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The Challenge: Keeping Your "House" in Order
When you own a house, maintaining and keeping it up-to-date requires a huge effort. You need available time and expertise to continuously care for your home. To maintain your house, you need a plumber, electrician, carpenter, handy man, cleaning and lawn care professionals as examples, unless you have the expertise to manage these tasks on your own. It can be much more cost-effective and efficient to hire experts to perform these functions for you.
Similarly, managing your IT assets requires a balanced combination of people, processes and technology. Failure in any one area can compromise the entire program. IT Asset Management (ITAM) requires expertise in contracts, software licensing, various tools, workflow processes, business analytics and more, and a missing link will often result in higher costs and non-compliance. The training, discipline and overhead required to maintain an ITAM program is costly and complex. For these reasons, many companies choose Siwel Consulting's ITAM Managed Services offering to manage and optimize their IT assets.
The Solution: ITAM Managed Services
Siwel's ITAM Managed Services offering provides organizations with an easy, proven solution for effective IT Asset Management. The solution seamlessly integrates with your existing infrastructure and workflow and requires no investment in tools or hardware, which greatly simplifies rollout and adoption. Outsourcing your ITAM program to Siwel offloads your ITAM burden while significantly lowering your IT Asset Management expenses.
Siwel's ITAM Managed Services comprehensive solution includes:
The Power of People. ITAM Managed Services involves much more than deployment of IT Asset Management tools. We assign experienced analysts to your account that are responsible for full lifecycle hardware and software license management. They conduct baselining and trend analysis, resolve issues related to software license requests, reconcile deployments to entitlements, help enforce compliance and ensure that business policies and processes are followed.
Software License Requisition System (SLRS). Our SLRS is deployed on your Intranet and provides each user with an intuitive GUI for all licensing transactions. This portal capture specific data points required to determine license types, metrics and deployment demographics, and also provides full support for chargebacks. We hard code the SLRS with business rules to enforce your unique contractual terms and conditions. All information is stored in a centralized data repository so that a license is tracked from request through decommission and can be repurposed as needed, ensuring optimization of your software contract.
Download Depot. The Download Depot is a secure repository for your approved software media. Once a user's request for software has been approved, the user can log into the Download Depot to access the application within a 48-hour time period.
Hardware Asset Management. As part of ITAM Managed Services, Siwel tracks and manages hardware assets and their associated contracts. We track assets through automated discovery and manage them through their lifecycle from request to decommission, including upgrades and end-of-life. We establish links between software licenses and hardware to ensure that software requests for a specific hardware asset are valid, thus allowing for checks and balances.
Reporting Engine. A powerful reporting engine draws upon transactional data to provide insight into the software license lifecycle, featuring numerous standard as well as ad hoc reports. This flexibility in reporting enables you to easily create and run reports required for budgeting analysis, planning or other IT initiatives. An "Executive Dashboard" report will be built on your key performance indicators so management has visibility into data such as entitlement availability, license drawdown and usage trends.
Streamlined Activation. Siwel's ITAM Managed Services offering leverages a mature activation methodology that eliminates any potential disruption to your organization. We integrate with your existing systems, carefully map to your current workflow processes and design an activation plan that is virtually invisible to end users. Our goal is to make roll-out and adoption as simple, transparent and painless as possible.
Keeping your house in order requires expertise in many areas. Likewise, managing your IT "house" and associated IT assets requires knowledge and expertise in many disciplines, as well as available resources to do the work. By choosing Siwel's ITAM Managed Services, you will realize the following benefits:
- Business Intelligence: Establish and maintain access to real-time, accurate information about your IT assets, providing business intelligence to enable you to make critical decisions.
- Business Analytics: A team of Siwel analysts will be assigned to oversee the day-to-day functioning of your ITAM program and will run your ITAM processes. Only the combination of business intelligence and business analytics can provide true optimization of IT assets.
- Financial: Your organization will realize significant cost savings through increased productivity of people, processes and technology, helping you gain the most value from your IT assets, including hardware and software contracts. Our clients realize as much as 25%-30% cost savings in the first year.
- Knowledge is Power: You will no longer have to rely on your software vendor for deployment and entitlement data, and will be in a stronger position with your vendors. Accurate information on software deployments, entitlements and future trend analysis at your fingertips will give you the upper hand when negotiating contracts and responding to compliance requests.
- Hassle-free IT Asset Management: Siwel will be running your ITAM program within a secure, private cloud, thus eliminating the burden of managing your ITAM program internally.
Why Siwel?
Siwel helps organizations deal with the new and significant realities of IT Asset Management and has been designing and implementing successful ITAM solutions for Fortune 50 through middle market companies since 1998. Through this experience, the Siwel team has learned that to be successful, your ITAM program must combine real-time and accurate business intelligence with business analytics that enable your organization to make important strategic and financial decisions. Whether you engage Siwel to advise on a contract or audit issue, to identify gaps, risks and opportunities for cost-savings in your current ITAM program, to develop a comprehensive new program for you to run, or to manage your entire ITAM program in the cloud, your organization will benefit from real-time and accurate data that is analyzed and interpreted by the foremost experts in their field.


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Definitions for precedentˈprɛs ɪ dənt; prɪˈsid nt, ˈprɛs ɪ dənt
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word precedent
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
prec•e•dentˈprɛs ɪ dənt; prɪˈsid nt, ˈprɛs ɪ dənt(n.; adj.)
an act or instance that may serve as an example or justification for subsequent situations.
a legal decision serving as an authoritative rule or pattern in similar cases that follow.
Category: Law
established practice; custom:
to break with precedent.
(adj.)preceding; prior.
Origin of precedent:
1350–1400; ME < L praecēdent- (s. of praecēdēns), prp. of praecēdere to go before, precede (see -ent )
prec`e•den′tial-ˈdɛn ʃəl(adj.)
Princeton's WordNet
precedent, case in point(noun)
an example that is used to justify similar occurrences at a later time
case law, precedent, common law(noun)
(civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions
common law, case law, precedent(noun)
a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws
"common law originated in the unwritten laws of England and was later applied in the United States"
a subject mentioned earlier (preceding in time)
preceding in time, order, or significance
Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary
precedent(noun)ˈprɛs ɪ dənt; adj. prɪˈsid nt, ˈprɛs ɪ dənt
sth from the past used later as an example or rule
the precedent on which the law is based; If we allow this it would set a precedent for future disputes.
An act in the past which may be used as an example to help decide the outcome of similar instances in the future.
A decided case which is cited or used as an example to justify a judgment in a subsequent case.
The aforementioned (thing).
The previous version.
To provide precedents for.
To be a precedent for.
Happening or taking place earlier in time; previous or preceding.
Webster Dictionary
going before; anterior; preceding; antecedent; as, precedent services
something done or said that may serve as an example to authorize a subsequent act of the same kind; an authoritative example
a preceding circumstance or condition; an antecedent; hence, a prognostic; a token; a sign
a rough draught of a writing which precedes a finished copy
a judicial decision which serves as a rule for future determinations in similar or analogous cases; an authority to be followed in courts of justice; forms of proceeding to be followed in similar cases
In common law legal systems, a precedent or authority is a principle or rule established in a previous legal case that is either binding on or persuasive for a court or other tribunal when deciding subsequent cases with similar issues or facts. The general principle in common law legal systems is that similar cases should be decided so as to give similar and predictable outcomes, and the principle of precedent is the mechanism by which that goal is attained. Black's Law Dictionary defines "precedent" as a "rule of law established for the first time by a court for a particular type of case and thereafter referred to in deciding similar cases." Common law precedent is a third kind of law, on equal footing with statutory law, and regulatory law. Stare decisis is a legal principle by which judges are obliged to respect the precedent established by prior decisions. The words originate from the phrasing of the principle in the Latin maxim Stare decisis et non quieta movere: "to stand by decisions and not disturb the undisturbed." In a legal context, this is understood to mean that courts should generally abide by precedent and not disturb settled matters.
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Translations for precedent
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a past action, especially a legal decision, which may act as a guide or rule in the future.
- presedentAfrikaans
- سابِقَهArabic
- предишенBulgarian
- precedentePortuguese (BR)
- precedensCzech
- der PräzedenzfallGerman
- præcedensDanish
- προηγούμενοGreek
- precedenteSpanish
- pretsedentEstonian
- روال؛ رویهFarsi
- ennakkotapausFinnish
- précédentFrench
- תַּקדִיםHebrew
- पूर्ववर्ती, मिसालHindi
- predhodan, koji ima prednostCroatian
- precedensHungarian
- presedenIndonesian
- fordæmiIcelandic
- precedenteItalian
- 先例Japanese
- 전례Korean
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- عادت؛ رویهPersian
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- precedentRomanian
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- prejudikatSwedish
- ขนบธรรมเนียมหรือประเพณีที่มีมาก่อนThai
- örnekTurkish
- 先例Chinese (Trad.)
- прецедентUkrainian
- نظير، نمونہUrdu
- có tính mẫu mựcVietnamese
- 先列Chinese (Simp.)
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Garden city movement
The garden city movement is a method of urban planning that was initiated in 1898 by Sir Ebenezer Howard in the United Kingdom. Garden cities were intended to be planned, self-contained communities surrounded by "greenbelts", containing proportionate areas of residences, industry and agriculture.
Inspired by the Utopian novel Looking Backward and Henry George's work Progress and Poverty, Howard published his book To-morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform in 1898 (which was reissued in 1902 as Garden Cities of To-morrow). His idealised garden city would house 32,000 people on a site of 6,000 acres (2,400 ha), planned on a concentric pattern with open spaces, public parks and six radial boulevards, 120 ft (37 m) wide, extending from the centre. The garden city would be self-sufficient and when it reached full population, another garden city would be developed nearby. Howard envisaged a cluster of several garden cities as satellites of a central city of 50,000 people, linked by road and rail.[1]
Early development[edit]
Howard's To-morrow: a peaceful path to real reform sold enough copies to result in a second edition, Garden Cities of To-morrow. This success provided him the support necessary to pursue the chance to bring his vision into reality. Howard believed that all people agreed the overcrowding and deterioration of cities was one of the troubling issues of their time. He quotes a number of respected thinkers and their disdain of cities. Howard's garden city concept combined the town and country in order to provide the working class an alternative to working on farms or 'crowded, unhealthy cities'.[2]
To build a garden city, Howard needed money to buy land. He decided to get funding from "gentlemen of responsible position and undoubted probity and honour".[3] He founded the Garden City Association (later known as the Town and Country Planning Association or TCPA), which created First Garden City, Ltd. in 1899 to create the garden city of Letchworth.[4] However, these donors would collect interest on their investment if the garden city generated profits through rents or, as Fishman calls the process, 'philanthropic land speculation'.[5] Howard tried to include working class cooperative organisations, which included over two million members, but could not win their financial support.[6] Because he had to rely only on the wealthy investors of First Garden City, Howard had to make concessions to his plan, such as eliminating the cooperative ownership scheme with no landlords, short-term rent increases, and hiring architects who did not agree with his rigid design plans.[7]
In 1904, Raymond Unwin, a noted architect and town planner, along with his partner Barry Parker, won the competition run by the First Garden City, Limited to plan Letchworth, an area 34 miles outside London.[8] Unwin and Parker planned the town in the centre of the Letchworth estate with Howard's large agricultural greenbelt surrounding the town, and they shared Howard's notion that the working class deserved better and more affordable housing. However, the architects ignored Howard's symmetric design, instead replacing it with a more 'organic' design.[9]
Letchworth slowly attracted more residents because it was able to attract manufacturers through low taxes, low rents and more space.[10] Despite Howard's best efforts, the home prices in this garden city could not remain affordable for blue-collar workers to live in. The populations comprised mostly skilled middle class workers. After a decade, the First Garden City became profitable and started paying dividends to its investors.[11] Although many viewed Letchworth as a success, it did not immediately inspire government investment into the next line of garden cities.
In reference to the lack of government support for garden cities, Frederic James Osborn, a colleague of Howard and his eventual successor at the Garden City Association, recalled him saying, "The only way to get anything done is to do it yourself."[12] Likely in frustration, Howard bought land at Welwyn to house the second garden city in 1919.[13] The purchase was at auction, with money Howard desperately and successfully borrowed from friends. The Welwyn Garden City Corporation was formed to oversee the construction. But Welwyn did not become self-sustaining because it was only 20 miles from London.[14]
Even until the end of the 1930s, Letchworth and Welwyn remained as the only existing garden cities. However, the movement did succeed in emphasizing the need for urban planning policies that eventually led to the New Town movement.[15]
Garden cities[edit]
Howard organised the Garden City Association in 1899. Two garden cities were built using Howard's ideas: Letchworth Garden City and Welwyn Garden City, both in the County of Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom. Howard's successor as chairman of the Garden City Association was Sir Frederic Osborn, who extended the movement to regional planning.[16]
The concept was adopted again in England after World War II, when the New Towns Act caused the development of many new communities based on Howard's egalitarian ideas.
The idea of the garden city was influential in the United States. Examples are: the Woodbourne neighborhood of Boston; Newport News, Virginia's Hilton Village; Pittsburgh's Chatham Village; Garden City, New York; Sunnyside, Queens; Jackson Heights, Queens; Forest Hills Gardens, also in the borough of Queens, New York; Radburn, New Jersey; Greenbelt, Maryland; Buckingham in Arlington County, Virginia; the Lake Vista neighborhood in New Orleans; Norris, Tennessee; Baldwin Hills Village in Los Angeles; and the Cleveland suburbs of Parma[17] and Shaker Heights. In Canada, the Ontario towns of Kapuskasing, Don Mills (now incorporated into the City of Toronto) and Walkerville are, in part, garden cities, as well as the Montreal suburb of Mount Royal. The historic Townsite of Powell River, British Columbia[18] is a nationally recognized historic district[19] built upon the Garden City Movement.
Greendale, Wisconsin is one of three "greenbelt" towns planned beginning in 1935 under the direction of Rexford Guy Tugwell, head of the United States Resettlement Administration, under authority of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act. The two other greenbelt towns are Greenbelt, Maryland (near Washington, D.C.) and Greenhills, Ohio (near Cincinnati). The greenbelt towns not only provided work and affordable housing, but also served as a laboratory for experiments in innovative urban planning. Greendale's plan was designed between 1936 and 1937 by a staff headed by Joseph Crane, Elbert Peets, Harry Bentley, and Walter C. Thomas for a site that had formerly consisted of 3,400 acres (14 km2) of farmland.
In Peru, there is a long tradition in urban design [20] that has been reintroduced in its architecture more recently. In 1966, the 'Residencial San Felipe' in the district of Jesus Maria (Lima) was built using the Garden City concept.[21]
In São Paulo, Brazil, several neighbourhoods were planned as Garden Cities, such as Jardim América, Jardim Europa, Alto da Lapa, Alto de Pinheiros, Jardim da Saúde and Cidade Jardim (Garden City in Portuguese). Goiânia, capital of Goiás state, is an example of Garden City.
In Argentina, an example is Ciudad Jardín Lomas del Palomar, declared by the influential Argentinian professor of engineering, Carlos María della Paolera, founder of "Día Mundial del Urbanismo" (World Urbanism Day), as the first Garden City in South America.
In Australia, the suburb of Colonel Light Gardens in Adelaide, South Australia, was designed according to garden city principles.[22] So too the town of Sunshine which is now a suburb of Melbourne in Victoria and the suburb of Lalor also in Melbourne Victoria Australia. The Peter Lalor Estate in Lalor takes its name from a leader of the Eureka Stockade and remains today in its original form. However it is under threat from developers and Whittlesea Council.[23][24] Lalor:Peter Lalor Home Building Cooperative 1946-2012 Scollay, Moira
Garden city principles greatly influenced the design of colonial and post-colonial capitals during the early part of the 20th century. This is the case for New Delhi (designed as the new capital of British India after World War I), of Canberra (capital of Australia established in 1913) and of Quezon City (established in 1939, capital of the Philippines from 1948–76). The garden city model was also applied to many colonial hill stations, such as Da Lat in Vietnam (est. 1907) and Ifrane in Morocco (est. 1929).
In Bhutan's capital city Thimphu the new plan, following the Principles of Intelligent Urbanism, is an organic response to the fragile ecology. Using sustainable concepts, it is a contemporary response to the garden city concept.
The Garden City movement also influenced the Scottish urbanist Sir Patrick Geddes in the planning of Tel Aviv, Israel, in the 1920s, during the British Mandate for Palestine. Geddes started his Tel Aviv plan in 1925 and submitted the final version in 1927, so all growth of this garden city during the 1930s was merely "based" on the Geddes Plan. Changes were inevitable.[25]
The Garden City movement was even able to take root in South Africa, with the development of the suburb of Pinelands in Cape Town.
In Italy, the architect Giovanni Michelucci, among others, designed Isolotto on the Arno in Florence, a garden city designed for the slum dwellers of the San Frediano district. The mayor Giorgio La Pira publically consigned the keys to its circa 1000 apartments in 1954.
In the former Czechoslovakia, all industrial cities founded or reconstructed by the Bata Shoes company (Zlín, Svit, Partizánske) were at least influenced by the conception of the Garden city.
Garden suburbs[edit]
The concept of garden cities is to produce relatively economically independent cities with short commute times and the preservation of the countryside. Garden suburbs arguably do the opposite. Garden suburbs are built on the outskirts of large cities with no sections of industry. They are therefore dependent on reliable transport allowing workers to commute into the city.[26]
Following Unwin's participation in the Letchworth garden city project in 1907, he moved on to work one of the first garden suburbs, Hampstead.[27] Years later, Unwin became very influential in government policy supporting garden suburbs as opposed to creating new independent cities.[28] Many now view Unwin as turning his back on the garden city movement.
Garden suburbs were not part of Howard's plan[29] and were actually a hindrance to garden city planning—they were in fact almost the antithesis of Howard's plan, what he tried to prevent. The suburbanisation of London was an increasing problem which Howard attempted to solve with his garden city model, which attempted to end urban sprawl by the sheer inhibition of land speculation due to the land being held in trust, and the inclusion of agricultural areas on the city outskirts.[30]
Smaller developments were also inspired by the garden city philosophy and were modified to allow for residential "garden suburbs" without the commercial and industrial components of the garden city.[31] They were built on the outskirts of cities, in rural settings. Some notable examples being, in London, Hampstead Garden Suburb and the 'Exhibition Estate' in Gidea Park and, in Liverpool, Wavertree Garden Suburb. The Gidea Park estate in particular was built during two main periods of activity, 1911 and 1934. Both resulted in some good examples of domestic architecture, by such architects as Wells Coates and Berthold Lubetkin. Thanks to such strongly conservative local residents' associations as the Civic Society, both Hampstead and Gidea Park retain much of their original character.
However it is important to note Bournville Village Trust in SW Birmingham UK. This important residential development was associated with the growth of 'Cadbury's Factory in a Garden'. Here Garden City principles are a fundamental part of the Trust's activity. There are very tight restrictions applying to the properties here, no stonewall cladding, uPVC windows, and so-on.
Howard's influence reached as far as Mexico City, where architect José Luis Cuevas was influenced by the Garden City concept in the design of two of the most iconic inner-city subdivisions, Colonia Hipódromo de la Condesa (1926) and Lomas de Chapultepec (1928-9):[32]
- In 1926, Colonia Hipódromo[33] (a.k.a. Hipódromo de la Condesa), in what is now known as the Condesa area, including its iconic parks Parque México and Parque España
- In 1928-29, Lomas de Chapultepec
The subdivisions were based on the principles of the Garden City as promoted by Ebenezer Howard, including ample parks and other open spaces, park islands in the middle of "grand avenues" such as Avenida Amsterdam in colonia Hipódromo.[32] One unique example of a garden suburb is the Humberstone Garden Suburb in the United Kingdom by the Humberstone Anchor Tenants' Association in Leicestershire and it is the only garden suburb ever to be built by the members of a workers' co-operative; it remains intact to the present.[34] In 1887 the workers of the Anchor Shoe Company in Humberstone formed a workers' cooperative and built 97 houses.
American architect Walter Burley Griffin was a proponent of the movement and after arrival in Australia to design the national capital Canberra, produced a number of Garden Suburb estates, most notably at Eaglemont with the Glenard and Mount Eagle Estates and the Ranelagh and Milleara Estates in Victoria.
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Contemporary town-planning charters like New Urbanism and Principles of Intelligent Urbanism originated with this movement. Today there are many garden cities in the world, but most of them have devolved to dormitory suburbs, which completely differ from what Howard aimed to create.
In 2007, the Town and Country Planning Association marked its 108th anniversary by calling for Garden City and Garden Suburb principles to be applied to the present New Towns and Eco-towns in the United Kingdom.[35] The campaign continues in 2013 with the publication in March of that year of "Creating Garden Cities and Suburbs Today - a guide for councils".[36] Also in 2013, Lord Simon Wolfson announced that he would award the Wolfson Economics Prize for the best ideas on how to create a new garden city.
See also[edit]
Developments influenced by the Garden city movement[edit]
- Glenrothes, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Bedford Park, London, United Kingdom
- Bournville Village, Birmingham UK
- Cité-jardin du Tricentenaire (Tricentennial Garden-City)(1940-1947), Montreal, Canada
- Covaresa, Valladolid, Spain
- Den-en-chōfu, Ōta, Tokyo, Japan
- Edgemead, Cape Town, South Africa[37]
- Fairview, Camden, New Jersey United States
- Giszowiec, Katowice, Poland
- Hellerau, Dresden, Germany
- Gartenstadt (Mannheim), Mannheim, Germany
- Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong
- Konstancin-Jeziorna, Poland
- Kowloon Tong, New Kowloon, Hong Kong
- Marino, Dublin, Ireland
- Mežaparks, Riga, Latvia
- Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom
- Peter Lalor Housing Estate, Lalor, Victoria, Australia and Colonel Lights Gardens, Adelaide, Australia
- Pinelands, Cape Town, South Africa
- Podkowa Leśna, Poland
- Village Homes, Davis, California, United States
- Reston, Virginia, United States
- St Helier, London, United Kingdom
- Svit, Slovakia
- Tapiola, Finland
- Telford, United Kingdom
- Town of Mount-Royal, Montreal, Canada
- The Garden Village, Kingston upon Hull
- Wekerle-telep, Budapest, Hungary
- Zlín, Czech Republic
Related urban design concepts[edit]
- Transition Towns
- European Urban Renaissance
- New Pedestrianism
- Transit Oriented Development
- Urban forest
- Principles of Intelligent Urbanism
- Subsistence Homesteads Division
- Soviet urban planning ideologies of the 1920s
- ^ Goodall, B (1987), Dictionary of Human Geography, London: Penguin.
- ^ Howard, E (1902), Garden Cities of To-morrow (2nd ed.), London: S. Sonnenschein & Co, pp. 2–7.
- ^ Fainstein & Campbell 2003, p. 42.
- ^ Hardy 1999, p. 4.
- ^ Fainstein & Campbell 2003, p. 43.
- ^ Fainstein & Campbell 2003, p. 46.
- ^ Fainstein & Campbell 2003, p. 47.
- ^ Hall 2002, p. 68.
- ^ Fainstein & Campbell 2003, p. 48.
- ^ Fainstein & Campbell 2003, p. 50.
- ^ Hall 2002, p. 100.
- ^ Hall & Ward 1998, pp. 45–7.
- ^ Hardy 1999, p. 8.
- ^ Hall & Ward 1998, p. 46.
- ^ Hall & Ward 1998, pp. 52–3.
- ^ History 1899–1999 (PDF), TCPA.
- ^ Horley, Robert (1998). The Best Kept Secrets of Parma, "The Garden City". Robert Horley. ISBN 0-9661721-0-8.
- ^ http://powellrivertownsite.com
- ^ http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=10728&pid=0
- ^ ; examples being the ancient city of Chan Chan (20 km², 850 AD) in Trujillo, north of Lima, and the Inca's 12th-century city of Machu Picchu. Peru's modern capital, Lima, was designed in 1535 by Spanish Conquistadors to replace its ancient past as a religious sanctuary with 37 pyramids.
- ^ 37676518 (photogram), Panoramio.
- ^ City of Mitcham - History Pages
- ^ "HV McKay memorial gardens", Victorian Heritage Database, Vic, AU: The Government.
- ^ "2000 Study Site N 068—Albion—HO Selwyn Park", Post-contact Cultural Heritage Study (PDF), Vic, AU: Brimbank City Council.
- ^ Webberley, Helen (2008), Town-planning in a Brand New City, Brisbane: AAANZ Conference.
- ^ Hall & Ward 1998, p. 41.
- ^ Hall 2002, p. 104.
- ^ Hall 2002, pp. 110–12.
- ^ Hall, Peter (1996), "4", Cities of Tomorrow, Oxford: BlackWell.
- ^ Design on the Land.
- ^ Hollow, Matthew (2011). "Suburban Ideals on England's Interwar Council Estates". Retrieved 2012-12-29.
- ^ a b Manuel Sánchez de Carmona et al., El trazo de Las Lomas y de la Hipódromo Condesa (in Spanish)
- ^ "Histoira de la Arquitectura Mexicana", Gabriela Piña Olivares, Autonomous University of Hidalgo
- ^ "Humberstone Garden Suburb". UK: Utopia Britannica. Retrieved 2011-03-28.
- ^ Garden Cities at Town and Country Planning Association
- ^ "Creating Garden Cities and Suburbs Today - a guide for councils"
- ^ "Over 90 years of community building". http://www.gardencities.co.za/.
- Fainstein, S; Campbell, S (2003), Readings in planning theory, Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell.
- Hall, P (2002), Cities of Tomorrow (3rd ed.), Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell.
- ———; Ward, C (1998), Sociable Cities: the Legacy of Ebenezer Howard, Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.
- Hardy, D (1999), 1899–1999, London: Town and Country Planning Association.
- Ross, P; Cabannes, Y (2012), [1] 21st Century Garden Cities of To-morrow - How to become a Garden City, Letchworth Garden City: New Garden City Movement.
External links[edit]
- Patrick Barkham Britain's housing crisis: are garden cities the answer? 2 October 2014


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Thu, Nov 16, 2006
Members of the Cirrus
Owner's and Pilot's Association (COPA) held their annual
meeting during AOPA Expo this year in Palm Springs, CA. Hosted
by association President Mike Radomsky and Vice-president Gordon
Feingold, the meeting included a presentation by Cirrus CEO Alan
Klapmeier and Cirrus president David Coleal. ANN was offered an
invitation to attend the meeting. Simply put, we observed an
owner's group par excellence - an example of involvement in the
promotion of airmanship and safety that all of general aviation
should strive to emulate.
Sometimes formal, sometimes relaxed, sometimes serious,
sometimes whimsical; this association's leadership likes to keep
attendees informed and entertained. The 2300-member association
celebrated its fifth birthday during the meeting, and Radomsky
kicked off the cake cutting ceremony by launching a small
radio-controlled helicopter from atop the cake, flying it about the
room to laughter and applause, then crashing… ahem, excuse
me, "landing" the toy back on the cake.
The leadership obviously likes to keep the atmosphere
light-hearted, but the entertaining banter so skillfully blended
with nuggets of wisdom and caution forms a potent brew. Like a fine
Cabernet having the sweet tastes of cherry and vanilla mixed with
just the right amount of bite, the setting was fun with a deadly
undertone -- the perfect approach to instill and foster the "safety
culture" all members live and breathe.
What is a safety culture? It's an aviation way of life; where
safety is paramount not only in word, but also in deed. When a
member of COPA tells you safety is THE overriding concern for ALL
of his or her flights, you can be sure you're not just receiving
lip service -- you're speaking to a believer.
COPA, more than anything else, is an information clearing house
for its members. The association publishes a monthly news magazine
rivaling the industry's best in its depth, quality and class. It
maintains an up-to-date website chock full of pertinent information
like an event calendar, membership data, a photo gallery, weather,
member stories, etc. Those alone would be worth the annual $50
membership dues, but in addition the association manages an
electronic forum where members can communicate directly with one
another via the internet. Best of all, using the forums, members
can choose to post publicly so ALL may read, think and comment.
The association's leadership believes the forums are key to
COPA's safety culture. Indeed, even Alan Klapmeier thinks
information shared between members is critical. "Conversation about
safety is essential," he said during his presentation to the
members. "Training isn't the answer - awareness is. Anyone can
operate the controls competently, it's the decisions we make that
determine the outcome of the flight."
The forums aren't just a way to find a good place to get a $100
hamburger, although they're good for that too! And they're not just
a place to discuss the latest boneheaded mistake, although that too
is valuable. In fact, the members not only dissect accident
histories, they also discuss NON-accidents.
Radomsky (pictured below) told ANN about a recent discussion on
the forums where a member posted he had found the weather a bit
dicey for a planned flight. He publicly related all of the
parameters: current and forecast weather, who was on the plane, how
much rest he'd had, the reason for the flight, the condition of the
plane, his proficiency, etc., and how all of it added up to a
decision to cancel the flight. Throughout the discussion, other
members posted their opinions and reasons why they might have made
a different decision, but all expressed unanimous support for the
original pilot's decision to abort the flight. That's a safety
The association doesn't just leave it up to its members to keep
the information ball rolling. It's developed several programs
designed to propagate and cultivate a safety mindset in all those
who wish to participate. The Cirrus Pilot Proficiency Program
(CPPP) is a two-part, ground and flight training program all
members are encouraged to attend annually. Subjects discussed
include normal and emergency procedures, weather, advanced
avionics, maintenance and single-pilot resource management. The
flight portion is nothing short of an intense biennial flight
review -- you know… the kind your local FAA flight examiner
might give?
During the meeting, Feingold (pictured below) shared CPPP
attendance statistics. Cirrus enjoyed a 20-percent growth in its
fleet last year, but attendance at CPPP seminars grew by only
7-percent. Just as a smart pilot always reviews his performance and
looks for ways to improve, COPA as an organization isn't shy about
pointing out its own flaws. This one observation should tell you a
great deal about the association.
In keeping with Klapmeier's belief that decisions drive safety,
COPA also hosts a Cirrus-sponsored seminar on Critical
Decision-Making (CDM). COPA members attending the CDM seminar
participate in discussions on key safety topics. Cirrus factory
pilots maintain a higher than average safety record and they share
their observations and techniques with attendees. Also of note to
COPA is the difference between currency and proficiency. Seminar
leaders help attendees understand how to evaluate their own
proficiency and factor it in decisions relating to personal
minimums. Cirrus' Klapmeier believes so strongly in the CDM
program, the company makes them free to attend -- all you have to
do is get yourself there. Cirrus even pays for lunch!
COPA publishes a document it calls a "Code of Conduct." If one
document could embody the COPA safety culture this would be it. In
COPA's own words, the Code provides a set of guidelines helping
pilots improve their airmanship, flight safety, and to sustain and
improve GA. The Code presents a vision of excellence in GA. Its
principles both complement and supplement what is merely legal.
COPA credits Michael Baum as the vision and motivation behind
the Code. In the document he outlines principals, an explanation of
and sample recommended practices for each of six topics:
ANN encourages each GA pilot reading this to download the Code
from COPA's website (it's free) and thoroughly read and understand
it. You won't find a finer guide to help you improve your
airmanship, your awareness of safety and your relationship with the
non-flying world.
Radomsky took a few moments to discuss some very interesting
statistics. COPA reviewed the fatal-accident history of Cirrus
aircraft and discovered a remarkable correlation: COPA members were
involved in only three of twenty-three fatal accidents. Radomsky
estimates you are 15 - 18 times more likely to be involved in a
fatal Cirrus accident if you are not a COPA member.
You might think (I did at first) this sounds like a really bad
way to shill for membership, but you would be very wrong. COPA
leadership shares these numbers with its membership, but you won't
see them anywhere in the public area of its website -- neither are
they in literature promoting membership. Remember, ANN was
attending an annual meeting of members, not a membership drive.
COPA presents data like this to members as part of that safety
culture. A safety mindset feeds and grows on success, and these
numbers validate COPA members' efforts to follow membership
guidelines and promote safety in the organization.
ANN asked Radomsky and Feingold if COPA has approached insurers
with these incredible stats to get a break for COPA members on
premiums. It's something COPA has considered with very mixed
feelings. COPA is extremely (and rightfully) proud of its
membership. Offering an insurance break would make for a monetary
incentive to join COPA, and that worries Radomsky and Feingold.
COPA wants members who wish to be part of its safety culture;
members who will be involved, attend seminars, join the forum
discussions and take an active part in the association. Radomsky
and Feingold believe that's the kind of pilot responsible for
COPA's extraordinary safety record, and they don't want to dilute
the gene pool so to speak.
And speaking of active membership -- COPA is in the early
planning stages of implementing a "buddy system." While the forums
provide a great way for members to discuss situations after the
fact, it doesn't help a pilot trying to make a good decision at the
time of a flight. COPA's buddy system would provide members with
contact information for experienced volunteer pilots to act as a
sounding board for a pilot struggling with a decision. Radomsky
says Flight Service Station briefers are a great resource, but
sometimes a pilot needs to talk to another pilot who's been there,
done that.
ANN has written about COPA
before -- we were thoroughly wowed then, and nothing
has changed since. This association continues to evolve and grow
into a leading role in the GA community. If you own a Cirrus
aircraft and you aren't a member of COPA, you might want to stop
and consider why. COPA can help you learn more about your Cirrus
aircraft, yourself and managing the risks of GA flying -- and
you'll have fun doing it!
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All bands have a 'thing'…… Some kind of quirk, maybe an anecdote to do with the band's name, stories about a particularly mishap-prone band member, anything that gives them character.
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For Sydney Funnel, a rock band based out of Schoharie County, New York, their 'thing' appears to be the ability to go through drummers like nobody's business.
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From fairly humble (acoustic) beginnings, singer Phil Saginario and guitarist Jason Pratt set about with the vision of creating melody-driven, riff heavy grooves in an attempt to combat the contrived pop tunes that dominate the radio waves (their words, not mine).
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Vocally, the comparisons with Greenday and Metallica are clear to see. In their song 'Compost', Saginario's defiant drawl is truly reminiscent of James Hetfield, and the simple but catchy vocal melodies in 'Get Up' could quite easily come from Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day.
Instrumentally, Sydney Funnel don't pull any punches either. They make use of their dual guitar set up by churning out chugs, riffs and grooves galore. There's the Metallica-esque theatricality of 'Bitter' to put a smile on your face, or the faster, thrash urgency of ABR. Whatever your taste for heavy guitar rock, Sydney Funnel will probably tick most of your boxes.
Here's hoping that the band go from strength to strength, as the quality of their current offerings after only 4 years together is an encouraging thing indeed for fans of this genre. Although who knows what they'll sound like in another 4 years, because by then drummer number 14 will be just bedding in….. It is their 'thing after all.
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It is summer, 1940. As Hitler's armies turn mainland Europe into a mass graveyard, his feared Luftwaffe rain bombs on England. Meanwhile, amid the green hills of the Cotswolds, a nest of "enemy aliens" has been discovered: the Bruderhof, a Christian commune made up of German, Dutch, and Swiss refugees, and growing numbers of English pacifists.
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I really think this is the book of revival for the new generation.
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Stock Futures Steady as Debt Ceiling Deal Awaited
TheStreet) -- Stock futures were little changed Friday following Thursday's big surge as signs of constructive discussions in Washington bolstered confidence the government won't allow the U.S. to default on its debt obligations.
Futures for the S&P 500 were down 1.25 points, or 2.86 points below fair value, to 1,683.75 after the benchmark's biggest jump since Jan. 2.
Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average were unchanged, or 20.07 points below fair value, to 15,033. Futures for the Nasdaq were down 0.25 points, or 9.64 points below fair value, to 3,193.25.
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(WFC) beat third-quarter earnings expectations as the nation's fourth largest bank by assets was able to grow its earnings for a 15th consecutive quarter. Marty Mosby, a banking analyst at Guggenheim Securities said the bank will continue to show sequential growth in its earnings per share and that while he expects Wells Fargo's mortgage origination activity to drop substantially from second-quarter levels, those declines will likely be offset by expense reductions and credit quality. Shares were slipping 2.03% to $40.50.
Excluding one-time items, JPMorgan (JPM) reported $5.8 billion in net income, or $1.42 in earnings per share, which beat bottom-line profitability estimates of $1.30. The bank's $23.9 billion in revenue fell slightly short of consensus Wall Street forecasted closer to $24 billion, according to Bloomberg data. Shares were up 1.1% to $53.10.
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) shares were gaining 0.82% to $88.50 after Goldman Sachs upgraded shares to "neutral" from "sell" and raised the price target to $95 from $87 saying that the company's pharmaceutical business has exceeded expectations this year driven by the strong launches of treatments Xarelto, Invokana, and Zytiga.
Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) was up 0.72% to $439.01 after Janney Capital raised shares to "buy" from "neutral" with a $525 price target following checks indicating third-quarter same-store sales growth of 5.8% compared with the Wall Street target of 4.6%. Janney also cited ample opportunities for the company to expand its breakfast offerings, lower 2014 commodity costs, and customer satisfaction.
The Reuters/University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index report is expected to be out at 9:55 a.m. EDT and will provide a glimpse into the psychological impact of the tension in Washington as the government shutdown heads into its 11th day.
On Thursday evening, during a 90 minute discussion, House Republicans proposed a temporary, six-week increase to the debt limit so that the U.S. may keep borrowing money to pay its bills while a bigger deficit reduction deal was discussed. The president said he was open to further discussions and also urged for an immediate end to the government shutdown.
The FTSE 100 in London was rising 0.7% and the DAX in Germany was up 0.34%. The Hong Kong Hang Seng gained 1.16% while the Nikkei 225 in Japan increased 1.48%.
The benchmark 10-year Treasury was down 2/32, raising the yield to 2.691%. The dollar was down 0.17% to $80.28 according to the U.S. dollar index.November crude oil futures were falling $1.23 to $101.78 a barrel and December gold contracts were dropping $11.30 to $1,285.60 an ounce.
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dentistry has gotten sooo high tech. a few quick xrays and BAM, right there on the monitor your teeth are in front of you. here you can see two of the molar implant bases i am getting. then the new teeth get bolted on to those. just a small part of my nightmare.
seems like the warranty is up on all my filling so they decided to fail at the same time. root canals, implants, drilling, more fillings....mean while i have "no" insurance. ouch!!! this is hurting the new car, new bike and even just eating fund. oh well with my teeth hurting so, eating is not high on my list.
oh look at that, a tv in the ceilling. just relax and enjoy some video...right, with all the drilling and pulling and punishment, i didn't even notice the tv until now.
just in case ya need a shot of listerine, the economy size filler.


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On June 17, Forrester published my latest research on how business buyers use social networking sites to inform purchase decisions, the role these sites will play in future buying processes, and three key ways for B2B marketers to tap into open, social network value. Just under half (45%) of buyers we surveyed early this year said they use discussion forums, online communities or social networking sites when evaluating products and services they want to buy at work — which much less than peers and colleagues, a source to which 84% of respondents turn when making purchase decisions. This is not all that surprising. We find this result crops up consistently in our research over time — business and IT folks rely on word of mouth and advice from friends and associates when buying, so customer references and testimonial become crucial parts of any well executed marketing plan.
More interesting are two key insights coming from this research: discussion forums and online communities are poised to become the online supplement for colleague interaction and the decision to join in community activity depends mostly on the quality of the participants — the discussion relevance, demonstrated experience, and shared thought-leadership. The figure here shows the data.
This represents and interesting challenge to B2B marketers who seem anxious to rush to put up a company-sponsored community site as a way of tapping into this emerging social activity. But sponsoring a gated, private community without understanding your company's objectives in doing so and your audience's willingness to participate leads to false starts, wasted time, and fruitless effort. Instead, B2B marketers interested in building community destinations should start by joining into existing conversations — and seeing if you can get some of your key customers to do so with you — before investing in a fully moderated, gated community. What do I mean by "join the conversation?" Namely:
1. Participate as a community peer. Use resources or social listening tools to listen into what buyers say about your firm and products. Join the conversation to hear about hidden pain points, discover innovative ideas, and share valuable experiences. Offer exclusive insight, talk openly about shared community issues, and address problems forthrightly to establish your credibility.
2. Energize customers to help tell your story. Give enthusiastic customers new ways to engage with each other and gain accolades from peers by using interactive content like videos, podcasts, and blogs to trigger the chatter, allowing users add to or rate the content, and giving them widgets and wikis to help share their stories.
3. Nurture loyal customers by supporting their success. Use open social sites to foster connections between your best customers by complementing techie forums with online social networking tools, creating a fan base on social sites like LinkedIn that feature customer advocates, extending physical events with an online social component, and encouraging participation with appropriate awards — like sneak peeks and exclusive chat access to top execs — for those who demonstrate a propensity to drive community activity higher.
In the B2B space, I believe private, gated community sites will trump public, open social networking for delivering business value over time because quality discussion and demonstrated expertise matter more to business buyers than the size or breadth of the community. Open social networking sites in the business world will remain just that — social places to keep tabs on friends and associates. Buyers interested in uncovering tips and tricks of the trade will seek out gated communities that feature social networking features like profile pages, friending, and question-and-answer but that focus on topics that make their businesses run better. Business buyers join communities to solve problems, follow industry trends, and get advice, so I expect participation on registration-controlled community sites to replace open public social networking activity during the next few years.
I know there are a lot of community-building advocates out there now. Let me know if you disagree with my position and why — looking forward to hearing from you.
PS: I was on hiatus during July, so I'm backfilling my posts for June and July at this time. Don't be alarmed if you feel like you've missed something — it's just me filling in some blanks. Thanks for reading.


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Pump It Up's indoor inflatable arenas launch socked striplings into the air with a plethora of kid-friendly bounce pads. Staffers supervise fun-filled visits, during which adult counterparts leap around with their kids through gargantuan bounce houses, skip down air-filled slides, and slither like snakes covered in bacon grease through an inflated obstacle course.
The colorful venue also hosts custom birthday parties and private team parties, each themed to please the partygoers in question. These soirees immerse children in a schedule of interactive activities while melting off youthful energy faster than ice cubes thrown into a running DVD player. The birthday boy or girl even gets to blow out the candles on their cake seated in their blow-up throne. Relying on the staffers' vigilant, watchful eyes, guardians can rest assured that their charges will stay safe, and each piece of the inflatable playground is held to the floor and one to the ceiling by a complex series of anchors installed according to strict safety standards.
Thomas and Friends Live! stars the beloved characters of Thomas, Percy, Diesel, and all their friends in a fun-filled theatrical extravaganza. The latest production, Thomas Saves the Day, follows the gaggle of anthropomorphic trains as they prepare for the annual Magic Lantern Festival on the island of Sodor. As the engines work together to repair the lighthouse that guides visitors to the island, children will learn important lessons in discovery, friendship, cooperation, and how to slip loose from a giant octopus while scuba diving. The 90-minute musical's brand-new songs will have tots clamoring in adulation for an encore and throwing gummy bears onto the stage, the highest form of pre-K praise.
As a benga beat pulses through the crowd, the Kenya Safari Acrobats defy gravity and the body's limitations as they leap through hoops, tumble from human towers, and limbo under bars. In one of their most famous and startling acts, a single performer stacks, climbs, and then balances on a single-file tower of rickety wooden chairs. Meanwhile, other performers juggle up to six straw hats, bend metal with their hands and teeth, or walk across a bed of nails. As artistic ambassadors of their native Kenya, the acrobats tie educational relevancy to their school performances in stories that highlight the importance of physical fitness, respect for elders and the true meaning of the Swahili phrase "hakuna matata," which The Lion King incorrectly translated as "get rich or die trying."
Shakespeare in the Park in Royal Oak bills itself as Michigan's only professional outdoor Shakespeare event, and for two remaining weekends this summer, the professional players will take to the open-air stage in a re-imagined version of the Bard's classic comedy The Two Gentlemen of Verona. The 1960s-styled production features a cast of actors that bring the 16th-century play to life through vibrant, sleek, Mod-motifs. The lawn-style seating of the outdoor theater allows visitors to bring blankets or lawn-chairs to enjoy the arts in casual, summer style, with free parking nearby. Water Works is offering a special August 6 performance of the production, specifically designed for the hearing-impaired, in which costumed members of TerpTheatre's shadow actors interpret the lines onstage while the action plays out.
Founded in 1991 by acclaimed actor and playwright Jeff Daniels, The Purple Rose Theatre Company enriches its community with original and classic productions that range from light-hearted comedies to poignant dramas. Resident artists elicit laughs during Escanaba in da Moonlight, a revival of Daniels's deer-camp comedy about a group of hunters competing for the first shot at a buck and the most creative camouflage pattern. Starting January 19, A Stone Carver introduces us to a retired stonemason named Agostino who resists being evicted from his home in the face of planned highway construction, even at the risk of alienating his only son. Converted from a 1900s-era auto garage, The Purple Rose Theatre Company distributes sight lines evenly throughout its 168-seat auditorium and grumbling Model T ghosts throughout its marbled 1930s-style lobby.
We're an 82 year old community theatre offering opportunities for everyone to participate in theatre, and presenting 10 quality productions each year


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HIV+ a blessing in disguise
hallo friends,
to me being HIV+ has become a blessing to me in ways that i can not understand.i now take life seriously and take each day at a time.i want to live a life that will create an impact to my two boys when i will not be there.i want them to be proud of me when they become of age and find out what mummy was trying to do to change lives.i want them not to fall in the same trap that mummy and daddy did may be because of a very small stupid mistake.
that one time that you go out clubbing and you decide to sleep with this guy or girl and a little voice inside you continuerly telling you to use a condom and since the condoms are not at your disposal at that particular time you decide that your partner looks too healthy to be HIV+ or that other time that you disagree with your spouse and you sleep with someone else just to get even or that other time that you were dating a married man/woman yet you are also married yet you also don't know what your spouse or that other man/womans spouse is sleeping with...and many other very small petite mistakes that we do and they end up destroying our whole lives and the lives of those that we love dearly.
i wounder what happened to the terms ABSTAIN or HAVE ONE FAITHFUL PARTNER or VALUE YOUR VIRGINITY all we here today every where we go on radios,on tv and on bill boards is 'USE A CONDOM' as effective as that is our young people should be tought about the values of keeping there virginity till marriage irrespective of there sex.nowadays sex is uploaded in ways that are very dangerous to the youth.i wish the musician that the youth tend to recognize would this time sing a different tune.when condoms company want to advertise there products they use the famous e young people that the youth tend to recognize to advertise there product.what messages do those young people get?that if 50cent is using one why not them that should be cool...why not use this people in spreading messages like he/she is waiting for the right time and the right person and to be faithful to them.
i hope that with Gods help i will be able to reach this very vulnerable group of people.and try and guide them the right path.
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Tabby, you are a brave woman. May your voice ring out around the globe! To hear you in Portland all the way from Nairobi gives me hope that, by making these powerful connections, there is no end to whom we can reach and no limit to what kind of world we can create. Your story about talking to your son touches me deeply. I send you much love and strength. I look forward to hearing more about your vision and work for a better world! If you need any help with the site, please let me know.
Warmest wishes,
Hi Tabby,
Thank you for sharing your very personal story and sharing your thoughts on the issues of HIV prevention. I think that by sharing your story with your family, in your country, and across the world on PulseWire, you are inspiring many people, especially women to engage in combatting issues associated with HIV/AIDS and how we as a global community can work together. Your message is powerful and we are listening! I look forward to hearing more from you and the work you're doing in Nairobi.
Thank you for sharing your story with the PulseWire community. I know the story will impact many lives and hopefully motivate people to action. I can tell that you have a strong voice which is such a wonderful trait. I'm gald to hear you use it.
In friendship,
Jenna Kellam
Dear Tabby,
Thank you so much for sharing your story here, with us, on PulseWire. Talking about our experiences is very powerful and by sharing your story you are making an impact. I am especially touched by your desire to make a the world better so that your boys will be proud of you. By what you have said I imagine you to be an very strong woman and a loving mother.
I am glad that you have joined us, I hope to hear more from you.
All the best,
PulseWire Online Volunteer
Thank you dear for the courage to share your story with the masses, I know this story will impact many lives. I look forward to learning alot from you because all of us are affected.
Doreen Chilumbu Nawa
I can only imagine the stigma that you have had to overcome by putting your experience into writing. I think that you are a brave woman and your two sons should be proud to have a mother like you.
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I find this piece of literature very touching because it interpret the reality of youth nowadays, Been trying to seek the best strategy to combat the increasing rat of HIV however, they wont listen until they reached there and it might be lucky if they make it.....Keep up the great work Tabby....You are doing great on giving your growing children a lesson to learn and you so brave.....


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Book #3: Ten on the Sled
by Kim Norman
I like to mix in a few winter stories with my Christmas books, and this one is great fun. Ten arctic animals pile on a big sled and go for a wild ride down the mountain. One by one, the animals whirl, flip, and slide out until there is only one left at the bottom of the hill. Then they do it all again!
The illustrations in this book are delightful! The expressions of the animals are priceless, as they go faster and faster, bumping off one at a time, rolling down the hill after the sled in a big jumble of snow...it is sure to get some giggles : )
Our Day 3 Christmas Book Countdown Activity
Craft Stick & Washi Tape Sled Ornaments
I happen to be smitten with washi tape lately, so I was purposely looking for an activity where I would
have the excuse to buy some in Christmas colors ; ) It's so addicting!
Very easy to use, too, even for little ones, and no mess.
I find mine on etsy, and even after this CBC activity, I still have tons leftover for more Christmas crafting!
If you don't have patterned washi tape, no biggie! You can still make the craft stick sleds
and then decorate them with paint, paper, glitter, stickers - even markers work on craft sticks.
For this activity you will need:
craft sticks
hot glue gun (or Elmer's white glue, but be prepared to wait for drying time)
washi tapes (or other supplies to decorate with)
yarn, twine, ribbon...to tie the hanger on
If you are doing this activity with little ones, you may want to trim the sticks ahead.
There are four craft sticks that require cuts, but these can be done with a good pair of regular scissors.
Did you get that? You may want to cut extras, because these sleds are super fun and easy to make!
All your other pieces will be full-size craft sticks except for these four as shown above.
To assemble your sled:1. Line up three craft sticks with the center one pushed slightly upward.
2. With a line of glue, attach one craft stick across horizontally, about an inch down.
** If using pieces cut ahead, this is the one with 2 angled ends, slanting downward.
3. This is what you have now, and next you'll need the two pieces with one end slanted.
If you haven't cut them ahead of time, do so now like the photo above.
4. Line your slanted pieces up again the three center sticks like the photo.
5. Use your two half sticks to glue across horizontally, holding the vertical sticks together.
6. You can now trim your first cross piece as shown, if you hadn't cut it ahead.
7. Stack two sticks and glue together down the center. Repeat (4 sticks total).
These will become your sled runners.
8. Place a bead of glue near the outside edges of your three cross pieces,
and glue the runner down the edge of the sled on the skinny end.
9. Repeat for the other runner and you are done!
More photos, and a short video tutorial, for this sled can be found here.
Now you are ready to decorate!
As I mentioned, if you don't have washi tape - no biggie! Just be creative and have fun decorating
your sleds with whatever arts and craft supplies you have on hand. There are no rules ; )
After you decorate your sled, just knot a piece of yarn, ribbon or string on both ends
of the first cross piece. I secured ours with a small dot of hot glue on the back, then trimmed the ends off.
Here are my boys' finished sled ornaments
Little Man loved this so much, he begged to make another.
We wrote their names and the year on the backside with a sharpie marker.
Even Momma made a few! Boy these were fun! On one of them, I washi taped the sled runners before I glued them on to the sled. It turned out really cute! I can see myself whippin through an entire bag of craft sticks to make a slew of them to attach to neighbor gifts. They went pretty quickly.
I ended up using my two on my entry table decor, which I'll be sharing with you soon.
That's it! Hope you enjoy!
You can see pics of our Christmas Book Countdown activities on instagram,
with the hashtag #CBCatcraftinterrupted. Feel free to tag and share your own!
And if you are just joining us
here is this year's CBC Book List
and also a Supply List for all the activities