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R.R. Donnelley Supports Reform of Government Printing Office
Wednesday, July 17, 2002
Press release from the issuing companyCHICAGO, July 16, 2002 -- R.R. Donnelley strongly supports efforts to improve the quality of printing services obtained by federal agencies by reforming the U.S. Government Printing Office's (GPO) procurement procedures. The company is concerned that if the GPO does not change promptly, its usefulness to its agency customers and the printing industry may be severely limited. The most urgently needed reform is the adoption of "best value" procurement practices. These procedures, commonly used in the public and private sectors, would improve both the quality and the delivery speed of government printing services purchased from the private sector. Under the current process mandated by law, the GPO is prohibited from considering such factors in choosing printing contractors. Price is a critical factor in selecting a contractor. However, R.R. Donnelley strongly believes that taxpayers are disadvantaged when the government is required to ignore critical issues like quality and speed of service. R.R. Donnelley is pleased to join the Printing Industries of America and its member printers, along with other organizations such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, in supporting this critical reform. The company has been doing business with the GPO for more than a century. R.R. Donnelley believes that the most effective way to make the "best value" practice work on behalf of the taxpayer is to integrate these modern procurement procedures into the existing GPO system. By doing so, the Office of Management and Budget's procurement modernization goals can be achieved while avoiding duplication of equipment and expertise and maintaining the economy of the centralized system.
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- Friendly. You want someone that wants to teach not be idolized. Remember you are paying them for a service not becoming their peon.
- Knowledgeable. Check the instructors credentials. Just because they say they are a black belt doesn't mean they are. Call the school that they claim awarded them their belt.
- Dedicated. Does the instructor teach on a regular basis or are you paying for a lay person to teach you. If that is the case maybe the instructors priorities are in line with yours.
- Organized. Your instruction shouldn't be haphazard or random in his instruction. Your instructor should have a development plan that takes you from white up to his belt level.
- Mentoring. You want a instructor that takes person interest in you and your development. You have individual needs to improve and succeed. Your instructor should be sensitive to this and help you grow.
It is very important that if you are starting out you start out on the right foot. There plenty of MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) and Martial Art schools out there that will take your money. The trick is finding the cream of the crop. You want the most bang for your buck. Martial Arts should be fun and rewarding. Don't settle for less.
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Rochester Helmet Sizing
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Split Personality Kolsch – brewed 7/14/2012Posted: July 23, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: kolsch, toastybros. 1 Comment
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We will be brewing 5 gallons of all grain French Saison today.
We will be bottling a 5 gallon batch of Kolsch with peanut butter extract added today.
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250 grams cream cheese
150 grams heavy cream
½ tsp vanilla essence
1 raw egg
80 grams dark chocolate
3 tsp stevia
1 tsp cinnamon
¼ tsp salt
Electric mixer
Small saucepan
Baking tray
5 ramekins (we used 80 cm in diameter)
- Allow cream cheese to soften either by leaving at room temperature for up to twenty minutes or heating in a saucepan over a low heat. You want it soft enough to easily beat
- Prepare oven to 180°C (356°F)
- Prepare a baking tray with five (5) ramekins
- Place softened cream cheese, vanilla essence, stevia, cinnamon, and salt in a mixer bowl
- Break up dark chocolate and place into small saucepan. Melt chocolate on low heat
- Add melted dark chocolate and chilled heavy cream to mixer bowl
- Beat on high until all is well blended – about a minute
- Add the raw egg and beat on high for a further minute. Your mixture will look like mousse
- Divide your mixture into the 5 ramekins and bake for thirty-five (35) minutes
Food Safety and Quality Tips
- In regards to pathogenic bacteria, raw egg is known for salmonella, which may be fatal to YIPE consumers (the young, the immune deficient, the pregnant, and the elderly). Careful hand washing is required after handling raw eggs (potential salmonella may be on the egg shell or the egg carton).
- Storage: keep refrigerated for up to one week. Can freeze for up to three (3) months.
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Alain Furlano
Real Estate Broker
During the past 22 years I have immersed myself in all aspects of real estate. I have helped over 500 families realize their dream of finding the perfect home or investment property. Along the way, I have had the pleasure of meeting many wonderful people and I look forward to helping many more achieve their real estate goals.
I am very passionate about real estate and I am pleased to offer even more services to you including mortgages and refinancing options.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
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Will I Go to Heaven?
By Jeanne Dennis, Colson Fellow and Centurion
How to Get to Heaven
You Can't Earn Your Way to Heaven.
"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast." (Eph. 2:8–9)
You Can't Buy Your Way to Heaven.
". . . it is the gift of God." (Eph. 2:8)
You Can't Find Your Way to Heaven without Jesus Christ.
"For there is no difference; for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith . . . " (Rom. 3:22–24 NKJV).
Propitiation means that Jesus reconciled us to God; He satisfied God's righteous wrath because of our sin by taking the punishment for us. He died so that we wouldn't have to. But death could not hold Him. He rose again on the third day and is alive and active in the lives of believers through His Spirit. In heaven He prepares a place for us to live with Him forever.
"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." (John 14:6)
But You Can Know You'll Go to Heaven—If You Belong to Jesus.
God provided a way for all to go to heaven—if we access His free gift. He loved the whole world so much that He gave His Son to die for our sin. All of us are guilty of sin against the holy God, our Creator. Instead of giving us the punishment we ALL deserve—which is death—He took our sin upon Himself in Jesus.
- Only a perfect sacrifice could pay for sin.
- Only Jesus was good enough to pay the price, because He was without sin—fully God and fully man.
"These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life" (1 John 5:13 NASB).
What Does It Mean to Be a Christian, Really?
Being a Christian is not:
- about religion
- or being a member of a church
- or doing enough good to merit a place in heaven
Being a Christian is:
- Having an intimate relationship with the God of the Universe through His Son, Jesus
- Having the Spirit of God Himself dwelling inside you
- Having God's Spirit loving and guiding you, molding, disciplining, and recreating you into the image of His Son.
- An unending love relationship far more wonderful and fulfilling than anything else you have ever experienced
- A relationship with Perfect Love that will challenge you to the depths of your being.
How Can I Belong to Jesus?
Salvation (being saved from sin and being made fit for heaven) does not happen because of anything we do. God reaches out to us with truth both through His Word (the Bible) and by grace through the Holy Spirit. It is God who gives us faith to believe. We have nothing to give Him but our sin. We must reject our own foolish pride, submit to His authority and control, and agree with Him that we are sinners who need a Savior. He waits to welcome, as His own beloved children, all who believe.
"If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the Scripture says, 'Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.' For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. For 'whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved.'" (Rom. 19:9–13 NKJV)
Do you believe in Jesus? Do you understand that you are a sinner? Are you willing to submit to Him and repent of (turn away from) sin? (He'll help you.) If so, why not ask Him right now to be Lord of your life? Just talk to Him in your own words. Ask His forgiveness and thank Him for the faith to believe. Invite Him to be your Savior and Lord, and ask Him to help you live a new life in Him. He's listening and waiting to welcome you as His own.
How Can I Learn More about a Relationship with Jesus?
If you have come into a relationship with God through Jesus Christ, please let us know. We would love to help you grow in faith. Meanwhile, find a Bible-believing church and start reading the Bible for yourself. If you want to know how to read the Bible, visit our page How to Use the Bible.
You may wonder "what is a worldview?" You can find out more through our Worldview Series:
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It's not uncommon for kids to revert back to baby talk long after they've outgrown it. Baby talk can come from a variety of reasons. Your preschooler may want attention,
It's 3 a.m. and your little one is up with a fever. Should you dare call the doctor in the wee hours of the night? Should you treat the fever
Beach vacation with a toddler? Yeah, right! Most parents gawk at the idea of traveling to the grocery store with their toddler, let alone an extended trip away from the


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My husband and I are mad movie fiends. We don't generally have a lot in common (opposites attract right?) but luckily both of our ideal Friday nights in to snuggle on the couch with our cats and a good film. Oh, and snacks. Lots of snacks.
Don't get me wrong, we don't always agree on movie choices; I love BBC period dramas that I could never get him to watch and he has some seriously dull, drama filled loves that are just too dark and dreary for my tastes. But we make do.
So this weekend we had another Netflix night on the cards, watching Let the Right one in -the Swedish sub-title original; we can be a little pretentious 😉 – and I couldn't decide if I wanted sweet or salty snacks. I'd seen the popcorn cookie on Joy the Baker and decided to give them a go with a bit of an extra decadence to satisfy my sweet tooth.
And thus; Netflix and Chill; the Cookie was created!
Take your favourite chocolately movie treat (caramel mates in my case), dark choc chips, hot buttered popcorn and roll it all into one oozey mess. YUM.
Recipe is as easy as can be:
50g butter (softened to room temp)
75g margarine
50g brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
75g white sugar
2 tablespoons sweetened condensed milk
220g self raising flour
1/2 packet nestle dark choc chips
1 packet of mates roughly chopped
About 1/3 of a 100g of microwave popcorn, cooked as per directions
Pre heat oven o 180 degrees.
Cream butter, margarine, vanilla and sugars together until pale and smooth. (I use two types of sugar and both white sugar and brown sugar to get the perfect mix of crunchy, buttery and soft that I like in my cookies).
Add condensed milk,choc chips and mates and mix until well combined.
Stir in flour until a smooth dough forms and carefully add in popcorn as the last addition; be a little wary not to break these up too much for the best effect. Place onto your lined cookie tray with a little room around to allow for any spread; the mates will melt and ooze!
Roll into small balls and bake for about 9-12 minutes. As with any cookies these will be baked to taste; I like these blonder which keeps them nice and soft- bake them for longer if you like them golden brown and crunchier.
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Are you pregnant or thinking about starting a family? Do you want the best start possible for your baby, providing them with natural brain development? Do you want to make sure your own mental health won't have a negative impact on your baby's developing brain? In this fascinating, well-researched and informative series, Your Baby's Developing… Continue reading Your Baby's Developing Brain
Month: September 2017
Twelve Tips to Help You Get a Better Sleep
Sometimes, I struggle to fall asleep at night. I would lie in bed all night, trying to stop myself from thinking about anything specific. And during these times, there was always an impulse to get my phone and browse news or SNS. I would always have to struggle for a few minutes against this idea.… Continue reading Twelve Tips to Help You Get a Better Sleep


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Company Details
|Payment Type:
|L/C,T/T,D/P,Paypal,Money Gram,Western Union
|Min. Order:
|1 Set/Sets
|Delivery Time:
|30 Days
Model No.: HZS75
Type: Concrete Mixing Plant
Shotcrete Type: Dry
Machining Process: Hydraulic
Structure: Spiral Type
Productivity: 180㎡/h
Feeding Height: 1370mm
Vibrating Amplitude: 1.3mm
Certification: ISO9001: 2000, CE
Condition: New
Color: Yellow, According To Customer Request
Movability: Stationary
Control System: Intelligent Computer Control System
Working Cycle: 60s
Discharging Height: >=4.0M
Weight: 100t
Central Mixing: Twin Shaft Compulsory Mixer
Warranty: 12 Months
Spare Parts: Life Long Time
Cement Silo: 50T,100T Etc.
Packaging: Large part of the concrete mixing plant is non-packed, small parts are in wooden/metal box package or as per customer's demand.
Productivity: 10 sets/year
Brand: The brand that customers need.
Transportation: Ocean,Land
Place of Origin: China
Supply Ability: 15 sets per year
Certificate: ISO9001
HS Code: 82743100
Port: Any Port in China.,Qingdao,Shanghai
Product Description
The Concrete Mixing Plant of this series has intellectually automatic function. It belongs to intermittent forced mixing station. The customers are satisfactory with its characteristics like compact structure, flexible arrangement, less investment,and convenient assembly and disassembly. It can use many manners of combining and charging according to customers' needs.It can produce dry-rigid,half dry-rigid ,plastic ,and every distribution ratio concrete and use the mixing technology of wrapping-stone mode which can improve the quality of concrete greatly. It's the ideal equipment for constructions of middle-small buildings,roads and bridges, the tube piles and cement precast factories.
Technical parameter
|Charging volume
|Discharging volume
|Max.aggregate size
|Mixing blade
|Winding machine
Main Feature
The Concrete Batching Plant will be loaded to the containers in the factory. Small models packed in the wooden boxes, big models nude, wearable parts and motors packed in the wooden boxes. The workers will make sure all equipment are steady and fixed before close the door of the container, and there will be no damage during transportation and shipment.
Harbin Zephyr Trading Co., Ltd locates in the north of China, province Heilongjiang, city Harbin .This is an international trading company mainly exports large Road Machinery such as: Asphalt Mixing Plant,concrete batching plant, Crusher ,crushing and Screening Plant , Excavator ,loader,bulldozer,dump truck,truck crane,Concrete Mixer Truck etc.
As one of the first professional supplier of asphalt mixing plant and concrete mixing plant in China, we have always given attention to maintaining our higher level quality control and service, and we have received the certificates of ISO9001, CE, SGS etc.
If you have any inquiry about the concrete mixing plant or constructions machinery, please feel free to contact us. We are always warmly welcome you to come and look forward to our meeting!
1. Q: Can I visit the factory?
A: Of course. We warmly welcome you to visit our factory.
2. Q: How long is the warranty of your concrete batching plant?
A: 12 months.
3. Q: What payment terms do you accept?
A: We accept L/C,T/T.D/P, PayPal, Money Gram, and Western Union.
4. Which countries your equipment have been exported?
A:Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, Myanmar, Russia, Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Romania, Somalia, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Togo, Mozambique, Oman, South Africa, America, Peru, Chile, Colombia, Venezuela, Australia, etc.
5. Q: How is the quality of your products?
A: Our machines are manufactured strictly according to national and international standards, and we take a test on equipment before delivery. You can also use Trade Assurance by Alibaba for product quality protection, on-time shipment protection and payment protection
6. Q: Do you provide after-sale service?
A: Yes. The warranty period of our machines is one year, and we have a professional after-sale service team to promptly and thoroughly solve your problems.
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[Discussion] Anglicisms VS Clean Language
Many have got "insights", "experiences" and other "levelapy". 4 of our employees shared their views on English words in speech and texts. Let's collect a lively experience on this topic. We invite in the comments. Among marketers, it has always been customary to use English words wherever one can say in Russian.


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2020 Women Worth Watching® In Leadership Award
Accepting Nominations Through May 1, 2020
Profiles in Diversity Journal® invites you to participate in our 19th annual Women Worth Watching® leadership issue. Recognizing dynamic professional women who are using their talents and influence to change our workplaces and our world.
Now Available! 2019 Women Worth Watching®
Award Winner Poster PDF
Profiles in Diversity Journal – Summer 2019
Celebrate your 2019 Woman Worth Watching award winner by featuring this attractive poster in your office. It has a full size of 24"x 36" and can be sized down by your local printer to your liking.
Note: This is an order for a digital pdf file that you will have to have printed by your own local printer.
Announcing the 2019 Women Worth Watching® Award Winners
Executives Leading the Way to Excellence in the Workplace, Marketplace and the World
CLEVELAND, OH June 19, 2019
Profiles in Diversity Journal today proudly announces 166 winners of the 18th Annual Women Worth Watching® Awards. These leaders join more than 2,000 past Award recipients, (see www.womenworthwatching.com). Some past winners have gone on to become CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, including Mary Barra, currently CEO of General Motors; Lynne Doughtie, CEO of KPMG; Marillyn Hewson, CEO of Lockheed Martin; Michele Buck, CEO of Hershey's; and Beth Mooney CEO of Key Bank. Countless others have moved forward to lead new business units, drive new markets, launch new ventures, and help develop the next generation of women leaders.
Are there Women Worth Watching®
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Below is a list of our CEO alumni that we're proud to say have been Women Worth Watching.
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|Mary T. Barra
|Lynne Doughtie
|Ursula Burns
|Ellen Kullman
|Marillyn Hewson
|Lynn L. Elsenhans
|Beth Mooney
|Patricia Woertz
|Michele Buck
|Patricia Kampling
|Deborah Gillis
|Ilene H. Lang
Diversity Is Not Just a Concept:
It Is a Mandatory Strategy
By Myrtha B. Casanova, European Institute for Managing Diversity (EIMD)
The evidence of global diversity as the fundamental characteristic of this era is unquestionable. But it has not spurred the corporate or political governance communities to understand that the mega-differences of peoples from different cultures, demographic profiles, and areas of the world are the cause of the major conflicts that endanger humanity. These differences also generate innovation at companies, such as Google, Facebook, and Henkel, in which D&I management is a corporate policy.
Today's world started yesterday … of course
The roots of today's diversity and inclusion strategies lie in the work of many scientists, scholars, business visionaries, and others. For almost half a century, thought leaders have discussed the issues, and the possibilities, raised by diversity and inclusion. The following is a list of the names of some of those who studied the topic, as well as their findings, strategies, and proposed models of diversity management:
- In the 1970s, members of the scientific community Abernathy and Utterback identified diversity as the singular characteristic of the 21st century.
- In the 1980s, Johnston and Packard established that diversity generates conflict, which must be managed.
- In the 1990s, Cox and Blake concluded that well-included human groups generate innovation and, therefore, human development.
- In the 2000s, Adler, Richard and Shelor, among others, shyly introduced the idea of making diversity part of the academic curriculum.
- In 2003, Richard Garner, founder of the Centre for Strategy and Evaluation Service (CSES), clearly established the business case for diversity.
- In 2003, the EIMD conducted global research to analyze the inclusion of diversity studies at academic institutions. Results showed that, at that time, only 3 percent of universities had introduced diversity as a subject in their institutions. When repeated in 2008, in a research project carried out for the EU, the figure had risen to 9.7 percent—still short of the desired number. Only when diversity management is part of the academic curriculum do new graduates, as they enter corporate roles or occupy administration posts, implement the strategy in their professional lives.
- In 2005, scientists like Nigel Bassett-Jones, Richard and Shelor, and Gonzalo Sanchez Gardey proposed models for corporate diversity management.
- In 2011, diversity issues, which had been under the Director General of Labor and Social Affairs, were passed on to DG Justice. Ending discrimination became a social, economic, and legal mandate.
The world of tomorrow starts today
If it was a challenge 15 years ago to describe a vision of diversity and inclusion today, forecasting the diverse dimension of the world tomorrow is pure science fiction. Nevertheless, actions must be taken in order to safeguard equal treatment, control conflicts, and foster corporate and governance results. The following are 10 actions crucial for success:
- Educate: Address stereotyping (unconscious bias) in order to eliminate discrimination and foster inclusion.
- Academic activity: Conduct research and share expert knowledge regarding diversity management as a business case and as governance.
- Start-ups: Each new company must begin with a diverse workforce as the basis for sustainability, and to ensure that it will be able to anticipate change in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) future scenarios; it is very difficult to transform corporate behavior in companies with long-established cultures.
- Workforce: The workforce must always reflect the diversity of changing external agents in a continuous system of contextual transformation due to the impact of diversity in all fields of activity.
- Blind selection: Ensure that talent is recruited and promoted based on talent and qualifications, without regard for diverse profile
- Value talent: Consider individual efficiency and contribution to corporate sustainability, rather than time spent at work
- Create diverse teams, in private and public organizations, to avoid conflict, support innovation, and advance toward sustainable growth
- Quotas: Numbers should never set strategies—they should only measure whether strategies are met; "Recruit 20 percent more women" is not an efficient objective, since being female guarantees neither the talent required for a job nor the value contributed to corporate results. Companies must recruit and select the best-qualified candidates. If this results in a 30 percent increase in hiring women, it is evidence of the richness of diversity. This is equally valid when addressing profiles of age, ethnicities, disability, cultures, religions/beliefs, languages, or sexual orientation.
- Visibility: Share the strategies and results of organizations that successfully manage diversity and inclusion in order to spur a desire to emulate their diverse and transformational scenarios.
- Scenario building: Companies must include forecasting as a constant corporate activity in order to know how to select and prepare leaders who can take the company into a sustainable future of exponential diverse growth.
Myrtha B. Casanova
European Institute for Managing Diversity


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As with the Objects, the Principles contained in the Act do not create enforceable rights. Their value is that they provide context for interpreting other key provisions, and show how the Act is intended to operate to advance the rights, interests, inclusion and participation of people with disabilities.
Many of the Principles are intended to reflect particular Articles of the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities, so the CRPD can aid advocacy based on the Principles.
General principles guiding actions under this Act
There are 17 general principles guiding actions under the Act. [s4]
- People with disability have the same right as other members of Australian society to realise their potential for physical, social, emotional and intellectual development.
- People with disability should be supported to participate in and contribute to social and economic life to the extent of their ability.
These principles of equality and realising potential may be useful to obtain supports that enable the person to contribute and participate on an equal basis in Australian life.
- People with disability and their families and carers should have certainty that people with disability will receive the care and support they need over their lifetime.
This certainty principle may be useful where supports have been reduced without reason or their continuation is threatened by suspension or inadequate funding.
- People with disability should be supported to exercise choice, including in relation to taking reasonable risks, in the pursuit of their goals and the planning and delivery of their supports.
Though the NDIS aims to maximise choice and control, as reflected in the Objects, and promotes a model of supporting people with disability to make decisions, this may not always translate simply into real situations. Particular problems may arise where a person's decision making capacity is underestimated or called into question and substitute decision making is considered or used. Independent advocacy can play a vital role in ensuring the person's right to make his or her own decisions is not arbitrarily restricted or removed.
The question of what is considered reasonable risks should be considered by reference to the risks that people without disabilities are permitted to take without their decision-making capacity being called into question. This Principle can be used to support choices that may be made by a person with disability which might be regarded by some as risky but which nevertheless are similar to risks commonly taken in the general population. (See the right to make decisions)
It may also be possible to bring a risk into the reasonable range by implementing harm minimisation strategies or strategies that reduce the likelihood of the risk occurring.
- People with disability should be supported to receive reasonable and necessary supports, including early intervention supports.
This Principle is a core feature of the NDIS, and also appears in the Objects of the Act. The kinds of supports that will be provided as "reasonable and necessary supports" under the Scheme, is not straightforward. Detailed plan approval criteria will influence Agency decisions about the reasonableness and necessity of a particular support for a participant.
- People with disability have the same right as other members of Australian society to respect for their worth and dignity and to live free from abuse, neglect and exploitation.
For a greater understanding of the potential application and reach of this principle see Article 16 of the CRPD.
The NDIA has Operational Guidelines for Responding to Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation.
- People with disability have the same right as other members of Australian society to pursue any grievance.
This Principle has particular relevance to any circumstances in which a person with disability is prevented from exercising their legal rights to same extent as others. For greater understanding of the potential application and reach of this Principle see Article 13 of the CRPD and the associated commentary in the Disability Rights Now Civil Society Report to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
- People with disability have the same right as other members of Australian society to be able to determine their own best interests, including the right to exercise choice and control, and to engage as equal partners in decisions that will affect their lives, to the full extent of their capacity.
For a greater understanding of the potential application and reach of this principle see Article 12 of the UNCRPD and the associated commentary in the Disability Rights Now Civil Society Report to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
For people with limited decision making capacity, these General Principles, the objects and the principles relating to the participation of people with disability strengthen arguments for the use of supported decision making, which allows people to engage in decision making "to the full extent of their capacity", over the use of substitute decision making, which deprives people of control.
- People with disability should be supported in all their dealings and communications with the Agency so that their capacity to exercise choice and control is maximised in a way that is appropriate to their circumstances and cultural needs.
Effective communication and interaction with the Agency, whether involving special formats, translation or others supports, is vital to a person practically exercising maximum choice and control. (See Assistance from Agency). The diversity of people with disability, and the particular needs of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse, Non English Speaking Background and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations, should be catered to.
This principle provides support for ready access to independent advocacy support and decision making support for anyone who feels that they might otherwise be limited in their capacity to exercise choice and control.
- People with disability should have their privacy and dignity respected.
For a greater understanding of the potential application and reach of this principle see Article 22 of the UNCRPD and the associated commentary in the Disability Rights Now Civil Society Report to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
This principle is linked to the privacy provisions of the Act
- Reasonable and necessary supports for people with disability should:
- support people with disability to pursue their goals and maximise their independence; and
- support people with disability to live independently and to be included in the community as fully participating citizens; and
- develop and support the capacity of people with disability to undertake activities that enable them to participate in the mainstream community and in employment.
This principle elaborates on what should be achieved by the provision of reasonable and necessary supports. The goals of enabling greater inclusion and independence are central to the NDIS. The wording suggests that the enabled participation in employment should be through full inclusion in the workforce where possible, rather than in segregated work environments.
- The role of families, carers and other significant persons in the lives of people with disability is to be acknowledged and respected.
This Principle allows for consideration to be given in the planning process to the perspectives of family members and others closely involved with the person with disability.
- The role of advocacy in representing the interests of people with disability is to be acknowledged and respected, recognising that advocacy supports people with disability by:
- promoting their independence and social and economic participation; and
- promoting choice and control in the pursuit of their goals and the planning and delivery of their supports; and
- maximising independent lifestyles of people with disability and their full inclusion in the mainstream community.
This Principle recognises the importance of advocacy in achieving the key aims of the scheme and in representing the interests of people with disabilities. Where advocacy is desired but not available due to limited availability or high demand, this principle may be useful in obtaining greater access to free independent advocacy.
The Principle may also be useful in any circumstance in which a person is being discouraged from using an independent advocate to represent their interests.
- People with disability should be supported to receive supports outside the National Disability Insurance Scheme, and be assisted to coordinate these supports with the supports provided under the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
Principles to Determine Responsibilities of the NDIS and Other Service Systems are available but will continue to be developed as the scheme is launched and implemented. Imperfect coordination is likely to occur, and people who find gaps and overlaps in the cooperation between the NDIS and other government services may find this principle useful for obtaining appropriate supports or some assistance to coordinate supports for a more effective and efficient outcome.
- Innovation, quality, continuous improvement, contemporary best practice and effectiveness in the provision of supports to people with disability are to be promoted.
- Positive personal and social development of people with disability, including children and young people, is to be promoted.
These principles echo central concepts included in the Objects. Quality and innovation are valued, as are optimal approaches to providing supports and promoting personal potential. Where methods being used are outdated or ineffective, this statement may be useful to advocate for improvement in the provision of supports.
- It is the intention of the Parliament that the Ministerial Council, the Minister, the Board, the CEO and any other person or body is to perform functions and exercise powers under this Act in accordance with these principles, having regard to:
- the progressive implementation of the National Disability Insurance Scheme; and
- the need to ensure the financial sustainability of the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
Advocates may find that the "need to ensure the financial sustainability", (also included in the objects of the NDIS) may be used to justify a denial of supports. However, advocates could use this Principle to argue that the immediate provision of support will avoid additional costs being incurred in the future.
General principles guiding actions of people who may do acts or things on behalf of others
These general principles should guide actions where the Act requires or permits people to do things on behalf of others, stating an intention that things be done, so far as practicable, in accordance with the listed principles. Advocates may find them particularly useful where decision making processes have operated restrictively and have not allowed the person with disability to have a say, explain his or her preferences, or influence outcomes.
- people with disability should be involved in decision making processes that affect them, and where possible make decisions for themselves
This principle strengthens arguments for the primary use of supported decision making by stating that where possible people with disability should "make decisions for themselves" and should "be involved in decision making processes that affect them".
The ideal of people with disability exercising control and making decisions to the greatest extent possible is a theme found throughout the Objects, the other General Principles and the principles relating to participation, and also reflects Article 12 of the CRPD.
- people with disability should be encouraged to engage in the life of the community
This principle may assist in making the case for the avoidance of segregated service settings.
It may also be of assistance in making a case for support to be provided to engage in a wide variety of community based activities.
- the judgements and decisions that people with disability would have made for themselves should be taken into account
This principle asks that the decision-maker make a serious attempt to understand and give effect to the exhibited preferences of the person in any decision made on their behalf.
- the cultural and linguistic circumstances of people with disability should be taken into account
Cultural background and identity will be relevant to how a person makes decisions and to the kinds of NDIS supports that it will be appropriate to provide.
The NDIS will need to be flexible in its processes to enable maximum participation from people with non-English-speaking backgrounds, and to accommodate the cultural and linguistic diversity of all participants.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander status should also be considered and provided for in the administration of the scheme. Particular principles, information and resources are relevant when advocating for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse, Non English Speaking Background or Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disabilities.
- the supportive relationships, friendships and connections with others of people with disability should be recognised
This Principle may be used to argue for supports that enhance the ability of a person with disability to maintain and extend their supportive relationships.
Where a person with disability has limited or no relationships of this kind, their Plan should incorporate strategies for improving this situation. Info
Relationships of this kind assist in keeping people with disabilities safe from harm.
Principles relating to the participation of people with disability
The principles relating to participation continue particular key themes found in the Objects, and both sets of general principles: the importance of supporting and enabling people with disability to:
- make decisions and determine their own interests
- exercise maximum choice and control over matters affecting their lives
- participate in and contribute to community life to the extent of their ability
- be included and respected.
- People with disability are assumed, so far as is reasonable in the circumstances, to have capacity to determine their own best interests and make decisions that affect their own lives.
This principle requires an assumption to be made that a person with disability has decision making capacity but allows for this assumption to be displaced by evidence relating to the particular circumstances concerned.
The Act elsewhere authorises the appointment of nominees where the Agency determines a person needs a substitute decision-maker, and the appointment of representatives for children, where the person with parental authority is not appropriate. However, people with disability can be provided with support to determine what is in their interest and make their own decisions through supported decision making.
- People with disability will be supported in their dealings and communications with the Agency so that their capacity to exercise choice and control is maximised.
- The National Disability Insurance Scheme is to:
- respect the interests of people with disability in exercising choice and control about matters that affect them; and
- enable people with disability to make decisions that will affect their lives, to the extent of their capacity; and
- support people with disability to participate in, and contribute to, social and economic life, to the extent of their ability
A claim that a person lacks the necessary capacity to make decisions will need to be supported by sufficient evidence to displace the assumption of capacity. Where it is shown that an individual would struggle in making complex determinations and decisions alone, options for support and assistance to be provided through supported decision making must be explored. If the appointment of a substitute decision-maker is resorted to, such as a nominee or child's representative, the person appointed should be someone who respects and understands the person's perspectives and will encourage the person to contribute to each decision to the extent of his or her capacity. Communication should be supported at every stage. Independent advocacy focused on preventing the restriction of the person's choice and control should ensure the values and priorities of these principles are upheld in practice.
Though not named "general principles", these principles are relevant at various stages, as processes such as becoming a participant, planning and review of agency decisions will generally involve the participation of the person with disability.
Where the person faces a problem concerning plan creation, management, acquittal or review, the principles relating to plans may be a valuable resource to draw on: [s31]


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Roman emperor (54â€"68 ce), stepson and heir of the emperor Claudius. He became infamous for his personal debaucheries and extravagances and, on doubtful evidence, for his burning of Rome and persecutions of Christians. Nero's father, Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, died in about 40 ce, and Nero was brought up by his mother, Agrippina the Younger, a great-granddaughter of the emperor Augustus. After poisoning her second husband, Agrippina incestuously became the wife of her uncle, the emperor Claudius, and persuaded him to favour Nero for the succession, over the rightful claim of his own son, Britannicus, and to marry his daughter, Octavia, to Nero. Having already helped to bring about the murder of Valeria Messalina, her predecessor as the wife of Claudius, in 48, and ceaselessly pursuing her intrigues to bring Nero to power, Agrippina eliminated her opponents among Claudius's palace advisers, probably had Claudius himself poisoned in 54, and completed her work with the poisoning of Britannicus in 55. Upon the death of Claudius she at once had Nero proclaimed emperor by the Praetorian Guard, whose prefect, Sextus Afranius Burrus, was her partisan; the Senate thus had to accept a fait accompli. For the first time absolute power in the Roman Empire was vested in a mere boy, who was not yet 17.
Agrippina immediately eliminated the powerful freedman Narcissus, who had always opposed her aims. She hoped to control the government, but Burrus and Nero's old tutor, the Stoic philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca, though they owed their influence to Agrippina, were not content to remain her tools. They encouraged Nero to act independently of her, and a growing coolness resulted in Nero's relations with his mother. In 56 Agrippina was forced into retirement. From that time until 62, Burrus and Seneca were the effective rulers of the empire.
Brought up in this atmosphere, Nero might well have begun to behave like a monster upon his accession as emperor in 54 but, in fact, behaved quite otherwise. He put an end to the more odious features of the later years of Claudius's reign, including secret trials before the emperor and the dominance of corrupt freedmen, and he accorded more independence to the Senate. The testimony of contemporaries depicts Nero at this time as a handsome young man of fine presence but with soft, weak features and a restless spirit. Up to the year 59, Nero's biographers cite only acts of generosity and clemency on his account. His government forbade contests in the circus involving bloodshed, banned capital punishment, reduced taxes, and accorded permission to slaves to bring civil complaints against unjust masters. Nero himself pardoned writers of epigrams against him and even those who plotted against him, and secret trials were few. The law of treason was dormant: Claudius had put 40 senators to death, but, between the murders instigated by Agrippina in 54 and the year 62, there were no like incidents in Nero's reign. Nero also inaugurated competitions in poetry, in the theatre, and in athletics as counterattractions to gladiatorial combats. He saw to it that assistance was provided to cities that had suffered disaster and, at the request of the Jewish historian Josephus, gave aid to the Jews.
While directing the government themselves, Burrus and Seneca had largely left Nero uncontrolled to pursue his own tastes and pleasures. Seneca urged Nero to use his autocratic powers conscientiously, but he obviously failed to harness the boy's more generous impulses to his responsibilities. At first Nero hated signing death sentences, and the extortions of Roman tax collectors upon the populace led him in 58 to unrealistically suggest that the customs dues should be abolished. Even later Nero was capable of conceiving grandiose plans for conquests or the creation of public works, but for the most part he used his position simply to gratify his own personal pleasures. His nocturnal rioting in the streets was a scandal as early as 56, but the emergence of real brutality in Nero can be fixed in the 35-month period between the putting to death of his mother at his orders in 59 and his similar treatment of his wife Octavia in June 62. He was led to the murder of Agrippina by her insanity and her fury at seeing her son slip out of her control, to the murder of Octavia by his having fallen in love with Poppaea Sabina, the young wife of the senator (and later emperor) Otho, and by his fear that his repudiated wife was fomenting disaffection at court and among the populace. He married Poppaea in 62, but she died in 65, and he subsequently married the patrician lady Statilia Messalina.
Seeing that he could do what he liked without fear of censure or retribution, Nero began to give rein to inordinate artistic pretensions. He fancied himself not only a poet but also a charioteer and lyre player, and in 59 or 60 he began to give public performances; later he appeared on the stage, and the theatre furnished him with the pretext to assume every kind of role. To the Romans these antics seemed to be scandalous breaches of civic dignity and decorum. Nero even dreamed of abandoning the throne of Rome in order to fulfill his poetical and musical gifts, though he did not act on these puerile ambitions. Beginning about 63 he also developed strange religious enthusiasms and became increasingly attracted to the preachers of novel cults. By now Seneca felt that he had lost all influence over Nero, and he retired after Burrus's death in 62.
The great fire that ravaged Rome in 64 illustrates how low Nero's reputation had sunk by this time. Taking advantage of the fire's destruction, Nero had the city reconstructed in the Greek style and began building a prodigious palace-the Golden House-which, had it been finished, would have covered a third of Rome. During the fire Nero was at his villa at Antium 35 miles from Rome and therefore cannot be held responsible for the burning of the city. But the Roman populace mistakenly believed that he himself had started the fire in Rome in order to indulge his aesthetic tastes in the city's subsequent reconstruction. According to the Annals of the Roman historian Tacitus and to the Nero of the Roman biographer Suetonius, Nero in response tried to shift responsibility for the fire on the Christians, who were popularly thought to engage in many wicked practices. Hitherto the government had not clearly distinguished Christians from Jews; almost by accident, Nero initiated the later Roman policy of halfhearted persecution of the Christians, in the process earning himself the reputation of Antichrist in the Christian tradition.
Meanwhile, the imperial government had had some success in the east. The great foreign-policy problem of the time was that of Armenia. Since the reign of Augustus, it had been Roman policy to appoint vassal kings there and so make Armenia a buffer state against Parthia, Rome's implacable foe in the east. But the Armenians had long chafed under Roman rule, and in the emperor Claudius's last years a Parthian prince named Tiridates had made himself king of Armenia with the support of its people. In response, Nero's new government took vigorous action, appointing an able general, Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, to the command. Prolonged military operations by Corbulo led in 66 to a new settlement; Tiridates was recognized as king, but he was compelled to come to Rome to receive his crown from Nero.
Despite this success, the provinces were increasingly uneasy, for they were oppressed by exactions to cover Nero's extravagant expenditures on his court, new buildings, and gifts to his favourites; the last expenditures alone are said to have amounted to more than two billion sesterces, a sum that was several times the annual cost of the army. A revolt in Britain was headed by Queen Boudicca (Boadicea) in 60 or 61, and an insurrection in Judaea lasted from 66 to 70. Nero had many antagonists by this time. The great conspiracy to make Gaius Calpurnius Piso emperor in 65 reveals the diversity of his enemies-senators, knights, officers, and philosophers. That the conspiracy included military officers was an ominous sign, but Nero did not give way to panic; slaves kept him out of danger by warning him of plots that were hatching among their masters. And he did not altogether abandon his lenient attitude. Out of 41 participants in the Piso conspiracy, only 18 died (including Seneca and the poet Lucan), either by order or from fear; the others were exiled or pardoned.
At the end of the year 66, Nero undertook a long visit to Greece that was to keep him away from Rome for 15 months, and during his absence he entrusted the consulate to one of his freedmen. On this trip Nero engaged in new displays of his artistic prowess, and he walked about garbed as an ascetic, barefoot and with flowing hair. His enthusiasm for Greek culture also prompted him to free a number of Greek cities in honour of their glorious past. In the four months following his return to Rome in February 68, his delirious pretensions as both an artist and a religious worshiper aroused the enmity not only of the Senate and those patricians who had been dispossessed by him but also of the Italian middle class, which had old-fashioned moral views and which furnished most of the officers of the army. Even the common soldiers of the legions were scandalized to see the descendant of Caesar publicly perform on stage the parts not only of ancient Greek heroes but of far lower characters. "I have seen him on stage," Gaius Julius Vindex, the legate who rebelled against him, was to say, "playing pregnant women and slaves about to be executed."
At the news of revolts brewing throughout the empire-that of the provincial governor Servius Sulpicius Galba in Spain, the rebellion of the provincial governor Julius Vindex at Lyon in Gaul (France), and others on the eastern frontier-Nero only laughed and indulged in further megalomaniacal displays instead of taking action. "I have only to appear and sing to have peace once more in Gaul," he is reported to have said. Meanwhile, the revolt spread and the legions made Galba emperor; the Senate condemned Nero to die a slave's death: on a cross and under the whip. The Praetorian Guard, his palace guard, abandoned him, and his freedmen left to embark on the ships he kept in readiness at Ostia, the port of Rome. Nero was obliged to flee the city. According to Suetonius, he stabbed himself in the throat with a dagger. According to another version (recounted by Tacitus and almost certainly fiction) he reached the Greek islands, where the following year (69) the governor of Cythnos (modern KÃthnos) recognized him in the guise of a red-haired prophet and leader of the poor, had him arrested, and executed the sentence that had been passed by the Senate.
The Roman populace and the Praetorian Guard later came to regret that they had lost such a liberal patron, but to his subjects in general, Nero had been a tyrant, and the revolt his misrule provoked sparked a series of civil wars that for a time threatened the survival of the Roman Empire and caused widespread misery.
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I don't know what to say except that i want to try be a vegan. I tried it before, for a week or so, but i didn't commit fully. This time i want to do it for real.
Yesterday i watched a tiny fact video about milk industry that reminded me about everything. I knew it before, nothing was new. And hek! i spend all summers at my grandparents farm. I knew about cows and all this juzz, but never though about it in that context. I mean in a vegan and cruelty context. It's horrible! And disgusting!
I don't how i will do that if my family are not vegan. They are kind of vegetarian, like they eat fish and meat occasionally, because we have only vegetarian food at home. Let's say they are 70% vegetarians. They love cheese(so do i, or did?) and milk. And i don't want to force them to go vegan because i said like this. So it means that i'll be surrounded with cheese and butter. Hope i'll remember the video forever and it's set in stone in my brain.
Wish me the best and a patience!


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Two weeks after the Australian Open begins the first marquee WTA tournament, a Premier Five event that ranks among the nine most significant non-majors of the women's season. Clearly the most important tournament in February, Doha nevertheless will proceed without four of the sport's leading figures in Sharapova, Kvitova, Serena, and Clijsters. Their absence makes the draw less predictable, but we do our best to predict anyway.
First quarter: In her first match as the top-ranked player in the world, Azarenka will collide with one of her victims during the Australian Open. The champion in Hobart, Mona Barthel burst from anonymity to threaten the Belarussian at times in Melbourne and continued her surge by winning four matches at the Paris Indoors last week. Also surpassing expectations early in 2012 is the aging Hantuchova, who soared above a weak draw in Pattaya City. When the Slovak won the Thai title last year, though, she faded quickly in the Middle East as fatigue dulled her strokes. Azarenka's depth and streamlined movement position her effectively in a meeting with Hantuchova, as they would in a quarterfinal against Schiavone. But the latter's berth in that round looks uncertain considering her early loss in Melbourne and indifferent Fed Cup performance on her favored clay. Winning a characteristically epic three-setter from Jankovic in Brisbane, Schiavone might find herself embroiled in another rollercoaster should she collide with Pavlyuchenkova in the third round. The Italian and the Russian split their two major meetings last year in memorable third sets. Winning only two matches in her first three tournaments this year, Pavlyuchenkova has struggled with every department of her game and has gone winless in three meetings with Azarenka. That said, none of last year's first-time major champions reached the semifinals in their next tournament.
Semifinalist: Azarenka
Second quarter: A semifinalist in Sydney and quarterfinalist in Melbourne, Radwanska enjoyed a consistent beginning to 2012 while losing only to Azarenka, both times in three sets. Stacked with three qualifiers and two underpowered players in Paszek and Yakimova , her section looks especially accommodating for a Premier Five event. Scarcely more intimidating is the presence of Julia Goerges, thrashed in embarrassing fashion by the Pole at the Australian Open. Nevertheless, Kerber rebounded from her rout by Sharapova to reverse that result at the Paris Indoors, so her fellow German may have learned from a recent debacle as well. Reaching the third round at the Australian Open, Christina McHale will aim to climb further towards the top 30 with winnable matches against Scheepers and perhaps Peng. Overshadowed by Zheng as well as Li this year, the Chinese double-fister accumulated a losing record in January and has failed to win consecutive matches at her last five tournaments. (On the other hand, she defeated McHale resoundingly in Tokyo last fall.) Anchoring the base of this section is Jankovic, who looked somewhat promising in Australia while reaching the second week. After she dominated second-tier competition, she imploded in a ghastly deluge of unforced errors when she met a noteworthy opponent in Wozniacki. That profligacy will not carry her far against Radwanska, who built her charge to last fall's Tokyo title upon a third-set bagel of the Serb.
Semifinalist: Radwanska
Third quarter: The defending champion in Doha after an impressive victory over Wozniacki, Zvonareva has reached no fewer than three finals in the Persian Gulf city, including when it hosted the 2008 year-end championships. This court's moderate pace suits Vera's consistent, well-rounded baseline style, which nevertheless can range from stylish to disheveled depending on her mood. As her sagging ranking illustrates, Zvonareva has recorded unremarkable results at most significant tournaments over the past year. Among the exceptions was an appearance in a US Open quarterfinal, where she fell routinely to eventual titlist Stosur. Again situated in the same quarter as her nemesis, Zvonareva cannot look too far ahead when she considers how to halt her seven-match losing streak against the Aussie. Possibly awaiting her in the third round is Cibulkova, who defeated her in two of their three 2011 engagements. Nor should Stosur look too far ahead, having won only one match in three Australian tournaments to the chagrin of her compatriots. In a curious quirk of fate, she could open her Doha campaign against Sorana Cirstea, the Romanian against whom she opened—and closed—her Melbourne fortnight. Otherwise, Stosur would face the psychologically complicated task of toppling her Fed Cup teammate from two weeks ago, Gajdosova. In a section so murky and filled with recent underachievers, one might fancy a surprise semifinalist. Those who do might consider Ivanovic, who won more matches at the Australian Open than Stosur and Zvonareva combined as her service rhythm continued to coalesce. Yet she has lost both of her hard-court meetings to the Australian, whom she would meet in the third round, and never has brought her best tennis to the Middle East.
Semifinalist: Stosur?
Fourth quarter: Aligned for a possible third-round clash are the two Paris finalists Bartoli and Kerber, who may reach Doha with little more energy than Kvitova and Hantuchova did last year. Who stands to profit the most from their fatigue? Look no further than Sabine Lisicki, destined to open against her countrywoman Kerber in a battle of muscular blondes. Having defeated Bartoli at Wimbledon last year, she should aim to exploit the vast disparity in their serves even on this slower surface. In the lower part of this section lie two-time major champion Kuznetsova and the newly deposed Wozniacki, the finalists in nearby Dubai a year ago. Retreating to the exclusive supervision of her father, the former #1 has stagnated since winning Indian Wells last March as a disturbing complacency has settled into her. When at her best, though, she has excelled at the most prestigious non-majors until an arid stretch in the second half of 2011. Overshadowed lately by the accomplishments of the Trident, she may gain valuable purpose from the goal of regaining the top ranking. Meanwhile, Kuznetsova showed glimmers of rebounding from a dreadful season last year by reaching the Auckland semifinal and winning the Australian Open doubles title with Zvonareva. Gifted with the natural talent to trouble the more mechanical Wozniacki, she nearly conquered her at the US Open before her inherent inconsistency undid her. Against the mighty serve of Lisicki, both the reckless Russian and the defensive Dane would shoulder considerable pressure.
Semifinalist: Lisicki
Final: Radwanska vs. Lisicki
Champion: Agnieszka Radwanska


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Apple brought a lot of great improvements with iOS 8. This tip focuses on one feature of iOS 8—the share extension—and how it can help you enhance your photographic entries in Day One using collages, filters, and typography.
Layout from Instagram
There are many apps that can help you create a photographic collage for Day One entries. Layout from Instagram is a recent, superb example.
Follow these steps to create your own collage and post it to Day One within the Layout app:
- Download Layout from Instagram and create your collage.
- Once you've completed your collage, tap the "More" button to see additional sharing options.
- If you've never used Day One for sharing before, you'll need to swipe the top row of icons and tap the white "More" button.
- Find Day One in this list and toggle it on. If you want it to be the first app to appear next time you use iOS 8's share extension, drag it to the top of the list. Tap the "Done" button.
- Swipe the first row of app icons to find Day One, then tap the Day One icon to open the share sheet.
- Type some entry text, then tap the "Post" button.
- Open Day One and find your newly added entry. If you like, you can edit this entry and change its date, time, and location to match the photos in your collage, as well as add more text to your entry.
- Voila! The finished entry with a fancy collage photo on top.
Though the details of using various apps will differ, the process of using the share extension explained above is the same. The most important requirement is that the app supports iOS 8's native share functionality. (If your favorite apps don't support this functionality, ask for it… politely.)
Filters for iPhone
Filters is an app recently released by Mike Rundle. It's focus on photographic filters goes deep, but hides that complexity behind an elegant, easy-to-use interface.
Over earns its designation as an App Store "Essentials" app. It's easy to spiff up your photos with text and art, then share them to Day One. Check it out.
Fuzel Collage
Last, but not least, Fuzel Collage has the most features of any of these apps. It is an excellent all-in-one app that includes the features of the previous apps—collages, photographic filters, and typographic labels—and a few more—frames, stickers, and background fill colors/patterns. This is a great app.


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Located in the Learning Resource Center, LR-118
The Reading Lab is a skills class designed to assist students in improving their reading comprehension and vocabulary through lab work. Students enrolled in Basic Reading 21 or Intermediate Reading 22 must be concurrently enrolled in the 1/2 unit Reading Lab. The lab provides students with individual reading tasks designed for additional practice and mastery of concepts presented in class. The lab includes computers, books, tapes, and workbooks which cover a variety of reading skills and levels. In addition to the on-campus lab, there is an online lab available for partial lab credit for students enrolled in Reading 21 and Reading 22.
The Reading Skills Lab is staffed with Reading Instructors and Instructional Assistants who are available to assist students with their reading assignments and questions related to lab materials.
Summer 2019 Open Lab Hours: (June 3rd – July 3rd)
Monday – Thursday:
8 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Tuesday & Thursday:
11:50 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Rules and Policies:
- The purpose of the Reading Lab is to develop and practice skills presented in your reading class, so use the time wisely to work on selected lab assignments or instructor-directed works.
- Falsifying time in the lab is a form of cheating that is not allowed by the college. If you falsify your time by logging in, leaving, and coming back later to log out, you will lose all of the time and may be dropped from the lab class.
- You may attend lab no more than three hours in one day (generally, you become much less productive after marathon sessions of reading). Also, plan on spending a minimum of one-half hour in lab, (you will not receive credit for a visit shorter than 30 minutes).
- The Reading Lab and your reading class go together. Your attendance in the lab needs to be continual and regular and will be reported to your reading instructor on a regular basis.
- You may not work on homework from any class in the Reading Lab. The lab is designed for you to work on lab assignments only. If caught working on homework, your time for that day will be deleted.
- The Internet is to be used for your Reading 21 and Reading 22 assignments. There is no email, or chat room (MySpace, Facebook, etc…) allowed on the computers.
- Please set your cell phones on vibrate when you are in the lab. The use of cell phones are prohibited in the lab. No text messaging during lab time.
- Music playing devices of any kind are not allowed in the lab.
- No eating, drinking, or inappropriate talking is allowed.
- Please clean up your work area before leaving the lab; leave the computers on, push in your chair, and dispose of your trash.
Phone Numbers:
Senior Instructional Assistant, Kathy Gomez (562) 463-3104
Instructional Assistant, Leaniva Tuala (562) 463-3104
Coordinator, Wells Sloniger (562) 463-3107
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Purple ribbons. Purple bruises. Purple represents Domestic Violence Awareness Month. One of the most common questions we hear is "Why do they stay?" when referring to a victim of domestic violence. When it is an option, it is best for victims to escape their abusers. However, often abusers go to extremes to prevent the victim from leaving. In fact, leaving an abuser is the most dangerous time for a victim.
A victim's reasons for staying are extremely complex and are based on the fear that their abuser will follow through with the threats they have used to keep them trapped: the abuser will hurt or kill the kids, win custody of the kids, harm or kill pets or others, ruin the victim financially…the list goes on. A recent study of intimate partner homicides found 20% of homicide victims were not the domestic violence victims themselves, but family members, friends, neighbors, persons who intervened, law enforcement responders, or bystanders.
Additional barriers to escaping a violent relationship include but are not limited to:
- Fear that the abuser's actions will become more violent or lethal if the victim attempts to leave
- Knowledge of the difficulties of single parenting and reduced financial circumstances
- Unsupportive friends and family
- Lack of knowledge of or access to safety and support
- Fear of losing custody of the children if they leave or divorce or fear the abuse will hurt or even kill the children
- Religious or cultural beliefs and practices may not support divorce or separation
- Fear that homelessness may be their only option if they leave
- Lack of means to support themselves and/or their children financially or lack of access to cash, bank accounts, or assets
The list is goes on. Change does not happen without awareness and action. LCRC is doing the following to increase awareness during Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Please join us in learning more and spreading the word.
- Join us at M State in Detroit Lakes on October 18 to see The Clothesline Project
- Join us at the Washington Square Mall in Detroit Lakes on October 19 and 20 to view The Clothesline Project
- Like our Facebook page and share our posts
- Purchase purple iced or decorated baked goods at Central Market for your office, book club, study group, etc.
- Register for one of our Break the Silence Tours of our facility and programs
Together we can lead the change to create healthy relationships and healthy families for a healthy community.


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To succeed in new export markets, you have to offer a product or service that is unique or of value to your target customer. Don't assume that what sells here, will sell there.
Discover how to develop a Value Proposition that sells the benefits of your product or service and differentiates you from your competitors – and learn how to test it. Confirming you've got your product and value proposition right will help you win new overseas customers and focus your promotional efforts on markets or segments that will generate ongoing profitable sales.
Successful exporters are laser-focused. They know precisely what they're selling, who they're selling to, and why – and they focus their efforts on the most valuable customers. If you want to achieve this level of clarity, and the results that come with it, the first step is to have a clear Value Proposition and test it via customer research in your intended new markets.
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- Some questions to test with your customers
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Following the sale of half of the DIX 30 complex to an Ontario pension fund (Oxford Group), the Argent channel show "À la une" interviewed Frédéric Labrie, Partner, Real Estate Consulting Group at Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton. He was invited to speak on the impacts of this major real estate transaction and DIX 30's success.
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On Tuesday, October 21 at the Delta Hotel took place the 16th Conference supper of the Vice-president of the Eastern Townships' region.
The evening, brilliantly hosted by two employees of the firm, Manon Tétrault and Éric Mathieu, respectively Accounts payable clerk and Senior manager in Assurance, has also gave way to the performance of a mystery guest, the humorist André Sauvé.
Nearly 250 partners and employees of the offices of Granby, Bromont, Cowansville, Magog, Coaticook, Drummondville, Lac-Mégantic and Sherbrooke were gathered for the occasion.
Created by Mr. Réal Létourneau during his first year as Vice-president in 1999, the annual event is about recognition and aims to recognize the dedication and excellence of the team members of the firm.
Seven (7) Recognition Prizes and one (1) Vice-president Prize were given during the evening. The winners by category are:
- Social commitment to the Firm's activities: Stacey Loomis
- Social commitment to the community: Sandra Chouinard
- Internal customer service: Manon Tétrault and Jocelyne Verpaelst tied
- Professional competencies: Véronique Deshaies
- Productivity and availability – Assurance: Chantal Charest
- Productivity and availability – Taxation and consulting services: Jean-François Morin
- Enterprise development: Éric Mathieu
- Vice-president Prize: Nicole D. Demers
As for Mr. Létourneau, he gave a summary lecture of the last 15 Vice-president's Conference suppers while stressing the importance of the strength of a team and of its potential for always excelling. The hosts and all present employees extended warm greetings to Mr. Létourneau, for whom it was his last supper as Vice-president.
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On November 12, 2014, Emilio B. Imbriglio, President and CEO of Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton, will be the guest speaker of the Canadian Italian Business and Professional Association (CIBPA) where he will share ideas for boosting our economy.
Quebec has got all that it takes to rank among the most productive and prosperous nations in the world, however, it needs the means to achieve its ambitions.
With the success of local businesses at heart, Emilio will share what the firm believes is essential for stimulating economic growth, creating jobs and making our society more competitive, while highlighting the firm's role in supporting organizations.
For more information and to sign up for the event, consult CIBPA's Web site.
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A new International Business Report on the growth landscape in Quebec released by Grant Thornton
MONTRÉAL, October 21, 2014 – New research shows that rising optimism in Quebec is feeding into brighter business growth prospects but that bureaucracy is constraining those very same growth plans. The results from Grant Thornton's International Business Report (IBR), a survey of 2,500 senior executives in 34 economies, reveals that despite roadblocks businesses in Quebec are focused on incentivizing productivity improvement and enhancing sales force effectiveness in a bid to boost growth over the next 12 months.
When presenting at The Montreal Council on Foreign Relations Business Series earlier today, Ed Nusbaum, global CEO of Grant Thornton, said: "The global economy is delicately poised. Growth is slowing sharply in Europe and many large emerging markets such as Brazil and China; the spectre of deflation is apparent in the Eurozone and Japan; while conflict and falling commodity prices is dampening oil-producing countries' growth prospects. I would echo the words of the IMF and call on governments to not resort to protectionism and instead enact reforms that free up dynamic businesses around the world to generate the jobs and growth they are capable of."
According to the IBR, though Quebec's economy compares favourably to most western economies, it has grown more slowly since the global financial crisis, when compared to the Canadian average. This slower growth is expected to persist over the short- to medium-term. Quebec's economy posted an expansion of 1.5% in 2012 and 1.1% in 2013, compared to 1.7% and 2.0% for Canada as a whole respectively. This is due in part to the greater fiscal restraint required in Quebec and weaker demographics affecting population growth.
"Senior executives in Quebec are more optimistic about future business growth prospects than the Canada average and yet they anticipate lower profits and growth prospects," stated Emilio B. Imbriglio, President and Chief Executive Officer of Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton. "We have a responsibility to address the roadblocks they face, because we cannot afford to squander this optimism nor business executives' commitment to increasing productivity," added Mr. Imbriglio.
The IBR survey found that regulations are the major constraint facing businesses in Quebec; 38% of businesses cite them as a hindrance to their efforts to expand operations, compared to 28% across both Canada and North America. The recent creation of the function of the minister for Small and Medium Enterprises, Regulatory Streamlining and Regional Economic Development is widely considered a move in the right direction. The Minister's plans for regulatory streamlining in response to the survey's results are anxiously awaited. Furthermore, the quality of local transport infrastructure also emerges as a challenge, cited as a growth constraint by 22% of the province's businesses compared with just 10% countrywide.
Despite these challenges, the optimism of businesses in Quebec towards the economic outlook rose sharply in Q3, climbing to net 70%, up from 42% in Q2, suggesting growth is set to pick up pace over the coming months. Optimism amongst Canadian businesses as a whole has remained fairly stable over recent quarters but is lower than in Quebec; in Q3, a net 57% of Canadian business leaders as a whole indicated optimism for the outlook.
To stimulate growth, close to three in five businesses are looking at productivity improvements (58%) compared with 37% across Canada and 32% across North America, while 52% are looking at boosting the effectiveness of their sales force, above the Canada (50%) and North America (43%) averages. In terms of M&A activity, two in five Quebec businesses (43%) plan to grow through acquisition over the next three years, compared to 40% in Canada and 47% across North America. This compares with 31% globally. The vast majority of Quebec companies (87%) are looking at domestic opportunities.
The full report Quebec: the business growth landscape can be consulted here: www.rcgt.com/en/IBR-QC-2014.
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The Grant Thornton International Business Report (IBR) is the world's leading mid-market business survey, interviewing approximately 3,300 senior executives every quarter in listed and privately-held businesses all over the world. Launched in 1992 in nine European countries, the report now surveys more than 12,500 businesses leaders in 45 economies on an annual basis, providing insights on the economic and commercial issues affecting companies globally. For more information, please visit: www.internationalbusinessreport.com.
The data in this report are drawn from interviews with chief executive officers, managing directors, chairmen and other senior decision-makers from all industry sectors in businesses with C$15M-C$500M. Q3 data is drawn from 2,500 interviews globally (50 in Quebec; 100 in Canada; 400 in North America) conducted in September 2014.
Data collection
Data collection is managed by Grant Thornton's core research partner – Experian. Questionnaires are translated into local languages with each participating country having the option to add a small number of country-specific questions to the core questionnaire. Fieldwork is undertaken on a quarterly basis. The research is carried out primarily by telephone.
About Grant Thornton
Grant Thornton is one of the world's leading organizations of independent assurance, tax and advisory firms. These firms help dynamic organizations unlock their potential for growth by providing meaningful, forward-looking advice. Proactive teams, led by approachable partners in these firms, use insights, experience and instinct to understand complex issues for privately owned, publicly listed and public sector clients and help them find solutions. More than 38,000 Grant Thornton people, across over 130 countries, are focused on making a difference with clients, colleagues and the communities in which they live and work.
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This week, Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton is proud to host the Grant Thornton International conference in Montréal. Some 800 delegates from over 130 countries will be attending. Founded in 1948, today Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton is a leader in the fields of assurance, tax, consulting services, business recovery and reorganization. Its strength is based on a team of more than 2,400 people including some 230 partners in more than 100 offices in Quebec, eastern Ontario and New Brunswick. Over 30 years ago, Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton became a founding member of the Grant Thornton International Ltd network.
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