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- 12 – 16 April 2021
Locations: Tharwa, ACT
Price: Young Explorer is valued at $1,020 incl GST.
Young Explorer is more than just a school holiday program for teenagers. By providing a fun and challenging environment, we encourage young adolescents to explore their potential through adventure, all the while supported by our expert instructors. Outward Bound instructors facilitate each activity to ensure a positive and educational experience is had by all.
The 5 day course for youth aged 12-14 offers activities such as a High Ropes Course, Raft Building, Orienteering, Hiking and many more, teenagers on Young Explorer are stimulated in a positive and constructive environment. By providing "a place apart" Outward Bound courses help young people re-connect with what is real and important in their lives and to get away from the distractions of mobile phones and social media.
Young Explorer offers five full days of fun, challenge and personal development. Enrol your child today and give them a gift that will last them for years to come.
Ready to reach your potential? Know someone who could benefit from the Young Explorer experience? Enrol or enquire online and a friendly staff member will be in touch with more information on the course, or call us on 1800 267 999.
School Holiday Program Outcomes
Self-awareness: At this transitional stage in life, young adolescents are beginning to think about themselves in new ways and to shape a new identity for themselves. We aim to equip them with tools to help them form a constructive and meaningful identity.
Self-confidence: Our Young Explorer program is designed to provide challenging experiences whereby young people can discover their true potential. By providing a challenging yet supportive environment we are able to focus on the positive aspects of adversity and teach young people that they are stronger than they give themselves credit for.
Spirit of initiative & adventure: Early adolescence is a stage when young people are re-defining their boundaries and seeking new experiences. We not only provide a positive outlet for this, we also show young people the value of seeking meaningful and challenging experiences rather than mere "thrill seeking".
Fun! Above all, this is a fun experience that will keep teenagers engaged from start to finish. By creating a fun and positive atmosphere, our instructors keep young people engaged in the program and the learning opportunities that it entails. This is a holiday program with a difference.
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Information about AJ&K (Tourists Destinations in Azad Kashmir)
Azad Jammu & Kashmir is very rich in natural beauty. Its snow-covered peaks, dense forests, winding rivers, turbulent foaming streams, Wheat-scented valleys, velvet green plateaus and climate varying from arctic to tropical, all join together to make it an excellent tourist attraction. Valleys like Neelum, Jhelum, Leepa, Rawalakot, Banjosa, Samahni & Baghser unfold delightfull scenic beauty and provide a feast of pleasure to a discerning tourist's eyes.
Azad Kashmir is also blessed with a varied mountainous landscape ranging from low hills to high mountains (2000 to 6000 meters) most suitable for soft to medium adventure tourism. The area provides excellent opportunities Read more

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The Self Improvement Blog | Self Esteem | Self Confidence
In life, one of the most important things is inner strength. How bold one is, defines the way he or she leads his/her life. Life on this planet is a journey, in which one is tested numerous times, on a number of occasions. The biggest challenge in front of you is to pass each of these with ease. When you are loaded with confidence, you do so and do not get stuck up in the middle. Yoga has been guiding humans for more than 5000 years ago and it is probably the best way to experience inner bliss.
If you are looking to enhance your power to perceive the path of life in a deeper way, there cannot be a better way than Yoga. Read on to learn about some amazing confidence-booster Yoga poses that you should practice every day.
Side Plank or Vasisthasana is one of the finest Yoga poses for self-confidence. Side Plank differs from a Plank in a way that the latter is practiced on both palms but in the former Yoga pose, only one palm is in action. Also, the body is tilted on one side. While the pose nurtures the arms muscles in an amazing way, the balance of the body also gets enhanced. You should repeat this posture both ways 4-5 times to get more benefits. When you include this asana in your daily routine, your blood circulation hikes up to another level, which is extremely effective in boosting one's ability to face difficulties.
Urdhva Dhanurasana
Urdhva Dhanurasana is also called Chakrasana, for its shape as a chakra (wheel) during the practice. The whole body comes in the position of a wheel while the palms and toes are in contact with the floor. To begin with, lie down on the mat. Bring your feet close to the head to put the soles flat on the mat. Slowly and steadily, by pushing the ground with the palms raise your pelvis towards the ceiling. Stay firm in that position by concentrating your eyes on a single object. This is an advanced asana that is very beneficial in opening up the chest and strengthening your muscles. Your determination to stay focused in the position will enhance your inner strength.
Forward bending exercise is known for so many reasons, of which mental calmness and back pain relief are major ones. Standing straight on the ground with both feet together, bend in the forward direction to make sure the nose is near the knees. Put your palms on the ground in line with the feet and don't let your knees bend. During the practice, the brain is below the heart, sponsoring a better circulation of blood in the mind. Along with calming the brain, this asana helps in the proper functioning of the mind, body and soul. A practitioner emerges as an advanced fighter in case of any scarce situation.
Attain the vibrant energy of Lord Hanuman when you indulge in the practice of Hanumanasana. Filled with a number of health and soulful benefits, Monkey Pose is practiced in a fierce way. Kneel down on the Yoga mat with the knees apart. Move your right leg in front and the left one behind. Make sure both legs are entirely in contact with the floor making 180 degrees between them. The hands are up in the air in Namaskar pose giving it a spiritual touch. This asana nourishes your thighs muscles. It is all about self-possession, which is what you will experience after practicing it every morning.
Pincha Mayurasana
Pincha stands for feather and Mayura for a peacock. This is a forearm stand pose and one of the most challenging poses. The difficulty faced during its practice comes with a lot of benefits including the strengthening of muscles. The asana is useful in making the brain calm and the body balanced. Inner confidence is the elemental form of a composed mind and gritty soul, which the practice of Pincha Mayurasana promises to offer. During the pose, the forearm and palm remain steady on the ground while the rest of the body is in an erect position in the air. If you are not able to do in the beginning, take help of a wall to attain perfection.
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Bipin Baloni is a passionate Yogi, Yoga Teacher and a Traveller in India. He provides Ayurvedic Treatment In Kerala. He loves writing and reading books related to yoga, health, nature and the Himalayas.
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Star Single Tom Stand and Classic Stand
Ditch the snare basket and streamline your setup.
Tama is not only one of the world's premier drum makers, but it also offers some of the most stable, durable, and well-engineered hardware on the market today. This past year the company introduced two new pieces for drummers looking to simplify their setups without sacrificing sound and flexibility. These are the HTS108W Star single tom stand ($227.49) and the HC52F lightweight Classic cymbal stand ($100). Let's check them out!
Star Single Tom Stand
The HTS108W is designed as an alternative for drummers who like to mount rack toms in snare baskets but don't want to choke off the resonance. It's a hefty stand that can be used with any rack tom with a depth of 10″ or less, and it has enough height adjustment to place a tom in a standard position above bass drums between 18″ and 26″ in diameter. The Omni-Ball tilter allows you to adjust the angle of the tom easily to achieve the most comfortable spot. The large steel L-rod, which can be adjusted up to 6″ out from the base to accommodate different horizontal positions over the bass drum, is held securely in place with Tama's Glide-Tite grip joint and a memory lock.
The rubber feet are oversized for increased stability and have retractable spikes to prevent the stand from creeping away during the gig. The legs are double-braced to prevent tipping, and Tama insulated the inside of the top pipe with a True-Sound mute to keep the stand from absorbing vibrations from tom hits, and thus sacrificing sustain. This is a super-hefty tom stand, but it works great. It allowed me to extend my rack tom a few inches toward the center of the bass drum, which isn't possible with most standard snare baskets. I also didn't notice any tone dampening when playing the rack tom on the HTS108W stand. The only downside I found was that the .5″ L-arm was too wide to fit the mounts on some of my vintage drums, and too small to accommodate one contemporary model I tried it with. So be sure to measure the bracket hole on your tom before making the purchase, or be prepared to purchase a correctly sized replacement mount. Otherwise, this stand is great for simplifying setups without compromising stability or flexibility.
Classic Stand
Contrasting the heavy-duty Star single tom stand, the HC52F Classic stand is extremely lightweight and compact. It features a flat base that borrows from the design of cymbal stands made in the 1960s and, weighing just 3.2 pounds and folding up to under 23″ in length, is small enough to fit inside most cymbal bags. The tilter is toothed to keep the cymbal locked into place, and it allows for various angle adjustments at ten-degree increments. The thumbscrews are thin but sturdy and ergonomic for easy adjustments.
The flat-base tripod sits low to the ground, so you can place the stand closer to the bass drum than you can with a regular tripod. And unless you're a heavy hitter, the tripod and stand are plenty sturdy to hold ride cymbals and crashes without tipping or slipping.
Tama also made the upper tube out of solid 9mm steel, rather than a hollow pipe. This was done to provide additional stability without adding too much weight. There's a rubber ring placed at the end of the solid tube to insulate against vibrations that could cause the stand to rattle.
I often use vintage cymbal stands on club gigs and recording sessions because of how lightweight and compact they are and because they tend to allow the cymbals to sustain a bit longer and with a fuller tone. The problem with those old stands is that they tend to be a bit flimsy, and the thumbscrews often slip. Not so with the Tama Classic stand. It may look like a throwback to the '60s, but it's as cutting-edge as it gets.
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(Reuters) - Microsoft said it resolved an outage on its Azure cloud computing service, which occurred across multiple regions.
Partial disruptions began as of 1.40 p.m. ET on Aug. 18, the company said on the Azure website. (http://bit.ly/VAqCJV)
Microsoft Azure is a cloud-based platform for creating, deploying and maintaining online applications and services such as websites and web-hosted applications. The service, which is used by governments and corporations around the world, supports various programming languages, tools and frameworks.
The company said Azure services such as virtual machines, cloud services, mobile services, service bus, site recovery, HDInsight, websites and Storsimple were down due to interruptions in multiple centers.
The core platform components were working properly throughout and only a small subset of customers were affected by the outage, Microsoft said.
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2016 Jones Mountain Twin Wide Snowboard Review
Average Rating:
All Mountain Freestyle boards are for carving and the park
Directional Twin -most common, tip/tail shape not identical
Stiff - ideal for hard-chargers who want responsive boards
Rocker/Camber/Rocker - a mix of response and playfulness
Retail Value: $499.99 (30% OFF)
Watch 2016 Jones Mountain Twin Wide Snowboard Video Reviews:
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Hey guys, Dan here. I just hopped off the Jones Mountain Twin. This thing is an absolute shredder. It's a whole lot of fun no matter where you go. If you're hitting the deeps more than you're hitting the groomers I'd say this is the board for you. If you're an aggressive rider that wants to take it all mountain and progress and push yourself, this is a board you're going to want to ride. I'm going to give this thing 5 out of 5 stars. I had an absolute blast on it and I recommend it to anybody.
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Hey, this is Ian here. I just got off of the Jones Mountain Twin. It's a true twin board. Great ride. Definitely 4 out of 5 stars. The board moved really well, it turned really well, it carved very well too. It was pretty comfortable on the snow. This stance, even at its most narrow point is a little bit wide so I was kind of uncomfortable but apart from that, the whole riding experience was really nice. It does have Magne-Traction so it gets really good carving turns and it's super easy on the rotation. I give this board a 4 out of 5 stars.
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Hey, this is Ian. Just got done riding the Jones Ultimate Mountain Twin in a 157. I give this board 4 out of 5 stars. This is geared for your advanced all-mountain freestyle rider. It has a little slight Magne-Traction so it definitely helps on a little bit icier packs of snow. Cambered right in between your bindings and rockered up in the tip and tail gives you a little bit more playful feel. Little bit stiffer so definitely gonna want to load this board up when you're going off any kind of bigger jumps and, once again, 4 out of 5 stars. Jones Ultra Mountain Twin.
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Hey, I'm Rob. I just got done riding the Jones Mountain Twin. I give this board a 4 out of 5 stars. Pretty fun board. It's the first Jones board I've ever actually ridden. Pretty solid edge hold. It's a little softer of a flex. It's really more of freestyle board. When you really open it up it gets a little loose on ya but I was able to make some pretty nice turns. The mellow mag on it holds an edge fairly well. It's a very maneuverable board. Snappy and some pop. It's just a really good solid mid-level freestyle board.
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I'm Steve. I just got done riding the Jones Mountain Twin. I'm going to give this board 4 out of 5 stars. It's a park board that's probably gonna be better for more advanced riders that want to ride either in the pipe or in a big park. It held a great edge but it would also allow you get in and out of the turn if you needed to if you're in trouble. It's a good board. 4 out of 5 stars.


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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has pipped Chinese President Xi Jinping to secure the top rank in handling domestic and international affairs in a global survey conducted by a Chinese firm.
In the 'China's National Image Global Survey 2014, conducted in 9 countries -- the US, UK, Australia, Japan, South Africa, India, Russia, Brazil and China -- Modi's handling of domestic and international affairs has won him the top rank while Xi figured second.
"Xi's handling of both domestic and international affairs has won high praise. He ranks second, after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, for his capability of handling domestic and international affairs," Wang Gangyi, vice-president of China International Publishing Group, said citing the survey report, which was released in Beijing on Wednesday.
The survey, based on 4,500 respondents from the 9 countries, was conducted by the Centre for International Communication Studies of China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration, Millward Brown and Lightspeed GMI.
The survey, which did not include China's close ally Pakistan, found that Beijing's overall image has been increasingly recognised by the global community.
The "More people in the nine countries are convinced of China's future robust economic growth," Wang was quoted as saying by state-run China Daily.
The average score of China's national image in 2014 was 5.9 on a scale of 1 to 10, up from the previous year's 5.1.
The survey found that Xi was the fourth best-known among the leaders of the 9 countries, with 70 per cent of the respondents having heard of him, after US President Barack Obama (97 per cent), Russian President Vladimir Putin (91 per cent) and British Prime Minister David Cameron (86 per cent), it said.
About 46 per cent of overseas respondents said China's image is one of "having rapid economic growth with its people enjoying relatively high living standards", while 45 per cent believed that China is a country with "a big gap between the rich and the poor".
More than half of the respondents are optimistic about China's future development, with 37 per cent saying they believe China's economy will keep growing at a rapid rate, and 20 per cent saying they believe China will overtake the US to become a superpower.
The study found that people from emerging economies tend to have a better appreciation of China's development.
"Most people in emerging economies regard China as an important force for maintaining world order and peace, while many from the developed countries still believe in a China military threat," he said.
Dong Guanghua, group account director of Millward Brown, said the going-global strategy of Chinese companies has also helped improve the country's national image.
Chinese brand products, with better quality and innovation, are being embraced by more foreign consumers in recent years, and many foreign respondents are familiar with Chinese brands including Lenovo, Huawei, Air China, Haier and Alibaba, he said.
However, Chinese products still need to improve quality and after-sales service, which sometimes hold back foreign consumers from buying Chinese brand products and hamper the national image, he suggested.


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The Library App
It's 2 a.m., you've just finished reading a book you couldn't put down, and you have to know RIGHT NOW if the next in the series is available in the library. Grab your smartphone, open the library app and search the catalog, find the title, and place it on hold. It will be waiting for you when you get to the library in the morning.
Browsing in a bookstore and see a title you'd love to read but don't want to buy it? Simple, open the library app, scan the bar code and see if the library has the title in its collection. If it does, place it on hold and pick it up the next time you come in.
Forgot how many books you checked out and if you've turned any of them in? Easy, open the app, sign in, and renew your items.
If you are using a mobile device and haven't downloaded DerbyLibrary — the Derby Public Library mobile app — yet, what are you waiting for? It's a little like carrying the library around in the palm of your hand but without all the weight of the books.
The Derby Public Library's mobile app is powered by Boopsie. See how the app works here and get it in the App Store or on Google Play.


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BBVA, Best Structured Products Bank in Latin America in 2013September 12, 2013
BBVA has been distinguished with three awards during 2013 for its outstanding role in the Latin American structured products market. These awards, which are among the most respected in the Latin American specialised financial industry, represent the solid trajectory of BBVA in the region.
BBVA was elected Best House in Latin America, including Best in Performance and Best in Sales for the region, by the Euromoney magazine Structured Retail Products . The bank was also elected Structured Products House of the Year in Latin America by the magazine Structured Products and best Investor Solutions Bank by the database MTN-I.
These awards recognize BBVA Corporate & Investment Banking for its leadership, its capacity to provide added value to clients in the Latin American structured products arena and its ability to innovate products and solutions on diverse and flexible markets.
BBVA Bancomer is currently the largest issuer of structured notes in Mexico, boasting a market share of around 30%. It also dominates the warrants market with a share of over 40%. BBVA Continental was also the first local bank in Peru to offer its customers products linked to the S&P 500 and Eurostoxx 50 indexes.
Manuel Meza, Head of Latam Structured Products, highlights the importance of these awards for the BBVA Group since they have been given at a time when the market is beginning to take off. "We forecast that the market will experience two-digit growth in the coming months as high-net-worth individual banking gains momentum in the region and we see clients becoming increasingly sophisticated," he explains.
These awards highlights, once again, the level of specialized services offered by BBVA Corporate & Investment Banking, considered a benchmark in the industry.


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Following the release of her eighth studio album, A.K.A., Jennifer Lopez stops by 106 & Park to chop it up with hosts Bow Wow and Keshia Chante. T.I., who is featured on her newly released project, surprises JLo by walking out to their joint single.
Lopez, 44, is joined on the 106 couch by T.I. who is also celebrating a new project – the visual treatment for his newest Paperwork cut "No Mediocre," featuring Iggy Azalea.
Peep all the action on the video clip below and much more in the gallery on the following pages.
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In this week's web design and development news roundup, you'll learn what to expect in your first user experience job, find out how to design with Gutenberg, discover how to improve accessibility on your website, and more.
If you're new to my blog, each Friday I publish a post highlighting my favorite user experience, accessibility, WordPress, CSS, and HTML posts I've read in the past week.
Hope you find the resources helpful in your projects!
Want more resources like these on a daily basis? Follow me @redcrew on Twitter.
Tweet of the Week
Today was my best day yet as a software developer.
I had the guts to share my thoughts on an alternative implementation, a team lead who supported me in doing that, and a team that encouraged me to share and explore my plan.
What more could a junior developer want? 🤗🤗🤗
— Sonia Gupta (@soniagupta504) January 11, 2018
User Experience
- Tiny Wins: the big benefits of little changes: Tiny changes in your product are low effort, but have high impact on your users. By solving users' common frustrations, you strengthen your business since users know you're listening to their concerns.
- What to expect in your first UX job: At his General Assembly talk in Seattle, Jose Coronado shared what to look out for in your first UX job.
Take the opportunity to learn from your peers, from the projects, and from the industry.
- Five user research rules of thumb: I like Leisa Reichelt's third rule: don't spend more than two weeks designing something without watching how someone uses it.
- Why UX is the biggest barrier to voice UI adoption: While voice interfaces have a lot of potential, our interactions with them often resemble a glorified phone tree or an intelligent chatbot, says Rebecca Sentance.
- User-Experience Quiz: 2017 UX Year in Review: Test your user experience knowledge with Nielsen Norman Group's 10-question quiz. If you score a 10, send your resumé to them when they announce a new job opening!
- Improved accessibility for Google Sheets, Slides, and Drawings: Available to all G Suite users, the improved accessibility features are rolling out over the next couple weeks.
- Small Tweaks That Can Make a Huge Impact on Your Website's Accessibility: Using good document structure/semantics, improving color contrast, and enhancing keyboard support will go far in making your site accessible to everyone.
- Increasing Accessibility: Earlier this week, Eric Meyer asked his blog readers how he could improve accessibility on his site. Two days later, he acted on those suggestions and explained his first steps for creating a more accessible site.
- Ann Arbor Web Accessibility Group: Accessibility Basics: Join the Ann Arbor Web Accessibility Group on January 29, 2018 for two short talks by organizers Caitlin Geier and Chris DeMars.
- Fair Use for Captioning Content Outside of Education: Elisa Edelberg explains how you can balance accessibility and copyright laws when you want to add captions to third-party videos.
- WordPress Gutenberg Guide: How to Build Your Next Site With the Revolutionary Editor: If you've wondered how to get started building layouts with Gutenberg, this post is for you.
- Gutenberg design basics: Thanks to Tammie Lister, a user experience designer at Automattic, here's a closer look at designing with Gutenberg.
- WordPress Website Cost – The Real Truth Behind Building a Site: Yes, WordPress is free. But creating WordPress site is not. John Mason discusses the costs involved with creating a moderately sized WordPress website.
So technically speaking, it's "free." Nothing is truly free, however. There's always some kind of cost.
- Recap of Our January 2018 Kickoff Meetup: My friend Jim Luke and I launched the first meetup of the West Metro Detroit WordPress group this week. While we had small attendance, we made plans for the future.
- Doc Pop's News Drop: WordPress Predictions for 2018: I'm always interested in hearing what we can expect in WordPress in the coming year. Especially when it's a short three-minute video (transcript included).
CSS and HTML
- What's New in HTMl 5.2?: A native
dialogelement and styles in the
bodyelement are two of the changes you'll find in HTML 5.2.
- The latest ways to deal with the cascade, inheritance and specificity: Google's announcement that AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) will now appear under publishers' URLs instead of Google's URL has many people applauding. But not everyone. Check out A letter about Google AMP.
- Thanks Rachel Andrew for your tip on using
Little grid tip. Use fit-content for track sizing to make more easily reusable components https://t.co/wlEpJg4roE
— Rachel Andrew (@rachelandrew) January 7, 2018
- Fantastic Pens and where to find them #2: I just discovered Mandy Michael's weekly roundup of interesting code examples from CodePen. My favorite from this week's collection is "I could not stop" – give it a whirl!
What I Found Interesting
- The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Blog: You can't get any better information on starting a blog than from Darren Rowse of ProBlogger. His brand new, free course launches this month.
- Aflac's toy robot for kids facing cancer is the smartest toy of all: Rather than focusing on a game, camera, or voice assistant, the duck toy robot is designed to give comfort to children going through cancer treatments. The toy won't be available commercially, but provided for free to children with cancer. Well done, Aflac.
- Dictation.io: Cool online tool that uses Google Speech Recognition Engine that transcribes your speech to text in real times. Works in different languages. Note: only works in Chrome.
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An emblem is a design that stands for a group or a concept. If you're Scottish, your family may have an emblem such as a coat of arms that symbolizes your heritage.
Many countries have national emblems, which often feature an animal or other elements that represent significant parts of the country's history. A national emblem is often shown on flags or official documents such as passports. An emblem can also be an object that represents an idea. An expensive skyscraper could be an emblem of greed, for example, or the apple tree you planted in your backyard could be an emblem of hope.


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JD-U not to attend Lalu rally
Patna: Bihar's ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) will not attend RJD chief Lalu Prasad's "BJP hatao, desh bachao" rally here on August 27, a JD-U leader said on Sunday.
JD-U General Secretary Shayam Razak told the media that JD-U as a party would not attend the event but Chief Minister Nitish Kumar may in his personal capacity if he was invited by the RJD.
The JD-U and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) along with the Congress are part of the ruling Grand Alliance in the state.
Lalu Prasad has said the the rally would be attended by Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Vice President Rahul Gandhi, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda, former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, BSP chief Mayawati and Left parties.


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The Indian Cultural Centre in Colombo honors Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore
By Dr Srimal Fernando, Asia Correspondent
10 May 2012
On the occasion of 150th Birth Anniversary of Gurudev Tagore , Rabindra Sangeet performance titled "The Legacy of Santiniketan" was hosted by the Indian Cultural Centre (ICC) in Colombo at the Havelock Road , Buddhist Cultural Centre (BCC) auditorium on 8th May, 2012.
World-renowned Nobel Laureate Rabidranath Tagore's work on art, literature, theatre, music and dance contributed to the revival of culture in India and in Sri Lanka in a very significant manner. Gurudev Tagore composed the national anthems "Amar Shonar Bangla" for Bangladesh and "Jana Gana Mana for the Republic of India. The Visva-Bharati University in Shantiniketan was founded by him.
Tagore visited Sri Lanka in 1922, 1928 and in 1934. During the pre and post Independence period of Sri Lanka, prominent artists such as Ananda Samarakoon , Chitrasena and Sunil Shantha associated Visva Bharati University (VBU) Shantiniketan in India. In the past six decades one can find a mixture of various arts and cultural scenarios in Sri Lanka of which works of Gurudev Tagore had a very strong influence on Sri Lankan culture.
The birth centenary of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore was celebrated last year in many South Asian countries including Sri Lanka. During the opening remarks at the commemoration of the Sri Lankan celebrations the narrator highlighted that last year a special postal stamp was released by the Government of Sri Lanka and a volume "Remembering Rabindranath Tagore" was published in remembrance of the Nobel Laureate.
To mark the birth of Gurudev Tagore the Indian Cultural Centre in Colombo invited more than 300 guests to attend a music and dance performance in tribute of Gurudev Tagore on May 8th this year. .Many Indian friends of Sri Lanka, Indian classical music lovers and several distinguished guests were present at this commemoration.
After the arrival of the Minister for National Languages and Social Integration, Vasudeva Nanayakkara the Indian High Commissioner, His Excellency Ashok. K. Kantha joined the guests at the hall. The event started with a lighting of the traditional oil lamp.
The cultural programme followed with a performance by renowned Sri Lankan singer Weerasena Gunathilake. The guests also had the opportunity to enjoy raga, talas and the melodic modes that has rhythmical notes from renowned artists Thilini Rodrigo, Charith Perera, Pradeep Rathnayake and Chandana Wickramasinghe, who performed at the Gurudev Tagore commemoration.


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Kim Kardashian may undergo hysterectomy
Reality TV star Kim Kardashian says that in a "very rare case", she may need a hysterectomy after she gives birth to her son
Los Angeles: Reality TV star Kim Kardashian says that in a "very rare case", she may need a hysterectomy after she gives birth to her son.
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Kim and her husband and rapper Kanye West are expected to welcome their second child in December.
"With the issues I had last time, my risk of having pre-eclampsia and placenta accreta are increased and there's not a whole lot I can do to prevent it, so my anxiety is a little high leading up to my delivery," Kim wrote on her official website, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
"In a very rare case, I might need a hysterectomy (a surgery to remove a woman's uterus) after delivery if my condition is severe enough, but luckily my doctor doesn't think this will happen. So as time goes on, I am stressing out less and trying to go with the flow," she added.
The 35-year-old reality star also shared the details about how her conditions affected her first pregnancy with North.
"We induced my labour and I had North soon after. Right after delivery, the placenta usually then comes out. Mine did not. My placenta stayed attached inside my uterus, which is a condition called placenta accreta..."
"My doctor had to stick his entire arm in me and detach the placenta with his hand, scraping it away from my uterus with his fingernails. How disgusting and painful," she wrote.
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Stocks opened higher Thursday after news weekly jobless claims fell last week, adding to optimism following stronger-than-expected earnings from bank titan JPMorgan.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained at the open after snapping a three-day losing streakin the previous session.
Here are six stocks that are on the move:
Williams Sonoma
The home products retailer was upgraded to conviction buy from neutral at Goldman Sachs citing positive sales trends for home furnishings.
The diversified product manufacturer was downgraded to underperform from neutral at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
The weight loss program company was upgraded to outperform from neutral at Wedbush Securities.
Quest Diagnostics
The health care diagnostic testing firm was downgraded to market perform from outperform at RBC Capital with its price target being cut to $61 from $67.
The fertilizer producer was added to the top picks list at Citi who predicts that a strong fall fertilization season will boost the stock.
Meritage Homes
The homebuilder was downgraded to neutral from buy at Goldman Sachs.
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外文标题:Remembering Wuhan..............Part 1
Li Na has won the French open Lawn Tennis tournament. This is the first time any Asian has achieved this feat. This will give a tremendous boost to tennis in China and I am sure we will get to see many more Chinese on the international tennis scene soon. Chinese take work sincerely and dedicatedly. They are industrious, diligent and focused. After living here for three years I have been able to see them, observe and know them very closely. We talk a lot of matching their pace and performance but if talks could achieve that then we would have done that by now. Indians interest in cricket has killed all other games in India. The interest is not in the game but the money it can generate and all the hype is whipped up for reigning in more money and it literally rains. There's a lot of speculation involved with this game. You can bet on each ball. Now with IPL T-20 it is totally commercialized. Big industrialists and the film personalities are investing heavily in it. The price tag for a player can make even the strong hearted faint.
Li Na is from Wuhan. That reminds me that I started a blog on my trip to Wuhan. In a way it is the continuation of the blog " Another Trip To Wuhan." Let's take you straight there and show you some beautiful pictures.
I had posted a blog on my visit to Wuhan last year and had said that I will post more on it again. I didn't think that I will do it after a long gap of a year. I have too much to post about China but there's a lot more else too that I want to post and that keeps getting precedence over the pictorial blogs of China. The problem with picture blogs is the difficulty of posting the pictures. I posted some thirty pictures on this blog today and in the evening in place of pressing "Save Draft" I pressed "Publish." I had to delete the blog as I couldn't have let the incomplete blog be there.
I arranged the inspections in such a way that I would get sometime in the evening on the first day and about half of the next day for seeing the town and it's tourists spots. My wife was with me. After finishing the inspections we went around the town. Wuhan is the capital of Hubei Province and is the most populous city of Central China. It lies at the intersection of the Yangtze and the Han rivers. It's a major transport hub with dozens of Railways and Expressways passing through the city. It is recognized as the political, financial, cultural, educational and transportation centre of Central China.
After getting down from the train we drove through the City to the Hotel where we were put up.
After leaving my Baggage and my wife at the Hotel, I went to the workshop for my inspections
The town was noisy and the traffic slow. A massive construction work was undergoing in the town and it was dug up all around for laying a Subway train network. This gargantuan scale of construction work is a very common site in China these days. In the evening we went to the flea market and the food street. The food street especially was very narrow and congested. Some of the traditional Chinese foods have strong odour, somewhat overcoming to the uninitiated.


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Jasmin Beckett Donald, a Year 6 pupil at Rydal Penrhos, gave an interview as part of the BBC Two show Saving Lives at Sea, which tells the story of the volunteer lifeboat crews and lifeguards of the RNLI who rescue thousands of people and save hundreds of lives around our coastline and on the River Thames every year.
The ten-year-old was shown helping father Greg, who is a former Rydal Penrhos pupil and Head of the Conwy Lifeboat Station, on a variety of tasks which also highlighting her intention to carry on the family tradition.
She said: "Everything I know about boats he has taught me taught me, and this has helped build my confidence surrounding the lifeboat and other things on the water."
Using footage filmed with lifeboat crews and lifeguards carrying cameras, and welcoming film-makers into their everyday lives, this series takes viewers right into the heart of the action, capturing the unpredictable work of the RNLI in never-before-seen detail.
Deputy Head Alison Hind, added: "This was fantastic exposure for Jasmin, and she conducted herself very well in what must have been a nervous time for her.
"It is great to see the fantastic work being done by the RNLI highlighted in this special series, and it looks as if the Conwy Station is in safe hands for the foreseeable future thanks to the Beckett Donal family."


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After several weeks of featuring up-and-coming artists, "American Idol" will devote next week's results show to one who has already achieved stardom.
FOX announced early Friday that Janelle Monae will perform on the March 27 "Idol" results show.
The Grammy-nominated singer will perform "What is Love" on the episode, which marks the first half-hour results broadcast of the season. "Idol" will air from 9-9:30PM next week, while new comedy "Surviving Jack" will step into the 9:30PM block.
The episode will also reveal which contestant received the lowest number of votes after Wednesday's "(I'M WITH THE) BAND!"-themed performance show.
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Raw is War
Sheffield, England
November 21, 2005
The Blueshirts are coming!
November 21, 2005
The tension between RAW and SmackDown hit an all-time high as RAW rolled into Sheffield, England this week.
As the show came on the air, RAW GM Eric Bischoff led his Survivor Series team to the ring. He promised that SmackDown didnt have the guts to show up, and revealed that his sending Edge to SmackDown was a master plan all along. As Big Show & Kane talked about how Batista was the wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time, Todd Grisham announced from the parking lot that SmackDowns team had arrived. World Heavyweight Champion Batista challenged Team RAW to meet them in the parking lot, an offer that Team RAW captain Shawn Michaels accepted to the dismay of Eric Bischoff.
RAW and SmackDown brawled in the parking lot, with RAW seemingly getting the best of the confrontation. After Chris Masters locked Rey Mysterio in the locker room, Kane & Big Show apparently gave Batista a double-chokeslam through a car windshield, leaving the Animal injured. The fight was broken up, and Team SmackDown took Batista to a local medical facility.
Later in the night, JBL returned, interrupting a match between Rob Conway and Tajiri, attacking both Superstars. JBL demanded a match with Masters, but Bischoff came out and offered him a match with HBK instead. JBL accepted, and later on, Theodore Long and Bischoff agreed to make it a Lumberjack Match.
Early in the match, JBL took control of HBK, working his back. HBK made a comeback and clotheslined himself and JBL over the top rope. Team SmackDown took the opportunity to pounce, attacking HBK before Team RAW managed to make the save. This would happen continuously throughout the match, giving JBL a decided advantage. HBK made another comeback, but Randy Orton pushed him off the top rope. HBK would then hit Sweet Chin Music on JBL, but the Legend Killer stuck his nose in again, this time giving HBK an RKO. This brought all nine men into the ring, and the brawl was on. After Kane & Big Show delivered another double-chokeslam, this time to Lashley, it appeared as if RAW would stand tall again. Instead, Batista returned, wielding a steel pipe. Batista attacked the World Tag Team Champions, and when the smoke cleared, it was the World Heavyweight Champion who was the one left standing.
Tensions also mounted within the RAW roster heading towards Survivor Series. Kurt Angle took on Shelton Benjamin, and shocked the crowd again by announcing Daivari as the special referee. Angle worked his former protégés back and ribs throughout the match, but Benjamin rallied back. After Shelton hit a DDT on the apron, it seemed he had the Olympic Gold Medalist right where he wanted him. However, Angle escaped Benjamins attempt at a T-Bone suplex, instead locking in the Ankle Lock. Benjamin clawed his way to the ropes twice, but Daivari ignored the standard rope break rule. Benjamin then managed to reverse the hold into a roll-up, but Daivari blatantly reversed the pinning combination, and counted the victory for Angle.
After the match, Angle announced that Daivari was his personal referee, and would be the official for the WWE Championship Match at Survivor Series. Cena then interrupted Angles celebration, saying he wanted to find out what the WWE Superstars thought of Kurt Angle. After a trio of bizarre confrontations with the Divas, Snitsky & Tyson Tomko and the Boogeyman, Cena instead decided to ask the crowd. The crowd voiced their opinion, and Cena declared that Angle still sucked. The two then brawled, before the WWE Champion was able to send Angle & Daivari scurrying from the ring.
After Ric Flair used a handful of tights to defeat Trevor Murdoch, Triple H appeared on the TitanTron to congratulate the Nature Boy. He sarcastically lauded Flair for cheating to win, but then asked him what he would do at Survivor Series in a match where there are no rules to break. Triple H said he would finish what he started, and promised to show Flair what he could do later on. And indeed, when Triple H met Val Venis later in the night, he sent a powerful message to the Intercontinental Champion. Venis attacked Triple H early, sending him to the floor. However, Triple H grabbed a chair, and smashed it into the skull of the Big Valbowski. Triple H was immediately disqualified, but continued his attack. After delivering a series of chair shots to the defenseless Venis, Triple H scored with the Pedigree, leaving Venis beaten in the ring and sending a message to Ric Flair that this may be his fate on Nov. 27.
Also, another match was made for Survivor Series. During the match between Mickie James and Candice Michelle, two masked men appeared at ringside and abducted Trish Stratus. The distraction allowed Victoria to attack James, helping Candice to victory, but James was more concerned with the whereabouts of her favorite Diva. Trish was found tied up and gagged in an undisclosed location, where MNM revealed themselves as her captors. Melina then berated Trish, saying it was ridiculous that the most dominant Diva in WWE was unable to challenge for the Womens Championship. That said, Melina challenged Trish to a championship match at Survivor Series; after Trish accepted, Melina kicked her in the head for good measure. MNM then departed, leaving the Womens Champion on the ground, still tied to a chair.
Shawn Michaels and JBL fought to a No-Contest
Kurt Angle def. Shelton Benjamin
Intercontinental Champion Ric Flair def. Trevor Murdoch
Val Venis def. Triple H (DQ)
Candice Michelle def. Mickie James
Rob Conway vs. Tajiri (No Contest)


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I am in the stage of life where my evenings are spent at soccer and lacrosse games, theatre productions and orchestra concerts. With three kids involved in eleven different activities, my evenings are rarely spent preparing a complicated meal for the family. So I love the crockpot. Throw in a few ingredients, turn it on, and at 6 pm there's a hearty meal waiting for us to grab in our short 15 minute window of free time.
With a crockpot, you do a little prep up front, and then simply forget about it. It does all the work for you.
Sadly, this is how many medical practices treat their websites. They finally face the fact that their website is hopelessly outdated, so they spend a big chunk of money to have the site redesigned. Then they just forget about it.
But the thing is, forgetting about your website doesn't make it better the way a pot roast gets better when left in a crockpot. Forgetting about your website is more like leaving that roast out in the sun – it starts to stink. First links get broken, then some plug-ins don't function properly, and pretty soon it looks horribly dated.
A good website needs consistent attention over time. Over at Kissmetrics they recommend "Evolution" over "Revolution." Rather than doing a total overhaul every five years or so, they say you should constantly make small improvements. With evolutionary design, you are able to make only the changes needed to improve your results. And since you are making small changes, you can implement them quickly. Further, you avoid the confusion a total overhaul can create, and you don't change the things that are working.
In addition to changing design, you have to consider changing content – the actual material visitors consume on your site. This includes your web pages, blog posts, podcasts, videos, or anything else you've created to convey information to your site visitors.
Leaving this static is a terrible mistake. You need to consistently add new, fresh content, while refreshing old content, to keep visitors engaged.
Think about it – the practice of medicine changes. New research comes out about treatments and outcomes – you'll want to convey this information through blogs and on condition pages. In addition, your thoughts and approach to practicing medicine may change or need to be highlighted in response to the news of the day.
Maintaining a fresh medical website is good for your SEO. But more imporantly, it's good for your site visitors. People want to return to a site that offers current, up-to-date information. No one wants to go back to a site to find the same old information.
Your website needs consistent attention to best meet your site visitors' needs. Your challenge today is to take a look at your site and see what you can do to improve it. Is there a way to make it more user friendly? Is your about page outdated and no longer reflective of your approach to medicine?
Start making the changes, and then enjoy the results.
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text: On Cruise 97 I had a single solar panel on the cockpit bridge and it worked really well but was minimal at best. So when Jerry returned from the US while I was at the boat yard Reatea Carinage she bought a second one back with her. That was quite a feat for her to have to drag a huge solar panel in a cardboard box which was also packed with lines, and other assorted parts everyone had asked her to bring back with her. Bridge over cockpit Created by the Skipper of Mouse Pad. Copyright © 1995-2015 Phillip J. Seaman. All rights reserved. Revised: 07 July, 2006 .


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Skip to 0 minutes and 18 seconds There is a very specific relationship between heritage and particularly urban local governmentality. And I think this is something we can see in a bunch of different cities and places. Starting from Italy, where we are right now, to Palestine, which are the two contexts that I know best. But also I've seen this at work also in my own city where I live, which is Amsterdam. And particularly because there are municipalities increasingly mobilise heritage and heritage projects to, I would say, to substitute for eroding forms of traditional forms of local governmentality. Of course, in Palestine things are both similar and very different from contexts such as Europe in Italy and Amsterdam.
Skip to 1 minute and 15 seconds But also there you can see a number of heritage organisations increasingly not only taking over formerly state functions in terms of heritage management, but also taking over functions that once would have been carried out by again, the municipalities. For example, the context where I've worked the longest, which is the city of Hebron in the southern Palestine, southern West Bank. You have parts of the city, which is the old city of Hebron, the historical part, the parts with the most important heritage which is still under Israeli occupation. And where the Palestinian authorities cannot operate as in other areas of Palestine. And there you have what could be considered a semi-governmental organisation.
Skip to 2 minutes and 14 seconds It's not Palestinian Authority, so it's not governmental, but is tied to it. And at the same time, it's relatively independent. It works with mostly European and Arab funding. And what they do is that they have restored the whole city of Hebron. And they have provided also the people who live there with all sorts of services. So they not only do heritage restoration, but they also provide people with a new sewage system, street lighting, and so on and so forth. And at the same time, because of the fact that the Palestinian and the Palestinian Authority cannot operate in the area, they have sort of slowly taken over kind of some of the functions of a municipality.
Skip to 3 minutes and 1 second Again, because there are no other Palestinian authorities in the area. So this organisation, which is between an NGO and a semi-governmental organisation, is doing both heritage conservation and kind of the function of a municipality.
Case Study: Hebron in Palestine
Watch this interview with Chiara de Cesari to see how a cultural heritage organisation can turn into a provider of urban services.
Chiara de Cesari explains how, in Hebron, a civil-society organisation has not only taken care of the restoration of the historic centre, but also the provision of basic urban services such as sewage and urban lighting. This is an example of how a civil-society organisation can take an active role in urban governance in order to cope with the limited actions of the local authorities.


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Southwest Chicken Salad
A quick and easy recipe for tasty southwest chicken salad taco bowls.
Southwest Chicken Salad
- Yield: 4 Servings
A quick and easy recipe for tasty southwest chicken salad taco bowls.
- 1 Ortega® Bakeable Tortilla Bowl Kit
- 1 can Ortega® Black Beans
- 4 chicken breasts
- 2 tbsp. olive oil
- 2 tsp. chili powder
- 1 c. corn kernels
- 2 avocados, diced
- 3 c. green leaf lettuce, sliced
- 1 c. cotija cheese
- 1 tomato, diced
- Ortega® Flavor Craver Taco Ranch Taco Sauce
- Add olive oil to a skillet on medium heat.
- Coat the chicken with chili powder.
- Cook chicken each side for 8 minutes or until cooked through.
- Remove chicken from pan and rest.
- Slice chicken into strips when cooled.
- Prepare tortilla bowls as directed on package.
- Fill with shredded lettuce, black beans, corn and sliced chicken.
- Top with diced avocado, tomato and cotija cheese.
- Finish with taco sauce.


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The inductive learning model of MBA at PBS transcends the confines of facts and theories—a process that teaches individuals not only how to manage organizations, but also how to continually grow and learn throughout life. The PBS MBA, in fact, blends theory with practical applications, consolidated further by insightful (guest) lectures, thorough examinations of real-life cases, field studies, project works, workshops and seminars, presentation sessions, and training programs. Moreover, the program keeps itself abreast of the current trends, hence, fashioning the careers and honing the skills of future CEOs, managers and otherwise through as much empirical learning as through abstract theories. Students also benefit from an array of elective specializations. Some major areas of specialization are explored on the basis of the current international job market trends and needs.
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Sylvana Baracchini frequents yard sales and thrift stores looking for unique items that she can use in her work. "Some people offer me stuff when they clean out their closets and basements," she said.
Everyday items take on new life when Sylvana Baracchini works her magic, transforming broken dishes, pottery, old jewelry, hardware, and unusual or particularly meaningful objects into wearable art, mirrors, light switch covers, wall hangings, and other unique works with a mosaic pattern.
"Each piece takes on its own personality and has a unique story to tell from the objects used to create it," said Baracchini, a self-taught artisan whose work is featured at Artisans in the Square, 63 South St. "It's like putting together a puzzle. Each piece is hand-laid one at a time, and it all needs to fit together. It's very labor-intensive, but I love it!"
She started her business, Mixed Media Madness, 10 years ago following the sudden death of her mother and aunt within weeks of each other.
"This was a sad and challenging time in my life," Baracchini recalled. "Charged with the task of cleaning out two homes, I found it difficult to discard their personal belongings — including china, glassware, vases, jewelry, and other things that had meant a lot to them — so instead I stored them safely away until I could decide what to do with them. When my husband asked me what I was going to do with all of these things, I said I didn't know — that I was looking at different options."
A year later, Baracchini felt inspired to create one-of-a-kind works of mosaic art incorporating some of her mother's and aunt's personal treasures. This seemed just the right way to express her love of different media, vibrant colors, and abstract art, using found objects, tiles, and glass.
Baracchini's 36-inch by 36-inch round mosaic abstract hangs behind the counter in Artisans in the Square for all to see. There one can also find some of her mixed media mosaic creations to admire or purchase on the spot, or to place a custom order. "Each piece is cut and designed differently," she said. "Each is a unique piece of art on its own. I really like creating something special for people from one of their favorite old things. It's a lot of fun! I love it when people buy my stuff — that's the greatest compliment."
Baracchini frequents yard sales and thrift stores looking for unique items that she can use in her work. "Some people offer me stuff when they clean out their closets and basements," she said.
Don Whitney, a potter with Artisans in the Square, recently donated a piece that hadn't glazed properly. "I made a ring, a light switch plate, and a bracelet from a bowl that didn't come out correctly from the kiln," Baracchini said.
Her work also includes trays, belt buckles, and wine stoppers. "This year some of my girlfriends are turning 50, so I am making each of them a gift," she said. "I also make a lot of holiday gifts for my friends."
Another piece that Baracchini is proud of is a kitchen bulletin board made from wine corks decorated with broken pieces of dishes that her client didn't want to part with. "It came out really cool," she said.
She prides herself on making only a limited number of any particular item — limited editions that she will never make again.
Baracchini enjoys working in Artisans in the Square, a cooperative located in the heart of downtown Hingham. The shop, recognizable by its vibrant pink door, features the work of some 15 local artists and artisans in a welcoming atmosphere where customers can sometimes observe one of them at work.
Featured items include jewelry, fine art, soap, decorative painting, birdhouses, basketry, photography, pottery, and items handcrafted from leather, fiber, glass, paper, metal, and wood.
A woman came into the shop one day on Baracchini's shift and after observing her work rued the fact that she had recently broken a favorite coffee cup she had purchased on a trip to Provence and threw it away. "She said she wished she knew about my work because she would have had me make a bracelet out of the broken pieces," Baracchini said.
'Mad hatter'
One of her most sensational creations is the colorful, whimsical 17-inch high "Mad Hatter 4-Layer Mosaic Cake."
"I call this my zero-calorie art piece," Baracchini said with a smile. "I was inspired to create it because I love watching all the food network cake challenge shows." The Mad Hatter cake is covered in stained glass. The top is decorated with vintage roses, sea glass, and light bulbs.
The piece was part of the winter juried exhibit at the Duxbury Art Complex in 2009. Last year, the "cake" was awarded First Place in Sculpture at the Arts Affair at Marina Bay, Quincy.
"I have had requests that my next piece actually light up," Baracchini said. "We'll see!"
This will make an eye-catching conversation piece at the Artisans in the Square one-year anniversary party coming up in March. "No one in my family will eat anything that I bake. It's an ongoing joke," Baracchini quipped. "So I said I would make something that they didn't have to eat!"
Baracchini also created a birdhouse from inlaid-gold teacups. Patrick O'Callahan of Renaissance Leather on North Street makes the leather belts to which she attaches her mosaic-design belt buckles.
Baracchini is also working with Joan Barrett of Hingham Square Needlepoint to create unique belt buckles.
After her father-in-law passed on, Baracchini made a decorative garden ball for her mother-in-law using his candlepin bowling bowl as the base as a remembrance of her husband.
Branching out, Baracchini likes funky, bold, colorful jewelry, which is hard to find, so last year she decided to make her own.
"I began to create my line of chunky, funky wearable art as a way to make a statement and to stand out in a crowd," she said. Big and bold jewelry is a staple in my wardrobe, so I wanted to create a line of mosaics that my customers could include in their everyday life. They are one-of-a-kind pieces, and I welcome custom orders."
Wedding jewelry
Baracchini even started a line of funky wedding jewelry, which makes unusual gifts for bridesmaids and groomsmen. "The wedding party can also wear matching jewelry – cufflinks, bracelets, necklaces," Baracchini said.
She also makes wearable art in more subdued colors – according to client preference.
Baracchini said this is her time to do something meaningful for herself. "This is my creative outlet. I also think I'm a good role model for my daughter, Gina and Angela," she said. "I have always thought that if you believe in yourself and love what you do, it eventually pays off. Now it's starting to for me."
Baracchini appreciates her family's support. Her daughters lend a helping hand when she participates in crafts shows and her husband, John, a carpenter, is also a great resource. "He taught me how to use the tools of my craft correctly, and he also makes custom frames for my mirrors," Baracchini said. "I use whatever room in the house I'm in at the time, which drives my family crazy, even though I think it's funny!"
Mixed media
She uses broken tiles, jewelry, dishes, hardware -- screws, nuts and bolts -- "or whatever's hanging around that I feel would look good in a particular piece. I love working in mixed media because you can use anything in your creations, even a plastic water bottle cap."
Baracchini uses a hammer to smash glass items into workable pieces, tile nippers to cut out a specific design or shape, and a tile saw to cut out different patterns from a dish or other item.
"As the years go on, I find myself morphing into a million different directions," Baracchini said happily.
Her work has not gone unrecognized. In addition to her award for the Mad Hatter cake, she received Third Place Mixed Media for her Serenity Mirror at the 2009 Fine Arts and Flowers Show in Hull.
In addition, her Mosaic Door Titled Reflections work was included in the 2006 Duxbury Art Association Winter Juried Show.
Her one-of-a-kind mixed media mosaic zebra head shaped to the outline of the continent of Africa was created for the Wild World of Animals Challenge for the PieceMakers Mosaic Artists Team.
It is mounted on vibrant batik fabric from Ghana, with a straw background pattern chosen to represent the dry African plains. The piece is a combination of broken dishes and stained glass.
Mickey Walker, a Hull resident who works at the Old Colony Montessori School in Hingham, purchased the piece recently. She runs the Kerry Jon Walker Fund Helping Humanity, named after her late son who passed away when he was 19. Jon had a passion for Africa but never had the opportunity to visit there.
The Fund raises money to provide children in some of the villages in Guinea, West Africa, with educational materials, basic medical supplies, clothing, books, and money for food.
The Fund also sponsors groups of Boston Public School students from lower-income families to travel to Africa to provide them with a global experience.
"These kids have incredible potential, and traveling to Africa to help children in need there empowers them and helps them feel successful," Walker said. The Montessori School is supportive of this effort.
The zebra will accompany Walker on the group's next trip to Africa. "When I saw the zebra hanging in Artisans in the Square I knew it belonged in Africa – in a school or in someone's home as a source of pride to whoever we decide to present it to," she said.
Baracchini, a resident of Avon, is a former mosaic art instructor at the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton.
She is a member of the PieceMakers Mosaic Artists and the Hull Artists Studio Connection and is a graduate of the New England School of Photography.
For more information about her work, visit www.mixedmediamadness.biz or call Artisans in the Square to leave a message, 781-749-2590.


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A new series of postcards of the Saint Vincent Archabbey Basilica is now available, announced Brother Philip M. Kanfush, O.S.B., Director of the Basilica Gift Shop. The postcards feature two interior and two exterior views of the Basilica, built over a 14-year period from 1891-1905 by Benedictine monks, assisted by lay craftsmen. The views […]Continue Reading


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As a modern business owner, you should be looking to embrace technology in any ways that you can. Of course, you still need to evaluate the types of tech which will benefit your business as well as reducing the overall costs of running your company. In this blog post, we are going to be taking a closer look at five of the main methods out there of using it in the most effective way possible in 2018.
1. Use The Cloud
In days gone by, storing data was a hugely expensive task if you wanted to keep everything securely on site. If you have not yet embraced cloud storage, now is the time to do so. First of all, they offer access to your documents from wherever you are. Secondly, the costs are much lower and upgrades are easier to install. Finally, this type of storage system is free from any human errors and natural disasters.
2. Go Green
Running your business in a more environmentally friendly way is not only good for the planet, but it is also beneficial for your company as well. For example, the simple switch from regular light bulbs to their energy efficient counterparts make an immediate benefit to your electricity bills as they last for such a long period of time. Rather than printing everything off, keeping your business paperless as much as possible pays off. All of these simple changes add up to make a significant difference.
3. Use Apps And Online Tools
There are all sorts of apps and tools out there which promise to improve your business. Of course, you have to purchase, set up and maintain these systems, but you are likely to find that HR Management Software is much more affordable than hiring a full HR team. There are also plenty of free services out there such as Google Analytics, which are worth taking advantage of – especially when you are first starting out in business.
4. Automate Wherever You Can
Automation has continued to dominate modern businesses, and tasks that would previously have required multiple people now only need one. For example, you could consider switching to an e-payment system rather than relying on traditional techniques. Just a few of the advantages of doing this include increased efficiency, precision and security. After all, one of the main principles of running a successful business is ensuring that you continue to run your company more efficiently wherever possible.
5. Outsource Services
If you find that there are certain aspects of your business that you are struggling to deal with because you don't have the appropriate knowledge or skills, rather than trying to struggle along on your own, you could instead outsource these areas to specialised agencies. Outsourcing is often the more economical option to take rather than hiring full-time members of staff.
As you can see, technology has been hugely effective in allowing businesses of all kind to cut their costs. These are just five of the main ways of doing this.


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Facebook IPO: Zuckerberg Will Make at Least $846 Million
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to make at least $846 million when the company goes public.
Facebook announced on Thursday that it will sell 337.4 million shares at a price range of $28 to $35 in its initial public offering. According to the company's filings with the SEC, Zuckerberg will be selling 30.2 million of his own shares.
On the low end of the price range, that would make him $846 million richer. On the high end, he would net $1.05 billion.
According to the filing, most of that money will go to paying Zuckerberg's taxes. Which, considering the 60 million shares the CEO will acquire through an outstanding stock option, are about to increase significantly.
Facebook's valuation of $88 billion or more would make it the most valuable U.S. company at the time of its IPO, which was most recently reported to be set for May 18.
The record is currently held by Google, which was valued at $23 billion when it went public in 2004.
Additional Facebook IPO Coverage
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AES Best Practices
Recent Posts
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In a previous AES Insights Blog post, 6 Steps for Performing a Quality Installation, we provided guidance to help you perform an installation that meets AES guidelines and best practices. In today's Blog, we'll share some real world installation pitfalls that you must avoid.
Let me introduce you to Pete...
Pete has been in the industry for 20 years and really knows how to get the job done. Well, at least in his opinion!
Topics: Insider
AES recognizes that we all work in a fast paced, highly-competitive industry where even the slightest improvement in operations can have a significant impact on business. In the pursuit of operational excellence, our customers are always looking for ways to enhance their skills, improve efficiency, and reduce overall costs. Alarm monitoring businesses with installing organizations and Central Stations seek a competitive advantage to set them apart from the rest of the pack. Designed to help our dealers sharpen their skills and gain that competitive edge, AES developed the AES Training Academy.
So, how can AES Academy help you?
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The Purpose and Proper Use of the J4 Output
Today's blog is not intended to be overly technical. The intent is to raise awareness of the J4 output on subscriber units; it purpose and proper use. J4 is the output connector for the Form C Fail Secure Antenna Cut / Acknowledge Delay Relay / Low Battery / Charger Fail located on the subscriber circuit board. The subscriber will engage this relay for normal operation. It will be disengaged for one or more of the following reasons:
- antenna cut
- communication troubles or Acknowledge Delays (Ack Delay)
- low battery
- charger fault
- Loss of power
- Loss of AC, Beginning with Rev 2.64ZI of 7788F and 7744F, disabled by default
- Note: AC failure does not report from J4, except on 7788F/7744F Rev 2.64Zi + if enabled
- Loss of AC, Beginning with Rev 2.64ZI of 7788F and 7744F, disabled by default
- A pushbutton, remote or watchdog reset which causes the routing table to be deleted, resulting in the Subscriber not being on the network
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Testing Your Cable Installation, Antenna & Transceivers Performance
In our last AES Insights Blog post, we reviewed the importance of selecting proper coaxial cable and its installation. In today's Blog, we'll briefly review just a few ways you can test your cable installation along with your antenna and transceivers performance.
There are several points of failure associated with Radio Frequency (RF) power performance. During the course of terminating coaxial cable, it's possible to damage one or more of the cable components (such as the conductor, dielectric, shielding, etc.). This type of damage will degrade performance of the network. Other performance impacting areas include tight cable bends, cables damaged by weather conditions, damage to antennas, and underpowered transceivers to name a few.
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Subjects: Gender Studies, Education, Anthropology, Sociology, Psychology, Media Studies
Thank you Girlhood Studies 2019 Reviewers
Call for Papers: Girls' and Young Women's Lives in the Time of COVID-19
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Call for Papers: IGSA@ND Special Issue
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Winner of the 2009 AAP/PSP Prose Award for Best New Journal in the Social Sciences & Humanities!
Girlhood Studies is now published in association with the International Girls Studies Association (IGSA)!
Volume 13 / 2020, 3 issues per volume (spring, summer, winter)
Aims & Scope
Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal is a peer-reviewed journal providing a forum for the critical discussion of girlhood from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, and for the dissemination of current research and reflections on girls' lives to a broad, cross-disciplinary audience of scholars, researchers, practitioners in the fields of education, social service and health care and policy makers. International and interdisciplinary in scope, it is committed to feminist, anti-discrimination, anti-oppression approaches and solicits manuscripts from a variety of disciplines.
The mission of the journal is to bring together contributions from and initiate dialogue among perspectives ranging from medical and legal practice, ethnographic inquiry, philosophical reflection, historical investigations, literary, cultural and media research to curriculum design and policy-making. Topics addressed within the journal include girls and schooling, girls and feminism, girls and sexuality, girlhood in the context of Boyhood Studies, girls and new media and popular culture, representation of girls in different media, histories of girlhood, girls and development.
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Editor-in-Chief: Claudia Mitchell, McGill University, Canada
Managing Editor: Ann Smith, McGill University, Canada
Reviews Editor: Marnina Gonick, Mount St. Vincent University, USA
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Annemarie Adams, McGill University, Canada
Rawwida Baksh, Women's Rights and Citizenship program, International Development Research Centre, Canada
Lyn Mikel Brown, Colby College, USA
Suzanne de Castell, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Fatuma Chege, Kenyatta University, Kenya
Meredith Cherland, University of Regina, Canada
Linda Chisholm, Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa
Daniel Thomas Cook, Childhood Studies and Sociology, Rutgers University, USA
Dawn Currie, University of British Columbia, Canada
Catherine Driscoll, University of Sydney, Australia
Kirsten Drotner, Centre for Child and Youth Media Studies
Michelle Fine, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA
Miriam Forman-Brunell, University of Missouri–Kansas City, USA
Marnina Gonick, Mount St. Vincent University, USA
Anita Harris, Monash University, Australia
Mary Jane Kehily, Centre for Childhood, Development, and Learning, Open University, UK
June Larkin, Equity Studies Program, University of Toronto, Canada
Dafna Lemish, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA
Loren Lerner, Concordia University, Canada
Nancy Lesko, Teacher's College, Columbia University, USA
Changu Mannathoko, Senior Advisor on Education, UNICEF
Sharon Mazzarella, James Madison University, USA
Relebohile Moletsane, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Shree Mulay, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
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Ellen Seiter, University of Southern California, USA
Sonal Shukla, Vacha Women's Resource Centre, Mumbai, India
Shirley R. Steinberg, Werklund Foundation Centre for Youth Leadership Education University of Calgary, Canada
Lynne Vallone, Childhood Studies and Sociology, Rutgers University, USA
Valerie Walkerdine, Cardiff University, Wales, UK
Sandra Weber, Concordia University, Canada
Rebekah Willet, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Olga Zdravomyslova, Gorbachev Foundation, Moscow, Russia
Founding Editors: Jackie Kirk, Claudia Mitchell, Jacqueline Reid-Walsh
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Process for Refereeing and Accepting ArticlesGirlhood Studies is a refereed journal. Articles are sent to reviewers with relevant experience and expertise for comment. Referees are asked to advise the editors whether the article should be published and if so, with what recommended changes. The editors respond to the author with their decision and a list of any changes needed for the article to be accepted for publication. They also send the anonymous referees' comments to the author.
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These days, content seems to be the buzz word in digital marketing circles. As search engine optimization (SEO) becomes even more complicated, pay-per-click (PPC) more expensive, and social media more competitive, content marketing is the new silver bullet for digital marketers all around the world. Singapore is no exception where shareable content is a top item on the menu of every digital marketing agency in Singapore.
Every digital marketer worth the title knows just how powerful content marketing has always been in propelling a company towards success in its marketing efforts. Rapid advances in technology have led to constant changes in other marketing methods but content marketing has always remained the same, which makes it one of the most reliable forms of digital marketing. While Google updates may affect your website's ranking and PPC ads last for as long as you can afford to run them, content never changes. It stays forever as long as the site it is published on remains active. This is probably why a large portion of B2C markets rely on content marketing strategies.
Content marketing may remain the same over the years but we are seeing a drastic shift in trends as we move towards 2017. Here are some of the current trends in content marketing.
Visual content is still in high demand
It can be argued that visual content especially colorful pictures, videos, and infographics have literally taken over the internet. One of the major reasons for the growing demand for visual content is the fast internet connections speeds that have become available everywhere. Singapore, for instance, has one of the fastest broadband speeds in the whole world. Peak speeds reach up to 135.7 megabits per second and the country has 4G coverage across the island.
Availability of high internet speeds enables users to access images and videos on demand and at a faster pace. Another reason for the high demand for visual content is the fact that most people now want to receive information at a quicker pace in video and images as opposed to reading long blocks of text.
Content has become more people-centric in recent times
A majority of digital marketers across the globe emphasize on creating content that appeals more to the people than search engines. In the not-so-recent past, a substantial amount of web content was written mainly for search engine ranking. The focus has changed in recent times as every digital marketing agency strives to create content that is informative and valuable to the readers. Keywords are no longer generic but customer-centric. Every bit of content you find online today is sufficiently backed by images, videos, and audios. Today, content is produced with people, rather than search engines, in mind.
Customization is a key focus today
If you have been in and around marketing circles, you may have heard about Twitter announcing that it will be launching a customized news feed soon. Similarly in the apparels industry, you may have noticed that Nike will soon start selling customized sports shoes. Hence, customization is the name of the game today and content marketing has not been left behind. The trend is quite apparent in the way marketers are tailoring their content to suit individual stimuli. This has led to a growing demand for individually tailored content.
Mobile optimized content
Mobile marketing continues to grow rapidly as the number of smartphone users continue to increase worldwide. With the high-quality internet connectivity in Singapore, it is quite common to see people staring at their smartphone screens everywhere they go. This has made it imperative to create content that is engaging, alluring and immersive for the mobile market. Every digital marketing agency in Singapore today insists on clients making their websites mobile friendly if they want to tap into this huge mobile market.
Automation is the next big thing in content marketing
Content automation seems to be the big thing as we head into 2017. With the current automation technologies in place, marketers are turning to artificial intelligent tools to automate content creation, publishing, and management. However, the industry will require more education in the usage of such tools so as to not sacrifice on the quality of content. In general, automation should be used to add to the value of content rather than replace the sound strategic practices that only a human being can provide.
Due to the sustainability of content marketing, along with the extent of control it affords marketers, it is safe to say that it will be around for tens of years to come. For marketers that choose to leverage on digital content marketing for their businesses, they need to realize the importance of choosing content wisely, up-keeping its quality and delivering it through the most appropriate mediums.


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CSi has build a large track record in the snacks and cereals industry since 1990. The characteristics of the product cases in the Snack and Cereal industry are different from the characteristics in other sectors. Therefore the CSi equipment for transporting, palletising and handling product cases in the Snacks and Cereals industry is designed and manufactured with the large experience and know how in this field.
CSi is able to increase productivity with smart packing stations, fit for purpose sorting systems and innovative palletising equipment.
Naturally the CSi systems are improving sustainability by clever designs and low energy consumption. CSi has supplied many large multi load systems (up to 40 SKU's simultaneously) but also lean robotic palletising systems for the Snacks and Cereal Industry world wide.
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"@kellidobs: LETS HANGOUT, AMANDA! RT "@PerezHilton: @AmandaBynes Amanda Bynes Escape Spotted Bouncing In Buffalo! http://perez.ly/19prfIS"" THAT'S NOT ME! I'm so sick of fake fans such as Perez Hilton! Send the picture to me privately first to confirm that it's me! I've never been to SkyZone! That looks nothing like me! I don't own a brown wig!
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Synonyms for payee
If the remitter or payee be a Peer or a Bishop, his ordinary title is sufficient.
Not the association of bankruptcy—no; as you represent the payee!
The date was filled in, and the name of her son as the payee.
He say he knock hellee outee me allee time I come for payee.
That is, he writes his name thereon, before the payee indorses it.
What effect does certification of a check by the payee have upon the maker?
The person to whom the money is payable is called the payee.
The party signing the note is called the maker, the party to whom it is made payable is called the payee.
The collateral note contains a stipulation that upon default, the payee may sell the collateral.
The name of the party to whom a promissory note is made payable is always called the payee.


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Here is a tutorial from Codrops for creating nice checkbox and radio buttons animations using SVGs and javascript. The technique for animating the SVG paths is by Jake Archibald and you can read how it works in detail in his article Animated line drawing in SVG.
Home > Code stuff > JS effects & plugins > Animating checkbox and radio buttons SVG + JS


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For anyone living, studying or working in the Borough of Greenwich (includes Medway based staff and students). To join, you must save at least £10 per month for you to be eligible to borrow up to 3 times the value of your savings when you need it. You can retain your membership when you leave the University to keep your access to low interest borrowing later in life. And, if nothing else, after 3 years savings, you'll have enough to pay for:
A back to work wardrobe? Your first month's living costs? Tickets to Glastonbury? (well....)
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