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Title: Beyond Graces Rainbow
Author: Carmel Harrington
Format reviewed: Ebook
Source: Review copy from Carmel
Publisher: Harper Impulse
Publication Date: 12th September 2013
Rating: 5 Stars
Amazon UK
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When Grace is diagnosed with cancer her best chance of survival is to find a bone marrow transplant from a family member. Only Grace is adopted and her one previous attempt to connect with her birth mother resulted in bitter disappointment.
But with her young son, Jack, to think about, and the return of her ex Liam, Jack's father, reminding her of feelings she'd thought she'd buried long ago, Grace refuses to give up hope just yet. With the help of her friends she bravely embarks on a journey of discovery.
This search will bring her from her home in vibrant Dublin to the unspoilt beauty of Wexford where she must unravel a web of lies and deceit that has spanned over thirty years.
Carmel herself, showed me the trailer for this book, which I think sums it up perfectly. There are plenty of other reviews out there already for this fabulous book, and I honestly don't know what I can add, but incase you haven't read any of them, I feel like I have to try and say something.
This is a story about courage, love (both romantic and between friends), and is about Grace Devlin. Grace, as we met her is a single mother to 3 year old Jack (who adds a ray of sunshine to this b0ok), and is struggling to come to grips with her diagnosis of Leukaemia. She starts to understand that her best chances of survival, comes in the form of of a bone marrow transplant, and that family would be the most likely source of a match.
Grace has to decide whether to try and contact her birth mother, as ten years previously, she rejected a chance to get to know Grace.
Shortly after the diagnosis, Liam comes back into Graces life, he is 1 year sober, and is Jacks father. Grace has to decide if she can trust Liam.
Grace has a wonderful group of friends. Tara and Sean who are tying for a baby. Abby the single member of the group, who is looking for love. And then there is Tom and Gerry, who provide some of the light relief moments in this intense story.
There is a weekend Tom and Gerry spend investigating something that could help Grace, where for those few chapters it felt like I was reading a mystery novel. I love mysteries and although I wasn't completely surprised out the outcome, it does make think that if Carmel ever gets tired of writing romances that pull at the heart strings, then she should try her hand at a mystery!
Beyond Graces Rainbow will make you cry and it will make you smile. It is written in a wonderful way, and it is clear Carmel Harrington must have done loads of research to make the tough topics covered in this book, come out so well.
The chapters focus on different members of the friendship groups, and I honestly felt that, I was there with all the characters on the incredible journey they are on, and felt something towards all of them. Occasionally there would be a moment when you get to hear Jack's thoughts on everything, and Carmel has pegged the bewilderment of a young child exactly.
There are really no words to describe how amazing this book is. If you like tender romance, struggles against adversity, and books that make you feel (any emotiion at all), then make sure you take a proper look at Beyond Graces Rainbow.


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Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks was a novelisation based on the 1972 television serial Day of the Daleks. In 1979, this book was chosen as the inaugural release of the first (and to date only) American-published series of Doctor Who novels by Pinnacle Books. Over the next few years, ten novelisations would be republished in the US, each with an introduction by Harlan Ellison.
Publisher's summary
1974 edition
Mysterious humans from 22nd-century Earth `time-jump' back into the 20th century so as to assassinate a high-ranking diplomat on whom the peace of the world depends. DOCTOR WHO, Jo Grant and the Brigadier are soon called in to investigate. Jo is accidentally transported forward to the 22nd century; the Doctor follows, eventually to be captured by his oldest and deadliest enemy – the DALEKS! Having submitted the Doctor to the fearful Mind Analysis Machine, the DALEKS plan a `time-jump' attack on Earth in the 20th century! ...
Chapter titles
- Terror in the Twenty-Second Century
- The Man Who Saw a Ghost
- The Vanishing Guerilla
- The Ghost Hunters
- Condemned to Death!
- Prisoner of the Daleks
- Attack of the Ogrons
- A Fugitive in the Future
- Escape from the Ogrons
- Interrogation by the Daleks
- The Raid on Dalek Headquarters
- Return to Danger
- The Day of the Daleks
- All Kinds of Futures
Deviations from televised story
- All of Chapter One, set in the Dalek-controlled 22nd century, is original to the novel. Numerous previously unnamed rebels are named here.
- Auderly House is named Austerly House, to avoid confusion with the real life Auderly House.
- While Anat has long hair on the televised version, she is described and illustrated as having short hair here. However, her hair on television is at most shoulder length and, while not accurately depicting her bouffant, the hair in the illustrations is not much longer.
- In chapter 2, Reginald Styles fights back against his attacker and UNIT glimpses the Ogrons earlier. ("Between The Lines", a feature in the 2012 reprint, notes that the Brigadier and Benton ignore this sighting and follow the script's focus on "ghost" instead, although this is an exaggeration since the encounter is mentioned may times and UNIT are merely following the only lead open to them.)
- When the second guerrilla is chased by the Ogrons through the grounds, Sergeant Benton and several other soldiers notice and start firing at the Ogrons. No such fight takes place on-screen.
- When the Ogrons attack the house for the first time, the UNIT soldiers gather around to create a barrier of defence and fight back.
- The Doctor's wrists are said to be bleeding after he cuts the ropes tying his hands together in Styles' wine cellar.
- A Black Dalek is included and it takes up most of the original Gold Dalek's tasks. The Gold Dalek appears halfway through the novel, and the Black Dalek acts as its second-in-command. Terrence Dicks invents a Dalek High Council that rules Earth.
- The Brigadier gives more information on the international crisis, explaining that China, Russia and the USA are all involved and it began in the "Near East" (contemporary term for Middle East).
- The Doctor reminds the Daleks that he defeated them on Skaro in The Evil of the Daleks, which he believed to be "the final end". Strangely, however, the cut scene in which the Daleks explain that they defeated the Humanised Daleks in the Dalek Civil War is absent here as well.
- Instead of a luxurious meal, the Controller and Jo eat "coarse bread, tough meat, and a mish-mash of strange vegetables" (chapter 9). This is considered a luxury in the Controller's time.
- The final chapter of the novel, where the Doctor and Jo meet their past selves, isn't included in the TV version. The scene was written, but director Paul Bernard refused to film it, saying "Once it's over, it's over." It was cut from the finished programme.
- Monia is renamed Moni.
- The TARDIS is in the corner of the Doctor's laboratory, rather than the console being removed. The Doctor tests the disintegrator gun on a dummy rather than using a futuristic testing range.
- Styles leaves Austerley after his first meeting with the Doctor and the Brigadier, rather than still being present when the guerrilla is found.
- The guerrilla disappears from the UNIT sickbay rather than an ambulance. Anat states two men have tried to kill Styles before them: On screen, they are the same person.
- The Doctor ungags Jo rather than letting her work the gag loose herself.
- Anat is more helpful when the Doctor is transported back in time, explaining the situation on Earth and telling him where Jo will be.
- The manager identifies himself to the Doctor as a member of the resistance before the Controller interrupts them.
- Instead of being killed outright by the Ogron, Moni says the manager was killed by a firing squad.
- The guard who interrogates the Doctor is not identified as the Senior Guard.
- The Doctor knocks out an Ogron at Austerley by banging its head against a wall, later realising the top of the head is a weak point.
- The Doctor attacks a guard at the factory for whipping a slave before being captured.
- The Ogrons who pursue the Doctor and Jo are on motorised tricycles like their own. Also, the tricycle chase scene is longer than it is in the televised story.
- Three guerrillas named Mark, Joab and Zando take part in the attack on Dalek Control to rescue the Doctor. On-screen, only Mark is mentioned.
- It is explained that the Ogrons killed by UNIT disappeared, depriving the Brigadier of evidence.
- The Brigadier twice calls Yates "Mike", something that does not happen in this serial and rarely happens in others.
- More detail is given into how Shura avoids the UNIT patrols.
- The Controller is arrested by his assistant, Zeno, under orders from the Daleks, rather than being betrayed by the senior guard from earlier in the serial.
- Anat accompanies the Doctor and Jo into the tunnel, escaping when the Controller is arrested.
Writing and publishing notes
to be added
Additional cover images
British publication history
First publication:
- Hardback
- W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd. UK
- Paperback
- Target Block Logo / Orange lettering for title
- 60p (UK) Diamond-based Logo / brown lettering for title
- 1982 Target Books with a new cover by Andrew Skilleter priced (UK)
- 1991 Virgin Publishing with a new cover by Alister Pearson priced (UK)
Editions published outside UK
- Published in the Netherlands in 1974 by Unieboek B.V. Bussum as Doctor Who en de Dag van de Daleks.
- Published in Brazil in 1975 by Global Editoria as Doutor Who e a Mudança da História.
- Published in Turkey in 1975 by Remzi Kitabevi as Doktor Kim ve Dalek Baskini.
- Published in the USA in 1978 by Aeonian Press in hardcover format.
- Published in the USA in 1979 by Pinnacle Books.
- Published in Japan in 1980 by Hayakawa Bunko.
- Reprinted in the USA in 1981 by Pinnacle Books.
- Published in Portugal in 1983 by Editorial Presença as Doutor Who e o Dai dos Daleks.
- Reprinted in the USA in 1984 by Pinnacle Books.
- Reprinted in the USA in 1989 by Pinnacle Books.
- Published in Poland in 1994 by Empire Books as Doctor Who: Dzień Daleków.
External links
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A Conversation with Award-Winning Travel Writer, Bill Fink
Bill Fink's writing and photography has appeared in over 50 different publications, including newspapers, magazines, websites, guidebooks, and travel writing anthologies. He has covered topics ranging from five star vacation villas in Tuscany, to trash dump volleyball in Burma, eating squid at a baseball game in Japan and chasing a magic squirrel in the Philippines. Tim caught up with Bill recently to get his thoughts and advice on this travel writing gig.
You write for a lot of major print publications everyone has heard of, but we all have to start somewhere. What was your first travel article published and how did you move up from there?
Got my first travel writing credit in the prestigious International Railway Traveler Magazine, which I think was mimeographed in some dude's garage in Topeka, Kansas. Saw the magazine listed in a publishing guide, and as I had just returned from a trip in Myanmar where I rode in a historic/frightening train, I figured the magazine would be a good fit, and probably not too much competition for entries. The quote that got me published, I think, was from an Israeli guy on board who said as we rocked back and forth on the train "This is just like riding a camel, but slower!"
Moving up from the first publication into other outlets required a lot of persistence, networking. and practice. I found attending a few writing conferences useful, and just pestered the editors I met until they were so tired of me nagging that they finally published some of my stories. But it's really a combination of working to improve my writing, and developing good sales skills.
Besides some obvious ones like Afar and National Geographic Traveler, you've also written for Caviar Affair and American Cowboy. Why is it important for freelancers to branch out and find lesser known publications to pitch to?
There's only so much real estate available to be filled by writing in the big name magazines, and a ton of competition from freelancers, staff and editors to fill it. They literally get hundreds of pitches a day from writers–the odds aren't great for breaking in there. So it's important to build up clips, build relationships with editors in other magazines–sometimes the editors will migrate from smaller magazines to bigger ones and take you along. But other times, they lose their jobs and come to you for help, so it's probably a wash. There are some great opportunities (and well-paying ones) in non-traditional travel outlets–almost every publication has some travel-related story in it, from Modern Dentistry to Goats Monthly (if those magazines exist.)
We all know this is a tough racket on the earnings side, especially for straight freelancers. How do you make the numbers add up on a consistent basis each year?
You don't. So keep the day job, be flexible enough to get revenue from other sources, whether it be from technical writing, PR, guiding, teaching, or begging on the street. When you do get writing assignments, try to develop a relationship with the editor(s) and publisher where you become a regular contributor, a "trusted advisor" who they go to for quality, timely work in a specialty you can justify with experience and good facts.
I met you at TBEX Asia where you gave a talk on quality writing practices to a lot of bloggers with no formal training. What were the main takeaways that writers can put into practice to get better?
1) Telling a story is still important. Even in the days of Top 10 lists, and "You Won't believe what happens next" clickbait articles, those magazines, websites, and outlets that succeed are the ones who get readers to return because they actually enjoyed the content.
2) Find a unique angle for the story: Anyone can do a "best beaches of the Caribbean" article using Wikipedia. To be a better, more successful writer, find and research those unexpected people, places, times, and activities of travel that catch and keep someone's attention. Think "Best Beaches of Iowa," or "Best Beaches of the Caribbean–during Hurricane season."
3) Show AND Tell: It seems a basic concept: fill your story with facts (show), and have a point to the story (tell). But it can be hard to do in practice. Show too much, and it become a tedious "and then I…and then I…." story, or tell too much and become an annoyingly preachy sermon. Study stories that work in that regard, and emulate that balance. Tim Cahill was my early model of someone who wrote great personal adventure stories that also educated you.
Congratulations on your recent SATW Gold award for an article you wrote. Can you quantify what being recognized like this has meant to your career when you've won big awards and gotten into book anthologies?
Well, the awards and anthologized pieces have impressed family and friends, but haven't exactly resulted in a flood of big book deals. The awards have been good for creating a legitimacy for myself as a writer, and made me stand out from the crowd when I'm pitching a piece to a new outlet. They've helped to make people listen to me, but I still better have to have something worthwhile to say.
Someone who has never gotten a travel article published plies you with drinks and asks for the secrets to getting their first article of many published. What do you tell him or her?
Study the publication where you're pitching your article–tell them why it's a perfect fit for whatever section, show how it's similar to another piece that did well for them. They'll probably ignore you anyway, but don't take it personally. Keep at it. Work on your craft of writing, and work on your sales/marketing skills at the same time–they're equally essential for success.
Bill Fink has had hundreds of his tales of adventure and misadventure published in over 50 outlets, including National Geographic Traveler, AFAR, BBC Travel, Yahoo, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Lonely Planet's Best of Travel Writing, Frommer's, and of course, International Railway Traveler Magazine. His writing has won a bunch of awards including two SATW Lowell Thomas Golds, and shortlisting in the Best American Travel Writing. He has lost his iphone charger in probably 20 different countries. You can follow Bill's adventures on Twitter and Instagram @finktravels
Interview conducted in November 2016 by Tim Leffel, posted by Terri Marshall.


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"In a world where voting with your money can be an act of protest, buy from your local farms food you trust. If you want to be totally defiant, plant seeds and grow your own food."
– Me (today)
Change can be slow or fast. Major change takes a critical mass of people seeing a new vision. Today I witnessed some 'fast' change. After today's March Against Monsanto, I took a detour at the James Bay Farmer's Market and ate some beautiful oatcakes hand-made up Island by a strapping laddie in a Scottish kilt and accent to match. Munching on those oat cakes, I was ambling down the road when I espied a beautiful couple wrangling with a strange contraption. Was it a bed, I wondered? It had wood and some kind of white material at the bottom. What was it and why were they dragging it about the paved walk in front of their house?
These people smiled at me as I walked by, putting this contraption on the ground. "Thank you for your great speech!" they said with warm smiles.
"Glad you liked it!" I responded slowing my gait.
"You motived us to grow vegetables!" they said still panting a bit with the effort.
"Fantastic!" I smiled, touched and was about to continue on my way.
Then it hit me.
"Hang on," I said backing up, "Do you mean right now? You're going to grow vegetables right this very minute? Because you heard what I said? Like today? Like an hour ago?"
"Yes!" they merrily chimed.
So…that's what the wooden contraption was – duh! They had made a bed to grow veggies since there was no soil in front of their house. This was the best moment of my day.
As of 2010 in the US, 93% of soy, 86% of corn, 90% of canola (the list could go on) are GMOs and essentially mono-crops (recipe for catastrophe as every biologist knows). Growing your own seeds and preserving biodiversity is paramount. In the Film "Bitter Seeds" about the staggering number of Indian farmer suicides, farmers in India's "suicide belt" cannot buy non-GMO seeds any more. Monsanto's promise of high GMO yields didn't pan out. The farmers are in perpetual debt to buy seeds they would normally save. In a perfectly sustainable system, Indian farmers used to use cow dung for fertilizer. They were poor but they would save their seeds and replant year after year the seeds they saved. Now these poor and mostly illiterate farmers have to buy fossil-based pesticides as fertilizer and an abundant, stable water supply to grow these GMO seeds. In debt and unable to climb out, these farmers drink the Monsanto pesticides as their final act of desperate misery. At last count as per Dr. Vandana Shiva in March, there have been 278,000 (two hundred and seventy-eight thousand) of these suicides. One Indian farmer commits suicide every 30 minutes. May these GMO companies be brought to justice and tried at the International Court for Crimes Against Humanity. Let's begin to digest this news of unutterable horror. Let's take a moment and think of all those kids without dads, mothers widowed. Let's take that despair and double our efforts for food democracy.
When India was fighting for independence, Gandhi suggested Indians spin their own cotton to protest the English law forcing Indians to buy only English cotton. Like then, these are undemocratic times. Now the pesticide companies control and patent life (after splicing in a couple toxic genes). They own the seed companies as well and limit supply to sell seeds that need to be re-purchased every year. One simple but powerful gesture to safeguard life, biodiversity, and ourselves is to grow plants and save and share those seeds.
Logan and Kirk invited me back to see their bed when it's blossoming. I can't wait. Their positivity made me feel even more positivity and we were cycling higher and higher in this feedback loop. If we send out the focus to the positive, we can achieve everything. Here is the handsome couple again:
"Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to live."
― Adele Brookman


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Fostering Canberra's next generation of entrepreneurs
Meet people, form teams, develop an innovative business idea, and pitch for your share of the $50,000 grant pool.
InnovationACT is a free, ten-week entrepreneurship program that provides the skills, tools and networks to those looking to begin their startup journey. The program supports hundreds of budding young entrepreneurs from ANU and the wider Canberra region each year.
Registrations for IACT19 have now closed. Good luck to all the team participating in this year's program!


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Handmade shoes are always the best choice for those who want comfort and extra protection for their feet. This classic leather shoe in navy blue is an attractive choice for a person who is always on the go.
Navy blue is a good color choice because it goes well with a range of wardrobe pieces. Apart from its aesthetic value, these handmade slip ons from Gizze also provide protection for your feet. Made from natural materials of the highest quality, these shoes are great for walking and are durable enough to last for years to come.
If you are looking for affordable leather shoes, look no further because these were made for you!
Important Note: Before selecting the size, please read "Shoe Sizing Guide" carefully in order to find the best fit for you.
You've found your unique and stylish Gizze Handmade shoes, now it's time to find the right fit. Gizze Handmade makes it easy! With half-sizes available in U.S. sizes, you can expect happier feet in these comfortable shoes. What's even better? With a medium width (B-size) for women and a medium width (D-size) for men, you can be confident that you are getting a great fit.
It's best to order half size smaller than you normally wear in a casual footwear as shown in the size chart. For most, the fit will be slightly snug at first and could take about a few weeks to fully break in.


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Nearly 25% of phishing sites used HTTPS domains in the third quarter of 2017, which represents an almost 100% increase over the previous quarter, according to a study by PhishLabs.
HTTPS domains, which display web addresses as "https://" as opposed to "http://" and include a green lock icon, were once a reliable sign that a website was legitimate. Crane Hassold, PhishLabs' threat intelligence manager, told cybersecurity reporter Brian Krebs that "your average Internet user has been taught for years to simply 'look for the lock icon' in the browser address bar as assurance that a site is safe."
This advice was given because it took time and money for a website to gain an SSL certificate, which gives them an HTTPS domain. Many legitimate sites went to the effort to assure customers that the site was secure, but criminal hackers rarely did, because they typically have many sites that only exist for a short period of time.
Although most sites with an HTTPS domain were secure, to say that this is what made a site legitimate is specious reasoning: the green lock is not an indication of security at all. This is a commonly held misconception, with PhishLabs' poll finding that more than 80% of respondents mistakenly believed the green padlock symbol meant a website was legitimate or secure.
So, what does the green padlock mean? As Krebs writes, it indicates that "the communication between your browser and the Web site in question is encrypted; it does little to ensure that you really are communicating with the site you believe you are visiting."
Learn to be skeptical
Gaining SSL certificates is just another way phishers are manipulating people into thinking their sites are legitimate. The best advice is to trust nothing from an unsolicited email: links can be manipulated, they can go to bogus sites, the "from" field can be forged, attachments can contain malware, and legitimate information in an email could have been bought or stolen.
Phishing emails are full of information designed to trick you, and as long as you remember that – and are aware of how prominent phishing emails are – it should be easy to avoid falling for a few pieces of information that look legitimate.
If the message is unsolicited, be suspicious. Don't click anything in the email. Instead, go to the site the email is ostensibly from manually (type in the address or whatever you'd normally do to access the site) and log in. Any legitimate issue will be flagged up on your account, but if it hasn't and you're still concerned, use the contact information from the site to contact the company.
The extra effort it takes to log in manually is negligible, and getting into the habit will help you bypass even the most sophisticated of phishing tricks. Phishers are trying to get you to be careless, typically suggesting you need to take action urgently. They do this because if you don't fall for their bait right away, you're more likely to realise that it's a scam (or forget about it) and scam sites are usually shut down relatively promptly.
You can learn more about staying secure with our phishing infographic. It outlines the various forms that phishing attacks can take, explains the damage they can cause, and provides an annotated example of a scam email, showing you what to look out for.
We also offer simulated phishing attacks to help organizations identify whether their employees are susceptible to phishing scams, and a staff awareness course to help employees understand the threat of phishing.


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Archery for Homeschoolers-Troy
Rising Phoenix Archery in Troy is offering special programs for homeschool students to learn the sport of archery. This comprehensive 10 week program covers all the details of the National Training System. It is the same shooting technique of the US Olympic Archery Team.
They currently work in cooperation with Centerline Public Schools as well as Madison Heights Public Schools and Home School Partnership. They would love to add the homeschool program you are currently working with. Program costs $170 per semester, but often they can get your district to cover the costs for you.
For more details, click here.


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When I was in Sweden and Norway last year hanging around the breakfast buffet in hotel (as you do), I spotted the waffle machine. As it was a DIY job, I had to ask one of the staff how to operate it and the lady kindly showed me how much batter and how long to leave it for. Once it was finished it was topped with fluffy whipped cream and jam. I've never forgotten that first bite! When cooked, they even break into little heart portions, so cute!
How happy I was to discover that Clas Ohlson have their own Swedish waffle maker – it was the only thing I bought with my final bonus from my old job; the rest went on paying for my own office space and wedding stuff. Mr LTT was less than impressed at what he clearly thought would be a one hit wonder. He has been proved wrong though!
Våfflor are much thinner and crispier than traditional Belgian style waffles, in fact they are almost crepe-like they're so thin. The batter is made with cream and usually snow! Well, the LTT version is swapped out with Oatly cream (so it's dairy-free) and very cold water. The batter is rested to relax the glutens and help give the waffles their delicate and delicious texture.
I topped ours with tayberries we bought from our local farmer's market and I always have a few drops of maple syrup on them. We'll usually go for jam or blueberries, but as the batter is neither sweetened nor salted, it leaves you open to a variety of topping options, should you so wish!
Have a great breakfast…
- 170g plain flour, sifted
- 250ml Oatly cream
- 100ml really cold water
- 2 tsp dairy-free spread, melted
- Oil for greasing
- In a medium bowl, whisk together all the ingredients until you create a smooth batter. Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
- Oil the waffle iron and pre-heat.
- When the waffle iron is ready, remove the batter from the fridge and carefully spoon about ½ to ⅔ ladle of batter into each waffle shape, spreading out the batter into the edges if needed (a silicon pastry brush is useful here).
- Close the lid and cook for 5-6 minutes until crispy.
- Remove carefully and top with fruit of your choice.
- Can be frozen - just wrap them tightly in cling film individually. To reheat from frozen, pop them under the grill or in the toaster.


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Magic Winery Bus Niagara-on-the-Lake
- Durée: 8 Heures (environ)
- Lieu: Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
- Code produit: NotL
Niagara-on-the-Lake is a community of wineries with individual personalities as distinctive as the wines. This is where the pioneers in growing and producing world-class wines from premium vinifera varieties and have helped to shape Canadian wine culture. Add in some of the oldest grapevines in the country, imparting great character and depth to the wines. The result? Complex, delicious and award-winning wines.
Once you board Magic Winery Bus, it travels in a continuous one-hour loop all-day. You have the opportunity to Hop Off at the winery of your choice. After you Hop Off, in approximately one hour, Magic Winery Bus returns and you have the option to Hop On and travel to the next winery of your choice or stay for an additional hour (especially if you are enjoying a patio lunch).
The time you spend enjoying the wineries on your tour is up to you! You have the flexibility to create your own itinerary. You can enjoy Wine County for a few hours or for the entire day. Each hour, Magic Winery Bus passes your original departure location TBC.
Your $60.00 admission (plus HST and booking fee) includes day-long transportation, service of a guide to curate your journey, chance to visit five wineries plus and abbreviated tour and complimentary greeting wine at each stop.
On the Magic Winery Bus Niagara tour, you'll have time to visit all five of these wineries on the 10:00am and 11:00am departures on Friday and Sunday.
Note: Admissions are non-refundable but can be rescheduled or transferred to someone else for their enjoyment. For further details email email@example.com.


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Another part of being a member of the Etsy Bloggers Street Team is to take part in a Blog Carnival once a month. To tell you the truth I am not sure why it's called a carnival, but it is. The topic I chose to write about is my five favorite things of summer. That seemed like the most fun topic and I have always really liked summer. When I was a kid my least favorite part of summer was when the swimming pool closed for the season. It was so sad!
1. My most favorite thing of summer has to be really good tomatoes. After a long winter of tomatoes that taste like paper a sweet yummy tomato is a welcome treat.
2. My next favorite thing would be walking my dog and not freezing to death. My dog needs to be walked twice a day no matter what the weather is so walking on a warm summer evening is quite nice.
3. Long days and not being dark when I have to get up early in the morning.
4. Enjoying some relaxing times with my family.
5. I do love to go to the beach but mostly when the crowds of people are gone for the season and the ocean is warm. That reminds me of one of my newest soaps, By the Sea Salt Bar it smells just like being by the sea. http://www.sweetsallyssoaps.etsy.com
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Five Favorite Things of Summer
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Friday, June 26, 2009
Etsy Bloggers Street Team
I have recently joined an Etsy team called the Etsy Bloggers Street Team. As the name implies it is all about blogging. I thought it would get me some motivation to blogg more often. One of the requirements of the team is to blog about a featured member each month.
This month's featured member is LazyTcrochet, she makes lovely crocheted shawls, hats and scarves. Please go check out her Etsy shop and see all of her beautiful creations.
This month's featured member is LazyTcrochet, she makes lovely crocheted shawls, hats and scarves. Please go check out her Etsy shop and see all of her beautiful creations.
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We've pushed up the publishing schedule this month in order to get out our book review of Dr Pitcairn's Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs & Cats ahead of the book's release date which is set for March 21!
At 500 pages the newest – and 4th – edition represents a significant makeover from earlier versions. Here I'm giving the briefest overview, or summary, of some key areas of focus of the book, and we'll provide a link at the bottom for those who'd enjoy seeing the full review. In addition, we've arranged a very convenient tie-in with Amazon: To purchase the book – at a great price! – just click the purchase link below.
Micro and Macro?
While most of us will approach a book such as Dr Pitcairn's Guide' with a view to some specific benefit to our pets, the author does a good job of broadening the topic in ways that add greater understanding, at the same time resisting the temptation to get off on an overly extended tangent. He keeps things relevant. The reader comes away with practical solutions for improved health for our animals that allow us at the same time to exercise an enhanced level of good stewardship over the environment beyond our immediate surroundings.
A Definite Recommend
With plenty of actual recipes included in the pages, this volume goes beyond theoretical. And then, there's a whole section of dog and cat ailments along with the corresponding treatment and food recommendations. In addition the author writes on other facets of companion-animal health, starting with the matter of locating a healthy pet in the first place, and dealing in detail with how to turn our homes into animal-friendly, toxin-free environments. Another section provides a working knowledge of many streams of holistic treatment, including his personal favorite, homeopathy.
On Pitcairn's actual approach to nutrition and feeding, he lays out a compelling case for moving towards a vegan – meat-free – diet. As you'll see in the full review, the rationale is twofold: Toxins in the food chain are such that most of us will be hard pressed to obtain a regular source of meats and fish that are not contaminated by hormones and other chemicals coming from a combination of production methods and environmental contamination. In addition, there's an often unseen, but significant, impact on both animals and natural resources from the stepped-up rearing of livestock to meet burgeoning worldwide demand.
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Plans are underway to restore the Shahi Guzargah — the route that the kings used to take.
By Adnan Adil
As a part of its plans to market Lahore's ancient and living cultural heritage, the Punjab government is planning to preserve and renovate a portion of the Walled City, with the name of Shahi Guzargah, a two-km long trail followed by the Moghul emperors entering the Walled City from Delhi gate to reach the Lahore Fort.
The project has a strong backing from the World Bank whose country director, John Wall, is said to have a strong liking for the Walled City. In August 2005, the World Bank completed a study on the project carried out by a team of experts headed by an Italian architect Raffaele Gorjux, who had developed this kind of street in Fez, Morocco.
Bilquis Tahira, a social scientist and Harold Goodwin, a tourism development expert, have contributed to the study. The study claims it has relied on the lessons learned from previous such projects and on international best practices, involving also the direct experience of the consultant in similar projects in Italy, Morocco and Jordan.
Punjab government officials say the government has allocated funds for this pilot project in the annual budget FY 06-07 and is planning to create an authority to undertake this project. The authority will have powers to carry out its projects bypassing the Lahore Development Authority and the City district government.
The creation of the Royal Passage or Shahi Guzargah, as envisaged in the World Bank's study, will lead visitors from Delhi Gate, which will be made an equipped entry point to the Lahore Fort connecting along the trail some significant heritage assets of the walled city, such as Shahi Hammam, Wazir Khan Mosque, Kashmiri bazaar, Sonehri Masjid, Baoli Bagh and Begum Shahi Masjid. Instead of taking a straight route from Kashmiri bazaar to Taxali bazaar, the proposed royal trail will turn into Dabbi bazaar near Rang Mahal and passing through Choona Mandi, it will enter into the Lahore Fort from Akbari Gate, an entrance of the monument which is not in use these days.
The proposed Guzargah (trail) will end at the triangle near Red Light area entering the Lahore Fort where a food market and occasions of cultural activities have been proposed.
The project study proposes a number of improvements of the urban space along the trail such as removal of electricity wiring and laying underground electricity lines, paving of public space and below-grade infrastructure refurbishment, public lighting, urban furniture and tourist signage. The study suggests imposing restrictions on motorised vehicles of different kinds at different periods of day. It also seeks to reduce the number of encroachments along the way and the conservation of cultural property.
The architects say that to facilitate the arrival of visitors the layout of the Circular Road needs to be improved with the building of an underground parking below the Circular garden and extensive resettlement plan for removal of encroachments at Delhi Gate. They want to use and develop the buildings of closely situated Shahi Hammams, the only public bath remaining from the Mughal period, as a space for information centre and interpretative displays such as maps, and heritage trail leaflets, information about buildings, craft producers, guide booking services, tickets for cultural performances etc.
The project asks for reclamation of 3000 square kilometers of open space in the square facing Wazir Khan mosque (built in 1634 AD) for public and civil use. The architects say the primacy of the mosque should be reasserted and the encroachments around it removed in order to reveal the majesty of its architecture. However, the study recognizes that the foresight of the builder of the Mosque, spread over 4000 square metre, was in providing for its maintenance by endowing the mosque with rental income from 22 shops built into the ground floor of the Mosque, and this characteristic needs to be maintained.
The Shahi Guzargah envisages Kashmiri bazaar to recreate its charm, the feel of being in the heart of a medieval city, by creating some space in it for recreational and cultural use by residents and visitors. The project envisages retaining the bazaar's commercial bustle while creating tourist attraction at the same time through the sale of some traditional goods there along with the imported goods being sold there these days.
Baoli Bagh, a garden around water well for public welfare built during emperor Jehangir's period by Sikh Guru Arjun and restored by Sikh ruler Ranjit Singh in 1834, is heavily encroached these days. The Shahi Guzargah project will recover the garden by removing heavy encroachments, restoring the perimeter walls, re-establishing entrance arches and the step-well along with the provision of soft landscaping, lighting and urban furniture and toilets.
Guzargah's architects call for re-opening of presently closed Akbari Gate of the Lahore Fort and its equipment as a visitors' entrance. They say on the eastern side of the Fort and Akbari Gate, the existing Rim Market with highly polluting activities make it incompatible with the plans for restoration of Akbari Gate. So they suggest this light industrial markets needs relocation somewhere else. In its place, the project envisages a Punjabi market showcasing craft for the province and demonstrations of a craft working as well as for sales of craft and folk arts.
Nearby Akbari Gate is situated the historical Begum Shahi Masjid, built by emperor Jehangir's mother in 1614 AD, and its fine frescos in the prayer hall display the sophisticated taste of imperial family of the Moghuls. The frescos are in damaged condition and need conservation. The architects say the original layout of the mosque's courtyard needs to be reestablished which is now cluttered by an obtrusive reinforced concrete structure.
The proposed project for Shahi Guzargah mixes cultural experience with an economic opportunity for the residents and shopkeepers of the area. It says the proposed uplift of Guzargah will offer an opportunity to visitors to see the urban, religious and vernacular architecture, to experience bustle of the commercial heart of the old city along with rich cultural life and to purchase handicraft from the producers.
"The objective is to attract visitors to the area and to encourage them to spend money there," the study says.
The study says the marketing of the route will be easily accomplished as previous experience with food streets suggests. The focus of the trail has been designed to encourage the local residents to value the heritage for both cultural pride and economic benefit.
The architects of the project say that the heritage trail should be designed to compliment, rather than compete with existing tourism products in Lahore. For example, it says, food and drink elements in the heritage trail should not be a central focus of this project because there are already four tourist food streets in the city. In their view, the proposed trail would add to the variety of tourism experiences by focusing on urban bustle, the feel of commercial hub along with the traditional architecture and the Islamic street pattern.
The comprehensive study on the proposed Royal Trail is complete and evokes optimism that the glory of the ancient Lahore has finally drawn much-needed attention of the authorities. The funds (Rs 586 million) are available, thanks to the interest shown by the World Bank. Sooner the Punjab government creates authority for implementing the project, the better will it be. Otherwise this project may run the risk of getting drowned in the humdrum of forthcoming general elections.
Courtesy: The News on Sunday


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Ann Marie Stock
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Ann Marie Stock (Ph.D. University of Minnesota) has developed a unique understanding of Cuba's culture during some 60 trips to the island over nearly 30 years. She is a frequent contributor to U.S. and international media, and has shared her insights with NBC, CBS, New York Times, Public Radio, Voice of America and a host others. Stock also consults with foundations, cultural organizations, government agencies and academic institutions seeking to develop partnerships with their Cuban counterparts.
Dr. Stock has authored and edited numerous publications including On Location in Cuba: Street Filmmaking during Times of Transition (UNC Press, 2009) and World Film Locations: Havana (Intellect, 2014). As the founding director of the non-profit Cuban Cinema Classics (www.cubancinemaclassics.org), she makes widely available subtitled Cuban documentaries on DVD.
At William & Mary, Stock has served in a variety of leadership positions: Acting Dean of International Affairs and the Director of the Reves Center for International Studies, Director of Hispanic Studies and Film and Media programs, and faculty designer/director of the New Media Summer Institute in Washington D.C.
Dr. Stock has earned numerous awards and accolades. She has served as a Fellow at the Fundación Ludwig de Cuba, Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives, and the Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research, a Fulbright Scholar, and a grantee by MacArthur Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. At W&M Stock delivered the prestigious Tack Lecture in spring 2016, and was named recipient of the Plumeri Outstanding Faculty Award.
She currently serves as the inaugural W&M Libraries Faculty Scholar, guiding the creation of an open access repository of Cuban film and culture materials.
Ann Marie Stock shares her insights on contemporary Cuba in the Tack Lecture "Remix and Revolution"
Tack Lecture "Remix and Revolution"
Dr. Stock named inaugural W&M Libraries Faculty Scholar
In Havana, Professor Stock joins NBC4 Anchor David Culver to discuss current developments between U.S. and Cuba
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On Location in Cuba: Street Filmmaking during Times of Transition (2009). Ann Marie Stock.
On Location in Cuba: Street Filmmaking during Times of Transition... "The 1990s were a time of dramatic transformation for Cuba. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the island nation plummeted into an era of scarcity and uncertainty known as the Special Period, a time from which it emerged only slowly in the new century. On Location in Cuba views these pivotal decades through the lens of cinema. Ann Marie Stock conducted hundreds of interviews and conversations in Cuba to examine individual artists' lives and creative output--including film, video, and audiovisual art. She explores the impact of the Cold War's end, the economic crisis that ensued, and the decentralization of the state's political, economic and cultural apparatus."
"The study is crafted with the nuance of an insider (the result of some 50 research trips to Cuba over a 20-year period), the perspective of an outsider, attuned to contemporary debates about globalization and transnational cinemas, and the commitment of a cultural bridge-builder, looking to increase dialogue and exchange between the U.S. and Cuba...Stock's book is a lively and indispensable guide to this transitional moment in Cuban culture and society." --John King, The Americas
"This is an important work that contributes to broader questions about the response of the Cuban people to this pivotal moment in their island's history...The author addresses the theoretical questions that relate to cinema and identity, and finds intriguing answers in the cultural production of the Cubans themselves." --The Latin American Review of Books
"Covering the important recent cultural debates and the opening up of Cuban screens to new work, On Location in Cuba makes a significant contribution." --Michael Chanan
|Framing Latin American Cinema: Contemporary Critical Perspectives (1997). Ann Marie Stock, editor
"Arguing for a 'postnational critical praxis,' Stock has gathered twelve essays on audiovisual culture in Latin America which, taken together, examine the geopolitical assumptions often underlying audiovisual criticism and the politics of production and reception across cinema's first century." --Kathleen Newman review


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The Dallas Zoo is offering $5 admission every Wednesday for patrons 65 and older as part of Senior Safari. Regular adult admission to the zoo is $15. Parking is $7, but parking at DART stations is free, and a local ride is $1.75. For more details, call 469.554.7500 or visit dallaszoo.com.
The Mountain View College basketball team won the 2011 NJCAA Division III Men's Basketball championship in New York in March. Marcus Price, a 19-year-old freshman, scored 18 points in the final game and was the tournament MVP. The trip to New York was Price's first on an airplane.
The North Oak Cliff United Police Patrol (NOCUPP) is a Dallas Police Department Expanded Neighborhood Patrol program impacting the Kessler Park, East Kessler, Winnetka Heights, Kessler Plaza, West Kessler and Stevens Park Village neighborhoods. For $365 a year ($1 per day), residents can subscribe to the program to supplement police patrols in their neighborhoods by off-duty, uniformed officers in squad cars. NOCUPP subscribers also receive benefits such as vacation watches while they're out of town and a dedicated cell phone number for NOCUPP police officers. An information meeting was scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 26, at Turner House, 401 N. Rosemont. For details on the program, visit northoakcliffpatrol.org.
Lang Partners has begun its project at Zang and Colorado. Zang Triangle is the first new multifamily property built in Oak Cliff in some 12 years. The 260 units will lease for an average of $850 a month. Most of the units will have one bedroom, but there are a few two-bedrooms and efficiencies. It's a 3-acre property, and the buildings will be four and five stories. There will also be 4,000 square feet of space on the ground floor facing Zang that will be set aside for "flex space". It could be leased for professional services, office, retail or live/work space.


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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois school districts will receive about $395 million in additional funding that was approved in the state budget last summer.
The Illinois State Board of Education sent vouchers Thursday to the comptroller's office, which will handle distributing the additional money to more than 800 school districts. Chicago Public Schools will receive an extra $60 million.
The appropriations originate from the state's new evidence-based funding formula intended to provide a more equitable funding structure.
Lawmakers will have to increase K-12 spending each year over the next decade for the funding formula to have its maximum effect.
The board recommended a $7.2 billion increase in its budget, saying it's important to show what kind of funding commitment is needed to ensure each school district has adequate resources to educate its students.
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Valley hopes to fill Harvest House with donated food
SHELTON -- The Valley United Way's Corporate Volunteer Council will be hosting its third Harvest House food drive at the Riverwalk in Shelton on Sept. 26, beginning at 9 a.m.
Harvest House is a 400-square foot structure built out of wood, that looks like a house from the outside. The inside of the house is stocked throughout the day with non-perishable food donations from Valley residents and companies. The donations go to local food banks.
"It's like feeding your neighbor," said Patricia Tarasovic, director of the Volunteer Center at the Valley United Way.
She said during the fall of 2005, when people were focused so much on feeding the victims of the many devastating hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico region, people wanted to feed people in their own community as well.
By collecting the United Way's goal of 100,000 boxes and cans of food Harvest House is able to provide eight food banks food for their clients.
Tarasovic said when she thought of the idea and decided on the goal number of donations, many doubted she could get reach 100,000 donated boxes and cans. Now, to their disbelief, some have even joked of adding on a dog house, or a garage so that even more donations can be made.
Harvest House receives its donations from the companies are involved in collecting contributions.
Companies as large as Pitney Bowes and Health Net, to ones as small as one and two-person companies and everything in between-- Boy and Girl Scout troops, sports teams, banks and stores -- find ways to collect food and fill the walls of Harvest House.
Alice Ferreira, director of communications at Health Net, said her company has contests between each floor to see who can collect the most food. Ferreira said the employees at Health Net can get very competitive because they agree it is for such a good cause.
Employees at all of Harvest House's donor companies know how important food can be to a family in need.
"One box, once case, one dollar, all have a positive impact; and this is all about impacting our community in a positive way," said Bill Bubbico, vice president of Strategic Business Transformation at Pitney Bowes. And with the poor economy, he said "the need has never been greater."
The Area Congregations Together/Spooner House has seen a 35 percent rise in the number of people at their food back from Oct. 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009 according to Susan Agamy, executive director of ACT.
Although Harvest House does help many people throughout the Valley by collected nonperishables, one issue that Harvest House does face is that many of the foods they collect require milk, butter or oils to make, such as macaroni and cheese.
According to Carol Kurby, of the Valley Chapter of the American Red Cross, these products cannot be held at food banks.
"What I'd like to encourage people to do besides donating cans and boxes of food," she said, "is to donate gift certificates so people can buy butter and milk (to make the food)."
Donations must be arranged with Pat Tarasovic by calling 203-926-9478. A public viewing of the house will be Sept. 27 from 9 a.m


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Phenomenon of Man by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Thanks to Mr. Vas for suggestion The Phenomenon of Man for inclusion in this bespoke online library. The Phenomenon of Man (Le Phénomène Humain, 1955) is a non-fiction book written by French philosopher, paleontologist and Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. In this work, Teilhard describes evolution as a process that leads to increasing complexity, culminating in the unification of consciousness. The book was finished in the 1930s, but was published posthumously in 1955. The Roman Catholic Church considered that Teilhard's writings contradicted orthodoxy and prohibited their publication. Download the entire ebook here in PDF format (162 pages/12.6 MB – and remember that it might take a few seconds before such a huge book appears in you browser, for faster download click 'save as' and store on your harddisk):
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Started in 1999 by a long-time musician, Tim Westergren, Pandora connects artists with their audience and help people to search new music.
When Pandora launched, there were many startups coming online. All of them faced the same problem – tons of music, but no ways to search good stuff.
Thus, instead of launching another music website, Westergren decided to create B2B technology company that solves the problem of music discovery. Pandora radio app has an excellent feature of personalizing the music you listen to.
The music app like Pandora has 'Browse' feature that serves up artists and stations users are looking for and also helps them to discover new singles. Browse is only available in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand for the iPhone.
Pandora's chief product officer, Chris Phillips, said:
"Finding new music should be a simple and enjoyable experience. The new Browse feature makes it easy to find the music you love, whether you know what you want or need a little help discovering music you didn't know existed."
Pandora gives limited personalization on the basis of present songs and artists. And, Browse is extending that capability further to add stations. Discovering new music feature is the core service delivered by music app like Pandora in UK, Canada and the rest of the countries.
However, it's Browse's capability provides a chance to collect more data about listening habits and search different ways to translate that into real-life events while App like Spotify offers weekly discovery.
Is Spotify Better Than Pandora?
Spotify is free and its non-premium version enables to listen to albums in Shuffle mode. It allows users to upgrade and try Spotify Premium free for 30 days. Spotify Premium account offers users to listen to songs without ads. After one free month, it automatically charges $9.99 a month.
Pandora Radio App offers an ad-free subscription service named Pandora One, for those users, who want to listen to their favorite songs without advertisements. It charges $4.99 a month. Users can create a music streaming app like Pandora without ads by hiring a mobile app development team from the reputed company.
Currently, Spotify supports multiple devices and thus, you can download Spotify on WinPhone, Google Chromecast, Mac, Windows, iPhone, iPad, Android, and other platforms also. Spotify allows you to listen to songs offline as well.
Pandora supports on multiple devices so, users can download Pebble Smartwatch, Mac, iPad, Android, Windows, iPhone, and other platforms. Users can have all its features in their mobile app, including biographies, song lyrics, and artistic exploration.
Overall, we found that Spotify is the best music streaming application for Android and iOS devices. Its interface is user-friendly and has better navigation through Spotify's large music library. Another side, Pandora radio app offers remarkable radio experience for listeners, having a better song selection algorithm than Spotify's radio selection.
Recently, Pandora Gets a Spiffy New Interface for its Mobile Users
There was Pandora before YouTube, Spotify, Google Play Music or any other music services. No matter how other music streaming services show up, but people coming back for all their radio needs to the Pandora. With its latest updates, it has to be a server-side change in phones, not tablets.
Almost every screen of Pandora radio app has an appealing white interface with different transitions, buttons and other crap that makes users happy. Settings, Feed, and Profile have been moved from an overflow menu to a hamburger menu. And, users can also have a new option to browse suggestions through a toggle at the top of the main interface.
Why Pandora Is Available in U.S., Australia, and New Zealand Only?
Both apps like Pandora and Spotify are different from each other, however, the common thing is they are offering remarkable music experience to their music fans. Pandora is only available in the U.S., Australia, and New Zealand due to "licensing constraints".
Pandora earns most of its revenue, i.e. 80% from the advertisement and 20% from subscriptions. Pandora aims to grow about $4bn+ business by 2021 in the US alone. Then, ad-free subscription builds on the current Pandora One with on-demand features.
CEO Brian McAndrews said, "We believe we can build a $1.3bn subscription business over five years, conservatively based on 10% conversion of our current US audience."
According to the recent reports, SiriusXM has acquired the music streaming and internet radio service provider – Pandora, for $3.5 billion. The New-York based SiriusXM is a broadcasting company, that provides 3 satellite radio & online radio operating services in the USA, has invested $840 million in 2017, to get a 19% stake in Pandora.
Now, though this acquisition, SiriusXM aims to retain the Pandora brand & its service which includes around 70 million active users in the USA. Currently, SiriusXM has approx. 36 million subscribers.
According to the latest report from Sensor Tower regarding top grossing apps in the United States for November 2018. The Pandora app has ranked among the top grossing apps for both the Apple app store and Google Play store.
As per another report from TechCrunch, Pandora has declared the launch of its own, in-app voice assistant that you can call up at any time by saying "Hey Pandora," followed by a request to play the music or podcasts you want to hear. Using this feature, users are not only allowed to control music playback with commands to play a specific artist, album, radio or playlist but it also capable of delivering results customized to you when responding to vague commands.
Pandora Hopes to Get More Listeners in 2016
In the Pandora's latest financial report, one of the main areas of concern is to decrease in active listeners. The company noted 81.1m listeners at the end of 2015 from 81.5m at the end of 2014. Pandora sees huge progress in the longer term. It is expected by McAndrews that they can get 100 million listeners in the next three years to five years.
Since 2009, Pandora Has Spent $1bn+ On Marketing
According to the Pandora, its auto activations has improved to 15.5m, which is by 64% in 2015, with related listening hours up 55% year-on-year. While it accounts for 10% of radio listening in the US, which is under 2% that McAndrews pointed out account for "nearly 50% of radio listening".
Building an app like Pandora has Done More for Listeners Than Producers
When our client asked how much does it cost, we ask a lot of questions, to build the base. We have developed many music applications for users to share and listen to their favorite music. We are iPhone app development company with huge expertise of developing best music app for Android and iOS Platform.
There are a lot of inventive apps yet to come. Think unique and create an app like Pandora with some exceptional features.


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The Skills You Should Expect From Kitchen Designers
Are you looking to renovate your kitchen? Well, kitchen is one of the most appealing rooms of your house where you need enough motivation to cook new dishes. Hence, the kitchen should be designed in such a way that the cook or you do not feel reluctant entering into it.
Well, there are many advantages of hiring skilled kitchen designers. They can help you put together your dream kitchen.
A good kitchen designer will sit down with you to understand what you want and all your needs. He will want to know from you what you want from your kitchen in terms of the look, functionality and some of the things to include. It should always be your kitchen and hence designed to suit your requirements. The designer will use his visual flair and knowledge to come up with a high quality service. According to your requirements, he will suggest the best kitchen packages in Brisbane.
It might be very easy to hire the kitchen designers by letting them get on the job. However, it is also very important to enquire about the prices before you sign the final deal with them. You should check few more services and compare them along with their prices. You should also ask the prices of the kitchen packages if they have any or ask the prices of all the things needed to redesign your kitchen.
It is also important to maintain control on the project and get the balance right. You can allow your designer to be creative and respect his ideas as he is more adept than you in this field. He knows a lot more than you about what design would be best for your kitchen. This is because he has already worked on similar projects earlier.
You can go for a traditional designed kitchen or a modern trendy one, depending on your preferences and the designer's ideas. If you are not renovating the entire house and if it looks antique, then go for traditional designed kitchen as it will be in sync with the entire house.
The designer must be able to complete the work in the shortest time possible so that you do not have to order outside for food for long.
The designer will be able to research on new methods and designs to reduce the costs of renovations and remodelling.
Budget and requirements evaluation
A kitchen designer should be able to evaluate your specifications, budget and lifestyle and then bring out the best layout.
Communication skills and originality
The kitchen designer should have great communication skills and also think original in his designs.


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Robert Meins, Remittances Specialist from the Inter-American Development Bank, explained the importance of remittances from a financial perspective. In doing so, he also referred to the possible consequences of the current financial crisis on remittance flows.
In some countries, remittances constitute a major part of the national GDP. In 2007, the share of remittances was 43% of GDP in Guyana, 35% of GDP in Haiti, 25% in Honduras, to give some examples. In terms of population receiving remittances, the Dominican Republic leads the statistics with 38% of the population, followed by Haiti with 31% and Guatemala with 22%.
More than 60%, and in some countries even 80%, of remittances are spent on daily necessities, which is sometimes incorrectly labeled an "unproductive use", as Mr. Meins explained. However, they are perhaps the "most successful poverty reduction programme", because people use it to satisfy basic needs concerning food, clothing or shelter. The remaining 20–40% are mostly invested in human capital, such as health-care or education.
When looking at the development of the remittance flow to Latin America and the Caribbean, one can see that remittances are steadily increasing around 1,5% per year. Factors influencing remittances are:
- Economic situation: In times of economic boom, there is a substantial need for low-skilled workers, which can only be satisfied with migration. In times of economic downturns, migrant workers are likely to lose their jobs, but they have proven to be the most flexible workers;
- Inflation: Everywhere around the world, commodity and fuel prices sharply increased in 2008. Thus, families have to spend more of the remittances on daily needs instead investing them into human capital;
- Migration climate: By migrant work, immigration and employment laws have a major potential influence on remittances.
- Exchange rates: Appreciation or depreciation of the Dollar or the Euro increases or decreases remittances in local currency terms.
The financial crisis poses short-term downside risks to remittances. To cope with deteriorating circumstances, migrant workers have proven to be very flexible. In times of economic downturn or inflation, they change jobs, work longer hours, have multiple jobs or consume less for themselves in order to send more money home. Concerning exchange rates, migrants tend to go to countries with strong currencies. If the immigration climate is worsening, migrant workers often move states. Returning home is only the very last resort.
This leads Mr. Meins to the claim that remittances are very different from ODI or FDI, because they are not tied to profit, but are a family obligation. "Long-term migration and remittances will not fall due to the financial crisis", he concluded.
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Sunday, 7 March 2010
Earthquake in Santa Cruz, Chile: Ways To Help
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- Floris HP (Netherlands)8 March 2010 at 08:12
Thank you about your small update about Bucalemu. and my Chilean girlfriend passed by overthere last january. I remember very well how proud and happy the waitress of the second to last restaurant near the corner to the beach told us about the new costanera they were constructing at the laguna. They almost finished in time for the summerseason. All swept away, it really hurts my thoughts. Did you hear about how Cahuil and the other villages in the laguna were magically saved by the bridge connecting Pichelemu and Bucalemu? It is still standing I hear...The same with Santa Cruz..as we drove through on our way to Pichelemu, we thougt getting back there this september or december. Maybe we now pass by next may or june, as we will head back earlier as planned...to try and help out our loved ones and the village of Dichato.ReplyDelete


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We've looked at Tottenham vs Leicester in another post but there's still plenty of value left in Saturday's Premier League matches. We've looked at the best odds we could find on some intriguing possibilities this weekend.
West Brom host Man City,  the latest in a string of tough matches for them after having to deal with Liverpool last weekend and Tottenham the game before. They lost their match in Liverpool, but they have been playing admirably over the last few weeks and their draw against Spurs was well earned.
Man City have a habit of sometimes underperforming against smaller sides. On the face of it this match should be an easy win for them, but in practice they might find it a bit harder, and we're tempted to put money on that.
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Elsewhere, Middlesbrough host Bournemouth in a match which may well be important come the end of the season. Currently it's Middlesbrough who are on the edge of the relegation zone, but last season Bournemouth came close to the drop and it's still too soon to say which teams will be fighting for their survival come May.
Bournemouth and Middlesbrough have both produced good performances in the last couple of weeks and this could be a very close game. Our feeling is that the home side should be able to edge it, and the best place to back them is at BoyleSports, who have edged the best price on the market at 31/20.
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Fatigue and stress are the main diseases of today's society. There is an increasing number of people complaining about the lack of energy. Moreover, they believe that the main remedy for these problems is sleeping. Humans take their energy from food, while energy is released and used in order to develop certain mechanical activities, maintain metabolic activities of certain organs, and encourage the synthesis of chemical substance that store energy. Therefore, the best thing you can do is to adopt a proper, healthy diet and begin consuming energy producing foods.
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Fruits represent a category of foods that encourage the energy intake due to their fructose level and their vitamin content. Bananas, apples, and oranges are just some of the fruits that are considered as real energy boosters. Peaches are rich in vitamin C and they have hydrating properties. Also, it is well known the fact that peaches have a laxative effect too. Their property of being easily assimilated by the organism makes them one of the best choices when it comes to producing energy. Eating peaches can regulate the intestinal functions, clean the blood composition, and eliminate the toxins in the organism.
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- Introduction to the agency-facing part of Case Service called "Case Vision"
- Administrative users can view or modify settings specific to your agency
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We are going to take a look at Case Service, specifically the Case Vision application for the report review and maintenance of the Case Service platform at the agency. In this platform, Case Vision, you can maintain the entire Case Service platform. As an agency admin. you can configure the platform, add users, and so forth. We are just going to walk you through a real quick overview of the administrative settings and from there, there is additional help content that goes into a deeper dive for each section. The way the help content is structured is similar to what I am going to go through right now on the video, as far as how the structure of the help content, it mirrors the platform. Under Agency Setup, Crime Types, Notifications, Agency Engagement, there are then sub-levels of structure.
For Agency Setup there is the contact info, this is your agency contact info of an officer as well as the dispatcher information. Under Logistics you have the geographic coverage of the platform for your city or deployment. The reference numbers are where we are starting off and ending, and in the citizen phone settings for how they are going to contact the voice system. For Agency Setup we have branding for the color theme of the platform as well as the agency badge, and the ability to customize Case Number with the subdomain and actually the content of CaseNumber.com here.
Under Agency Setup and Workflow, we can define how the platform handles workflow for the department by the number of review levels. It is enabling the user authorities (on which again more explanation is provided in the other videos), for filing authority or data entry and then if there is an RMS integration, that is from the selection box here, too.
This right now in demo mode is actually running in internal agency demo, so under App Settings, most of this goes away once we go live with the city. When we flick it over to publicly available we lose the demo pen, the email distribution lists, the text distribution lists, and all outbound call tester numbers. When you are running in internal agency demo, all these items are here, and then as well as IP address restrictions. When you are in public available, the only thing you see under app settings is going to be IP address restrictions.
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