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Is Now the Time?
YES! The real estate market has had its ups and downs, but there's never been a better time to get started with becoming a real estate agent. Watch our short video and ask yourself these questions to determine if real estate is right for you.
✓ Have you been eager for a new career?
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There's never been a better time to get started.
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A career in real estate isn't right for everyone. Unlike some career paths where simply showing up is enough to make a living, becoming a licensed real estate agent requires you, the realtor, to choose your income and level of success. Even within larger organizations, real estate agents often set their own schedules, build their own client base, and control their income.
If being your own boss, controlling your own income, and making your own name in the market sounds appealing, then becoming a real estate agent is the perfect career for you. The freedom of getting a real estate license allows for every agent to dictate their own career pathway and build their own brand.
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Real estate can be an incredibly lucrative career for hard working agents. Licensed real estate agents in Michigan generally make a commission of around 3% of the selling price, meaning that agents can make thousands of dollars on a single sale. Yearly salaries for realtors in MI range from under $30,000 a year for those who work sporadically up to $1,000,000+ for those make it their life. Michigan real estate agents working with affiliated brokerages can make even more in the course of a year with higher-volume sales.
One of the most liberating things about getting your real estate license in Michigan is that you, the agent, has complete control over your own income. The market may fluctuate, but at the end of the day you still get out of it what you put into it. If you're ready to take the next step on the pathway to success in a high-paying career, get started with your Pre-Licensing course from The CE Shop today.
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When you're starting a new career, education is the first step and choosing the right provider is key.
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You have a lot to do and time away from home while commuting to a classroom environment is time that can be better utilized.
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Online vs. Classroom
If not done well, taking an online course can feel like reading a flat and unengaging textbook online. Classrooms can be inconvenient and only offer one-size-fits-all learning.
✓ Online vs. Classroom
Our online learning solution, LEAP, is innovative, new, and delivers content in an engaging and interactive way, helping to better prepare you for your new career.
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Education Methods
In this day and age, providers often resort to flat, overwhelming text that lacks context and engagement. That doesn't sound like a very effective way to learn.
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We know you're striving to be the best. That's why we designed LEAP with the latest in adult learning science to deliver a revolutionary experience.
Customer Service
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✓ Customer Service
We're here for you when you need us, 7 days a week, via phone, chat, and email. We look forward to hearing from you!
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"For the record, I'd very much like to fight you right now. ♠"
And the Final Test...? (最終試験は⋯?, Saishū Shiken wa...?) is the 32nd chapter of the Hunter × Hunter manga, written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Togashi.
The Fourth Phase has ended and the participants have one hour to get back to the starting point. Any tags exchanged at this point will result in disqualification. The Chairman Netero is surprised that out of the nine remaining contestants, six are newbies. He says he plans to speak to them one by one to see what happens in the last phase.
Inside the airship, Kurapika approaches Gon to thank him for the last phase. He notices that Gon has been acting a little weird since they met and asks what happened. Gon says his target was Hisoka and explains how he managed to steal his tag, but lost it, only to have it returned by Hisoka. Gon is very upset and angry because he felt really helpless against Hisoka and couldn't return the punch. He felt really lonely so he decided to find Kurapika and Leorio to help them out.
Hisoka is called to the interview room. Netero asks him why he wants to become a Hunter. Hisoka says that being a Hunter alleviates most of the responsibility of killing someone. Netero asks which candidate he is most interested in. Hisoka says Killua. Gon is not bad, but he can't reach the level of Killua for now. Who he wants to fight the most is Gon. Hisoka adds that the one he truly wants to fight is Netero himself.
Netero asks the same questions of the remaining candidates. Pokkle says Kurapika interests him, and he doesn't want to fight Hisoka. Killua is most interested in Gon, and doesn't want to fight Pokkle because it would be boring. Bodoro is interested in Hisoka and doesn't want to fight Gon or Killua because they are kids. Gittarackur is interested in Killua and doesn't want to fight Hisoka. Gon says he is most interested in Hisoka, and doesn't want to fight Killua, Kurapika, or Leorio. Hanzo is interested in Hisoka and also doesn't want to fight him. Kurapika is positively interested in Gon and negatively interested in Hisoka. With a good enough reason, he's willing to fight anyone. Leorio is interested in Gon and also doesn't want to fight him. Finally, Netero says that the preparations for the Final Phase are complete. They arrive at their destination.
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In the Ethiopian town of Maychew, in excess of 500 ladies assembled in October 2014, some to get scarves of verdant green and marigold and others to get comparatively hued umbrellas amid a function to welcome them and to commend a hotly anticipated move in sexual orientation value. With this function, these ladies joined a great many other people who are at long last picking up indistinguishable portrayal for their work from their male partners, thanks to some extent to a conduct change interchanges (BCC) battle Danya International helped initiate all through Ethiopia.
Ladies ranchers contribute considerably to maintaining Ethiopia's agrarian division, yet numbers demonstrate that both essential agriculturist cooperatives (PCs) and bigger rancher agreeable associations (FCUs) altogether underrepresent them. The Government of Ethiopia needs to change this. In 2014, they set up a 30-percent focus for female enrollment at these PCs and FCUs as an approach to stress the expanded effectiveness that these gatherings would appreciate through dynamic interest and authority from ladies.
This was the place Danya International could venture in and give the BCC bolster expected to make this objective a reality. Recognizing that enlistment is both the initial step and one of the greatest difficulties to expanding ladies' investment, the U.S. Organization for International Development's Agricultural Growth Program-Agribusiness and Market Development (AGP-AMDe) venture used Danya's BCC aptitude to execute a motivation based enrollment drive that would help ladies ranchers step far from the societal standards that debilitated their support lastly participate.
On account of Danya's community oriented effort battle, in excess of 78,000 ladies enlisted as new helpful individuals all through 2014, as indicated by government reports (AGP-AMDe has confirmed more than 42,000 of these registrants up until this point). The provincial normal enrollment increment for ladies went from 25 percent to 32.5 percent, with Maychew's Bokra FCU detailing that 52 percent of its participation contained ladies ranchers—the most noteworthy level of ladies individuals in each of the four focused on districts. Each of the four areas have exhibited noteworthy enrollment increments among ladies farmers.Beginning in mid 2014, Danya's BCC staff outlined and actualized a serious multi-lingual BCC system focusing on four AGP districts—Amhara; Oromia; Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region; and Tigray. They offered impetuses, for example, scarves for ladies who joined and umbrellas for current individuals who selected at least five ladies to join. Furthermore, the battle offered strolling tractors and cruisers to the PCs that demonstrated the most elevated increment in ladies members.
Beside the motivating forces offered for joining and selecting others, ladies ranchers as of now are announcing increments in pay and advantages on account of their new participation with PCs and FCUs. As demonstrated by Danya's BCC battle, with the best possible measure of support, numerous ladies agriculturists all through these locales are at long last receiving the full benefit for what they sow.


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- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Effort: easy
- 2 tbsp olive oil or sunflower oil
- 1 large onion, finely chopped
- 1 carrot, finely diced
- 1-2 cloves garlic, crushed
- 675 g lean minced beef
- 400 g canned chopped tomatoes
- 1/2 red pepper, grilled, skinned and chopped (optional)
- 3 tbsp tomato ketchup
- 2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- 1/2 tsp dried thyme
- 1/2 tsp ground cumin
- black pepper
1. Heat the oil in a pan over a medium heat and gently fry the onion and the carrot until softened and lightly coloured. Add the garlic and stir for a few seconds.
2. Increase the heat to high and add half the mince. Fry briskly, breaking up the lumps and turning the meat over, until it is lightly browned. Transfer the cooked meat to a plate.
3. Add the remaining mince to the pan and fry in the same way. When it is cooked, return the first batch to the pan and add the chopped tomatoes, roasted pepper (if using) and all the remaining ingredients. Add 300ml of water. Bring up to the boil and half cover.
4. Simmer gently the mixture gently, stirring from time to time, for about half an hour, adding more hot water as needed. By this time the meat should be tender and most of the liquid evaporated away to leave a delicious moist mush. Taste and adjust the seasoning as necessary (I often add a splash more ketchup or Worcestershire sauce at this stage!).
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Expansion of Navy training site puts Orcas in danger, critics say
WASHINGTON - Could Ruffles and Granny be in trouble?
At 59, Ruffles is the oldest known male orca in the world, one of an estimated 150 orcas known to inhabit Puget Sound and the Washington coast. Granny is his 99-year-old mother.
Environmentalists fear for the safety of the animals as the U.S. Navy prepares to expand its operations in its Northwest Training Range Complex, which stretches from the coastline of Washington to Northern California.
"They're all very susceptible," said Howard Garrett, president of Orca Network, a nonprofit group based on Whidbey Island. "The Navy is single-minded and they're focused and the whales are very much a secondary concern to them."
The group is among the many opponents in Washington and California lining up against the plan, which the Navy insists won't harm ocean life.
At a public meeting hosted by California Democratic Rep. Mike Thompson in Eureka, Calif., last week, Ali Freedlund told Navy officials that they were "jeopardizing everybody's fish by doing what you're doing."
Freedlund, of Arcata, Calif., said she fears the current training is already killing fish.
"They say that they're not affecting the salmon, but how would one know?" Freedlund asked. "They can't possibly know the effects."
The proposal, which has already been approved by the Obama administration, calls for increased sailor training and weapons testing on the site. It also includes the development of an underwater training minefield for submarines.
The testing area, which has been in use since before World War II, covers 122,400 nautical miles of space, equal roughly to the size of California.
Navy officials are trying to allay concerns over their activities, telling the public that the marine life will be safe.
"We are not even permitted to kill even one marine mammal. What people don't seem to understand is we share the environment with everybody," said Sheila Murray, a Navy spokeswoman. "It's our environment, too. Of course we want to take care of it. The Navy goes to great lengths to protect the marine environment."
Of the Navy's expanded operations at the site, she said: "This training is important. It allows Naval forces to be prepared."
Opponents fear that missile and sonar testing, and the dumping of depleted uranium, could hurt orcas, also known as killer whales – the largest of the dolphin family.
"It's just an assumption to me that there's going to be a lot of toxic material that's going to sink," said Garrett, who lives in Greenbank on Whidbey Island. "And to what extent is that going to get into the food chain and into the diets of the whales?"
Garrett said the dispute is "an inherent values conflict" between conducting war exercises and protecting marine life.
"I'm not convinced by the assurances that the Navy gives that there will be no effect," he said. "I can't imagine that there won't be mortalities as there have been in many, many instances around the world."
Murray said that concern is off-base.
"There's a lot of myths out there," she said. "The Navy's been training on that range since before World War II – 70 years. Nobody was even aware that the Navy was there. And if what they were saying was true, they would see dead marine mammals floating up on shore. It's not true."
But there are plenty of skeptics.
Freedlund said that if more training is required, it should be done in less biologically-active parts of the ocean.
"I don't feel that continuing to build up our military might is what we need to do when we're sacrificing so much of what we depend on in our environment," she said. "I mean, what are we defending anymore if we're not going to have a habitable planet to live on? Where are we going to go for our food and our clean water?"
In a letter to the Navy, the Natural Resources Defense Council said the plan "would pose significant risk to whales, fish and other wildlife." And the council said the plan would release a variety of hazardous materials into coastal waters, including "thousands of rounds of spent ammunition and unexploded ordnance containing chromium, chromium compounds, depleted uranium" and more.
At an earlier public hearing in Washington, Langley schoolteacher Kimmer Morris had a question for Navy officials: "How much depleted uranium do you want to eat in your fish and your children's fish and your grandchildren's fish? Do you have an amount that is acceptable to you?"
Even though the Navy has approved the plan, Murray said, the expanded training has not yet begun. But she said the Navy now has the permission and flexibility to increase training activities whenever it needs to do so.
"As of right now, nothing has changed," she said.
Garrett, who has photographed both Ruffles and Granny, said he's not concerned about just the orcas, but all the whales in the training area.
"I would prefer that they hold off and realize that they're got to look harder and deeper for solutions to this than to just simply escalate their war technology," he said.
He said the Orca Network will try to monitor how the orcas fare, difficult as it might be.
"We don't have any inside track, and Navy operations are not broadcast," he said. "So we'll just have to hope there is some report if anything happens. We don't have the eyes and ears out there. We're dependent on news sources to ask questions and publish the answers."


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The VAT Bill contains positive changes compared with the VAT Act.
The VAT Bill contains positive changes compared with the VAT Act.
However, before it can be termed a step in the right direction, a number of amendments need to be made, particularly on having remissions for targeted sectors, having a transitional period of four to five years on products and services moving from zero and exempt status to standard rate, introducing interest on refunds and having better provisions on dealing with e-commerce.
If this is done, the revised Bill will certainly be simpler, modern and broad-based — a step in the right direction.
Investors had hoped that the VAT Bill would grant VAT remission to stimulate investment, for example, in infrastructure, mining and hospitality sectors. But it instead scraps remission altogether.
This is a big blow to investors seeking opportunities in Kenya. In an attempt to collect more tax revenues from consumption, a significant number of goods and services which were previously either zero-rated or exempt, will now be subject to 16 per cent VAT. This will significantly increase the cost of living and be disruptive to a number of businesses, for example, airlines and tour operators.
Another significant change is to eliminate the 12 per cent VAT rate altogether in favour of two rates only: 0 per cent for zero-rated supplies and 16 per cent for any other supply.
Kenyans will notice the impact of this change on their electricity bills. Power was previously charged at 12 per cent but the rate will now rise to 16 per cent. A transitional period of four to five years is required on products and services moving from zero and exempt status to standard rate.
It was also hoped that the VAT Bill would require the tax commissioner to pay interest on any delayed VAT refund, to provide some redress for the huge backlog of refunds at the Kenya Revenue Authority. Sadly, there are no such provisions and the backlog will continue to frustrate taxpayers. Other changes include reducing the time limit for deducting input VAT from 12 months to three, requiring even greater levels of business efficiency.
Positive developments include clarifying the rules regarding place of supply of goods which occur in Kenya and introducing a 60-day time limit for the commissioner to respond to taxpayer concerns, which should help to expedite the process of tax dispute resolution.
The VAT Bill also requires KRA to publish public rulings in at least two daily nationwide newspapers and reduces the list of privileged persons, bodies and special goods entitled to zero rating.
Zero-rated goods which will become taxable at 16 per cent rate, include milk and cream (except unprocessed milk), maize and wheat flour, bread, infant formula, mosquito nets, computer software, sanitary towels and tampons, medical dressings and plasters, writing or drawing chalk, newspapers, journals and periodicals, exercise books and printed books and cinematographic cameras and projectors.
Zero-rated services which will become taxable at 16 per cent include electrical energy less than 200 KWH to domestic households, water drilling services, and services to film producers. Zero-rated goods which will become exempt include kerosene and jet fuel.
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Jiri Cincura added a comment - 25/Jul/17 08:17 AM
Discussion was at http://firebird.1100200.n4.nabble.com/NET-4-support-td4645115.html.
André Ziegler added a comment - 30/Jul/17 12:54 PM
I still need .net 40/XP compatibility until 2019 when support for Windows Embedded 2009 ends.
If you kill .net 4.0 and the provider has a serious issue (after .net 40 was killed) that may cause data corruption I can't update the the fixed version.
Also why do you discuss this on a site which noboby knows?
Jiri Cincura added a comment - 03/Aug/17 07:09 PM - edited
It's a standard mailing list that you can find on firebirdsql.org site. Exactly the place which everybody knows. And Nabble is a web mirror of that.
If you're willing to put money into supporting .NET 4, I can extend the lifetime of that (you can discuss your intention in the list, if you want). Else I just don't have enough free time to spend on .NET 4 and also all other versions.
André Ziegler added a comment - 07/Aug/17 02:00 PM
it is so well known that only 2 person replied to it. So I call this unknown place.
Also your statement that .net 4.0 no longer gets updated is wrong. Last .net 4.0 update is from June 2017:
June, 2017 Security Only Update for .NET Framework 4 on WES09 and POSReady 2009 (KB4021915)
Jiri Cincura added a comment - 07/Aug/17 07:50 PM
But that's a KB for XP Embedded. I'm pretty sure there's dozens of variations MS still supports. And will support for extended support customers. I don't have resources for that, sorry. But you can of course help with that as well. Helping hand is always welcome. Will you step in?
BTW, if you have a better place to discuss things, you're welcome to bring that up. So far the mailing lists and tracker is what Firebird project uses.
André Ziegler added a comment - 08/Aug/17 04:18 PM
I'm talking all the time about XP Embedded. Windows Embedded 2009 is based on Windows XP and XP only supports up to .net 4.0. 4.5 is not supported on XP, that is why I still need .net 4.0 support for 1 year.
Jiri Cincura added a comment - 16/Aug/17 07:23 AM
OK, one week from now I'll drop NET40 from 6.0 onward, unless somebody opens up a discussion here or in the list and contributes in any way for NET40 support.
André Ziegler added a comment - 21/Aug/17 07:24 AM
before dropping .net 40 support, move the .net 40 code into an extra maintain branch (5.x) and if later provider versions (6.x) include a fix for a serious issue, backport this to the 5.x branch. I don't need new features, I only need some kind of support until Microsoft drops .net 4.0 support for Windows Embedded systems that are based on XP in January 2019.
Jiri Cincura added a comment - 21/Aug/17 08:42 AM
That's already possible via IBPhoenix services (https://www.ibphoenix.com/services). I remember backporting some features to old .NET 2.0 versions.
André Ziegler added a comment - 22/Aug/17 05:47 AM
I don't want features, I only want fixes for blocking issues to .net 4.0 branch. I can do this on my own, but I need the .net 40 code, so please create a .net 40 branch before killing the code from master.
André Ziegler added a comment - 30/Aug/17 05:42 AM
so what are the plans now? can we get the extra branch for users who still (have to) care about .net 4.0 support for old XP Embedded systems?
Jiri Cincura added a comment - 30/Aug/17 05:49 AM
Yes. The 5.x version will be maintained with .NET 4 support, if needed. Current version is tagged https://github.com/cincuranet/FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient/tree/22.214.171.124. 6.x will drop it.


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The pumpkin mania continues…This pasta has the goodness of pumpkin, walnuts, basil & sundried tomatoes. The first time I tried pumpkin in a pasta was in a restaurant called Toscano in Bangalore where they make the most heavenly pumpkin ravioli with a silky sage butter sauce. It's melt-in- the-mouth perfection! But, to be completely honest, the addition of walnuts to the sauce was a little odd for me although I did end up liking it.(Italian cuisine was synonymous with pizza for many, many years until we started to discover the myriad of pastas, cheese & breads.)
After a lot of procrastinating, I attempted to make ravioli at home after I chanced upon an eggless recipe online and will definitely share it another time. But for now, it's spaghetti, my other favourite!
I had quite an amount of pumpkin puree lying in my refrigerator after I made my cupcakes and was wondering how to use it and a craving for pasta( which happens quite often in our home) answered the question.
We enjoyed this on a cold wintry Saturday afternoon and the warmth and subtle sweetness of the pumpkin made it an ideal combination…
1 lb of spaghetti
1 medium sized onion (chopped)
1.5 cups of readymade Pumpkin Puree
1/3 cup of roughly chopped walnuts
1 cup of sun dried tomatoes(soaked in warm water to soften)
8-10 leaves of Basil
Red chilli flakes
Olive oil
Salt to taste METHOD
1. Boil water in a large pot and add salt.
2. Drop the spaghetti and let it cook in medium heat until it's al dente.
3.Once done, strain it and immediately pour cold water over it to stop the cooking.
4.In a pan add a tsp of olive oil and once it heats up, add the onions. Let caramelise and once it's transparent, put off the heat. Once it's cooled to room temperature, blend it with the pumpkin puree and a pinch of salt.
5.Strain the water off the soaked sun dried tomatoes.
6.In the same pan, add a tablespoon of olive oil. Once it's heated, add sun dried tomatoes, walnuts, the onion-pumpkin puree and a about half a cup of the pasta water.
7. Add the strained spaghetti and mix well with the sauce.
8. Heat for 3- 4 minutes. Garnish with finely chopped basil and red chilli flakes & serve hot. NOTES:
1.The spaghetti that I used took about 12- 14 minutes to become al dente. the cook time varies depending on the brand.
2.Remember to preserve a good amount of the pasta water before straining the pasta. The starch in the water helps thicken the sauce.
3.We happen to love our food spicy and hence the red chilli flakes. it's completely optional.
Hope you enjoyed this recipe!
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The company, which implemented the Cisco Avvid system in January this year, expects to complete an extension of the 450-handset system to its two offices in Perth within the next couple of months.
QNI is a wholly owned subsidiary of Billiton, one of the world's leading metals and mining companies. The Yabulu site is 23 kilometres north of Townsville and produces nickel and cobalt.
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This early work by James Oliver Curwood was originally published in 1926 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. "The Black Hunter" is filled with adventure and romance, and is set in Quebec in the 1750's. James Oliver 'Jim' Curwood was an American action-adventure writer and conservationist. He was born on 12th June, 1878, in Owosso, Michigan, USA. In 1900, Curwood sold his first story while working for the Detroit News-Tribune, and after this, his career in writing was made. By 1909 he had saved enough money to travel to the Canadian northwest, a trip that provided the inspiration for his wilderness adventure stories. The success of his novels afforded him the opportunity to return to the Yukon and Alaska for several months each year - allowing Curwood to write more than thirty such books. Curwood's adventure writing followed in the tradition of Jack London. Like London, Curwood set many of his works in the wilds of the Great Northwest and often used animals as lead characters (Kazan, Baree; Son of Kazan, The Grizzly King and Nomads of the North). Many of Curwood's adventure novels also feature romance as primary or secondary plot consideration. This approach gave his work broad commercial appeal and helped drive his appearance on several best-seller lists in the early 1920s. His most successful work was his 1920 novel, The River's End. The book sold more than 100,000 copies and was the fourth best-selling title of the year in the United States, according to Publisher's Weekly. He contributed to various literary and popular magazines throughout his career, and his bibliography includes more than 200 such articles, short stories and serializations. Curwood was an avid hunter in his youth; however, as he grew older, he became an advocate of environmentalism and was appointed to the 'Michigan Conservation Commission' in 1926. The change in his attitude toward wildlife can be best expressed by a quote he gave in The Grizzly King: that 'The greatest thrill is not to kill but to let live.' Despite this change in attitude, Curwood did not have an ultimately fruitful relationship with nature. In 1927, while on a fishing trip in Florida, Curwood was bitten on the thigh by what was believed to have been a spider and he had an immediate allergic reaction. Health problems related to the bite escalated over the next few months as an infection set in. He died soon after in his nearby home on Williams Street, on 13th August 1927. He was aged just forty-nine, and was interred in Oak Hill Cemetery (Owosso), in a family plot. Curwood's legacy lives on however, and his home of Curwood Castle is now a museum.
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My best memory is of my mother decorating a the tree it was always done with such care and elegance I have now continued that tradtion.... my 3 kids truely love the tree and always want to show it offReplyDelete
My favourite Christmas memory was last year. Both kids were old enough to understand what was happening at Christmas & their joy was pricelessReplyDelete
My bestest bestest memory of Christmas is when I used to live in Holland and it would snow on Christmas Day (not always the case), and dad would put the open fire on and the family would sit around it opening christmas presents while the turkey is cooking in the oven, wearing our sunday best and just being happy ... Even our cat would join in and sleep on the discarded wrapping paper. Priceless!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous22 November 2012 at 13:22
Ooh Angie these are GORGEOUS <3ReplyDelete
Not exactly a memory but a Tradition - every year we dress the kids up in chrissy hats then take photo and print out and put on the tree have been doing this since 1998 - since first daughter was born she's now 14 so there will be lots of pictures just of her have 2 other children so maybe time for bigger tree..
thanks Angie
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Mum and I do all sorts of crafty things at Christmas. My favourite is baking gingerbread and giving them as gifts.ReplyDelete
- belinda crozier22 November 2012 at 13:34
waiting every 3 years till it was my turn to put the angle on top of the tree as my siblings took it in turns, was such a long time in between lol,ReplyDelete
loving the new colours by the way :)
- Anonymous22 November 2012 at 13:40
Love these new colours!!!!ReplyDelete
I think the best memory from each and every Christmas, from when I was a little girl, to now having my own kids, and being excited for them (and myself!!) is the feeling you get when going to bed Christmas Eve and being so excited for the next morning and day ahead... Brooke Smith
I have lots but the funniest one was about 28 yrs ago my mum and my grandma kept on sneaking in the alcohol into the Christmas pudding over a few weeks without the other knowing ... Ohhh the Christmas cake was a huge hit that year!!!!!!! No kids were allowed to eat itReplyDelete
Love the new colours. My best/funniest memory of Christmas is when I was a teenager (I am in my 30's) and my youngest sister was taught a lesson about snooping in shopping leading up to Christmas.She asked what had Gran bought and was told none of her business and stop snooping thru the bags. Gran told her she had bought toothpaste. Due to her snooping an empty tube of toothpaste was wrapped in a small box then a large box and placed under the tree with her name on it........ Lets just say she wasn't happy when she had opened it but we all loved it.... Has she learnt her lesson ???? NO she is still shocking to this day in her 30'sReplyDelete
My favourite memory is of my dad coming in at 5 or 5.30am on christmas morning to get me and my younger sister up to open our presents because he was excited it was christmas then going back to bed lol! I still hassle him about it to this day!ReplyDelete
My daughters first christmas. Just watching her in awe of the flashy lights on the tree.. the paper being shredded everywhere.. and her excitement of all the new things she had to play with <3ReplyDelete
This will be my first Christmas in about 8 years that I can spend with my family and my partner and 2 boys for lunch instead of rushing of to be with his family for the rest of the day (whom I love), I just can't wait and for a change I am so looking forward to Christmas this year and watching my eldest son open his presents. xReplyDelete
- Anonymous22 November 2012 at 14:49
Mine is not a memory. After 10 years of living 1500kilometers away my daughter has moved back to Victoria with her 3 gorgeous kids ( her husband was killed in a car accident last year) so it is going to be the best Christmas ever with all the family together for the first time in 10 yearsReplyDelete
There is nothing quite like Christmas with kids around...last year was my most favourite Christmas by far with both babies a little more 'knowing' and very excited about HoHo coming.ReplyDelete
Before Miss 4 started pulling pressies from her own stocking, she rummaged around to ensure her brother, Master 2 had something to open first...talk about an amazing act of 'giving'...
My favourite memory is my sons first xmas and the joy he brought to family and friends. This year is my daughters first and I am already loving the joy she brings to the world :)ReplyDelete
Being older, I now know that some Christmas' were finacially hard for both my mum and dad (separated) but i never once knew that as a kid...they made each and every christmas special in some way and we never felt like we missed out, even if they didn't have the money to buy the latest coolest thing that every other second kid was getting...I suppose thats why I enJOY the family gathering, sharing a special meal and memories part the most about Christmas...the real JOY of Christmas is not the presents (although I do LOVE seeing my little girls face light up when she opens hers!!) but being surrounded by the people you care most about.ReplyDelete
ps....LOVE the new colours!! xx
Fabulous new colours Angie!!ReplyDelete
My favourite Christmas memory has to be the looks on my kids faces & the excitement when they realise that Santa has been... just so priceless!! :-)
- Courtney Bendall22 November 2012 at 16:23
I love the new colours....ReplyDelete
My favourite christmas memory is the same every year since I had my first born, is the look on their faces when the kids realise Santa has been and he has left pressies under the tree. They also love going around the street looking at the houses with the lights.
Gorgeous Girls the whole herd!!ReplyDelete
When we were kids it was kind of tradition that on Christmas Eve my brother, sister and I would all sleep in the same room on a big mattress on the floor in our sleeping bags. One year we heard bells and looked out the window just in time to catch the top of an elf's hat running past, bells jingling! Still to this day I'm not sure who was wearing that hat... but I've never forgotten! I now I tell my kids the story!
Thanks Angie hope your Christmas is Merry and Bright :) Jo xx
Ps love your twine... I have Jemima & Delilah, I use them to wrap customers packages for post!
Love your new twine colours! Was going to put an order in earlier this week...glad I waited :)ReplyDelete
My fave Christmas memory is when we left a carrot out for Rudolf and milk and biscuits for Santa. The look on my two very young girls faces when they saw some little left over 'bits' of carrot on the front porch. Also an empty glass of milk and biscuit crumbs.
I love christmas, i make sure everyone is awake early to see if santa has been.ReplyDelete
I also love the lead up to christmas, our whole street decorate their yards to some degree with lights, we trim the tree- getting out all the homemade decorations and discuss when they were made (oldest child is 19yr old), Who needs store brought decorations ours mean so much more.
Imagine what we could do with some of your wonderful twine, we could make more christmas memories.
Chrismtas is all about family for me. My sister and I used to watch watch a chrismtas movie together every christmas eve & stay up late. Now that we are older & live countries apart, we both still agree of a christmas movie we will watch on christmas eve & make sure we Skype each other to talk just the two of us. With a bub on the way, this is a tradition I hope to pass on to them to connect with their Auntie at this fabulous time of year!ReplyDelete
- Rosanne22 November 2012 at 20:25
I never liked Christmas much as a child we'd have to go to church before we could open our presents. But now I love the excitement of my 3 children leading up to christmas.last christmas was one to remember we have this rule no opening presents till eveyones out of bed so our youngest miss 4 opened someone elses present early and didn't like it and put it in the bin and acted as if nothing had happened.ReplyDelete
My sweetest memories of Christmas was staying up late to attend midnight church on xmas eve Loved it..ReplyDelete
I adore the new colours ;-)
Last xmas we stayed at a resort with our 2 year old it was the most relaxing and fun xmas ever... will cherish the memories forever xoReplyDelete
I was going to share a childhood memory. But in all honesty, the memory that is likely to be told and re told every single year is that of my daughter's birth. I went into labour around 7pm on Christmas eve as I was putting my other children to bed. I soldierd on and didn't tell my mum or hubby right away! I was kind of hoping it wasn't the real deal! I finally went out to help hubby assemble a massive trampoline - yes, while in labour! - and told him! She was born at 2.41am on Christmas morning....Best. Present. Ever. Hubby managed to sneak home before the boys woke up I was home with our new baby by lunchtime. We had a super relaxed, blissful christmas day!!ReplyDelete
Wow such gorgeous colours!! Not so much a Christmas memory, more of a Christmas tradition.....I love sitting around with the family to watch National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation every year! I love Christmas movies!! :)ReplyDelete
Though my favourite christmas memories are tinged with sadness, Christmas in our family was always special because my Mum (RIP) was a christmas decoration and shop display designer. We had Christmas all year round but when it got to the day, Mum made it all that much special. We had the gorgeous burnt orange colour pine needle styled 6ft tree she made in the factory just for us. It's still at my Dad's place along with the white one and green one she made. Plus she was the first to import into Australia a fibre optic lamp in the 70's. I now have that lap and Dad has a fibre optic Christmas tree, ah such lovely memories of my Mum.ReplyDelete
making the pudding with my dad and licking the bowl!!!ReplyDelete
I love your twine. My memory is my daughter coming out on Christmas morning with her santa sack. I asked her if she heard santa come, and she said "Yes Mummy, I heard his footprints on the roof!!!" It was very funny.ReplyDelete
My favourite Christmas memory is about to happen, my beautiful lil man's first Christmas. Can't wait to buy our real Christmas tree, decorate it and put all our lights up, then watch his face light up with joy.ReplyDelete
the best memory for me is baking cookies with my mom. every year we would make family favorites that has been pass down. even to this they are still made. then dad would always take us to go see christmas lights all around. I loved that. seeing the lights and how people decorated. what fun.ReplyDelete
Hello! I just found you through googling Australian made twine, and wow, so glad I did. I need to put an order in, just as soon as I can decide on colours!ReplyDelete
A happy Christmas memory for me is always seeing the decorations my brother and I made as kids on my parents' tree. It makes me smile each and every year.
Loving the new colours Angie.ReplyDelete
A great Christmas memory/tradition was as a kid we would put Christmas carols on and all take turns adding a decoration to the tree. In between we'd have chocolate and pop corn. By the time we'd finished it would be dark enough to see the lights. I can't wait to start this tradition with our own family.
- Anonymous23 November 2012 at 12:49
my best memory of christmas is a scent.Whenever I smell gardenia, all the memories of a hot christmas come back to me!Just got my order of green twine from you but Holly would be such a great addition to my collection!ReplyDelete
Looking at the excitement on our kids faces when they open their presents.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous23 November 2012 at 13:18
My memory is the year I discovered my patents gave us the presents not Santa. We pretended to be asleep, my parents came in and checked we were 'sleeping', we then watched them do several trips down the hallway with handfuls of presents. Once they went to sleep we went and looked at the tree and found we had new bikes, so what to do at night with new bikes, we had a test ride through the loungeroom.ReplyDelete
I remember one Christmas at my boyfriends (now hubby) parents house, he was standing at the bottom of the stairs Christmas morning, calling "come on, (kissy noise) come on, and then produced a very large fluffy toy cat (I LOVE cats). I called it Christmas Cat and to this day (married 19 years) it still sits on my blanket box and is a most treasured gift :) (Carolyn Bagini from Carolina's - email@example.com)ReplyDelete
My favourite Christmas memory is a pretty new one. Getting to stay up late, trying to settle over excited kids and get the last minute stuff done, making sure the stuff is left out for Santa, and then madly trying to hide it when the kids come out because (naturally...) they are THIIIIIRSTY! lolReplyDelete
I love the chaos of Christmas eve!
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Mine is actually a collection of memories from when I was many moons younger. I remember going to sleep with such a sense of anticipation and then waking as early as I could and finding the lounge was full of gifts ... Clearly small lounge room and my memory has expanded it all. But we went to sleep with an empty tree and awoke with no room to move. Bestest feeling ever!ReplyDelete
One of my favourite Christmas memories is from the year I was having chemo treatment. I was too sick to travel to be with my family on Christmas day so they all packed up Christmas dinner and all traveled to be with me and have Christmas a day late at my houseReplyDelete
I love my kids and am thankful truly for every Christmas/moment with them...but my favourite Christmas memory is the Christmas just befor my first was born. It was so full of excitement and things to come ( not that that's changed) but it had that feeling of wonder the...wow I'm going to be mum...Christmas will never bee the same again. Hehe it was also one of the last Christmas's that I got a sleep in....ReplyDelete
Two words........Barbie Campervan.ReplyDelete
Best Christmas ever!! I was about 10 and the world was simple and everyday was fun and suddenly I could put all my Barbies in the van and we could go on roadtrips!!
Cheers Christine. :)
My best christmas memory is getting all the family together to spend christmas day and boxing day together. And when we give out the presents from under the tree someone would dress up as our family santa which always made the day so much more special. The younger kids would love having family santa come and hand out the presents.ReplyDelete
My most favourite Christmas memory is from last year 2011 when my brother and his wife and little girl came home from the US for Christmas. I had not seen him since their wedding in Baltimore USA 4 years before and had not met their little 2yo girl. It was wonderful to have him back in Australia after 6 years of being gone.ReplyDelete
They have gone home back to the USA now but I will treasure last year for a very long time.
My Mum always said that the best thing about Christmas was having all of her childrens knees under her kitchen table, all together.ReplyDelete
Seeing my boyfriend being all excited like a small child when it comes to Christmas morning. He is 25yr old!!ReplyDelete
Each chirstmas our dad planned out a treasure hunt around the house and yard with a mix of gifts and clues along the way. As we got older it got more complex and in our early teens we were stumpped on a clue for a couple of hours whilst everyone else continued to eat drink and be merry. I enjoiyed the hunt more than the gifts as I knew he took such care in preparing it for us.ReplyDelete
This is Angie from Whimsy Farm Twine leaving a quick comment on behalf of Kate Hyatt, whose Christmas memory was a real White Christmas in the UK with her extended family. Kate had a problem leaving her comment here, so I've done it for her. :-)ReplyDelete
- Frances Rooke24 November 2012 at 19:04
The anticipation when going to bed as a child, dreaming of what was to come the next morning! How exciting is it to see our own children going through those same wonderful emotions! <3ReplyDelete
- Anonymous24 November 2012 at 21:46
Sitting on the porch waiting for Nan and Pa to arrive with our fabulous christmas stockings and two 50c pieces whilst smelling the divine christmas lunch our beautiful mum cooked for us...truly magical times i wish things were that simple present wise today...xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxReplyDelete
The best part of Christmas for me is having everything I want before I open the presents - my wonderful husband and four beautiful children :)ReplyDelete
Having Granny cuddles last Christmas with my two gorgeous Grandchildren clammering around amidst the ribbons and parcel wrappings and seeing the joy in their eyes <3 precious and perfect Christmas memory, simply family moments shared together.ReplyDelete
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Today, I'm going to examine, through the lens of Game Theory, the most important game in the world, soccer (according to Yale professor Ben Polak)!
One of the most game changing moments in soccer is the penalty kick in which a player is allowed to take a shot at the goal from the penalty line while it is only defended by the goalkeeper. Especially in low scoring games, the penalty kick is often the decisive goal (check out the seven most defining penalty kicks in history). Such crucial moments can be regarded as a strategic game between two players: the kicker and the goalkeeper.
The game can be simplified as such: the kicker has three choices of directions: left, middle, and right. To start our analysis, let's further simplify the problem and assume that the goalkeeper only has the choice of diving left or right. If the kicker and the goalkeeper choose the same direction, the kicker has 40% chance of scoring. If they choose different directions, the kicker has 90% chance of scoring. Yet, if the kicker chooses middle, s/he always has 60% chance of scoring. The goalkeeper's payoff is considered to be the negative of chance of scoring. Thus, we have this simple payoff matrix:
|Kicker (left)/Keeper (Top)
We can see that there is no strictly or weakly dominated strategy to delete for either party. What should we do?
In this case, we need to introduce a new concept in Game Theory: Best Response. A best response is a strategy for a player that produce the best outcome for that player given a particular combination of strategies of other players. For example, if the keeper chooses left, the best response for the kicker is right.
Yet, this concept is based on the idea that we know the choice of the other player. In the penalty kick, the keeper's choice is not given. What should we do then?
We have to base our decisions on our expectations of the keeper's action. We will be calculating our expected payoff instead. The formula for expected payoff is rational and simple. It is the sum of expected possibilities of individual strategies times their respective payoffs. For example, if we think that the goalkeeper has a 30% chance of diving left then our expected payoff for kicking left is:
0.3×4+0.7×9= 7.5
To make this clearer, let's draw a graph of our expected payoff with respect to our belief of keeper's chance of diving right. Thus, we have:
From this graph, we can see that the green curve representing the expected payoff of kicking to the middle is never the highest. Thus, kicking to the middle is never the best response, no matter of your belief of the keeper's action. Generally, game theory would advise people NOT to choose a strategy that's NEVER the best response if you want to maximize your expected payoff. In other words, according to game theory, one should NEVER choose middle in a penalty kick.
Yet, following the skeptic tone set up in the last post, is this model a perfect representation of the reality? The answer is NO.
In this particular analysis, we have to ignore a lot of important factors in penalty kick. For example, for our convenience, we assumed that the goalie will not stay in the middle which is definitely a choice in real soccer. Also, we failed to take into account the speed of the ball. If a player can kick the ball very hard towards the middle and increase his probability of scoring to 80%, how will that affect our analysis? Try to draw the expected payoff graph for this player and let me know in the comments.
Work Cited: Yalecourses. (2008, November 20). Game theory [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYUPc-cfPyc
Image: [Penalty kick]. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.laughinggif.com/gifs/fxu3molktn %5BExpected payoff of penalty kick]. (2011, June 6). Retrieved from http://philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/2011/06/game-theory-part-6-penalty-kick-game.html


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"The challenge was to come up with a design so as to generate more solar power in less land space," Sibnath Maity, chief scientist at the Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CMERI) in Durgapur, which developed the "tree", told IANS.
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There have been many stories over the last couple weeks about Wall Street Bonuses. The bonuses are given after many of these institutions recovered huge profits in 2009. However, the source of the investments that led to the profit comes from us, the taxpayers, in the form of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP.) Reports suggest that the largest firms receiving these funds are giving out over $90 million in bonuses. The outrage comes, logically, as it seems that the money that the government invested was meant to jump start the economy and get the same banks making loans. Instead of making loans, however, many many millions have gone directly to bank execs and investors, the very people blamed for the economic crisis. As a result lawmakers are looking at ways to regulate or even tax these bonuses. The UK has already instituted large taxes on bonuses. Our own congress is debating 50% taxes on bonuses over $50k and using the tax to help small and midsized businesses. Instead of adding more bureaucracy to these funds, the government should consider encouraging a 'good returns,' or social venture model.
I propose giving tax cuts to people receiving these bonuses if they invest 100% for a year or more in social ventures. Many organizations have begun giving microloans to the nation's and world's poorest people, helping spur entrepreneurship among the most poverty stricken people, as we heard at our second Spark Club meeting from Salah at Soap Hope. His organization withholds a year of profit to grant microloans to women in poverty in the DFW area. These loans are repaid and there is only a 2% default rate. However, the businesses and entrepreneurship spurred by these loans create further wealth in the community, potentially making more customers for Soap Hope and the businesses they have inspired.
I am all for spreading the wealth, however the Robin Hood methods of government agencies moving wealth from one place to another has proved inefficient and unsustainable. Social Ventures and microfinance however are offering very interesting models that are creating social change that is sustainable. If the government wants to do something about these greedy bastards and their fat cat bonuses, stop looking at old tax and regulation policies and start looking at ways to inspire social good.
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Promotion: Aikikai Malta Gradings
Posted 6/14/2019 9:32am [from Kevin Bonanno]
The first Maltese Aikidoka being examined and promoted in Malta to Nidan and Sandan are Claude Calleja and Kevin Bonanno respectively. The gradings were conducted by Satomi Hakkenkai, Tokyo, Chief Instructor Jun Nomoto Shihan (7th Dan) on behalf of the Aikikai Foundation. The gradings were held at Aikikai Malta, the new established Aikido school recently authorised by Aikikai Foundation.
Seminar: June 15-16, 2019: Pat Guerri Sensei in Louveciennes, France
Posted 6/14/2019 9:32am [from Ron Tisdale]
Patricia Guerri Sensei, Uchi-deshi (�l�ve � demeure) pendant plusieurs ann�es � Iwama au Japon dans le dojo d�O�Sensei Morihei Ueshiba, Fondateur de l�Aikido.
Diplom�e par Morihiro Saito Sensei, 9�me Dan, des 5 Mokuroku traditionnels (certificats Japonais attestant de la connaissance de l�AikiKen, Aiki-Jo & Bukiwaza autorisant � les enseigner) d�cern�s en 1991.
Dipl�m�e d��tat Aiki-ken, Aiki-jo.
M�daille de bronze du Minist�re de la Jeunesse et des Sports pour son enseignement professionnel.
Seminar: Aikikai Malta First Seminar
Posted 6/14/2019 9:32am [from Kevin Bonanno]
Aikikai Malta is organising a seminar with the participation of a Japanese delegation from Tokyo lead by Jun Nomoto Shihan, the Aikikai Director for Aikikai Malta. During the seminar there will be a demonstration and commemoration ceremony for the founding of Aikikai Malta being authorised by Aikikai Foundation in 2018.
Seminar: June 3, 2019: San Diego Martial Arts & Community Center Anniversary Seminar
Posted 5/08/2019 2:27pm [from Lisa Tomoleoni]
June 3, 2019, San Diego, CA: The San Diego Martial Art & Community Center is celebrating our 1st Anniversary with a fundraising seminar! Try or watch Intro classes for SIX different arts offered by some of our professional Instructors from 9 am-1:30 pm! Afterwards, we will hold a BBQ Pot Luck party until 4 pm!
Training and the BBQ Potluck Party are family friendly, and all classes are open to beginners and/or those who have to adapt for any physical needs.
Observers are welcome and the facility is non-discriminatory.
The participating Programs are:
Sound Vinyasa Yoga & Sound Healing with Guide John Jai, Jiai Aikido with Cat Strada Sensei & Lisa Tomoleoni Sensei, Misfits Martial Arts Academy No-Gi Jiu Jitsu with Coach Manny Garcia
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Traditional Shotokan Karate of San Diego with Juan Balmaceda Sensei, San Diego BJJ & Judo Academy with Luciana Bassoli Sensei, Progressive Combat Solutions with Ken Good
1:15-1:30 pm Sound Vinyasa Yoga & Sound Healing with Guide John Jai
1:30-4:00 pm Potluck BBQ Party (Please bring something to share!)
The San Diego Martial Arts & Community Center ("SDMACC") is a world class, incubator Training Dojo and Healing space where Coaches, Instructors, and Healers can easily open, expand, and/or grow their own programs�..This is where dreams are realized and futures made. Please join us and help support the SDMACC! See you June 2nd!
Further information at www.SanDiegoMACC.com.
Seminar: June 28-30, 2019: Aikido Shimbokukai USA Summer Seminar, Crystal Lake IL
Posted 5/08/2019 2:27pm [from Lisa Tomoleoni]
Join us for our annual summer seminar, to be held this June at the Abiding Spirit Aikikai in Crystal Lake, Illinois.
The seminar will be three days of training, fun, and friendship. Please take this opportunity to meet other Shimbokukai members, as well as folks from other organizations. The seminar will feature 18 hours of training, with instruction by four main top class instructors, supported by other Shimbokukai member instructors.
Early Registration discounts until May 15, so don't wait too long!
Dates: June 28-30, 2019
Location: The seminar will be held at Abiding Spirit Aikikai, 829 Virginia Rd, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL 60014.
Main Instructors
Lisa Tomoleoni Sensei,
Director, Aikido Shimbokukai
Hiroshi Ikeda Sensei,
Boulder Aikikai, Boulder, Colorado
Todd Jones Sensei,
American Butokukan, Tampa, Florida
Meido Moore Sensei,
Shinjinkai, Chicago, Illinois
As well as other Aikido Shimbokukai Instructors:
All students of Aikido, regardless of affiliation, are invited to join us!
Seminar: 31st May - 2nd June, 2019: Toshiro Suga, 7th Dan Aikikai in Edinburgh
Posted 5/08/2019 2:27pm [from Scott Reed]
Toshiro Suga started aikido in 1968 in Tokyo. He moved to France in 1971 and was a senior student of Tamura Nobuyoshi Sensei. He teaches seminars worldwide and is returning to Edinburgh for his annual course. Please bring aikido weapons and insurance.
Everybody is very welcome
Seminar: Cognard Hanshi 8thDan in VA & CA (June 2019)
Posted 5/08/2019 2:27pm [from Andrea Debiasi]
"Kokusai Aikido Kenshukai Kobayashi Hirokazu Ryu" (KAKKHR) and "Los Angeles Aiki Kai" cordially invite you to a series of June 2019 seminars with Andr� Cognard Shihan 8th Dan (Hanshi, Dai Nippon Butoku Kai): Arlington, VA (June 10); Santa Ana, CA (June 13-14); Los Angeles, CA (June 15-17 & 21-23 & 26); Irvine, CA (June 18); Escondido, CA (June 19-20); Bakersfield, CA (June 24-25).
All levels and affiliations are welcome.
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Public Administration Minister Marlene McDonald was gleeful as early as 1.39 pm yesterday.
"Rest and Reflection?! My ministry had 98 per cent turnout! People put country first, yes. Nobody hold a gun to their head!" McDonald crowed.
Unions may disagree. But that's familiar for the Rowley administration. Labour's latest disagreement has made the Government's lowest point—Petrotrin's refinery closure decision—the official marker of its third term.
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, leading the charge in the matter, has taken a mid-term gamble testing a public already coping with an austerity-themed term. The economy may be stable, though sluggish and certain payments made, avenues pursued and public sector jobs retained. Whatever the fallout, Petrotrin's issue, will—like all these—factor into PNM's ongoing election-planning exercise.
After the first two years of blaming the PP administration and oil prices for T&T's woes, Petrotrin's problem has now been promoted as the third year threat to progress.
Statements, including by Planning Minister Camille Robinson-Regis, on the length of time the decision was looming ("many, many years") confirm previous PNM administrations are as much to blame for it as anyone else.
Amid rumbling on the issue—in the week of Government's third anniversary, Rowley increased outreach from "ground" meeting – in Marabella's Petrotrin turf—to energy sector high levels.
After last Sunday's blaming of OWTU for rapport failure on the refinery issue, Government sought to manage unions' push dexterously – especially considering yesterday's Rest and Reflection exercise.
Thursday's meeting with labour saved Government face from accusations of not being open. But the administration stood ground on the closure decision since—apart from continuing Petrotrin losses—caving would have injured the bravery image Government has carefully cultivated on this particular task.
Government also pushed to be seen as empathising (with workers) and magnanimous (on separation packages). Rowley had acknowledged the task with "sadness and resolve…such is my lot" he'd sighed last Sunday.
How much PNM stocks gain from the move may be weighed in how separation matters are handled, length of unemployment post-closure and how soon restructured Petrotrin's successful.
Government's assured that Budgets 2019 and 2020—election packages—contain measures for "San Fernando and environs" to cushion the blow. Obviously geared for PNM's Sando West and East constituencies, crucial in polls. Promise of jobs also comes with the drydocking facility agreement—in PNM's La Brea seat.
Robinson-Regis stressed closure had to be done now. It remains to unfold whether time plus "the best" separation packages, concessions and the fact that North T&T is divorced from the Southern culture of Petrotrin, will erase what she admitted was a "bitter pill". Though she deemed it the "best medicine", it may be swallowed by more than just Marabella.
Her acknowledgement of the decision's "far-reaching" implications and Rowley's declaration of not being "in love with office" confirms recognition that the task has deepened Government's political challenges.
Some PNMItes, worried about a "one-term Government" are monitoring members' feelings on other issues. Campaigning for PNM's upcoming executive elections will reveal concerns. More than half of Rowley's 16-member slate—key posts from chairman down—is being challenged by some former frontliners. He starts campaigning in Arima tonight.
How much the Opposition depends on the Petrotrin issue for "default" support, as opposed to undertaking necessary internal and external strengthening, remains ahead. As an alternative, Opposition leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar's leadership will come under heightened scrutiny as Rowley's. Each side will be seen as strong if the other's weak.
Regardless of messages sent—or stifled—in yesterday's R&R, the opportunity to "speak" arrives in 24 months. What may arise for the PNM in its current mid-way position—how swing votes will lean— and what might rise for the Persad-Bissessar Opposition awaits.


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