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As an independent contractor, you are a business of one.
This gives you the freedom to make your own schedule, and chart your own career path, which can be exhilarating, and may be one of the reasons you chose to build your own business in the first place. But unlike an employee, whose taxes are automatically deducted from their paycheck, it's also your job to deduct your own taxes from your earnings.
Luckily, you don't pay taxes on every single dollar you earn. As a self-employed contractor, you pay taxes on the amount you've earned minus the costs of running your business.
You can claim lots of deductions through an IRS form all self-employed people fill out, called the 1099. Your 1099 independent contractor deductions lower the amount you'll ultimately have to pay in taxes afterward as a self-employed contractor. Let's explore 8 categories of independent contractor tax deductions!
Note that this advice is illustrative, and is not meant to replace the advice of a professional. Businesses and their tax needs vary, and you should discuss all tax issues with a qualified, licensed professional.
8 1099 Independent Contractor Tax Deductions
Home Office
Depending on your profession, you may have significant expenses associated with your home office; it could be a yoga studio, a place to store expensive equipment or something else altogether. Is your home office space is used only for work, and it is your primary place of business? If so, there are multiple options for calculating your independent contractor tax deductions in this category. There are direct expenses to consider, like renovations and a paint job, as well as indirect expenses, like insurance, utilities, property taxes, and home repairs.
Educational Expenses
For self-employed entrepreneurs in today's marketplace, continuing education is extremely important. While coursework can get expensive, all educational expenses are potentially tax-deductible! Webinars, business-related books, and subscriptions to professional publications are all included here as potential deductibles on your 1099.
Depreciation of Property & Equipment
As an independent contractor, it's likely that you've purchased property and equipment for your business. Over time, those items lose value; a printer you bought three years ago is worth less now than it was when you bought it. That's called depreciation. According to the IRS, if business purchases will last you more than a year, you can write off the depreciation of their value on your tax return. Repairs on property used for your business can potentially be deducted as well.
Car Expenses
Some self-employed contractors refer to their car as "their office" since they spend so much time there, going from job to job. Car expenses and mileage can be one of the largest tax write-offs for these entrepreneurs. Look into the standard mileage rate to figure out the best method of deducting your car expenses. The rules for calculating the SMR are updated every year, so it's good to stay current. Tolls and parking are also deductible–for extended meetings or projects, these can add up to a significant out-of-pocket expense for an independent contractor. Keep your receipts, and add them to your 1099!
Do you have client meetings out of state, or attend industry conferences? When it comes to business trips, your airfare, hotel costs, and 50% of your meal costs can be written off as business expenses. Even if you extend your trip to travel after the business commitments have ended, you can include those travel costs–just make sure that the amount of leisure days on the trip doesn't exceed the total amount of business days. For example, if you fly from California to Paris for a 3-day photography conference, you may want to extend your trip for two days of touring. 50% of the costs of meals and accommodations for the extra two days can be deducted, just like the first three days.
Cell Phone
Do you have one cell phone for both personal use and business? If so, you can write off a portion of your monthly cell phone bill. Similar to your home office, you'll want to determine what percentage of your phone usage is business vs. personal. You can then deduct that percentage of your phone bill on your 1099 form.
Health Insurance
100% of your health insurance is one of the many deductible expenses for independent contractors to include on your 1099. In addition to health insurance premiums, expenses such as glasses, nonprescription medications, and visits to the chiropractor can be written off. There may be benefits for your spouse, as well:
Jose hired his wife, Liza, to take care of administrative tasks associated with his auto restoration business. Thanks to Liza's employee status, Jose was about to provide her with family health care coverage through his business. Her coverage, like his, was 100% deductible.
Contractors Insurance
In order to fully focus on your business, you'll need great contractors insurance. Having contractors insurance can save you money in many ways, and that includes your 1099. Business insurance is one of the tax deductions for contract workers!
Tax Advice
There are lots of benefits to being a self-employed contractor, and a qualified tax advisor can help you optimize your strategy when filing your 1099 independent contractor income tax deductions. While hiring a tax advisor may seem like an unnecessary cost, the help they provide may save you valuable time, and you can write off their fees as a business expense.


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The power of opposition parties in Malaysia is at its strongest now, and yet it is scattered at the same time.
A similar situation is happening in Sabah. Despite all opposition parties in Sabah, namely Pakatan Harapan, United Sabah Alliance, and the Sabah Heritage Party agreeing on Sabah autonomy, Malaysia Agreement 1963 and toppling of BN government as common targets, they barely agree with each other and find it difficult to work together to achieve the common targets.
Among the opposition leaders, there are at least three of them who have held the chief minister and federal minister posts prior to forming opposition parties, which means they have substantial experience in government and also gain popularity from indigenous Muslims of the East Coast and West Coast of Sabah, and indigenous Non-Muslims from the interior of Sabah, as well as the Chinese.

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Paris agreement says "developed countries" (the USA) should pay $100 billion annually to countries affected by climate change.
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) December 12, 2015
Sunday, December 13, 2015
Want to really understand the global warming scam? Read this tweet.
I would say good luck getting a republican Congress to approve that, but our feckless leaders have no balls and will probably cave.
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No one can complain that the US presidential race is not fascinating this year. But Ralph Nader's promise of a late intervention doesn't seem to have had the kicking it deserves among British progressives keen to support whoever turns out to be the eventual Democratic nominee.
Twenty years ago I interviewed Nader - long famous as a fearless advocate of consumer power - for the Guardian and was immediately struck by how much he reminded me of Tony Benn. The same sense of righteous self-certainty harnessed to an activist view of politics: we should all spend a lot more time attending meetings holding the powerful to account.
Except, of course, that Nader's vision focussed on a consumer perspective of a market economy, whereas Tony Benn's was a socialist vision. I didn't doubt their sincerity then, only their judgement and - a bit - their conceit.
The unavoidable fact is that Benn's divisive strategy in the early 80s undermined the Callaghan-Foot-early-Kinnock efforts to stablise Labour as much, if not more, as the SDP defection led by Roy Jenkins. Ditto Nader's 2,883,105 votes as the Green candidate in the US presidential contest of 2000.
In both New Hampshire and Florida Nader's vote exceeded the difference between Al Gore and George Bush. Winning either state would have clinched the presidency for Gore. Florida, you may recall, came down to those ''hanging chads'' in the most closely called election since 1876 when a close vote in Florida (again) produced the now-forgotten Hayes-Tilden compromise.
Hayes became Republican president in return for withdrawing federal troops from the conquered Confederacy - and letting the racists get back to business as previously usual. It took nearly 100 years to sort it out again.
I know the arguments. Nader justified his own conduct and denies putting Bush into the White House. "Tweedledee and Tweedledum- they look and act the same, so it doesn't matter which you get," he said. But the 2000 election is a rare and clear example which disproves that lazy claim - routinely deployed by Pontius Pilates of both left and right.
Nader took a lot of stick as a result which , at 74, will only have served to stiffen his righteous sense of virtue. But there are ethics of principle and ethics of consequence. ''Vote Nader, Get Bush,'' was the car bumper sticker he won't acknowledge.


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GOAL! Chelsea 2-0 Lille (Azpilicueta, 35 mins)
Another one! Chelsea win a corner on the right, and the delivery is perfect from Pulisic. Azpilicueta runs from beyond the far post to meet it at the near, and is completely unmarked to pummel his header in from the edge of the six-yard box.
33 mins: A nice turn from Soumare in midfield, but he loses the ball (there was a bit of a trip in there) and a few moments later Chelsea nearly score a second after Pulisic sprints into the area and pulls back towards Abraham, but a defender sticks his boot in the way.
30 mins: Emerson has another shot, from a foot or two outside the penalty area. It's straight at Maignan, who catches.
28 mins: It's been much more even since the goal, which is to say that rather than one team doing all the attacking, neither team is doing much attacking.
25 mins: Valencia have just taken the lead in Holland through Rodrigo, which means that they now top the as-they-stand table, with Ajax on their way out.
24 mins: As I type that Lille have their first shot. It's from Pied, about 40 yards out and about that far off target.
23 mins: A quarter of the game has been played, and Chelsea have had 70% of possession, 100% of the shots (eight, of which three on target) and 100% of the corners (two).
21 mins: As it stands, then, Chelsea are top of Group H, ahead of Ajax because of their superior head-to-head record.
GOAL! Chelsea 1-0 Lille (Abraham, 19 mins)
Chelsea take the lead, and it has been coming! Kante chests down to Pulisic, who carries the ball to the edge of the area before finding Willian to his right. The Brazilian bursts to the byline and pulls the ball back. It takes a handy deflection off Gabriel's thigh and Abraham is left with a tap-in!
17 mins: Chelsea go close again! Kante has a shot from just outside the area which hits Soumare and loops into the air, and Kante has another go as it lands, volleying just wide of the near post.
16 mins: Shot! And saved! Kante's cross from the right skews off Abraham and runs to Emerson, at the edge of the area, whose low shot is hard enough, but close enough to Maignan for him to beat it away.
15 mins: Azpilicueta crosses from the right, but the only question posed by the centre is which defender will clear. Djalo does.
10 mins: Shot! Nice control by Abraham, who holds up a long ball and waits for Pulisic, who carries it into the area before dragging a pretty weak left-footer wide.
9 mins: Now Willian is rolling around. Xeka was a bit late with his challenge, and landed his boot on top of Willian's foot, so you can see why, but all this rolling about could get quite tiresome quite quickly.
8 mins: Now another Lille player is down clutching his face. This time it's Araujo, who to be fair was inadvertently caught by Rudiger's frailing fingers.
7 mins: Kante and Tiago Djaló battle near the left corner flag. Eventually the ball goes out for a Chelsea corner, and the Lille player throws himself to the ground and rolls about for a while with his hands clutching his head as if he's been assaulted. It really is a completely ludicrous display, ignored by the referee.
5 mins: Chelsea push forward, but Pied eventually snaffles the ball from Willian and the move is over without the Lille area being threatened.
3 mins: Little to report, except that Yaziki just tried a flying waist-high backheel volley. He did not succeed.
Right, ready for action. Whatever the result of the coin toss, Lille will kick off.
Cesar Azpilicueta is hanging about with the match officials, waiting for a Lille captain to turn up for the coin toss. The visitors are busy posing for team photos.
Out come the players! There was precious little preamble about that. No lingering footage of footballers gathering in a tunnel.
Meanwhile in Salzburg, Liverpool have won 2-0 and thus top Group E, ahead of Napoli (who thumped Genk 4-0).
Frank Lampard has a chat.
On nights like this we need to worry about how we approach the game. Everyone can see how much we want to win it. We want to get into the next stage of the Champions League, it's the ultimate club competition, and we've worked hard to get into this position with it in our own hands. But it's not the time to settle and think it's just going to happen for us tonight. We have to work hard and earn it.
These are the nights that will define you, individually and collectively. We have to understand that, because no matter what this is going to be a tough match. The idea that Lille come here with not much on it is dangerous as much as it's good for us. So it comes back to ourselves. Can we show our fans how much we want to get through?
I'm a bit sad not to be seeing Victor Osimhen, Lille's 20-year-old striking sensation, scorer of their goal in the 2-1 defeat to Chelsea in France back in October and of two goals (and an assist) in his last three domestic fixtures. Kurt Zouma, on the other hand, is probably OK with it.
It's a vicious evening in London: wild, wet and windy, if not particularly cold. The conditions are the first opponents Chelsea will need to beat.
The teams!
The team sheets have been handed in, and tonight's protagonists will be as follows:
Chelsea: Arrizabalaga, Azpilicueta, Rudiger, Zouma, Emerson Palmieri, Kante, Jorginho, Kovacic, Willian, Abraham, Pulisic. Subs: Christensen, Barkley, Caballero, Mount, Hudson-Odoi, Batshuayi, James.
Lille: Maignan, Celik, Gabriel, Djalo, Pied, Soumare, Thiago Maia, Yazici, Xeka, Luiz Araujo, Remy. Subs: Leo, Fonte, Osimhen, Ikone, Bamba, Sanches, Bradaric.
Referee: Tasos Sidiropoulos (Greece).
I'm sure this news has gone down well in the Chelsea dressing-room: by my count Lille make seven changes to the team that beat Brest 1-0 last Friday,
Hello world!
Chelsea go into their last game in Group H in third place, and knowing that only a win will guarantee progress. Inevitably, it's not necessarily so simple: the Blues are level on points and indeed goal difference with Valencia, but having lost at home to the Spanish side and drawn away will remain behind them on head-to-head record should they finish on the same number of points. So if Ajax win at home to Los Ches, a draw or better will do just fine for Chelsea; if the Dutch side draw then Chelsea would win the group (having a superior head-to-head record against Ajax) if they win; and if Valencia claim an away victory Chelsea would need victory in order to come second.
"We just want to win it to go through," says Kurt Zouma. 'It's like a final for us, a must-win match. The results from the games before we didn't keep a clean sheet but we have been playing well. In the game against Ajax away, we played good. The game against them at home was crazy but we came back so we showed great character. Tomorrow is a different story – if we win, we go through and that's what we want."
The good news is that Lille are out of contention, having only one point to their name, and are really far more concerned with Friday's home game against Montpellier. Christophe Galtier was keeping his cards close to his chest in his press conference yesterday, insisting that his players "have to be flawless in how they engage and what they give for this game, because this competition deserves the utmost respect", but rumour has it that significant team changes are afoot.
Welcome. Hang up your coats, find yourself a pew and sit tight - team news is coming just as soon as I get it.


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The Job Details screen shows information about the current job, or the previously completed job if the car is vacant. An example of the screen is shown below.
The Job Details screen has 3 main sections: the global button toolbar, the job summary area, and the job control tools. The button toolbar operates as described in the general usage section.
Job Summary Area
The Job summary area, shown below, is located between the two toolbars.
The top section lists the job number and general status information. This is changed according to whether the car is booked for a job, engaged, or has completed a job. For an underway booking, the time the job was entered is displayed.
Below the status information is a list of pickup and destination locations for the job. Each individual pickup and destination is contained within a rectangular border, and contains address information and any relevant contact details and notes.
For pre-booked jobs, driving instructions may be accessed by pressing the navigation icon for a pickup or destination. On most handsets, this should invoke the "Google Maps" application, pre-filled with destination information for the particular pickup or drop-off location.
Job Control Tools
The Job Controls toolbar provides buttons to:
|Cancel a booking if the customer is not found (No-show)
|Resubmit a booking
|Plot to a new area
|Toggle the car as engaged or disengaged
The "No-Show" and "Resubmit" buttons are available only when a booking has been accepted and the car is disengaged. The No-Show button will cancel the job as the client cannot be located. Resubmitting a job requires the driver to select a reason for the resubmission, then re-queues the job for dispatch to another car. The set of reasons for resubmission are configurable on a fleet by fleet basis.
The "Plot" button allows the driver to select a zone they will be travelling to. This assists in <doing something I figure>
The "Engaged" button allows the car to be marked either as engaged or disengaged. When a car becomes disengaged, the driver will automatically be prompted to enter fare details.


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I previously read an article reporting that schools have began banning iPods in an attempt to outsmart cheaters. The article published on eSchool News Online and redirected to Yahoo News (unable to locate orginal article, but located a copy published by USA Today) stats that schools are aware that students are now using this technology to cheat on exams in a variety of fashions. Among the list of methods include playing audio that provides the student with test answers, and saving the text so students can view the information on screen. Considering that cell phones have provided similar concerns, I am not surprised that some schools have to resort to these actions. I am surprised that this is news worthy. To me the fact that this is news worthy raises a few concerns.
My first concern is with the types of assessments that teachers administer. While I understand that until the College Board, ETS and other test companies find a better format to assess students; or until school districts actually spend time creating assessments that demonstrate actual knowledge teachers will continue to administer multiple choice exams. I admit it, I give one a quarter. I hate them. Personally I think that multiple choice exams dumb down the information and do not allow students to demonstrate actual knowledge. Whenever I think of a multiple choice exams I recall the lesson prescribed by my fourth grade teacher. "When in doubt, pick C." Unfortunately there is a science to passing such exams and by not providing my students an opportunity to practice these skills I am hurting their chances to perform. What is the answer? Simply: spend more time organizing projects. Project allow students to prove actual knowledge and eliminate students from sneaking by on guessing. Until the society begins to challenge the industry that has become educational testing, and do not fool yourself it is an industry, this will not change. I am not going to spend the time detailing how mind numbing multiple choice exams. For more information on this topic read an article by my wife or Wesley Fryer.
My second concern is with the daily actions of the teachers. I trust that this is not a news flash, but people cheat. Not students, but people. People cheat the laws with they do not regard them as necessary and do not feel a high level of concern for being caught. Ever speed? That is cheating. I speed…a lot. If I am trying to make up time and do not perceive a threat to others or myself based on the environment (weather, knowledge of location, type of neighborhood) and I do not feel high odds that I will be caught (never seen a cop in this neighborhood) then I cheat. In fact cheating is such a negative word. Efficiency is a better word. The philosophic Uncle Scrooge often told his nephews Huey, Dewy, and Louie that one should "work smarter, not harder." As a teacher and coach I teach this to my student-athletes. These are not short cuts, buy why waste energy doing something when a more efficient way exists. Why spend hours cutting your yard with a reel mower when you can use a riding mower? Why spend hours studying from a test when the teacher uses questions straight from the review and sits behind a computer or pile of papers during the entire exam? These actions are not new. I know people in college who spent the time typing the Algebra review into their calculators. They did this because the equations were exactly the same as in the review and none of the proctors paid attention during the exam. In high school, back when pagers were the new technology, I know students who typed crib sheet with vocabulary and spelling answers, reduced the size of the font, then handed them outside the door before class. The questions came from the workbook and the teacher never left the desk. People looking for an efficient way to accomplish a task is a part of our culture.
If you want to stop students from cheating banning iPods will not work. You have to change the exam and your actions. Create authentic assessment that does not allow for cheating. Make the students do something with the information rather than recite the information. I have found more success in the attainment of knowledge by my students creating a digital story demonstrating the different parts of speech than taking a multiple choice exam. I challenge someone to define how my students in creating a video that teaches and demonstrates the parts of speech know less than those students taking a multiple choice exam. In fact, I believe just the opposite because my project requires high level thinking and creativity. I am willing to bet that they will remember that video down the road, not forever, but next year. Any takers on your multiple choice exam?
Additonally you have to be active. If you are giving a multiple choice exam, be active. I clean during such exams. While I clean I can see what is going on during the exam. After my high school graduation a couple of students told our English teacher about the crib sheets that had been entering her classroom for several years. I heard from students in her class the next year she changed her quizzes and started walking around during them. Guess what declined? Both the scores and the cheating. After the risk increased, students began to actually learn the words rather than complete the task. Proof that if you have to give such an exam, you can prevent cheating by being active. Banning a iPod would not have worked in our class, why do people feel that it will work in these cases.
My closing concern is brief. Why is this newsworthy? My only thought in this is to demonstrate the low standards of some schools. To me this shows their goals are not to educate students, rather to make their jobs easier. My guess is that if the exams remain the same the students will have a new system of efficient test taking by the end of next week. That is unless the need for such assessment ceases to exist. We will have to keep working on that.
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text: After an early start from Malargue City/Las Lenas Ski Centre, we head to Payunia Park, visiting La Pasarela on the way; a point where the Rio Grande forces its way th qrough a deep crack in the volcanic rock creating a very spectacular sight and sound. Here we see some impressive traces of previous volcanic action in the form of lava streams and volcanic cones. After spending around an hour here, appreciating the magnificent natural formations, we cross one of Mendozas richest oil wells; Palauco and Fortunoso. Moving on, we experience the breathtaking scenery of Pampas Negras (Black Pampas), La Herradura (The Horseshoe), Los Morados ( The Purple Mountain), Las bombas ( The Bombs) and more, also taking the opportunity to spot birds such as the Guanacos and Choiques (Little Ostrich). After this, we return to Santa Maria volcano where we begin our climb up the Payun Matru volcano, trekking around its crater and lake, and through its lava stream. After lunch, we begin our decent stopping off at a point to admire the spectacular scenery of Payunia Park. We then return to Malargue for an evening of reflection on a truly memorable tour.


text: Michael Retsky BioMedical Imaging Laboratory Harvard School of Public Health Boston, MA 02215 USA Tel: 203-675-0017 Biography Research Interest × Biography Michael Retsky (Ph.D in physics from University of Chicago) made a career change from physics to cancer research. He is Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Bioavailability and Bioequivalence, on staff at Harvard School of Public Health, honorary faculty at University College London, and Prof Adj at UANL, Monterrey, Mexico. He was on Judah Folkman's staff at Harvard Medical School for 12 years. He is on the board of directors of the Colon Cancer Alliance and has published more than 60 papers in physics and cancer. He has a patent pending for treatment of early stage cancer Close × Research Interest cancer research, charged particle optics, early detection of cancer and delayed detection of cancer Close Dr. Chen Wen Yong Department of Cancer BiologyBeckman Research Institute USA Beckman Research Institute USA Biography Research Interest × Biography Dr. Chen is an Associate Professor at the Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope. Dr. Chen received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1999, and completed his postdoctoral training in Cancer Biology at Johns Hopkins University in 2005. Dr. Chen's research covers epigenetic mechanisms of tumorigenesis, gene regulation by DNA methylation and histone modifications, animal models of cancer, and stem cells. Dr. Chen's current research is on functions of sirtuin deacetylases in aging and cancer drug resistance, in particular, in the area involving hematopoietic stem cells and leukemia stem cells Close × Research Interest Epigenetics, Cancer, Aging and Stem Cells Close Stewart Sell Professor University of Albany USA Tel: 518-474-0547 Fax: 518-473-2900 Biography Research Interest × Biography Dr. Sell is a board certified pathologist and immunologist. He has published over 400 papers and 12 books. His paper with Barry Pierce (Lab. Invest. 70:6-21, 1994.) was selected as an AACR scientific landmark. Among his findings are: development of delayed hypersensitivity before antibody formation (1959). the role of the thymus in development of immune competence (1964); first identification of immunoglobulin on the surface of B cells (1965; Current contents citation classic, 1984); classification of immunopathological reactions (1971); development of a radioimmunoassay for alphafetoprotein (1972); identification of liver stem cells during chemical hepatocarcinogenesis and in response to injury (1972-94); role of endocytosis in activation of B cells (1974); recognition that the chancre of syphilis is a delayed hypersensitivity reaction (1979); role of mGSTA3 in detoxification of aflatoxin (2004); and characterization of breast cancer stem cells (2012) Close × Research Interest Cancer: To determine how bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells influence the development of cancers in other tissues. Cancer: To block proliferation of breast cancer stem cells by small molecular inhibitors or inhibitory RNA. This is a critical step to preventing re-growth of breast cancer after chemotherapy or radiation therapy. Carcinogenesis: To study the metabolism of aflatoxin and development of liver cancer in mice lacking glutathionine-S-transferase. Aging: To compare the ability of young vs. old bone marrow derived stem cells to reconstitute and provide long term survival after lethal irradiation and transplantation, and the ability of wild-type bone marrow to prolong life of early aging mice. Close


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Oh man! I'm soo sorry! I'm so lame and I've missed a couple weeks of weekly updates. BUT man oh man...this week was CRAZY! :) in a good way of course! :)
Okay, so last Sunday Sister Winkler and I and the Elders in the ward set up a meeting with the bishop just to see what more we could be doing to make his job easier and what else he expects of us and so forth. And he pretty much said that everything has been going well and that he wasn't expecting any more from us than what we've already been doing. SWEET! so then we go back to class and continue on throughout the day, no big deal. And right before the meeting that we have with our Ward Mission Leader the bishop asked if he could speak to Sister Winkler and I. So we go into his office, and he tells us, "I don't know what you two have done...." oh great...I'm already getting into trouble. haha surprise, surprise. but then he went on, " Evan want's to be baptized this next Sunday." ....wait...what? We haven't even been teaching Evan. Evan has been good friends with the McBride's and they have been inviting him to come to church for almost a year now. His parents wouldn't let him be baptized for the longest time and apparently they had finally agreed to let him make his own decision and were allowing him to be baptized. AWESOME!! Evan is such a golden Child! He comes to church religiously, almost every Sundayhe's there! and he is so involved with the quorums and with attending mutual, he's enrolled in early morning seminary, he reads his scriptures all the time, get's up in fast and testimony meeting to bear his testimony, and so on! he's just a boss! He was so prepared! and then bishop proceeds to tell us that it's a super secret because Evan wanted to surprise the McBride's when he was going to announce it. Bishop said that he had already done a mini interview, and he had passed with flying colors, so what we needed to do as missionaries was to have the District Leader interview him, and then have us quickly teach him all the lessons and commandments in a weeks time. So we called the next morning and set up appointments to have us come over and teach him, and called and got the District Leader to come over on Tuesday to interview him. Evan was seriously leaps and bounds ahead of anyone I've ever taught (not that I've taught a million people since I've only been out 5 months...but still...very impressive.) We told him that most people take the discussions over a longer period of time and get an interview at the end of all the lessons the week before they're baptized....but Evan was being interviewed before any of the discussions had been given, and within the same week that he's being baptized. He is seriously a miracle child! he's awesome! So we got to go over, and Brother McBride actually came to a couple of the lessons with us and he jumped right in and was such a huge help! He did all the hard work for us! He made the programs, and got all the songs that Evan wanted to be sung, who would be speaking, who would say the prayers and be the witnesses, and then Brother McBride was actually the one that got to baptize Evan! It was such an amazing process and truly touched my heart. Evan just has such a desire to learn more about the gospel, and he's already so knowledgeable, heck I think he knows more than I do! And he wants to be a missionary so badly, and do what's right, and live the way he should. He's already such an amazing missionary, and I can't wait to see what the future holds for him! it was amazing! We got to teach all the lessons and commandments in three lessons.....they were longer lessons that normal, but they were just solid lessons, and he knew all the right answers, and has such a strong testimony! So amazing!
Monday night to Tuesday morning, we got a pretty big snow, and so we parked the car, and after we had a lesson with Evan we went out and shoveled peoples driveways. It was fun! :) and the snow had stopped, so later that night we got to go to Tina's for dinner! :) it was SO fun! I've never made a ginger bread house before so I was so excited when we got there and she had made little ginger bread men for us, and shared a wonderful spiritual message to us, (that's always a nice change :) and afterward we got to make a cute little village! haha...but don't let me fool you.....I totally cheated! I tried so hard to put it together with the frosting...but it kept falling apart. So....I suggested to Tina to get the hot glue gun to make my process go by a little bit faster. :) haha We got to decorate them and everything! it was a blast! :) She's so sweet! She just takes such good care of us! and her and her husband even actually bought us a cute little Christmas tree with some little ornaments to put on! :) Soooo fun! and so cute! so when we got home we put the village under the tree! :)
We are now teaching Brandon, who is Jalinn's husband. She's a member, and her family is so awesome! :) We are so excited that we get to go over and teach him and their family. They are so nice and are always making me laugh! hahaha they have the greatest personalities! I love them so much! so we got to have a lesson with him on Monday night, which was fun! We got to talk more about the Restoration, and prophets. He grew up a lot of different religions and is having a hard time with the concept of prophets, but enjoys the church, and has begun reading the Book of Mormon! :) It has been so much fun to begin teaching him because he has a lot of really good questions and is truly seeking to find truth. :) I'm excited to see where it goes from here! :) we get to have another lesson with him tomorrow! and we got to just go see Jalinn last week, and she was telling us that it's really cool to see small changes in Brandon, and how excited she was when he picked up the Book of Mormon and began to read it on his own. :) She had a strategy of putting Books of Mormon all over the house hoping one day he'd subconsciously pick it up and start reading it since he sees it so often. I think it paid off! ;) haha! She was telling us that she has always wanted so badly to be able to be sealed in the temple. :) its always so touching to hear people talk about things like that and express the importance of the things that draw us nearer to our Heavenly Father, and Jesus Christ. :) I'm definitely serving in the best mission ever! :)
Carol, another member in our ward that we've been working with took us out to a yummy Chinese dinner! :) it was sooo yummy! and we had so much fun just talking for so long! She has some really wonderful stories that are so touching, and you can just feel the spirit so strongly when she's speaking them! :) She and her husband were converts to the church, and she's faced a lot of really hard things in her life. But she's just a superstar! :) I love her! SO much!
Did I ever tell you one of the ladies that we visit has a pig for a pet? well....they do. and they named it Scrapple. hahaha! Its a Pennsylvania Dutch thing that really is made out of pig. If I understood correctly, Scrapple is I don't know what part of the pig...but pig, mixed with corn meal and they eat it with breakfast....kinda like sausage...it's not very good. I didn't like it.....but I thought it was soooo funny to hear that they had named their pet pig scrapple. haha! :) we also got to visit them this week! :)
We also go to go see Erin! :) She's so awesome! :) She is just always so sweet, and she is such a good mom! she's a member, but has been less active for a long time. But we always just have the best time when we get to go visit her. :) She's so awesome! We got to help her put her tree up a while ago, and she also let us borrow a baby tree for our apartment! :) It has been so fun! We got to go teach her more about the Plan of Salvation, and had a really good conversation on what the Plan of Salvation could mean for her and her family! :) it was so fun, and before we ended up leaving, she had us open up a gift that she got for Sister Winkler and I. We each got one, and we opened it up, and it was the most precious ornament that her mother had made for us, that she had cross stitched, and it was so sweet! :) Erin has the most elaborate cross stitched Christmas socks for each member of her family that her mom had made, and we had been commenting on it the time before when we were there, and later that night she had called her mom and asked her mom to make them for us! They are so cute, and on the back it has their family name with the town that they live in! It is going to be something that will always remind me of them and the memories I've made by serving in this area! :)
oh man, and Friday, we had Zone Conference! It was SOOOOOO good! we always get the best training on how we can become better missionaries! :) They're so fun because our Zone gets together, and we get to see some of the missionaries that we haven't been able to see in a while, and we get to come together to study the scriptures, to recognize the way that the Savior served and how we can apply that to the way we serve! It's the most amazing thing! I wish I could elaborate more, but I'm almost out of time. But I got to see my MTC companion Sister Hurdsman. :) :) that was soo fun! I tell you what, I better get to serve with her again before my mission is over! she is amazing! :) and she quotes Nacho Libre with me! :) hahaha!! I've missed that! But it was such a fun, spiritually uplifting conference. :) and after that was over we went on exchanges.
Exchanges is where we get to change companions for 24 hours for the purpose of learning other ways of doing things, other ways of teaching. :) its fun! and so we got to go on exchanges....and one of the missionaries cars battery died during the conference, and we rode with the Zone Leaders, and they had to take the other missionaries to not just one store...but two stores to find some jumper cables, and so Sister Denney and I were stuck at the chapel alone for a while, while they were on a trek for Jumper cables. That took a while, and was quite an interesting way to start the exchange..but we finally made it home, had dinner, and taught a couple lessons that night. The next day we had our last lesson with Evan, and taught a couple other people and had lunch before it was time to switch back....well while we were at our late lunch appointment it started to snow...and it was sticking pretty good. We were supposed to meet at the church at 4:30 but didn't get there until about 5 because the roads were so bad. By the time we got to the church to switch companions back, it was dark and still coming down a lot. So the Sister Training Leader called Sister Topham, our mission Presidents wife, and got permission for us to stay at their apartment that night. It was so much fun...but also very interesting....because I didn't have ANYTHING. nothing. not even a stinkin toothbrush because I wasn't planning on staying the night anywhere...so I wore the same outfit two days in a row...didn't have pajamas, I didn't have a blanket or a pillow or anything..Sister Winkler had some stuff because she stayed at their apartment the night before...but I didn't have anything. So after I showered I got to get in my yucky dirty clothes again....and that's what I ended up wearing to church the next day because our house is too far from the church to drive back to change and do everything I needed....so I went to church with no makeup....having brushed my teeth with a tiny little mini toothbrush thinger....and wearing the same clothes I had been wearing the day before. haha! awesome! It was still way fun, and we got to have a "movie night" at the apartment and we watched 17 Miracles and it was so fun! despite the fact that one of our investigators got kicked out of his house the same night it was blizzarding and freeze raining...so he called us in distress and so we had to make a bunch of phone calls to get it all worked out. In the end it worked out since Brother Raleigh is the best Ward Mission Leader in the whole world and took care of it for us....he pretty much risked his life by going to pick him up and take him to a friends house in this kind of weather, but he just rock so he did it anyway. He's the best! :)
And then Sunday, we got to have a baptism! :) :) Yay!! :) it was so exciting! and so worth it! Evan's family came and supported him, and it was just a great experience! the speakers did a great job! Sister Calvert did the talk on baptism, she is Evans Sunday School teacher, and Brother Greenway gave a talk on the Holy Ghost! It was really good! He used an analogy of a pen, and a cap to explain the gift of the Holy Ghost! It was really good! (I just have to give a shout-out to Brother Greenway and his family for just being so awesome! :) they always take such good care of us, and they tell us some of the funnies stories! :) especially when Brother Greenway takes all the missionaries out to for pizza! haha) and the McBrides did a beautiful musical number! and at the end, Evan bore his testimony! He's such a good kid! It was so fun! and a great experience! even though I was smelly and I didn't have any makeup on! ha! It was awesome!
We just have the worlds best ward! They've made sure that we have somewhere to go on Christmas and Christmas Eve, and a place to Skype, and that all of our needs are taken care of! Sister Greenway even made us a Christmas CD, and Brother McBride gave me some music! They just rock! I love them all so much
I also have the best family in the world! :) I love them all and am missing them so much in the Christmas Season.
And, I have THE WORLDS GREATEST AUNT PEGGY!! !:) :) She sent my companion and I the 12 days of Christmas :) and it has been so fun to open something. :) It totally has made our week! Thank you sooo much for everything that y'all do for me! I love and miss you all!
I'll talk to you soon!


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Millions of Jobs Between Now and November. Or Else.
One of the chief responses to the continuing disaster that is America's unemployment situation runs along the lines of: It's a lot better than it was last year at this time. That depends on how you look at it.
In terms of the number of jobs the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported lost in the Decembers of 2008 and 2009, the situation is a lot better. Jobs aren't being slashed in anywhere near the same numbers they were a year ago, 681,000 vs. 85,000. Layoffs are way down and, on average, people who still have jobs are more secure that they'll keep them than they were just a few months ago. Various indicators of a slowly improving economy can be seen everywhere. No doubt, thanks to government intervention, however imperfect, there have been innumerable sighs of relief.
But looked at from the standpoint of accumulated job losses, with no real hiring in sight, the situation looks far worse than it did a year ago. Back then, "only" 3.1 million jobs had been lost since the recession began in December 2007. Today, 5.0 million more Americans are officially out of work. And 6.1 million of them have been out of work for at least six months. Altogether, those counted as jobless number 15.3 million. That, says the BLS, is 10% of the work force, the "U3″ number. Add in the part-timers who want full time work and people too discouraged to keep looking for a job and this "U6″ measurement rises to 26.5 million and 17.3%.
The numbers, however, are actually worse than they first appear. Because, as BLS statistics show, 661,000 people left the labor force last month. We don't know where they all went. Retired, enrolled in school, left the job market to raise a child, took time off to write a book, sank into despair. What we do know is that if they had stayed in the labor force and kept looking for one of those jobs that isn't yet available, today we'd be looking at a 10.4% unemployment rate, with 16 million officially out of work. Maybe 27 million when the underemployed and discouraged get tallied.
What these terrible numbers represent are persons with rent to pay, kids to feed, tuition to cover, loans to repay. Not abstractions. People. Which is why everyone – except for Republicans hoping to make political gains off of misery – eagerly hopes each new job report will announce that the numbers have begun to be reversed.
However, given the BLS's tweaky application of seasonal adjustment formulas and calculations about new businesses arising and old ones folding (called the birth-death model), this focus on when positive job numbers will finally be announced is really a perverse waste of time.
I don't say this with any malice toward anyone. I've watched for that crossover from negative to positive, too. Nor am I saying there's anything wrong with following the job trends that appear over a period of a few or many months. It's just that when the day the numbers finally appear to go positive for more than a one-month blip, it will be a maybe-yes, maybe-no affair.
And, more importantly, that breakthrough, such as it is, will only mark the beginning of what must be obvious to everyone by now will be a long, long trek back to the employment levels of December 2007 when there were 8.1 million more people working than there are now and millions more had full-time instead of part-time jobs.
Click for a larger version of this Calculated Risk chart.
Our attention instead ought to be focused on the problem of how long it's going to take to return to the number of jobs there were when the recession started two years ago.
As many others and I have pointed out for months, and Robert Reich noted Friday, it normally takes the creation of about 100,000 jobs each month just to keep up with added new job seekers entering the labor market. So, add to that 8.1 million jobs we've lost another 2.5 million "never entereds." That's 10.6 million jobs that have to be made up.
To achieve that by the summer of 2012, in time to have a favorable effect on the presidential election, would mean, Reich says, 400,000 jobs created each month. During the Clinton boom, the best rate was 280,000 a month. If that could be matched, it would still take until early 2013 to cover those 10.6 million jobs. And, it should be remembered, each month going forward we will need yet another 100,000 jobs to handle people entering the market for the first time. So the actual number of needed jobs over the next three years is more like 13-14 million. A formidable task.
If there were at least program in place that was showing marked improvement in the unemployment situation, even if the jobless numbers were still high, it would be harder for Republicans to spin things in their direction for the election. But what kind of program?
The imperfect stimulus has helped stop the bleeding. But the only way for the administration to do a timely job of putting Americans back to work is with a dynamic and massive federally run jobs program, one that employs millions as quickly as possible. That means more government spending. Not only should it be done right away for all the obvious human reasons, but also because the already somewhat dicey political situation for Democrats in November is going to be far dicier if more jobs aren't generated soon. Excuses won't go over well.
It would be the toughest imaginable sell on Capitol Hill. Fought against tooth and nail by obstructionist Republicans, Democratic deficit hawks and assorted worry warts. It might very well go down to defeat. The only alternative then would be diverting some TARP repayments and unspent stimulus dollars. That's legally problematic and, at any rate, wouldn't produce enough money.
But the possibility of defeat should not be a deterrent to trying. The White House should bite the bullet on this, go all out, take the issue to the American people and fight like hell in Congress to make this happen. The next few months will offer the only chance, however slim, of accomplishing it. Marching into November with massive numbers of Americans still unemployed and no program for effectively reducing those numbers could make it a painful year at the polls.
There is, as pointed out many times before, far more to do than merely try to get more Americans back to work. We need a frontal assault on deregulation, deunionization, privatization, unfettered globalization, wage stagnation and the outrageous transfer of wealth to the upper 20%, especially the top 1%. Fixing, even ameliorating, structural unemployment will require rejiggering out trade policy and establishing a progressive industrial policy.
Atrios makes an excellent point in that regard:
One of my longstanding pet peeves is that everyone in the US pretends we don't have an "industrial policy" because that implies naughty state intervention in certain sectors. But of course we have lots of naughty state intervention in certain sectors, we just don't do it even notionally for any good reason. We prop up the single family homebuilding industry and the automobile industry (even before the bailouts). We prop up certain agricultural sectors. We favor big business over small. Now we're massively propping up one skimmer industry – the financial industry – and are about to prop up another skimmer industry – health insurance.
So, yes, by design or accident we have industry policy. We should recognize that and then decide what we should be doing instead of pretending we don't have any.
Whatever we do in that regard, however, will have to wait until we solve the immediate crisis. For one thing, there aren't anywhere near enough fighting progressives in Congress to deal effectively with these deeper problems with the economy. For now, Band-Aids will have to do.


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Choosing the right garden plant species
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The Cherry Mobile Flare P1 is the first Cherry Mobile Flare series phone that have a Dual Camera Setup that we have. It's also the first one that launch out with an Android 7.0 Nougat in it. Here are some the specification of the phone.
The Specs
- Android 7.0 Nougat
- Quadcore 1.3 Ghz
- 5.0 HD IPS Panel Screen
- 16gb Internal Storage
- Expandable up to 64gb
- 1gb of RAM
- 13mp + 2mp BSI Rear Camera and 5mp Front Camera
- WIFI, 3G and Bluetooth 4.1
- 2G: 850/900/1800/1900 Mhz
- 3g: 900/2100 Mhz
- Wifi 802.11 b/g/n
- Dual sim
- 2350 mAh capacity Battery
First Impression
My first impression on this phone is "ahh it looks good" "ganda" "dual cam wow.. parang iphone 7". The unit we check out had a black gloss and was pleasing to the eyes. Although it doesn't shout out premium, its okay. It only had a quad core processor and no LTE, so I think that's a let down. But the main focus here is the Android 7.0 nougat. As of the moment, the Android 7.0 is the latest installation of Google's Android operating system and it's nice to see it here considering that Flare S5 Plus (cherry mobile flagship phone) only had an Android Marshmallow 6.0.
Here are some pictures of the Cherry Mobile Flare P1:
That's it guys.. hope you find information you're looking for in this post. see you in the next one. 😀
Click here to see the official website of Cherry Mobile Flare P1.


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"We wanted to provide a music festival with some enthralling performances to the people of Hyderabad," said Saif Samejo, producer and lead vocalist of Jamshoro-based Lahooti Live Sessions – a forum which records and releases folk songs and tunes of indigenous musicians – while opening the festival on Saturday evening at the Hyderabad Club.
Despite the programme starting two hours after schedule, all sessions on the first day's agenda were completed.
Fakirs of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai, who perform in a choir, with each playing dambur, a five-string instrument modified by Bhitai, and singing Bhitai's poetry, got the show under way.
Two panel sessions titled 'Music Appreciation' and 'Music Album and Way Forward to Pakistani Music Industry' were hosted before Sheema Kirmani and her troupe took to the stage for a captivating performance.
In an attempt to mitigate the impatience of the audience for unbridled music and singing, Samejo launched his new album, 'Tu [you]', amid a horde of artists surrounding him on the stage.
"It's the first time I have watched Kirmani live. I thank Lahooti for bringing her and many other urban and rural artists to our city," said Shimail Shaikh, a university student, while talking to The Express Tribune.
The participants appeared less eager during the sessions, debating things which music encompasses these days. "We don't even know many of the panellists. They seem young and inexperienced," commented Abdul Majeed, a middle-aged man sitting in the audience. He pointed out that even Kirmani and senior artists like Juman Shah of Bhitai's fakirs did not join the panel discussions.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 11th, 2016.
Find Original Article HERE.


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Steven C. Nock is a partner in the Real Estate Department in the firm's Orange County Office.
Areas of Practice
Steven is a real estate attorney specializing in commercial leasing, commercial purchase and sale transactions and real-estate secured loan transactions and workouts.
Steven has extensive experience with all types of commercial leases, including high-rise office leases, large build-to-suit warehouse leases, retail anchor and shop leases and industrial building leases.
Steven was in-house general counsel for 4 years to a group of subsidiaries of Pacific Enterprises (parent of Southern California Gas Company) that developed, leased, sold and syndicated apartment projects, business parks and mid-rise office buildings. During his tenure at Sheppard Mullin, Steven was "on-loan" for 6 months to Bank of America's legal department, handling leasing and bank-owned property matters.
Representative Transactions
Represented a building owner in negotiating a 50,000 square foot office building lease with Carolco Pictures, Inc. in West Hollywood.
Represented Bank of America in negotiating several bank branch leases.
Represented Mossimo, Inc., in negotiating (i) its first retail lease at South Coast Plaza, in Costa Mesa, California, and (ii) its first wholesale showroom lease in New York City.
Represented Whirlpool Corporation in negotiating a 766,000 square foot build-to-suit warehouse lease in the City of Ontario;
Represented Coopervision in negotiating a 225,000 square foot build-to-suit manufacturing facility lease in the Irvine Spectrum;
Represented the Austin Company in negotiating a 50,000 square foot office lease with a profit participation in the City of Irvine;
Represented Prudential Residential Services Company in reviewing and coordinating the assignment of all of its real estate brokerage office leases in California in connection with a sale of its real estate brokerage business;
Prepared lease forms and negotiated anchor retail leases for several shopping center owners.
Speaking Engagements
- Mr. Nock is an active lecturer in the UC Irvine extension program for real estate developers.
Member, Advisory Board, UC Irvine extension program for real estate developers
Board Member, Irvine Temporary Housing
J.D., Harvard Law School, 1980
B.A., University of Dayton, 1977, Valedictorian


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Friday, October 25, 2013
Bob Rae Speaks at Confederation College
Negotiator for the Ring of Fire project Bob Rae does not agree with a rail line proposed by KWG Resources. Speaking at Confederation College today Rae says that road access is needed for the communities within the Ring of Fire, that includes five communities with no connection at all. Rae also touched on the education of Aboriginal students, saying more support is needed for students moving to bigger cities.
Posted by Acadia News at 3:17 PM
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New Lawsuit For Ontario
Ontario taxpayers will be on the hook following the latest lawsuit against the province. NDP Northern Development and Mines Critic Michael Mantha is reacting to news that North Superior Resources out of Sudbury has filed a 110-million-dollar lawsuit. The company says the government has failed to discharge its "constitutional duty" to engage First Nations on its behalf, and claims they have now lost their right to explore a vast area of northwestern Ontario. None of the claims have been proven in court.
Posted by Acadia News at 2:47 PM
Moonias Inquest Back On Monday
Posted by Acadia News at 2:41 PM
Indecent Act At Boulevard Lake
Thunder Bay Police are looking for a man that's alleged to have performed an indecent act in the bushes just south of the Boulevard Lake dam. The incident occurred on Wednesday just after 7 pm. Police checked the area but could not find him. Anyone who may have seen the suspect is asked to call police, he's described as a white man with a heavy build.
Posted by Acadia News at 2:15 PM
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More Reaction To Aboriginal Education Study
A new report says Ontario schools don't do enough to create more educational opportunities for Aboriginals. Omer Belisle of the catholic school board says the report is very accurate when it comes to what's happening within the board's system locally. Belisle says the board is committed to doing what's necessary to reduce the learning gap between Aboriginals and non-Aboriginals.
Posted by Acadia News at 12:48 PM
Break-In Leads To Swim In River
Thunder Bay police have a 33 year old man in custody after a house break-in Thursday afternoon on the city's south side. They say a 9-1-1 call from a distraught woman on Bernard Street resulted in a foot chase that ended at the McIntyre River near Vickers Street. They say the man jumped in the river and swam to the other side where he was met by waiting police and was arrested.
Posted by Acadia News at 10:24 AM
Rickford On Senate Suspensions
Posted by Acadia News at 10:22 AM
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Tbaytel Looking For Answers
Posted by Acadia News at 10:02 AM
Big Lots Open In Thunder Bay
Thunder Bay's Liquidation World is now a Big Lot store. Big Lots Canada President Joe Cooper says it's been a lengthy process of opening up Canadian stores. A grand opening celebration was held this morning. Thunder Bay's store is the fifth to be opened in Canada.
Posted by Acadia News at 9:57 AM
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Board Defends Its First Nations Teachings
Posted by Acadia News at 12:30 AM
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|Easyjet's A319 G-EZFS landing on runway 05
|despite the dark afternoon, it arrived at the stand under the last glorious rays of sunlight...
On its side, one of Transavia France's B737 of the afternoon (F-GZHM) and another A319 from Aigle Azur.
|Linned up at runway 05 for the departure to London.
Managed to make this shot because it holded there for quite a long time, waiting for approaching Aerovip Do-228 CS-AYT cleared the departure path, as it was approaching from Porto Santo.


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Vocal Music
Voice and Piano
Begin (for soprano or mezzo-soprano and piano)
Text by Neil Aitken, used with permission
(Duration – 7:15 minutes)
Begin is the first poem from a set called Babbage's Dream, about the first man to conceptualize the idea of a programmable computer in the 1820s. Poet Neil Aitken charts the course of Charles Babbage's life, from his initial envisioning of an analytical machine, through his death with the machine only partially built.
It's a story that might have been technical and academic, and yet, what caught my eye was the poet's knack for taking complex concepts and pulling a story from them which is classical, beautiful, and universal. To me, the text of Begin is applicable to the beginning of any endeavor: The words feel like a personal reflection from someone enraptured with a vision which no one around them can see, understand, or imagine as yet.
A Line Storm Song (for soprano and piano)
Text by Robert Frost (from the public domain, published 1907/1913)
(Duration: 7:20 minutes)
A Line-Storm Song is a setting of one of Robert Frost's earliest published poems. Amidst a scene filled with nature – tattered clouds, wet woods, crushed flowers and gusting winds, Frost places two lovers whose story mirrors the flow and ebb of the sea. In this setting of the text, the piano evokes the shapes and gestures of sea and wind, while the voice captures the innocence and sweetness of the lovers in the oncoming storm.
Soprano and Chamber Ensemble
The Lost Country of Sight (for soprano, cello, piano, and percussion)
Text by Neil Aitken, used with permission
(In four movements, duration 13 mins.)
Poems in tribute to a lost loved one, portraying the cyclical nature of life and relationships. The songs serve as something of a farewell, an exile of body to earth and of spirit to cosmos
Voice and electronics
Sirens (for two sopranos, mezzo-soprano and pre-recorded track)
(Duration – 32 minutes)
Text adapted from James Russell Lowell (from the public domain)
Sirens was written for an unusual project – a multi-disciplinary collaboration between Heidi Duckler Dance theatre, LA Opera, the Los Angeles Marine Institute and AltaSea. Written for a site-specific performance on tall ships in San Pedro harbor, the cycle features singers over an electronic track incorporating samples of birds and whales to evoke a haunting marine soundscape.


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Hello every one, Here's a quick and easy project for you this holiday season. It's a Burlap Napkin Ring.
It is a very inexpensive project but it will definitely help you on your Holiday Tablescapes this season.
Since this is a super easy and inexpensive project, you easily do different rings for different occasions. Just change the color and cut-out design that will fit into your theme. Have you checked how much a napkin ring costs in a retail store lately? They are not cheap. Why not create your own handmade Christmas Napkin Ring this season and save some dollar$ !
These are so cute, they look like cupcakes or chocolates. I made these napkin rings for our Ladies Christmas Luncheon Party next week. Our host asked me to help her on the decoration and tablescapes. She is into Nativity scenes so I thought a Star Napkin Rings will be perfect for her theme.
Please find the tutorial on how I made this DIY Napkin Rings below. Thanks for stopping by my blog and hope I inspired you today!
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My name is Miriam Tan, I am in my fourth and final year of Nutrition and Dietetics at the University of Newcastle. I have made the move to the outback, living in Tamworth in rural NSW at the student accommodation at the UoN Department of Rural Health where I will complete all of my practical placements. But living rural isn't a new thing for me, I grew up in a rural town called Singleton in NSW and moved to Newcastle to study dietetics.
Tell me a little bit about yourself and/or describe a typical day for you?
I am currently undertaking an embedded honours program here at the UoN Department of Rural Health in a project titled 'Average Australian Woman' which aims to collect detailed, high quality information about body shape, size and composition data of Australian women of today enabling us to examine changes that have occurred among young women in the past 15 years. Doing my honours project is an experience that I am thoroughly enjoying. It's a wonderful feeling having the opportunity to be a part of something real and relevant to the local community and to many Australian women! The support has been wonderful and I have been able to research an area that I am passionate about. A typical day for me involves either on practical placements or taking measurements of women as part of my honours project.
What do you most enjoy about studying dietetics?
My passion has always been food and health from a very young age involved in every single sport in the local community to helping mum in our herb garden and making feasts for our family to share. I have been fortunate enough throughout my degree to not only have a passion for nutrition but be involved in enjoyable and certainly rewarding extra curricular activities within the community.
What would be your number one tip to someone starting their career in dietetics?
As cliche as it sounds, say – YES! Take advantage of every opportunity that comes your way, you never know what may learn. The increasing influence of social media and Dr Google means the general public can source health information easier and faster which may lead to false and misleading information. Stay up to date with current nutritional information, useful resources, controversial topics and evidence based practice
What is one interesting fact about you?
I have travelled to over 20 countries!


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HumanGood East Senior Executive Team
The HumanGood East Executive Leadership team is composed of individuals who share a unique desire to use their talents, skills and gifts to advance our mission of providing exceptional living experiences for adults 62 and better, from independent living to personal care to memory care, from short-term rehabilitation to skilled care to Affordable Housing. Each of the HumanGood East executives is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for all those we serve.
Judee M. Bavaria, President & CEO (2005-2019)
President Emeritus, Effective January 2020
Judee M. Bavaria is president and CEO of Presby's Inspired Life (Presby), a not-for-profit, faith-based ministry that provides continuing care and Affordable Housing to adults 62 and better throughout the greater Philadelphia area. With a net operating revenue (2015) of $86.1M, Presby serves over 3,000 individuals within 30+ communities. Judee joined the multisite organization as chief operating officer in July 1999, and in January 2005, she was appointed president and CEO. Prior to joining Presby, Judee was corporate compliance officer and vice president of operations for Lutheran Services Northeast, a multisite social ministry in northeastern Pennsylvania. She also served in a variety of leadership capacities for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Department of Public Welfare. Judee's leadership at Presby is marked by significant strides in meeting the critical need for Affordable Housing for economically disadvantaged seniors. During her tenure, the Affordable Housing ministry has grown from 12 communities in 1999 to more than 30 today, in both sponsored and managed sites. Judee's achievements also include the execution of several strategic plans to expand and improve Presby's Life Plan Communities (formerly known as Continuing Care Retirement Communities, or CCRCs) so that they may better meet residents' evolving needs. Her progressive oversight of capital improvement initiatives for existing retirement communities, as well as the development of new communities, has enabled increased viability for the organization, setting the stage for its continued growth and securing its place in the active senior living market. Judee's reputation as an accomplished leader has led other senior housing and care organizations to seek her expertise. She currently serves on the board of University of Scranton, Scranton, Pennsylvania, and the Philadelphia Corporation for Aging (PCA) in Philadelphia. She served as chair of Catholic Senior Housing and Health care Services in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, for 12 years, before resigning from the post in 2014. Additionally, Judee has served as co-chair of the LeadingAge Leadership Circle; member of LeadingAge's Nominating Committee; previous member of the LeadingAge PA Board of Directors; and frequent presenter at various state and national senior living conferences. She also holds the honor of being selected from among her statewide peers as the 2007 PANPHA Leader of the Year. A registered nurse and licensed nursing home administrator, Judee also holds a B.S. in secondary education from East Stroudsburg University and an M.S. in rehabilitation counseling from the University of Scranton. She is a graduate of Misericordia Hospital School of Nursing.
Jennifer Kappen, Chief Financial Officer
Jennifer Kappen is chief financial officer (CFO) for Presby's Inspired Life, a role she assumed in May 2016. In this capacity, Jennifer leads the finance, information technology and materials management disciplines and a staff of 27 professionals. Jennifer is responsible for managing $86 million in annual revenues from the management of 30+ communities that are home to more than 3,000 older adults. These communities include four market rate retirement communities, including two Life Plan Communities and over 30 managed and sponsored Affordable Housing sites. Jennifer also handles $370 million in net assets, including $133 million in cash and investments. Prior to her current position, Jennifer served as vice president of finance at Presby for eight years. Notable hallmarks in Jennifer's tenure at Presby include the successful procurement of $55 million in financing for a comprehensive repositioning project at Presby's Rydal Park Life Plan Community in 2009; attaining a Fitch investment grade rating (BBB-) in 2010 (a first in the organization's history); attaining an upgrade to the Fitch Rating to BBB in 2012; the 2010 re-financing of $40 million in variable rate demand bonds (VRDB) with fixed rate bonds; the implementation of organizational strategic plans that called for standardization, process improvement and updates of systems that provided for enhanced organizational efficiencies; and assisting in the acquisition and development of two Affordable Housing communities. Before joining Presby, Jennifer was the business development & financial planning manager for Diakon Lutheran Social Ministries, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, a nonprofit organization that offers senior living communities and a range of services for children, youths, families and older adults in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware. Before joining the senior living industry, Jennifer was senior associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. A graduate of Shippensburg University, Jennifer holds a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration and a license as a certified public accountant in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Michelle T. Bryk, Vice President of Human Resources
A seasoned health care human resources professional, Michelle is responsible for strategic direction and implementation of human resources initiatives that include recruitment and retention, team member recognition, training and development, benefits and compensation, team member and labor relations, regulatory compliance, and policy development and interpretation. She also serves as the organization's chief compliance officer. Prior to joining Presby, Michelle served as director of employee relations for ACTS Retirement-Life Communities Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania. Previously, she was human resources director for ManorCare Health Services in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Michelle holds a Master of Business Administration degree from DeSales University, Center Valley, Pennsylvania; a Master of Science degree in health care administration, with a concentration in community health, from King's College, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; and a Bachelor of Science degree in management from Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania. She holds the Senior Human Resources Professional (SHRM–SP) designation from the Society for Human Resources Management and the Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) designation from the Human Resources Certification Institute. Michelle is an active member of the Society for Human Resources Management, LeadingAge and LeadingAge PA (serving on the board of directors at the state and local level) and has been a member of the Greater Valley Forge Human Resources Association and the public speaking organization, Toastmasters International, among others.
Lynn Marie Johnson-Porter, Vice President of Philanthropy & Mission Support
Among her many hallmark achievements with Presby is Lynn's design and execution of our first-ever capital campaign, which was launched to raise charitable support for the Joseph C. Scott Medical Center at Rydal Park. Lynn's leadership of this initiative laid the groundwork for its ultimate success, surpassing our $5 million goal. Additionally, she conceptualized and orchestrated the Campaign for Compassionate Care in 2015 to attract charitable support for benevolent assistance and life enrichment programs across the market rate and Affordable Housing communities. The fund has raised more than $750,000 in gifts and pledges. From June 2011 to June 2014, Lynn served as executive director of major gifts and clinical support for Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where she led a team of major gift officers. Her seasoned leadership skills were responsible for her department's significant achievement in raising $20 million during her three-year tenure. Lynn's other career highlights include fundraising leadership posts at Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania State University, The University of Pennsylvania and West Chester University. She is also past executive director of the Philadelphia branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Lynn launched her career as a writer and producer at KYW– TV3, now CBS-3, after earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from Temple University and an Associate of Arts degree in journalism from The Pennsylvania State University.
Bill Canteen, Vice President of Operations (Affordable Housing)
Bill Canteen is the Vice President of Operations of Affordable Housing at Presby's Inspired Life, based in Lafayette Hill, PA, just outside of Philadelphia. In this role, Bill oversees Presby's entire 38-community affordable housing portfolio, which features 30 properties within Philadelphia's city limits, five in the surrounding suburbs of Delaware and Bucks Counties and one in Wilmington, Delaware. Bill also directly manages multiple assistant housing directors and on-site community managers. During Bill's time at Presby, the organization's affordable housing portfolio has grown with his guidance and expertise from 23 properties to 38 properties. Prior to joining Presby, Bill was a Regional Property Manager at Pennrose Property Management, a Philadelphia-based developer of tax credit, HUD and market-rate properties in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. During his time at Pennrose, Bill maintained the budgets of the organization's affordable housing portfolio while overseeing government inspections and managing a wide-ranging team of site managers. Bill also spent a number of years as the Director of Property Management for the Greater Germantown Housing Development Corporation in Philadelphia, where he headed a property management division that included tax credit, market rate, Section 8 and commercial space properties. Bill's property management career began when District Property Manager at Interstate Realty Management Company in Southern New Jersey starting in 1994. He oversaw 15 sites that totaled over 1,800 Section 8 and tax credit units. A graduate of Benedict College (Columbia, South Carolina), Bill earned degrees in both Economics and Business Administration. He is also is a certified housing credit professional, a certified assisted housing manger and has his New Jersey real estate license.
Russell Mast, Vice President of Operations
Russell Mast serves as Vice President of Operations for Presby's Inspired Life. In this role, Russ provides leadership to Presby's three life plan communities: Rosemont, Rydal Park, and Spring Mill. Previously, Russ served as Executive Director of Rydal Park, Presby's flagship life plan community in Jenkintown, PA. While at Rydal Park, Russ built a strong leadership team, supported the enhancements that led to a five-star rating for the community's Joseph C. Scott Medical Center and served on the corporate team leading the development of Rydal Waters (an 84-cottage development adjacent to Rydal Park's existing campus in Abington Township). Prior to joining Presby in 2015, Russ held executive leadership roles in two leading not-for-profit senior living systems in southeastern Pennsylvania. Russ began his career in corporate communications for a Fortune 500 company, headquartered in Malvern, PA.
A licensed Nursing Home Administrator, Russ earned a Bachelor's Degree in Communications from Eastern University. Other certifications include LeadingAge's Certified Aging Services Professional designation and the Center for Aging Services Risk Management's Certified Professional in Aging Services Risk Management designation.
Russ serves as President of the Board of Directors for VOICE, the statewide coalition with a vision of empowered older adults across Pennsylvania living self-directed lives wherever they call home. Russ also serves on the Advisory Board for Saint Joseph Villa in Flourtown, PA.
Vidhi Anderson, Executive Director of Housing & Land Development
Vidhi Anderson is the executive director of housing & land development, a critical leadership post designed to advance Presby's Affordable Housing. Vidhi is responsible for strategically expanding the footprint of Presby's Affordable Housing ministry in greater Philadelphia. Her responsibilities include seeking potential development opportunities, securing tax credits, local, state and federal funding and operating subsidies. She oversees the development of new affordable housing projects, acquisitions and refinancing of Presby's existing HUD portfolio. Vidhi's exceptional real estate acumen and strong knowledge of the complex affordable housing funding processes, particularly tax credits, make her an invaluable asset to the Presby's Inspired Life Affordable Housing ministry. Vidhi continues to successfully expand and enhance Presby's housing portfolio by securing new financing as well as overseeing the refinancing of HUD communities. The most recent project, Cantrell Place, was nominated by the Philadelphia Business Journal as one of the "Best Real Estate Deals" in greater Philadelphia in 2018. Dedicated to revitalizing the Philadelphia housing landscape, Vidhi spent the first decade of her career with city-based firms specializing in housing development, with a focus on HOPE VI and LIHTC communities. Vidhi holds a master's degree in city and regional planning, with a concentration in community and economic development, from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor's degree in architecture from the School of Planning and Architecture in New Delhi, India. She is a sought-after speaker and panelist and a trusted resource for area journalists reporting on the trends of real estate and senior living. She is also on the Steering Committee of Women in Housing & Finance PA.
Tracey Cavacino, Corporate Director of Quality Assurance & Clinical Risk Management
Tracey joined the Presby's Inspired Life team with close to three decades of experience in the senior living arena. She is a registered nurse and holds a nursing home administrator's license in three states, including Pennsylvania. Tracey has spent the last 10 years in multifacility management roles for communities up and down the East Coast. Prior to joining Presby, Tracey was a regional director of operations for a national provider of health care based in Maryland. Tracey also has multi-facility experience in clinical operations, corporate compliance, risk management and quality assurance and improvement. Tracey is responsible for fostering a culture of safety that continually improves services and outcomes throughout the organization. She engages team members in the design and implementation of innovative solutions to ensure ongoing regulatory compliance and to promote superior customer satisfaction. She works with team members to make certain that Presby's clinical strategies are in alignment with area hospital partnerships in the era of accountable care organizations and the new bundled payment system being implemented by CMS. Tracey also plays an integral role in the nine-member senior executive team. Tracey received her Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from Gwynedd Mercy College and her master's degree in management from Troy State University. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau, the International Honor Society of Nursing.
Sarah Jolles, Executive Director of Sales & Marketing
Sarah Jolles is executive director of sales and marketing at Presby's Inspired Life. In this capacity, Sarah designs and implements branding, marketing, advertising and sales initiatives to increase exposure and occupancy across the organization's portfolio of communities for adults 62 and better. Sarah joined the Presby's Inspired Life family early in 2013 and has subsequently spearheaded her teams to record-breaking results, earning the respect of those she values most: her residents and colleagues. Sarah's career in the Life Plan Community field is marked by significant advancements in exceeding occupancy expectations. Prior to joining Presby, Sarah's related experience included serving as director of sales at The Hill at Whitemarsh, a Life Plan Community in Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania; working as regional director of sales & marketing for a national senior living consulting firm; and serving as the director of sales & marketing for The Evergreens, a Life Plan Community in Moorestown, New Jersey. An award-winning marketing & communications leader, Sarah Jolles also brings a wealth of experience in corporate communications to her role, having owned and operated her own marketing & communications consultancy agency. She is the recipient of multiple marketing communications awards, including two Public Relations Society of America Pepperpot awards, five ADDY awards, two Billy Awards for Advertising Excellence and four Philadelphia Club of Advertising Women awards. Sarah is a magna cum laude graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, where she earned her Bachelor of Science degree in the dual majors of advertising and French, with a minor in Spanish. A passionate advocate for older adults, Sarah believes that people should live self-directed lives regardless of age or income, and is very proud to work for an organization that aligns so directly with her personal values.


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