000 bonus for selling the winning jackpot ticket. The winning Lotto numbers for Feb. 24 were: 1, 3, 8, 13, 25 and 32.
Sandra still works part-time for the Department of Health and Senior Services, but she is considering full retirement now. She and Stanley have some travelling to do.
"Pay bills and do some traveling," Sandra said of their plans.
"I've always wanted to go to Alaska," added Stanley.
Other plans include fixing up Stanley's first car – a 1964 Falcon.
Stanley said he'll continue to the play the Lottery.
"If you don't play, you don't win," he stated.
Lotto is a twice-weekly Draw Game with jackpots that start at $1 million.
Players must be 18 years or older to purchase Missouri Lottery tickets.
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For the last 14 years, almost to the day, I've worked at Netskills, helping people understand how to use technology in education. On Monday though, I start a new job helping Newcastle University make our research open access. This post is part announcement mixed with a bit of reminiscence before I move on and start to think (and blog) about new things.
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Blackboard Collaborate Plan lets you create a structured session plan in advance of a live event in Collaborate. This will save you time uploading content and configuring the system so that you can spend it helping people learn. Here Steve describes how Plan works and how we use it to make our online workshops run more smoothly.
I'd like to offer our workshop "Making WordPress Work for You" online. However, the nature of the workshop makes translating it to an online course presents a different challenge to others I've done this with and so this post is a form of thinking out loud in the hope of getting some feedback on whether this is a good idea and advice on the best approaches to take.
To support a screencasting workshop I ran for Newcastle University library I wanted participants to explore and evaluate a range of screencasts. As this as a custom course, I had a bit of freedom to consider the alternatives to a page on our site. I looked at using delicious with custom tags and a diigo list, but neither offered quite what I wanted – something quick, simple, that I already used, that didn't need registration and looked stylish. Enter bit.ly bundles.
This posts reflects on the first full-day Netskills workshop run entirely online through Elluminate. This was a podcasting workshop adapted from an existing face-to-face event covering planning, production and publishing. In moving this course online, I wanted to provide the same practical learning experience and meet the same outcomes. This post describes how the online event was structured and supported and highlights where remote training required a significantly different approach.
A quick review of a new Slideshare feature I just tried out called Zipcasting. This lets you live broadcast your slides from within Slideshare with audio, video and chat, either publicly or with an unlimited number of invited participants via a custom URL. This looks like a lightweight, but useful, approach to remote presentation where you don't need a fully-featured web conferencing system.
The more I use self-hosted installs of WordPress, the more I've learned about how powerful, flexible and useful it is. So in my role as a trainer for JISC Netskills I'm thinking of developing a workshop to distill that experience into something that other people might benefit from. I'm aware that there are lots of great resources out there already, so see the event as a day of supported practicals where participants can install WordPress (locally), play with plugins and themes and start to explore how WordPress is put together and can be customised. I have a plan, but would love to hear if you think it's worthwhile or how it could be improved.
BigBlueButton is a free, open source web conferencing system that allows remote presentation with slides, audio, video, chat and desktop-sharing. The developers vision for this is to make starting a web conference as easy as clicking a single metaphorical big blue button. While that was certainly my experience with their public demonstration, I wanted to go a bit further an try self-hosting an install, so this post will touch on the hosting and management aspects, as well as the user-experience.
My lightning talk at JISC dev8D on how developers in the JISC community can communicate with a broad, non-technical audience. Whilst most of the points I make are common sense, being asked to talk about this at dev8D implies that there is still something of a communication problem between the developers of a system and it's end-users, so it doesn't hurt to remind ourselves of the obvious occasionally.
This is a slidecast produced for participants in an online training session on podcasting for JISC RSC-NW. The idea is to give participants the opportunity to come up with ideas for what formats and approaches would work for their podcast before the event, so that the time online can focus on the practicalities of producing a podcast. …


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A Thai man is recovering in hospital after a 3m (10ft) python emerged from a squat toilet and sank its teeth into his penis.
Attaporn Boonmakchuay said the python was "yanking very hard" as he and his wife tried to wrestle it off.
Doctors said Mr Attaporn, who lost a lot of blood in the ordeal, was making a good recovery.
Workers dismantled the toilet and extracted the python which had slithered through domestic plumbing.
It was released back into the wild.
The incident happened as Mr Attaporn, 38, went to the toilet at his home in Chachoengsao province, east of Bangkok, before leaving for work on Wednesday.
As he used the toilet he said he suddenly felt a sharp pain.
"I felt as though my penis had been severed. The snake was yanking very hard," he said, according to the Bangkok Post.
As the python tried to pull him down, he called for his wife and neighbours to help him, the post reported.
Mr Attaporn told Thai TV that his wife tied a rope around the snake and he pried its jaws open before passing out.
Thai media published images of Mr Attaporn's blood-spattered toilet.
Doctors said Mr Attaporn was recovering well.
"He has a really good attitude… even though his own wife and children were in shock. He's been smiling and giving interviews all day from his bed," said Chularat Hospital director Dr Chutima Pincharoen.
Mr Attaporn said he planned to replace the squat toilet with a sitting one.


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The Title I, Part A grant program is designed to provide extra resources to high-poverty schools to help them serve their at-risk students.
To ensure that Title I, Part A funding is indeed extra—that is, to prevent a local educational agency (LEA) from using federal funds to replace state and local resources—the statute authorizing the program includes three "fiscal accountability requirements." TEA publishes a separate guidance handbook for each of those requirements.
The TEA handbook and additional resources below discuss the fiscal accountability requirement known as comparability of services and explains the responsibility in meeting that requirement.
Important Note: An LEA that does not receive any Title I, Part A funds is not required to submit any information or documentation to TEA regarding the Title I, Part A Comparability of Services requirement. This handbook is only applicable to LEAs that receive Title I, Part A funds.


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Its exclusive formula is enriched with anti-aging active ingredients such as a concentrated extract of wine with anti - free radicals, detoxifying and rejuvenating the hair and extract sap from Bamboo moisturizing and nourishing.
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It was a terrible coincidence that has focused attention on one of Vietnam's worst problems: In the past week, motorbikes hit and killed two beloved professors on the streets of Hanoi.
One, the president of Hanoi National University, died a day after he was struck during an afternoon stroll near his home.
The other, a professor emeritus from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US, is in a coma after being run down on a busy street in front of his Hanoi hotel.
A chartered plane yesterday flew technology and education expert Seymour Papert, 78, back to Boston, along with family members, a nurse and a neurologist.
Papert, in Hanoi for an international mathematics conference, had been talking to a friend about ways to solve Hanoi's traffic problems when a speeding motorbike hit him on Dec. 7.
On Thursday, thousands attended the funeral of university president and mechanical engineering professor Nguyen Van Dao, 70.
"We must find a way to solve the traffic problems here," said Nguyen Thi Viet Thanh, a colleague of Dao's. "This is such a big loss."
Government statistics show traffic accidents, the leading cause of death in Vietnam, claim about 12,000 lives every year in the country of 84 million.
Some international organizations estimate the actual number is twice as high.
Ninety percent of accidents involve motorbikes, the primary means of transport in the developing country, where few can afford cars.
Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City roads teem with speeding motorbikes. Traffic law enforcement is lax. Drivers routinely run red lights and go the wrong way on one-way streets.
Honking horns and chatting on mobile phones, they weave across lane markers.
Crossing the street is hazardous for pedestrians, especially tourists unfamiliar with local driving habits.
"The number of deaths is shocking, but the number of injuries is three times as high," said Nguyen Phuong Nam of the WHO's Vietnam office. "There are many serious head injuries."
Very few motorcyclists use helmets and many drivers lack experience, said Greig Craft, president of the Asia Injury Prevention Fund, a nonprofit group that makes low-cost helmets and promotes safe driving.
"I would call the traffic situation here an absolute crisis," Craft said. "In the West, if you run a red light, it is culturally unacceptable. But here, the young Vietnamese think it's cool."
Craft's group has been working for years to persuade Vietnam to make helmets mandatory, which he says would immediately cut traffic deaths by more than 30 percent.
Most Vietnamese believe strongly in fate, and that death will come when it is meant to. This contributes to a fatalistic attitude about traffic safety.
But the two professors' recent deaths have prompted many Vietnamese to call for a safety campaign. Newspapers have been filled with stories about the accidents. People flooded Internet chatrooms to vent frustrations.


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This position is to provide consulting services to customers who are planning to implement a platform using Microsoft's networking and infrastructure technologies. This position will be based in Atlanta, but future projects may present opportunities for travel within the US.
• Ability to analyze customer needs, document requirements, and design technical solutions
• Strong written and verbal skills from both business and technical perspectives
• 7+ years experience
Exper knowledge of Microsoft's current networking platform and supporting technologies including:
• Microsoft Cloud (Office 365 and Azure) experience
• Microsoft Exchange architecture skills
• Microsoft Exchange migration/upgrade experience
• Active Directory / ADFS / Hybrid
• Group policy management
• Virtualization using Hyper-V
• IP addressing and naming services (DHCP, DNS)
• Server hardware and configuration
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• Microsoft certification is highly desirable
• Previous consulting experience
• Powershell experience
• 3rd party migration tools (e.g. Quest)
• Microsoft EMS experience
• Microsoft System Center experience
• Microsoft firewall experience (ISA, TMG)
• Microsoft security software (Forefront)
• Microsoft "identity management" solutions (MIIS, ILM, FIM)
• Microsoft Skype for Business
• Knowledge of Single Signon solutions
• Microsoft SharePoint experience
• Virtualization using VMWare
Soft skills:
B2B Technologies is a consulting company, and our consultants work face-to-face with customers, so besides being technically competent, our successful consultants have these important soft skills:
• Strong presence, personality and leadership
• Articulate, confident, poised
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A Custom Layout for Editors
The editors inside the <oXygen/> window are dockable. They can be dragged and docked to the margin of any other editor so that they form any needed layout. In the right you can see a DocBook document split in two.
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Built in 2015, Kingsland Data Center is the first multi-tier wholesale data center in Singapore. The 208,000ft2, ten-story purpose-built data center facility is constructed upon a 7,700m2 site, providing more than 80,000ft2 of dedicated IT white space.
Security is important at the data center. The facility is guarded 24 x 7 and its perimeters and entire premises is augmented with CCTV cameras and bomb checks at access areas.
A wide range of requirements and specifications that constantly grow and change with each new customer means that Kingsland needed a solution that could keep up with this demand. Kingsland collaborates with its clients to co-design the security for each client space in the data center based on the client's own infrastructure and engineering standards.
Kingsland Data Center Uses Aimetis Symphony as a Scalable, Flexible, and Analytic-Ready Solution
Kingsland Data Center is a mission-critical facility requiring almost zero downtime to ensure businesses don't lose revenue and millions of people don't lose access to services they use every day.
Every client has its own unique set of critical environment requirements. Kingsland Data Center actively invites its clients to partake in a partnership and collaborative exercise and to co-design and customize the white space identified based on the client's own infrastructure and security standards.
This means Kingsland faces the unique challenge of multiple client security teams with complex requirements. This unique challenge, though difficult, has helped make Kingsland's VMS choice an easier one. Kingsland chose Aimetis Symphony™ for its scalability and flexibility so it can easily and continuously scale to ever-increasing client demands.
"[Our] clients place a lot of focus on security, and they have their own security teams. [If] they come to our facility and [identify] a breach…we're out," said Asher Ling, Chief Operating Officer, Kingsland Data Center. "My requirement for my guys is that we should have almost zero downtime. So, nothing stops…nothing stops."
To help Kingsland maximize uptime, Aimetis Symphony efficiently delivers built-in failover functionality without the need for expensive Microsoft Cluster licenses and extra servers.
The collaborative nature of the relationship between Kingsland and its clients means Kingsland needed a video management platform that could grow along with evolving and changing client needs. It also needed a flexible solution to accommodate different hardware and software components as needed.
"That was one of the things we noticed with Symphony, is that it's very interoperable with many different brands of cameras," added Asher.
Asher Ling takes great pride in the security system he and his team designed for Kingsland.
"From outside of the fence, to touching the door of the data halls, you at least have to go through five levels of checks," said Asher. "There is no way you can get around this facility without us knowing it."
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Top 10 Things to Bring on your Climbing and Camping Trip
by Rock Climbing For Life
I decided to create this little list because I have been on too many trips where people have forgotten some very essential things.
- A Tent
- Sleeping Bag (make sure that it is warm enough I have seen people be very cold in a 40+ degree sleeping bag in 20 degree weather)
- Sleeping Pad (Essential for less than flat terrain and will keep you a lot warmer and much more comfortable)
- Headlamp
- Climbing Gear (This should be the first thing that you double check before you leave for your trip)
- Water or Water treatment (Be sure that you make sure beforehand if the water is drinkable or if you need to bring water treatment)
- Food and Stove (You need to bring food that will nourish your body candy and chips won't cut it)
- Warm clothes (Check the weather and always prepare for the worst, keep in mind layering)
- First Aid Kit (You never know when you are going to need this baby, it should never leave your pack)
- Topos/Guidebooks (Should go without saying but be sure to be approriate guidebooks or topos of the climbing area)
These in my opinion are the top 10 things that you need for your climbing trip. Some additional things that are very helpful are extra socks, approach shoes, a towel if there are showers or river, toiletries, knife, crazy creek or chair, paper towels, a change of clean clothes for the ride home, finger nail clippers, credit card for emergencies, and some good friends to have a great time.
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Welcome to our site! Feel free to have a look around and contact us at anytime for a free quote. Our team is ready to fulfill all your water works needs.
Arizona Water Works Supply has been serving the utility industry for 38 years. Our employees have more than 120 years experience in plumbing and utility supply. Our experience extends to ownership of private water companies, as well as dealing with the Corporation Commission and ADEQ. When you contact us for information someone will answer your call immediately, and not leave you on hold for an extended period of time.
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Botswana Agate. Queen of the Agate family. Outstanding markings on the stones. with silver metal beads. Length approx 17 in.
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Ginza is a famously expensive shopping area, but if you know where to look things can be reasonably priced. This jewelry display was 50% off all the necklaces and bracelets and such, putting most things squarely in the 500-1000 yen range. Sparkly beads and stones are always fun to look at though, even if you aren't buying.
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We specialise in supplying home/office telecommunication products, from the latest digital (DECT) cordless phones for the home or office to a full range of communication technology solutions for larger companies.
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Japan's territory got a little bit bigger Wednesday after an eruption of an undersea volcano led to the birth of a small new island.
Pictures and video of the eruption show the new island form as smoke pours from an undersea volcano off the coast of Nishinoshima, a small uninhabited island in Tokyo's southern Ogasawara chain of islands.
The new, oval-shaped land mass measures about 200 meters long at its greatest point.
The eruption prompted the Japanese Coast Guard to issue a warning to ships around the area, as billowing smoke pours into the atmosphere and the threat of another eruption is still present.


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This morning we joined the Gaskells for a delicious breakfast of almond croissants (something we must have more often) and cornflakes. Sufficiently fueled for a day of sightseeing, we set off with Rowena's boyfriend Richard, and Rowena's dad Richard. We wandered around camping stores for a bit and I bought a blue melamine mug. The ones we have already aren't very big and when you pour a hot drink in them, they don't insulate well enough to wrap your hands around them safely (or stop you from burning your lips when you try to drink). We got our old cups because they were super light and stackable and we were worried about space, but it turns out that weight isn't really an issue at all and we have plenty of extra room in our panniers. I can't wait to use my new mug!
Shortly after we finished up at the camping stores, we said goodbye to both Richards as one was headed back home to York, and the other was off to work. Tyler and I wandered off towards the covered market to do one of my favorite things—meander around looking at cheese shops, butchers, florists, fresh fruit stands, and bakeries. After a nice relaxing stroll (we didn't buy anything) through the market I led us in the direction of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History (also housing the Pitt Rivers Museum).
As our trip continues my sense of direction is becoming increasingly keen and my navigation skills are greatly improving. I'm finding it easier and easier to read maps and I navigated for us around Oxford today as if I were a local. Sweet!
When we arrived at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History I assumed we would be exploring your normal run-of-the-mill natural history exhibits. Was I ever wrong! It was easily the most beautiful and appealing museum that I have ever been to. We ran around gawking at everything and touching the exhibits (you could!), until Tyler decided that we should start at the beginning so we wouldn't miss anything important.
We followed exhibits about evolution and the history of life on earth, getting excited when the first trilobite appeared and the first winged creatures managed to fly. Dinasaur bones, meteorites, and Dodo birds were luminous in this beautiful old building with a roof of skylights. Even the columns supporting the building were labeled with the type of stone and the place it came from. Upstairs, a beehive was connected to the outdoors by a small passageway through a window, and you could see bees doing the waggle dance and flying out to collect nectar. It was absolutely awesome!
Within the Natural History Museum is a smaller section called the Pitt Rivers Museum, a jumbled collection of "archeological and ethnographic" artifacts from around the world, collected by General Pitt Rivers in the 1800s. The museum is an artifact in itself—an example of what museums were like in the 1800s. The items have hand-written tags and labels, yellowed with age, and under the two-hundred-year-old glass exhibition cases are thick wooden drawers which you can pull out to find even more treasures inside. As it was the General's private collection, it's an eclectic mix of everything from Inuit clothing to Naga shrunken heads, snuff boxes and opium pipes to Buddhist statues. How cool!
We felt we could have explored the museums for another couple of weeks, but we left so Tyler could get some work done. He typed away on the laptop while I read The Two Towers. After several hours we set off to buy provisions for the coming days, and took the bus "home", our arms full of groceries. It was a double-decker bus and we sat up top in the very front, a huge window allowing us to enjoy the scenery.
When we got back, Tyler worked on my bike a bit, putting new bar tape on my handlebars (they were torn up from the accident), while I made salami & camembert wraps for the next couple of days. Then we went over to the Gaskell's and we were once again treated with a delicious meal and loads of interesting stories. We talked for hours about camping and camping ovens, and Tyler and Richard were both so excited sharing different ways of making fire. The Gaskells are so kind! Richard even gave us a screen for our stove (so we won't have to use our crappy foil one)! Thanks guys, we so loved being your guests!
We will miss our warm-hearted, enthusiastic new friends, but even if it is years from now, they are always welcome to come visit, and we know we are always welcome in their warm and cozy home. After dinner and hours of conversation, we were sad as we said goodbye and gave big hugs to Richard and Rowena. We'll see Liz in the morning, but she gave us huge hugs and lifted us off the ground, proving that she hadn't over-fed us afterall.
Back at our "house," we talked with the kids on Skype, and Tyler is currently packing up our things as I write this journal entry. It is now 1:00 the morning and I am oh so sleepy! It would be great to go to bed without journalling but I feel certain that perfect days like this one would fade quickly without writing it all down.


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City of Hope Proposal Revised
Tupelo should strive to develop an inclusive, cosmopolitan community that offers Hope to every resident and potential resident. Offer this Hope, and people will always desire to live here. No one will want to move away—middle class or otherwise. With innovative thought by community leaders, Tupelo can become a genuine City of Hope for everyone of its citizens for generations to come.
Tupelo is at an historic crossroads in its development as a city. Our community is now composed of an extremely diversified population. The city can continue with the old ways of development with a select few business leaders making all the decisions, or it can aspire to incorporate an entirely new, more transparent development process. Tupelo can become a genuine poster image for a true American Experiment. The city needs to embrace a developmental process where every citizen has the right and the power to know about and to question all that goes on in the public sphere. Tupelo should become a far more transparent decision making city.
The suggestions in this paper are not designed to denigrate past development procedures. On the contrary, these new ideas would clearly be built on the successes of the past. However, after generations of ignoring its growing minority population, its growing homosexual and avant gard population, its non-Christian population, and essentially dismissing the poor among us in favor of letting the federal government solve those seemingly intractable problems, Tupelo is now being forced to deal with all of these issues at once in the most difficult way possible—face to face. Ignoring these difficult issues is no longer an option.
As is stated in Tupelo's current Neighborhood Revitalization Plan: A Comprehensive Plan is a "blueprint" that provides guidance as to where and how this community will grow. Addressing three main questions:
What is the status of the city of Tupelo, right now?
What is the vision for the city of Tupelo in the future?
What needs to happen to achieve that vision?
There are many answers to these three questions. Traditionally, Tupelo leaders have offered economic related answers to these questions, i.e. creative housing programs, spending more money on education, luring businesses, creating jobs, and, currently, accenting these efforts with stricter code enforcement and other money related policies. No question. All these efforts for solving problems are important endeavors to consider. However, here are additional answers to the three questions above that could serve as points of discussion, as well, for how Tupelo's current effort at revitalization might take place:
What is the status of the city of Tupelo, right now?
- Tupelo's middle class is moving to city's suburbs in large numbers.
- Freeways make worker's commute easy, so people move outside city.
- Social realities place Tupelo public schools on "Academic Watch."
- Lowincome housing and rental units in Tupelo on the rise.
- TheMall at Barnes Crossing dominates Tupelo's retail market.
- Business development outside Barnes Crossing is challenging.
- No entrepreneurial industry replaced furniture industry to create jobs.
- Suburban and private schools score better academically thanTupelo.
- Elvis and Natchez Trace need more support to create more visitors.
- Toyota is coming and needs to experience a more cosmopolitan city.
- The black population in Tupelo will soon surpass the white population, just as it has recently done in Tupelo public schools.
This list poses difficult, complex issues for Tupelo. Tupelo is in monumental transition and has been for more than 20 years. Both the city government and the private
business/civic leaders are currently dealing with these issues as best they can. However, Tupelo leaders are adhering to an outdated problem solving paradigm. The old paradigm isn't as applicable to Tupelo's current complex realities as it needs to be.
An additional Tupelo development paradigm is required to meet the challenges of the 21stCentury. This paper suggests directions for a new paradigm and how to implement it.
The Taoist Chinese philosopher Laozi once wrote: "The more (laws) there are, the poorer people become." More laws mean less freedom for citizens. Laozi's dictum could be directed at the legal laws of governance. But, this dictum could also be true for age-old unwritten societal laws. Societal laws are part of what could be called "common sense" laws in a given society. Unfortunately, some outdated common sense societal laws still infect the modern day South, and for our specific purposes, Tupelo. It is difficult to amend societal common sense laws because these laws are not written on paper. They are written in our hearts and minds.
When things begin to go wrong in a community, existing laws—whether written or unwritten–need to be re-assessed. Things are definitely going wrong in Tupelo,
today. Our problems could relate to legal laws, but Tupelo's unwritten societal laws pose some of our greatest problems.
In Tupelo, societal laws relate to old common sense "Southern white" laws. These laws generally are directed against citizens groups such as blacks and other racial minorities, against homosexuals, against non-conformists (certain artists, musicians, writers, tc), and against the poor. The groups just listed are sometimes called the "fringe" elements of society. But, is "fringe" really the correct adjective in modern Tupelo?
These "fringe" groups combined amount to more than 60% of the Tupelo population. This is not a "fringe" number. This is a majority.
Traditionally, it has been hard for the status quo white Southern power structure in Tupelo to deal with all these "fringe" citizens face to face, as equals. But, today, given the nature of Tupelo's problems, face to face dealings have now become a necessity. In a sense, the positive Hopeful future of Tupelo is at stake. Certainly we must always be mindful of public safety and be mindful of public decency; but if Tupelo is to continue to grow and prosper as a cosmopolitan, modern community, Tupelo's current and deeply ingrained Southern "common sense" societal laws need adjusting. Nothing related to this adjustment will be easy, but it is absolutely necessary—long term, short term, and certainly because of Toyota's impending "term" in our area.
Tupelo was a poor, small Mississippi farming community 85 years ago that aspired to be something better in the modern age. Throughout most of the 20thCentury, Tupelo was generally unified in the public actions it took in order to develop into an outstanding community. The majority of the leaders, if not the people in general after initial reluctance, who lived here were in widespread agreement that we needed jobs to get people off hard-scrabble farms and into a better life. These unified community goals of "jobs, jobs, jobs" and "businesses,businesses, businesses" became an accepted "common sense" developmental paradigm for Tupelo. Tupelo developed and succeeded economically.
However, Tupelo failed to concentrate heavily on the more difficult societal issues, like true racial intergration, dealing honestly and openly with homosexuality, nurturing the extreme poor, and accepting the avant gard non-conformists in society. No genuine effort was made to integrate these "fringe" groups into Tupelo's power structure in any meaningful way. The dominant Tupelo common sense at the time was luring businesses and creating jobs. Leaders throughout this period felt "just like with ships and a tide, a rising economic tide raises the lifestyle of all people." The leaders simply did not concentrate on the "fringe."
We needed manufacturing companies and new entrepreneurial businesses to provide non-farm jobs; we needed high quality public schools; we needed better medical facilities; we needed a highly motivated work force; we needed professionals to service these new business efforts; we needed a musical, historical, and an artistic culture to keep pace with a growing successful community and much, much more. We needed the extraordinary Tupelo leaders, thinkers,
and entrepreneurs to be successful and to provide a degree of Hope for the rest of us. We got all of the above. The Tupelo economic transformation was exceptionally successful.
Tupelo's remarkable leaders during the last three generations of the 20th Century achieved these goals, not really through written laws, but by exercising unwritten economic common sense. The leader's developmental paradigm for Tupelo was right on target for the vast majority of the population throughout most of those generations. But, over the last decade or so, this traditional paradigm appears to have lost some of its effectiveness.
Those "fringe" citizens mentioned above whom generally did not gain power—to any great extent—in Tupelo's growth process grew at even faster pace than the rest of the city's population. But, they did not reap substantial rewards for a variety of complicated reasons. Today, the majority of people in Tupelo don't even feel like they are stakeholders in the city.
The "fringe" groups are not a part of the Tupelo public weal or commonwealth. They just occupy the geography of Tupelo. A citizen's avenue to Hope in any given community should never be blocked. If normal citizens are blocked from Hope in their life, eventually, that community will wither and not thrive.
With every passing year, it is becoming glaringly apparent that what worked at one time in Tupelo's past appears no longer to work as well as it did. Our school system is starting to show academic weakness and disciplinary problems; our manufacturing base is evaporating; people are leaving our once Hopeful city for the suburbs; our hospital is vulnerable because were it not for government programs of varying sorts and liberal government insurance payments, the North Mississippi Medical Center would be no where near the incredible facility it is today; the professional base that developed to service all these new businesses—doctors, lawyers, engineers, accountants, teachers, consultants, etc– is now at risk because of the over-arching business and social decline; and, our cultural and artistic endeavors are essentially at a standstill because they were created as an adjunct to our traditional developmental paradigm, not as a standalone industry and social catalyst. For all of these accumulating problems and vulnerabilities, Tupelo needs to adjust its traditional developmental paradigm and its societal "common sense" laws.
Tupelo needs to put forth a different type of"common sense" to deal with its 21st Century challenges—not in place of the existing traditional business development paradigm but parallel to it.
This new growth paradigm suggested in this paper does not need to be accepted at face value, but it should be considered, discussed, and improved. The suggestions here place more emphasis on citizens solving our current problems and less on city government solving those problems. City government did not create the success of Tupelo. Entrepreneurial minded citizens did, working with city government. There is no validity in thinking city government policies can solve our problems. City government is not set up to handle the vast majority of Tupelo's most pressing current problems. City government can certainly continue to help, but Tupelo citizens must carry the heaviest public load. This new parallel development paradigm for Tupelo, working along side the old paradigm, can begin with a discussion and, perhaps, the eventual implementation of the specific ideas delineated below.
What is the vision for the city of Tupelo in future?
Tupelo should become a genuine City of Hope for all its citizens. City of Hope would also be the name of a new civic non-governmental organization (CNGO) that should be formed, containing board members.
This City of Hope CNGO is a volunteer citizen discussion, problem solving group that pin-points, evaluates, and seeks consensus on answers affecting all of the difficult issues confronting Tupelo, not only from a business standpoint but from a cultural standpoint. These issues might be known or unknown to the general population.
City of Hope meetings would always be open to the public and, at appropriate times in the meetings, allow public input. The group would meet twice per month on Thursday nights. Appropriate rules of conduct in these meetings will always be strictly observed and enforced.
It is hoped that by appealing to a citizen's altruism and the fact that this is genuinely a historical effort to make Tupelo a better place, City of Hope would get qualified and concerned citizens to sit on its board and participate in ways these citizens have never done in public activities.
With the creation of City of Hope, the city administration or city council would no longer be able to say—like they did with the Tupelo Neighborhood Reinvestment Act—"we just don't have any alternative plans." City of Hope will be dedicated to providing alternatives for existing public policies, and in some instances, even coming up with new policy ideas and projects for the city and its citizens to consider. City of Hope is a grassroots citizens group purposefully operating outside city government but also parallel to it with Tupelo's best interests at heart.
There would be 15 to 19 members on the City of Hope board– presidents of neighborhood associations, PTOs of each school, and 7 at large members. It is important for Board members in City of Hope to see the fruits of their efforts paying off in the public weal. Therefore, it is important to get local news media coverage for what City of Hope is doing on a regular basis. City of Hope will also make ample use of the new media—internet websites, handhelds, Facebook, Twitter, etc—to get its message of Hope out to the general Tupelo population.
City of Hope board members should rotate off the board or as their terms of office in other associations end. Appointed members would serve staggered four year terms to preserve continuity.
The over arching effort of City of Hope is to make people understand that their individual lives in their city matters.
What needs to happen to achieve that vision?
Specific Idea #1
In addition to being board members for City of Hope, these same board members will be asked to join various traditional civic organizations and take an active part in those groups, like Rotarians, Lions Club, Kiwanis, Civitan, Friends of Lee County Library, Lee County NAACP, National Council of Negro Women, and other groups of their choosing that can contribute to the overall effort of community involvement by City of Hope.
In essence, City of Hope needs to revive the positive power of these civic non-governmental organizations (CNGOs) that have lost membership in recent years for a variety of social reasons and to begin to bridge the enormous racial, cultural, and economic chasms in our community. Those CNGOs include:
(1) Fraternal organizations—Rotarians, Civitans, Lions Clubs, etc
(2) Volunteer organizations—Scouts, Meals on Wheels, etc
(3) Civic Commissions—History Society, Arts, Festivals, etc
(4) Self–help Groups—Toastmasters, Salvation Army, et
These organizations provide avenues for whites and blacks and the "fringe" in our society genuinely to interact face to face in community volunteer work. The dollar amount to fund this CNGO effort could only be described as "negligible."
This effort would expose all "fringe" groups to the existing status quo power structure of Tupelo on a regular basis. All these groups can try to work together and eventually even learn from one another. The vast majority of the Tupelo black and "fringe" population has never been exposed to civic responsibility in a meaningful way. None of these "fringe" groups likely believe they would ever even have the chance to become a contributing part of the Tupelo community. The white Tupelo power structure has likely never thought the blacks, the poor, the gays, the avant gard or the less powerful of any skin color could make meaningful contributions to "white" civic work. Both sides of this societal equation must be proved wrong, if Tupelo is to continue to be successful. Success in this arena will take an enormous amount of patience and tolerance and reasoned thought by all participating groups. But, cooperation is vital to Tupelo's success going forward.
By citizens becoming involved in civic non-governmental organizations, the groundwork is laid for important public discussions and lays out participatory principles for all the civic ideas in this plan to help change Tupelo for the better.
This inclusive City of Hope organization should offer a written set of core values and dedicate itself to the advancement of civic success, citizens' self-reliance, civic training, business training, leadership skills, self-government, self-control, and appropriate considerations to moral order. This inclusive group should reflect a general consensus of thought for other citizens to emulate that cut across all the seemingly intractable social divisions, such as race, gender, sexual preference, intelligence, power, and income.
Specific Idea #2
In addition to CNGOs, Tupelo churches—both black and white– should play a vital role in the work of City of Hope. Churches represent the largest citizen groups in Tupelo. It does not matter if someone is a Christian or not, no one can minimize the power of Churches in Tupelo.
Churches can be more helpful to our community working in powerful unison through the City of Hope, rather than working through city government, because there are no legal restrictions against it, as there are with churches working through governments.
In order to discern moral choices compared to immoral choices in life, human beings need to be exposed to both choices genuinely to understand which avenue to travel in life. Churches provide a moral structure for a community to follow. Immoral structures are all around us in the secular world. We do not have to search for them. They stampede over us everyday.
Is morality only available in churches? For many people, the answer to that question is "no." For a great many others, the answer is unequivocally "yes."
Can decent moral choices be made outside the church? Yes. Can immoral choices be made inside the church? Yes.
Can moral choices be made inside the church? Yes. Can immoral choices be made outside the church? Yes.
All the answers are "yes" because all of us are part of the human condition. Different factions in society define what is moral and immoral differently. The point here is that most people generally try to do what is best for themselves. Sometimes their actions are moral, sometimes immoral. It depends on what element in society is passing judgment.
We want citizens involved in City of Hope to view themselves deep inside as generally "good." Seeing themselves as generally "good" is, perhaps, the major qualification for City of Hope board members. We are trying to get citizens to unite in a consensus for doing what is best for Tupelo. In this consensus, it becomes necessary to respect the morality of others and act accordingly. Simply because someone is not a Christian, it is not necessary to ostracize them from your life. But, also, just because someone is Christian, it is not necessary to ostracize them from your life. Both believers and non-believers believe differently. So what?
The over-arching goal here is to make Tupelo better. Both Christians and non-Christians must contribute to that effort. Both live in this community. Both have an obligation to respect one another as human beings and work with one another for the betterment of Tupelo. They also have an obligation not to flaunt their own morality on one another in any types of overt ways when working for the common good of making Tupelo a better place.
Churches can contribute to making Tupelo better because by their creed it is the "right" thing to do. Churches can help people. If in the process, some people absorb the teachings of the church and help Tupelo, so be it. If some people reject the church but still help Tupelo, so be it.
Church participation in City of Hope is to assist those churches to continue to grow and prosper in inner city Tupelo by keeping Tupelo economically and culturally healthy, not to assist the churches in their proselytizing efforts. The non-religious believer's participation in City of Hope is to make the entire city thrive, not to prove church goers wrong in their deeply held beliefs. In both described positions, any proselytizing on either side should never be done overtly but is done purely by example.
What specifically can be done by churches that choose to be involved with the City of Hope?
1.) First and foremost, it is important to recognize that churches would only be limited in their collective "good" efforts by their own well-intentioned imaginations.
2.) Churches would always provide at least five (5) church leaders on the rotating City of Hope member board.
3.) Churches would take an active verbal role in presenting their thoughts for how they think churches can help Tupelo in Cityof Hope meetings.
4.) Churches should become involved in mentoring specific "at risk" families in the community, showing that those churches genuinely care about helping those families make their way in life and contributing to Tupelo's continued success as a community.
5.) Churches should assist in educational and leadership programs through their own scholastic arms through Cityof Hope, much as they do today with daycare and early school educational programs.
In short, churches need to show—in virtually every way with which they are comfortable—that they truly care about Tupeloans, not just in their congregations but all over the city in all walks of life.
Specific Idea #3
The Tupelo Public School District (TPSD) that has been a crown jewel for Tupelo for two generations is becoming less effective. Leaders can continue to deny it and think that the school system is just having discipline problems, or money problems, or administrative problems, or teacher problems, or any of a myriad of other excuses.
There might be elements of truth in each of the problems listed above, but those problems are skirting the real issues. The specific things wrong with the Tupelo schools are a cultural avoidance problem and a refusal to face facts problem—partly avoiding the poor people problem but mainly avoiding the majority "black population problem" in a traditionally white majority school.
What is the answer to our education problem? Whites must genuinely reach out to the black community to help blacks become a significant part of the continuing Tupelo story. It is one thing to reach out to the black community because whites must do it because of "government laws." It is an entirely different thought process, though, when whites reach out to blacks because whites genuinely value black opinions in our society. Or, on the flip side, it is an entirely different thought process when blacks reach out to whites because they trust them, and they know the white majority genuinely values black opinions. We are in such bad shape with our societal common sense laws, to read that last sentence sounds ridiculously comical.
If black Tupelo citizens are civically ignored for generations and viewed by the power structure as merely an underclass that the white community—by law!—must tolerate, how in the world can blacks ever consider themselves to be a vibrant part of the Tupelo community?
True integration can never be accomplished by laws alone. It takes involved people adapting to a new societal "common sense."
Tupelo has allowed the Federal Government to usurp its civic obligation to the black members of society because Tupelo leaders have not wanted to deal with the enormously complicated problems of race. Tupelo—had it shown extraordinary racial vision and leadership 55 years ago—could have been a far better guide for blacks coming off the farm as uneducated, poor, and desperate people in need of assistance than the Federal Government could ever have provided.
In reality, the Federal Government has been a leading force of black degradation in major areas in our country, including Mississippi, made worse by the stunning indifference by the majority of whites. The Federal Government might have had the best of intentions, but over the years, it helped destroy the black family, generally squelched black initiative, and essentially created a social nightmare with trillions of dollars spent on social programs that simply didn't work. Money doesn't solve problems. People do. All of us—white and black—have to live with the results of those bankrupt national and statewide and local policies and laws, today—both written and unwritten. But, failures in the past don't mean we can't solve our own local problems in the future.
Obviously, because of the racist "common sense" laws 55 years ago, few whites back then in Tupelo would have ever even considered making blacks an integral part of this city's society. But, in 2011, we don't have to live like we did 55 years ago. The social policies we're practicing nationally and in Tupelo are obsolete. Blacks and the poor need to be given the opportunity for the same Hope we all– as human beings– long to hear: "Your life matters."
Whites will soon be in the minority in Tupelo. Tupelo must accept that statistic as fact. This is not to say, this demographic change should be encouraged, but it should be accepted as a fait accompli. The psychological acceptance of this fact should absolutely change the direction of civic thought in black and white relations in Tupelo. It forces the current white leadership to create different types of civic responses and develops the potential for a far more harmonious community, rather than simply trying to adhere to the traditional status quo of the white overclass and the black underclass, and Tupelo's traditional—albeit successful—single paradigm of social growth through economic leadership only.
The future is a long, long, long time—fraught with peril. Leaders must figure out ways to include blacks and other minorities in Tupelo's on-going history. It will save our city from inevitable decline, as has been experienced by other cities throughout the state that did not address these racial and "fringe" issues in a timely manner—Clarksdale, Vicksburg, Natchez, Meridian, Greenville, Jackson, and throughout the country—Detroit, Cleveland, St. Louis, Memphis, Atlanta, and many more. The problems experienced by these communities do not have to happen in Tupelo. Tupelo could become a national example for enlightened thought in the 21stCentury.
Tupelo was a forward thinking survivor in the last century. It needs to do what's necessary to survive and thrive in this century. The city can do it. All of Tupelo's problems are young enough, whereby we can still grapple with them before they get totally too large and out of control.
Are all these ideas expensive? We don't even have to spend much money at all to avoid this declining process. Solutions mainly require organization skills and personal time—what the sociologists often call spending "social capital." We should no longer tolerate bigotry and racial isolation as reasonable societal "common sense" laws in Tupelo. If we do, it will destroy us for generations, if not forever.
Where can this new common sense change begin? The aforementioned Tupelo Public School District should inject the idea of Hope in all its students by teaching important new student curricula through the prism of LOCAL applications. The study of LOCAL civics, LOCAL history, LOCAL economics, LOCAL arts and music
should be emphasized along with the rest of the school curricula. Not in place of, but parallel to the Tupelo school's generally NATIONAL based curricula.
This LOCAL application should not be done with nostalgic cheerleading touting the way things used to be in Tupelo, but with a straight forward common sense approach to the necessities of modern day education in Tupelo. By applying much of the educational curricula to LOCAL applications, the thought process creates LOCAL inclusiveness of students and LOCAL involvement in economics, and LOCAL Hope for our future.
It is vitally important for all citizens to have a genuine stake in the LOCAL community early in their lives in order to become successful citizens later in life. The Tupelo schools system can help with that Hopeful goal.
How can we start this LOCAL curricula process? The same general TPSD relationship between current accelerated classes offered to students outside the normal school curricula, as well as remedial classes also offered to students outside the normal school curricula, could be used as examples for how these new LOCAL studies curricula could be set up in the school system.
Also, starting in late grade school, one hour per week could be devoted to LOCAL civics instruction and how crucial it is that all children understand LOCAL civic responsibility in order to develop a harmonious society in Tupelo. There are a host of retired teachers who would likely volunteer their time to help Tupelo with this historic effort.
Since there are legal restrictions between the City and the school system, the structure to these ideas could be created through the City of Hope, dealing directly with the school system with the financial assistance and input of participating local businesses and corporations. In so many ways, we have a successful, exemplary city. Let's take advantage of it in our school system by teaching how the city actually works to our school students and how it can grow, and, perhaps, more importantly, show how those struggling, estranged students now creating disciplinary problems in school can participate in it. Make all the students we possibly can proud to live in Tupelo and want to make their lives here.
As stated, we need to solicit money for these types of LOCAL scholastic programs, by seeking corporate financial support through their public outreach budgets or even concerned public donations. The money would be spent to develop a teacher's study guide for instructing students in all the LOCAL subjects listed above. As stated earlier, there is likely a dearth of retired teachers who have been shackled by the existing educational system who would leap at the chance of making this type of educational contribution to the community.
The current school curricula dominated by outside power groups, including the Federal Government and union funded groups, will likely fight against this process. Tupelo needs to fight for it, though, by simply exercising a new found societal common sense in doing what's right for all its citizens.
This LOCAL educative exercise is important for all students, but it is especially important for our black students and other minorities. The current local educational system and civic status quo does not expose so many black children (and poor white children) and other minorities to the kinds of thought processes that are vitally important for them to grow in societal responsibilities for reasons that we bicker about constantly in our society. But, no matter what, young black students (as well as many white students) need to understand the value of participating in a Hopeful society. They need to be taught what Hope is all about and how it can transform a community and their lives for the better.
We need to identify young black, white, and minority leaders early in school and concentrate on making them civically and intellectually whole, so they can become an adult community leader at the appropriate time in their lives. This process is crucial to developing a healthy City of Hope in Tupelo.
We must wean ourselves off of the status quo answers for solving Tupelo's educational problems in favor of providing stronger LOCAL educational programs in innovative ways before it is too late for Tupelo to survive in a positive, Hopeful way.
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In today's digitised dating world, where fewer and fewer relationships are forged face to face, the little details matter.
Such as grammar.
Conducted by eHarmony and Grammarly, a study analysing 10,000 matches (of which 50 per cent got the conversation stage) found that men who had two spelling errors on their dating profile were found to significantly damage his prospects by a whopping 14 per cent.
Conversely, spelling errors made by women had no impact at all - despite the fact they make almost twice as many grammatical, spelling, and punctuation errors - while OK Cupid claims women in the US were likely to receive 17 times more messages than the opposite sex.
Galling for any male singletons out there, but at least you're not a grammar Nazi.
And if you're after extra tips, the study also found that men who write 'women' rather than 'girls' were 28 per cent more likely to find success, and men who use 'whom' correctly get 31 per cent more attention from females. Which may seem obvious enough but when talking about numbers like these, it's certainly advice worth remembering.
So there you have it: you're fine quoting One Direction lyrics on your profile page, just make sure there aren't any typos.


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HR Coordinator
- Recruiter
- Frazer Jones
- Location
- London, England
- Salary
- £25000 - £30000 per annum
- Posted
- 07 Mar 2018
- Closes
- 04 Apr 2018
- Ref
- 905123
- Contact
- Adam Napora
- Job Type
- HR Generalist
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Entering and updating EMEA employee records in the HR Information System and Identity & Access Management system
- Generating system reports as required and liaising with UK payroll as necessary.
- Administering, checking and inputting all pre-employment candidate forms.
- Liaising with Global Compliance to ensure compliance process is punctually completed for all new starters.
- Liaising with internal functions (IT, Facilities, Departmental administrators) regarding all new starter arrangements.
- Scheduling new joiner inductions and '1st Day' Arrangements.
- Conducting new joiner inductions.
- Producing all new joiner paperwork for offer packs.
- Creating and maintaining hard copy employee files.
- Processing leavers, maternity and flexible working cases.
- Supporting on annual processes such as compensation review and project work and on an adhoc basis to HRBPs..
In addition to the above, there will be scope for the post-holder to be involved in various ad-hoc duties in support of the HR Advisory and Recruitment teams, and to become involved in broader department-wide objectives as his or her skill set develops.
Qualifications and experience:
- Prior HR administrative experience gained within a busy department, ideally financial services but all sectors will be considered.
- Experience of servicing the needs of the business often working to tight deadlines and stringent requirements with respect to information and data maintenance.
- You will need to be IT literate and have experience of working with HR databases or similar systems (e.g. payroll, CRM systems or accounts packages).
- Ideally you will have experience of working with people from a diversity of different countries and cultures.Skills:
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to multi-task and prioritise.
- Logical, methodical, problem-solving approach.
- Good communication skills both written and oral.
- Flexible, accurate (the role requires an excellent eye for detail), diplomatic, proactive.
- Good team player.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and integrity at all times.
- Ability to manage senior stakeholders and manage conflict.
- Ability to identify areas for improvement and propose changes.
- Ability to complete all aspects of the role with minimal supervision.Qualifications:
- Ideally educated to degree level or equivalent.
- Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.
SR Group is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.


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So, when I'm skipping around the internet for recipes, or fussing in my kitchen trying to come up with something tasty, there are a few prerequisites. It has to be healthy, of course…and even though that's open to wide interpretation, by "healthy" I mean generally 6 or less whole food ingredients, and something that nourishes and strengthens your body in the long term, not just over the next three hours. And, for this particular blog, it needs to be quick; I look for stuff that can at least be prepared ahead of time, so when you're ready to walk out the door, you have something in your belly that constitutes more than a cup of coffee or a handful of potato chips.
But there's a third, sort of bonus prerequisite that sometimes factors in, and that is cost. High quality organic ingredients can be a little more expensive, so when I find something that isn't, I get pretty excited. Of course, this week's post isn't about any sort of miracle food; in fact, it's been a staple in a lot of households for a long time. But it's one of those meals that can be prepared at the beginning of the week for dinner and end up feeding you happily for the next three days. How's that for bang for your buck?
What I'm talking about are beans and rice, with just enough pizazz to keep you from yawning yourself to sleep over your dinner (or lunch or…) A little spin on the classic old favorite, that will fill you up and last forever. And this recipe uses black beans, which rock a high protein and fiber content, which helps move food through your digestive tract quickly and efficiently. Plus, black beans help regulate blood sugar, which helps with cravings.
A few other happy bonuses: the soluble fiber in black beans helps lower cholesterol, which leads to a lower risk of heart disease and heart attacks; they also contain flavonoids which are powerful antioxidants. There's also a healthy dose of vitamin B6, or folate, which helps support nervous system health.
Here's another little tip as you're navigating the potential wilderness of healthy eating: write a list of 10 quick healthy meals, and post it on your fridge. Try to keep the ingredients for at least 5 of those in your kitchen as often as possible. Then, when you get home late, or when mealtimes sneak up on you, you will be more likely and more prepared to have a healthy meal rather than, say, order a large pizza. It helps.
One last point: you don't have to stick to this ingredient list…you can throw whatever you like in, or, more appropriately, whatever you have on hand.
Healthy Black Beans and Rice
1/4 small red onion, diced
3 cloves garlic, diced
1/2 carrot, diced
1 T. olive or coconut oil
1 medium red bell pepper, chopped
1/2 medium green bell pepper, chopped
1 can prganic black beans
1/2 t. curry powder
1/2 t. cumin
1/4 t. chili powder
1/4 t. paprika
2 c. cooked brown rice (you can substitute any grain, really)
–Heat the oil in a medium skillet and add the onion and garlic.
–Over the next few minutes, add the carrot, peppers, and finally the beans, heating through.
–Add to rice/grains and serve.
–You can get creative, really, adding whatever condiments you like such as soy sauce, tamari, or tahini to taste.
*Recipe courtesy of keepyourdietreal.com


text: We teach that regeneration is a supernatural work the Holy Spirit by which the divine nature and divine life are given and that man has no active role in this work. Man is passive in regeneration, as evidence by Scripture referring to it as being "born" or being "born again" (John 1:13 ; 3:3-8 ; Titus 3:5 ; James 1:18 ; 1 Peter 1:3 ). It is instantaneous and is accomplished solely by the power of the Holy Spirit through the instrumentality of the Word of God (John 5:24 ), when the repentant sinner, as enabled by the Holy Spirit, responds in faith to the divine provision of salvation. Genuine regeneration is manifested by fruits worthy of repentance as demonstrated in righteous attitudes and conduct. Good works will be its proper evidence and fruit (1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ; Ephesians 2:10 ), and will be experienced to the extent that the believer submits to the control of the Holy Spirit in his life through faithful obedience to the Word of God (Ephesians 5:17-21 ; Philippians 2:12b ; Colossians 3:16 ; 2 Peter 1:4-10 ). This obedience causes the believer to be increasingly conformed to the image of our Lord Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 3:18 ).


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The Berkeley Center for New Media and Berkeley's Department of Art Practice recently hosted a gallery walk-through with some of the artists featured in Worth Ryder Art Gallery's current exhibition, Knowledge Hacking, described as a project that "invites artists to use the university research environment as raw material for their work." While many of the issues raised by this collaboration between BCNM and WRAG's curator Anuradha Vikram deserve serious exploration, I want to mention here just one exchange that occurred during the panel following the artists'/curator's walk-through.
Oakland artists Yvette Molina and Sarah Filley were among the three groups chosen to "collaborate" with Berkeley researchers in the production of an artwork. Molina and Filley describe their project, Wonderarium, as "a public art proposal to enchant and reinvigorate our romance with nature at the heart of Oakland's urban jewel: Lake Merritt." While the main component of this project is to place a large, floating, spherical terrarium on Lake Merritt, another component of the Wonderarium is their Mobile Plant Ambassador, which they describe as follows:
[It was] developed to take plants "on the road" … [providing the] novel experience of building a terrarium directly from the cart. All supplies (glass containers, pumice, soil, and a variety of plant cuttings) are arranged by drawer in the order needed to make their very own terrarium. As participants express their personal creativity in four easy steps, they are also investigating themes of micro-systems and climates — a mini ecology class!
During the panel discussion, Molina stated that when they send the public home with a biodegradable, plantable Dixie-cup sample succulent, or with a mini-terrarium from the Plant Ambassador, they tell the new plant owner to think of the plant or terrarium as a "science project." My hackles went up. My arm shot off my torso: "Why," I asked from the audience, "when you are making the explicit choice to call Wonderarium an art project, do you contextualize this plant as an object of science rather than an object of art?" Framing the newly adopted succulent(s) with this language encourages close observation, Molina explained. I persisted. "But if your purpose in developing this project is to USE art as a seductive tool for the appreciation of nature, what do you gain by then calling your handouts 'science projects'? And how does it really benefit art, as a discipline, a worthy pursuit, a form of research and reverie, when you teach your public that a practice of observation should be considered science? To my mind, you perpetuate a spurious and unproductive binary by doing so."
As an artist, I know what it's like to be on the other side of the panel table, having to field comments that are really statements disguised as questions. As a member of the audience, I was dismayed by what I perceived as the naiveté of Wonderarium, but also excited by finding a useful term with which to discuss the convergences and divergences of scientific and artistic practices. Observation. Within scientific practice, observational is counterposed with experimental study. In film-video history, an observational documentary is counterposed with something that might be thought of as more expressively, or rhetorically driven. Observation strikes me as a term one encounters rarely in the discourse around contemporary avant-garde visual art practices, and yet it's not so far from the terms one sees more often. Artists experiment, strategize, deploy, examine, investigate, cultivate, work across platforms, mobilize, negotiate, interrogate, intervene, engage, etc. Even when they aren't using those terms themselves, more often than not, the curators, historians, and critics producing discourse around and from visual art are using this language. I'm sure I am teaching my students to use it, and now I am glad to be asking myself why.


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Posts tagged "natural gas inventories"
Why Natural Gas Prices Collapsed
Over the course of the next two columns, I plan to finish up the recent look at BP's Statistical Review of World Energy 2014. The final two columns will focus on renewable energy, and carbon dioxide emissions.
Today I want to provide an update on the natural gas picture, as prices declined sharply at the end of July. I have laid out the argument since last winter that because of the deep inventory hole that developed over the course of the exceptionally cold winter, natural gas prices would remain high relative to last year, and that as a result natural gas producers would likely report higher year-over-year profits. (For background on the inventory picture, see my February column Natural Gas Inventories are Headed Toward Zero). CONTINUE»
Gas Inventories Reach 11-Year Low
Natural Gas Update
Two weeks ago I wrote about the abnormal situation with natural gas inventories in Natural Gas Inventories are Headed Toward Zero. I got a number of questions and comments about that essay, and since then we now have another two weeks of inventory data, let's update the picture.
First, I want to deal with some misconceptions that a few people had. I don't think we are going to run completely out of natural gas in storage. My point was that this winter marked the sharpest decline trajectory and we have made the largest ever withdrawals from storage in history, and barring a sudden warm spell we are going to go into injection season with very low natural gas inventories.
This has implications. Why? Because historically a significant deviation of inventories from normal will have a lingering impact on natural gas prices. CONTINUE»


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