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"What I have learned over the years is that we must be
patient, persistent, and committed. When we are planting
trees sometimes people will say to me, 'I don't want to
plant this tree, because it will not grow fast enough'.
I have to keep reminding them that the trees they are cutting
today were not planted by them, but by those who came before.
So they must plant the trees that will benefit communities
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Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of Kenya's acclaimed Greenbelt Movement, last week announced the launch of a new initiative by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) calling on concerned individuals, community groups, schools, businesses and governments around the world to work toward achieving the collective goal of planting one billion trees during 2007 to combat global warming.
"This is something that anybody can do," Maathai told delegates to a United Nations conference on climate change taking place in Kenya. The conference, which has drawn delegates from more than 100 countries, was convened to help come up with new solutions to the onslaught of global warming. Maathai reported that tree planting is much more than a symbolic act, since trees absorb carbon dioxide that could otherwise end up in the atmosphere, where it contributes to global warming. By participating in the campaign, she said, people can be part of the solution.
Individuals and groups can participate in the tree planting campaign by signing up on UNEP's new Billion Tree Campaign website and registering the trees they plant during the 2007 calendar year. UNEP will provide a running tally of the results online while it coordinates specific tree planting efforts in different countries around the world.
Indigenous Planting is Important
The campaign encourages the planting of indigenous trees and trees that are appropriate to the local environment. Advice on tree planting will be made available via the website, as well as information about reforestation and other tree-related issues, including links to appropriate partner organizations best equipped to give locally tailored advice, such as the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF). Because ideal planting conditions vary in different regions, the campaign will operate throughout the year.
How Trees Affect Climate
It is a fact that around one quarter of global carbon emissions come from deforestation and that leaving existing forest intact should be the first priority for combating global warming and mitigating its effects.
Trees not only absorb CO2 as they grow, but help to stabilise climate, promote rainfall, cool the air through transpiration, and act as a buffer against storms and flooding. They also provide habitat for many species. When forest is cleared, CO2 is released from the dying trees but you also lose the "carbon sink" that living trees can provide to mop up emissions from fossil fuels. So deforestation is a "double whammy" for climate change.
Tree planting can be useful in areas that have been deforested, but it is always important to carry out tree planting wisely and sensitively. Planting non-native trees can create more problems than they solve, if the trees are not suitable for the local environment.

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End Horse Slaughter in Illinois
Petitioning: animal abusers
Petitioner: Petitioner started on March 5, 2009
what the hell is wrong with these people?! to think that they can go to work every damn day, and kill hundreds of innocent horses!!!! WTF is wrong with them?!! i cant stand this, it makes me want to go over there and shoot them 4 times in the head wit a bolt gun!! lets see if they like it, maybe we shouldve even hoist them up by their ankle and slit their throats too.
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Coumarins are heterocyclic molecules that have been associated with beneficial effects on human health, such as reducing the risk of cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular and brain diseases. These effects are thought to be related to the radical scavenging effect, due to their antioxidant activities. Coumarins are an entity which is being synthesized in many of its derivative from past few years; the entity is major source of interest for many of medicinal chemist to explore its various pharmacological potentials especially anticoagulant activity. In present article we review recent derivatives of coumarin that are synthesized with their pharmacological activities like antioxidant, activity. The main purpose of this review is to summarize recent chemical syntheses and structural modifications of coumarin and there derivatives, of interest due to their characteristic conjugated molecular architecture and biological activities.


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MOSCOW, Russia (PNN) - May 10, 2018 - Some 28 Israeli aircraft fired around 60 air-to-surface rockets in a massive overnight strike in Syria, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. Syrian air-defense systems managed to intercept more than half of the missiles. A total of 70 projectiles, including 60 air-to-surface rockets and more than 10 surface-to-surface missiles, hit Iranian military targets and Syrian air-defense systems near Damascus and in the south of the country on Thursday morning, the Russian military said in a statement.
Israeli forces bombed the Syrian territory for two hours between 1:45 am and 3:45 am local time on Thursday. The attack was carried out under the pretext of allegations that Iranian forces had earlier hit Israeli targets in the Golan Heights.
The damage inflicted on Iranian military and Syrian civilian infrastructure by the air strikes is being evaluated.
Earlier, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said that all its aircraft had safely returned after one of its most extensive attacks in years. Tel-Aviv claims that it was carried out in retaliation to 20 rockets launched at Israeli targets in the Golan Heights by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp's Quds Force.
"Four of them were intercepted by the Iron Dome and the rest landed on Syrian territory," the IDF said, adding that the incident had resulted in no damage or casualties.
The allegations were denied by a member of the Iranian Parliament's commission, Abolfazl Hassan Beigi, who accused Israel of "lying," as Iran has "no military presence" or bases in Syria.


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Drop Shipping Made Easy
What Is Drop Shipping?
What is drop shipping about? – Drop shipping can be a very effective and simple way to get involved in ecommerce. Many established online merchants are now turning to drop shipping as a method for minimizing stock on hand, and decreasing overall shipping costs.
What about drop shipping – Drop shipping allows website owners to send single/low quantity unit orders they have on their websites. They send to manufacturers, or major warehouses, who in turn "drop ship" the items directly to the customers.
What are the Advantages Of Drop Shipping?
- Because a warehousing company can buy in huge volumes… they will also be able to offer you the best prices on products and shipping. This means a greater profit to you.
- There's no capital investment and no need to invest in inventory.
- Using drop shipping allows you greater flexibility in terms of product range – promote a dozen items or promote a thousand!
- Instead of worrying about inventory and delivery, you get to focus on listening to and keeping your finger on the pulse of the market. This will allow you to discover the products your visitors you want.
What Do I Need To Know To Select A Drop Shipper?
Many companies will have an interest in teaming up with you in a drop shipping arrangement. Mainly because it's an easy way for them to generate extra revenue. However there are a number of points to consider, and things to look out for:
Pricing Points
Don't accept that the first drop shipper you come across unless they are willing to provide you a "Best Price Guarantee."
Drop Ship Fees And Charges
Some companies will have a handling fee over and above freight costs. Therefore it's important to know all the costs involved so you can calculate your profit margins accurately.
Are they using small private shipping companies or UPS? Will they ship internationally? You'll want to be sure that their shipping methods will ensure your clients receive their orders in one piece.
Also, keep in mind that you may need a specific type of shopping cart in order to handle drop shipping. Many shopping carts only allow for one "ship from" zip code in the configuration for freight calculations. If you are dealing with a number of drop-shippers you may have dozens of point-of-origin zip codes. This can be a real headache if freight is based on distance.
Will the drop shipping company automatically debit your credit card on each order you submit, or can you get monthly payment terms? When you are starting out with a company, they are unlikely to offer credit. Its a good idea to check if this will be possible once you've established credibility.
Support, Returns, and Refunds
The last thing you'll want is to be caught up in a nasty situation where you have a number of returns – and have to cover the bill. Ask the drop shipping company about their returns policy. What kind of support will they offer you for their products. Ask about any guarantees associated with their products, and get it in writing.
How long has the company been around for? Do they respond to your requests for information rapidly and professionally? Young companies have the habit of going belly up quickly, or growing too rapidly. As a consequence basic good customer service suffers.
How Do I Get Started In Drop Shipping?
It's fairly simple:
Set up a website that includes a Shopping Cart and credit card processing facilities, or setup an eBay or other auction account. Shopify is a great favorite for those just getting started. Shopify handles everything for you from marketing and payments, to secure checkout and shipping.
To continue…
- Find suppliers of products you wish to sell that incorporate drop shipping as a business method.
- Open an account with them.
- Gather content and images relating to the products you've chosen, incorporate them on your site and shopping cart.
- Collect the order and payment from your site.
- Provide the supplier with the customer details.
- The supplier then bills you at the special price you have agreed upon; full-fills the order and sends it to your client. In most cases with labels referring to your business/website instead of the company.
In the next part of this article I will try to dispel some myths you may have heard about drop shipping.
Drop Shipping Myths
The drop shipping industry's most common myths discussed and dispelled.
For a lot of people, drop shipping can seem like a perfect solution to start an internet business. While drop shipping has its place in the world, there have been many myths associated with it.
Myths are propagated by people who think they understand something, but don't. You may have heard many things, both good and bad, about drop shipping. If you want to know the truth about something, you should go to somebody that actually works in the business. This is way preferable than someone who has little more than rumors and conjecture to pass on to you. Most of the time they know as little as you do. There are also may books you can learn the basics from such as the one above by Benjamin L. Donohue.
As I said its always best to go to people who have had several years experience working in the drop shipping industry. Here are some of the common myths that you may have heard associated with drop shipping and drop shippers.
Myth #1: Drop Shipping Means Big Money For Little Work
Running a business is a lot of work! Sure drop shipping saves you from warehousing, inventorying, and packaging and shipping items. But in the end, you've still got a retail business to run. Furthermore, profit margins are thinner because the drop ship supplier takes on much of the risk involved with warehousing the products.
Myth #2: All Drop Shippers Will Be Happy And Willing To Work With You
Some drop shippers will work with anybody. Those drop shippers will typically have a fee associated with them. Their wholesale price may not be so good either. Other drop shippers have minimum requirements. For example, you may be expected to have several thousand orders per month.
Some drop shippers will even charge you a non-refundable application fee. If they decide you're not big enough to work with them, you lose your application fee.
Of the more than 50 suppliers Doba works with, several have application fees. A few have monthly fees, and several more only agreed to drop ship if you promise them high volume. On the other hand, and fortunately, Doba does not pass along any application or monthly fees, and you never have minimum requirements.
Myth #3: It's Impossible To Make Money With Drop Shippers
It is true that your profit margins will be thinner, but some of the internet's largest retailers use drop shippers exclusively as their product suppliers. Think about it. If they weren't making money, then they wouldn't be some of the largest retailers on the internet.
Something that new entrepreneurs often fail to understand is that pricing is only one small part of business. If your focus is exclusively on price, then your business will never succeed. This is because you'll be completely ignoring the many other parts of business that are required to succeed.
For example: A product sold in a very competitive market. The product has an average 10-15% return rate, and the mean price is $19.95. The product sells for $33 and has a return rate of 5%. The website owners site also has a conversion rate about 2-3 times of their competitors.
Why were they able to sell the product for 65% more than their competitors, maintain a higher conversion rate, and yet still experience far fewer returns? Very simple, they chose to focus on all aspects of their business, rather than just one or two like so many of their competitors were doing.
Myth #4: Drop Shipping Is The Magic Solution
Drop shipping is a specific service that fills a specific need. It is not a cure-all solution for business. Before jumping in, you should be sure that your business will benefit from drop shipping, and you should have a well laid out plan for making that happen.
Like all things, there are pros and cons to drop shipping. Make sure you understand how drop shipping will affect your business so your business doesn't end up a myth itself.
Now lets finish this article with some words on Backorders and how to minimize them.
Drop Ship Tips: Minimizing Backorders
Some top tips for minimizing backorders in your drop shipping business.
When drop shipping, you lose some control over inventory levels, leaving it in the hands of your supplier. This increases the potential that a backorder situation can occur without your knowledge.
The truth is, there is no way to guarantee that an item will be in stock. This is a simple fact of drop shipping. Its also best if you keep in mind that golden rule of commerce in general. It all boils down to Supply and Demand.
Getting back to inventory and loss of control. It is a trade off, but one that is well worth the benefits. Once you've learned how to reduce the possibility of a backorder the benefits of drop shipping become even greater. Here are some top tips for minimizing backorders with your drop ship business.
Monitor Quantities On Hand (QOH)
The most obvious thing you can do to protect yourself from backorders is to closely monitor quantities. Doba provides a data export tool that can help you monitor supplier inventories. If you are able, monitor quantity trends before listing an item in an auction.
If selling items at an online auction, you'll typically want to list only items that have a large number of items in stock. However, if you have monitored quantities before hand and notice a product isn't "flying off the shelves", you may be comfortable selling items that have a lower number of items in stock.
Run Shorter Auctions
For example you could run a three day auction on eBay. The faster the auction got over with, the sooner you can drop ship the item to the customer, and the less you would have to worry about it. You could be a little worried about losing potential business from having a shorter auction because listings typically get the most views and bids in the last 24 hours anyway.
Cancel The Auction If The QOH Reaches Zero
Along with monitoring QOH's before listing an item, you'll want to continue monitoring quantities throughout the auction. If you notice quantities dropping each day, you'll want to keep an even closer eye on it.
You can't drop ship an item that isn't there. If the quantity ever reaches zero, go into your auction right away and end it early.
Drop Ship An Item To Yourself To "Pad" Your Inventory
Shipping a few items to yourself to pad your inventory is perhaps the most effective fail-safe to prevent backorders from having a negative impact. This is particularly advisable for items that are regular sellers for you.
Usually, you'll only need to keep one or two items in your personal inventory. This is true even if you typically have several auctions with the same item running simultaneously.
If an item goes out of stock, you'll always have the one or two items on hand that you can ship out. You should still have time to go through and end all your other auctions early until the item comes back into stock.
Ok folks that's all I have to say about drop shipping. By all means feel free to do your own research on the subject but I have researched it quite thoroughly myself. Follow these basic rules, tips and advice I've given you and you wont go far wrong.
If you can spare a couple of minutes then please also feel free to leave a comment below.
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While considering how to spend down their reserve fund, school district officials should keep local taxpayers in mind.
The Lawrence school district recently received a financial surprise.
The district dutifully had been contributing to a contingency fund — think of it as a savings account — in hopes of softening the impact of future state cuts in school aid. Local school officials had built up a stack of dollars — about six million of them.
Now, however, the district's been reminded by the state that there was a limit to how long they could hold onto at least some of that money. Facing a deadline to pare that savings account, school officials must find ways to spend $3 million during the next 12 months.
It wouldn't be prudent for the money to be used to finance ongoing costs. So, for example, it wouldn't make sense to devote the money to raises.
There are, however, lots of good ideas being suggested. Give teachers a one-time bonus. Purchase large volumes of supplies, from canned tomatoes to copy paper. Rehire staffers for a year who had been laid off. Buy textbooks, computers, upgrade equipment. And catch up on some deferred building maintenance.
Maybe the district could add one more item to that list for consideration: property tax relief. After all, it's taxpayers' money that is in that contingency fund, and there's no doubt that many property taxpayers in the Lawrence school district are suffering themselves, from job cuts, salary cuts and higher prices. It would be only a temporary cut, but that's OK.
So as school board members and district administrators ponder how to spend their nest egg during the next year, giving taxpayers a little break would be at least worth considering.


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MSB's fees are divided into school (tuition) fees and optional school bus and lunch fees. Please see each section below for further information.
All fees must be paid in RMB*. Payment may be made by cash, card or bank transfer.
1. Card Payments: MSB accepts the following:
- Union Pay debit cards.
Please be advised that transactions will incur a service charge of RMB 20 per use.
- Union Pay credit card (Chinese Visa or Mastercard must also include the Union Pay logo).
Please be advised, according to bank policies, a service fee of 0.6% will be charged per transaction.
2. Bank Transfers:
All payments must include the student's name and invoice number in the payment instructions in order to facilitate credit to the correct account.
- Domestic bank transfers must be made using the School's Chinese Information shown below (school name, bank name, bank branch and address).
- International bank transfers must be made using the School's full English legal name: The International Montessori School of Beijing.
*Wire transfers in a foreign currency are permitted; however, the funds must be credited to the school's account in RMB. Payment must be made according to the prevailing exchange rate approved by the Bank of China to avoid discrepancies between the invoice and the amount credited to the school's account.
2. 银行转账:所有付款必须在付款用途(交易附言)中注明学生姓名及发票号码以便我们记入正确的学生账户。
-国际汇款,请务必使用学校的英文全称:The International Montessori School of Beijing
* 学校接受外币银行转账,但以入账时的人民币为准。付款必须根据中国银行的实时汇率进行,以避免入账金额和发票金额有差异。
Beneficiary收款方: The International Montessori School of Beijing
Bank Name银行名称: China Merchants Bank Beijing Branch, Dawanglu Sub-Branch
Bank Address银行地址: 1F, No.3 Building No.15 Xidawang Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing Beijing
Account Number账号: 110913419810201
Swift CodeSwift码: CMBCCNBS
Payment Instructions: Please include invoice number and student's name
付款用途: 账单号及学生名字
1. Tuition, lunch and bus fees for students who enrol after the start of the school year will be billed on a pro-rated basis. 在学年中入学的学生,其学费、午餐费及校车费将按比例收取。2. Tuition fees are mostly inclusive and cover: Specialised Language support for both Chinese and English, all learning materials, a school bag, PE uniforms, as well as field trips (including the Grade 5 & 6 overnight field trip.学费主要涵盖:中文及英文课内辅导、全部的学习资料、一个书包、运动服以及学校组织的校外活动的费用(包括小学5、6年级需要外宿的活动)。3. Additional support, which is deemed by the Academic Team to be in excess of our teachers' range of support and resources, such as intensive English language instruction (AEP) and Learning Support (LS), is not included in the above tuition fees. An additional fee will be assessed based on the student's individual needs to access the curriculum.以上所提及的学费不包括教学团队认定为正常课程以外的辅导,如英文基础强化课程(AEP)、特殊学习辅导课程(LS)等。这些额外课程的费用会根据学生的具体评估结果而定。4. A refundable ¥20,000 Placement Deposit payment is required when a child enrolls at MSB. Please see below for refund terms and conditions.每位被MSB录取的学生需缴纳人民币20,000元学位保证金,该保证金是可退还的。请参照以下的退费条款。5. Families opting to pay by instalments must complete and sign an Application for Payment by Instalments form by 31 March 2017.申请分期付款的家庭须在2017年3月31日前签署分期付款申请。
A non-refundable and non-transferable application fee of ¥2,500 must accompany each application. An application will not be considered until the application fee is received.报名费2,500元须在报名被接受前缴纳完毕,该费用不可退还,不可转让。
MSB requires a ¥20,000 Placement Deposit per child. This is a one-time, non-interest bearing security deposit, held by the school for the entire duration of the student's enrolment. It is required to secure an applicant's place at MSB.
Once a student leaves MSB, the Placement Deposit will be refunded in accordance with MSB's Withdrawal and Refund policy (see below), following the deduction of any amount owed to the school. This includes any outstanding tuition, lunch and bus fees, as well as any unreturned school materials.
Please note: In accordance with government regulations, MSB cannot issue an official fapiao because the Placement Deposit is a refundable payment. The school will issue a Placement Deposit receipt, which must be returned before a refund can be issued. This is to ensure that the Placement Deposit is returned to the proper party.
Additional support programmes such as the Accelerated English Programme (AEP) and Learning Support (LS) are not included in the annual tuition fees. Enrolment in MSB's additional support programmes is based on the student's assessments and is mandatory for the student to successfully meet the demands of the curriculum.
MSB reserves the right to withdraw a student if parents refuse the recommended additional support.
Reception and Elementary students who are assessed and found to have little or no English language skills may require daily support in order to build the language skills they need to function in their classroom and communicate with their peers. These students will be required to enroll into the Accelerated English Programme (AEP).The AEP Programme is provided at an additional fee of ¥10,000 per school year. MSB reserves the right to withdraw a student if parents refuse the recommended additional support. 学前班和小学的学生若没有英语基础或基础薄弱的,将需要每天进行英语辅导以使他们能够完成课堂学习或与同学交流。我们要求这样的学生参加AEP课程。AEP课程费用为10,000元/学年。如学生家长拒绝学生参加额外的辅导课程,MSB保留要求该学生退学的权利。
In the event that the school deems a child in need of additional assistance, MSB will work with the parents to provide the best care and support for their child. Additional needs include, but are not limited to: regular learning support, speech therapy, psycho-educational evaluation, a full-time shadow, etc.During the admission process, students with learning difficulties are evaluated on an individual basis to determine if the school can provide for their needs. MSB requires applicants with previously identified learning needs to provide past school records, evaluations and accurate information of multi-disciplinary services in use.For those students who are admitted with learning support needs, a fee will be levied to cover all additional manpower costs. Should the parents of a child in need of any additional assistance refuse to agree to MSB's plan for support, the school reserves the right to withdraw the child from school.如果学校发现某个孩子需要额外的特殊学习辅导,MSB将会和家长一起为孩子提供最好的关心和帮助。额外的特殊辅导包括,但不限于:有规律的特殊学习辅导,语言障碍矫正,心理教育评价,全职的辅导老师,额外的英语补习等。在招生过程中,有学习困难的学生会进行单独评估,以便学校确定是否能提供帮助。MSB要求已发现学习有困难的报名学生提供过往的学校记录、评估以及在使用的多学科服务的准确信息。对于确认需要接受特殊学习辅导的学生,学校将会收取一定的费用。如果家长拒绝支付相关费用,MSB保留要求该学生退学的权利。
Students participating in sporting events representing MSB may be required to contribute to transportation and tournament participation fees.对于代表MSB去参加体育赛事的学生,学校有可能会要求其支付相应的交通费及活动报名费。
Tuition fees are due on 26 May 2017, or by the date specified on the invoice. Payments are on an annual basis; a surcharge will be incurred for those opting to pay in installments. Parents who pay their children's tuition fee themselves and have 3 or more children enrolled at MSB will receive a 5% discount on tuition fees for each child.
Bus and lunch fees are due by the date stated on the invoice. 餐费和校车费请根据账单上标注的日期安排付款。
All additional fees (including, but not limited to: AEP and LS) must be paid by the date specified on the invoice. MSB reserves the right to withdraw a student if additional support fees are not paid. 所有的额外费用(包括,但不限于:AEP,LS)必须按照账单上标注的日期安排付款。如未能按时支付额外的费用,MSB保留要求该学生退学的权利。
No child will be allowed to attend class until his/her tuition has been paid. Furthermore, no child will be allowed to take the school bus and/or consume a school lunch if payment has not been made. An additional charge of 2% per month, compounded monthly, will be assessed on any overdue school fees. 学费支付完毕后学生方可开始上课,同理,申请坐校车和/或选择学校午餐的学生,也需在费用支付后方可享受相应的服务。对于过期款,学校将按照每月2%,复利计算滞纳金。
All tuition, lunch and bus fees must be paid in RMB*. Payment may be made by cash, card or bank transfer. Card Payments: MSB accepts the following: • Union Pay debit cards. Please be advised that transactions will incur a service charge of RMB 20 per use. • Chinese Visa or Mastercard (which must also include the Union Pay logo). Please be advised, according to bank policies, a service fee of 0.6% will be charged per transaction.Bank Transfers: All payments must include the student's name and invoice number in the payment instructions in order to facilitate credit to the correct account. Important: • Domestic bank transfers must be made using the School's Chinese Information shown below (school name, bank name, bank branch and address).• International bank transfers must be made using the School's full legal name: The International Montessori School of Beijing.*Wire transfers in a foreign currency are permitted; however, the funds must be credited to the school's account in RMB. Payment must be made according to the prevailing exchange rate approved by the Bank of China to avoid discrepancies between the invoice and the amount credited to the school's account.所有的学费、餐费及校车费须以人民币*支付。付款可以以现金、刷卡或银行转账的方式完成。刷卡付款:MSB可接受以下方式: • 银联借记卡 如使用刷卡支付,每笔业务需支付手续费人民币20元。 •中国发行的Visa卡或万事达卡(信用卡也须有银联标志) 如使用刷卡支付,每笔业务需支付0.6%的手续费。银行转账:所有付款必须包括学生姓名及发票号码以便我们记入正确的学生账户。重要提示:• 国内网银转账请使用学校的中文信息(包括学校名称,银行名称及地址)• 国际汇款,请务必使用学校的英文全称:The International Montessori School of Beijing*学校接受外币银行转账,但以入账时的人民币为准。请根据中国银行的实时汇率安排付款以避免付款差异。
MSB must receive written notice of a student's withdrawal from school. MSB须接到书面的退学申请
Tuition fee refunds will be calculated on a term-basis according to the withdrawal notification deadlines outlined in the table below. No refund or partial refunds will be issued for any term in which the student was in attendance. Autumn term tuition fees are not refundable after 26 May 2017. No tuition refunds will be issued after 1 December 2017.The Placement Deposit will be refunded based on the withdrawal deadlines below. A full refund will only be issued if there are no outstanding tuition, lunch, bus and school material fees.学费将根据以下接到退学申请的时间表按学期计算退还金额。对于学生已经就读的学期,学费将不予返还。秋季学期的学费在2017年5月26日以后不予退还。2017年12月1日后任何学费将不予退还。学位保证金将根据以下接到退学申请的时间表进行处理。并且在所有费用,包括学费、餐费、校车费及其他费用全部付清的前提下,学位保证金才可全额退还。
One month's written notice is required for cancellation of bus and lunch fees. Bus and lunch fees will be refunded on a pro-rated basis.取消校车或学校午餐需提前一个月提交书面申请。校车费及餐费将按比例进行退还。
Additional Support Programme fees (such as AEP, or LS) for students who withdraw from MSB will be refunded in accordance with the Withdrawal and Refund schedule below. Refunds will be issued at the end of the academic year.对于申请退学的学生,额外支付费用(例如AEP, LS)的退还将依据退学退费条款。退款将在学期末时支付。
1 For annual tuition payment only. Does not apply to payment by instalments. 仅限于学费年付方式,不适用于分期付款方式。 2 The Placement Deposit will be refunded in full only if all outstanding tuition, bus, lunch, after school activity and school material fees have been paid. 在所有费用,包括学费、餐费、校车费及其他费用全部付清的前提下,学位保证金才可全额退还


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Yesterday was day one.. and it was fab..
Amongst other
appointments and presentations..That I will be posting throughout out this and next week.. Trust that you guys and gals are going to take this journey with me. I thought I would give you a bit of the BCBG Runway experience.
But first.. Check out myself, Grasie Mercedes, Sazan Barzani & Jenny Wu leaving the show.. on the cover of WWD.
Here are my favorite looks from BCBG...


text: I have very strong feelings about politics. I like to think that I am an educated person and that I make balanced decisions. When I was younger, I felt comfortable talking about my beliefs, and even debating in the spirit of keeping an open mind. In my opinion, those days are gone for now. I hope that they will return. I think that for now, my opinion matters in the ballot box, in my donations, and in my charitable donations/public service. I feel that there is a lot of hyperbolic meanness surrounding politics in the past 15 - 20 years. When I hear or see this type of stuff, I generally do my best to ignore it, and consider the source. I may have written about this neighbor the last election period. We are part of a neighborhood watch, and I am in charge of the telephone/e-mail tree. She's a serial e-mail forwarder. She never writes anything herself, it's always something forwarded, and often supportive of the polar opposite of my religious or political view. I've mentioned it to her personally, to no avail. I usually delete whatever she sends, but feel that I can't tell her that I have a different e-mail address because everyone else on the block - neighborhood watch list - uses my real e-mail. I can't really block her for safety reasons. If something were to be going on in her end of the block, since I am the watch captain, I need to know. Yesterday morning I got into my e-mail to find the usual 5 forwarded messages from D. Once in a great while they're funny, so since they open up as I delete them I generally look at the first sentence. One of the notes she sent yesterday was absolutely the most racist ignorant religiously bigoted sexist idiotic things I had ever seen. I would call it hate mail. I wrote back and said "D- I haven't made up my mind yet, but I do know I am not voting for X (the one she supports)." She wrote back "Well, none of them are worth voting for." Huh? Then why slander the one? Since I really have no workable option to block her, I decided to do my best to tell her to leave me off of her forwarding list without offending her. I'm not in a position to offend her without causing conflict for a lot of other people as collateral damage. This is what I wrote to her. Is it snotty? I always worry when I write things that aren't what people might want to hear, I'll come across as aggressive. I don't think I was, but I'd like your opinions as to the tone of the letter. I am comfortable with that I am not lying to her about or blocking her from my e-mail, so if you disagree with that, I don't need to know. D~ I do wish that the choices were different, but they are what they are and one of them will be our President. That being said, I think that you and I have different opinions on what we would like to see happen. I have pretty strong opinions about the country's current politics and about religious freedoms. Once I get started I can be pretty blunt, so I make a point of not sending out those types of e-mails, and I try very hard to not respond to them. I prefer to let my ballot and campaign contributions do the talking. Otherwise, I would probably offend people when that's really not necessary or productive. I would be much more comfortable if you didn't include me in these types of mailings. I hope you will understand. husband and I are going to Mexico beginning Monday and returning late on the 7th of April. K and R will be watching the dogs, and I may have a friend staying at the house. If Ms. M does stay, there will be a green Subaru Outback around. Otherwise, no "moving sales" or "taking things to the dump for husband and Witzend" if you know what I mean! Have a great Easter! Witzend That's not rude, is it? Just doing my best to set the rules, right?


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2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
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There is a tremendous amount of controversy in the news today about the recent Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill. On April 20th 2010 a catastrophic explosion aboard an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico injured 17 people and left 11 people missing, which were later pronounced dead. There were a total of 126 people on board the working vessel that day. The remaining 98 people were taken ashore with no major injuries, according to a local coastguard. The Gulf oil spill has been declared the biggest in United States history as of May 2010. We have learned from passed oil spills, such as the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, that many things will be affected by this catastrophe. Things such as, the cost of gas along with unemployment rates will soar in the upcoming months, not to mention how extremely damaging to the environment all this oil can become. People fear that the price at the pump will soon go up this summer season because of the upcoming holidays and the recent Gulf of Mexico oil spill. However, according to the recent national average price of regular unleaded gasoline is selling for eight cents less than a week ago and 12 cents down from a month ago; all in accordance with May 28th 2010 (CNN2010). It is amazing after the oil spill the price of went down $15; costing only $74 per barrel. As long as the oil price-drop stands, consumers will continue to see a drop in gasoline prices. In 1989, an oil spill known as the Exxon Valdez, leaked 11 million gallons of oil into the Alaska's Prince William Sound.(Home to most Alaska native villages of Chenega and Tatitlek) This particular oil spill, up until recently, was classified as the worst environmental disaster of all-time in the United States. The Valdez oil spill had very little impact on the price of oil and gas. There is currently enough supply to meet the demand, thus helping to keep the prices regulated and under control. An energy analyst, Alan Lammey, said the recent Gulf oil spill will have hardly any impact on how much drivers pay for gasoline at the pumps. These low gas prices will ultimately result in an economy boost for the United States. When people are saving money on gas, they can consume other items in the economy; such as vacations, dinning out, and many more costly things.
The Gulf of Mexico oil spill has forced many people to be out of work. Fisherman of all types and tourism have been affected the most in the Gulf States because of the unstopped, massive oil leak, which has dumped at least 21,000 gallons of crude oil into the Gulf and is still flowing at a rate of still about 80 to 400 gallons a day. The National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration (NOAA) have closed a wide area of the Gulf of Mexico from fishing. The closed area represents nearly 54,096 square miles, which that in fact is more than 22% of the Gulf's Federal Waters (Shorelines of Alabama, eastern Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas). This means that there is still 77% of the waters are still available for fishing. The NOAA has forbidden fishing to ensure that there are no outbreaks or poisonings happening in the waters due to the chemicals from the oil spill and the clean-up efforts. This is a good deed the NOAA is doing for the health of the people; however, is it actually helping the people who live in the Gulf States, by keeping them from work. In 2008 the Atlanta Federal Reserve, (Which is responsible for the sixth district, covering the states of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia, 74 counties in the two-thirds of Tennessee, 38 parishes of southern Louisiana and 43 counties in southern Mississippi) estimate that there are 2.8 million jobs...
References: Achenbach, J. (2010, May 5). After gulf oil spill []. Message posted to
An Economy on Pause in the Gulf. New York Times, p. 7. Retrieved from Academic Search Complete database. (2010, May 16).
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Delightfully Vintage, Just For You!
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Our Service PledgeI respond to all orders within 24 hours, unless I have placed a banner on my page indicating my absence.
About UsMy shop, DISTANT DETAILS, has been in business on the internet since 1997, and has been on Ruby Lane since 2010. Since retiring from a more-than-full-time career in 2015, I devote all my time to giving you what you love from times gone past. Like most sellers, I started by collecting, then researching and studying, and now selling. I have recently expanded my vintage jewelry business to include ladies accessories, clothing, and a few other special items. I offer you these artistic beauties, at great prices, for your own proud wearing or collecting. My shop carries a variety of pieces, from different designers and eras. Your satisfaction is my goal, and I will always work with you to assure your complete satisfaction. I hope you will visit, again and again, and will enjoy the DISTANT DETAILS of the past.
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We had originally planned on going to Yangmingshan after Beitou, but ended up visiting Yehliu instead.
To get to Yehliu, you would have to find the Taipei Bus Station A, which is bounded by the Taipei Railway Station on one side and K Mall/Shinkong Mitsukoshi on the other. You would be able to recognise the place by the open air bus interchange. A return ticket costs NT89 and will take about 80 minutes each way. The bus will make a couple of stops along the way, one being near Zhongxiao Fuxing Station Exit 2 near Omega (opposite Sogo). Expect traffic jams just before the highway.
The bus driver we encountered was terribly unfriendly, but it's wise to let him know that you'll be alighting at Yehliu, which is the stop in the picture below.
Upon turning left, you will have to walk for about 10 minutes, past the marina, a temple, and some shops, before arriving at the entrance to the Geopark.
The entrance fee is a reasonable NT50 and the park closes at 5pm. By the time you make your way out, the sun would have already set.
Wonderful coastal views.
I couldn't help taking a picture of this middle-aged lady doing a 70's beach pose for her husband. I was amused at her lack of inhibition.
The star attraction would be the Queen's Head rock formation, but there are numerous other beautifully eroded formations to marvel at.
People queueing up for a picture with the Queen's Head.
Foot imprint with algae.
Pig's snout?
Dragon's Head
Does this look like a gigantic shoe to you?
The Arch Rock.
There are numerous other rock formations that resemble animals and plants, but I'll let you enjoy exploring the place on your own.
We arrived close to 4pm that day, and had about an hour to explore the area, which isn't that big anyway. I would suggest you give yourself at least 2 hours to fully explore and soak in the wonderful atmosphere.
We passed by this wooden gate lookalike on our way out. Somehow it felt eerily like a cemetery.
As you exit the park, you would have to walk through a market selling lots of yummy dried cuttlefish snacks.
The Geopark reminds me of an amusement park. It was a little childish, yet at the same time, interesting and entertaining. I notice that opinions on Yehliu vary greatly and I liked the place better than the boy did.
Taipei: Beitou Hot Springs (北投溫泉)
Getting from the Airport to the Town Centre
Airport Bus
A review of the reasonably priced City Inn Hotel
Great Yakiniku Dinner Wine and Dine
Best Fruit Smoothie at Agnes B Cafe
Dining Cute @ Hello Kitty Cafe
Best Breakfast @ New York Bagels
Best Spaghetti and Fruits Tea @ Afternoon Tea Cafe
Ice Cream Toast @ Dazzling Cafe, opened by a socialite
Best Mala Hotpot Supper @ Ximending
Night Markets
Shida Night Market
Shilin Night Market
Raohe Night Market
Jianguo Flower and Jade Market
Shopping Malls & Bookstores
Eslite, Shinkong Mitsukoshi
Main Attractions - Places that you can't miss
Danshuei Old Street: Eat while you walk
Jiufen: Traditional Alley
Shifen: Lighting A Wish Lantern
Beitou Hot Springs: Soak your troubles away
Yehliu Geopark: Amazing Rock Formations by the Sea


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For my dear followers from outland......
Maybe you do not know her personally but she is a 29 year old young mother of a 3 years old boy and patient of leukemia (blood cancer). Today, she had to start chemotherapy at 9 Eylul University Hospital in Izmir, Turkey. (Dokuz Eylül University Hospital-IZMIR. Hematology Service, Oncology Storey 1, Room no: 4865)
The type of her Leukemia is AML M5 (Acute myoloblast leukemia)
She had stem cell therapy before but there has been a metastases. That is why she needs marrow transplant. Her family and friends are in a search for the right match of marrow from donor pools in Turkey.
The chance of a match from close relatives is 1% , from donor pool is 1/40.000. Unfortunately, in Turkey there are only 2 pools of blood in Istanbul and Ankara and in Istanbul there are only 27.000 donors.
All you have to do is to go to your nearest health care office and ask for blood donation to be able to be a bone marrow donor.
http://atakan310309.wordpress.com/She had her own blog where she shared her feelings, life and everything
http://www.gamzeakbas.blogspot.com/She reads the blog built up for her
She reads all messages sent to email@example.com personally. It would be very kind of you to encourage her along the struggling path she is on.
Please share this information as much as you can and try to explain the importance of the situation to as many people as you can.
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JUST AS the emergence of the Tea Party has remade conservative politics in the last two years, the Occupy Boston protests in Dewey Square, near the local headquarters of the Federal Reserve Bank, signals the beginning of a corresponding movement on the left. More importantly, it will show that dissatisfaction with the economy, and the role of elites in causing it, is not a left-right, Democratic-Republican issue. It's about creating an economy that's fair and raises all boats equally.
The original Tea Party events gave voice to grass-roots conservatives who are more skeptical of Wall Street and government spending than the Republican establishment. By the same token, the Occupy Boston protests, and their Occupy Wall Street counterparts in New York, reflect a sense of outrage that Washington - including President Obama and congressional Democrats - has been too conciliatory toward big-money interests.
The bulk of Occupy Boston protesters appear to have a focused set of complaints: that the financial-services industry bears a disproportionate share of the blame for the nation's woes; that despite being bailed out by taxpayers the industry has fended off many efforts at tougher regulation; that inequality is growing between the wealthiest Americans and everyone else; and that for most Americans, even the most reliable method of gaining economic security - pursuing an education - can leave behind huge debts and, at the moment, limited employment prospects.
In free-speech bastions like Cambridge and Boston, it's easy to overlook public protests as part of the scenery. A decade ago, protesters gathered at international trade meetings under the banner of the "anti-globalization movement,'' but in practice seemed to be espousing a bewildering variety of goals, from legalizing marijuana to freeing prison inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal. A few over-the-top slogans touted by this weekend's protesters - "capitalism is organized crime,'' for instance - and a YouTube endorsement from Noam Chomsky suggested a kinship to those earlier protests.
But the anti-Wall Street protesters seem aware of the dangers of a diffuse message, and are scrambling to unify behind a few concrete proposals. It's the best way to start the conversation that they feel is lacking in the halls of power. The quality of their proposals and the clarity of their message will determine how effective they'll be.
Already, the Occupy Boston and Occupy Wall Street protests have succeeded in calling the bluff of a Tea Party movement that formed in reaction to financial bailouts - but has supported lawmakers who've resisted tougher government scrutiny of Wall Street.
Now, as both major parties gear up for an election campaign that promises to involve hundreds of millions of dollars donated by special interests, the emergence of Occupy Boston offers a reminder that President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner do not define the edges of the political spectrum of the United States. Even if the current protests wane, they underscore the need to bring more voices into the discussion.


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Ben Batt
Despite the Falling SnowHD
IMDb: 5.6
1h 33min
In 1950s Moscow, communist Katya secretly spies for the Americans in the Cold War arms race. When she lands her biggest assignment, stealing secrets from ...
Actor: Rebecca Ferguson, Charles Dance, Antje Traue, Thure Lindhardt, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Anthony Head, Amy Nuttall, Sam Reid, Ben Batt, Anne Kidd, Milos Timotijevic, Branislav Tomasevic, Ana Sofrenovic, Peter J. Chaffey, Tamara Krcunovic
The Windmill MassacreSD
IMDb: 5.4
1h 25min
Jennifer is an Australian girl on the run from her past who washes up in Amsterdam. In a desperate attempt to stay one step ahead ...
Country: Netherlands
Actor: Noah Taylor, Charlotte Beaumont, Patrick Baladi, Ben Batt, Fiona Hampton, Adam Thomas Wright, Tanroh Ishida, Bart Klever, Kenan Raven, Donnya Zidan
The WindmillHD
IMDb: 4.9
85 min
Jennifer is an Australian girl on the run from her past who washes up in Amsterdam. In a desperate attempt to stay one step ahead ...
Country: Netherlands
Actor: Patrick Baladi, Ben Batt, Charlotte Beaumont, Fiona Hampton, Tanroh Ishida, Bart Klever, Kenan Raven, Noah Taylor, Adam Thomas Wright, Derek Howard, Mattijn Hartemink, Edo Brunner, Stijn Westenend, Liz Vergeer, Ties Jaspers
In the Dark - S01Eps4
IMDb: 6.3
As she grapples with pregnancy D.I. Helen Weeks must return to the hometown she loathes to help her childhood best friend, who finds herself at ...
Country: UK
Actor: Ben Batt, MyAnna Buring, Matt King, David Leon, Georgia Moffett, Jamie Sives, Pearce Quigley, Stewart Scudamore, Annabel Tiffin, Clive Wood, Louise Delamere, Chris Abe, Liam Ainsworth, Fisayo Akinade, Thomas Aldersley, Joey Batey, Jordan Bolger, Alison Burrows, Chris Clarkson, Claire Cornmell, Adam Fielding, Brian Fletcher, Eleni Foskett, Shari Fox, Emma Fryer, Jessica Gunning, Michael Lambourne, Shaun Maddocks, Tim McInnerny, Claudia Mirallegro, Robert Morgan, Johann Myers, Kieran O'Brien, Rachel Priest, David Prosho, Eve Robertson, Daniel Scott, Mark Sheals, Kevin Sutton, Leah Walker, Everal Walsh, Ashley Walters, Craig Whittaker
IMDb: 5.5
90 min
1990. The rave scene has arrived from Ibiza and warehouse parties are exploding across the UK bringing phenomenal wealth to the organisers. In Manchester, best ...
Country: UK
Actor: Jack O'Connell, Zawe Ashton, Sam Hazeldine, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Ben Batt, Stephen Wight, Emily Barclay, Dean Andrews, Tom Meeten, Perry Fitzpatrick, Richard Riddell, Iain McKee, Lara Goodison, Ali Craig, Lee Asquith-Coe


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Tuesday night I drive from my parents through the winding, rural roads. Back home. And it seems like every bird that ever flew an Ontario sky is heading out during that drive. It was coming on eight o'clock and the sun was beginning to set. Made me weep openly to see them all. He was asleep in the car seat in back. Just turned four months old last Sunday. The drive makes me recall the night my twin sister drove us home from the hospital after the week that seemed like a year in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
Home. Migration always makes me wonder: are they going home or leaving home? I like to think that the birds I'm watching take flight are leaving home. That this part of Southwestern Ontario is where they call Home. I take comfort in the knowledge that they'll come back.
I love the way Canadian Geese line up in their own personal arrow formations, their wings in wondrous, dark contrast to the pink that kisses the few, scattered clouds. It makes me turn off the iPod in my Subaru and roll down the window to hear them. Among my favourite sounds. And one of my cherished sights is the way starlings all swoop together as they leave. A group ahead of me takes the shape of a fish and floats over the cornfields that dip off to my right. All in perfect unison. Like synchronized swimmers. Diving and surfacing together. How do they do that? Kind of mesmerizing. Bad for driving.
When I was pregnant with him, I caught this astounding documentary at the Princess Cinema in Waterloo called Winged Migration. It was right around the time I'd begun to feel my own first flutterings of him and pretty breathtaking to witness. Birds seem to have some tie to my little man. Starting with that robin's nest above the side door of my farmhouse to the little mobile of three woolen owls who hover over his crib, representing the spirits of the siblings he might have had, the babies I miscarried in 1998, 2003 and last September, his own fraternal twin. They watch over him. It was an owl's "who-hoo-hoo-hooooo-hooooo" which greeted me my very first night in this farmhouse, just outside my bedroom window. In Celtic mythology, birds are considered messengers. It's very important to listen to what they're trying to tell you. Like that bird who guides the children in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe through the forest to the safety of Mr. Tumnus' home.
The pines behind my home stretch up into the darkening sky and I bring him out onto the back deck. The constant, clamouring chatter of starlings surrounds us. I smile down at him in his seat and his hair captures a glint of sunset as my clap shocks the starlings into flight, halting their song; they simultaneously take wing together, dipping and darting across the back field, leaving my home. And theirs.
This month, I am heavy in preparation for selling this farmhouse. We stayed at my parents the past week so the rooms could be painted with soft, muted colours. Names like Earth Smoke, Smoked Trout, Soft Earth, Manitou, Tent, Tofino. We will be leaving this place. His first real home, and mine. I bite my lip. I've no idea if she will even sell before the snow flies. If not, I'll batten down the hatches and hibernate one more winter here and hope to move come spring. I've been here nine years and maybe it's time now. I admit the care of these 1.3 acres on my own for almost three years has been a bit of a challenge and will only prove moreso as he grows and demands more and more of my time and attention (though he gets pretty much all of it already). He needs, I think, a town versus this remote spot. I hate leaving here. It's one of a number of things breaking my heart right now. But I know a move will be better for him. I hope it will be better for me. Either way, it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make. What's that saying? A rich child sits in a poor mother's lap. Realistically, I know we will both benefit from moving to an actual neighbourhood. With a shorter driveway. Better resources. With other children. Other families. Other parents. Other single parents, perhaps! I look forward to the idea of bicycling or walking to work. The main country road into town can get a bit dicey come the winter time. Life has brought so many changes since deciding to leave my common-law marriage almost three years ago now. And change is good, I remind myself. He is here with me now. It's a good time for this particular change to come...
But I will miss all these birds taking wing across the farmfields. The robins nesting in my doorway and blue spruce. The killdeer in my driveway. The starlings. Barn swallows. The blue herons flying with their long legs outstretched behind them over the back creek. Their nests on the third line way, high up in the trees. The hummingbirds at my front window and backgarden. That hawk my eyes always seek in one, special tree during my morning and evening commute each winter. The Canadian geese who land each Spring when the back field floods. One year, a few years back, a lone, white swan joined them there. When I was a little girl, I would read and re-read E.B. White's Trumpeter Swan. These days, I am re-savouring his (and Strunk's) The Elements of Style while attempting query letters to various editors of magazines. Another book on birds comes to mind: Too Many Blackbirds by my old American Lit professor, Dr. Ken Ledbetter. He died much too young back in 1993. A favourite memory is of his class the morning he informed everyone how to properly address a ghost upon encountering one. You must first ask politely, "Are you a good ghost or a bad ghost?" This proved helpful advice here in this farmhouse built in 1848. It is not without its own many and varied spirits.
I know the very cherished memories I will hold, from the cedar hedges to the smell of the woodstove, the sight of a 160-year old apple tree in blossom, the witnessing of the Aurora Borealis while standing in my front yard to the shooting stars of the Perseids each August seated on a Muskoka Chair out back: such rich and vibrant images will stay with me all my days once I leave here. That will be some good haunting.
I am writing this in the middle of the night. It's 3:30 a.m.. Stolen moments. Rising from my bed where I've just fed him, his arms are outstretched as though he is flying through his own dreams. I think about migration and about what makes a home. My own parents leaving their home in Ireland and emigrating to Canada. Myself making a new home with him somewhere else. Waterloo-Wellington County has been my home for so damn long, a large part of me wishes we were starting over somewhere farther away. Nunavut. Nova Scotia. New Zealand. There's a whole planet out there yet to discover together. But I know that this is home for me. The mennonite farms. All the local farm markets, small town and music festivals. And my own little sonshine. Whereever he is will define home for me.
For now, I watch the birds rise up to guide my way towards another beginning somewhere new and familiar at the same time. What comes to mind is my eldest sister's beautiful vinyl recording by Judy Collins of that old Sandy Denny song, Who Knows Where the Time Goes? It was composed the year I was born when she was only twenty. Wow. Forty-two years have come and gone. And these last nine years have flown themselves. The last four months especially. Did she ever get those lyrics right! They make me smile and tear up at the same time. But then, the Autumn, as it approaches this coming week, always makes me do that. It's my favourite time of year. And I cling to one, specific lyric that strengthens the journey I'm making and my own resolve: I have no fear of time.
Across the purple sky, all the birds are leaving
But how can they know it's time for them to go?
Before the winter fire, I will still be dreaming
I have no thought of time
For who knows where the time goes?
Who knows where the time goes?
Sad, deserted shore, your fickle friends are leaving
Ah, but then you know it's time for them to go
But I will still be here, I have no thought of leaving
I do not count the time
For who knows where the time goes?
Who knows where the time goes?
And I am not alone while my love is near me
I know it will be so until it's time to go
So come you storms of winter and then the birds in spring again
I have no fear of time
For who knows how my love grows?
And who knows where the time goes?
Music: Who Knows Where the Time Goes, Sandy Denny
Movie Irreview: The Fifth Element
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Note: Going to try and keep this as spoiler free as possible, but I really recommend seeing this if you have ANY interest before reading.
Having just recently gone back to view Ridley Scott's ALIEN I was even more excited to see his return to the same universe- which I don't care what anyone says, this is a return to THAT universe. To what extent? That's for an entirely different conversation. After all these years is Scott's return as glorious as so many people were hoping? I would say yes and no- mostly yes though.
To keep from giving too much away (not that the trailers haven't already done enough) I will just say that PROMETHEUS begins with the simple idea of two archeologists that want to know more about who is responsible for life on Earth- more so who created the human race. The rest of the film is them and a crew aboard the ship, Prometheus, trying to find exactly that. The only problem is that the answer they are looking for may not be exactly what they were hoping for.
I will start off by saying there are several aspects to PROMETHEUS that don't make a whole lot of sense to me. I am not willing to immediately write them off as critical flaws that undermine everything that is really good about it though. Instead I feel like what has happened is an ambitious script that tends to lose focus at times, so much so that some of its ideas get lost and do not end up paying off. The script I believe reaches farther than it needs to and the film ends up overflowing with ideas- most of which are interesting, which makes it that much more frustrating when we are left with so many questions. Then again, having questions isn't always a bad thing as it sparks many avenues for engaging conversations after audiences leave the theater.
The story itself isn't overly complicated- a bunch of people want to know where we came from and that's essentially the conflict from beginning to end. The problem is that the script feels like it gets ahead of itself by setting up all these different mysteries that I'm sure they plan on addressing in sequels based on how the film ends. Add a whole bunch of characters into the mix, some play bigger parts while others are just meat destined for the grinder and a slew of action mixed with breathtaking visual set pieces and the more frustrating aspects while still bothersome are more tolerable. The visuals are basically the equivalent to a gloriously effective pain killer for a massive hangover or some other debilitating injury.
The fact of the matter is that PROMETHEUS works in spite of its own flaws. What one perceives as flaw becomes merely a talking point once the film is brought up in conversation and because that, the film could technically be viewed as masterful. However, at risk of sounding too over anxious about my love of the film, there are nitpicks I have that dwindle my enjoyment. They are better served for a much deeper and spoiler filled conversation though.
PROMETHEUS is an absolutely gorgeous movie- though I screened it in 2D and cannot comment on how or bad the 3D version is. The scenery is breathtaking as is the CGI which at times blends so magnificently with everything else that at times it looks as close to photo realistic as we've seen in some time. Even the more horrific moments have this disturbing beauty to them that makes the images stick in your head long after the film ends- one scene in particular involves a callback to a previous set up and features an impromptu surgery. The quality of the visuals begins right from the get go with sweeping shots of truly remarkable landscapes and only get better once the crew lands on the foreign planet and encounter a phenomena that mirrors that of a sand storm. Towards the finale, the more action heavy special effects take hold and they are really something to behold- most that have seen the trailer have already seen a few moments from the particular scene I'm referencing.
The script doesn't always give its cast much to work with, but certain cast members do give the material that something extra. Michael Fassbender continues to put in stellar work and he is particularly enjoyable here. Noomi Rapace is also very good in spite of some of the ridiculous things her character has to say and do. I normally really enjoy Charlize Theron, but I found her character to be almost useless throughout the course of the film and acts much more like a robot than the android, played by Fassbender. Idris Elba has a smaller part here as the ship's captain and is quite good- so much so I would have traded a lot of Theron's role if it meant he would have more screen time.
There's very few movies that you can sit and make a very long list of questions have no answers and nitpicks in logic and still come out of the experience feeling thoroughly entertained and falling just shy of being blown away. PROMETHEUS is a visually stunning thrill ride that had me on the edge of my seat at several points, but is also a culprit of head scratching science and over anxious religious theories that left a little to be desired in the end. Even with flaws I found PROMETHEUS to be a fantastic science fiction that ties in nicely with the ALIEN franchise, but is missing some of Scott's original directing flourish that made it so special.
Rating: 8/10
Written By: Luke (@CrummyLuke on Twitter)


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Hi, Ladies!
Today, I wanted to "share" ORP's version of
a "Ruffled" Burlap Christmas Tree Skirt.
First off, I would like to say that I got this idea
from a website called..."Uncommon Designs".
Trish & Bonnie's ruffled burlap Christmas tree
skirt is a "no sew" project.
So, if you don't sew you may want to hop on over
to their website for their "no sew" tutorial.
OK, let's get started!
Supplies Needed...
(1) 60" Round Burlap Tablecloth ($15.00 at Premier Burlap Boutique.com)
2 Yards Homespun Christmas Fabric
8 yds of Trim (I used a burlap ric-rac)
Start by folding your round tablecloth in half.
Using an 8 to 10" plate or lid, draw a "half" circle
on the center fold of your tablecloth, as shown in the photo below.
Now, draw a straight line, starting a the "A" to the edge of your tablecloth,
also shown in the photo below.
Cut the circle & straight line out.
The circle will be what fits around the base of your Christmas tree
& the line will be the opening of your Christmas tree skirt.
The photo below shows you what your Christmas tree skirt
will look like once it's laid out.
At this point you can bind the circle and edges of the opening
or you can skip the binding part.
For the binding I used 2 1/2" strips of the same
homespun Christmas fabric that I used for the ruffle.
Time to do some figuring...
Measure the circumference of your tablecloth
and double that number.
My 60" tablecloth was 180" in circumference.
I like lots of ruffles, so I "doubled" that number...360".
360" of fabric is what I will need to make my "ruffled" Christmas tree skirt.
If you don't like a lot of ruffles then you will need to lower that number
to like maybe 1 1/2 times the circumference of the tablecloth or 270 inches
or somewhere in between 270 & 360 inches.
Tear strips of the homespun Christmas fabric 6" wide.
You can use burlap if you prefer but you can't tear burlap, it
will need to be cut.
Sew these strips together until you have reached the desired number of inches.
For me it was 360".
About an inch from the edge of the fabric run a gathering stitch.
I like to run two rows of gathering stitches just in case one breaks.
Gather these ruffles until they fit the circumference of your tablecloth.
At this point you can either sew your ruffle to the tablecloth
or you can glue your ruffle to the tablecloth.
I hid my gathering stitches by gluing some burlap
ric-rac trim on my ruffle.
I used this same trim to make ties for my Christmas tree skirt.
Walla...wasn't that "fun"?
I hope that your ruffled Christmas tree skirt will be a
"keepsake" for many Christmas's to come!
PS: I will post a picture of my new "ruffled" Christmas tree
skirt all laid out under our tree, once I get our Christmas tree up
in a couple of weeks!
PS: I will post a picture of my new "ruffled" Christmas tree
skirt all laid out under our tree, once I get our Christmas tree up
in a couple of weeks!


text: In the October/November issue of EuroPhotonics, we met four researchers-turned-entrepreneurs and explored the role that the environment played in fulfilling their goals.This time, we examine that environment and the elements that shape it. Among the major players are universities, research institutes and science parks, and training courses and consultancies that act as catalysts. But there is also a third element. Beyond the control of universities, consultants or researchers themselves looms the national economic climate. Differing skill setsIt takes two sets of skills to equip a photonics technologist for business: the "hard" skills, which are directly teachable, such as project management and company law, and the difficult-to-define "soft" skills, such as business nous, confidence and realism. So one of the paths to success is to introduce researchers to entrepreneurs, especially to those who recently have created spin-offs, so that the neophytes can learn from their peers.Kieran Flynn, head of business development at Tyndall National Institute in Cork, Ireland, told me that, since 2001, the Irish government has channelled money into research. And Dr. John D. Lambkin of Firecomms Ltd., also in Cork, acknowledged the inspiring nature of that national environment."Since about 2006, the government has started to look for results," Flynn said, "and has put technology transfer officers into universities and research institutions. They deal with the protection of intellectual property and the transfer of licences." Imperial College London founded its technology transfer office more than 20 years ago. The office not only helps researchers draw up business plans but also has a network of contacts from which it can attract the people who can take the businesses forward.Cambridge Enterprise, the commercialization team at the University of Cambridge, works closely with researchers to investigate the potential market and licensing of the intellectual property, and it provides support, advice and mentoring through all the stages of building a new business.Some universities set up their own training courses – or direct students to specific existing ones. For example, local business colleges or university schools of business may provide courses on company law and finance. The Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship at the University of Strathclyde offers courses to its undergraduates and postgraduates as well as professional qualifications such as an MBA. Its elective courses for undergraduates include entrepreneurial finance, human capital, and venture management strategy and growth.Praxis Courses Ltd. of Cambridge offers courses for technology transfer professionals working in universities, in research institutions and in industry. Its courses include advanced licensing skills and creating spinouts.The melting potTo foster the soft skills, institutions often bring together researchers and entrepreneurs, investors and developers in a structured or sometimes informal way. The Photonex exhibition in October in Coventry featured an inaugural Technology Investment Forum, comprising a series of all-day innovation and investment business seminars. Alex Clarke, Aston Science Park's manager of Photonics Cluster (UK) introduced the event and likened the spin-off company to a small boat tossing in the storm of financial uncertainty. Photonics Cluster (UK) held a business growth event at Aston Science Park to support entrepreneurs. Guest speakers were, left to right: Steve Walker, CEO of Aston Reinvestment Trust; Chris Labrey, sales director at ECS United Kingdom plc; Matthew Hidderley, marketing and sales manager of Aston Science Park; Pat Geraghty, Central England Business Angels; Dennis Camilleri, managing partner of IVO Associates; and Barry Stocks, BTG International Ltd. tax director of VAT and Indirect Tax Services. Clarke told me that, during the mid-1990s, a national business forum brought together students and business people to air the new technologies and help commercialization. It coached the students on how to present their ideas. At its height, there were about 150 simultaneous tabletop presentations from students and small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and some big venture funding agencies in attendance. Tyndall brings in external entrepreneurs to talk to its research students on an informal and sporadic ad hoc basis. Firecomms' Lambkin and Dr. Carl Jackson, chief technology officer of SensL International in Cork, are former Tyndall researchers who made the transition, and current students can readily identify with them when the men come in to give talks. Tyndall is looking to formalize this as a taught element of its doctoral programme.Incubation and consultationJohn Cronin is the new CEO of Aston Science Park. A natural entrepreneur, he has nurtured many new companies and was formerly at British Telecommunications Group plc's corporate incubator, Brightstar.John Cronin, CEO of Aston Science Park, is shown at the inaugural Technology Investment Forum.He said that the cluster concept, where groups of companies in a similar market sector collaborate to provide "virtual" resources for the incubator, enables individual new companies to access financial and legal expertise without having to own those resources. This provides a cost-effective way to share resources until they can grow to a position where they can own them outright.Aston Science Park provides incubator accommodations for start-ups, currently housing more than 100 companies with a total of more than 1400 employees. The Welsh Opto-Electronics Forum is a consortium of Welsh companies, university research groups, users and support organizations aiming to stimulate growth and competitiveness. The Technium OpTIC business incubation centre at St. Asaph is dedicated to photonics-based start-up companies only.The Technium OpTIC business incubation centre in Wales provides a strong support environment for photonics-based start-up companies.New businesses use production-scale development and testing facilities that often are too expensive to buy or access. Each company has a business mentor to help its development and receives advice on sales and marketing and assistance with intellectual property protection."Over a third of all the UK's photonics companies are within 40 miles of OpTIC," said John Oliver, incubation director at OpTIC. "The high success rate – of over 90 per cent – reflects the strong support environment that entrepreneurs in photonics experience here."The Welsh Assembly Government funds innovation and technology counsellors with industrial expertise and patents knowledge who visit small businesses to diagnose their needs and point them in the right direction. They also supply information about grants and funding.The Photonics Academy at OpTIC delivers technical short courses in optoelectronics, collaborating with SPIE to include visiting lecturers with specific areas of expertise.One-on-one helpDennis Camilleri, managing partner of IVO Associates in St. Ives, Cambridgeshire, UK, has been a consultant for the past 10 years, helping photonics-based companies spin out. He works closely with the researcher on a one-to-one basis, looking at the strengths and weaknesses of the inventor and identifying what else is needed. "Few inventors have enough experience of project management, deadlines, resource finding and business planning," he said. "Few know enough about the commercial world to have a realistic idea of the marketability of their invention and how to go about selling it through channels."Having diagnosed the needs, Camilleri finds other people from among his own or the inventor's networks. When the company has grown, standard job functions emerge, and staff then can be found through recruitment agencies. The consultant also helps find funding using his contacts with business angels and private investors, and his knowledge of regional grants.Sentec is a Cambridge-based company that provides technology and product development skills. Technologies invented at Sentec have been licensed or used to create spin-out companies, depending on the technology and the business opportunity in each case. Rapid Biosensor Systems Ltd., also of Cambridge, one of its spin-offs, has developed a portable breathalyser-type device using photonics-based techniques to detect infectious diseases.An innovative breathalyser and laser fluorescence optical reader tests the cough sample in the tube for tuberculosis, providing a result for screening purposes in two minutes. Courtesy of Rapid Biosensor Systems Ltd.In this difficult time of global recession, business funding is hard to come by. So it is heartening that the infrastructure already set up by governments, universities and research institutions offers help in commercializing innovative photonics technologies and that entrepreneurs continue to pass on their skills by mentoring newcomers.More infowww.ivo-associates.co.ukwww.tyndall.iewww.astonsciencepark.co.ukwww.rapidbiosensor.comwww.praxiscourses.org.ukwww.optictechnium.comwww.sentec.co.uk


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Murphy Tractor Welcomes New Field Technician
January 31, 2007
Welcome Dave Gaghyan! Dave joins the Springfield store location as a new Field Service Technician with 30 years of forestry and heavy equipment repair experience. Dave's area of responsibility will primarily be the Eastern Missouri area. He has lived and worked in the West Plains community for over 10 years.