text: On 11/4/10 10:41 PM, Richard O'Keefe wrote: > > On 5/11/2010, at 12:52 AM, Paulo Sérgio Almeida wrote: > >> Hi Robert, >> >> there is a point on which I do not agree; when you say: >> >> On 11/4/10 10:46 AM, Robert Virding wrote: >> >>> - I think that having immutable data even within only one process is a big win. Having mutable data gives you all the problems of global data. Immutable data makes it much easier to keep track of what is happening with your data, which is always a Big Win. >> >> I would say that having mutable data gives us SOME problems, but much LESS than when we have global mutable data. > > The difficulty is with aliasing. Data don't have to be global to be aliased. Yes, aliasing is the bane of imperative languages. But ... (see below) > > It *is* possible to have a language that looks and feels like an imperative > language but which is largely free of such problems. The original design of > Euclid springs to mind. Quoting "Early Experiences with Euclid": If only it was that easy. In those times, the worry was about aliasing involving variables (e.g. a parameter of a function and a global variable). Dynamic allocation was not pervasive as now. With the present use of objects and passing references, things become much worse. Many people (including myself) have tried to do something about it. There are experimental proposals, like ownership types, confined types, etc. But we have not won the battle yet. Mainstream languages lack proper support to deal with aliasing. > > In Euclid it is illegal to have two identifiers that both name the > same variable in a scope. This means, for example, that it is > illegal to call a procedure with a variable actual parameter > which is also imported by the procedure, or for any two variable > actual parameters to a procedure to specify the same variable. > The imports clause makes it easy for the compiler to check for non-aliasing. > > The non-aliasing rule effectively eliminates a large class of > particularly insidious programming errors. A common example is the > accidental passing of an element of an array to a procedure which > changes the same array directly. In this situation the value of > the actual parameter changes unexpectedly as a result of an > assignment to an element of the global array. > > This kind of bug can be very costly in debugging time, as we > discovered early in the compiler project. In the bootstrap and > testing phase of the project, a particularly puzzling bug was > encountered. An entry in the compiler's symbol table was being > changed without ever being assigned to (as was verified by a > trace). This problem, which was due to an accidental parameter > alias, took almost a week of programmer effort to find. The > preliminary version of the compiler which we were then using > did not implement non-alias checking. Had it been implemented, > the compiler would have detected the potential problem when the > program was first compiled and thereby saved us a full week of > programmer time. > > Note that this was nothing to do with *globality* of data, just the > combination of mutability and sharing. Yes ... > > Now here's the cute thing. There was a Xerox paper that showed that > the constraints on aliasing that made Euclid safe meant that it could > be read as syntactic sugar for a functional language! > >> I (and others) think there is a place for a middle-ground where processes give us locality, allowing a divid-and-conquer of the global problem into simple parts, where the data in a given process is manageable, but where if the algorithm calls for mutable data then we should be able to use it. All the nasty problems of shared memory concurrency (from the programmer's point of view) have already disappeared when we have only per-process mutable data as opposed to global mutable data. > > The nasty problems of shared memory *concurrency* disappear, true; This is what I meant. > the nasty problems of shared memory *mutability* do not. They do not disappear. But they are more confined. With no global sharing, each process acts like a course-grained active object that TRULY encapsulates its state from the rest of the system, unlike what we have now with global mutable data sharing in OO languages. We can then reason about those mutability problems looking at each process separately. Even if we do not need to explore multi-core capabilities, the structuring of a system as a bunch of processes will already be helpful from a software engineering view point, to tackle complexity. > > If you want to add mutable data to an Erlang-like language, you had > better have type checking and no-alias enforcement as good as Euclid had. That would be overly restrictive. What I meant would be to be able to program like, e.g., in Python, within each process, and being able to have aliasing, for good or for worse. But, as I said, I was not trying to advocate adding mutability to Erlang now; just to say that actors + local mutability is a useful combination in the design space, between the extremes in one direction (Erlang) or the other (the typical OO language). > You might well end up with an excellent language, superb for its job, > but it would not (and should not) be Erlang any more. > >> The idea would be to be able to use the many proven algorithms that were created for the imperative sequential world inside each process, and let the process concept a la Erlang deal with the concurrency aspects. > > Come to think of it, this is not entirely unlike what Occam was (and > thanks to free implementations like KROC, still is). > > Why not start from Occam and see what you can add in the way of trees > and pattern matching? > Don´t know how Occam is nowadays. When I used it 20 years ago to build a ray-tracer, almost all the pain was due to the lack of dynamic memory allocation. Regards, Paulo


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Pope Francis' "no" to death penalty and inhumane imprisonment
I have written before about the "the remarkable shift in Catholic teaching about the death penalty."
Now, courtesy of Vatican Radio, comes a major address by Pope Francis to members of the International Association of Criminal Law. He strongly confirms what I'd written.
Yet even before Francis' address on Oct. 23, I'd received responses that likewise expanded the topic beyond capital punishment to other aspects of criminal justice.
A friend with direct experience with criminal justice in this country wrote what most of us know, that "we are creating a vast cohort of unemployable and disenfranchised young men." He went on to analyze dynamics we generally don't know or ignore.
"Petty crimes under the influence of drugs and alcohol become life sentences on the installment plan when guys get repeatedly violated on probation. The reward system for probation officers is structured around how many violators they send back to jail rather than around the number whose re-integration into civil society they facilitate … . When prisons are privately run, the profit motive to keep prison populations up creates a disincentive for prison officials even to recommend probation … . The recidivism rates are horrific. Very few guys get free of the system once in it. They are saddled with fines and fees that they can't repay from the minimum wage jobs they can get, if they are lucky enough to get those."
A quick trip to Wikipedia indicates that "the incarceration rate in the United States is the highest in the world. While the United States represents about 5 percent of the world's population, it houses around 25 percent of the world's prisoners. Imprisonment of America's 2.3 million prisoners consumes $60.3 billion … in budget expenditures."
Another friend wrote: "The central point of Mennonite theology and moral teaching is forgiveness ― by God and by people for each other. It isn't about what we do right, but how we respond to those who do 'wrong.'… I have never unlearned that basic lesson of forgiveness … . I am convinced that we cannot live together civilly if grudges are held and if we condemn 'those who trespass against us' to perpetual estrangement and punishment, let alone put them to death. Even the most monstrous among us can be brought back to civility if we as a genuine collective are truly civil (although some of us may suffer death in the process), which means forgiveness of 'trespasses' at its core. That is what gave such power to Martin Luther King's and Gandhi's teachings … . Justice is incomplete without mercy, and mercy cannot be accomplished without forgiveness. A justice system that cannot forgive is incomplete and imperfect."
Another wrote: "My response is the recommendation of a book I am reading for a class on mass incarceration: Christopher Marshall's Beyond Retribution: A New Testament Vision for Justice, Crime and Punishment (Eerdman's, 2001). It is a rich, wonderfully argued, weighty theological tome focused on Christian scripture. Marshall quite fairly lays out various views of crime and punishment (and sin and good and evil) before making a case for restorative justice."
A final response got, perhaps, to the heart of the matter: "The struggle against evil has to be moral and effective, without being malicious. Dante was right: 'malice is the sin most hated by God.'"
Then came Pope Francis' address, which "called on all men and women of good will to fight for the abolishment of the death penalty in 'all of its forms' and for the improvement of prison conditions … ."
"In a dense and impassioned discourse" the Vatican Radio report continued, "Pope Francis said that the 'life sentence' is really a 'concealed death sentence' and that is why – he explained – he had it annulled in the Vatican Penal Code."
"Many of the off-the-cuff comments during the Pope's speech," the report noted, "shone the light on how politics and media all too often act as triggers inflaming 'violence and private and public acts of vengeance' that are always in search of a scapegoat."
The report also noted the Pope's concern that "In the last decades there has been a growing conviction that through public punishment it is possible to solve different and disparate social problems, as if for different diseases one could prescribe the same medicine … ."
"He said this conviction has pushed the criminal law system beyond its sanctioning boundaries, and into the 'realm of freedom and the rights of persons' without real effectiveness."
Francis then talked about "inhuman and degrading punishments and sanctions," and compared maximum-security prisons to "a form of torture." Such prisons, he said, cause "mental and physical" suffering that result in an "increased tendency towards suicide."
He also said that torture "is used not only in illegal centers of detention or in modern concentration camps, but also in prisons, in rehabilitation centers for minors, in psychiatric hospitals, in police stations and in other institutions for detention or punishment."
Finally the Vatican Radio report emphasized the Pope's deep concern about human trafficking and the inevitable complicity of corrupt officials in this terrible form of slavery and imprisonment.
Undoubtedly the Pope's very strong comments reflect his experience during the "dirty war" in Argentina and his knowledge of similar forms of repressive detention, torture, extra-judicial renditions and executions, and other corruption in many parts of the world. Yet the comments from my earlier respondents clearly suggest that we in the U.S. also need to hear and listen to his plea.


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Requiem for Community
NBC has all but canceled Community this week, sending the internet abuzz. It is a quality show with a rabid, but small fan base. As a network that was defined by quality in the 80s and 90s, current president of programming Bob Greenblatt claims the he is trying to restore NBC back to its glory … Continue reading
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Many of us are overwhelmed by the gap between our weaknesses and our dreams, between who we are and who God says we are meant to be. We feel unqualified to do God's work or to live out the possibilities we imagine. But God has a way of using our weaknesses for good. In fact, God loves unqualified people.
This is a book about understanding your identity in light of who God is. It's a book about coming to terms with the good, the bad, and the unmentionable in your life and learning to let God use you. It's about charging into the gap between your present circumstances and your future dreams and meeting God there. After all, God can't bless who you pretend to be. But he longs to bless who you really are: a flawed and broken person. Fortunately for us God is in the business of using broken people to do big things.
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|Title: (Un)Qualified: How God Uses Broken People to Do Big Things
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Many of us wrestle with the gap between our weaknesses and our dreams, between who we are and who God says we are meant to be. We feel unqualified to do Gods work or to live out the calling we imagine. But God has a way of using our weaknesses for good. In fact, God loves unqualified people.
In (Un)Qualified, Pastor Steven Furtick helps you peel back the assumptions youve made about yourself and see yourself as God sees you. Because true peace and confidence come not from worldly perfection but from acceptance: Gods acceptance of you, your acceptance of yourself, and your acceptance of Gods process of change.
This is a book about understanding your identity in light of who God is. Its a book about coming to terms with the good, the bad, and the unmentionable in your life and learning to let God use you. Its about charging into the gap between your present and your hopes and meeting God there. After all, God cant bless who you pretend to be. But he longs to bless who you really are; a flawed and broken person. Good thing for us that God is in the business of using broken people to do big things.
Being unqualified is God's favorite qualification...
Our culture tells us that the answer to our failures is to fix them. The solution to our weaknesses is to hide them. The secret to our success is to appear as flawless as possible. But Gods qualifying system is different than the worlds. So is his view of our weaknesses, our purpose, and our true selves.
In (Un)Qualified, Steven Furtick explores who God is as the great "I AM," and then helps us discover our own identity. Delving into the story of Jacob, Furtick invites us to acknowledge our weaknesses and ask God to work through them.
The truth is, God has created us to be more, to accomplish more, and to love life more than we ever thought possible. But to become who he has called us to be, we must embrace who we are right now. (Un)Qualified equips us to face obstacles and failures without losing a sense of purpose. We can have a thriving sense of hope that God is working in us and through us, not in spite of our weaknesses but often as a direct result of them.
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"(Un)Qualified will take you from self-doubt and insecurity to a renewed trust in the God who called and equipped you for his will and purpose."
Joyce Meyer, Bible teacher and New York Times best-selling author
"God doesnt call the qualified. He qualifies the called. This book will challenge you and encourage you into a life characterized by prayerful dependence and decisivenessyour life will never be the same."
Mark Batterson, lead pastor of National Community Church, Washington, DC, and New York Times best-selling author of The Circle Maker
"Not only does Pastor Steven give voice to the hurt we so often stuff down deep when someone makes us feel as if were not good enough, but he also points us back to the only One who can truly measure our potential. (Un)Qualified will strategically and biblically show you that even when were overlooked by people, we are handpicked by God to play a part in his magnificent plan. This is such a needed message for today!"
Lysa TerKeurst, president of Proverbs 31 Ministries and New York Times best-selling author
"Too often we embrace the fallacy that our successes hang solely on our qualifications. That weand we aloneare the architects of our accomplishments and the framers of our future. Ive been in ministry long enough to realize that God delights in using the most unlikely candidates to accomplish his purposes and that our abilities are always secondary to his calling. In (Un)Qualified Pastor Steven Furtick shows how we can partner and participate with Gods calling for our lives, no matter who we are, where we are, or what we think we are lacking."
Bishop T. D. Jakes, founder and senior pastor of The Potters House, Dallas, and New York Times best-selling author
"Almost everyone I know battles feelings of insecurity, unworthiness, and self-doubt. I know I do. Thats why Pastor Steven Furticks life-changing book (Un)Qualified is a must-read. This power-packed book will build your faith, stir your dreams, and help you see yourself as God sees you. If you have ever battled with feeling unqualified, unprepared, or unsure of yourself, pick up this transformative book and be inspired, because our God uses broken people to do big things."
Craig Groeschel, senior pastor of Life.Church and author of #Struggles: Following Jesus in a Selfie-Centered World
"My friend Steven Furtick is one of the most authentic, passionate people I have ever met. His love for God and for people is nothing short of inspiring. Pastor Stevens book (Un)Qualified is a must-read for every Jesus follower. In it he reveals how our tendency to fixate on our failures and major in our mistakes ultimately short-circuits our calling. But even more than that, he points us to a personal relationship with Jesus, the One who calls us, equips us, and carries us into our destiny."
Judah Smith, lead pastor of The City Church, Seattle, and New York Times best-selling author of Jesus Is _
"All humans strive to be stronger than we really are, better than we really are, and more than we really are. Thats not bad…it just wont work. And as Steven shows, it leads us even farther away from who we truly are and who we want to become. This book will help you get more comfortable in your own skin, stop the striving, and see the truth of how Gods power flows when we can be real."
Dr. Henry Cloud, clinical psychologist, acclaimed leadership expert, and best-selling author
"In a world distracted and enamored by external qualifications, Pastor Stevens book is a refreshing reminder that God looks at the heart. When we respond to him in humility and faith, his power turns even our weaknesses into strengths. I am so excited about what God will do in your life as you read and experience the principles in this book! It will change the way you see yourself, talk about yourself, and even pray about yourself."
Christine Caine, evangelist, author, and founder of The A21 Campaign
"In (Un)Qualified my friend Steven Furtick reminds us that Gods qualification system is very different than ours. If youre anything like me, thats a welcome reminder and a big relief! In these inspiring pages Steven speaks bold, helpful truth in a humble and honest way. He encourages us to lose the labels weve placed on ourselves and live instead in the revelation of a God who can even turn our weaknesses into strengths. This brilliant book really resonated with me, and I know it will with you too."
Matt Redman, worship leader and Grammy-winning songwriter
"To watch the ministry of Pastor Steven Furtick is to watch someone living in his grace zone. He is a remarkable communicator, a passionate church builder, and a lover of truth. I have no doubts that his latest offering, (Un)Qualified, will resonate with each and every person who has ever felt the pull of calling and the inadequacy of their own humanity. This book will encourage and strengthen you as you walk the journey."
Brian Houston, founder and global senior pastor of Hillsong Church and author of the international best-selling Live, Love, Lead
"In a culture obsessed with perception and perfection, (Un)Qualified is a refreshing reminder that God uses even our weaknesses to our advantage. Steven Furticks latest book is honest, practical, and thoroughly encouraging, and I highly recommend it. It will help you see yourself with more faith and courage than ever before."
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David A. Dickinson, MA, has over 35 years' experience in behavioral health, working in clinical service delivery as a counselor, program manager and agency director, as well as serving in leadership positions in state government in Kansas and Washington. His clinical career also included service delivery in California, Colorado, and Oregon. Prior to his current position, David served as the director of the Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery (DBHR) in the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services.
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Elizabeth McCauley, PhD, ABPP, is Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington (UW), with adjunct appointments in Psychology and Pediatrics, and Interim Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Seattle Children's Hospital. Her clinical and research work focuses on the development and treatment of depression and suicidality in young people. She has developed and tested a number of prevention and intervention strategies, including leading a project funded by the National Institutes of Mental Health to test the efficacy of behavioral activation (BA) as a treatment for adolescent depression. Dr. McCauley is a past president of the Society for Child and Adolescent Psychology.
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Paris Hilton to Be Guest at the Century Regional Detention Facility
Paris Hilton was sentenced to 45 days in jail for her probation violation.
Judge Michael T. Sauer handed down the harsh sentence, telling Paris she will not be allowed work release, furloughs, use of an alternative jail or electronic monitoring in lieu of jail. She must do the time!
You'd like to think that this would be a good learning experience for her, but I suspect it will be like one long episode in the Simple Life. And she'll "write" her autobiographical account while shooting a music video in the clink. Via TMZ.


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A joint venture between Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, known as Foxconn, and Sharp Corp plans to build a CNY 61 billion ($8.8 billion or roughly Rs. 59,685 crores) factory in China to produce liquid-crystal displays (LCDs).
Sakai Display Products Corp's plant will be a so-called Gen-10.5 facility specialising in large-screen LCDs and will be operational by 2019, the company said at a signing event with local officials in Guangzhou on Friday. It said the plant will have capacity equating to CNY 92 billion a year.
The heavy investment is aimed at increasing production to meet expected rising demand for large-screen televisions and monitors in Asia.
Global LCD output was hit this year by the closure of a Samsung factory that accounted for 3 percent of the market, as well as factory stoppages in Taiwan after an earthquake in March.
China's largest LCD panel maker, BOE Technology Group, began construction on its own Gen-10.5 plant in Hefei in December last year, with production scheduled to begin in 2018.
In May, Shenzhen China Optoelectronics Technology Co, a subsidiary of TCL Corp, announced that it would begin construction on a CNY 50 billion LCD plant in Shenzhen.
Sakai Display Products Corp's plans for the Guangzhou plant come as Hon Hai seeks to turn the joint venture into a subsidiary, investing a total of CNY 15.1 billion in the company.
The venture will also sell 436,000 shares for CNY 17.1 billion to an investment co-owned by Hon Hai Chairman Terry Gou, giving Hon Hai a 53 percent interest in the business and lowering Sharp's stake from to 26 percent from 40 percent.


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I drew this non-existant waterfall for the latest page update of my weekly serial webcomics – Lovarian Adventures. Click on the thumbnail to zoom in.
It took me a while to get this done. But not because actually drawing it was hard. What really took time was the research I had to do. I wanted to know what actual waterfalls look like and I wanted to base my waterfall off of those. In the end though, none of the waterfall photos I've seen match the type of waterfall I wanted for the scene. Either they were too big (like the Niagra Falls) or too small. So, I just put combined aspects I needed from the different waterfall photos I've seen into this one.
The other thing that slowed me down was figuring out how to render a waterfall in line art form. Thankfully, I own the book titled Drawing Scenery: Landscapes and Seascapes by Jack Hamm. That book helped me immensely in figuring out how to render real life scenery stuff for my webcomics.
Anyway, I hope it turned out okay. I drew this using mechanical pencils (a 0.5 and a 0.9). I then scanned it on to my PC and added the shading and mist in Painter later.


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Should you need to replace 2, 3, or even 4 teeth at once, then a fixed implant bridge is an excellent option. Each end of the dental bridge is supported by an implant, allowing Dr. Ricotta to provide a prosthesis that replaces more teeth than a traditional dental bridge.
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New Hampshire Teams With New England States In Lucky For Life Lottery Game
Lucky For Life is a brand new multi-state lottery game being presented in New Hampshire with a grand prize that pays out $1,000 per day for life! Instead of a lump sum payout or a 30 year staged jackpot, winners can keep collecting their fortune for many decades a day at a time as long as they live!
The $2 Lucky for Life tickets are on sale now. Players can select five numbers from a choice of 1 to 40, and then choose one additional Lucky Ball number from 1 to 21. If all six numbers match the drawing, the player wins $1,000 a day for life, and the payout is guaranteed for a minimum of 20 years. Lottery winners must be at least eighteen years old to play the game, but if an 18 year old player wins and lives to be 100 years old they would collect one thousand dollars per day for 82 years - earning a grand prize jackpot total of almost 30 Million dollars, making this one of the highest paying $2 lottery tickets anyone can buy.
New Hampshire lottery officials are already predicting Lucky For Life will be a big hit and think it may become the first of many new regional lottery games offered in the future. By pooling resources in multi-state games, the amount of players is larger and that means the prizes can be even better for lottery gamers looking to win big!


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Because of the great diversity of people and culture, Nigeria has distinguished herself over the centuries in the field of arts. Nigerian versatility in the arts is so great that it is generally felt that all African nations should view Nigeria as the principal trustee of the most durable fruits of black artistic genius. It is not precisely known when the first works of Nigerian art reached the outside world, but in 1897, following a British punitive expedition to Benin, over 2,000 Benin bronzes and ivories were shipped to England and later dispersed all over Europe and America.
The oldest sculptures found in Nigeria were from the Southern Zaria and Benue areas of central Nigeria. They consist of terracotta figures and figurines made by a people who achieved a high degree of cultural sophistication. These sculptures, together with other cultural elements, have been named the Nok Culture. Evidence shows the Nok people had knowledge of iron smelting and adorned themselves with tin and stone beads, earrings, nose rings and bracelets.
The Nok Culture is dated between 500 B.C. and 200 A.D. The next known phase of Nigerian cultural evolution was Igbo Ukwu bronze casting. Found in the small village of Igbo-Ukwu, near Awka, the casts date from the 9th Century A.D. They first came to light in 1938 and consist of staff heads, crowns, breastplates, pendants, ornaments, anklets, wristlets and chains.About the same time the Igbo-Ukwu people were casting bronze, the ancient Ife people were also producing works in bronze, copper, and terracotta. In the first quarter of this Century, Ife works caused a great stir among world art critics and historians who were unaccustomed to such naturalism in African art.
The best known Nigerian artworks are the Benin Antiquities. Legend recounts how the Benin people learned the art of bronze casting from Ile-Ife around 1400 A.D. Oba Ogunta, the sixth King of Benin, is credited with having encouraged this art in Benin.
Nigeria's cultural heritage is woven from threads of history and diversity, legend and conquest. Tourists visiting the country will gain insights to a glorious past as well as a promising future, set amid the natural beauty of this diverse country. From rain forests in the south, broad savanna woodlands in the center to a semi-desert region in the north, Nigeria offers a remarkable range of physical beauty in her land and hospitality of her people, ready to be enjoyed by the tourist fortunate enough to choose this land of ancient empires as their travel destination.
Nigeria is a vast country with a population of about 140 people covering about 923,768 sq.km of landmass, located wholly within the tropics. The country aptly described as the 'Giant of Africa' and the Heart of Africa is richly endowed with ecological and cultural resources, which are of universal recognition. The richness and diversity of the Nigeria culture is a manifestation of the socio-cultural differences of the over 250 ethnic groups that inhabit the land for ages.
Tourism is one of the growing sectors of the Nigerian economy. The industry was accorded priority status in 1990 when the National Tourism Policy was launched. The main thrust of Government policy on tourism was to generate foreign exchange earnings, create employment opportunities, promote rural enterprises and national integration, among other things.
In recognition of the immense contributions of tourism to the national economy, the country's Vision 2010 set year 2005 as the nation's year of tourism. The obvious implication of this development is that tourism policies and programmes will now be aimed at making Nigeria the "Ultimate Tourism Destination in Africa".
Nigeria's Appeal To Tourists
Nigeria offers a wide variety of tourist attractions such as extended and roomy river and ocean beaches ideal for swimming and other water sports, unique wildlife, vast tracts of unspoiled nature ranging from tropical forests, magnificent waterfalls, some new rapidly growing cities and climatic conditions in some parts particularly conducive to holidaying.
Other attractions include traditional ways of life preserved in local customs; rich and varied handicrafts and other colourful products depicting or illustrative of native arts and lifestyle, and the authentic unsophisticated but friendly attitude of many in the Nigerian population. However, many of these attractions are still largely untapped and even at their raw, undeveloped state, they are still being enjoyed by few outsiders, either very rich visitors in quest of exoticism or adventurous people in search of new challenges and experiences.
The lack of required modern infrastructural facilities and in some parts of the country, acute conditions of underdevelopment and poverty can be seen which many potential Nigeria bound tourist may not like to be confronted with. These are impediments to tourism, which the new administration has been tackling since assumption of office. Investors, both foreign and local, are therefore called upon to come and invest in the abundant tourism potentials in the country. The richness and diversity of Nigeria's tourism resources coupled with economic liberalisation policies will provide investment opportunities in various areas as follows:
- Heritage/Cultural Tourism Resources Development of slave trade relics
- Establishment of museums and preservation of monuments
- Eco-tourism, including Wildlife Tourism Resources
- Development of hiking trails and Jeep tracks in the national parks
- Development of picnic and camping sites at strategic locations within the trail circuit system in the national parks
- Building of tourist lodges
- Building of reception centers at Natural/Physical Attractions
- Provision of cable bus system to take tourist through the very rugged but scenic terrain of the mountains especially in Kanyang, Obudu and Mambilla Plateau Construction of lodge cabins for expedition tourist and rangers.
- Establishment of hotels and resorts near waterfalls, springs, caves and temperate climate areas such as Obudu, Jos and Mambila Plateau.
- Beach Tourism potentials Establishment of boating and sport fishing facilities
- Development of water transportation Provision of educational facilities for water skiing and swimming
- Establishment of holiday resorts along the coasts.
- Development of Amusement parks, entertainment facilities and shopping services
- Development of arts and crafts which constitute symbol of the people's cultural values and love for nature.
Some Business Opportunities
Nigeria has attained a high level of good transportation system especially Airline and Road Transportation, investment opportunities are still needed in water recreation transportation and rail services. An inter-modal transportation system linking roads, railways, air and maritime services is being promoted by the Government as part of the massive programme of infrastructural development.
The hospitality sector of the tourism industry seems to be the most competitive area with the presence of Starwood Hotel Groups, owners of Sheratons, Hilton, Le Meridien, Shangra Lai the Asian Hotel giant in restaurants and many.
Meanwhile, most of Nigeria's beautiful beach locations are still largely without accommodation facilities, which are good targets for investors in most tourism destinations across the globe.
Tour Operations
Like the Europeans and America tour companies invaded the North, South and East Africa by locating tour offices in these regions which enable them to market destinations in their home countries, these are lacking in the case of Nigeria.
Any Company willing to do so for Nigeria will be highly welcome.
Investment Climate
Apart from the enormous potentials and investment opportunities in the Nigerian tourism sector, the country's investment climate at present is one of the most favourable in Africa for a number of reasons chief of which are Political Stability and a congenial macro-economic framework.
The enthronement of a viable democratic system, which guarantees political stability, improves international relations and respect for human rights would in various ways enhance investment opportunities in the country.
Tourism Incentives
The provision of incentives in the 1990 National Tourism Policy were also to enhance private sector participation. These are in the following areas:
Tourism investment atmosphere in Nigeria is now conducive given the abundant resources available, large market, enthronement of enduring democracy, and a package of incentive put together by government. Foreign investors and other interested individuals should take advantage, of the conducive policy environment and incentives, to invest in the Nigerian tourism industry for sustainability and profitable returns.
Tourism Investment Opportunities In Nigeria
A Tourism policy was produced in 1990 with the basic objectives to make Nigeria the ultimate tourism destination in Africa.
The main thrust of government policy on tourism, is to generate foreign exchange, encourage even development, promote tourism based rural enterprises, generate employment and accelerate rural urban integration and cultural exchange.
Due to the importance the Nigerian government attaches to the tourism industry, the following strategies were adopted:
Government would ensure that the provision of basic infrastructural facilities, namely, good roads, water, electricity, communications and hotels, to centres of attraction, in order to accelerate their development for the purpose of exploiting fully their touristic value. In furtherance of this goal, the appropriate government agency responsible for tourism promotion and development, shall establish and maintain close liaison with other government agencies responsible for the provision of the infrastructure.
Concession of Land
State governments will provide land without any hindrance for tourism development at concessional rates and conditions favorable to investment and the realization of investment thereon. This will necessarily include the abolition of annual ground rent within the period of construction and development of tourism. For orderly development of tourism and tourism product, it is mandatory for all state governments to demarcate potential Tourism Zones and their products from other usage, to avoid undue pollution. 100% equity ownership of companies in Nigeria and repatriation of profits and dividends etc.
Fiscal and Other Incentives
In order to boost the level of private sector investment in tourism, it is treated by government as a preferred sector, like agriculture. Government has also introduced such incentives as, tax holidays, tax rebate and soft loans, with long period of grace to potential investors in tourism.
Patrol and Regulation of the Industry
The government has enacted laws and regulations, which govern the activities of the categories of people involved in the industry, like hoteliers, travel agents, tour-operators, car hire services. This is to ensure that their conduct, is not detrimental to the objectives of the industry and the security of the nation, as well as tourists.
Tourism Facilities
To ensure the growth and development of tourism to international standards, government has put in place the following:
Embarked on a massive and aggressive publicity campaign in the country, on the potentials and significance of tourism. Available publicity organs of the government have been utilized.
Publicized and marketed the nations tourism potentials abroad, through Nigeria's diplomatic missions and the foreign media, international travel fairs and mails.
Simplified issuance of visas/entry permit to intending visitors, such that they can get Visas immediately on application. Tourists arriving our ports with return tickets, are also issued with visas on the spot.
Security agencies, including customs and immigration have been re-oriented to discharge their duties promptly and efficiently, to eliminate inconveniences to visitors at entry points.
Institutional Arrangement of Tourism
The government has put in place the following institutional frame-work.
Federal Ministry of Culture and Tourism
The Federal Ministry of Culture and Tourism has assumed full responsibility for policy initiation and monitoring, and maintains direct links with state governments on all tourism matters. However, the tourism industry is still fully dominated by states and local governments, where tourist attractions are situated.
State Ministries
State ministries implement policies and directories from the Federal Ministry of Culture and Tourism, initiate projects and control land allocation and development of tourism in their respective areas. The states also regulate the operations of hotels and catering institutions in line with the federal government policy.
Local Government Tourism Boards
These local organs were established to locate and identify potential tourist attractions in their areas. They serve as information centers and provide tourist guides. They also preserve and maintain monuments, as well as museums in their areas of jurisdiction.


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A collection of daytime disparate images taken mainly on the streets of Tokyo. Again, not sure how this project will turn out, but I'm looking for honest feedback.
dark cities and vacant buildings
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Hungarian goulash
n In response to Doreen Brown's request for a goulash recipe ("like they used to make at the Kossuth Club in Bridgeport"), we received two responses. Karolina Szabo, a Web master for a small online Hungarian newspaper, www.magyarnews.org, sent in this recipe, which appears on the Web site. She writes: "The popularity of gulyás [goulash] probably began about 1,000 years ago, when the Magyars were migrating across the Great Plains. This hearty meat dish was prepared in large copper kettles over open fires and it easily satisfied outdoor appetites."
Kettle Gulyás (Bográcsgulyás)
2 medium sized onions
2 tablespoons lard or small pieces of bacon
2 ½ lbs. beef chuck or round cut to ¾ inch cubes
2 tablespoons Hungarian paprika
1 medium sized tomato
2 green frying or Italian peppers
1 lb. potatoes
Little dumplings (csipetke), recipe below
Saute onions in a heavy six to eight quart pot or kettle in lard or with the bacon until they become glassy. Then add the beef, and saute it with the onion, stirring frequently. Take the pot or kettle from the heat, and stir in the paprika. Immediately, after the paprika is absorbed, add 2 ½ quarts of water.
Replace pot or kettle over low heat and cook for about an hour. Add the cut-up tomatoes and peppers. Add enough water to give a soup consistency.
About half an hour before meat is done, add the diced potatoes and cook the gulyás till done ( the meat should be tender, but not falling apart). When it is almost done, cook the dumplings in the soup.
Optional: Add hot cherry pepper pods if you want to make the gulyás spicy hot.
Little dumplings (Csipetke)
½ cup flour
1 egg
Make a hard dough by kneading the ½ cup flour and egg for about five minutes. Use thumb and index fingers to pinch off the pieces. Boil the dumplings in the soup till they come to the surface.


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hi guys n gals
i have just towed my Qpod for 3 hours at about 55 mph only to find my drive belt broke" it was in neutral" is there a speed limit to towing. Could the belt have engaged because of centrifugal force of the back wheels rotating the axle.
Also is there any chance of pictures or video on changing the belt
thanks wayne
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Hi Wayne.
Exactly the same thing happened to me not long after I had my pod.
It must have jumped into gear - even if only for a second. That is why most people who tow a Pod (which I used to - I sold it end of last year) make some sort of a lock which held the gear stick positively into the neutral position. I used a heavy hinge that flicked across the gear stick.
I'm not very good a finding stuff in this forum, but if you search for stuff I have submitted you should find a write up did many years ago.
Also If you go into the facebook page you will find a description of how to change a belt on there and how to inspect and check the transmission cones which you perhaps ought to do especially if the poor old thing went from 0 to 55 in half a second!!! This was uploaded onto facebook forum by the lady for whom I did the work.
Good luck. If you can't find it, send me a message with your e-mail and I'll send you the whole file.
Hi Alan
many thanks for your reply the hinge idea is great
Hi again Wayne.
If you go into the FORUM page and search Drive Belt, you will find the thread on Drive belt change. It also covers the transmission cones and adjustment.
Good luck
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10. If you are going to come to the library, you may want to bring your library card with you. If you don't have a card, then you should probably have some sort of ID with you. In a similar vein, if you need to print of copy something, you may want to bring money with you. What type of person goes out to a public building with the intentions of acquiring a product or service from that building, without money or ID on them?
9. I am a librarian. I know about books and computers. I do not know how to do your taxes, what the wacky growth on your elbow is, or how to get free money for you to get new gutters. I cannot and will not do the work for you. I will point you in the right direction and provide you with whatever resources I know of that can help you, but it's ultimately up to you to do the work. I am also not a social worker or a lawyer, so don't assume I can tell you how you can get your kids back from your ex-wife or how to what steps are necessary for you to apply to get low income housing three states away.
8. When you come in needing help finding something (or someone) please have at least the most basic details about what you are looking for. When you come in and say you need a book about "a religion" and I try to do a reference interview with you and you keep shrugging your shoulders or saying "I don't care" then we aren't going to get very far. Likewise, if you want to look up that old flame of yours online it would probably be helpful if you knew their last name, roughly their date of birth, or at least one place they have lived in the past 10 years. I can't magically pull up all the information you want when all you can tell me is she had brown hair and her dad was a mailman.
7. Don't come in here with some get rich quick scheme or some "the government gone and gave me $10,000" nonsense and then get mad when I try to smarten you up to the scam. No company is going to randomly send you a gift card for hundreds of dollars to shop online. You are not going to win a free laptop or an Olive Garden gift card just because the pop up said so. If you can't operate a computer and you don't have one at home, it's probably not a good idea to get involved in a "start your own online business and pull in six figures in your first month" venture.
6. If you can't figure out how to get to "that game" you played the other day, don't blame me. I don't remember every online game that every patron plays. I also don't know "that website" that your friends' uncles' fiancé told you about where you can look up information about people. I am not now, nor have I ever been, a mind reader. And believe me if I was, I sure wouldn't be spending 40 hours a week babysitting, er, working, here.
5. I am sorry we don't have the new release that you so covet. It's checked out and there is a long waiting list for it. You see, that's the magic of the library. You get your books, DVDs, CDs, and internet for free here; but the catch is sometimes you might have to wait a little while. If you don't like it, by all means go to Barnes and Noble or Amazon. If you feel as though you don't have enough time with your book, or your CD, or you computer… too bad. It's FREE. Sometimes you get what you pay for.
4. Please use some common sense when you come into the building. Everyone knows the stereotype that all libraries are these quiet sanctuaries where you get scolded for breathing too loud. Granted, we aren't nearly the ogres you may think we are, and our rules have been relaxed quite a bit over the years, but you still can't bring a boom box in here playing profanity laced music at a decibel level that would surely rattle the fillings in my teeth. We don't mind if you bring in a water bottle or even a Coke, as long as you have a lid for the bottle. But don't bring in a bowl of soup with no cover on it in a flimsy container that looks like it's made out of loose leaf paper. At least at this library we are even pretty lax on cell phone usage, except when you get to be too loud or your ringtone goes off every 7 seconds at full blast. Just use some common sense.
3. When you come up to the desk, please ask me for what you need. Again, I am not a mind reader. Do you need to check out books? Return books? Find a book? Reserve a computer? Use the bathroom? Get change for the copier? It's extremely annoying to try to help someone who has a blank stare on their face and if they speak at all, it's only in a low mumble that can't be understood. Additionally, don't be in the middle of a conversation with someone on your cell phone (talking OR texting) during our transaction. And if you must be on the phone, at least tell the person to hold on while we complete our business. Another hint: don't come up to the desk being loud and rowdy, dropping vulgarities left and right to your friends. This will likely get you no service (on a good day) or an automatic one way ticket out of the building (on a bad day, which because of people like you are most days).
2. I don't care if you like porn. I enjoy porn too, but here's the difference – I don't look at it in the library. Every day. For 12 hours at a time. With my fly down. And don't think we are "signaling you out" because staff frequently walk behind your computer. We tend to think something odd is going on when a person in their mid 50s spends a lot of time on MySpace browsing the 16 and under set. And if you are going to look at porn, at least do it on the designated porn terminals. Trying to watch it at the computer right in front of the desk is probably not such a hot idea. And no, turning the monitor to the side and then minimizing your windows as staff walk by doesn't seem suspicious at all! You surely have outsmarted us with your clever tricks, because it seems quite natural for a person to stare at a blank desktop wallpaper while pointing and giggling.
1. If a librarian tells you something, listen and obey them. If I tell you the printer is broken, that doesn't mean try to print something anyway and complain when it doesn't come out. If I tell you a book is checked out, I will not go look for it on the shelf "just in case." IT IS CHECKED OUT. Sure there is the remote possibility that my computer might be wrong, but I'd rather not waste 5 minutes of my precious time looking for a book that has a .0000001% chance of actually being there. And when I tell you the rules, don't question them or ask me to bend them "just this once." The second I bend the rules for you, I will literally have to bend the rules for about 500,000 other people. On a related note, I can't make the computer do things that the software doesn't support. I really can't look up the book you checked out and returned 3 years ago – those records are purged the moment the book comes back in. I also can't look you up by your social security number (and by the way, why would you give that to me anyway?). I promise, I am not picking on you or just being difficult. But when you come into my house, you have to listen to my rules plain and simple.
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To the gentleman who keeps putting annual reports through the bookdrop, because we at one point in the distant past did accept them, but now no longer do:


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Australian infrastructure firm SP Ausnet pulled out of a plan to pay A$8.3 billion (US$7.3 billion) for assets of former energy firm Alinta, blaming a downturn in capital markets, sending its shares up 9 percent on Monday.
SP Ausnet had planned to buy the east coast power line and gas pipeline networks from its state-owned parent Singapore Power, which bought them in August, but called off a shareholder vote on the deal due on Tuesday.
It said the ongoing deterioration in capital markets would have had a material impact on the proposed deal, including its ability to hit forecasts.
"In more normalized markets maybe this deal did make sense," said Andrew Chambers, infrastructure analyst at Austock. "Our simple message is: Singapore Power paid top of the market for these assets, and SP Ausnet were going to buy them at top of the market prices, but issuing equity and debt at bottom of the market levels."
SP Ausnet shares shares, which had fallen nearly a fifth this financial year, jumped as much as 9.2 percent.
A successful acquisition would have transformed SP Ausnet into Australia's largest energy transmission company, but the deal had attracted criticism from analysts because of its size and cost.
"Had the capital market conditions been more favorable for raising fresh debt and equity capital, the board would have proceeded to the security holder vote," SP AusNet Chairman Ng Kee Choe said in a statement.
The company said early last month it planned to raise about A$3 billion in a share placement to help fund the deal.
"We understand that because of unfavorable conditions in the equity market they were going to have to do the raising below A$1.20, which is what the guidance was assumed on," said Chambers.
"What that meant was the (earnings) numbers were going to have to be potentially revised down," harming the chances of a successful shareholder vote," he said.
Melbourne-based SP Ausnet, which is also listed in Singapore, owns and operates power transmission networks in Victoria state.
It reaffirmed recent forecasts for its existing business for 2007/08 and 2008/09, and maintained its 2007/08 full-year distribution guidance of 11.55 Australian cents per security.
Alinta, previously Australia's largest energy infrastructure firm, was acquired and carved up by a consortium of investment firm Babcock & Brown and Singapore Power in August.
Singapore Power CFO Yap Chee Keong said SingPower would hold on to its Alinta assets for the time being. This meant refinancing bridging loans with international and local bonds when the loans become due or when debt capital markets were more stable.
"We don't see any issue in raising the debt ... SingPower is financially very strong and we have always been active in the debt capital markets internationally, regionally and locally."
Singapore Power, a wholly owned unit of state investor Temasek Holdings, is rated Aa1 by Moody's and AA- by Fitch. Both agencies have, however, put the Singapore electricity and gas company's ratings on watch for possible downgrades following the Alinta purchase.


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Green leads the way with 24 points and 11 rebounds
It didn't take long to register the first major upset of the 2017-18 boys basketball season as unranked Digital Harbor traveled to No. 6 Patterson, Tuesday, in the season opener for both squads and the Rams knocked off the Clippers in a high scoring affair, 85-81.
Overlooked senior Donald Green made a statement for Digital Harbor with 24 points, 11 rebounds, 3 blocks and 4 assists to power the Rams. In addition, Markus Hocker came up big with 16 points and 7 rebounds.
Digital Harbor also got a major contribution, off the bench, from junior combo guard Emanuel Ludd, who scored 14 points, dished 8 assists and grabbed 6 rebounds.
Executing the game plan of coach Raymond Smith to near perfection, the Rams put pressure on Patterson early, building a 45-31 lead by intermission and they were able to stay in front throughout the second half.


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Digital Signage is everywhere and means different things to different people. Usually digital it is used to inform and persuade people by using one screen or multiple screens. Formats can range from advertisements, information gathering, live video and audio distribution, scrolling marquee broadcasting daily specials, to large format displays such as LEDs and LCDs at sporting venues.
Stand Out In The Crowd
Digital signage is an exploding market and can be used in places such as department stores, schools, libraries, office buildings, medical facilities, airports, train and bus stations, banks, auto dealerships and other public venues.


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It is Thursday so I had to come to you with a new batch of info to help you build your brand the best way you see fit. When I first started blogging I feel like I didn't have much guidance and was kind of pulling at straws. Especially when it came to the importance of building a mailing list right out of the gate. So if you are looking for some blog help you can tune in here on Thursdays for new Blogger tips (or catch up on the previous blowing tips here! ) You can also join in on our Blogger Bootcamp where we share 7 real ways to increase blog traffic and social media presence completely for free!
With that info out of the way lets get into the juicy stuff. Building a mailing list is vital to the survival of your blog, brand, and expansion of your business. Why? Because it is yours. Social media is great and can be so beneficial to your brand, but social media is finicky. With algorithms changing every five seconds it can be hard to manage, and can be taken away just as fast with one simple click. Think about it… in the past two months alone I can recall two major pages (one on IG and one on Facebook) being shut down because of someone "reporting" their content. Once you lose that huge audience and you don't have a means of contacting your followers then you are starting from ZERO! With a strong mailing list you always have access into your audience's inbox.
Building a mailing list can be tricky, but it is worth the learning curve. Especially if you are trying to gain traffic to your site or you are selling a product… your mailing list is GOLD! So where do you start? Follow me as we proceed!
5 Tricks I Used To Build A Crazy Mailing List
1. Choose the right service provider:
With everything that gains popularity, blogging has created a slew of products to jump on board the blogging bandwagon. The best tip or advice I can ever give you when it comes to blogging decisions: is to ultimately make the best decision or choice for your particular blog. There is no one cookie cutter thing or product that will always create miracles. So… when choosing which provider to house your subbies go with what you need the most. We use Convert Kit. For us it works better than MailChimp and other mailing list providers. They are simple, organized and provide us so many choices for landing pages and emails.
2. Offer an incentive:
We spent the first year of our blog's existence with a total of 60 email subscribers and we were sending weekly RSS feeds to them. It wasn't really engaging and it didn't really cause people to stick around for too long either. The dreaded unsubscribe can really hurt your feelings the first few times it happens, but it really is a learning experience. The first incentive we ever offered to get people to subscribe was through a giveaway we did with Carols Daughter in which we required people to sign up to our mailing list in order to be entered into the giveaway. This got us 400 subscribers in two weeks. We used that tactic a few other times in a few other giveaways and saw success each time. We wanted more of a consistent incentive and added in a free protective styling ebook when ever anyone signed up. This drew in a much more consistent crowd that stuck around in relation to the giveaway subscribers. When did we really start benefitting off of this incentive method? When we made it more prevalently known in various areas. We used Mail Munch to create visual reminders at the ends of our posts and scrolling at the bottom of our site. When people land on our page the reminder stays with them until they X it out or subscribe. We generally get 75-100 subscribers a week through Mail Munch alone.
3. Partner Up:
This ties in with offering an incentive. In everything I've done in blogging over the past three years, I've had the best successes when partnering up with other bloggers or brands. There is no need to alienate yourself or think you have to do it all alone. Join link up parties, comment on other bloggers pages and truly interact. Build relationships (don't come off as spammy… because that is just annoying). By building relationships and partnerships with other bloggers and brands more eyes have landed on my site which means more eyes have seen my incentive and want to sign up. Don't put yourself in a corner, definitely think outside of the box and make your partnerships work for you. Whether it is doing a giveaway with another blogger or making the giveaway rule require a mailing list sign up, don't be afraid to ask or direct people in the direction you want them to go on your site.
4. Provide valuable information:
No one is going to want to subscribe to your mailing list if you are not providing valuable information. When someone lands on a great post (especially one that has gone viral) they tend to look around the site and see what else you have to offer. If your content doesn't speak for itself then you won't get anyone to sign up. The best methods and routes are to go with helpful tips, tricks, life hacks, recipes and mix it in with your life story. People want to be helped and then they'll also want to get to know the person who has helped them. I've signed up for so many mailing lists that have great opt in incentives, but what makes me stay after I have received what drew me is the content that follows. Even when you have someone subscribed you want to keep them subscribed. So make sure your mailing list newsletters is intriguing and not just a copy of your website. Be a valuable part of their inbox so you can stay there.
5. Stay consistent and relevant:
This is one of the hardest steps! If you decide to send a daily email, weekly, or monthly email… you have to stay consistent to stay at the forefront of your reader's mind. Inboxes can become flooded so you want to choose the frequency in which you contact your mailing list. We used to send weekly RSS feeds to our 60 initial subscribers. Talk about boring snooze fest in their inbox. People don't want to sign up for a mailing list that sends them the same things they can find on your site, and they def don't want to be spammed. If your readers are used to receiving emails from you every other Monday and you start randomly sending messages all over the place it can cause your reader to feel disengaged. Be as consistent as you possibly can while being a relevant source of important information.
Speaking of staying consistent and relevant, I'm trying more and more to be more consistent with my Blogger Tip Thursday tips. One thing I certainly don't want to do is just force myself to give you nonsense for the sake of sharing a blogger tip. Instead I rather share real valuable tips that have worked for me and explain the steps to properly take. That's why I curated 7 real ways to increase blog traffic and social media presence in our Blogger Bootcamp which you can sign up for here completely for free!
For more blogger tips and tricks you can also follow our dedicated Pinterest board with plenty of tips and tools to take your blog from bla to BOMB in no time!
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School's out for the summer!
To recount, I came to Malta to study art history at the University of Malta as a visiting transfer student for one academic year. Why Malta? If you follow our blog you know that we love this little island more than anywhere else in the world. But as an added bonus Malta is very central to the rest of Europe so that we could do some travelling while I was studying. Plus I found it endlessly frustrating to study the history of art in a country that was 'born' only 144 years ago and whose history of art (not including Aboriginal art) is only about three hundred years old. And in Canada all the art is kept locked away in museums. In Malta I am surrounded by it all of the time.
I think I've finally gotten used to the 100% exam system at UoM and I feel like my exams went fairly well this semester. And to my great relief my exam results last semester exceeded my expectations. Reflecting on the past year I am pleased with the courses I took as well as the lecturers who delivered those courses. I learned so much here that I would not have had to opportunity to learn at my Canadian university. This time last year I was still getting over what had been a very stressful academic year but today I can look back at my year in Malta as a very pleasant, less frantic one. (Ah, island life.)
My verdict? I have really enjoyed studying abroad for a year and I think everyone should do it if they can. Switching schools was easy for me, I've done it about once a year since I started my undergraduate degree, so adjusting to a new place was a breeze. My biggest challenge was accepting and understanding the very different administration and assessment systems at UoM.
UoM attracts many international students and will continue to do so in the future with tuition costs rising all over the world and a growing desire to learn English. But my criticism of UoM is that it needs to come into the 21st century and its administrative and teaching staff need to become more knowledgeable about the needs and expectations of international students.
International students = big money. If the University of Malta wants to successfully attract international students in the future it needs to continue developing its academic programs but, equally important, it needs to begin to see itself as a business.
My advice to prospective students? The key to getting along well when moving to a new place (for university or otherwise) is to accept the differences as differences. Because something is different doesn't make it inferior to what you are used to. Differences are why we travel, and why we study abroad. Oh, and pack sunscreen.
Generally most international students would agree that the best part of studying in Malta is Malta itself. It is truly a beautiful country, and an art history student's heaven. My on-site lectures at the University of Malta consisted of touring Baroque churches, Roman villas and medieval towns. If I could (and it was free) I would happily study at the University of Malta for another year to learn about the prehistoric and modern history of this little island. Its culture and history are endlessly fascinating to me.
And the coolest part? I can look off of the terrace of our flat and see the chapel that the 18th century architect I wrote a paper about is buried in. I went to the library and paged through three hundred year old architectural plans and engravings (By hand. Yes, I was terrified of ripping one.) I walked around Mdina, Birgu and Valletta and heard the histories of those cities while standing in the presence of that history. I visited churches undergoing restoration and saw centuries old frescoes from three inches away. Like I said at the close of last semester, that is what studying abroad is all about.
A big thank-you to Mike for allowing me to think big and helping to make all of this possible. And for putting up with me for the month of June while I was an exam writing monster machine. He is kind of the best that way.
|University of Malta History of Art Graduating Class 2010-2011 (+ me)
jesuit church and college, valletta (picture 1 + 2), fresco restorations at our lady of victory church, valletta (3 + 4 + 5), main gate of mdina (6), university of malta coat-of-arms (7), roman mosaics, at the roman domus, mdina (8)
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I celebrated my anniversary this weekend. I think I bought this coat about three years ago. There aren't a ton of occasions that are shiny leopard coat appropriate but a fancy dinner out in early Autumn is one of them. We went to Petite Robert for dinner, a French restaurant in Kenmore Square. Then we walked off all of the pate, beef, duck and chocolate mousse and ended up downtown at Precinct for a nightcap.
Of course I wore my wedding shoes. I mean I wear them all the time anyway. :) I also wore the new skirt I just ordered from ModCloth. I didn't plan it this way but when I put it on I realized that it's about the exact color as the dress my sister wore to my wedding.
Top - Old Navy
Skirt - ModCloth
Shoes - Payless
Since I had the glitter shoes and the statement coat I didn't want to look too crazy. I just wore a plain white t-shirt. For accessories I wore my Boston Alex and Ani bracelet (here) and my Infinity necklace from Dogeared (here). My sister gave me this Fossil handbag for my birthday last year. It's pretty much the anti-sparkle so it was perfect to tone down this outfit. :)
Here's a dark picture of our dessert.
I also paparazzi'd Steve while we waited for a train.


text: BUSINESS Like the TV business itself, Upfront Week just wasn't the same 5:00 AM PDT 5/20/2008 by Empty , AP FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Empty Perhaps the shellshocked looks on the faces of buyers and advertisers leaving the NBC Universal Experience should have warned everyone that this year's Upfront Week wasn't going to be the same shrimp-filled spectacle.On Monday, the rarefied world was turned upside down by the Peacock. It continued Tuesday and Wednesday, when CBS and ABC turned in out-of-the-ordinary presentations and the CW struggled to be heard. Party- crasher Turner, meanwhile, made up for last year's mistakes and made a case for why it should be there next year. On Thursday, by the time Fox dropped the curtain, the week finished up on more normal footing.But this year's upfront, like the strike-addled 2007-08 TV season, just wasn't the same."There will be no dancing this year," ABC Entertainment president Stephen McPherson told ad buyers at ABC's upfront. "There will be no bells and whistles."With the exception of Univision's spectacular — with a number from Tony nominee "In the Heights" and a concert by Shakira — Upfront Week 2008 came in exactly as advertised: lean, short on video because of a truncated development schedule and, in the words of one veteran upfront watcher, almost somber.A rundown:>mNBC: After hitting one out of the park with its no-nonsense scheduling presentation in early April, NBC stumbled with its Experience, which was designed to show that NBC Uni is more than just a fourth-place broadcast network. Instead, it gave ad buyers sore feet on the first day of the week and made them question why anyone would think this was a good idea. To its credit, NBC did throw a heck of a party afterward.>mESPN: The first cable network to crash the upfronts with its out-of-the-box show last year, ESPN came up with a simple idea this time around: a special Madison Avenue-themed "SportsCenter" to talk up multiplatform offerings. Unlike NBC's take, it worked — probably because, like "SportsCenter," ESPN didn't take itself too seriously.>mABC: With none of the dancing or production numbers that highlighted past presentations, ABC's straightforward, compelling presentation was suited more for a conference room than Avery Fisher Hall, though Jimmy Kimmel, the lone network talent in attendance, sent some zingers NBC's way. But ABC lost points among some ad buyers because it had little tape of its new shows even though the network only has two new programs for the fall. And the decision to have no party meant its customers quickly turned the page.>mThe CW: The fifth-place network held a small presentation within a party immediately after ABC's event. It spent lavishly — food and liquid flowed freely, and rockers Maroon 5 don't come cheap — but the noise level was so high that network chief Dawn Ostroff and her two holograms couldn't compete.>mTurner: After a disastrous upfront presentation last year, Turner turned it around with a morning event that left the impression that big things were happening. Thanks to a different production schedule, Turner showed lots of footage of its pilots, a fact not lost on buyers who hadn't seen much from ABC the day before. It also flew in its stars, and then, because there was no party, flew them right out again.>mUnivision: The network promised that it wouldn't skimp, and it didn't lie. It brought in Shakira to perform and "In the Heights" stars, giving ad buyers a taste of past upfronts glory. That and a growing audience for Spanish- language TV will pay off for the network when the buying begins.>mCBS: Unlike NBC, CBS didn't take as much time to show off the rest of its corporate assets, but that part still drew sighs. Said one ad executive, "If you're a media buyer and you don't know that already, you should be ashamed of yourself." CBS scored points for having a clear, consistent and expansive look at its programming. But it also lost points for not having a party and creating something of a traffic hazard on West 57th Street in front of Carnegie Hall, when a thousand or so media buyers, with no place to go, wondered what to do next.>mFox: After its meltdown two years ago, Fox made good last year with a one-hour presentation. It pleased the crowd again this year with its brevity. Especially impressive was the first look at "Dollhouse," which had completed production only a week earlier. Fox also eschewed entertainment — and, interestingly enough, "American Idol" — but ended with a dance number from "So You Think You Can Dance." And just like last year, Fox's party was the (carbon-neutral) place to be.Paul J. Gough can be reached at email@example.com. FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Empty firstname.lastname@example.com @thr AP email@example.com @thr


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I am working an institute ( autonomous body) last five years but they not give me epf no. They not dedudcted amount for epf or they not give me epf account.there are all employees is contractual but some employes have epf but i not have epf no. Where i complaint this . this is compulsury for epf.
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