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Max George can't wait to move to America to film The Wanted's new TV show 'The Wanted Life' because he thinks women in Hollywood are ''special''.
Max George isn't ''picky'' about women.
The Wanted singer - who has most recently been romantically linked with Lindsay Lohan - can't wait to start work on the group's new US-based reality TV show 'The Wanted Life' because he thinks girls in Hollywood are ''special''.
He said: ''My ideal type of woman is just anyone from Hollywood.
''I'm just not that picky when it comes to Hollywood girls because there is something that special about them.
''I don't know whether it's the teeth or what.
''We're moving to Hollywood into a big house for a certain period of time to film a fly-on-the-wall series.
''I feel so sorry for the neighbours, so apologies now.''
However, the 24-year-old hunk admitted he and his bandmate Jay McGuiness plan to make the most of their single status so won't be spending a lot of time at the property.
He added: ''Me and Jay will probably be doing a lot of staying elsewhere, I guess.''
Though the 'Lightning' hitmaker insists he and 'Liz & Dick' star Lindsay are still friends, they haven't spoken in some time.
He told the Daily Star newspaper: ''Me and Lindsay are still friends. I've not spoken to her for a while.
''I think she's busy at the moment.''


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CAIRO Jon Stewart may have taken a break from Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" for now, but he showed up Wednesday in Cairo as a guest on Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef's hit television show, "Al-Bernameg" ("The Program").
Youssef was a heart surgeon three years ago. After Egyptians took to the streets in January 2011 and toppled dictator Hosni Mubarak 18 days later, Youssef started doing comedy. He launched a YouTube channel with some friends, providing a critical and satirical take on politics and current events.
Today, he's a television superstar with one of the most widely watched programs in the Middle East. Every Friday at 9:30 p.m. in Cairo, street cafes and restaurants turn their televisions to Egypt's CBC to watch Youssef poke fun at those in power.
The episode of "Al-Bernameg" featuring Stewart is scheduled to be broadcast Friday at 3:30 p.m. ET.
Youssef uses his program to satirize and mock government in a way that, in scope and degree, is unprecedented in Egypt. That's landed him in hot water with the Egyptian government and its Islamist allies, who are frequent targets on "Al-Bernameg." As a result, Youssef has had a number of defamation and libel lawsuits filed against him.
- The revolutionary comedy of Egypt's Bassem Youssef
- "Egypt's Jon Stewart" not backing down despite charges
- "Egypt's Jon Stewart" not backing down
If "Al-Bernameg" looks familiar to an American television audience, that's because it is; Youssef explicitly modeled his program on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart." But, on Wednesday, it was Stewart on the guest couch.
Stewart has frequently come to the defense of his Egyptian counterpart. He has invited Youssef on his own show twice. During the ceremony honoring Time magazine's 100 most influential people in April, Stewart referred to Bassem as his "hero."
Wednesday's trip was a short one for the "Daily Show" host - only 18 hours in total - just enough time to tape an episode of Egypt's hottest comedy TV show and fit in a quick visit to the Giza pyramids.

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George Zimmerman Acquitted in Death of Trayvon Martin
George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin in February 2012. Will George Zimmerman's acquittal lead to more vigilante justice? Will we now have hooded gun toting crime watchmen running around looking for an easy kill? Is this going to open the door for people to channel Charles Bronson in a Hoodie ?
President Obama called on the nation to honor Trayvon Martin by asking "ourselves if we're doing all we can to stem the tide of gun violence."…
Where should we stand on guns for the diagnosed mentally ill? (note: George Zimmerman who shot and killed Trayvon Martin was never diagnosed with a mental illness.)
So, many questions – no real answers – and no Charles Bronson to sort them all out.
I'm sure there will be a number of Psych Central bloggers that may dig deeper into the verdict. If they do, i will list them below. But how about you, what do you think about George Zimmerman's acquittal?
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North Platte Seventh-day Adventist Church to discuss liberty, life of Constantine the Great
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The Hershey volunteer fire department will celebrate its centennial anniversary on March 30 with an all-you-can-eat spaghetti feed.
Last year, the volunteers answered 108 calls, and the department answered 135 calls in 2012.
Currently, the department has one opening for a member on the fire department and need more medical volunteers, as well, spokesman Tyrel Fear said.
The newly arrived centennial year addition to the department's equipment is a 2014 Ford F-550 grass rig that replaced the department's 1990 Dodge grass rig, which was sold to a fire department in Wyoming.
The rural fire district board and department officers are:
Gregg Fear is the fire chief. Toby Tobiasson is the assistant chief. Amanda Snide is the rescue captain. John Sexson is the president.
Rex Woolley is vice-president and Barb Hudson is the secretary-treasurer.
The training officer is Tim Berntson and Tim Brannan is the safety officer. Charley Stout is foreman.
The board members are: Chris Klaasmeyer, Jim Fleecs, Jim Frame, Dennis Brown and Bob Pinion.
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Open discourse on campus
Much of the political discourse on university campuses can be written off as harmless, but efforts to silence speakers, like those at commencement ceremonies, are ugly and dangerous.
The University of Illinois' 143rd Commencement was a big success, thanks to good weather, a good speaker and general good spirits.
If ever a commencement speaker was the perfect choice, UI graduate, former Fighting Illini football captain and astronaut Mike Hopkins was it. He's the kind of guy who makes one proud to be an American, let alone a member of the smaller tribe of Fighting Illini. Hopkins was an inspired choice.
But the general delight surrounding the choice of Hopkins here was offset by a disturbing trend at other campuses across the country with regard to their commencement speakers. Brandeis, Rutgers, Haverford and Smith joined the disgraced pantheon of institutions of higher education to suffer the embarrassment of losing scheduled commencement speakers because of campus protests.
Brandeis withdrew its invitation of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who's been a victim of Islamic violence, after protesters expressed outrage at Ali's legitimate criticism of Islam. Condoleezza Rice, a former U.S. secretary of state and a longtime administrator at Stanford, opted not to speak at Rutgers rather than take a chance on protesters disrupting graduation ceremonies.
Critics are certainly free to express their opinions, but bowing to what amounts to a heckler's veto is a disturbing trend.
What's even more disturbing is that college campuses — once thought to be citadels of free thought, free inquiry and free speech — are showing signs of degenerating into islands of intolerance.
Nothing could be worse for higher education, or the country for that matter, than subjecting speakers to ideological litmus tests, with only those who pass receiving a cordial reception and a fair hearing.
This, of course, is not the first time that the nation's campuses have been the site of disputes over inviting controversial speakers and allowing them to be heard. Decades ago, it was the political right wing who attempted to determine who was an acceptable campus speaker, usually targeting political leftists or outright communists. Their heavy-handed tactics ultimately were discredited.
These days, it's the left wing, sometimes operating under the strictures of a repulsive political correctness, who want to decide what other people are allowed to see and hear. This kind of authoritarian mind set is intolerable, not solely because individual speakers will be disinvited or choose not to visit but because of the dangerous precedent it sets.
People are certainly free to object to any or all commencement speakers for whatever reasons they choose. It's the university administrators who need to push back, making it clear that they will not be intimidated by the objections of a noisy minority and that their campuses will be open to all ideas. That way, everyone can be heard, and people can make up their own minds about what they think.
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On this campus and many others, administrators, humanists, and social scientists are, for the most part, left leaning and expect their students and colleagues to be the same. This intolerance of true diversity -- accompanied by politics of exclusion and suppression of freedom of expression in various ways (many of them not overt) -- has been around for some time. The infighting within the left (lately, those who support Palestine over those who support Israel, or in the case of Ayaan Hirsi Ali whether third-world women's rights should trump broad cultural tolerance for Islam) in the Academy can be as ugly as the conflict between left and right.
I have worked all over campus, in addition to having earned a doctorate in the humanities, so I am not speaking as an outsider, but as an insider. I am also not a conversative, but on many issues, a social progressive. This is why the enforcement of this political bias is so disturbing to me.
When I left for university as a first-generation college student, I was hungry to learn about different kinds of cultures, ideas, people, communities. I benefited enormously from the international cosmopolitanism on my undergraduate and graduate campuses. I felt that I was transformed as a human being by these contacts and conflicts. I want this for my colleagues, for our staff, and for our current and future students.
I can remember teaching on this campus as a graduate instructor a gen ed class required of freshmen. It was commonplace for other graduate instructors to come back to the office to complain of students writing with conservative views (pro-life, pro-military action, etc.). The point of the class was for students to learn to be tolerant (at least in the minds of many instructors). Those instructors who complained did not have the least bit of insight into their own intolerance. My own view was that they should be teaching students not a set of opinions, but a means of expressing, better forming, and better grounding their own opinions.
The very worst forms of government in the history of the world -- the most violent, those responsible for the greatest suffering and the most deaths -- have been those that have been strongly ideologically driven to place an enforced sense of common good over individual liberty and quality of life. When the rights of the individual are honored as foremost in a society, when each individual matters and is valued, granted broad liberty, trusted as a vital political and community agent, then we have the most potential for a just society. This should form the basis for collective action -- not the other way around.
Those of my colleagues who embrace a strong ideological centricism are on the wrong side of history. We will look back on this period in the West as another time when those who were certain they were right, had a utopian scheme for society that could not fail, and sought to enforce their views overtly and implicity perpetuated in the present the same injustices of which they have accused others in the past. At their least extreme, we get the kind of suppression and judgmentalism we find on campus. At their most extreme? Pogroms. Witch hunts. Kangaroo courts.
Social injustice was rampant in the first world in the past, and it has not been perfectly realized in the here and now. But many cultural critics and social advocates have overcorrected to the extent that we now have created an intolerant culture where identity groups conflict with who is to have the largest share of public attention and many advocates for social justice are trigger happy -- not with guns but with extreme sensitivities and harsh words. They surveil, police, and critique the political, cultural, and social landscape. They create a choking atsmophere of divisive acrimony. They are now so concerned about what they have wrought that trigger statements on campus are now being broadly considered, advocated, and required.
A civil society, a just society, is a broadly tolerant society. That means giving each person the right to speak, to be educated, to be employed, to live peacefully, to participate democratically even when others -- educated and learned though they may be -- find their views offensive. That means having a thick skin, a hesitant tongue, a generous spirit, and a listening ear. These are difficult things for human beings to acquire, and difficult for them to maintain. But they are also our individual responsibility -- the one that accompanies our individual right -- our shared, basic human right -- to live in a free and genuinely diverse society.


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I think it's called "state-dependent learning". I did some practical and applied research on this when I was at Indiana University. It wasn't for credit, but it was truly the best education I had.
A friend from that time was alway drunk for his attendance-required Friday afternoon class, so he had to get drunk for his final. He aced it, but to this day he probably couldn't tell you the first thing about it, least of all what the subject was.
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Georgetown, KY – The Georgetown College Department of Chemistry has received American Chemical Society Approval and becomes one of only two private colleges in Kentucky with this prestigious recognition.
ACS-Approved programs offer a broad-based and rigorous chemistry education that gives students intellectual, experimental, and communication skills to become effective scientific professionals.
"This is a distinct honor and one which we have been working toward for several years," said David Fraley, PhD, Professor of Chemistry. He added, "The extensive application process gave us the opportunity to review and improve our department. Our consistent goal is to provide a quality education in Chemistry for all our students."
ACS promotes excellence in chemistry education for undergraduate students through approval of baccalaureate chemistry programs. ACS Approval is based upon such factors as the number and academic qualifications of the faculty, foundation and in-depth course offerings, instrumentation, library holdings, administrative support, budgets, research opportunities, and lab space.
"These factors make it difficult for smaller schools to gain ACS Approval," said Fraley. "However, since starting this process, the department has added two new faculty, a variety of modern instruments, several new courses and upper-level labs, and expanded research experiences."
In the past decade, 14 Georgetown College Chemistry graduates have gone on to graduate school in Chemistry, 9 to other non-medical graduate programs, 28 to medical, dental, or pharmacy school, and 22 directly entered the work force.
The other private college in Kentucky with ACS Approval is Centre College. Six public universities in Kentucky also have ACS Approval.
The American Chemical Society (ACS) is a scientific society based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of chemistry. Founded in 1876, the ACS currently has 161,000 members at all degree-levels and in all fields of chemistry, chemical engineering, and related fields. It is the world's largest scientific society and one of the leading sources of authoritative scientific information.
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Djermaya Solar, through the support of Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG), has received approval for EUR 6,350,000 investment grant from the European Union Africa Infrastructure Trust Fund (EU-AITF) for the build out of a transmission line, substation and electrical works required for system integration. EU-AITF was created in 2007 by the European Commission and European Union Member States with the objective of promoting infrastructure projects in Sub-Saharan Africa with a regional impact. EU-AITF is funded by a group of donor contributions from the European Development Fund (EDF) budget and from a number of European Union Member States. The investment grant has been approved under the SE4ALL envelope which promotes regional, national and local energy projects. The objective of the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) envelope of the EU-AITF is to support inter alia increased power generation from renewable energy and increased access to electricity, which match the objectives of this project. As the first utility scale solar project in the country, the project will contribute towards an increased universal access to modern energy services. Additionally, the project conforms to the objective to promote investment in regional infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Federal government-owned public utility, the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading (NBET), has signed the country's first ever solar power purchase agreement (PPA) with more than ten project developers, totaling 975MW of utility-scale solar. The first official project to be implemented under the 20-year PPA is a 96MWdc solar plant in Katsina state, to be developed by Pan Africa Solar, in collaboration with JCM Power (formerly JCM Capital), an Ontario-based developer. According to JCM Power's Chief Development Officer, Justin Woodward, the project's capital cost is approximately US$146 million and is expected to hit financial close in mid 2017. The signing of the PPA with the federal government of Nigeria is a significant breakthrough for the project, which has been under development since 2011. It also features single axis trackers and is being financed by the Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO) as the leading debt syndicate. Also according to Woodward, the plant will sell power at a fixed rate of US$11.5¢/kWh.
The commissioning of the Katsina project is a giant step forward for Nigeria's solar progress; constituting the largest plant of its kind in Sub-Saharan Africa, (excluding South Africa, which has seen many successful tenders as of late), and is set to provide enough clean electricity to power 1.1 million Nigerian homes.
Pan Africa Solar, through the support of Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG), has received approval for EUR 4,000,000 investment grant from the European Union Africa Infrastructure Trust Fund (EU-AITF) for the construction of a transmission line to connect the solar generation plant to the main substation and upgrades to the substation. EU-AITF was created in 2007 by the European Commission and European Union Member States with the objective of promoting infrastructure projects in Sub-Saharan Africa with a regional impact. EU-AITF is funded by a group of donor contributions from the European Development Fund (EDF) budget and from a number of European Union Member States. The investment grant has been approved under the SE4ALL envelope which promotes regional, national and local energy projects. The objective of the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) envelope of the EU-AITF is to support inter alia increased power generation from renewable energy and increased access to electricity, which match the objectives of this project. As the first utility scale solar project in the country, the project will contribute towards an increased universal access to modern energy services. Additionally, the project conforms to the objective to promote investment in regional infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa.
JCM Capital announced today that it has successfully reached a first closing as part of a USD $50 million private placement offering. The proceeds of the offering are being used to provide construction and long-term equity financing for solar photovoltaic projects located in emerging markets.
JCM's diversified development portfolio of clean energy projects is comprised of over 500 MW in utility scale solar photovoltaic projects and 2,000 MW of high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission projects. The first-close proceeds provide the necessary capital for JCM to fund the construction of three solar photovoltaic projects that are scheduled to reach financial close during 2016 and 2017. World-class development partners currently supporting projects within JCM's development portfolio include the African Development Bank, FMO, the United Nations Environment Programme, Seed Capital Assistance Facility and Power Africa.
JCM began developing projects under a USD $20 million clean power development initiative in 2013. The initiative focuses on developing high impact clean power projects in emerging markets, with a focus in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Several of the projects are expected to be the first utility-scale solar photovoltaic projects constructed in their respective countries. The initiative will contribute significantly towards meeting aggressive renewable energy goals pledged by the various host nations in Paris during the COP 21 conference.
JCM anticipates closing on the remainder of the private placement in 2016.
Djermaya Solar Ltd, ("DSL") a Chad registered SPV, is developing a 30-60MW solar PV project to the North of N'Djamena. The development partners in DSL include CDEN (France), Aldwych Africa Developments Ltd (on behalf of InfraCo Africa Ltd) and JCM (Canada).
With the signature of a Joint Development Agreement among the development partners, DSL is now seeking to recruit a talented Project Director to be responsible for managing the successful implementation of the project. Reporting to the Management Committee, and the board/shareholders, you will be involved in a wide range of project management and leadership activities, working together with and managing technical, legal and financial staff and consultants, to complete key project activities on time and within budget.
- Orchestrating and leading, with the support of experienced individuals from the development partners, the (re-)negotiation of key project documents such as the Power Purchase Agreement and Concession Agreement.
- Creating necessary documentation and other deliverables.
- Developing project plans and budgets, managing and tracking effort against them.
- Actively identifying and managing risks.
- Liaising with host Government officials and regulatory authorities to secure necessary permits and approvals.
- Participating in the negotiations with the EPC contactor and other contractors and consultants.
- Managing teams and coordinating the consortium to complete critical activities.
- Supporting the process to raise non-recourse, project finance for the project.
- Efficiently managing the project company's administration and ensuring compliance with local regulation.
Profile required:
The successful candidate should have at least 15 years of executive experience in IPP management / development (preferably in Africa), excellent coordination and communication skills in French and English, sound judgement and good analytical skills including the use of complex financial models. The ability to operate independently, with gravitas, and overcome cultural differences to solve problems will be vital to success, and, as such, relevant experience in a similar environment will be an important qualification to secure the role.
Remuneration Package:
- Attractive base compensation
- Living accommodations in Central Africa, including a domestic staff
- 4-wheel drive pickup vehicle, plus driver
- Accident, Medical and Life Insurance policy
- 4 weeks annual paid leave
- 2 business class tickets to candidate's traditional domicile per annum
- Immigration, local tax and Relocation Expenses Allowance
If you have the desire to undertake this challenging and exciting role and have the necessary skills and experience including excellent oral and written communication skills and a relevant degree and preferably post graduate qualification from a leading university, then please send your CV and cover letter by 15 November 2015.
The Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA) approved at the end of 2014 a USD 777,000 preparation grant for JCM Greenquest Solar Corporation to support the development of a 72 MW Solar Photovoltaic (PV) power plant as the first renewable energy Independent Power Producer (IPP) in Cameroon. The SEFA grant will finance environmental and social impact assessments and the cost related to the technical, legal and financial advisory services.
Despite Cameroon's abundant resource potential and availability of conventional (oil and gas) and renewable (hydro and solar) resources, Cameroon's energy access rate is very low for the continent, standing at only 18% in 2013. The country's installed capacity of 1,400 MW is largely based on hydropower (60%), which fluctuates greatly during the drought season forcing Cameroon to rely on expensive emergency thermal units. While there are plans for some large hydropower development, the implementation of solar PV will deliver power on much shorter timelines than hydro (lead time of less than two years versus four to six years for hydro) and provide a long-term predictable source of electricity over the next 25 years. The JCM project will additionally help diversify the energy mix in the country using a renewable source, drive savings in fuel imports by reducing the need for emergency thermal units which are currently operating at maximum capacity, while at the same time lowering Cameroon's overall carbon energy footprint.
The Government has created a long-term Energy Sector Development Plan (PDSE 2030), calling for a 75% electrification rate by 2030 and established an order for the implementation of Independent Power Producers (IPPs), thus provide a strong signal for private participation in renewable energy projects in Cameroon. The project additionally supports the Cameroon's Growth and Employment Strategy (2010-2020) with the goal to reduce the cost of electricity production and diversify Cameroon's sources of electricity generation.
According to Alex Rugamba, Director of the African Development Bank's Energy, Environment and Climate Change Department, "this support will be critical in delivering Cameroon's first renewable energy IPP and its success will have significant demonstration effects in the country's power sector and the continent at large."
"We welcome the support of the AfDB as we work with the Government of Cameroon to help them achieve their energy policy goals. As the first renewable energy IPP in the country, we believe this project will jump start the development of renewables in Cameroon and attract significant investment to the clean energy sector," said Michael Strait, Managing Director, Development Group, JCM Capital.
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On July 7, 2014, EY announced that JCM Capital is one of the finalists for the 2014 Ontario Entrepreneur of the Year award. Entrepreneur of the Year celebrates the contribution and spirit of entrepreneurs everywhere. The Canadian program is in its 21st year of honouring the country's most impressive entrepreneurs from all areas of business. Award finalists are chosen based on their vision, leadership, financial success and social responsibility. The Ontario winners will be announced at a gala on October 29, 2014. The overall Ontario winner will represent the region at the national gala held in Toronto on November 25, 2014.
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What is your business model? We have set up four funds and are in the middle of a new fifth fund. The first four are development funds, involving obtaining all of the contracting approvals leading up to construction, including power purchase agreements, land rights, interconnection agreement and environmental assessments. Once a project reaches financial close, historically, we've brought in large infrastructure partners in order to capitalize project construction and operation. The purpose of the new fund is to be able to participate in the financing of both our own projects and third party projects at the construction phase.
So historically you have exited at the financial close? Historically our development funds would almost entirely own the project up until financial close, and then the fund would either exit completely or hold a carried interest, with the vast majority of control going over to a new infrastructure partner.
Do you work with partners in different countries? What's important to us is that there's a local team with a reasonable combination of solar generation development capability and also regulatory and governmental capabilities. We use both multinational companies to provide service and local ones. For example Trinity Law services are provided out of London and we are talking to EY (Ernst & Young) to provide tax services. But we also engage with local councils in the various countries and local expertise for specifically local issues – so a bit of both.
How do you get the projects? We receive a very high volume of potential development projects coming to the office and have a whole system to deal with them. We have an extensive network of developers, financiers, EPC companies, the whole gamut of what it takes to run a solar project. Those relationships are round the world, with global players that we originally met in Canada (where there are many), as well as those operating elsewhere. I think what's critical is there is only a certain number of solar development companies that have the expertise, capitalization and shareholder appetite to go into developing countries and develop solar. We offer a fairly unique value proposition of enabling and going in and doing that in these markets, combined with our extensive network around the world, which means we receive a lot of deal flow. There is quite a bit of capital available out there at financial close, but not a lot out there for development works. The combination of early stage risk that we take on and the markets we operate in makes us quite unique.
How do you choose projects? We would screen the deal flow based on a variety of factors: marginal cost of new build, solar economics, if a local team is in place or not, extent of staff-up needed. We provide not only capital but development expertise. We would not pay a local developer for a construction-ready site. We are assessing the risk of getting it to financial close, depending on the number and scale of obstacles it faces. Conventional risk return analysis, with a whole bunch of factors: government position on renewables, how much do they need capacity, competing forms of generation, price points, regulatory and legal regime and so on.
How do you establish a local presence: through an equity stake in a local company or joint ventures, or in-house staff? It is a combination of these. Usually they come onto our payroll and we control the ownership of the project. There is always a local team, and on many projects we would add to that team.
Do you use geographical spread to mitigate political risk? The first project was in Ecuador – this was a one-project fund, but it was the first in developing markets. Developed markets have been challenging for renewable power development, so more business is going to developing markets and will increasingly do so. As we go into more and more developing countries, this diversifies and cuts the risk.
Are you varying renewable type to cut risk – for example the Lake Erie HVDC project? That was an opportunistic investment. When we are growing like this, expansion into new geographies requires development of new skill sets. For the time being we are focusing on solar because we are real experts in that. We will take that expertise into new geographies. We may move away from solar in the future, but one step at a time.
How does the new infrastructure fund vary from your earlier development funds? The new infrastructure fund will be much less risky, although there will still be debate over which projects are in and which are out. There is more competing capital. While at the development stage there may be five projects for every one that makes it, with the infrastructure fund once everything is in place these projects should all go ahead. There is an execution risk, but this is much lower and requires a different capital structure and a different type of investor as well. A good infrastructure fund will invest in projects where all the risk that can be has been transferred to the government or other entities. Ongoing operating and political risk can be structured away and still get emerging market returns.
Who are your main investors? For the development funds it has been largely high net worth and ultra-high net worth individuals mostly from North America and Europe and some from Asia. We are in the very early stages of raising the infrastructure fund. We have a $10 million fund from an Asian investor, plus a $25 million warehousing facility pending the fund being raised. We are talking to the institutional type investor that you would expect in order to raise the fund, but it's too early yet to know who they will be.
How do you mitigate against risks? We offload any risk we are not happy taking. So we normally take on fully wrapped EPC and O&M contracts, warranties and guarantees and hedge currency risk. Political risk should be dealt with at the infrastructure stage within the PPA, along with sovereign guarantees and insurance. If I had to summarize JCM's core strengths, one would be that we can pull together the appropriate team (over 70 projects already), and secondly we can structure the deals and contracts to ensure that risk is properly allocated. So JCM only ends up holding the risks that we can best manage and others get the risks that they can manage.
Any other key risks? The novelty of these projects means timing and deadlines can be uncertain, so we watch out for that. We must make sure projects are squeaky clean, and that there is nothing that goes anywhere near corruption, so you must be most careful in picking partners and countries.
JCM Capital (JCM) announced today that it has established a company in Mexico to invest in utility-scale ground based solar photovoltaic (PV) projects. The company will focus on projects of 20MW and larger, and is actively seeking suitable project sites and development partners.
JCM is looking to invest with municipal and state governments to provide solar energy through direct Power Purchase Agreements. JCM will also partner with corporations to provide an alternative source of power at a competitive rate that will provide cost reductions over a 25-year period.
JCM will fund project specific development costs such as land acquisition, engineering, legal advisors, permitting and interconnection studies. JCM will facilitate sustainable economic development in an environmentally responsible way and bring cleaner, more affordable electricity to governments and businesses.
JCM's Executive VP, Justin Woodward, comments that, "This company is a key part of our corporate strategy to grow our business internationally. We anticipate that Mexico will have explosive growth potential considering its high irradiance levels and the increasing cost of energy."
JCM has a current target to fund and develop an initial 100MW of projects in Mexico. Michael Strait, JCM's COO, comments, "JCM has the necessary capital, construction and long-term financial partners, as well as solar PV expertise to complement our local partners' market knowledge and project management capabilities."
JCM announced today that it has sold an 850 kW portfolio of rooftop solar PV projects in Ontario. The projects were originated, developed and financed to commercial operation by JCM. The buyer of the projects is BrightRoof Solar LP, a long-term owner of Ontario solar assets.to late-stage financing for solarrooftop portfolios.
The portfolio consists of systems located on three commercial buildings, in Mississauga, Guelph and Kitchener, ON. All systems are scheduled to be in service by the end of the year, and the electricity they generate will be sold to the Ontario Power Authority under 20-year Feed-In Tariff (FIT) contracts.
"We are very pleased with this sale. BrightRoof is an ideal buyer for these projects, and will be a strong, reliable partner for the building owners over the life of the contracts," said Christian Wray, CEO of JCM.
The projects are the first to be built under JCM's strategic partnership with Panasonic Eco Solutions Canada, which is the EPC contractor, and is supplying 3,160 Panasonic SCI 250M/300M crystalline solar modules that were manufactured in Don Mills, Ontario. The projects will provide enough clean energy to power 110 homes, while offsetting 675 metric tons of harmful CO2 from being released into the earth's atmosphere each year - the equivalent of removing 130 cars from the road.
"We are pleased to be working with JCM and Panasonic on these three projects, and expect that the Panasonic systems will provide reliable performance for the life of the FIT contracts," said David Oxtoby, a director of BrightRoof Solar LP.


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Scott McMillin's review published on Letterboxd :
Enjoyable if underwhelming nostalgia-filled coming-of-age romance that should not have been marketed as a comedy. The script and direction were capable, some of the characters interesting, but unfortunately there was little chemistry between the leads, which may owe something to the fact that Kristen Stewart is just plain terrible. She's like a silent film actress telegraphing her emotions with facial ticks and gyrations. There must be hundreds of capable actresses who could have really nailed the part. When will she go away?


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Well Being
Mini-Keg Beer Dispenser
I know a lot of people who would love to have one of these Mini-keg beer dispensers. As for me, I'd be pushing my luck making it this easy to have a beer on tap anytime I wanted 🙂
Made for use with 5-liter mini-kegs, this is a great way to serve up a tall frosty glass of your favorite draft beer. Our Beer Tender keeps precooled kegs at the optimal serving temperature with double-layer insulation and a virtually noiseless thermal electric motor. Traditional pub keg tap for direct-to-glass serving. Dual system operation: CO2 for nonpressurized kegs, standard for pressurized kegs.
Includes on/off indicator light, removable drip tray for easy cleaning, chrome accent rail, nonslip rubberized feet and integrated cord storage.
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The death of a friend with a young family inspired Ian Prentice to raise funds for a charity which helps children where one or both parents suffer from alcoholism.
Ian, of North Wootton, wanted to lose a few stone this year and in doing so wanted to help raise awareness and funds for the National Association for Children of Alcoholics.
His friend had died last year as a result of alcohol abuse and left behind two daughters, who were just 14 and ten at the time.
To help him lose the pounds, Ian joined his friend Jo Jackson's Slimming World Group, which meets in Hunstanton's Community Centre.
He lost 10lb in his first week and is on his way to achieving his target loss of four stone.
Anyone who would like to sponsor Ian and help raise funds for NACAO, can call him on 07720 319683.
From Sunday February, 9, NACOA is celebrating Children of Alcoholics Week raising awareness of the problems thousands of children face whose parents have alchohol-related problems.
Jo said: "It is a great incentive to losing weight knowing that in helping yourself you are also helping others."
Her group meets every Tuesday at 5.30pm and 7.30pm and she can be contacted on 07942 818059 for more information.


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Warriors edge Indians in regular-season baseball finale
For some of the Central High School baseball players, they were playing their last game.
The 10 seniors wanted nothing more than to have some fun and go out a winner.
They did that Monday, defeating Montrose 4-3 in a lightning-delayed Southwestern League finale Monday afternoon at Canyon View Park.
"We've been together for a lot of years, so we wanted to come out, play our game and have fun," senior Taylor Haynie said. "It could be the last opportunity for all of us to wear a uniform. I guess our mentality was to play loose and have fun.
"We'll remember this game, maybe for the rest of our lives."
The Warriors (13-6, 6-4 SWL) finished tied for second with Fruita Monument and Durango, but the Wildcats clinched the second Class 5A district berth out of the league by virtue of a tiebreaker. Durango qualified in Class 4A along with Montrose (10-9, 2-8 SWL).
"We're an inning or two or hit or two away from being where we want to be, but at 13-6 you can't look at it as a bad season," Central coach Chuck Yost said.
Senior Alex Kitzman, who several coaches thought was the best pitcher in the league, pitched a shutout through five innings as the Warriors built a 4-0 lead.
"That kid was good on the bump," Montrose coach Landon Wareham said. "We haven't seen anyone better. We had some good swings, but we couldn't string enough together."
Kitzman (5-3), who signed with Otero Junior College, limited Montrose to three runs on eight hits, two walks and struck out four in 51⁄3 innings. Kyle Rowe gave up one hit and struck out two in relief.
"Alex came out, threw strikes and did a great job," Yost said. "Kyle Rowe did a fantastic job in a tight spot."
The pitchers received just enough help from the offense, which squeezed across four runs on four hits off Montrose senior Bryce Gaber.
Gaber allowed three earned runs on four hits, three walks and struck out four in six innings.
Central scored two runs in the second inning on a bases-loaded walk and a groundout.
Haynie, who was 1 for 3, singled home a run with two outs in the fourth inning for a 3-0 lead.
"We had a stolen base then he comes up big with a hit to score a run," Yost said. "That's what wins games, the two-out hits. We didn't have those against Fruita and Junction."
Alec Rupe led off the fifth with a single and scored on a wild pitch.
Montrose strung together three consecutive hits in the sixth inning to score three runs and chase Kitzman.
Jake Bolstad drove in two on a single and scored on Zane Hemond's double to the right-center gap.


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Good News, Ray Lewis Forgives Wes Welker's Wife For Comments
Wes Welker's wife went off on Ray Lewis after the Patriots lost to the Ravens in the AFC Championship game.
Welker's wife threw Lewis under the bus for having children out of wedlock, paying off a family and of course his involvement in a murder. The Patriots and Wes Welker both issued apologies for the statements made on her personal Facebook page, but was she so far off in calling him a bad person?
Good news! Ray Lewis says he forgives her for what she said – because she was probably looking for his approval anyway. Lewis says he's a believer in the 'Good Book' and sometimes emotion makes people say 'silly stuff'. In this case, true stuff, Ray. But kuddos on forgiving her!
Now watch the video of Lewis fake crying during the National Anthem.
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Scottish pensioners are £409 a year better off in the UK, according to former Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
Pensioners in Scotland share £9.58 billion in benefits, including the state pension, pension credits, disability benefit and other advantages.
This amounts to 8.7% of the UK total spend shared between 8.3% of the British population, providing £417 million more than a division based purely on population would, Mr Brown said.
The former chancellor has divided this total by the 1,020,190 state pensioners in Scotland and found the additional benefit amounts to £409 per pensioner.
He said: "When you include the Scottish share of pensioner benefits paid overseas, Scottish pensioners received a total of £9.58 billion in pensioner benefits. This represents 8.7% of total pensioner benefits across the UK, even though Scotland only has 8.3% of the UK population.
"The pensioner benefit spend in Scotland last year would have been £417 million less had it been based on Scotland's share of the UK population.
"So before the SNP start making plans for independence they have to find an extra £417 million that we currently receive from being part of the UK.
"I want us to do more and I am determined to fight for a better deal for OAPs including a 20-month freeze on energy prices under a new Labour government.
"But we should remember that under the last Labour government, 200,000 Scottish pensioners were taken out of poverty as pensioner poverty fell from 33% in 1997 to 11% in 2010.
"Before we throw all this away let us remember that the SNP have set up a review into the 'affordability' of pensions in an independent Scotland."


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"Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes: > Did Heikki's patch to move the xmin forward during VACUUM get rejected? > That seems like it has a much wider use case. It's still in the queue (which I have finally started to review in earnest). regards, tom lane
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Discussion in 'Feedback Area | Testing Zone' started by Gtwo, Jan 22, 2012.
Try to post a ? And it says must wait 29 seconds whats the deal?
just wait, its not that long..LOL, when I was a kid we had to walk 5 miles up hill just to ask a quesion
But I tried waiting,still said same thing, then I go back and it did post it like 10 times. What'd I do wrong?
Im using tapatalk forum app if it matters.
I've had the same problem with Tapatalk on here. It actually does post, so you can cancel out and it works. Probably a Tapatalk bug that will be fixed with their next update.
It's a Tapatalk issue, not Stangnet. Yesterday I posted from Tapatalk, said I timed out too. I just check that thread and not only did my post go through but it posted 3 times. I just edited the two extra ones. Tapatalk isn't the most stable forum platform app available currently. It needs some polishing.
Happens to me as well. After I post something, I just hit discard and it post anyways. It will do until they fix the app.
Well I used Tapatalk again last night, same thing. It timed out then posted anyway like RacEoHolic just said. It needs some polishing.
Yeah,now that ive figured it out it's just an annoyance.


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July 27 2012
Piercy has share of lead
A day after setting a course record, Scott Piercy had to temper expectations.
"You shoot 62 and think, oh, I've got it," he said. "You expect to shoot another 62, which is -- to shoot 62, you've got to have things going for you. You've got to be making the putts. You've got to get the right bounces. I think you've got to be realistic with your expectations."
Friday, Piercy had to settle for a 67, which was still good enough to give him a share of the early clubhouse lead with William McGirt at 11 under.
"When I shot 62, my expectation was to hit fairways and greens, and it just happened," Piercy continued. "Knowing that it's generally tough to follow up a course record, I just wanted to hit a bunch of greens, a bunch of fairways, and let it happen again."
He did just that, hitting 79 percent of his fairways and 72 percent of his greens on the way to four birdies and just one bogey.
Now Piercy will try to continue that trend.
This year, he's finished in the top 25 10 times -- his best finish was a third at the John Deere Classic. In his last two starts, Piercy has finished in the top 12.
Despite the 62 earlier in the week, though, Piercy knows that's more the exception than the norm at Hamilton G&CC, which played as the third-most difficult course on the PGA TOUR the last time the tournament was played there.
"I like to be aggressive and shoot at things," Piercy said. "Because the greens are so severe in spots, you want to be below the hole, putting up into them. Here it's more playing for pars and hoping that the birdies fall."


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Seligman Medical Institute
The Seligman Medical Institute (SMI) is a private, non-profit research and education foundation established to further our understanding of a diagnosis and treatment mode for chronic back pain and other chronic pain syndromes called "tension myositis syndrome (TMS)." a term coined by John Sarno, MD of New York University's Rusk Rehabilitation Institute to describe his "mind-body" approach to chronic pain. Founded in 2003, this Southern California foundation is directed by Principal Investigator David Schechter, MD, with the assistance of Foundation Coordinator Arthur Preston Smith, PhD. The Foundation did its work between 2003 and 2007 and is not currently funding mind-body research.
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1 Overview
Common Implementation: Overview
Understanding Implementation Structures
Functional Setup Manager: Overview
Planning Your Implementation: Explained
Functional Setup Manager Components: How They Work Together
Managing an Implementation
Enabling Offerings: Explained
Configuring Offerings: Procedure
Adopting New Functionality: Explained
Opting into New Features After Upgrade: Explained
Managing Offering Setup: Explained
2 Getting Started with a Procurement Rapid Implementation
Getting Started with Your Procurement Rapid Implementation: Procedure
Define Enterprise Structure for Procurement Rapid Implementation: Overview
Configure Basic Enterprise Structure for Procurement: Overview
3 Synchronization of Users and Roles from LDAP
User and Role Synchronization: Explained
4 Define Implementation Users
Manage Users
Define Implementation Users: Overview
5 Define Currencies and Currency Rates
Manage Currencies
Defining Currencies: Points to Consider
Euro Currency Derivation: Explained
FAQs for Manage Currencies
When do I create or enable currencies?
What's the difference between precision, extended precision, and minimum accountable unit for a currency?
What's a statistical unit currency type?
Manage Conversion Rate Types
Creating Conversion Rate Types: Critical Choices
Using Rate Types: Examples
FAQs for Manage Conversion Rate Types
What's the difference between spot, corporate, user, and fixed rate types?
Manage Daily Rates
Entering Daily Rates Manually: Worked Example
Updating Currency Rates: Worked Example
6 Define Enterprise Structures for Procurement
Enterprise Structures: Overview
Enterprise Structures Business Process Model: Explained
Global Enterprise Configuration: Points to Consider
Modeling Your Enterprise Management Structure in Oracle Fusion: Example
Essbase Character and Word Limitations
Define Initial Configuration with the Enterprise Structures Configurator
Establishing Enterprise Structures Using the Enterprise Structures Configurator: Explained
Rolling Back an Enterprise Structure Configuration: Explained
Designing an Enterprise Configuration: Example
Divisions: Explained
Legal Entities: Explained
Creating Legal Entities in the Enterprise Structures Configurator: Points to Consider
Legal Entity in Oracle Fusion: Points to Consider
Business Units: Explained
Creating Business Units in the Enterprise Structures Configurator: Points to Consider
Reference Data Sets and Sharing Methods: Explained
Business Units and Reference Data Sets: How They Work Together
Creating Reference Data Sets in the Enterprise Structures Configurator: Explained
Jobs and Positions: Critical Choices
Positions: Examples
Jobs: Example
Job and Position Structures: Explained
FAQs for Define Initial Configuration
What happens if I don't use the Enterprise Structures Configurator to set up my enterprise structures?
What's an ultimate holding company?
What's the default reference data set?
What happens if I override the set assignment?
Define Reference Data Sharing
Reference Data Sharing: Explained
Reference Data Sets: Explained
Reference Data Sets and Sharing Methods: Explained
Assigning Reference Data Sets to Reference Objects: Points to Consider
Items and Supplier Site Reference Data Sharing: Explained
FAQs for Define Reference Data Sharing
What reference data objects can be shared across business units?
What reference data objects can be shared across asset books?
What reference data objects can be shared across cost organizations?
What reference data objects can be shared across project units?
Define Enterprise: Manage Enterprise HCM Information
Enterprise: Explained
Managing Enterprise Information for Non-HCM Users: Explained
Define Enterprise: Manage Locations
Locations: Explained
FAQs for Manage Locations
Why can't I see my location in the search results?
What happens if I select a geographic hierarchy node when I'm creating or editing a location?
What happens if I select an inventory organization when I am creating or editing a location?
What happens if I inactivate a location?
How can I associate a location with an inventory organization?
Define Geographies
Defining Address Cleansing: Explained
Geography Structure, Hierarchy, and Validation: How They Fit Together
Geography Structures: Explained
Geography Hierarchy: Explained
Geography Validation: Explained
Importing Geographies: Explained
Importing Country Structures Using File-Based Import: Explained
Country Structure Import Objects: How They Work Together
Importing Geographies Using File-Based Import: Explained
Geography Import Objects: How They Work Together
Importing Geographies Using File-Based Data Import: Worked Example
Importing and Exporting Territory Geography Zones: Explained
Managing Geography Structures, Hierarchies, and Validation: Worked Example
FAQs for Define Geographies
When do I define address cleansing?
Why can't I update a geography structure by copying an existing country structure?
Why can't I delete a level of the country geography structure?
Can I add any geography to the geography hierarchy?
Can I edit a specific geography in the geography hierarchy?
How can I add a geography that is one level under another geography in a geography hierarchy?
Define Legal Jurisdictions and Authorities
Jurisdictions and Legal Authorities: Explained
Jurisdictions: Explained
Legal Authorities: Explained
Creating Legal Jurisdictions, Addresses and Authorities: Examples
Creating Legal Entities, Registrations, and Reporting Units: Examples
Define Legal Entities: Manage Legal Entity
Legal Entities: Explained
Legal Entity in Oracle Fusion: Points to Consider
Define Legal Entities: Manage Legal Entity HCM Information
HCM Organization Models: Examples
Payroll Statutory Units, Legal Employers, and Tax Reporting Units: How They Work Together
FAQs for Manage Legal Entity HCM Information
What's a legal employer?
What's a payroll statutory unit?
Define Legal Entities: Manage Legal Entity Tax Profile
Party Tax Profiles: Explained
Specifying First-Party Tax Profile Options: Points to Consider
FAQs for Manage Legal Entity Tax Profile
When does a party tax profile get created for a legal entity?
Define Legal Entities: Define Legal Reporting Units
Planning Legal Reporting Units: Points to Consider
Define Chart of Accounts for Enterprise Structures: Manage Chart of Accounts Structures and Structure Instances
Chart of Accounts: Explained
Thick Versus Thin General Ledger: Critical Choices
Chart of Accounts: How Its Components Fit Together
Create Chart of Accounts, Ledger, Legal Entities, and Business Units in Spreadsheets: Explained
Create Chart of Accounts, Ledger, Legal Entities, and Business Units in Spreadsheets: How They're Processed
Creating One Chart of Accounts Structure with Many Instances: Example
Creating Chart of Accounts Structure and Instances: Examples
Balancing Segments: Explained
Multiple Balancing Segments: Points to Consider
Using Multiple Balancing Segments: Example
FAQs for Manage Charts of Accounts Structures and Structure Instances
How can I use future accounting segments?
Define Chart of Accounts for Enterprise Structures: Value Sets and Value Set Values
Chart of Accounts Values Sets: Critical Choices
Creating a Value Set for Your Chart of Accounts: Example
Configuring Chart of Account Segments for Business Intelligence: Explained
Define Chart of Accounts for Enterprise Structures: Manage Accounting Calendars
Defining Accounting Calendars: Critical Choices
Calendar Validation: How It Works with the Accounting Calendar
FAQs for Manage Accounting Calendars
How can I identify errors in my accounting calendar?
What's the difference between calendar and fiscal period naming?
When do I update an existing calendar?
What happens if I upgrade my calendar from Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12?
Define Accounting Configurations of Enterprise Structures: Manage Primary or Secondary Ledgers
Accounting Configuration Offerings: Overview
Ledgers and Subledgers: Explained
Ledgers: Points to Consider
Financial Ledgers: How They Fit Together
Creating Primary Ledgers: Example
Define Accounting Configurations of Enterprise Structures: Specify Ledger Options
Specifying Ledger Options: Worked Example
FAQs for Specify Ledger Options
What happens if I change the cumulative adjustment account?
What happens if I change the retained earnings account?
Assigning Legal Entities and Balancing Segments: Examples
Define Accounting Configurations of Enterprise Structures: Manage Reporting Currencies
Reporting Currency Balances: How They're Calculated
Define Business Units: Manage Business Units
Business Units: Explained
Define Business Units: Assign Business Unit Business Function
Business Functions: Explained
Define Business Units: Manage Service Provider Relationships
Shared Service Centers: Explained
Shared Service Center: Points to Consider
Service Provider Model: Explained
Define Business Units: Specify Customer Contract Management Business Function Properties
Customer Contracts Business Unit Setup: Explained
Contract Terms Library Business Unit Setup: Explained
Define Business Units: Specify Supplier Contract Management Business Function Properties
Supplier Contracts Business Unit Setup: Explained
Contract Terms Library Business Unit Setup: Explained
Define Workforce Structures: Manage Locations
Locations: Explained
Define Workforce Structures: FAQs for Manage Locations
Why can't I see my location in the search results?
How can I associate a location with an inventory organization?
What happens if I select an inventory organization when I am creating or editing a location?
What happens if I select a geographic hierarchy node when I'm creating or editing a location?
What happens if I inactivate a location?
Define Workforce Structures: Manage Divisions
Divisions: Explained
Adding a New Division After Acquiring a Company: Example
Define Workforce Structures: Manage Departments
Cost Centers and Departments: Explained
Department Classifications: Points to Consider
Define Workforce Structures: FAQs for Manage Job Families
What's the difference between a job set and a job family?
Define Workforce Structures: Manage Job
Jobs: Explained
Jobs: Example
Define Facilities: Manage Facility Shifts, Workday Patterns, and Schedules
Schedule Components: How They Fit Together
Managing Shifts: Examples
Managing Workday Patterns: Examples
Define Facilities: Manage Inventory Organizations
Inventory Organizations: Explained
Inventory Organization: Critical Choices
Inventory Organization Prerequisites: Points to Consider
Rounding the Reorder Quantity: How It Affects Min-Max Planning Reorder Calculations
Selecting Lot Number Uniqueness Control: Critical Choices
FAQs for Manage Inventory Organizations
What happens if I select the Supplier item sourcing type for replenishment?
What happens if I create an inventory organization as a logistics services organization?
Define Facilities: Manage Item Organizations
Item Organization: Explained
Item Master Organization: Explained
7 Define Budgetary Control and Encumbrance Accounting
Defining the Funds Reservation Point for Purchasing Documents: Explained
Defining Funds Override Rules for a Control Budget: Explained
8 Define Security for Procurement
Define Security: Overview
9 Define Approval Management for Procurement
Approval Management: Highlights
Approval Rules: Explained
Project Information in Approval Rules for Requisitions and Orders: Explained
Procurement Category Hierarchy in Approvals: Explained
Creating an Approval Rule Using a Procurement Category Hierarchy: Worked Example
Managing Funds Override Approval Rules for Requisitions and Purchase Orders: Explained
Setting Up Approval Rules for Purchasing Documents with Outside Processing Items: Explained
Nested Approval Rule Conditions: Explained
Setting Up the Worklist Region on My Dashboard: Points to Consider
Managing User-Defined Attributes in Approvals: Explained
Manage Requisition Approvals
Setting Up Requisition Approval Task: Critical Choices
Setting Up Self Service Procurement Task Driven Configuration: Explained
Approval Rules for Internal Material Transfer Requisitions: Explained
Manage Supplier Registration Approvals
Supplier Registration Approval: Explained
Setting up Supplier Registration Approvals Task: Critical Choices
Configuring Supplier Registration and Supplier Profile Change Request: Points to Consider
Approval Task: Explained
Other Workflow Setup
Determining When Workflow Tasks Are Automatically Dismissed or Withdrawn: Points to Consider
Synchronizing Notifications in the Global Header with Workflow Tasks: Points to Consider
Setting Up the Worklist Region on My Dashboard: Points to Consider
Electronic Signature
Configuring Electronic Signature for Purchasing Documents: Procedure
10 Define Help Configuration
Setting Up Help: Overview
Set Help Options
Setting Up for Creating and Editing Help: Procedure
FAQs for Set Help Options
When do I link to the Oracle User Productivity Kit library from Applications Help?
What's the URL for my Oracle User Productivity Kit library?
FAQs for Assign Help Text Administration Duty
Who can create, edit, and manage help?
Manage Help Security Groups
Creating Help Security Groups: Worked Example
Help File Customization
Help File Customization: Overview
Help Types: Explained
Assigning Help Locations: Procedure
Links in Custom Help: Points to Consider
Customizing PDF Guides: Worked Example
Adding Custom User Productivity Kit Content to Help: Worked Example
FAQs for Help File Customization
What happens to my custom help after an upgrade for Applications Help?
Embedded Help Customization
Customizing Help That Appears on the Page: Highlights
11 Define Application Toolkit Configuration
Configuring the Application Toolkit
Map Reports to Work Area
Setting Up the Reports and Analytics Pane: Procedure
Setting Reports Up for Scheduling in the Reports and Analytics Pane: Procedure
Set Watchlist Options
Disabling and Enabling Watchlist Categories and Items: Points to Consider
Manage Application Toolkit Administrator Profile Values
Setting Up the Mapping Service for Contextual Addresses: Points to Consider
Setting Up the Worklist Region on My Dashboard: Points to Consider
12 Maintain Common Reference Objects
Reference Objects: Overview
Why can't I edit setup data?
Define Application Taxonomy
Application Taxonomy: Highlights
Modules in Application Taxonomy: Explained
Managing Modules in Application Taxonomy: Points to Consider
Define Reference Data Sharing
Reference Data Sharing: Explained
Reference Data Sets: Explained
Reference Data Sets and Sharing Methods: Explained
Assigning Reference Data Sets to Reference Objects: Points to Consider
Define ISO Reference Data
Defining Currencies: Points to Consider
Euro Currency Derivation: Explained
Natural Languages: Points to Consider
FAQs for Define ISO Reference Data
When do I create or edit territories?
When do I create or edit industries?
When do I associate industries with territories?
When do I create or enable currencies?
What's the difference between precision, extended precision, and minimum accountable unit for a currency?
What's a statistical unit currency type?
When do I create or edit ISO languages?
When do I edit languages?
When do I create or edit time zones?
Manage Audit Policies
Managing Audit Policies: Explained
Configuring Audit Business Object Attributes: Points to Consider
Configuring Audit: Highlights
Manage Oracle Social Network Objects
Managing Oracle Social Network Objects: Explained
FAQs for Manage Oracle Social Network Objects
What happens if I update translations?
Manage Applications Core Common Reference Objects
Manage Applications Core Messages
Common Messages: Points to Consider
Manage Applications Core Administrator Profile Values
Profile Options and Related General Preferences: How They Work Together
Setting Up for General Troubleshooting: Points to Consider
Managing Profile Option Values for CORS Headers: Points to Consider
How can I enable the privacy statement?
How can I make message components visible only to specific users?
How do I define whether the user image, name, or initials display in the global header?
13 Define WebLogic Communication Services Configuration
Oracle Sales Cloud CTI: Highlights
Configuring PSTN Gateway Address Using Topology Manager: Worked Example
14 Define Applications Core Configuration
Define Lookups
Lookups: Explained
Managing a Standard Lookup: Example
Managing Set-Enabled Lookups: Examples
FAQs for Define Lookups
How can I edit lookups?
How can I access predefined lookups?
Why can't I see my lookup types?
What's the difference between a lookup type and a value set?
What's a lookup tag used for?
Manage Messages
Messages: Explained
Message Types: Explained
Creating and Editing a Message: Procedure
Using Tokens in Messages: Points to Consider
How can I make message components visible only to specific users?
Common Messages: Points to Consider
Define Document Sequences
Document Sequences: Explained
Document Sequence Categories: Explained
Document Sequences: Points to Consider
Define Trees
Trees: Overview
Manage Tree Structures
Tree Structures: Explained
Tree Structure Definition: Points to Consider
Managing Tree Structures: Points to Consider
Tree Structure Audit Results: Explained
Specifying Data Sources for Tree Structures: Points to Consider
Specifying Performance Options for a Tree Structure: Points to Consider
Manage Tree Labels
Tree Labels: Explained
Manage Trees and Tree Versions
Managing Trees and Tree Versions: Points to Consider
Tree Version Audit Results: Explained
Trees and Data Sources: How They Work Together
Adding Tree Nodes: Points to Consider
Define Profile Options
Profile Options: Overview
Hierarchy in Profile Levels: Explained
Setting Profile Option Values: Procedure
Creating and Editing Profile Options: Procedure
How can I access predefined profile options?
Managing Profile Categories: Points to Consider
Define Flexfields
Flexfields: Overview
Flexfield Components: Explained
Flexfields and Oracle Applications Cloud Architecture: How They Work Together
Flexfield Management
Managing Flexfields: Points to Consider
Flexfield Segment Properties: Explained
Flexfields and Value Sets: How They Work Together
Deriving and Setting Default Segment Values: Explained
Flexfield Usages: Explained
Flexfield Deployment
Flexfield Deployment: Explained
Flexfield Deployment Status: How It's Calculated
Deploying a Flexfield-Enabled Sandbox: How It Works With Mainline Metadata
Deploying a Flexfield to a Sandbox: Points to Consider
Deploying Flexfields Using the Command Line: Explained
Manage Value Sets
Value Sets: Explained
Defining Value Sets: Critical Choices
Manage Descriptive Flexfields
Descriptive Flexfields: Explained
Managing Descriptive Flexfields: Points to Consider
Enabling Descriptive Flexfield Segments for Business Intelligence: Points to Consider
Manage Extensible Flexfields
Extensible Flexfields: Explained
Managing Extensible Flexfields: Points to Consider
Manage Key Flexfields
Key Flexfields: Explained
Managing Key Flexfields: Points to Consider
Key Flexfield Structures: Explained
Key Flexfield Structure Instances and Segment Instances: Explained
Enabling Key Flexfield Segments for Business Intelligence: Points to Consider
Key Flexfields: Example
FAQs for Define Flexfields
How can I access predefined flexfields?
Why did my flexfield changes not appear in the run time UI?
What happens if a value set is security enabled?
Why did my page not display any flexfield?
How can I set a default value for a flexfield segment?
Define Attachments
Attachments: Explained
Attachment Entities: Explained
Attachment Entities and Attachment Categories: How They Work Together
Attachments Troubleshooting: Explained
FAQs for Define Attachments
What's an attachment category?
15 Define Collaboration Messaging
Using Collaboration Messaging: Overview
Reprocessing Undelivered Messages: Procedure
Process Inbound Collaboration Messages
Validating Inbound Collaboration Messaging: Procedure
Process Outbound Collaboration Messages
Validating Outbound Collaboration Messaging: Procedure
Manage Collaboration Messages
Creating a Trading Partner with a Service Provider: Procedure
Creating a Trading Partner without a Service Provider: Procedure
Managing Associated Collaboration Documents: Procedure
Configuring Collaboration Messaging for a Customer: Procedure
Configuring Collaboration Messaging for a Customer Account: Procedure
FAQs for Define Collaboration Messages
What are the different undelivered collaboration message error statuses?
What are the different undelivered collaboration message error types?
What happens if I don't enable a document type for storage?
Why did my message fail?
Why can't I see the import batch list to select from?
When would you resubmit a collaboration message?
How can I use a custom XSLT file?
16 Other Common Setup and Maintenance Tasks
Home Page Setup
Configuring Home Page Navigation: Procedure
Defining Home Page Appearance: Procedure
FAQs for Home Page Setup
How can I post announcements on the home page?
How can I rename an icon for an infolet page in the page control on the home page?
Global Header
How do I define whether the user image, name, or initials display in the global header?
Contextual Addresses
Setting Up the Mapping Service for Contextual Addresses: Points to Consider
Privacy Statement
How can I enable the privacy statement?
Setting Up for General Troubleshooting: Points to Consider
17 Define Common Procurement Configuration
Define Basic Catalogs
Create Catalogs
Catalogs: How They Work Together
Catalog Formatting: Explained
Catalog Details: Explained
Automatic Assignment Catalogs: Explained
Manage Catalogs
Catalog Edits: Explained
Categories and Catalog Relationships: Explained
Date Enablement for Catalogs and Categories: Explained
Catalog Hierarchies: How They Fit Together
Category Edits: Explained
Catalog Category Association: Explained
Category Details: Explained
Categories: Explained
Category Moves: Explained
Import Category Hierarchies: Explained
Catalog and Category Attachments: Explained
Items to Categories Assignment: Explained
Catalog Report Publishing: Explained
FAQs for Manage Catalogs
How can I define category hierarchies?
How can I duplicate categories?
How can I add categories?
How can I add shared categories?
How can I add images to a catalog or category?
What is catalog mapping?
Define Supplier Configuration
Create a Supplier and Supplier Site
Supplier Numbering: Explained
Supplier Outbound Synchronization Service: Overview
Configuring Supplier Registration and Supplier Profile Change Request: Points to Consider
Supplier B2B Integration and Collaboration Messaging Framework: Explained
Enabling Supplier Match: Explained
Define Address Configuration: Explained
Define Transaction Accounting for Procurement
Transaction Account Builder: Explained
Account Rules: Explained
Creating Account Rules: Points to Consider
Mapping Sets: Explained
Defining Mapping Sets: Examples
Setting Up an Account Mapping Using a Procurement Category Hierarchy: Worked Example
Project Information in Account Derivation for Procurement Transactions: Explained
Setting Up an Account Rule for an Outside Processing Purchase: Explained
Define Transaction Taxes
Define Tax Configuration: Overview
Defining Tax Configuration for Transaction Taxes: Critical Choices
Scope Values for Define Tax Configuration Task List: Explained
Foundation Tax Configuration: Points to Consider
Tax Rule Configuration: Points to Consider
Define Tax Geographies
Place Information: Explained
Country Information: How It Works in Tax Rules and on Transactions
Using Country Information in Tax Rules: Example
Geography Elements: How They Work in Tax Rules
Using Geography Levels in Tax Rules: Example
Tax Zones: How They Work in Tax Rules
Using Tax Zones in Tax Rules: Example
Define Tax Regimes
Regimes to Rates: Explained
Minimum Tax Configuration: Explained
Minimum Tax Configuration: Points to Consider
Defining a Minimum Tax Configuration: Worked Example
Associated Taxes Setup for a Tax Regime: Explained
Manage Controls and Defaults
Tax Regime Controls and Defaults: Points to Consider
Inclusive Taxes: Explained
Manage Configuration Options and Service Subscriptions
Configuration Options: Explained
Content Subscriptions: Critical Choices
Tax Configuration Options in the Tax Determination Process: How They're Used
Setting Up Tax Configuration Options: Worked Example
FAQs for Define Tax Regimes
What's a service subscription?
Why are controls and defaults important?
Manage Payment Terms
Payment Terms: Explained
Manage Units of Measure
Units of Measure, Unit of Measure Classes, and Base Units of Measure: How They Fit Together
Assigning Base Units of Measure to Unit of Measure Classes: Examples
Defining Unit of Measure Standard Conversions: Examples
FAQs for Units of Measure
What's a unit of measure standard conversion?
What's a UOM interclass conversion?
What's a UOM intraclass conversion?
Define Corporate Procurement Cards
Creating Corporate Cards: Points to Consider
Define Common Payables and Procurement Options
Common Options for Payables and Procurement: Critical Choices
Manage Procurement Document Numbering
Define Procurement Document Numbering: Critical Choices
Manage Procurement Category Hierarchy
How can I use the procurement category hierarchy to create reports?
18 Define Purchasing Configuration
Define Common Purchasing Configuration
Purchase Order Line Types: Examples
Create Document Style: Critical Choices
Reviewing the Delivered Document Style for Outside Processing: Explained
Defining a Document Style for Outside Processing: Procedure
Change Order Template: Explained
What's a purchasing document report template?
Customizing Purchasing Document Reports: Procedure
Buyer Assignment Rules: Explained
Creating Buyer Assignment Rules: Points to Consider
Upload Buyer Assignment Rules: Procedure
FAQs for Define Common Purchasing Configuration
What's a document style?
What's a buyer assignment rule set?
Define Procurement Configuration Options
Price Break Type: Critical Choices
Choosing an Inventory Organization: Explained
Allow Retroactive Pricing: Critical Choices
Receipt Close Point: Explained
Match Approval Level: Critical Choices
Group Requisitions: Critical Choices
Standard Purchasing Terms and Conditions: Explained
FAQs for Configure Procurement Business Function
What's a receipt close tolerance percent?
What's a contract terms layout?
Configure Requisitioning Business Function
Configure Requisitioning Business Function: Explained
Define Procurement Agents
Procurement Agent Security: Explained
Create Procurement Agent: Critical Choices
Buyer Managed Transportation Setup
Buyer Managed Transportation Setup in Procurement: Explained
19 Define Self Service Procurement Configuration
Manage Information Template Descriptive Flexfields
Information Template: Explained
Manage Catalog Category Hierarchy
Category Hierarchy: Overview
Category Hierarchy: How Browsing Categories and Item Categories Fit Together
Category Hierarchy with Catalog Association: Explained
How can I configure what appears in top categories?
Assign Returned Requisition Lines to Previous Buyer: Explained
Assign All Requisition Lines to the Same Buyer: Explained
20 Define Supplier Portal Configuration
Manage Supplier User Roles
Supplier User Provisioning: How It Works
Set Up Supplier Roles: Examples
Supplier User Account Administration: Explained
Configure Supplier Registration
Setting up Supplier Registration Approvals Task: Critical Choices
Configuring the New Supplier Notification: Explained
Configuring Supplier Registration and Supplier Profile Change Request: Points to Consider
Rule Sets: Explained
Spend Authorization Requests: Explained
Managing Certifying Agencies : Explained
How can I submit a supplier for spend authorization that was previously rejected?
Updating Suppliers
Updating Supplier Profile Entities: Explained
Purging Supplier Interface Records: Explained
Supplier Import
Supplier Import Process: Explained
Specify Supplier News Content
Supplier Portal: Explained
21 Define Sourcing Configuration
Manage Negotiation Styles
Creating a Negotiation Style: Worked Example
Negotiation Styles: Examples
Negotiation Styles: Explained
Manage Attribute Lists
Line Attribute Properties and Their Acceptable Values: Explained
Creating Attribute Lists: Worked Example
Creating Line Attributes: Worked Example
What's an attribute list?
Manage Cost Factors
Cost Factors and Cost Factor Lists: Explained
Creating Cost Factors: Worked Example
Manage Cost Factor Lists
What is a cost factor list?
Manage Negotiation Templates
Creating a Negotiation Template: Worked Example
What's the difference between a negotiation style and a negotiation template?
Implementing Abstracts: Explained
Sourcing Programs
Enabling Sourcing Programs: Explained
22 Define Supplier Qualification Management
Define Questions, Qualification Areas, and Qualification Models
Using Questions: Explained
Question Branching: Explained
Question Branching: Examples
Creating a Question: Worked Example
Qualification Areas: Explained
Creating a Qualification Area: Worked Example
Qualification Models: Explained
Creating a Qualification Model: Worked Example
Using Rule Sets
Rule Sets: Explained
Registration Rule Sets: Explained
Registration Approval Rule Sets: Explained
Supplier Promotion Rule Sets: Explained
Default information Rule Sets: Explained
23 Define Procurement Contracts Configuration
Define Contract Terms Library Configuration
Contract Terms Library Setups: How They Work Together
Contract Terms Library Clauses: Explained
Contract Terms Templates: How They Work
Contract Expert Rules: How They Work
24 External Integration
Web Services
Web Services: Overview
Developer Connect
Developer Connect: Overview
Web Service Life Cycle: Explained
Managing Web Service Sample Payloads: Worked Example
Importing Value Set Values to Oracle Applications Cloud: Worked Example
Message Patterns: Explained
CORS: Explained
Managing Profile Option Values for CORS Headers: Points to Consider
Viewing Details About Predefined Scheduled Processes: Procedure
Files for Import and Export
Files for Import and Export: Explained
Files for Import and Export: Points to Consider
External Data Integration Services for Oracle Cloud
External Data Integration Services for Oracle Cloud: Overview
Locating File Import Templates: Explained
Using Excel Integration Templates to Generate Data Files: Points to Consider
Using XML Integration Templates to Generate Data Files: Points to Consider
Transferring Data Files to Oracle WebCenter Content Using Manual Flow: Explained
Load Interface File for Import Process
Importing Data into Application Tables: Procedure
Correcting Import Load Process Errors: Explained
Importing Purchasing Documents: Procedure
Project Information in Imported Procurement Transactions: Explained
25 Importing and Exporting Setup Data
Exporting and Importing Setup Data: Overview
Offering Based Export and Import: Explained
Implementation Project Based Export and Import: Explained
Configuration Packages: Explained
Moving Common Reference Objects
Moving Common Reference Objects: Overview
Business Objects for Moving Common Reference Objects: Points to Consider
Moving Related Common Reference Objects: Points to Consider
Using Seed Data Framework to Move Common Reference Objects: Points to Consider
26 Supply Chain Management Integration
Contract Manufacturing Setup in Procurement: Explained
Back-to-Back Order Fulfillment Setup in Procurement: Explained
Drop Shipment Order Fulfillment Setup in Procurement: Explained
Configured Item Order Fulfillment Setup in Procurement: Explained
Externally and Internally Managed Requisitions: Explained
Purchase Request Web Service in Procurement
Internal Material Transfer Setup in Procurement: Explained
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The Punisher
(Marvel Comics, Marvel Knights imprint)
There is a thin line between a vigilante and a hero. Except in the comic books. After all, the entire DC Comics Batman-family (i.e. Batman, Robin, Nightwing, Catwoman and Batgirl) thrives on the premise that characters take the law into their own hands to protect innocents against criminals. Nobody "bats" an eyelid.
Over at Marvel Comics, writer Gerry Conway took this premise to its logical conclusion. Imagine a Vietnam vet (a trained soldier steeped in military strategies and covert ops) losing his family at the hand of criminals looking to silence potential witnesses to their murderous activities and then declaring a war on crime, one that takes no prisoners. The Punisher (aka Frank Castle) was based freely on a novel called War Against the Mafia. Debuting in 1968 and written by Don Pendleton, the book featuring Mack Bolan who dubbed himself the Executioner and, like Frank Castle, was a Vietnam vet who declares a one-man war against the Mafia after seeing his family slaughtered by them. Conway took these and other plot elements, and put the Punisher firmly in Batman territory by placing a huge skull emblem on the character's chest a vigilante in super-hero clothes.
After a successful publication run of multiple titles in the eighties, one written by talented scribe Mike Baron, the Punisher eventually ran out of steam and was cancelled. He was revived in a mini-series that served to re-introduce the character to a nineties audience as an avenging angel-zombie. The relative interest that was generated prompted the Marvel Knights imprint to launch a Punisher 12-part series helmed by the team responsible for the critically acclaimed Preacher Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon.
A short aside about Preacher: In its five-year run, this series about a Texan man of the cloth blessed/curse with the literal 'word of God,' his hitman-wannabe girlfriend, and their Irish vampire buddy managed to offend most sensibilities. It stretched the boundaries of a 'mature-themed' comic book almost to a breaking point. Some consider the successful title blasphemous, vulgar, depraved, and obscene, yet it still offered a time-tested tale of trust, loyalty and even love.
Right from the outset, Ennis puts his Punisher series into perspective: "Entertainment. Plain and simple. Not a complex analysis of the causes of crime, not a portrait of one man's tragic descent into murderous psychosis, not an in-depth examination of the vigilante down the ages." However, few people are more qualified than former writer Baron to comment on the core psyche of the Punisher. "I always looked at the Punisher as a straight crime book stacked him up against every contemporary crime I knew, starting with the crack trade. Cults. Outlaw biker gangs. Terrorists. If I were writing him today, he would be after crooked politicians."
In either writer's manifestation, the violence seems compulsory. Ennis' own sense of black comedy within his conception of the Punisher reduces many of the characters and the issues to a one-dimensional level. For one thing, the depiction of ultra-violence robs the events set up of any authenticity. Which I presume is the whole point. Ennis litters the story with ingenious ways by which the Punisher disposes of his 'victims.' To my mind, this reduces the impact of these execution to a cartoony aspect it's almost like watching Wile E Coyote and the Roadrunner. This quality is further exaggerated by the 'Vigilante Squad', consisting of the Holy (an axe wielding Catholic priest), Mr Payback (a blue-collar avenger of the working class), and Elite (the self-appointed guardian of public cleanliness and decency). Inspired by the antics of the Punisher, they seek him out to be their leader! You cannot help but guffaw at the absurdity of the situation.
Baron also adds, "Our fiction is our laboratory. We can conduct any kind of experiment there with no real cost to human life. Besides, I viewed my stories as moral. Nobody got it who didn't deserve it." In the final analysis, despite all that has been said, this is the only standard by which we can judge this latest Punisher series. As Baron points out astutely fiction is our laboratory. Ennis and Dillon have fashioned a story that is appropriate to our times, especially in the context of modern entertainment, which takes itself too seriously. With the Punisher series, Ennis suffers no illusions that he's making any statements on society or culture. After all, if the primary appeal of Superman is to see a man fly, then, at its most fundamental, the draw of the Punisher is to witness the 'punishment' of the predators and parasites of modern civilisation…. With the added bonus of being so fun to watch.
And that, my friend, is entertainment!
Many thanks to Mike Baron for his generous contributions to this article.
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Making resolutions you can live with. Really!
Dinner Diva Making resolutions you can live with. Really! By: Leanne Ely It's that time of year again. The new year. A time to reflect on the year we're leaving behind and make promises to ourselves about how we may live better for the next twelve months. If, when the clock struck twelve on Monday… Read more
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Vinegar. It's not just for pickles anymore!
Food For Thought Vinegar. It's not just for pickles anymore! By: Leanne Ely Once upon a time, there was white distilled vinegar that our mothers and grandmothers would use to pickle vegetables and clean the floors. And that was pretty much it as far as the vinegar train went. Today there are enough options in… Read more
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Making it your own
Food For Thought Making it your own By: Leanne Ely Dear Friends, Without going into arduous detail, suffice it to say that buying and moving into my new house (new to me anyway) was a small act of God. The obstacles, delays and endless frustration started in December and finally ended in April with a… Read more
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What is a Detox Diet?
Food For Thought What is a Detox Diet? By: Leanne Ely, C.N.C. For the past 11 years, we've been helping people save dinner through a multitude of methods—menus, recipes and shopping lists have always been the mainstay, but we realized people needed help in other ways too—from making freezer meals to crockpot meals to frugal… Read more
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5 Steps to Avoid That Downward Spiral
Dinner Diva 5 Steps to Avoid That Downward Spiral By: Leanne Ely C.N.C Let's face it—most of us obsess about something, whether it's our weight, the state of our homes, our children, marriages, being single…the list goes on. When you make the mental effort to include small steps toward the changes you want, you will… Read more
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Holiday Aneurism
Dinner Diva Holiday Aneurism By: Leanne Ely, CNC Dear Friends, In the aftermath of Christmas, lie credit card bills in waiting, messes to be cleaned up both figuratively and literally, and most spectacularly, a gigantic hole in the heart for so many people. Why is this? In this joyous of all seasons, these moments captured… Read more


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