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SOME 80 bands from China and overseas will participate in the 2014 Shanghai Spring International Wind Music Festival that will be unveiled on Labor Day, May 1.
The festival, organized by Yangpu District government, includes four sections — the grand opening cruise tour, the wind music carnival, concert gala and non-professional band show.
In addition to the traditional programs, there are a few new wrinkles this year. A wind music performance featuring 1,000 musicians will open the festival. As the cruise ships carrying musicians sail off at World Expo Watergate, opening ceremonies will be held at that site and the Oriental Pearl TV Tower. Through live transmission, people can see what's happening at both sites.
The wind music carnival will expand to more districts and communities this year, including Pudong, Xuhui, Huangpu, Jinshan and others. The wind music performances will be presented in military camps, schools, communities, parks, shopping malls and suburban areas.
For those who can't attend in person, the festival will be available on new media platforms, allowing the festival to build its brand while reaching a bigger audience.
More than 70 non-professional Chinese wind bands from 17 provinces and districts were selected for the show this year. Among them, participants include students, teachers, policemen, workers, farmers and retirees. The number exceeds all previous years, and for the first time there will be three categories: student, social and general.
On May 3, juries will present awards at Hudong Cultural Palace and give advice to the teams.
"Wind music is friendly, energetic and appealing, and the festivals in the past have brought regular audiences who love wind music," said Chen Hongguang, director of the wind music festival committee. "This year we will highlight the functions of wind music communication and promotion platforms, and more performances will be brought to audiences with different goals."
The overseas teams participating in this year's festival come from Canada, Poland, Thailand, South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
This is the second time the Yangfan Wind band from Chongqing Special Education Center will join the festival.
"It is a wind band made up of more than 30 blind children, currently the largest in scale in special education schools across China," said Jiang Siwen, deputy director of the festival committee.
The closing ceremony and gala will be held at Zhengda Gymnasium at Fudan University on May 3.
A look at some of this year's wind bands
Opus 92 (France)
The band was founded by Andre Menudet, Eric Villevire and Jacques Biolay in 1992.
It was joined by music lovers as well as students and graduates with more than nine years of instrumental music study.
This active band rehearses weekly and presents concerts all year in the region of Lyon and Beaujolais.
The current conductor is Fabien Bernoud, a renowned oboe player. As the oboe soloist, he has come to Shanghai three times in the past with Lyon National Orchestra and performed concerts at Shanghai Grand Theatre, Shanghai Oriental Art Center and Shanghai Concert Hall.
In September 2009, Bernoud was invited to become the conductor of Opus 92.
Nanjing Grassroots Wind Band
Established in 2008 by amateur wind music lovers and retired workers, the Nanjing Grassroots Wind Band gathers those who love wind music but are not professionals. Now, after fives years, the band has more than 50 players.
The band rehearses at Xuanwu Lake Park, attracting visitors who listen and people sharing the same passion to join in.
Wanli Wind Band of Putuo New Long March Art Troupe
Founded in 2011, Wanli Wind Band has brought programs like "The Phantom of the Opera" and "Mexican Trumpet" that mix East with West.
They've won awards in Shanghai, and they perform to community audiences regularly.
Shanghai International Studies University Bilingual School
The wind band of the bilingual school was founded in 2008 and now has 70 members. The team of young students won the gold last year at the Yangpu Cup, a non-professional wind band competition.
Chia-yi Bo-ai Elementary School Wind Band
This elementary school band has more than 71 members who perform outdoor marching routines. The school from Taiwan also has wind music classes to nurture talents.
Yangfan Wind Band of Chongqing Special Education Center
In 2011, to fulfill the music dream of a group of blind children, the teachers at the special education center picked up the instruments and brought the students into a musical journey.
In 2012, they were invited to the Shanghai Spring International Wind Music Festival and this May they will return to Shanghai.
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Hitler's Birthday
April 20, 2011 by staff
Hitler's Birthday, Revellers at a birthday party for Adolf Hitler in Chicago were interrupted abruptly when a smoke bomb went suddenly ends the festival. The banquet hall where the party was held was filled with swastika flags and decorated cakes, which read "Happy Birthday Adolf Hitler" and "The South was right. White Men struggle." The Chicago Tribune reports:
The suspect, a man with a backpack, had ordered a sandwich, grilled cheese before going to a bathroom and left the smoke bomb, authorities said Monday.
"The description we have to work outside is very vague," said Police Chief Harley Schinke of the person responsible for the damage Saturday night to PJ Klem's Restaurant & Banquet Hall.
Art Jones, president of the America First Committee, said he organized the party and about people attended. In addition to celebrating the 122nd anniversary of the birth of Hitler, which is Wednesday, Jones said the group marked the beginning April 12, 1861, the Civil War.
Klems general manager said that the purpose of the party was unknown when it was scheduled several weeks ago.
Adolf Hitler was born today, years ago, on April 20, 1889. He was raised by Catholic parents, but after leaving home, became a lapsed Catholic. He professes a belief in "Aryan Christ Jesus, a Jesus who fought against the Jews. Some scholars believe that his hatred of Jews can be caused by the death of his mother's cancer was incurable. The doctor treating her was Jewish. He is also believed that occult practices mixture National Socialism, although ridiculed these practices in his book Mein Kampf.
Hitler committed suicide shortly after she married her lover of many years, Eva Braun. He committed suicide in his bunker on April 30, 1945, when it became clear that the allies had taken Berlin and the war was lost.
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Out of Her Mind, edited by Rebecca Shannonhouse, captures the best literature by and about women struggling with madness. A remarkable chronicle of gifted and unconventional women who have spun their inner turmoil into literary gold, the collection features classic short stories, breathtaking literary excerpts, key historical writings, and previously unpublished letters by Zelda Fitzgerald.
Shannonhouse's recent anthology, Under the Influence: The Literature of Addiction, is also available as a Modern Library Paperback Original.
This somewhat uneven collection by freelance writer Shannonhouse focuses not on the experience of mental illness but rather on descriptions of those experiences (both first-and secondhand) written by women, making the subject matter fairly unique. The time span of the 21 brief selections is impressive (1436-1999); however, almost two-thirds of the writings are from the last half of the 20th century. The wide range of work includes arresting first-person descriptions of mental illness and the equally riveting 1843 testimony of Dorothea Dix on the conditions of Massaschusetts insane assylums. Unfortunately, this collection also includes material such as four rather benign letters by Zelda Fitzgerald (published here for the first time) in which she describes "picnic suppers' and "idyllic days" spent at Highland Hospital. Although sufficient for casual reading, a topic this intriguing deserves more thorough treatment. Recommend for larger public and academic collections.-Angela M. Weiler, SUNY Libs., Morrisville


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Matt Groening
Life Path Number 9
" I'm not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to Hell?"
Matt Groening is an American cartoonist, screenwriter, producer, animator, author, musician, comedian, and voice actor who is the co-creator of two successful television series, The Simpsons and Futurama.
He was born on Monday February 15th 1954, in Portland, Oregon, United States.
Matt Groening is the philanthropist, humanitarian, socially conscious, and is deeply concerned about the state of the world, for which he has great compassion and idealism. Matt is a utopian, and will spend his life trying to realize some aspect of his utopian dream, sacrificing money, time, and energy for a better world. It is in giving that Groening finds much satisfaction.
Matt Groening has a broad outlook on life. He tends to see the big picture, rather than the minute details. Matt naturally attracts people from all walks of life who can fit into his larger plans and take over the areas he finds uninteresting. The person with a 9 Life Path is rarely prejudiced or accepts social biases of people. Instead, they evaluate people on the basis of what they can do for the larger cause. They are the true egalitarian.
Matt is imaginative and creative, especially at harmoniously arranging the beauty already potential in the environment. These abilities can lead Groening into such fields as interior decorating, landscape art, and photography. But because of his strong social consciousness, Matt Groening can be an effective politician, lawyer, judge, minister, teacher, healer, and environmentalist. Vocations that require self-sacrifice and have a clear social impact are common among 9s.
He is often disappointed by the realities of life: the shortcomings of others, or of his own self's. Somehow, Matt Groening does not want to accept the imperfections of the world, a feeling that drives him constantly to try to improve upon it. But rather than be satisfied with his efforts, and those of others, Matt relentlessly pushes on, striving for greater accomplishments. He is often unsatisfied with the results. In short, Groening lacks the perspective that would otherwise make it possible for him to enjoy life more fully, and accept its natural limitations.
Matt Groening has a controlled enthusiasm and the ability to finish what he starts.
A key to Matt's personality is the necessity of sacrifice. Matt has to learn to let go of material possessions and relationships, the inherent lesson being that holding on too tightly to anything causes pain.
Money comes to Matt Groening through mysterious or unexpected ways: inheritance; the benevolence of someone who was inspired by Groening's work; or a lucky investment. Conversely, if Matt pursues money for its own sake, after giving up on his larger dreams, he is likely to find himself empty handed.
The most successful and satisfying road for a nine is giving; sharing and sacrificing for a larger goal, without expecting anything in return. Matt's greatest chance at success is to tie his personal fortunes to an endeavor that makes the world a better place for others. Very often, this turns into a highly successful and lucrative enterprise, providing amply for Matt Groening and his family. His life rests on the axiom that the more he gives, the bigger his reward.
Matt Groening is romantic, but his love is more impersonal. He tends to be focused on his dreams instead.
When Matt is not in harmony with his true nature, he can fall to moodiness, or become aloof, and withdrawn. He can become timid, uncertain, and ungrateful, putting the blame for his troubles on others or the world. Groening has a gift for examining his life objectively, and at some distance. He has to be honest with himself. By openly facing his shortcomings, as well as his strengths, he develops equilibrium. Matt Groening is thus able to love and better understand himself and all of life.
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If ever there was a single moment of total transformation, it was actually the moment of Matt Groening's birth. In that instant, Matt stepped through a door in time into a new reality - the reality of human life. The most critical number in Groening's numerology chart is based on the date of his birth - the moment when the curtain went up in Matt Groening's life.
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A shortage of innovation isn't always senior management's fault. Marketers deserve some blame for not having the right processes in place
It is easy to blame chief executives and senior management for not devoting enough attention to introducing new products, but that is too simplistic an explanation for why radically new products are so rare. Marketers deserve some of the blame for at least three reasons:
Successful strategic innovations need more than a great idea.
There's no shortage of new product concepts. We are willing to bet you could come up with a handful of intriguing ones before lunch if you set your mind to it.
But new ideas by themselves are worthless. You need to move from idea to execution, and that is where the majority of companies stumble. You need a new-product development process—one that is codified, efficient, and repeatable, and which allows you to turn a notion into something you can sell.
But there aren't a lot of marketers who have tried to formalize a new-product introduction. Too often, marketers see their job as simply coming up with the idea. They leave the actual development and production to someone else and then profess to be surprised when the finished product is not exactly what they had envisaged. (This is true, by the way, whether we are talking about introducing new consumer products or selling business-to-business.) It is always nice to have someone else to blame when something goes wrong—such as, the product didn't sell. But it isn't the best use of your time, or of company resources.
The takeaway point from all this is that you want to create a process that will allow you to introduce a new product the same way every time. The procedure needs to be replicable—and easily understood internally—so you can train new hires to execute it. The process should become a legacy in your organization.
There is a shortage of Renaissance men (and women).
This builds off the previous point. As we have just seen, there are two distinct components to developing a successful new product: Coming up with the idea and then putting it into practice—i.e., executing it. We must make sure that it is produced exactly as designed and that the marketing that follows is consistent with the overall message the product is supposed to communicate. Failure can arise when we look for people who possess both skills, but in reality such people are extremely hard to find in any organization. Most people are naturally better at one or the other part of the process.
Instead of looking for someone who is good at both, it would seem more efficient to let people do what they do best. Since most companies have people who are fairly good at carrying out a mission once it is defined for them, it probably makes more sense to keep that capability in-house, and to look to outside resources to help you discover new ideas and fresh needs in the marketplace. Once the outside firm has unearthed those opportunities, the company can develop them.
Marketers tend to be fatalistic.
Marketers seem to go into new-product introductions with the expectation that they are going to fail. So they deal with new-product failures rather like the way an overweight person does with their problem: We periodically make half-hearted efforts to fix things…and then give up.
Just like someone who resigns himself or herself to being overweight, marketers conclude that there is nothing they can do to improve their batting average when it comes to introducing new products. Instead of throwing up their hands and saying "woe is me," they should be studying their past successes to see what they should do the next time they introduce something new.
That, of course, takes us full circle, underscoring as it does the need to have a replicable process to make new product development as painless as possible.
Blaming the CEO and others for not being more supportive about new product development is a waste of both time and mental energy. Look in the mirror and try to figure out how to make things better. Addressing the three problems we just talked about is a good start.
This article originally published in BusinessWeek
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Speaking about expanding his social housing team, Ballard joked: "Anyone who's under 50 and reads The Guardian gets brought on."
The comment was apparently so offensive to this instructing solicitor in the West Midlands that he was thinking of withdrawing work from Shoosmiths, presumably because Ballard was caught in possession of a sense of humour. I suppose if you look hard enough you can take offence anywhere; this is just about understandable if you're a passionate believer in a particular cause, but it takes a special sort of joylessness to unearth offence over this sort of remark.
For this client to claim, as he did, that it was a 'Gerald Ratner' moment was at best wrongheaded and at worst wilfully absurd. The demise of Ratner's high street chain was entirely linked to an after-dinner speech, when he was reported as saying the jewellery his company sold was "crap". By contrast, Ballard's quip wasn't about the quality of his group's advice (Shoosmiths' social housing team is one of the most respected regional practices in the field). It was certainly an ironic remark about the popular stereotype of people working in social housing, but in no way did it denigrate professionals in that sector.
Still, our sensitive instructing solicitor was certainly hell-bent on causing trouble for Ballard. Within a day of his conversation with us the same person had called the Birmingham Post, which ran the story under the headline "Left-wing lawyers' joke backfires on Shoosmiths man". The client was clearly expending extraordinary energy on trying to create a row.
I think we need collectively to resist such onslaught of enforced dreariness or we'll end up with officially sanctioned periods of fun for charitable purposes only, such as Red Nose Day. It also encourages people to proffer appallingly tedious on-message remarks at all times, as if the use of robotic euphemisms wasn't widespread enough already.
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Nightvision Generation (Gen 1, 2, 3) Explained
How the FIRST GENERATION night vision devices work?
A Night Vision Device can be a 1 st , 2 nd , 3 rd generation unit. What this stands for, is what type of light intensifier tube is used for that particular device the light intensifier tube is the heart and soul of a night vision device.
The 1st generation is currently the most popular type of night vision in the world. Utilizing the basic principles described earlier, a 1st generation will amplify the existing light several thousand times letting you clearly see in the dark. These units provide a bright and sharp image at a low cost, which is perfect, whether you are boating, observing wildlife, or providing security for your home. You may notice the following when you are looking through a 1st generation unit .
A slight high-pitched whine when the unit is on.
The image you see may be slightly blurry around the edges.
When you turn a 1st gen off it may glow green for some time.
These are inherent characteristics of a 1st gen and are normal
How the Second GENERATION night vision devices work ?
The 2nd generation is primarily used by law enforcement or for professional applications. This is because the cost of a 2nd gen unit is approximately $500.00 to $1000.00 more then a 1st gen. The main difference between a 1st and a 2ndgeneration unit is the addition of a micro-channel plate, commonly referred to as a MCP. The MCP works as an electron amplifier and is placed directly behind the photocathode. The MCP consists of millions of short parallel glass tubes. When the electrons pass through these short tubes, thousands more electrons are released. This extra process allows 2nd generation units to amplify the light many more times then 1st generation giving you a brighter and sharper image.
How the THIRD GENERATION night vision devices work?
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The Gen 3 technology improves night operational effectiveness for military users of night vision goggles and other night vision devices. The filmless MCP provides a higher signal-to-noise ratio than Gen 3, resulting in better image quality (less scintillation) under low-light conditions. The gated power supply further improves image resolution under high light conditions, and the reduced halo minimizes interference from bright light sources. These improvements also substantially increase the detection range of the systems.
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GAIN – The number of times a night vision device amplifies light input . Usually measured as tube or system gain, it commonly has values in the tens of thousands. US military image tubes typically operate between 12,000 and 65,000.
LINE PAIRS – a.k.a. line pairs per millimeter (lp/mm). This is a measurement of resolution. The more line pairs, the better the resolution. The best tubes are currently at 64+ line pairs. Generation 3 units will typically have 55 to 64 line pairs and are a factor to consider in price.
PHOTOSENSITIVITY – a.k.a. photocathode sensitivity. It is the ability of the photocathode to produce an electrical response when subjected to light waves (photons). The higher the value, the better the ability to produce a visible image under darker conditions.
RESOLUTION – The ability of an image intensifier or night vision system to distinguish between objects closer together, measure in line pairs per millimeter (lp/mm). There is a difference between system resolution and image intensifier resolution. System resolution can be affected by altering the objective or eyepiece optics, or by adding magnification lenses. Image intensifier resolution remains constant. System resolution is very important in determining the quality of a system.
SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO – The low light resolution of the image tube. The higher the signal-to-noise ratio, the better the ability of the tube to display objects with good contrast under low light conditions. It is the single best indicator of an image intensifier's performance.
What are tube blemishes and small black dots
Tube blemishes are common in ALL image intensifier tubes. Image tubes are NEVER flawless, and every tube will have blemishes to some degree. The fewer and smaller the blemishes, the better the quality and therefore the higher the price.
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In the later years of the nineteenth century Latin master Mr. Chipping is the mainstay of Brookfields boys boarding school, a good teacher and a kindly person but he is considered to be married to the job so that it is a surprise when, on a walking holiday, he meets and marries the vivacious Kathie,who becomes his helpmate at the school but sadly pre-deceases him. Just before World War One insensitive new headmaster Ralston tries to edge Chipping out but the boys rally and Sir John Rivers, an old pupil of Chipping's and now head of the board of governors, invites him to stay and,when the war breaks out and Ralston joins up, Chipping becomes the new head.
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aug. 27, 2002– Quiksilver (NYSE:ZQK) today announced that the company expects to report third quarter diluted earnings per share in the range of $0.32 to $0.33 compared to the current First Call consensus estimate of $0.29.
The Company also expects to report third quarter net sales in the range of $170 million to $173 million. For the full year ending October 31, 2002, the Company is now comfortable that it will report diluted earnings per share of at least $1.42 and net sales in the range of $685 to $690 million. This compares to fiscal 2001 levels of $1.17 and $615.5 million, respectively.
Robert B. McKnight, Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer commented, "We are very pleased with the tone and pace of our business. Strong product, broad diversification, and careful financial controls are enabling us to perform well in a difficult retail environment here in the United States. We have also maintained excellent momentum in our overseas markets, both company-owned and licensed territories, and continue to demonstrate our position as the global leader in the action sports lifestyle market. We believe our current business trend will continue throughout the fall season. Further, we are very satisfied with our global strategic position and prospects for long-term growth."
The Company is scheduled to report actual third quarter results on September 12, 2002.
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Quiksilver designs, produces and distributes clothing, accessories and related products for active-minded people and develops brands that represent a casual lifestyle – driven from a boardriding heritage. Quiksilver's authenticity is evident in its innovative products, events and retail environments across the globe.
Quiksilver's primary focus is apparel for young men and young women under the Quiksilver, Roxy, Raisins and Radio Fiji labels. Quiksilver also manufactures apparel for boys (Quiksilver Boys and Hawk Clothing), girls (Roxy Girl, Teenie Wahine and Raisins Girls), men (Quiksilveredition and Fidra) and women (Leilani swimwear), as well as snowboards, snowboard boots and bindings under the Lib Technologies, Gnu, Supernatural Manufacturing and Bent Metal labels. Quiksilver's products are sold throughout the world, primarily in surf shops and specialty stores that provide an outstanding retail experience for their customers.
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Welcome to the 2015-2016 school year!
This year I will be at Lake Harriet Lower Campus (LHLC) and Pratt Community School. My responsibilities include working as a Resource Teacher and DCD Prep provider daily at LHLC as well as Resource Teacher at Pratt for a half day a week. At LHLC I case manage and provide instruction to K-3rd grade students who have Individual Education Plans (I.E.P.'s) and receive Resource level Special Education support. I also provide daily instruction to students in our WINGS/DCD program for 55 minutes per day. Students with I.E.P.'s in the Resource program receive services that include instruction in the areas of reading, writing, math, work completion, organization, self-advocacy, social skills, and/or self-regulation. At Pratt, I work with the Special Education Resosurce staff to help meet the needs of Kindergarten through 5th grade students on IEP's.
This is my fifth year at Lake Harriet and I have been working for MPS for 21 years as either a Resource Teacher or a Special Programs Teacher. I received my undergraduate degree at the University of North Dakota where I earned my Bachelor's of Science Degree in Communication Disorders. I also attended St. Cloud State University and earned my Master's of Science Degree in Special Education with K-12 licensure in the areas of Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD) and Mild to Moderate Mental Handicapped (MMMH).
Of all of my teaching assignments, working with the children and families at Lake Harriet Lower has been the most rewarding and enjoyable of my career. I love working with primary age children and feel fortunate to have the opportunity to be a part of their early years as students. I strive to make learning fun and to help children develop a love of school. I look forward to working with your child and family to make this a great year!
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The new Bomb the Music Industry! album Scrambles is a great piece of music . I mean that not only in the "you need to hear this if you love punk/great music," but because this band makes me feel good about life in general*. With a true DIY ethic, donated on-line music, make your own merch, and cheap all-age shows; Jeff Rosenstock and crew rock it for the kids.
Rosenstock is the ringleader and originally the sole musician. The electronic elements on tracks like "It Shits!!!" and "Saddr Wierdr" remind you just what a bored kid with a computer can do (think Adam and his Package). The change came 07' when he got a full band to record and tour with, a change that has ultimately bettered his brainchild. The bands hardcore elements continue to be threaded into broader songs, but stays true on "Gang of Four Meets the Stooges (But Boring)." Bomb the Music's lyrics have always been drunk with humor and self- deprecating insight. On "(Shut) Up The Punx!!!" he screams " The last thing I want to be / Is another negative asshole / Like God speaks through my acoustic guitar / and I have a perfect set of morals!"
What makes this gem stand out is the songwriting on anthems like "24,000,000" and "Sort of Like Being Pumped." There is an emotional tenor driven by the decked out band that parallels Rosenstocks lyric conviction, for all that it's worth. Bomb the Music Industry! has always been comically vulnerable, on Scrambles they can unabashedly say they got it right.
*Others included in this category are classics like PB & J and Joe Paterno.
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Past Excellence in Service Learning Award Recipients
2016 Faculty Excellence in Service Learning Award Recipient
Jomella Watson-Thompson was recognized with a faculty excellence award for connecting students and community partners through applied behavioral science courses, such as Building Healthy Communities and Community Leadership. Watson-Thompson has continually connected her teaching, research and service to community engagement and has been an ambassador of service learning practices to other faculty across campus. Cindy Lynn, a Pelathe District Boy Scouts representative and one of the many community partners that collaborated with Watson-Thompson's classes, commended Watson-Thompson's "ability to navigate community interventions and the challenges that arise from working with student volunteers and agency needs."
2016 Student Excellence in Service Learning Award Recipient
Paige Hillebert received the Student Excellence in Service Learning Award for her achievements in applying coursework to community concerns and her dedication to environmentalism and volunteerism. Hillebert earned a Certificate in Service Learning through her participation in a KU Alternative Break at the Urban Ecology Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and taking the accompanying Special Projects in the Community service learning course. Upon her return to KU, Hillebert dedicated herself to volunteerism as a Daily Bread coordinator for the Center for Community Outreach, addressing issues of hunger, food recovery and sustainability. With the skills she's developed through her business administration degree, Hillebert plans to work with nonprofit organizations for social change.
2015 Faculty Excellence in Service Learning Award Recipient
Dena Register, who was the Director of Faculty Programs for International Programs and an associate professor in music therapy and music education has taught service learning courses at KU since 2008. As a Spring 2009 Fulbright Scholar in Thailand, she created Southeast Asia's first music therapy degree program and established clinical music therapy programs for patients with neurological disorders and children with special needs at two Bangkok-area hospitals. Register has also led five study abroad programs to Thailand, allowing students to observe and implement music therapy sessions at clinical training sites such as university hospitals, rehabilitation centers, and education facilities for children.
2015 Student Excellence in Service Learning Award Recipient
Jordyn Gunville, senior in Applied Behavioral Science, received the student award for the leadership and personal growth she's exhibited through her volunteer work and community health courses. Gunville volunteered with a KU Medical Center mobile clinic that serves urban and reservation American Indian communities and, through service learning practicum coursework, created guides and protocols to assist and support future volunteers at the clinic.
Also through coursework, Gunville independently developed and received a grant to help Native American youth from South Dakota participate in LEAD UP, a youth leadership and college access program at KU for racial and ethnic minority youth. Gunville was placed with the Center for American Indian Community Health at the KU Medical Center for a practicum experience and was instrumental in getting high school, undergraduate, and graduate racial and ethnic minority students from KU and other institutions involved in an eight-week summer internship program at that center.
Faculty Excellence in Service Learning Award Recipient
Dory Sabata, clinical assistant professor of occupational therapy education
Sabata received the faculty award for building a service learning program in the occupational therapy education program at the KU Medical Center.
"Dory coordinates all service learning activities," says colleague and occupational therapy Associate Professor Lisa Mische Lawson. "She supports both the service learning mentors and the students to make sure things go smoothly and both academic and program goals are met."
Sabata's efforts began in 2011 with one class of students working with a few community partners and by 2014 had grown the program to a year-long service learning project that collaborates with more than a dozen partners.
"We would not have service learning without Dory," says Lawson.
Community Partner Excellence in Service Learning Award Recipient
The Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence
The Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence received Community Partner Excellence in Service Learning Award for demonstrating commitment to the academic, civic, and personal development of students by facilitating effective service learning environments. The Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence (BGCL) is an after-school program that offers educational and recreational programs to build character, academic success, and healthy lifestyles in young people. BGCL hosts university service learning students from over a dozen KU departments each year and works with multiple KU student groups to put on youth-oriented holiday and sporting events. These collaborations benefit the KU students as much as they provide opportunities for the Boys and Girls Club youth, teaching them leadership, management, and relationship-building skills.
"A lot of what helped me get through the challenges of starting my first "real" job I credit back to my service learning project with Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence," reflects honors English program and service learning alumna Meghan Crylen. "It was where I realized that applying what I learned with what I experienced was a powerful combination and a true agent for change."
According to Diane Coffman, Curriculum & Teaching instructor, "The students learn so much by working with actual elementary students and being able to observe and interact with professional educators outside of our classroom setting."
Student Excellence in Service Learning Award Recipient
Leigh Loving, junior in Genetics
Leigh Loving received the Student Excellence in Service Learning Award for demonstrating community awareness, engagement, and positive impact as well as academic and personal achievement through service learning.
Loving, a junior majoring in genetics, earned a Certification in Service Learning by taking ABSC 310: Building Healthy Communities and HNRS 492: Citizen Philanthropy. In these classes, she learned about sustainable community efforts and positive outcomes.
Loving is also the founder and president of the Jayhawk Health Initiative, a student-run international service program that helps bring medical and dental care to underserved communities in Panama.
Loving says she "took her education outside the classroom" when she organized and led 25 pre-health undergraduates on the first Jayhawk Health Initiative medical mission to Panama in 2013. Preparation for the second trip is currently underway.
Loving says of her service learning and community efforts, "A truly balanced education needs the traditional academic side along with experiential learning through service."
2013 Faculty Award Recipient
Bob Basow, associate professor of Journalism
Basow received the faculty award for implementing service learning in a manner consistent with good practice and for demonstrating a positive impact on students and the community. Basow's service learning courses apply students' strategic communication skills to enhancing public outreach efforts of local nonprofit organizations. Teams of students research and create recommendations for how the nonprofit organizations can more effectively solve communications challenges. Basow's service learning efforts have led to the creation of the Jayhawk Buddy System, KU's responsible drinking program; cost-effective advertising strategies for the Lawrence ReStore; and marketing plans that engaged the KU community in creating a culture of conservation, among others.
2013 Community Partner Award Recipient
Eudora Elementary School
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ary School was selected for the community partner award to honor their commitment to the academic, civic, and personal development of students and their facilitation of effective service learning environments. Eudora Elementary School has hosted KU elementary education majors for ten years as assistant teachers and lesson planners. Eudora Elementary School teachers mentor, guide, and serve as role models for KU students. Teachers also provide feedback and evaluation of KU student work.
According to Diane Coffman, Curriculum & Teaching instructor, "The students learn so much by working with actual elementary students and being able to observe and interact with professional educators outside of our classroom setting."
2013 Student Award Recipient
Bailey Reimer, senior in American Studies and Linguistics
Reimer was recognized with the student award for her civic commitment, community awareness, and positive community impact, as well as academic impact and personal development through service learning. Reimer has held multiple leadership roles in KU Alternative Breaks, a student-run service learning program that organizes student volunteer trips across the country. In planning Alternative Breaks trips, Reimer created and maintained relationships with nonprofit organizations across the U.S. and worked to maximize the impact of the Alternative Breaks preparatory class on all student participants.
Of her experience with service, Reimer said, "The single most formative experiences for me at the University of Kansas have been those through service learning initiatives, the lessons which I have used to shape my lifestyle, goals, schoolwork and extracurricular involvement."
Reimer has also volunteered with the Shawnee Mission School District and with the national nonprofit Education Pioneers. Reimer held a Resident Assistant position for the Honors community in Templin Hall and made it a priority to engage the residents in service and service reflection.
2012 Faculty Award Recipient
Nils Gore, associate professor of architecture
Gore received the faculty award for his implementation of service learning in the classroom and the impact of that work on students and the community. Since 2003, Gore has incorporated service learning into his architecture studio classes, allowing students to design and build structures that benefit the community. A sampling of these projects include a community playground built for three Lawrence neighborhood associations; a West Junior High School courtyard renovation; and a Kaw River trailhead structure and an overlook, both for the Kansas Biological Survey.
In addition, over 2 years between 2006 and 2008, Gore took his architecture students to New Orleans to work with a local cultural center in assisting the post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans community. Gore and his students designed and built several structures that would help the community come together again after the hurricane, including a mobile stage, community garden shed, and an outdoor classroom, all at the request of local community members.
2012 Student Award Recipient
Allyson Bell, a graduating senior in applied behavioral science
Allyson Bell was given the Student Excellence in Service Learning Award for demonstrating civic commitment, community awareness and positive community impact as well as academic and personal achievement. Bell graduated this spring with a bachelor's degree in applied behavioral science. Through her academic service learning and co-curricular activities, she developed a specific interest in autism. She worked with the nonprofit Integrated Behavioral Technologies, providing services to children with special needs and their families. Bell was a founding member of KU's only service sorority, Omega Phi Alpha, and helped start the student group Piecing Together Autism, which works to raise awareness of autism and helps fund therapy for children with autism. She has been involved in research related to early intervention in young children with developmental disabilities. Bell has also been working towards a national behavior analyst certification, so that she can provide needed services to children with autism and other disabilities after she graduates.
2012 Community Partner Award Recipient
Van Go, Inc.
Van Go, a nonprofit that provides arts-based job skills training for high-needs and under-served youth, received the award for Community Partner Excellence in Service Learning. The award honors an agency that has demonstrated commitment to the academic, civic and personal development of students by facilitating effective service learning environments. Van Go has partnered with many departments at KU to advance the learning of KU students, including Social Welfare, Applied Behavioral Sciences, Communication Studies, Art and Design, Architecture, and Visual Art. Van Go has made multiple efforts to create meaningful service for KU students, placing them according to their skills, being open to new projects based on students' areas of focus, and helping them understand the importance of their role with Van Go students.
2011 Faculty Award Recipient
Raquel Alexander, assistant professor of business
Raquel Alexander received the faculty award for her implementation of service learning in the classroom and the impact of that work on students and the community. Alexander teaches tax research in the School of Business and has been incorporating service learning into her classroom since 2005. In her classes, Alexander has repeatedly responded to topical community needs that could benefit from students' tax skills. After Hurricane Katrina, Alexander's students created a website explaining the new tax relief code to hurricane victims. The site was praised by the American Bar Association and used by New Orleans tax professionals. More recently, Alexander's classes have created a tax publication for victims of the Greensburg tornado that was recognized by the IRS and offered tax form training for United Way affiliates across Kansas.
2011 Student Award Recipient
Austin Brown, a graduating senior from Olathe and Overland Park
Austin Brown was given the Student Excellence in Service Learning Award for demonstrating civic commitment, community awareness and positive community impact as well as academic and personal achievement. Brown graduated this spring with a bachelor's degree in finance and a concentration in entrepreneurship. In addition to his service learning coursework at KU, Brown has volunteered with Habitat for Humanity, Teach for America, Lawrence High School and other community organizations. He is also brand manager for a social media startup business that has provided pro bono work for Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Douglas County. He is the son of Jim Brown of Olathe and Penny Brown of Overland Park. He is a graduate of Shawnee Mission West High School.
2011 Community Partner Award Recipient
Audio-Reader, a reading and information service for blind, visually impaired and print disabled citizens of Kansas and western Missouri, received the award for Community Partner Excellence in Service Learning. The award honors an agency that has demonstrated commitment to the academic, civic and personal development of students by facilitating effective service learning environments. Audio-Reader has collaborated with Cheryl Lester, associate professor of American studies, and her Jewish-American studies classes since 2006. Throughout this partnership, Audio-Reader has integrated students into its organization and worked closely with Lester to refine and improve the collaboration.
|Feloniz Lovato-Winston (left) and Janet Campbell (second from right) represent Audio Reader, the Community Partner Excellence in Service Learning Award recipient for 2011. With them are CCSR Director Andi Witczak and American Studies Professor Cheryl Lester (right).


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The intro track of Bone Awl's 2005 demo, By Ropes Through Dirt, entitled "Arrival," lures you into a false sense of security, setting the stage for some sort of majestic, epic, perhaps symphonic musical journey. Fortunately, this is not the case at all and instead we're treated to a dose of Bone Awl's infectious mixture of black metal aggression and punk aesthetic, delivered directly to the brain.
For those unfamiliar with Bone Awl, the band consists of two members, He Who Gnashes Teeth and He Who Crushes Teeth, bashing out raw, primal punk stomps while the former vomits forth some of the most diabolical, acidic yet completely incomprehensible black metal vocals I've ever witnessed. The combination works a hell of a lot better than expected and on By Ropes Through Dirt, they live up to all expectations.
Riffs are extremely basic punk affairs. You won't find any guitar solos or complex tremolo riffs anywhere on this demo. The guitar tone is low (but not in a crushing, downtuned sort of way) so it pretty much blends together with the bass, which has that punchy tone associated with punk bass played with a pick. None of these simple chord progressions is a stinker and even songs that are essentially two chords ("Sex Within Death") are really difficult to hate because of the sheer energy coming through the speakers. Feedback abounds during the "quiet" moments between riffs or at the beginnings and endings of the songs. The drumming is mostly a rapid-fire punk delivery punctuated at times with blastbeats, although these are used more like fills than continuous drum patterns.
The vocals are simply unbelievable and sound positively inhuman. On standout track "Immoral Night" (which actually comes from a different recording session) the vocals are so distorted and intense that the signal actually clips. I don't mean in a shitty bedroom DSBM recorded on a boom box kind of way, but in a throat shredding, completely awesome kind of way. He does a fine job throughout the rest of the demo as well and by the time everything's over, all I want to do is shake his hand and hand him a cup of tea for his efforts. Anyone who can make out a single word of the lyrics (other than the obvious song title being spouted during the vocal intro to "White with Sepulchres"...that one's too easy) deserves a medal; metal vocals haven't been this incomprehensible since Lord Worm.
Something needs to be said about the production. Yes, it's lo-fi but it doesn't suffer from the trappings of a lot of other "raw" black metal recordings that have so much tape hiss and that "distant" sort of sound that it detracts from the power of the music. A cleaner production job wouldn't really suit the DIY nature of the music so I think that anyone who actually likes the music itself would agree that the production job is spot on.
Song highlights include the aforementioned "Immoral Night," the doomy "Pentagram Clitoris" and the title track, although if you like any of these songs nothing on the demo is going to disappoint you. Standing apart from the rest of the tracks (and indeed most other Bone Awl songs) is nine-minute album-closer "Conjure" which is a slower, quasi-stoner type of song that feature's the album's only use of what could be called "lead guitar" as well as what sounds like some heavily manipulated wind samples starting about halfway through the track, eventually taking over until everything devolves into noisy knob-twiddling. It's interesting and sort of entrancing at first but could have been cut down to a shorter length without much loss of content.
"By Ropes Through Dirt" is a standout release in the Bone Awl discography and a good starting point for someone looking to get into the band (much better than their only actual full-length, as that suffers from production issues).


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Humans are the strange, almost completely furless mammals that inhabit Station Square and various other areas. They tend to be slow and lacking in attack abilities, and with the exception of Chris Thorndyke, they are rarely seen doing anything of any real use (spending most of their time idly standing or walking around looking for someone to ramble to). Nevertheless, they are treated as if they were important.
In Archie Comics' Sonic the Hedgehog, humans are depicted as the mildly interesting but fundamentally useless inhabitants of the hidden city of Station Square. Their strong resemblance to Overlanders has been questioned, but they can provide no explanation, and in fact were unaware of Overlanders until Sonic and his fellow Freedom Fighters mentioned them.


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This is great news... The millions who have fled Cuba to become Cuban-Americans, had held hope that Raul would adopt better policy than Castro; and free those jailed for over 10 years for speaking out against the Regime...
US Definition of Freedom is not Gov. Dependence.
To evolve and enjoy the same freedoms they enjoy in America, had run into fierce competition from the Revolutionary States; engaged as sympathizers to the Regime.
Very Nice Video-log and music... We love our Cuban immigrants, now very much a part of American society. A little Nation of 11 million people, about the size of one of our small states; will (perhaps) choose find a better way... May the Cuban-American's plight with Castro, never be misconstrued or invalidated; as they have chosen freedom...
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"For years, US humanitarian Donations to Cuba, went directly to the people, rather than its Government... US Treas.gov (PDF)
Today, the Regime garners support, but should not invalidate their harsh treatment of our (now) Cuban- Americans."
Chavez Says He'll Cut Oil Sales to EU for Migrant Law: Story.
"Chavez said he'll also compile a list of investments that European countries that support the new immigration law have in Venezuela. Investment from those countries isn't needed, he said." More.
European Union lifts diplomatic sanctions against Cuba More.
"We haven't softened our approach," Bildt said. "It's a repressive regime. ...Now we are very explicit on what we want. We want democratic changes."
The article says, "The EU will push strongly for Cuban authorities to open up their economy, liberate Internet access, and release political prisoners."
...Asked if lifting EU sanctions would weaken U.S. sanctions, Casey said simply, "We'll see," but offered no assessment. Read more.
End of diplomatic sanctions...
"In 2003 the EU put all relations with Cuba on hold after some 75 dissidents were arrested and sentenced to up to 28 years in prison. Castro's government responded in kind by breaking off all ties to European embassies in Cuba." Read.
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CLEVELAND, Aug. 3, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- University Hospitals Case Medical Center is the first site in the world to use a promising new technology for patients with high blood pressure. Led by Sahil Parikh, MD, the team performed the first procedure on a patient in RADIANCE-HTN, an international clinical trial evaluating the effect of the ReCor Paradise® Renal Denervation System on lowering blood pressure in patients with hypertension.
The new minimally invasive therapy was developed by ReCor Medical, Inc. to treat overactive nerves leading to the kidney, a process called renal denervation. RADIANCE-HTN uses high-intensity ultrasound energy (heat waves) aimed at decreasing the over-activity of these nerves, thereby lowering blood pressure.
"There is strong scientific rationale for this study to evaluate renal denervation as a treatment for hypertension," says Dr. Parikh, interventional cardiologist at UH Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute. "This may be a transformative trial if this treatment is found to help patients who have not been able to control their blood pressure and are therefore at extremely high risk for heart attack, stroke and kidney failure."
The new catheter-based technology uniquely delivers the ultrasound energy circumferentially to target the nerves. Disruption of the renal nerves has been shown in previous studies to prevent, delay or reduce the magnitude of hypertension.
RADIANCE-HTN is a blinded, randomized, sham-controlled trial designed to evaluate the blood pressure lowering effect of the Paradise System in two patient populations: patients currently uncontrolled on three or more blood pressure medications (termed "resistant hypertension") and in participants taking two or fewer blood pressure medications to manage their blood pressure. In the study, half the participants will receive the ultrasound therapy and half the patients will not receive ultrasound treatment; Patients will not know which treatment they receive.
The study is enrolling people between the ages of 18-75 with hypertension that may or may not be controlled with medication. UH is among 40 investigational sites in the US, UK, France, Germany and The Netherlands.
Hypertension is a major public health issue and one of the leading contributors to death from cardiovascular causes in the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) projects more than 1 billion people worldwide have high blood pressure. Despite lifestyle modification and use of multiple antihypertensive medications, roughly 50% of patients do not meet blood pressure goals. Uncontrolled hypertension is associated with severe consequences, including heart attack, stroke, and heart failure, among others.
"Many patients struggle to control their blood pressure on medication," says Dr. Parikh, who is also Assistant Professor of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and director of the UH Harrington Heart and Vascular Institute Center for Research and Innovation. "We are pleased to participate in this important study evaluating if this new technology can become a treatment option for the millions of patients with hypertension."
To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/uh-case-medical-center-treats-first-patient-in-the-world-on-international-clinical-trial-for-hypertension-300308566.html
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ECN vs Market Maker Forex Brokers
We all know Forex Brokers manipulate prices and spreads. How do they do it? Why not someone stops them?
It may come to you as a surprise that Forex market is not as transparent as its counterparts like Stocks and Options market. Unlike those markets, it is not centralized or regulated in the similar fashion, hence exchange rate of any given currency can vary between brokers. The main liquidity providers are the big banks and hedge funds, they are known as InterBank Market. With this in mind lets look at how ECN and Market Maker brokers fits into the picture.
Market Maker Brokers
As the name suggest they "make" the price, as in change Bid and Ask value. Say for example they receive 1 pip spread from InterBank Market on EURUSD, but instead for us they display 3 pips spread (spread is the difference between Bid and Ask). Brokers can vary this from time to time and sometimes even show tighter spreads on Demo accounts but when you open live account it is a totally different story.
Every time you open and close a trade you lose the spread. This adds up to a significant value if you trade frequently. Not only this but market maker brokers are notorious for creating spikes, they do it in order to take out customer's stops. Some market maker brokers also freeze their platform during news announcements or increase spreads by 20-30 pips which is quite common. Since Forex is not tightly regulated as other markets there is not much NFA or similar organizations can do.
The only advantage of using a market maker broker is that they require less funds to open account and usually offer platforms that are easy to use. They also offer higher leverage, benefit s of which are debatable. Read Does higher Leverage in Forex Trading help?
ECN Brokers
ECN Brokers simply provides the best possible price i.e. the best spread based on current market participants. The price on their platform comes straight from the InterBank market and there is no manipulation of the spreads. Spreads as you know are the bread and butter of market maker brokers. Since there is no mark-up on spreads by ECN brokers, the only way they can money is to charge commissions / fees. This fees is not different from what you pay when buying or selling stocks. From my personal experience the commission are negotiable and you can bid one broker against another to quote you the lowest commission rate. Also paying commission works out economical than higher spreads on market maker platform. I've traded on several occasions when there was no spread at all (BID=ASK)
When it come disadvantages, the most common one is the lack of user friendly platform. Most ECN Broker's platforms are hard to navigate and it takes time to get used to them. However once you are familiar you can take advantage of advance order types which are not typically available on other platforms.
ECN vs Market Maker Forex Brokers Summary:
To me it is quite clear, ECN brokers win hands down. There is not better way of trading. Having said that, they may not be suitable for everyone, for those specially who choose to start with less amount of funds and prefer higher leverage.
Chris Farnworth is an independent Forex and Commodity trader with many years' experience under his belt. He travels and works from around the world trading and writing content for various websites and blogs. In his spare time he enjoys scuba diving and surfing.


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I have a suggestion for a possible enhancement that I would like to raise:
I can write an action that takes an IQueyable<T>. I.e. Call it DeleteItems
When I view an IQueyable<T>, I see a standalone table with checkboxes and an action menu containing my DeleteItems action.
I can check a bunch of T instances and execute the action. The action will get executed against the checked items in the current page of the standalone table and the items will get deleted.
After the delete action has taken place, I want to be able to return to the standalone table (with checkboxes and actions) that I just executed the delete from.
I thought I might be able to do this by returning an IQueryable<T> (minus the deleted T instances) as the return result of the action. However, whilst this shows me the standalone table, it does not show the checkboxes and actions.
I would suggest that when returning a collection (IQueryable, ICOllection etc) from the result of an action, that the standalone table is displayed in query mode (I.e. with checkboxes and action menu)
Ignore my post. Just tried it again and it is working if the return type is IQueryable<T>. I must have tried for ICollection or IEnumerable and not IQueryable.
Yep, just tried to do successive deletes and I ran into the error mentioned in the post above.
You do need to be very careful, though. Naked Objects adopts the convention that any action returning an IQueryable<T> has no side-effects and may therefore be run multiple times. If, for example, you wrote an action that deleted a number of
objects and then returned the remaining objects as an IQueryable, you will soon hit problems because the method definitely has side effects. See this discussion on our pre-open-source forum:
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Cormier defeated Roy Nelson by unanimous decision over three rounds -- all three judges had it 30-27 -- and proved that being lighter has its benefits. Though Cormier weighed in at 224 pounds, the lightest of his professional career, he lost none of his physical strength.
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I have stayed at many beautiful hotels this year and I have hardly written about any of them! It is time to set it right and I start with the beautiful Terma Linca Resort, Thimphu. What blew me completely away was its location! It is right next to the Thimphu River.
The small concrete path that you see in this picture is part of the Terma Linca Resort. It is this close to Thimphu River. I managed to walk twice along this path and enjoy the serene atmosphere by the river.
I had this huge room to myself. From the window I could see tall sunflowers and the Thimphu River. It was a comfortable room, with good supply of tea and coffee. The bathroom had a bath tub as well. By my standards this was surely a five star property but the actual rating is four star as it does not have a swimming pool. But then in Bhutan the weather is not too conducive to having a swimming pool.
My walks took me to the edge of the resort and I found this beautiful nook which was running amok with yellow wild flowers. How I wanted to have a meal on these benches but I never found time!
There was a huge weeping willow tree in the premises and they set cozy table in the hollow of it. This was my absolute favorite corner in the entire hotel. How I wish I at least managed a cup of coffee along with a book here. I did sit down quietly on one of the chairs for a few minutes before I was required elsewhere!
This is the close up of the view from my room and it was absolutely gorgeous! There was a bench in front of this spot too. I did manage to sit here for a while and just listen to the river flowing by. Terma Linca is a gorgeous property and if you are looking for a hotel away from the city, look no further!
Terma Linca Resort is part of the Makemytrip's Premium Bhutan Package. I was invited by Makemytrip to Bhutan.
Thimphu is the biggest town in Bhutan. It seems to be in a hurry to become a city but like all the places in Bhutan that I visited it is so beautiful and charming. It didn't feel like a big city at all.
10. Takin, the National Animal of Bhutan
Takins are weird to look at. It feels like they have a small cow's body and a goat's head. It is a goat antelope, whatever that may mean! The legend of Takin goes back to the divine madman of Bhutan Drukpa Kunley. It is said that he was fed a whole cow and a whole goat for lunch. When the bones were left he put the goat's head on the cow's body and the Takin was born! There is Motithang Takin Reserve in Thimphu where you can see the national animal with relative ease.
09. The Local Vegetable Market
As we were passing by the local vegetable market in Thimphu, we went and took a stroll. I was amazed as to how clean it was. In fact whatever I saw in Bhutan, it was absolutely clean!
08. Crafts Market, Thimphu
The crafts market at Thimphu is expensive to shop at. People accept Indian rupees everywhere and the Nu exchanges on par with the rupee. Shopkeepers don't really bargain. An average tourist coming to Bhutan has to spend 250 USD per person per night and I guess that explains the prices and the lack of bargaining. The crafts market is next to the Taj Tashi hotel.
07. The National Memorial Chorten
The National Memorial Chorten is dedicated to the third King Jigme Dorji Wangchuck and to the world peace. It is close to the city center. It is a small monument where you can see a lot of people doing their Buddhist rituals.
06. A Far Away View of Tashichho Dzong
We didn't had time to go to the Tashichho Dzong in Thimphu. So I had to be satisfied with a far away view. If you peer hard you can see it close to the mountains.
05. Simtokha Dzong, Thimphu
Simtokha is said to have been built in 1629. We did a quick tour of the dzong and it was impressive. The main prayer halls of all the dzongs I visited were no photography zones. The main prayer hall of Simtokha was huge and exuded peace from every corner.
04. The National Library, Thimpu
The National Library at Thimpu is an impressive building. It has a lot books, mostly religious, after all it is the national library. But it has a massive display of pictures on the walls as well. The pictures are of the kings and the dzongs. It was quite an impressive collection. I bought a book from the library called The Dragon Finds its Voice by Bunty Avieson. It was a very good decision to buy the book as it gives a good insight of life at Bhutan.
03. A View of Thimphu City from Buddha Point
Buddha Point gives a beautiful view of the Thimphu City in almost all the directions. When I was there construction was going on at the site.
02. Dochula Pass
Dochula Pass is on the way to Phunakha. It is just outside the Thimphu City. You can visit it as a destination in itself. There is a restaurant at the pass. On a clear day I am told that you can see high mountains. But you know my tale since 2013, all I saw was the clouds!
01. The Buddha at the Buddha Point
And this is the giant Buddha at the Buddha Point. It is an amazing site. I loved it for the atmosphere and the beautiful view of the city it provided.
As you can see from the post, there is a lot to do in Thimphu and I am sure I have just scratched the surface as of now!
PS. I was invited by Makenytrip to Bhutan. And they have got me hooked to the country! While writing this post I must have thought at least a 100 times that I have to go back. Let us see when.
As Bhutan is our neighbor I was not too worried about the dress code for women before I went! Looking at the temperatures in July I knew I would need to wrap up. So I packed accordingly. Now that it has been some time since my visit I try to construct the dress code for women in Bhutan through pictures.
I saw a lot of women (men as well) in Bhutan wearing their traditional dress. It looked pretty, demure and classy! While walking through the souvenir shops of Thimphu, I asked this lady if I could click her picture. She agreed quite easily. The Bhutanese national dress for women is called Kira. I am not sure if this is Kira or a variation of it, but it looks so pretty.
It is quite common to see women in modern attire as well. Jeans and capris were quite common, some would wear shorts too. But in the same picture, in the left hand corner you can see women in their traditional attire as well!
The younger generation usually dresses in a trendy way, like anywhere else in the world! I met the girls at the Buddha Point at Thimphu as well. They were shooting for a tourism catalog. The weather is such that it is sensible to have a warp, you never know when you would find it cold.
The was a dress code at the religious places. At the Phunaka Dzong you are not allowed to wear a sleeveless top. I was wearing one, but as I was carrying a full sleeves jacket, I just wore it over my top. What the lady in the picture is wearing is fine, even a short sleeve will do at the Dzongs. But carrying a warp or a full sleeve jacket is such a wonderful idea, it keeps the cold away and it can come in handy to meet any such dress code requirements!
Here is a full picture of the traditional Bhutanese dress, Kira. For a while I was tempted to buy one for myself but I knew I would hardly ever wear it, and shopping in Bhutan is not cheap at all.
In conclusion, to me western dresses looked fine, women commonly wore jeans and shirt. Sleeveless was fine as long as you were not visiting a religious place!
I also feel that women do cover up a bit more than what may be the norm in the western world. I did not see too many low necks or short skirts or skimpy shorts.
PS. I was invited to visit Bhutan by Makemytrip.
While I had just one hour before leaving office and later catching the flight to Bangkok, I got an email. It was an invitation to visit Bhutan with Makemytrip. I hardly had anytime to think how would I manage things at work. But it was one of those occasions when I decided to say yes first and think later! I am glad I followed my instincts. I simply loved Bhutan and I have such a bad hangover from the trip. When we landed in Paro, it felt as if I stepped back 50 years in time.
The most memorable part of my trip was the trek to the Tiger's Nest in Paro but that is going to be a full post in itself. Bhutan is right there on the list of the most beautiful countries I ever visited. Since I came back, I have been plotting on how to go back! Here are some tips for you when (notice I did not say if) you go to Bhutan. The sooner you go the better! Monsoon is also a great time to visit.
Visa Requirements: Indians do not need a visa to enter Bhutan. You can travel on your passport or voter Id card. I used my passport and they simply stamped it. There is no visa fee for Indians. We are really lucky that we have such close ties with Bhutan. Most of the other nationalities have to pay US $250 per person per night to visit Bhutan.
Flights: Only Druk Air, the national carrier, flies into Bhutan. There is only one international airport at Paro. Flights are available from Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai. Another way is to fly up to Bagdogra in Sikkim and then do a road transfer via Phuentsholing, but this would need much more time. You might get a cheaper price if you book the Druk Air tickets via an agent or Makemytrip.
Currency: The local currency is Ngultrum (simply called Nu) but Indian rupees are accepted everywhere. I did not change money ever during my trip. As of now the exchange rate is at par.
Hotels: There are hotels to suit every budget. I stayed at Naksel Resort at Paro and Terma Linca at Thimphu. Both are stunning properties, part of the premium package of Makemytrip.
People: People at Bhutan are amazingly mild. Even at our best behavior we may come across as brash when we interact with them. They are deeply religious. Buddhism is the dominant religion. They love their king. After the coronation of the fifth king there is even a whisky in his honor called K5.
Shopping: As a lot of tourists pay $250 per day, shopping is quite expensive. The people of Bhutan don't like to bargain, in fact they don't bargain much. Only alcohol is super cheap at the duty free. I bought a bottle of K5. Officially they say they don't accept 500 and 1000 rupee notes but the lady at the airport happily took a 1000 rupee note from me.
Weather: I was in Bhutan during the monsoon. I was told that monsoons are not a good time to visit but it was lovely. You also get everything cheaper. It did rain a bit but never so much as to spoil our plans!
Language: Almost everyone speaks Hindi in Bhutan thanks to the cable TV. Apart from the local language Dzongkha they are taught English in school. Between Hindi and English you will do fine!
Overall: Bhutan is an excellent destination for Indians, I would recommend it to everyone. We are lucky that India and Bhutan share very close ties and we don't have to pay USD 250 per person per night to visit. But NRIs have to fork out that money!
If you are looking for packages Makemytrip has some excellent ones. They know Bhutan well and thanks to them I had a great a time.


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