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See what I've got!
Yep, this is the first Canon mirrorless camera, Canon EOS M. I'll be testing it along with the Canon 7D to find out what will be our daily carry-on camera.
Believe it or not, but these two are considered for this role. Both have a 18Mpx crop-size sensor, both cost less than $1000, both accept Canon EOS mount lenses (this is a must for a candidate).
BTW, this camera will be primary used by one beautiful little lady, and I really hope she will choose Canon M: it should fit her hand ideally as well as fit in her purse.
It is a smart camera, and I love smart things. And it is also look nice, check it out:
Canon EOS M
Large sensor
With EOS-mount lens adapter
With Canon 50mm F1.4 lens mounted:
With Canon 8-15mm F4.0L fisheye lens:
Lets see what is cool about this little performer:
- EOS Full HD Movie mode with Movie Servo AF for continuous focus tracking of moving subjects, manual exposure control and multiple resolution and frame rates, built-in stereo microphone, manual audio level adjustment, and Video Snapshot with editing for expanded video shooting options.
- 18.0 Megapixel CMOS (APS-C) sensor, ISO 100-6400 (expandable to 12800 in H mode) for video recording, ISO 100-12800 (expandable to 25600 in H mode) for still image shooting from bright to dim light and high performance DIGIC 5 Image Processor for exceptional image quality in video and photos.
- Hybrid CMOS AF delivers fast autofocus speed for video and photos.
- Touch Screen 3.0-inch Clear View LCD monitor II (approximately 1,040,000 dots) with smudge-resistant coating features multi-touch operation and Touch AF for an easy and intuitive experience and clear viewing when outdoors.
- Compatible with the full line of Canon EF and EF-S lenses (Optional Mount Adapter EF-EOS M is required) for expanded creativity.
- Scene Intelligent Auto mode delivers expertly optimized photos and improved scene detection for amazing results when shooting at night.
- Advanced imaging features like Handheld Night Scene mode, HDR Backlight Control mode, and seven Creative Filters provide added versatility.
- Multi Shot Noise Reduction provides outstanding noise reduction while preserving precious detail in photos at high ISO speeds.
- Compatibility with SD/SDHC/SDXC memory cards, including new Ultra High Speed (UHS-I) cards.
- Now available with the EF-M 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM Lens
As usual, you can expect in-studio review to be done. I hope IQ will be close to Canon 7D. I really hope:-)
If you have any crazy ideas on how to test it, what situations and features you want me to cover in this test, please post here.
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Canon EOS M ongoing review: first impressions and sample photos
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I heard wrong or you say in 30sec in video Nikon M ?
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Fans of the Left 4 Dead series of games created by Valve are sure to enjoy these fan made movies featuring real-life action, which have been created portraying the Left 4 Dead storyline.
The trilogy of Left 4 Dead movies have been created by Connor and Colin McGuire, and provide over 65 minutes of Left 4 Dead storyline to enjoy, with the third part of the trilogy being filmed on a budget of just $2,000. Enjoy!
The Left 4 Dead movie trilogy took over tow years to complete and the final movie in the trilogy makes a the set well worth watching.
"We shot this whole 43 minute movie for under $2,000! Also, Colin and I were only 18 and 19 when we started filming this! We filmed almost all of it in the Fall of 2011." Fun Facts About Part 3!
– This movie was shot for under $2,000.
– The camera we filmed this on cost $800, and the lens $200.
– This movie was over a year in the making! With all the parts (1,2,3) over two years in the making!
– We used NO MAKEUP on any zombies! (aside from the obvious fake blood)
– We put 3,000+ hours of editing into this beast.
– Connor's computer crashed an estimated 1,050 times making this film!
– Jared is played by Sam Loya from videocopilot.net!
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"You can't pour from an empty cup."
I remember hearing that quote for the first time. It was one of those "Aha!" moments. I was a new mom, with a baby in the NICU and recovering from surgery myself. I was trying to pull myself out of bed to drive up to the hospital in time for my son's scheduled feeding, when my mom looked at me and said those infamous words.


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CHARLES A. KOFOID, Secretary.'VARSITY GLEE CLUB.- Rehearsal Monday afternoon at 4.30 of all men on club last spring. Very important concert Monday night.
C. MORGAN, Sec.The following men will please act as ushers at the game today: P. Gardner, W. A. D. Short, L. Davis, H. A. Cutler, S. B. McNear, F. Davis, M. Johnston, R. D. Wrenn, A. C. Potter, E. R. Mathews, G. Wrenn, N. H White. Be at the Cary building at 2 o'clock.
D. W. LANE.HARVARD GLEE CLUB.- There will be trials of candidates for the 'varsity glee club next week at time and place to be announced later. Each candidate will be expected to bring a song.
C. MORGAN, Sec.FOUND.- In the College Library, notes and text books. Apply at delivery desk.
VOLUNTEER Courses in Vocal Training, Vocal Expression and Speaking will be given on Tuesdays and Thursdays, open to students of the College, the Law School or other departments of the University. Courses may be arranged for one, two or three hours a week, for the fall term or the entire year. Assistance will be given to individuals as in former years. Those desiring appointments for class or individual instruction are requested to call at Holden Chapel, as early as possible Tuesdays, 9 to 5, or Thursdays, 2.30 to 5.
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You should always dress to impress clients, investors, and customers, because a winning sales pitch is not enough to seal the deal. A woman's professional appearance needs to support her professional accomplishments.
If your business attire is distracting because it is too sexy, drab, or colorful, your business contacts may focus on how you look, not on your business skills.
Avoid wearing perfume and heavily-scented products in all business settings. You might like them, but they have no place in a business environment. Scents can trigger asthma, overpower a room, and are often more offensive than pleasing to others.
Never smell like smoke (if you smoke in a car, your clothing will always pick up the odor).
How to Present Professional Looking Fingernails and Hands:
Women often use their hands to talk with so they become a focal point. It is important to have hands and fingernails looking professional -- not like you are heading out for a wild night on the town.
Nails should be clean, and trimmed or sculpted. Avoid wearing unusual or shocking nail colors. Nail art and nail jewels are not acceptable for business meetings.
Hairstyling Tips for Business Women:
Style should be neat and conservative, and preferably off the face. With few exceptions, hair color should not be shocking or unusual (leave blue hair for Halloween). Hair sprays and gels that have a strong scent or odor should be avoided.
Business Makeup Advice:
Keep it simple and appropriate for daytime. Wearing no makeup at all is almost as bad as wearing too much makeup.
Appropriate Jewelery for Business Women:
Jewelery should not be noisy (no metal bangle bracelets), too large, or costume jewelry. Keep earrings small, simple, and above the earlobe.
It is better to wear no jewelry at all, than too wear too much jewelry. But all business women should at least wear a nice, conservative wrist watch.
Demonstrating that you care about your personal appearance communicates to the person you are meeting with that they are important to you. Paying attention to the details of your appearance sends a message to others that you will also pay close attention to business details, and the needs of your customers and clients.


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I looked like a different person.
That actually was me a few years ago on the left. That person is unrecognizable to me, which is such a weird feeling. I was at my heaviest weight of 176lbs, and I had no idea how bad I let myself go at the time. My office was in the same complex as a beautiful new Starbucks. I legitimately went there every single morning to get a grande java chip frappuccino, and no, lol I was never holding the whip. WITH THAT, I would also get a breakfast sandwich. Then for lunch, a few doors down was Boardwalk Fries. GUESS WHAT I ATE AT LEAST TWICE A WEEK lol. It just didn't phase me. When you are wearing leggings all the time – by the way, WORST WAY TO GAIN WEIGHT EVER – you don't get to stay accountable because you just keep stretching them out and they still "fit".
FYI – Don't do that lol. Throw the leggings away if you are trying to lose weight!!
Anyway, I went from that before pic to that after pic. I did it, and I'm still pushing every day. YOU could do this too. Many of you watch this page and think these wraps are just another fad, and they AREN'T. Please understand that. Yes, I make money selling them, as it is my JOB. But what most of you don't realize is that I was a customer FIRST. The only reason I started selling them was BECAUSE of my results from them. I was floored when I saw my before and after pics from the first two wraps, and so was Dan. I never saw it as a financial opportunity. All I saw was "holy $#%! these actually worked". LOL.
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They helped change my life, and I will say that for as long as I live. I'm so proud of how far I've come and I cannot wait to keep going, because I'm not yet where I want to be. But that's what was always missing. The drive to keep going. If you're missing that, the wraps will absolutely help if you let them! If you haven't seen my progressive photos and timeline from using all 6 wraps, please click here to see my body wrap results and story.


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I posted before about the lesson learned about Klosterstitch. For me it was that I have to draw the pattern to follow on the ground fabric in order to make it even. I couldn't post a picture of this before, as the piece I was working on was a surprise and a gift, but since it has now been given I can show you what I mean.
The image here shows the shield half done, the first half I did without the diagonals, and it worked for a bit, but ended up crooked in the end.
I started with the vertical lines drawn in, to help me guide where to lay the threads across the surface. With the needle I came up from the bottom and laid the threads towards the top, then came up again next to the laid thread to couch it down at regular intervals – these intervals were what I needed more guidance with, so ended up drawing in the diagonals to create a grid.
In this image you can clearly see that the right side of the shield is much more even than the left side, when I had not drawn in the diagonals. The reverse (below) also shows how I didn't quite manage to keep things even without the gridlines on the fabric.


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As from April 2014 we no longer offer workshops at point light. Gordon Undy began teaching with just one student in January 1997 and built up the workshops to employ several teachers as well as conducting his own invitation only Mentor Program.
For the last few years Gordon assembled a number of workshops on film-based photography into a summer school which ran each year from mid January through to the end of March. These workshops could be taken individually or in packaged segments. No digital processes were taught. The workshops are listed below with their duration and prices however we stress that these workshops are no longer offered. They are here simply for historical interest.
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26 February 2005
The following is the text of the speech that Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla delivered at the India Today Conclave held in New Delhi on 25 and 26 February 2005.
Let me begin by thanking Mr. Aroon Purie and the India Today Group for inviting me to this conclave, and for the opportunity to share my thoughts with you. Over the last four years, this conclave has come to be recognized as a very important platform for the discussion and dissemination of significant ideas of both national and international relevance. This year's theme of 'Perception and Reality' is an apt theme for looking at emerging India.
The good news is that the gap between perception about India and reality seems to be surely narrowing. A Google search, though an admittedly unscientific test, reveals over 10 times more references linking 'India' and 'China' than 'India' and 'tiger' and 100 times more than 'India and Maharaja', than even three years ago. And, I have no doubt that this conclave's deliberations will further help dispel many an illusion about the Indian economy!
The question posed by the topic of this session, "Can India be a global manufacturing hub?" entails a gaze into the future. I think it was Yogi Berra, the legendary baseball coach who said 'Prediction is hard, especially about the future!'. However my task today is made much simpler, since the trends and data before us suggest a vote in the affirmative for India as a manufacturing hub. But before talking specifically about the India story let me focus briefly on some of the important global trends in manufacturing.
The changing face of manufacturing
Manufacturing hubs emerge due to a process of agglomeration. Because of agglomeration a disproportionate surge of manufacturing is attracted to locations with a lower wage cost or higher market access or both. Thus when textiles manufacturing shifted from the US North East to the US South, then to Japan, Korea and now finally to China and India, it fits a predictable pattern. The same is true when the auto industry shifted from Detroit to Mexico across the border and Brazil, and then again to South East Asia.
The shift of manufacturing from West to East is evident in industry after industry. For instance, nearly two-thirds of world fiber production comes from Asia today, the same as the share of North America and Europe in 1980. Reflecting the shift in production bases, nearly one-fourth of the world fuel demand now originates in non-Japan Asia, compared to just one-tenth in mid-seventies. To take a more recent example, China, Thailand and India have contributed to 36 per cent of the increase in world vehicle production between 2001 and 2004. China itself now accounts for one-fourth of the global steel and aluminium demand, nearly one-third of the coal demand and 40 per cent of the cement consumption.
During the past 30 years the weight of global GDP has been progressively shifting away from North America and Europe toward the ASEAN region. The share of OECD Europe has declined by 5 per cent, and that of the US and Japan by 1 per cent each. The average GDP growth of China and Korea over the past 23 years has been 9.5 and 6.7 per cent respectively. Even Taiwan, Malaysia and Vietnam have had impressive six plus per cent growths. India's growth story is well known. The point I wish to emphasize is that incremental GDP and incomes are rising much faster in Asia, which means incremental growth in demand for all kinds of manufactured goods will arise substantially in this region. India's location, amongst its other strengths, makes it ideally poised, along with China, to take advantage of this growth in regional demand.
Despite concerns that the importance of manufacturing is declining at the global level, the global share of manufacturing in GDP is still close to 25 per cent. Again, this share is much higher for the fast growing developing economies of Asia, which bodes well for us, although on the whole, globally much of the MVA (manufacturing value added) still comes from the developed world. The share of global MVA has however declined from 85 to 75 per cent for developed nations, while for developing nations it has gone up correspondingly from 15 to 25 per cent. In India itself, the share of MVA is about 17 percent of its GDP, much lower than our peers in East Asia, which indicates substantial headroom for growth.
So a closer look at this global picture shows that manufacturing is not at all declining at the global level. There will be large opportunities for those who can fit into the shifts that manufacturing is undergoing. And the opportunities are especially exciting for our part of the world.
Let me now present the case for emergence of manufacturing hubs in India. I ask you to look at three determinants. First is the phenomenon of inflection - i.e. non-linear growth signifying take-off for the Indian economy. Second is a set of some emerging trends that are going to favour India. And third is the set of imperatives in the context of India's own development needs, which will propel us toward boosting our manufacturing sector.
India's inflection phenomenon
With its size and rate of growth, India has the critical mass today in many sectors. For many commodities, India has become either the largest, or amongst the largest producers in the world. This includes two wheelers, cement, steel, generic drugs, laminated tubes and polyester fiber. Ninety per cent of the world's diamonds pass through India in their value adding chain - from uncut stones to polished gems. On a more micro level, there are many global-scale achievements. To mention only a few, the world's largest motorcycle (Hero Honda) and maker of CD-ROMs (Moser Baer) are based in India. One of our own companies has the world's largest, single-location copper smelter and is located in India. Even in the new industrial - and scientific - field of satellite launching activity, an Indian firm is counted among the top six in the world. Twelve Deming Prize winners - regarded as being equivalent to the Nobel Prize for manufacturing - are from India. The short message of all these achievements is that India can legitimately aspire to be a global hub. It's not a far-fetched target. Rather it's an ambition based on a proven track record.
There is now also sufficient evidence to suggest that the trajectory of India's growth will be on a distinctly higher level for decades to come. There was a trend break from the past, sometime during the 1980's, which has caused the trend growth rate to be closer to 6 rather than 3.5 per cent seen in the first three decades after independence. This trend now spans almost 25 years, a period comprising 7 parliaments, 10 prime ministers and 12 finance ministers, clearly pointing to some growth resilience. (That is not to deny that government policy can still facilitate higher growth). Per capita incomes are also growing much faster owing to deceleration in population growth. All this will have dramatic and profound implications for the Indian people and for Indian business, and hence, for the manufacturing sector as well.
According to some calculations, assuming an average annual growth rate in India's GDP of 5 per cent over the next few decades, its GDP will double roughly every 14 years. Today's GDP adjusted for purchasing power parity of 2.95 trillion dollars will become 24 trillion dollars in 2047. American GDP which is currently 12 trillion dollars would - at an assumed average annual growth rate of about 2 per cent - have merely doubled to 24 trillion dollars by 2047 - the same as India. Thus in just over one generation, India's GDP could well surpass America's GDP to become the world's second largest economy after China, whose GDP then, according to these calculations, would be 32 trillion dollars.
However, linear projections such as these, sometimes miss out on the characteristics of an economy that is at the take-off stage, which is perhaps where India stands now. After per capita GDP reaches a certain threshold, higher purchasing power kicks in and growth tends to accelerate. An example of such a remarkable transformation is South Korea, which graduated from a less-developed country (LDC) to an OECD member, within a span of about three decades.
The potential for India to develop as a manufacturing hub ties in closely with this phenomenon of inflection. As has been the experience of other countries, the break in the trend line leads to accelerated domestic growth, increases in disposable incomes and sharp increases in domestic demand. The booming domestic market drives the build-up to a critical mass of manufacturing - that a global thrust calls for.
Yet another factor that will reinforce this dynamic is demographics. Demographic trends are in India's favour. Populations in economies like Europe and Japan have already begun to age. On the other hand, it is projected that India in 2050 will have the largest number of young people below 25 years in the world, over 550 million and the largest number of people in the productive age group of 20 to 60 years - 800 million. Global trends are such that large investible pools of capital - in countries with ageing populations - will need to be invested in high growth regions with a large need for capital, India among them. Incidentally, labour shortages in the developed economies will continue to drive the flow of labour-intensive services - from places like India.
The confluence of these factors - reaching a take-off point, favourable demographics, and complimentary between countries in labour and capital availability and requirements - contribute to the inflection phenomenon.
What substantiates this view is that many of India's world-scale achievements are of recent vintage, and the ramping up has been rather steep, reinforcing the inflection belief. For example, starting from zero, within a few years we now export about 4 billion dollars of refined crude - mostly as petroleum and diesel. We have gone from zero to almost a billion dollars of production and export of copper. The R & D activities of many global majors - among them IBM, Microsoft and GE - are being ramped up in India. The speed of the telecom spread in India has been breathtaking - a fact that has made even some policymakers admit that they underestimated the market potential. The growth in automobiles and auto ancillaries also has been exponential.
These examples reinforce my belief that the inflexion phenomenon is bound to take Indian manufacturing on to a higher plane in the coming years. It is, therefore, time to stop thinking in linear and incremental terms and dream really big.
Let me now shift the focus briefly on two important emerging trends that give India an edge in becoming a manufacturing hub, and spell 'Advantage India'.
Fundamental trends advantageous to India
The first trend is the increasing openness of the Indian economy. I use the term as understood by economists - i.e. increasing ratio of traded goods and services to GDP, which for India is close to 28 per cent. Our current openness is higher than that of the U.S., for whom it is 23.1 per cent. In this increasingly open environment we have seen a lot of firms flourishing by using a combination of cost-cutting and nimble innovation as well as aggressive marketing. Microeconomic data shows that for the past few years, for a large cross-section sample of firms, the rate of growth of export income is faster than the growth in total sales or even profits.
Not just have exports grown at close to 20 per cent per annum in dollar terms, but their composition has also shifted away from primary materials, to more valued-added merchandise, such as chemicals, engineering and textiles.
The second mega trend is that of outsourcing. What started off as a trend applicable only to IT and IT-enabled services, is rapidly embracing auto components, even autos, engineering design, pharma research, clinical trials, and also a variety of services. This will further enable the move to building global scale industrial activity in India. There seems to be nothing that cannot be outsourced to India. They used to say, that some services simply cannot be exported, like say cheap haircuts. But, in a lighter vein, I think the day is not too far away, when Indian barbers wearing cyber-gloves sitting in cyber-cafés in Mumbai, would be giving their American brethren low cost haircuts - call it low tech tele-surgery!
All these trends bode well to for us to aggressively scale up manufacturing in India to serve both domestic and overseas markets.
I now add another driver for the manufacturing hub story. This factor is related to the imperatives of India's own developmental needs.
What are the imperatives for a manufacturing thrust for India from an economic point of view
The imperatives come from many angles. The first is our development strategy. A high and sustained growth rate of 8 per cent is the surest way to raise a large proportion of people out of poverty. And this high rate cannot be sustained by relying solely on agricultural or services growth. Due to inherent natural constraints on agriculture, the best growth rate that we can hope for (which will be marred by occasional monsoon failures), is about 3 to 4 per cent. The services sector cannot wholly grow at very high rates, since almost half of it is in the form of provision of government services. Hence, the manufacturing sector has to be a critical locomotive - and it needs to grow at close to 10 or 12 per cent, so that the economy as a whole maintains a growth of 8 per cent.
The second imperative is demography. We all know that for the foreseeable future, India's labour force will grow faster (at 2.5 per cent) than its population (at 1.6 per cent), as more youth, and more women enter the labour force. This expansion in the labour force cannot be absorbed by the agriculture sector alone, given the chronically low productivity in this sector. One-fifth of the national output i.e. agriculture, is produced by two thirds of the labour. This is clearly unsustainable. Manufacturing thus has the potential to make a sizeable dent in unemployment, and also in the process improve productivity. Industrial wages and productivity are higher, often by a factor of five. So, in order to turn the demographic opportunity into a demographic dividend, we have to create jobs in manufacturing. It's a Hobson's choice.
The third imperative comes from resource considerations. On minerals, metals, fuels, we have been generously endowed by providence. We have a large land mass - and our population density - notwithstanding our high population is only half as much as say, the Netherlands. While we have to be careful about not depleting our environmental capital, our economy and ecology can support substantially higher levels of industrial activity.
The fourth imperative is that of attaining cost leadership. India is amongst the lowest cost producer for many industrial products. Our overall cost leadership is driven by the advantage in labour costs, and this will sustain well into the future given a pragmatic policy climate. We also have special human capital strengths in engineering and science, and this highly skilled labour costs much less than its counterpart in Europe or the U.S.
So if I have persuaded you that India's growth inflection and its own development imperatives mean that we seriously look at building global scale in manufacturing, let me hasten to add that this growth story comes with some important caveats. Let me focus on what I believe are the three most critical ones.
Policy Climate
I have said earlier that hubs emerge due to an advantage of labour cost and resource availability. But what can seriously hinder or facilitate this process is the policy climate. So, first, what about our policy climate needs to change to make it more investment friendly?
Economic policy making is an evolving process, often experimental, or innovative. Sometimes, policy makers can make mistakes but course corrections are possible. India's telecom policy is a good example of how a relatively quick mid-course correction, of shifting from fixed licence fees to a revenue sharing regime, gave a huge boost to the industry, investment and the economy. By contrast, electricity liberalization, which began earlier than telecom, has been unable to change course or attract large investments. Singapore is an outstanding example of nimble shifts in policy that recognized economic realities and bolstered growth. So the ability of policy making to create a big impact is linked with how fast policies can be adapted in sync with ground realities.
Also, as things stand today a significant amount of policy-making is centred around the budget, which can be for many a make or break event. Our annual budget is always preceded by nail biting suspense. In few other countries is the budget such a watershed event. For instance, in the South East Asian countries where we operate, the budget is essentially a statement of government accounts. The key policies affecting business and industry are articulated for a period of at least five years, and are not subject to annual budgetary shocks, as in India. The result is that businesses are able to operate under conditions which are stable and more predictable.
Hence, if we are to plan big and think global, then we definitely need to have a stable long term policy framework, that enables businesses to commit large resources with much greater certainty.
Second, infrastructure remains the most critical bottleneck. Let me just mention two areas - power and ports.
A detailed survey by the World Bank has found that manufacturers in India face nearly 17 significant power outages per month, versus only one per month in Malaysia and 4 in China. Nine per cent of the total of output is lost due to power breakdown, compared to 2.6 per cent in Malaysia and 2.0 per cent in China. Moreover, India's combined real cost of power is 74 per cent higher than Malaysia's and 39 per cent higher than China's.
Our port infrastructure also remains very inadequate. While building global scale means goods need to be exported all over the world, India's goods cannot be pushed through the bottleneck of the ports. India's 12 major ports handle only about 30 million TEU traffic, while the need is probably close to 100 million. The traffic capacity of Singapore or Hong Kong is at least four times the largest Indian port. The turnaround time for ships docking at Indian ports is worse by a factor of 10, compared to our East Asian peers. Many large Indian exporters have had to build and operate their own jetties to overcome these constraints. This is a handicap that is tough to neutralize in a cost-competitive world.
Our own copper story is worth mentioning. More than 20 per cent of our initial project cost went toward building a private jetty, a captive power plant, and a 70 kilometre water pipeline. This infrastructure is taken for granted in most developed economies, and also in most of our East Asian neighbours. Despite these cost loadings, we have been able to hold our own, and are globally rated in the top quartile in cost efficiency.
And, third, let me emphasize the last-mile issue of implementation. Plans, policies are only as good as the speed with which they are executed. We need to put a much higher premium on speed of decision making as well as implementation to enable projects get off the ground and reach fruition at the earliest. This is particularly true for FDI. More often than not, investment remains thwarted for lack of speed in getting approvals.
In conclusion, it is the responsibility of both corporations and policy makers to ensure that India does not miss the bus. India's roadmap to becoming a manufacturing hub will have to be based on the building blocks of global vision, a passionate mindset about manufacturing, focus on value-enhancing innovations and a facilitating business climate.
While it may be difficult - and even impractical in an operational sense - to conceive of making a country competitive across all sectors, we can definitely work out and implement a strategic blueprint to make industrial sectors and/or clusters competitive.
What eventually will clinch the issue in India's favour, I believe, will be the 'never say die' attitude of Indian entrepreneurs. On more than one occasion, we have proved the cynics wrong, by bouncing back strong, in-spite of the severity of the constraints.
And, India's economic history has always been marked by home-grown entrepreneurship which goes back more than 100 years. The way Indian businesses respond - even under constraints - is nothing short of astonishing. India - and Indians - would be right - and justified - in terms of dreaming big - to become a global manufacturing powerhouse, and it is this indomitable spirit that will succeed in taking India to the world.
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I read the article about Creatine which suggests that creatine can be used as a preventative medicine for diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease – These diseases are genetic diseases : with Alzheimer's for example deterministic and risk genes have already been identified – these gene mutations code for the processing or production of beta amyloid plaques in the brain – the plaques cause brain damage which in turn results in the symptoms of the disease.
Current research is looking at Stem cells and Antisense RNA as future treatments for these diseases – Antisense RNA has been used to 'knock out' ripening genes in tomatoes for decades now – this prolongs the 'shelve life' of tomatoes sold in supermarkets – It could prove to be a very effective treatment for Alzheimer's and may be of use in some of the other genetic diseases mentioned in the article. – My thoughts are that these diseases cannot be treated at the kind of cellular level you suggest and that the author of the article is more interested in selling Creatine than in any of the serious diseases mentioned.
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The Next Million Years
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"The only imaginable way of overcomingthese [sic] difficulties would be to set up a class of consultants who would prescribe what marriages were eugenically admissible and how large the consequent families should be. But this does not solve the difficulty; it only pushes it back a stage, for it leaves unanswered the question who are to be the consultants, and what principles are to guide them in settling the values of the different qualities of mankind. It comes back to just the difficulty I described in my fable, that a tame animal must have a master, and that therefore though it might conceivably be possible to tame the majority of mankind, this could only be done by leaving untamed a minority of the population. Moreover, this minority would have to be the group possessing the most superior qualities of all." [emphasis mine] - Charles Galton Darwin, 1952 (p123)
Is it possible to domesticate humanity as a whole? Would we need a wild master race to watch over us? Charles Galton Darwin in his 1952 book The Next Million Years [1] attempts to answer these questions.
In this book C. G. Darwin (1887-1962) attempts to give a general outline of the "future history" of mankind. He was an English physicist and grandson of Charles Darwin of evolutionary fame. Despite being concerned about the over-population of the world he had four sons and one daughter with his wife Katharine Pember. The hypocrisy of this may seem odd, but the concern about over-population only refers to inferior breeds of humans and not superior breeds like himself and his lineage. C.G. Darwin was a long time member and eventual president of the Eugenic Society (1953-59) which represented the belief system held among many of the political, scientific and aristocratic elites of his day and the present.
Can Mankind be Domesticated?
From The Next Million Years:
"Civilization might, loosely speaking, be counted as a sort of domestication, in that it imposes on man conditions not at all typical of wild life. It might then at least be argued that it is a false analogy to compare man to a wild animal, but that he should rather be compared to one which has been domesticated. I shall maintain that this analogy would be false, and that man is and will always continue to be essentially a wild and not a tame animal.
Before coming to this main theme it is important to notice that, if it were admissible to regard man as a domesticated animal, the whole time-scale of history would have to be radically altered. Thus though the geological evidence shows that it takes a million years to make a new wild species, we know that the various domesticated animals have been created in a very much shorter time. For example, the ancestors of the greyhound and the bulldog of ten thousand years ago would probably have been quite indistinguishable. If then man's characteristics could be similarly remoulded in so short a time, the whole future of history might be radically different. It would become impossible to forecast man's future after as short a period as ten thousand years, hardly longer than the span of known past history, instead of the million years which holds if he is a wild animal.
In the first place, it is necessary to be clear as to what is meant by a wild or a tame animal. We are apt sometimes to call an animal wild because it is dangerous to man, and to call it tame because it is harmless, but this is a slovenly way of speaking, and here I shall use the word "tame" simply as a synonym for "domesticated" which I think is its true meaning. A tame animal then is one that does the will of a master, and the savage watch-dog, trained to bite all intruders, is tamer than the friendly terrier which sometimes slips away to do its own private hunting. All tame animals owe their qualities to centuries of selective breeding, and it must always be remembered that the changes made in them owe nothing to the inheritance of acquired characters, but are due to the selection for breeding of those individual animals which show to the highest degree natural characteristics useful to their masters.
A chief feature in domesticated animals has been the creation of a great variety of breeds, each specialized for some particular purpose, either practical or aesthetic. Each breed far excels its wild ancestry in the quality for which it has been bred, so that race-horses run faster than wild horses, dairy cows give much more milk than and wild cattle, and the sheep-dog has even been bred to do skilfully the exact opposite of what the ancestral wolf would have done. Now human families often show special qualities in which they excel their fellows, and in some cases these qualities seem to be hereditary - witness the musicians of the Bach family. If man is really a tame animal, there is no reason why breeds of man should not be created, say breeds of mathematicians or of professional runners, who should possess gifts far beyond anything we now know, and far beyond anything that their fellows could compete against. Certainly at the present time mankind is very far from this, but that would not exclude the possibility in the not so very distant future, if man really were a tame animal. I shall consider this question of special breeds later in the chapter in more detail; all the evidence seems to show that they will not arise, but to see this clearly, it is best to return to the prime feature of tameness, obedience to a master.
It is obvious that we in this country, with our passion for freedom, value wildness very highly, whereas in some lands, where the population are content to live under a much more strictly controlled rule of discipline, tameness may be more nearly acceptable. This question of taste is irrelevant however, for it might be that a tame race could achieve so much higher a degree of efficiency that it could master the wild ones, and so reduce them also to a state of tameness. I am going to maintain that this cannot happen, in that man is untameable. The reason involves a feature not often present in scientific arguments, and I will venture to introduce it by means of a fable." [emphasis mine] - 115
C.G Darwin's fable revolves around a highly intelligent, long living (ten-thousand years) "director" who breeds people for specialized tasks.
"Though this has only been presented as a fable, the experience with domesticated animals does show that the most astonishing improvements could be made in the various human faculties, if a similar course of continuous selection could be applied to man over as long a period of time. The trouble is that for man this is not possible, because he has got to apply the selection to himself, and that means that it is not merely a different problem, but a wholly different kind of problem. There is a fundamental difference between the subjective and the objective. Scientific progress has always succeeded only by regarding its themes of study objectively; even in the field of psychology progress has mainly come by the study of the minds of others, that is to say objectively, instead of by following the old barren course of introspection. The most severe critic of his own conduct can never judge his actions as if they were someone else's, and the selective breeding of other types of people would be no guide at all in the breeding of his own kind.
If the director had foreseen his death, he would have tried to produce a successor to himself. Since his profound belief in heredity had been so fully confirmed by the remarkable changes he had made in his subjects, he would naturally expect that it would be one of his own sons that would be best fitted to succeed him, but his difficulty would be just the same if he were trying to find a successor elsewhere. The matter is on quite a different footing from all his other decisions. For the others he could say: "I have improved all our breeds, by seeing which son improved on the qualities of his father. That is why I select you." For his own successor the utmost he could say would be "I am selecting you in the hope that you may be a better director than I have been. But I have no idea how you will set about it, since, if I had known what I was failing in, I should have set it right myself." The targets in the two statements are quite different, for in one he knows what he is aiming at, in the other he does not. In one case the target is too make the man better, in the other to hope to make him as good. One is the systematic breeding of tame animals, the other the unsystematic method of nature in the breeding of wild animals.
This point is so important that before following it to its conclusion I will give another example, which has the advantage of not being fabulous. In their studies of how to improve the human race the eugenists have very naturally considered both ends of their problem, the increase in the good qualities of humanity and the elimination of the bad qualities. Their chief effort has gone, quite rightly at first, into the easy part of the problem, and they have spent most of their energy in pointing out the disastrous tendencies of the present policy of directly encouraging the breeding of the feeble-minded. This is undoubtedly useful work, but it is comparatively easy, since these feeble-minded can be regarded objectively by their superiors, and so might become amenable to the same sort of control as is applicable to domestic animals. This restraint of the breeding of the feeble-minded is important, and it must never be neglected, but it cannot be regarded as a really effective way of improving the human race. If by analogy one wished to improve the breed of racehorses, one might accomplish a little by always slaughtering the horse that finished last in every race, but it would be a much slower process than the actual one of sending the winner to the stud farm.
Conscious of this criticism, eugenists have often attempted to define what are the good characteristics which should be positively encourage, instead of only the negative ones that must be discouraged, but the results are disappointing. Lists of meritorious qualities such as good health, good physique, high intelligence, good family history, are compiled, and those possessing them are told that they should breed, but the statements lead nowhere in practice, for no one can be expected to assess his own merits and demerits in a balance way. How, for example, is a man to weigh his own good health or good ability against a heredity made dubious, say, by an uncle who was insane, or again how is he to strike a balance between considerable artistic gifts - as he thinks - together with a good family record, but quite bad health. It is clearly beyond anyone to decide these things for himself, and even then the matter is only half settled, since similar judgments are needed for both partners to the marriage. However helpful the literature may be which can be consulted, it is evident that subjective judgments on such matters are too difficult; with the best will in the world they would very often be made wrongly, because, however sincerely he tries, no man can be a good judge in his own case." [emphasis mine] - 120
Could Man be Turned Into an Ant?
"These examples suggest the impossibility of taming mankind as a whole, but before accepting the principle fully, it is proper to examine a case where the exact contrary has happened; this is in the insect civilization of the ants or termites. In applying the same term, civilization, to both ants and men, it is hardly necessary to say that I am drawing an analogy between things which are really of a very different quality. All species of ants live in cities, and some species have developed agriculture, others animal husbandry; but all these practices are purely instinctive and individual to each species. On the other hand human civilization is an acquired character, based on education, and so is not inherent in man's nature. Nevertheless it may be worth while to follow out the analogy a little further. Admitting the different sense of the words, it may be said that all species of ants have made the third revolution, the invention of cities, that some have made the second, agriculture, none the first or fourth, fire and science; but they have all added another revolution of their own, the complete control of the problem of sex. The ants' nest has no rulers at all, for the queen is hardly more than an egg-laying mechanism, and they seem to get on perfectly well without civil servants or lawyers or captains of industry.
Why cannot man set up a community like an ants' nest? This would be the ideal of the anarchist, and hitherto it has held no promise at all of success, but with the help of recent and probable future biological discoveries, some sort of imitation by man of the ants' nest cannot be quite excluded from consideration. Thus the control of the numbers of the two sexes may become possible, and with the knowledge of the carious sexual hormones it might also become possible to free the majority of mankind from the urgency of sexual impulse, so that they could live contented celibate lives, instead of the unsatisfied celibate lives that are the compulsory lot of such a large fraction of the present population of the world. If these discoveries should be made - and this is really by no means impossible - man would be able to carry out the sex revolution which is the typical characteristic of the insect civilizations. The detail would of course have to be quite different, for instead of one queen there would have to be large numbers of fertile women to renew the population, whereas there might be one king, literally the father of his country. Also it is probable that on account of their greater physical strength, it would be the men who would be the workers." - [emphasis mine] 125
What About a Master Breed?
"In order to create such specialist breeds there would have to be a master breed at the summit, and this would be a totally different kind of thing from all the other breeds, because it would have to create itself." - 130
"At every turn the argument leads back to this question of the master breed. Nothing can be done in the way of changing man from a wild into a tame animal without first creating such a breed, but most people are entirely inconsistent in their ideas of what they want created. On the one hand they feel that all the world's problems would be solved if only there were a wise and good man who would tell everybody what to do, but on the other hand they bitterly resent being themselves told what to do. As to which of these motives would prevail, it seems at least probable that it would be the resentment, so that if the breed should arise in any manner, it would be extirpated before it could ever become well established. It is, however, imaginable, that there might be a part of the world in which the breed was accepted, and that this part should gain a superiority over the rest of the world, because it could develop various suitable breeds of specialists under the control and direction of the master breed, and by the exercise of the skills of these specialists it might overcome the other nations. So it is appropriate to look a little further into the matter.
Imagine that through new discoveries in biology, say by suitably controlled doses of X-rays, it becomes possible to modify the genes in any desired direction, so that heritable changes can be produced in the qualities of some members of the human race. I may say I do not believe this is ever likely to be practicable, but that does not matter as far as concerns the present argument. The first success might be in some physical attribute, for example, by making a breed with longer and stronger legs so that it could jump a good deal higher than anyone can at present. But passing to more important matters, there might be created a breed which could think more abstractly, say a breed of mathematicians, or one that could think more judiciously, say a breed of higher civil servants. These would be of great value, but they would not be the master breed, and the question arises of a more precise prescription for what the qualities of the master breed are to be.
It is usually best to build on what one already has, rather than to start from nothing. So the natural procedure would be to begin with existing rulers, since these have already established themselves as acceptable to at least a good many of their fellow creatures. One would collect together, say, a hundred of the most important present rulers - among them of course should be included a good many who exert secret influence without holding any overt office - and tell them to get on with the business of settling what the master breed should be. It is impossible to believe that any such body of men would ever reach agreement on any subject whatever; so this plan fails.
In the search for the qualities of the master breed the next idea might be to appeal to the wisdom of our forefathers. Plato in his Republic [emphasis in original] devotes much attention to this very subject. Why not then find a Plato, give him his group of recruits, and let him educate them for thirty years according to his prescription - though perhaps fortifying it by the findings of modern educational theory; the result should be the master breed. But this will not do either, for Plato was not educating the master breed, he was educating the civil servant breed. It is not about these that there is any difficulty; it is the finding of someone to fill the role of Plato himself. It all comes back to the point that we do not know in the remotest degree what we want; for I do not count as an answer the one that would usually be proposed, which would be that the type required should be good and wise, while at the same time showing a special favour for the particular enthusiasms of the proposer. The reason for the impossibility of making a prescription for the master breed is that it is not a breed at all; to call it so is to change the sense of the word. Breeds are specialized for particular purposes, but the essence of masters is that they must not be specialized. They have to be able to deal with totally unforeseen conditions, and this is a quality of wild, not of tame, life. No prescription for the master breed is possible.
In these considerations I have been assuming the licence of supposing that we might be able really to change human nature in a heritable manner, and this is far beyond all probability. Returning now to more practical considerations, there seems no likelihood whatever of a master breed arising. All through history the most formidable difficulty of every ruler has been the selection of his successor, and the best intentions have been nearly always disappointed. Indeed it is notably surprising how very seldom the choice has been well made. The immediate cause of these failures, has been the difficulty of the subjective judgments on the basis of which the choice must be made, but fundamentally they have arisen from a cause in the deep nature of mankind. Of all animals man is the most ready to try experiments and there are always candidates - far too many candidates - who regard themselves as fit members for the master breed. This quality is a characteristic of a wild animal, and it will always prevent man from domesticating himself. He will always prevent the creation of the master breed, through which alone the rest of man could be domesticated. The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man is and will always continue to be a wild animal." [emphasis mine] - 130
"It always comes back to the same point, that to carry out any policy systematically in such a way as permanently to influence the human race, there would have to be a master breed of humanity, not itself exposed to the conditions it is inducing in the rest. The master breed, being wild animals, would be subject to all the fashions, tastes and passions of humanity as we know it, and so would never have the constancy to establish for generation after generation a consistent policy which could materially alter the nature of mankind." - 184
The next part in this series will look into the importance of creeds on the future history of mankind. The second last part in this series will examine C. G. Darwin's emphasis on the desirability of eugenics and ways of perpetuating "superior" genes in future generations. Finally, I will examine the difficulties in controlling the size of the world population as described in The Next Million Years.
[1] Quotes from Charles Galton Darwin, The Next Million Years (1952).
Note: I first heard about this book from talks given by Alan Watt at Cutting Through The Matrix.com, an individual well worth looking into.
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Here is an excerpt of my previous posting about getting the Console Personalities to flip the appropriate switches in setup options.
I have done more side by side testing with 500 GP and trying to get the setup right in the Palette sw.GeniusPro
Personality: GP 500
Release Fixtures on Record: Off
Goto Cue on Record: Off
Default Cue Record Type: new Block Levels (basically Block Everything but don't show the hard zeros)
Default Look Record Type: Live but Record Minus Sub should be default.
Hold Delta Levels: Off
Personality: Palette Classic US
Release Fixtures on Record: On
Goto Cue on Record: On
Default Cue Record Type: Live
Default Look Record Type: Live but Record with Sub should be default.
Hold Delta Levels: Off
I'm going to take the Hold Delta Levels out of the picture for the moment because that was a separate option in the 500 code called Channel Control Auto Hold: On or Off.
If I setup as defined above...
Release Fixtures on Record: Off
Goto Cue on Record: Off
Then I believe I get appropriate GP response. I can then turn Hold Delta Levels on or off as I wish. This will store the cue but not change my live levels and it will not put me in the cue so I then have what is stored but I have all levels ouputting in my live programmer. This seems to be consistant w/ 500 series GP.
If I turn on Release Fixtures on Record, then I get behavior that I would expect would elicit furrowed brows and a turned head or two as I am now a: not sitting in the cue that I have just recorded and b: the lights have now turned off. Not good.
But if I am in LP mode and I have Goto Cue on Record: On and Release Fixtures on Record: On, then I am happy as a LP operator.
Basically, I believe that Release Fixtures on Record should only be an option if you have Goto Cue on Record: On. If Goto Cue on Record is off, then you should not be able to enable Release Fixtures on Record.


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We're up to #19 on our list of Texas' most populous cities. At more than 140K people is the Dallas suburb of Mesquite, home of my Man Up Texas BBQ partner, Brad. Mesquite's motto is "Real. Texas. Flavor." Well, speaking of flavor, where can you find the best BBQ in Mesquite?
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We call this place Riverton, this land in the Sandhills of North Carolina along the banks of the Lumber River. Here we sleep on cots in cabins and the cool of the river in the afternoon is the only air conditioning that we enjoy. My family has been coming here for over a century and for us, it is paradise. It was here, at Riverton, where we spent our last Saturday with Webb.
I wasn't worried when I could not find him. Riverton is safe and small, and I knew that he would not venture too far without his brothers. I searched the cabins and peered through the cracks between the pines. Jeff sipped on an evening beer while watching Jack and Duncan as I casually looked for Webb.
We had spent most of the morning down by the banks of the Lumber. The iced-tea river was cold from the changing season, but that didn't deter the boys from tramping through its waters and stamping in its swamps. Webb had protested, begging to stay longer, when I told him it was time to leave for lunch. After two peanut butter sandwiches and a long nap on the iron bed in the big room, I thought his appetite for the river had been appeased for the day. But I knew Webb and I should have known better. I should have known that he would escape the screened walls of the front porch as soon as he could. By the time I made it to the Avenue, the dirt road that leads to the river, I realized I had been foolish to look anywhere else.
I emerged from the tall pines of the woods to the dirt path and into a scene so beautiful that I am now convinced that it was nothing short of heaven on earth. The evening air was crisp and cool, and autumn's orange sun suspended low to the ground. The gentle breeze caused the pines to dance and the cones to tumble. Yet it was not the setting that took my breath away. My eyes were instantly drawn to Webb. His long, thin legs were running as fast as they could carry him down the road. His run, oh Lord, that run, stopped me in my tracks and I stood in awe of the joy of this three-year-old boy. He was always running, deliberate and controlled, focused and intent. He was a lot like his run.
When I finally caught up to him, I gently grabbed his shoulders and bent down to meet his eyes. "There you are." These three words met a smile as wide as the ocean. Is there anything more precious than being found and loved? "Oh Webber, I am so happy to see you. I've been looking for you. Where are you going buddy?" He didn't flinch as I wrapped my arms around his shoulders and rested my cheek on his head. He graciously accepted my adoration and stood still as it seeped deep. I released him and he took off running again. His arms made circles, windmills that mimicked swimming. "I want to go to the pool, mama. Let's go to the pool. Bye-bye mama." He had always referred to the river as a pool. And after many futile attempts to correct him, I had grown fond of the way he owned the word, incorrect as it were, with confidence.
I watched him take off down the Avenue, the setting sun illuminating his yellow hair, his bare feet pounding the dirt. I settled into this moment and felt its magic warm me right up. The freedom, the wildness, the beauty of it all left me breathless. Could heaven really be better than this? My heart whispered the question to my God. In this moment, I was sure that I had never seen my son so full of wonder, so full of adventure, so fully alive. As I watched this boy, my blood, my heart, run down the dirt road to the river, I knew that God had cracked through the shell of earth to pour heaven into the finite. Though I couldn't name it then like I can now, I was being given a glimpse of eternity, and I could hardly handle the beauty of it all. In that moment, when all I knew of God was blessing and all I knew of the world was gift, even then I knew that this was a taste of heaven. It was the scent of a garden I was created to crave.
I have tucked that memory of Webb running to the river into the deep corner pocket of my heart. Safe in this corner, it is protected against the mean game of tug-of-war that I play with time. In this corner, the colors of the memory's fabric will not fade. I pull this memory out of its safe pocket often. I've heard the 5:00 hour referred to by mothers as the "witching hour." It has become my favorite time of the day, this "Webb hour." As the sun sinks low in the backyard and another day comes to an end, I find myself standing alone with Webb on the Avenue. Though my clogs stand on the tile of our kitchen floor, I feel the dust of the dirt beneath my toes. And as the toddler brother knocks over the big brother's tower in the playroom and the bean soup bubbles over, the wind of the pines causes my hair to dance.
On those especially sad days when Webb feels distant like a dream, I unfold this memory and I feel his shoulders beneath my arms, my adoration pouring out. He turns to face me with that smile as wide as the sea. "There you are," I say to him. He stands still and I hold him tightly, soaking in the softness of his skin and the scent of his hair. The beauty of the moment warms me and I refuse to release this boy who now lives freedom. I hold him until I can find my breath again.
On those holy days when he feels incredibly alive and his presence in the home is so real that I set his place at the table, I pull out this memory. I am standing behind my Webb on the dirt road as he runs to the water. He sprints, controlled and focused, but incredibly free. I watch him run, farther and farther away, all the way to the river, until he eventually fades from my sight. And I know, with all my being, that he was made for this. His eternal joy trumps my earthly sadness and I find my breath again, standing firm on the confidence that I will one day join him on the banks of that River.
Oh that I might be more like my son. When the One who loves me grabs me by the shoulders and sighs, "There you are," would I not flinch to shrug off His holy embrace? Would I be so stilled by the power of His adoration for me that it would seep deep into my soul? For it is a precious thing to be found and loved. And I pray that, like Webb, I might be so caught up in the wildness, the adventure and the beauty of the River that I would run to it with determination. Would the mystery and the power of the Water draw me, like it did Webb, with such a magnetic force that the shell of my skin would crack from mounting joy? As I run, may the freedom of eternity carry me down the road and the beauty of the River reveal the truth that I, too, was made for this.
Family picture, October 2011 (Webb in blue)
Jack and Webb running down the Avenue, October 2011
On the banks of the river, July 4, 2011
Webb and Jack in the river, October 2011
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Swan Walk shopping centre was a building site, roads ran through the middle of the Carfax and a petrol station stood proud in North Street, Horsham has certainly changed over the past 30 years.
A video showing the town centre in the summer of 1989 has been uploaded by rayspoard on Youtube and has gained a lot of interest on social media recently.
It captures the creation of Swan Walk as well as taking viewers on tours of Springfield Road, Hurst Road, North Street, Kings Road, Rusper Road and Littlehaven Lane.
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I am so excited to share with you the project I have been working on for Family and Childrens' Services. It was a capital campaign called Better Together, and I got the wonderful job of branding it in its entirety - from logo to print pieces.
This brochure can also be found here, as an online .pdf
Unfortunately, life's been busy so I haven't had a chance to photograph these pieces for you and the computer mock-ups just don't do it justice, but I'd like to share with you anyway!
It's called Better Together, because it's based on the concept that families operate when they can learn together. They want to build a family center, so instead of splitting up families, they can enable and encourage everyone to work together as a team, with classrooms and courses - to give families tools to stay together and create healthy environments. It's pretty awesome. Click here for more details about it!
If you're looking to make a donation, this is such an excellent cause, and such a wonderful team. I can't wait to see the completed building. It was such a pleasure to work on something that is so wonderful.
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Song of Solomon 6 Lexham English Bible (LEB)
6 Where has your beloved gone,
Mutual Possession Refrain
3 I belong to my beloved and he belongs to me;[a]
Solomon's Praise of His Beloved
4 You are beautiful, my beloved, as Tirzah,
The Maiden's Beauty Is without Peer
8 Sixty queens there are, eighty concubines,
The Journey to the Valley
11 I went down to the orchard of the walnut trees
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Payday Loans Bad Credit
If you have bad credit and are in need of some cash, then a payday loan may be one of your options. A short term loan comes with high fees and the potential to trap you in a cycle of debt, so you need to consider whether a loan like this is right for you. If you do have bad credit you may still be able to get a payday or short term loan.
Credit Checks
By law every loan provider must carry out reasonable enquiries into your ability to pay back a loan. This usually includes a credit check as well as a number of other criteria such as your income and other expenses. This type of information is gathered from your payslips and bank statements. A lender may request more information from you in order to make a decision.
Whilst short term lenders perform credit checks it is common that they do not place as much emphasis on your credit history as a bank would. Because a payday loan is a short term loan, (also referred to as a cash advance), it is expected to be paid back within a shorter period - not years. If a lender feels that your income and liabilities mean that you can afford to repay a short term loan within a specified period, then you may be approved even if you have bad credit from previous defaults.
Can I Get A Loan With Bad Credit?
It depends how bad, but again, if you have been refused by a bank, this doesn't mean that you will be refused by a payday loan company. As described above they can be willing to lend money to people with bad credit. Be completely honest with your application - responsible lending guidelines are in place to protect you so that you are only provided with credit that you can afford to repay. And as the lender does their due diligence investigations they will invariably ask for supporting evidence of all your claims of income and expenses.
Don't assume payday lenders just automatically lend to everyone who wants money - they don't. They are required by law to lend responsibly.
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Most lenders will not lend money to people who have Centrelink as their primary income source. For those lenders who do lend to those on Centrelink, there are some very strict requirements on how much can be loaned and how much the repayments are compared with the Centrelink payments.
Some lenders won't lend to people who are unemployed and only get Centrelink benefits, but if you are employed and also on Centrelink, some lenders will count this Centrelink income towards your total income.
This also changes according to what Centrelink benefit you are receiving. Secure and permanent payments are usually accepted, such as a pension or disability payment, but again this depends on the lender.
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General Motors Names Dhivya Suryadevara Vice President, Finance And Treasurer0
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In the latest round of executive shuffle, General Motors has named Dhivya Suryadevara GM vice president, Finance and Treasurer, effective July 1st. Suryadevara replaces Niharika Taskar Ramdev, who will take her new position as chief financial officer of GM International.
Suryadevara will retain her current responsibilities as CEO and chief investment officer of GM Asset Management.
"Dhivya's experience in leading our asset management team will serve her well in this important role for the company," said Chuck Stevens, GM executive vice president and chief financial officer. "I'm confident that she will build on the great work the team has accomplished under Niharika's leadership. Niharika has done an excellent job over the past year as we improved our investment grade ratings and introduced a comprehensive capital allocation framework."
Suryadevara will be responsible for global treasury operations including capital planning, capital market activities, worldwide banking and participate in business development, risk management and investor relations. She was named chief investment officer of GM Asset Management in 2013, where she kept tabs on $80 billion in assets across various GM benefit plans.
Suryadevara has been employed with General Motors since 2004.


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Learn and lunch events at The Westleton Crown
26th October 2017
We recently attended one of Head Chef, James Finch's learn and lunch events at The Westleton Crown hotel and restaurant to give you a sneak peek into what you can expect when attending this interactive cooking demonstration with a delicious two course lunch afterwards.
On the day of the event we arrived at 10.30am to meet with James and have a chat and a cup of Paddy's & Scott's coffee (or Twining's tea if you prefer), this also gave us a chance to get to know other guests. At 11am we headed into the Garden Room, bright and contemporary dining area, where James would be taking the main stage. Every learn and lunch event participant was given a recipe card to take away to replicate the scrumptious dishes at home.
The first dish that James demonstrated was a delicious pumpkin squash and ginger soup. He talked us through all the ingredients he was using and let us know where the produce was grown and sourced from. All the learn and lunch cooking demonstrations that take place at The Westleton Crown are seasonal affairs inspired by local farms and each event has a different theme. With the led up to Halloween and autumn being in full swing, James opted for a pumpkin and ginger theme.
Our Head Chef went on to show us step by step how to cook the soup. He choose to serve this to us as a sauce with a chicken leg and it was mouth-watering. Below is the recipe for this scrumptious soup if you wish to give it ago yourself.
Pumpkin squash and ginger soup recipe
1kg pumpkin or squash
1 onion
2 cloves of garlic
Half a red chilli
1 tin of coconut milk
500ml veg stock
1 inch of fresh ginger
Half bunch coriander
Peel and dice pumpkin or squash
Finely chop onion garlic and coriander stalk and sweat down in a splash of oil
Add finely chopped ginger
Add in pumpkin/squash and coconut milk
Cover with stock and cook until tender
Add the chopped coriander leaves and blitz
Chicken leg with pumpkin squash and ginger sauce
The second dish James demonstrated was a ginger sponge pudding, and I must say it was one of the best desserts I have tasted. Again, our Head Chef talked us through all the ingredients he was using with a step by step guide how to create this dish. The learn and lunch event was a very interactive experience with insightful comments and tips from James. He was also happy to answer any questions any of his guests had during and after his demonstrations. Below is the recipe for this mouth-watering ginger sponge pudding for you to try at home.
Ginger sponge pudding recipe
250g butter
500g black treacle
375ml milk
500g plain flour
3 tsp mixed spice
6 tsp ginger powder
2.5 tsp bicarb
5 whole eggs
125g brown sugar
Warm up butter treacle sugar and milk until all is melted and combined. Leave to cool
Sift the flour, bicarb and spices together
Add the treacle mixture
Add the eggs
Bake at 150C for 40 mins until firm to touch
Ginger sponge pudding
After a short 15-minute break, we had the chance to try the delicious dishes that James had demonstrated, enjoying a two course lunch in the stylish Garden Room.
Cooking demonstrations can be a great way to learn new cooking tips and tricks and improve your culinary skills. Here at The Westleton Crown we have introduced a number of learn and lunch events. Each event includes a unique theme and simple recipes that James shows how to prepare and cook. Find out more information and dates of these events here.


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Leggete qui di seguito alcune interessanti osservazioni di Phil Gilbert:
The Army You've Got
I was hiking today up above Portland, Oregon at the Multnomah Falls. Spectacular. Except my damn knees. I started thinking about how I hear people say "gee, I wish I was
Oddly, this got me to thinking about business process management and about how almost everyone (except Lombardi, of course) has got it wrong. Most people think business process management is about Process. Wrong. Business process management is about people. Specifically, it is about making people more productive. People of diverse skills. People put in positions they might not be quite ready for. People retiring from their jobs. People starting their careers. Dear reader, if you are in a company with more than, say, 1,000 people, I wonder how many of those people do you think are perfectly suited to their jobs right now? How many have the perfect levels of skills, abilities, training and wisdom to do their jobs at peak efficiency right now? How many in your workgroup fit this description? I'm guessing you have people with different levels, some achieving the perfect blend you need, and some not.
Look, the point isn't that your organization needs help. In fact, the point is that your organization looks a lot like everyone else in this respect! Business process management should be thought of as a way to help teams work better. The team you have is the team you have, in many respects. You can't take the perfect team into the battle of competition tomorrow! You have to get a lot of the job done with the team you have. You might top-grade over time, and you might also lose some of your best people to promotions and their own career changes. The fact is, the people in your business have very different combinations of "perfection" at any given point in time. And in this globalized world, the question senior management asks is "how can I be most effective with what I have?" (A recent NY Times article quoted HP CEO Mark Hurd: "C.E.O.'s work on three things: strategy, operating models and people." Which, loosely translated I think means: what strategies can we pull off given our people, processes and customers?")
If workflow is the means by which we define behaviors, then the real advance of business process management is that it is the means by which we normalize how we measure behaviors and correlate those behaviors with the business results we achieve. Let me say it again: business process management is about how we measure people and correlate their activities with the business results they achieve.
In fact, practiced purely, I'd argue that it has nothing to do with how something gets done, only how well it gets done! It is today's evolutionary state of the most advanced de-centralized management capability. And by the way, if you don't get a grip on this issue - how to decentralize control of behavior while retaining insight into results - you will be run over by the people and technologies of the 21st century. Wiki's, blogs, SaaS word processors, SaaS spreadsheets, IM, Facebook (or Open Social) computing platforms... this all means you will have less control over the specific workflows, and more creativity than you ever thought possible. Your BPM initiative better be figuring out how you can deal with this... because these are becoming parts of the best processes in the world.
BPM helps you get a handle on the chaos that is real life, makes it explicit, and helps you manage around it. It does this by making the work explicit, linking that work to the reasons you are doing the work, and providing insight into the results. We call this trace-ability and it's key to doing business in the 21st century. It allows you to take the army you've got, and make them as effective as possible in executing against the strategy you've set.
As for me, there's direct traceability from the hike to my aching knees... time to take an Advil.
Phil Gilbert


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Consumers can research the Maytag dishwasher models available at those retailers' websites. Shoppers can use the websites to narrow their searches by price, features, color and dimensions. On the Home Depot and hhgregg websites, consumers can also sort for Energy Star-rated dishwashers. Each retailer offers customer product reviews, and the Sears site also provides ratings and reviews from Consumer Reports, when available. Free home delivery on Maytag dishwashers is available from these retailers, but some restrictions may apply. Shoppers can select several dishwasher models to compare on the hhgregg, Lowe's and the Home Depot websites.
Maytag makes dishwasher models with control panels on either the front or the top, and most models are available in white, black or stainless steel. Many Maytag dishwashers feature a four-bladed food chopper that pulverizes food particles to prevent them from clogging the wash cycle. Maytag dishwashers may also include a PowerBlast cycle, which uses spray jets and hot steam to remove stuck-on food. Maytag dishwashers come with a 10-year limited parts warranty.


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The Duchess And Her Mane. Pt. 8
Ok So I'm officially in the third month of the big chop (yay me!). Thought now would be a good time to do a little update s to how things are going. I've ditched the transitioning styles and I'm loving the ease of the TWA! I read an article the other day on naturally curly.com and apparently (according to said article) I no longer have a TWA, I, in fact have "a small afro" lol.
Notable changes are I now use coconut oil on my hair, forum junkies seem to rate highly of it, I've been using it for a few weeks will note any changes. The bottle says it has a natural sweet smell, but I think it smells like burnt coconut hairs… not to my liking at ALL! The things we do for beauty!
Along side my Aphogee conditioner I have started to use Aussie Miracle hair Insurance Conditioner.
I don't like the smell its kind of sickly but it either disappears or I get used to it once its dry anyway, makes my hair feel good so that's all that counts really 🙂
I Went on holiday to Florida earlier this month and had an amazing time, I also got to buy some hair goodies that I cant buy in the shops over here. Namely the KCCC (Kinky Curly Curling Custard) trio – Come Clean, Knot Today and Curling Custard.
These smell absolutely fantastic! Now its probably jus me not having enough time to dedicate to use it properly, but it didn't really work for me. The BF kept complaining of my hair looking grey. I think I was going to cautiously with the COME CLEAN and not fully getting all of the previous oils out. And also the curls/coils weren't doing what they're supposed to after conditioner and gel, again, maybe because I wasn't doing my hair section my section (it's only like 2 inches long!) I was kinda just spreading it lightly over all my hair, then kinda massaging it through, as that's what I'd seen on a video tutorial (¬_¬) But that being said, I used it on my 2 yr old cousins hair (he has mixed parentage) and it came out lovely. Guess I got to just take my time and do it to get fair results. Gah, there aren't enough hours in the day!