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Indonesia elects new chief to avoid sanctions
SOLO - Indonesia's football association (PSSI) elected a new head on Saturday, ending months of a bitter leadership row and avoiding sanctions from world governing body FIFA.
Djohar Arifin Husin, a former secretary general of the Indonesian Sports Committee, will be the next chief of PSSI after he defeated the other candidates in two rounds of voting.
The PSSI had been told it must hold elections or face suspension by the game's governing body, which would have jeopardised Indonesia's participation in the second round of 2014 World Cup Asian qualifying later this month.
"There are no sanctions so far for Indonesia. I think the first condition of the congress is in place so we can be rather optimistic," FIFA observer Primo Carvaro, who attended the elections in Solo in central Java, told reporters.
FIFA Executive Committee member Prince Ali bin Al Hussein of Jordan, Asia's vice-president on the executive, welcomed the election result on Saturday.
In a statement from Amman he said: "All Indonesians deserve to see their national team rising to join the champions of Asia and beyond.
"I look forward to visiting Indonesia in the near future to meet with the new PSSI leadership and discuss means of future cooperation to develop football in Indonesia across the board."
Husin polled 61 votes after being backed by supporters of local oil tycoon Arifin Panigoro and army general George Toisutta.
His nearest opponent, Agusman Effendi, got 38 votes and was backed by supporters of former PSSI chairman Nurdin Halid.
Previous elections had failed amid chaotic scenes, and FIFA banned both Panigoro and Toisutta from standing for chairman because of their involvement in launching a breakaway Indonesian League (LPI) that attracted teams from the PSSI-supported Indonesia Super League (ISL).
FIFA appointed a normalisation committee earlier this year to organise the election after opponents of Halid, who was jailed in 2007 for misusing funds but continued to run the PSSI from his cell, forced their way into PSSI elections.
"Now we must focus on moving forward and how to improve in the future, hopefully with support from everyone," said Husin.
Indonesia, ranked 132nd by FIFA, have been drawn to play Turkmenistan in the second round of Asian qualifying, with the first leg to take place on July 23 in Ashgabat before the return in Jakarta five days later.


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While this phenomenon is well known, the molecular mechanisms of how the force of gravity, is sensed in bone is not known, and this is something that Emma (pictured left) and her supervisor Professor Stephen Robertson (pictured right) are looking into.
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Ryan Kwanten: Inside Film Awards!
Ryan Kwanten suits up in Hugo Boss for the the 2010 Inside Film Awards held at the City Recital Hall on Sunday (November 14) in Sydney, Australia.
The 33-year-old actor joked to Australia's Sky News that he was accompanying his Red Hill director, Patrick Hughes, to the event.
"We're just here with each other," Ryan joked, adding, "we will be holding hands later on." Ha!
In Red Hill, Ryan plays a young police officer who has to fight to survive his first day in a small country town.


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July 19, 2011
too cool
sunglasses - thrifted / necklace - vintage, great-grandmother's / tote - Forever 21 / chambray shirt - Banana Republic, thrifted / dress - UO / belt - vintage, thrifted / ring - Amsterdam shop / watch - Arkanoplatz flea market, Berlin / woven flats - UO
We're staying in (I think) a pretty hipster-y area of Berlin, and I spend a good deal of time on the U-Bahn observing the impossibly cool girls of the city. These are girls with inscrutable tattoos and long hair that's completely buzzed on one side, and nearly every single one of them is sporting just the most perfect-fitting, perfectly worn-in jean jacket you've ever seen. I will probably never look anywhere near as cool as these Berlin girls (let's be honest, I dress up to visit buildings - 'cool' I am not), but I did decide to borrow their jean-jacket style with this chambray shirt for a late-afternoon picnic in Treptower Park. I think I'll definitely be wearing this shirt as a jacket more often from here on out; I loved the extra dimension it gave to an otherwise simple outfit, and the extra coverage it gave to a dress that can sometimes feel a bit like the express train to Boob City - although given that I was the only girl in the park who hadn't stripped down to her bikini or bra (or, ahem, gone bare - those Germans!), perhaps I needn't have worried too much about modesty.
26 comments:
I really like this outfit--especially love the way your belt ties in with the chambray western shirt.
- July 19, 2011 at 7:45 PM
- maria said...
It's a great outfit! You've done Berlin proud :)
And yes, since we don't have that much sun in Germany (especially not this year, brrr!), people strip to their bikinis at the first opportunity to make the most of it. Modesty is not a topic on warm sunny days :)
- July 19, 2011 at 7:56 PM
- Kerry~ThisTinder said...
I love the flow of that dress! Also liking the little updates on what other girls are wearing in different countries!
- July 19, 2011 at 10:01 PM
- Simply Bike said...
Is it wrong that I want to pin every one of your pictures to Pinterest? ;) I love the shirt as jacket look and seeing you in Berlin makes me miss Germany (and Berlin specifically) so much. Viel Spaß da!
- July 19, 2011 at 10:32 PM
- No Guilt Fashion said...
Love this look! The chambray shirt as a jacket adds a nice twist to this outfit.
No Guilt Fashion
- July 19, 2011 at 10:47 PM
- Julie Del Moore said...
Beautiful, simple look! And I love the green ring!
Julie Del @ J.Bird
- July 19, 2011 at 11:32 PM
The denim shirt goes so well with the dress! <3 I love your ring too - it is the most amazing shade of green!
xLost in the Haze
- July 20, 2011 at 12:51 AM
You look super cute - perfect Berlin summer (gosh I miss it, but you describe it well) - and yeah, I would have also called your area hipster-y. I've stayed in various locations, but the longest was in those post-war pre-fab buildings near Schillingstr. and I loved being near the Friedrichshain park (another good one with lots of monuments.)
- July 20, 2011 at 4:05 AM
Love this outfit. Cute and simple. You definitely make me want to go back to Germany and visit Berlin. Looks like you had nice weather. I'm in Paris and it rained (poured) all day yesterday. Tschüss und viel Spass !
- July 20, 2011 at 4:29 AM
- anne said...
Love this outfit! Such simple elements that together make something great. Those hipster Berlin girls don't know what they're missing :)
- July 20, 2011 at 7:10 AM
- Learned Lady said...
I love this outfit~ I would call it casual elegance :)
- July 20, 2011 at 10:43 AM
- Reading (and chickens) said...
Well, you look cool to me! I am stuck in a rut of jeans (with a knee hole), a t-shirt, wool socks and a fleece (aah, Northwest summers). THIS is way better than the mom uniform I'm currently sporting. At least my teeth are clean!
- July 20, 2011 at 12:11 PM
- Mia said...
I dunno, you look pretty cool to me!
Your posts make me miss Germany...I was only there for two weeks or so last spring on a trip with my mom, but it was my first time to Europe and I loved it so much. We didn't make it to Berlin, first it was Bacharach on the Rhine and then down to Munchen. I want to go back and see more!
- July 20, 2011 at 12:35 PM
- the other emily said...
Thanks Lara - I hadn't even thought of the Western-style connection, but now I totally see it. :)
- July 20, 2011 at 3:00 PM
- the other emily said...
Haha, to be fair I would have been stripping down right there along with them if I'd had a beach blanket and a suit with me. I think the next warm, sunny day we get we may be heading back to that area to have a swim at the Badeschiff!
- July 20, 2011 at 3:02 PM
- the other emily said...
Thanks Kerry! It's been fun to check out the local style everywhere we've been, but I'm still looking for a place where people like to wear color as much as I do! Maybe I should just go to Miami...
- July 20, 2011 at 3:03 PM
- Chaucee said...
Love this look! It's perfectly casual chic : )
- July 20, 2011 at 4:39 PM
I think you are right about your area of Berlin! Very stylish indeed. Loving your jean shirt as a jean jacket outfit!! Need to get one of those and try it out as well! Now that the rain is back, one can't have enough cover ups!
- July 20, 2011 at 5:39 PM
- Allie said...
loveit. and love berlin.
- July 20, 2011 at 10:26 PM
You would be worse off in Holland--think Rembrandt, not Van Gogh.
- July 21, 2011 at 11:30 AM
- the other emily said...
Haha, so true! Sadly, neutrals seem to be the rule everywhere we go. Oh well!
- July 22, 2011 at 6:43 AM
- the other emily said...
Haha, not at all, I'm flattered. :) And I know you are perhaps just a little busy this week (just a little), but I would love to hear any particular Berlin must-see-must-do recommendations you might have - you know, only if you find yourself with a few spare minutes. :)
- July 22, 2011 at 6:50 AM
- the other emily said...
Thanks! I definitely think I'll be wearing it this way again, it makes such a nice light layer.
- July 24, 2011 at 6:18 AM
- the other emily said...
Thanks Julie!
- July 24, 2011 at 6:18 AM
- the other emily said...
Thanks Jo! I went on a major hunt for a green ring, so I was thrilled when I spotted this one in the window of a little store in Amsterdam - and it even turned out to be super cheap!
- July 24, 2011 at 6:21 AM
- S. of Narrowly Tailored said...
this is one of my favorite ever looks of yours, I think. It's an unusual silhouette for you, but I really, really like how effortlessly chic it is!
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
The crowd
"The crowd"
Size: 45x35 cm
Media: Oil Colors on stretched canvas
View from the side.
This painting is difficult to photograph - brush strokes are reflecting the light.
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Monday, February 25, 2013
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Meeting with old friend
A very pleasant meeting with friend from art college - Andrian Judro.
Gosh, it's hard to believe that almost 30 years passed.
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Friday, February 22, 2013
More about money
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Thursday, February 21, 2013
"Your Majesty" by Andre
Size: 22 x 15 cm
Pastel on Canson paper
"Hamiltons" by Andre
Size: 22 x 15 cm
Pastel on Canson paper
"20,000 bunnies" by Andre
Size: 22 x 14 cm
Pastel on Canson paper
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Psalm 23 (4)"
"Psalm 23 (4)" by Andre
Size: 24 x 31 cm
Media: pastel
Even though I walk
... through the darkest valley,
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013
The pleasant letter
About a week ago, going through blogspot sites, we found wonderful blog of Judy Felker - C R E A T I V E W O N D E R. Judy's blog is splashing variety of art pieces: different artists, art styles and themes, we can't describe it better then she did:
Being impressed and pleasured, we dropped a thank-you-letter to Judy, and in couple of days received the answer. Here it is:
"What if we spent our time creating beautiful things, looking at all of the beautiful things created by others, and helping others to find creativity in their lives..."It's beautifully not-commercial:
"...My blog has evolved into an international showcase of contemporary art. It is hard to believe how many talented artists are out there in the world today. I would never have known about them if I hadn't started this blog."
"... I do tend to select the art work that brings about calm feelings to the viewer and the beauty of the world. It is as if I can feel the artists' spirit in the work that I select. Several artists have told me they use my blog for inspiration. Some folks have said they use my blog to relieve stress. I hope that in some way this blog helps artists all over the world to gain recognition as well as help them to sell their work."
Hello Vanessa and Andre,
Thank you so very much for you kind and encouraging email. I'm so very glad that you like the blog. So many artists have told me that they are using the blog for inspiration as well as to find other artists who are out there painting in the world today.
I have enjoyed looking at your blogs too. What a lovely artistic couple you are! I have selected a few of your pieces and will try to include them in my blog sometime soon. I will email you when I do. I need to get back to doing my blog on a more regular basis. I think I just did so much during the first year that I needed a break. But I think break time is over.
All the best to both of you!
Judy Felker Memphis . TN
International Contemporary Art Blog
Over 1000 Contemporary Artists
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Sunday, February 17, 2013
Blooming Land
"Blooming Land"
Size: 35x30cm
Media: Pastel on Canson paper, framed with glass
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Saturday, February 16, 2013
Basil in bloom
"Basil in bloom" (1) by VanessaSize: 19 x 28 cm
Media: Pastel
"Basil in bloom" (2) by Vanessa
Size: 23 x 30 cm
Media: Pastel
Size: 23 x 30 cm
Media: Pastel
"Basil in bloom" (3) by Vanessa
Size: 21 x 30 cm
Media: Ink on paper
Size: 21 x 30 cm
Media: Ink on paper
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Friday, February 15, 2013
Lunch at the Borough Market (London)
"Lunch at the Borough Market (London)" by Andre
Size: 20 x 28 cm
Media: pastel
Media: pastel
I think I should to explain what you see here.
Here is the smart city rat that eating an apple, being hung from below on the sewer grill of Borough Market in London.
The Borough Market has a reputation as the country's most renowned food market. It's a place where you to come to discover the tastes, aromas, textures and colours that only fresh, seasonal food can offer.
As each market, it carefully washed at the end of working day; waste water runs through the sewer grating down, into the city drainage system. Not surprising, there is an active wild-life in the canalisation. Here is something that I have seen in real life, right in the middle of the busy road going through the market: the apple rolled away from the stand and stopped on the sewer grill. An underground citizen - the rat, had hung itself from the inside and was lunching. Lunch was lasting quite long: the rat freezed like glued to the grill, in this spiderman position, and it didn't mind neither cars that passed tight to the apple, nor people that crossed the street.
Like most of people I am not a big fan of rats, but, man, I felt such a respect to this smart and dexterous creature - bravo! My applauds!
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Sunday, February 10, 2013
Portrait of gypsy girl in red
Dear friends!
Pastel painting "GYPSY GIRL IN RED"
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Price held until 31st March 2013.
Dear friends!
Pastel painting "GYPSY GIRL IN RED"
is available at a special price of €50
for the period of Holiday Sale during March 2013.
Price held until 31st March 2013.
"Gypsy girl in red"
by Vanessa
Size: 22x29 cm
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Wednesday, February 6, 2013
"SPEXY" by Vanessa
Size: 29 x 22cm
P.S. I like the sound of this abbreviation - SPEXY.
If you are not into internet slang,
you probably would ask: "What that means?"
SPEXY = "Sexy with glasses".
Cool, isn't it?
Posted by VANESSA AND ANDRE STASHINSKI at 7:49 PM 0 comments
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
"7/7" by VanessaSize:40 x 50 cm
Media: oil colors on canvas
P.S. "7/7" is just a shot from the neighbourhood (not mine area even). There is a bush of roses on the scenic background of mold wall and bearded weeds. Painted as "a compensation" for... read the story below, in yesterday post.
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Monday, February 4, 2013
The resume: never delay your dreams.
Here is the srory.
This morning I began to paint near the abandoned house.It's right "under my nose", in the neighborhood - I can see their backyard from the window. Actually, I keep an eye on this house for years, but somehow felt uncomfortable to disturb the old lady that lived there alone. I heared from the neigbours that she was very suspicious to strangers. Anyway, she left this winter and house staid locked, waiting for demolition. Of course the new 5-floors monster will be build instead (and yes, I hate it!) but that's not the point of the story.
Last month was rainy and backyard garden turned into a rain-forest: juicy, blooming, all rustling with hidden animals. I decided to revenge for 15 years (!) of waiting and to make a plain air marathone, painting there daily during the month or so - depends of weather and status of construction site. See above - yesterday I has begun to paint the garden. It's difficult task - garden was overloaded with intertwining, climbing and wet rotting greenery. In 4 hours I complete about half of painting - then day light passed and I returned home. I was full of good spirits about this painting marathone and prepared to run few pictures parallely, switching between them in changing light conditions.
Got up early today and quickly got ready to go.
And then ...
... walls of my apartment begun to vibrate, like it was an earthquake.
Used to life in seismic zone, I really hoped it's just an earthquake and it took additional couple of minutes when I thoughtfully eyed the dining table's legs disperse to the sides. Then my hearing switched on and "... what the hell is this terrible noise?" - I said. I still didn't picture it. With "what the hell" I opened the window and received a hit of dense gray dust directly to my face.
Oh no-o-o-o-o-o-o-o!!!
They crashed "my painting camp" to pieces, into dust, they broke my plans and made the picture forever parentless. Gosh.. the long-term dream was ruined.
Please, don't tell: "I wish it will be my worst trouble", cause I was really upset to tears.
Now I calmed down a little, but I still don't know what to do with this half-made picture. Painting is good and pity to let it down or destroy. It's too complex and not possible to complete it with no natural enviroment.
The doubt.
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Friday, February 1, 2013
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Nuna Rebl drama
So this week a german safety test put the Nuna Rebl through it's paces at 40mph and the results were terrifying. The seat base just snapped!
Uk safety tests are done at 30mph at which the Rebl is thought to be fine, which? Found out about the German safety test and indicated to readers that they shouldn't buy.
It's all a bit complicated in that the seat appears to be fine rear facing for kids as long as they're not the size of an average 3 year old and you crash below 40mph.
But although my baby is 4 months old – this didn't fill me with much faith, we bought that seat in particular as it was safe and he could be in it until age 4. Paying £400 and worrying about the point in which he becomes so heavy that it's not particularly safe was a step too far – so we wanted to change it. Here is the video:
Nuna won't issue a product recall as it does comply to UK safety standards ( that's a whole other argument… why are our standards less than Germany and Sweden?!) Mothercare were a little late to the party on following suit with exchange – so my other half intervened and contacted his team to do an article. Daily mail and Sun soon followed suit and what do you know, Mothercare were then exchanging or refunding.
We took our Nuna into our local Mothercare store on Saturday for the assistant to say something really daft 'i wish they'd tested some of the others we sell because they're a lot worse than the Nuna'. Rather than fill be with confidence on the Nuna it just made me very concerned about the other seats- some parents won't do the research we did (fat lot of good it did us) and will buy because they believe in the Mothercare brand – stores like this really should be lobbying for safety regulations in UK to meet or exceed those of other countries.
I'm sure this entire situation has been a massive financial burden on Nuna, but I like many other parents couldn't unsee that video. We exchanged for a Cybex Sirona, which passed the tests Nuna failed – Mothercare didn't have any in stock so we should get it this week. I feel bad for the Nuna marketing team who have taken the brunt of anger this week, as their product team must have known about it only just passing UK tests – the fact that a redesign is hitting the shelves in Jan indicates they were putting profit before child safety.
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Fresh from his Complex Housing EP earlier this year, Salva is back with the Yellobone EP, clearly designed to make you move a little something. While the lead track is a throbber, and the accompanying remixes by LOL Boys and Shlohmo & 2KWTVR are dope, it's those "other" tracks by the Friend of Friends beathead that make me tingly in all the right places. If heavy synths and skittering drums are your thing, you won't be disappointed. "Obsession" easily is making my personal Top 10 List of Singles for the year. It's no secret, but i've got a thing for talkboxes (much love, Roger Troutman), and B. Bravo's work on the machine here is hypnotic. i don't always recommend dance beats, but when i do, you can bet they've got vocal distortion.
mp3: Obsession ft. B. Bravo (Salva from Yellobone EP)


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Then you also have to take into account the increase in the numbers of street pirates across the world who have for years being selling full quality CDs for a fraction of the retail price. Wright fears this as does the rest of Hollywood. "The problems are spreading and no one is immune," he said. "In my business we're just looking over the shoulder of the music industry, which has gone through a very difficult time." The spread of broadband Internet access around the globe means that movie piracy online is increasing everyday, with movies being traded as early as their theatrical release.
So what the movie industry wants and needs are iTunes-like services for movie downloading. Movielink, a venture of five major Hollywood studios and CinemaNow, jointly owned by Microsoft, Lions Gate Films, Blockbuster and several other firms are examples of two existing services for movie downloading, but of course the trend of legal music downloads is very different to convincing people to legally download movies.
Firstly, music files are generally small. With most broadband connections downloading music from legal services takes seconds. Also DRM on music seems to be sort of "acceptable" for the people who purchase from legal music stores but would it be acceptable for movies? People like to be able to bring movies around with them, like taking a DVD to a mates house to watch it there instead of at home.
But what if you cant play a download on your mates computer? Will there be a "burn to DVD" option just like the "burn to CD" option most legal music services offer? If so, then how long would it take to burn? would it have to be encoded first or will all downloads be 4.36GB DVD-R image files? These are questions that we all have, but we'll have to wait for the answer. For now the movie industry can work on legal alternatives, and hopefully keep consumer interests in mind as well as financial interest.
Wright also commented on the DVD format war that seems to be approaching. "You'd always rather have one standard -- that's going to happen eventually," he said. "Hopefully this won't go as far as Betamax-VHS." Amen to that quote!


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I just found out about the Eventprofs Twitter group from the Meetings Podcast Guys this morning, so I missed the premier networking event, but I'm now duly signed up and ready to check it out. (Mike's post explains more about it, and how to participate, if you're interested in joining up, too. Here's a search of the posts from people at the first event, in case you want to check out what people were talking about.)
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Your journey starts near downtown where you board your Cozumel dune buggy and get ready for a real adventure!
Your guide will give you a safety briefing and away you go to experience the beauty of the island.
First stop is at the Mayan ruins at San Gervasio (morning tour only). Although smaller than many ruins on the mainland, this archaeological site has an unusually long history, beginning sometime around 100 BC and continuing as late as the 16th century.
Next you continue your drive all the way around the island through jungle interior and along stunning coastal road to the beautiful Punta Sur Eco Park, an ecological reserve on the island's southernmost tip.
Upon arrival you will visit El Caracol, a Mayan ruin which in the past, remarkably, was used as a weather warning system.
Afterwards, look for crocodiles from an observation tower and discover the Colombia Lagoon which feeds and provides balance to the coral reef formations.
Before leaving Punta Sur you get to visit the 20th century lighthouse, which is still operational, with its maritime museum.
Next, you're off to enjoy the crystal clear waters of the Caribbean for a beginner's snorkel experience.
Certified guides will provide safety tips and instruction before leading you out to see the colorful tropical fish and delightful array of sea life Cozumel has to offer.
You will have leisure time to relax and sunbathe on the beach, snorkel and discover the magnificent marine life of Palancar Reef or swing on a hammock while enjoying the incomparable view of the Mexican Caribbean.
Afterwards, enjoy a deliciously tasty Mexican style lunch including fajitas, rice, beans and tortilla chips at the ocean side restaurant.
Finally, the last stop on the way back is at El Cedral, Cozumel's very first settlement, revealing the fascinating history of Mayan culture.
Visit the small village of about 20 families and see the 150 year old church built next to a mystic ruin.
Tired and happy you'll arrive back to finish the trip downtown, where you can explore the shops and atmosphere of this lively town and head back to your hotel or ship.
This tour is also available by Jeep.
$75 USD per person (adults and children) for full morning tour (9.30am). Or $65 USD per person (adults and children) for afternoon tour that doesn't include San Gervasio ruins (1.15pm).
Note: If you require a dune buggy for only 2 people, or if there are only 2 in your group and nobody is available to share on the day, a supplement of $40 USD will be charged. i.e. total price of $190 USD per dune buggy for morning tours or $170 USD per dune buggy for afternoon tours.
- Guided Dune Buggy tour.
- San Gervasio Ruins (morning tour only).
- Punta Sur Park.
- Visit El Caracol, the Columbia Lagoon and a 20th century lighthouse.
- Snorkel, swim, and relax on the beach.
- Mexican-style lunch.
- El Cedral Mayan Town.
The tour departs from a convenient meeting point south of downtown, about 5-10 minutes by taxi from downtown and the cruise ship piers
Morning tour Approx. 5 hours 45 minutes. Afternoon tour approx. 5 hours. (Morning tour includes San Gervasio ruins but afternoon tour does not.)
Departures at 9.30am (morning tour) or 1.15pm (afternoon tour), Mon-Sat. Other times may be available upon request.
- This tour is not suitable for pregnant women or people with back injuries, asthma or epilepsy.
- Dune buggies are stickshift, drivers must present a valid licence, be at least 21 years old and may not consume alcohol.
- Minimum age to participate in this tour is 4 years.
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The Ark Poole Park in Dorset, UK is an all-weather family fun day out!
There are three levels of soft play with slides, tunnels and interactive zones (up to 11 years old) plus a dedicated soft play area for toddlers.
There is also an indoor ice rink for all ages and abilities.
The Ark in Poole Park has a spacious cafe with an outdoor terrace overlooking Swan Lake. It also has an ice cream parlour for cones, sundaes and more.
There is plenty of free car parking in Poole Park and at The Ark.
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For this book, I took a step back from all of the novels I've been reading geared toward women. I've never read a novel by Ace Atkins so I had no preconceived notions of what to expect.
The Lost Ones is a story about a man just home from his last tour as a Ranger. Quinn Colson is the newly elected sheriff of an everybody-knows-everybody town in northern Mississippi that has been faltering for quite some time. Since I'm not a crime reader by nature, the business of the plot, especially toward the end kept me feeling any emotion toward characters. It is definitely plot-driven rather than a character-driven.
Quinn Colson didn't ring true for me. He's 30ish, bad seed come clean. He read like a knock-off of Andy from Mayberry and the small town setting only served to add to it. He wasn't an unlikable character, he just didn't have that real feel and I found no reason to sympathize with him or his situation. He came off not as wise for his years, but old for his years. (I felt more of a connection with Boom, a secondary character.)
The back story that belonged to Quinn and his sister, Caddy. Why was it there? I have no clue. A subplot, I know, but it had no real purpose. I felt like it was added to bulk up the book. This was a story about Mexican gangs and how they (coexist, use, harm) innocent people, and the small town conmen who get involved with them. And the fact that the subplot was told as dreams? Flashbacks? Just thrown in there?… was off. There was no real purpose for his ex-girlfriend either. She was not instrumental to the story.
Aside from a lack in character development, I did enjoy the book. Atkins writes with a fresh voice and it didn't read like every other crime novel out there. There were a couple of things I noticed that didn't take away from the story as much as my attention when I came across them.
First, the book is written in third person single POV, but the author falls into third person multiple POV several times, for no more than a sentence or two. One example, page 71 – The entire scene is told in Quinn's POV, but all of a sudden, we head hop to Dinah Brand… 'Brand took in a cautious breath, one that let her think for a moment, decide what to say. She wasn't really sure about Quinn, not too sure if some hick sheriff could keep up with someone who trained in Washington. Always an enlisted man.' Quinn would have had no way of knowing she was thinking those things, so the reader shouldn't have been made aware of her thoughts. There were several head hops throughout the book.
Another small thing that should have been picked up by someone at the publishing house, if not the author:
Page 327 – "The woman's worth it?" Luther said.
Page 335 – "That all of 'em?" Lillie asked.
It was small punctuation and dialogue tag mistakes and some might say that's being picky, but with all of the good books out there, you really have to be anal about the small stuff as well as the large. If I can spot mistakes (in anyone's book but my own it seems), so do other readers.
I am not decimating this book. As I said, I enjoyed it. There were just a couple things that done differently would have made the book a much stronger read. Would I recommend it, absolutely. And now that I have pointed out the weak points, you can read it in its entirety without having to slow down when you hit them. Would I read another by this author? Yes.
Agree? Disagree? A review is nothing more than one reader's opinion. I'd love to hear yours!
Kathy Reinhart is the author of the award-winning Lily White Lies


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Daniel's "Donegal Feast"
We are all familiar with Daniel O'Donnell's "Donegal Shores" but on Friday RTE will showcase the Kincasslagh man's "Donegal Feast" just before the 9.00 pm news.
Daniel will be appearing on Martin and Paul's Surf 'n' Turf show on RTE at 8.30 on Friday night where he will join the chefs Martin Shanahan and Paul Flynn in producing a great meal in the beautiful surrounds of the Glencolmcille Folk Village.
See full story in our Thursday edition.


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Sunday, August 12, 2012
Brian Joseph Davis | The Composites
Brian Joseph Davis
The Composites
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012
66 pp., 8.5 x 8.5 x 0.2", softcover
Open edition
In what could be the best reviewed artist book of the year (starting as a tumblr doesn't hurt), Toronto's Brian Joseph Davis employs police-style composite artist software to sketch out characters from literature.
"The resulting mugshots are as creepy and incredible as you might imagine -- IQ84 meets CSI." - The Atlantic
"Almost all of the sketches are less interesting than the passages underneath them, however, and it is refreshing, in this age of visual tyranny, to see language stealing the show." - The New Yorker
"Brilliant, and refreshingly unsentimental" - The Guardian
Labels: artists' books, Brian Joseph Davis
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Adventure. It can be defined as participating in exciting and potentially hazardous undertakings. Life is an adventure, there are the moments that are most certainly exciting and some moments that take your breath away because they are so thrilling. For many, they would rather look back on their life and say, "I can't believe I did that," rather than, "I wish I would have done that." Chris Masters has lived a life of adventure, full of travel and great thrills along the way.
Chris grew up in Polk County and attended Mena Public Schools. After graduation, he attended Hendrix College, earning his Bachelor's in Physics. Afterwards, Chris pursued his masters at UALR. "I had a friend after graduation that moved to Boulder, CO and I knew that was where I wanted to go so I defended my thesis and two weeks later I took everything I owned and moved to Colorado," says Chris with a smile. After moving to Boulder, he began work for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [NOAA].
In the beginning, he worked on a laser project that was measuring the ozone in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. "I was a research assistant and I couldn't go any further so I started looking for opportunities and then I got on with the United States Antarctic Program so I spent about four years working on the Antarctic research vessels. I was having such a blast, I spent a lot of time down around the Antarctic. After the contract with the Antarctic Program was up, Chris looked to head back to Boulder. Soon afterwards he went back to work at another NOAA laboratory called Earth Systems Research Laboratory, where he would spend the next 14 years. "I worked half the time remotely from Mena, visiting Boulder 3-4 times a year. After things going on in my life and then my mother's health declining, I decided to move back to Mena in 2014. I started work as the Network Engineer here [UARM] and did that for two years before becoming Computer Information Officer [CIO] in January of this year," explains Chris.
Anybody that knows Chris would say that he loves adventure, a love that developed through his time traveling and working in Colorado. While working off, he developed a love for amateur photography and mountain biking, "I picked up both of those hobbies while living in Boulder. Obviously, living there provided great opportunities for pictures and then mountain biking was great there as well." Recently, Chris competed in the Ouachita Challenge, a 60-mile rigorous mountain bike tour and race.
Along with these hobbies, Chris may be most excited about his work with the Ouachita Amateur Radio Association. He is an amateur radio operator, or "Ham" as they are called in the Amateur Radio world. "I love being a part of the group and the national amateur radio association as a whole. It has been a lot of fun learning about the technology and the potential, but also connecting with people through our work. I have talked with somebody in New Zealand before so it's cool to be a part of something that connects people from all over the world," states Chris.
Despite traveling the world, Mena is home for Chris, not just because he grew up here, but because it is roots. "This really is my roots. My great great grandfather homesteaded land out south of town and that's where I live now. There is just a lot of history here for me," explains Chris. Like many others that call Mena home, Chris loves the atmosphere of the community and the people in it. "It's really a safe place, people are kind, and it's a great place to live." Often, you can't appreciate what's right in front of you and what blessings have been received until you are able to see other places. Chris feels that Mena is a real gem and it is a great place not only to live, but to play. "There is so much here. We have beautiful trails that you can go hike or mountain bike at any point. The trails here are rated 'epic' and thousands of people flock here each year to ride. In Boulder, if you wanted to get out on a trail like we have here, there would be hundreds of people. Unfortunately, people don't realize what we have right here."
Everyone wants to live an adventurous life, experience the excitement and thrills that come with those great experiences. For many, traveling the world is not an option, but Chris reminds us, adventure is right out our front door in the beautiful Ouachita Mountains.


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The notion of collective reparations has resonance in the context of mass violations of human rights and humanitarian law. As gross violations of individual and group rights entitle victims to an effective legal remedy and to reparation, it would appear that in situations of widespread suffering, collective solutions might prove practical or appropriate. While there may be great benefits in collective reparations, there are also dangers that collective forms of reparation, such as the building of hospitals or schools for the benefit of victims, might easily lose their reparative objective, becoming humanitarian or developmental in nature given the parallel needs of rebuilding societies torn apart by war or widespread criminality.
Thankfully we now have the 2005 UN Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to Remedy and Reparation, which provide an international bill of rights for victims. Here I hope to draw together here some of the concepts and principles regarding the implementation of collective reparations specifically. As we have seen through the excellent presentations over the past day and a half, there are certain building blocks that we can perhaps pull together into an operative framework.
Our starting point must be that, in attempting to determine appropriate reparations, the process must, as far as possible, be nourished by the requirements of victims themselves. It must be victim-led. In this manner, there can be no one-size fits all solutions. Every situation and set of victims will organically reveal different considerations, needs and requirements.It helps to look at this victim-centred approach in two phases: from a perspective of procedural justice on the one hand and substantive justice on the other. For victims,Justice is an experience. It is as much about the way that they are treated, consulted and respected procedurally throughout the reparation process, as it is about the substantive remedy, material or otherwise, they may be granted as part of the end result. The procedural handling of the reparations process therefore plays an important role in ensuring that the process is well received, accepted, indeed that the process is owned by victims and that it empowers them as survivors, eventually reinstating dignity, respect and their rightful place in society. Ensuring that the process is a 'just' process will largely influence victims' experience of reparations. Indeed the treatment, involvement and empowerment of victims in the process can, in and of itself, constitute a valuable part of the reparative package. The process can restore a sense of significance, dignity and strength. In this respect the relationship between the legal remedy and the reparation can be of key significance. For instance, if an administrative settlement is offered in the absence of an effective legal process (or acknowledgement of wrong-doing), monetary awards may become "dirty money" in the eyes of victims, was in the case in Argentina. From the dirty war, we had "dirty money". In such cases the award might be perceived as merely means to silence and appease victims without genuinely redressing the harm suffered.
Thus, as a matter of principle, the process should set out to do justice to the victims. So, as the judicial or reparation process can constitute a reparative end in itself, the process is of-course also a means to an end – a means to obtaining a substantive result. And,the quality of the substantive result, in terms of its ability to redress all victims, and to balance different levels of harm, will depend to a large extent on the thought and energy put into ensuring an inclusive and effective process.
I propose to briefly consider some procedural principles before addressing some key principles regarding substantive awards themselves.
Consultation & Outreach
The first key principle concerns consultation and outreach. According to a UN Report on Justice in Conflict and Post-Conflict societies, "the most successful transitional justice experiences owe a large part of their success to the quantity and the quality of public and victim consultation carried out".(UN Secretary General's Report to the Security Council, The Rule of Law and Transitional Justice in Conflict and Post-Conflict Societies, 2004. S/2004/616).
Taken in the context of reparations, what exactly is meant by quantity and quality of public and victim consultation? The issue of appropriate quantity of consultation should not be overlooked. The very nature of widespread and systematic violations implies that the harm to be addressed is not sporadic or isolated. There will be a vast beneficiary group to be redressed, with multiple layers of harm suffered by most victims. Furthermore, the very context of mass criminality and violence often implies a humanitarian crisis with vast populations either displaced or refugees in neighbouring states. Thus, there are great challenges in terms of sheer numbers and accessibility, particularly in the humanitarian context.
In order to ensure qualitatively satisfying consultations, one must recognise that in most cases, victims in conflict situations in Africa are disenfranchised, dispossessed and difficult to reach. In addition they may have been subject to manipulation by a variety of actors and may have negative associations or mistrust for outsiders (or foreigners) or scepticism towards Courts and "justice" processes in general. There will be multiple cultural, ethnic socio-economic, gender and language barriers in ensuring the quality of consultations.
Thus, special attention needs to be given to the methods and means of communicating with affected populations, particularly in order to reach the most vulnerable of victims, who may be women, children, elderly and/or illiterate.
There are other important considerations with regard to adequate consultation and
outreach to victims. Consultation and outreach are two-way processes – they involve
engaging with people. In addition to simply providing information, there will be a need to build trust and confidence, ensuring inclusive and participatory fora for veritable exchange, and the need to support their empowerment.
Participation and Access
Which leads us to consider the concept of participation and questions of access. In order for victims to be in a position to negotiate or identify the types of remedy to be granted, particularly in the case of non financial reparations, it is vital for victims first to have a clear understanding of the process itself and to remain informed of all the key decisions that affect their interests. In the humanitarian context this will be easier said than done as local languages, dialects, access routes and security issues are critical obstacles that may only be overcome with creativity, reliance on local knowledge and the building of partnerships on the ground. Other access issues that may need to be considered is the nature and format of application forms, which need to be sensitive and applicable to the context, available in local languages understood by victims. Often victims will be put off wanting to apply to participate in a programme because of the requirement of completing a form, which they may be psychologically unprepared to do.
Thus, the availability of trained social workers or other individuals able to assist victims in completing such forms may play a significant role in promoting wide access to existing programmes. The manner of filing and transmitting forms are also worth noting. If time frames are set that are too narrow or if forms have to be submitted in person these may also be prohibitive.
Evidentiary barriers
Finally experience has shown that in spite of the benefit of receiving reparations, numerous potential beneficiaries will be put off applying to participate due to the need to provide documentary evidence. In the humanitarian context obtaining medical records can be prohibitive. Where medical facilities are unavailable or very scarce, fees for medical consultations are prevalent and often prohibitive for the majority of victims. To begin with, evidential thresholds should not be set to high and creative sources of evidence might be used to corroborate the victims' testimony, such as media archives, NGO records, etc.
Where medical or psychosocial reports may prove useful both for the victim and for the reparations process, the establishment of a special medical or psychosocial unit might be considered to carry out this task. For instance the Moroccan IER established an in-house medical unit, designed not to replace the need for other medical services but, inter alia, to provide a comprehensive study of the medical victims participating in the programme, and to identify particularly urgent cases requiring immediate attention prior to the completion of the reparations process. A similar approach could be taken with respect to psychosocial assessments, which would also be able to contribute to the identification of appropriate remedies.
Examples of creative approaches to evidential challenges include an interesting decision by the Commission on Illegal Detention and Torture in Chile (Informe de la Comision Nacional sobre Prision Politica y Tortura (Santiago, 2005), highlighted in Pablo de Grief's paper on the implementation of Reparations, 2006). that all persons who showed that they had spent time in certain detention centres were presumed to have been tortured. Thus, creative approaches to evidentiary questions must be put in place, to avoid victims undue inconvenience, humiliation, double victimisation, lengthy, complicated procedures or expensive procedures. This would apply for instance to the requirements of proving indigence in order to quality for legal aid. The mere fact of showing displacement, refugee status, or simply residence in an area where average income is less than 1 dollar a day (as is the case for Eastern Congo, Northern Uganda and Darfur) should suffice to provide a presumption of indigence.
Substantive Awards
Let me now turn to key principles regarding the substantive awards themselves. Collective reparations may arise in two ways.First of all, victims' rights to a remedy and to reparation include both individual rights, for individual crimes suffered; or group rights, for crimes inflicted upon a specific group. In
situations of mass crimes, collective reparations may be awarded for individual
victimisation and, or group victimisation, if harm was inflicted on a specific group. Thus Collective reparations may arise to repair numerous individual violations or a group violation. Specificity of Harm Perhaps the most important principle is the need to take into account the specificity of harm. Collective reparations require very careful consideration of beneficiary groups and sub-groups. As individual victimisation gives rise to reparation for the specific harm suffered, it is important to ensure that if reparations address large classes of individual victims, the specific harm suffered by particular individuals should not get ignored in the group settlement. For instance, survivors of sexual violence who have contracted HIV or amputees who are crippled, or children who were forcibly recruited as child soldiers may require specific recognition over and above the fact that they were forcibly displaced and dispossessed.Thus, in identifying collective reparation programmes it will be important to categorise victims in order to ensure that categories of specific harm are recognised and redressed.
Examples of Collective Reparations
Collective reparations fall into two broad categories, those requiring financial implications,and those of more symbolic or rights based nature. I would like to draw out certain principles from the interesting collective reparations awards granted by the Inter-American Court for Human Rights, particularly as regards non-financial reparations:
1. Non-financial Reparations
The first principle concerns importance of non-financial remedies that can be granted or ordered in judicial decisions. While judicial remedies and reparative processes are often conceived of as two separate and unrelated processes, this need not be so. In fact, the exciting, new jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court for Human Rights, has in recent years increasingly identified wide ranges of reparative measures pronounced in its judgements that are of a collective nature.
The collective measures awarded by the Inter-American Court are of significance given that the Victims Trust Fund of the International Criminal Court may or may not be able to afford individual compensation awards for all eligible victims. Indeed, it is uncertain whether even the modest financial calculation of loss used by the Inter-American Court would be viable for the Victims Trust Fund, or whether such economic damages would be found to be desirable or appropriate in all or any cases. [Just on a side note : the Inter-American method of calculation is takes into account the widespread poverty in Latin America, and the calculation of loss is principally based on the present value of the victim's expected lifetime earnings, minus projected expenses, had he or she lived. Where victims were unemployed or employed in the informal sector, the Court presumes that their annual
income would have been equal to the minimum wage. As a result, the Court generally
awards no more than 30 to 35,000 USD for the total present value of the victim's lifetime lost earnings. However, given the inter-ethnic dimension of the conflicts under the jurisdiction of the Court, which often involved land or conflict over other resources, awarding economic damages to one group and not another may simply reignite violence and thwart possibilities of lasting peace.]
In any case, collective remedies, as a matter of principle, in addition to or instead of individual compensation collective reparations are of significance in their own right.
Publicity of Judicial Remedies
A first collective measure of satisfaction used by the Inter-American court concerns
publication of its judgements.Judicial remedies can (of-course) have a reparative impact. This may seem obvious, but one needs just to consider the Judgements of the Rwanda Tribunal or Yugoslav Tribunal to note the generalised omission of reparative elements. In fact, the reparative impact of a judgement can be magnified in a number of ways, which in themselves can constitute forms of collective reparation. The Inter-American Court has ordered states to publish portions of its judgments in official gazettes and popular newspapers in 19 cases since 2001. In the case of a massacre of indigenous villagers, the Court ordered Guatemala to translate the judgement into the local Mayan language and to deliver copies to each victimised survivor and family member (3). Judge Garcia Ramirez explained that publication in this manner sought to provide :
1) moral satisfaction of the victims or their successors, the recovery of honour and
reputation that may have been sullied by erroneous or incorrect versions and comments;
2) the establishment and strengthening of a culture of legality for coming generations, and
3) the truth to those who were wronged and to society as a whole.4
Other forms of collective reparation, which have been ordered by the Inter-American Court,(which might fall under "satisfaction" or "guarantees of non-repetition"), include ordering States to:
a"effectively" investigate cases in order to identify, put on trial and punish actors;
bRemove all obstacles and mechanisms, whether legal or de facto that perpetuate
impunity for the perpetrators;
cProvide security for judicial authorities, prosecutors, witnesses, victims as well as the victims' family;
dUndertake a public act to honour and dignify the memory of the victims (including
the naming of plazas, streets or commemoration days);
eEstablish funds for education or medical treatment
fProvide pensions to survivors of pensionable age;
3(Douglas Cassel, The Expanding Scope and Impact of Reparations Awarded by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, in M. Bossuyt, P. Lemmens, K. De Feyter, and S. Parmentier, eds., Out of the Ashes: Reparations for Gross Violations of Human Rights (2006).
4 Idem.
Thus, these are a number of non-economic reparations that can be called upon.
Recommending some of these measures, particularly those relating to ending impunity, may constitute innovative interpretations of the ICC's complementary nature to national jurisdictions.
2.Reparations with Financial Implications
As regards collective measures or programmes which would require financial implications, there are perhaps several pertinent principles to be noted.
Most importantly, in the humanitarian context, it will be important to ensure that medical,psychosocial rehabilitation, educational or other programmes are distinguishable from general humanitarian, development or relief efforts. The role of collective programmes of this nature is not to replace or indeed pioneer humanitarian remedies, it is to repair specifically the harm and suffering endured. Which may or may not include generalised health, educational or other facilities that can be used by all the population.
Finally, and this is something I have noted in my recent trips to affected areas in Northern Uganda and Eastern Congo, programmes specifically designed to redress victimisation needto take the views of victims themselves (not necessarily or specifically (!) those of their representatives) into account. Victims' perceptions of their needs often differ greatly from community leaders' perceptions, who are invariably more politically conscious of ensuring widely inclusive programmes or peace building programmes as oppose to addressing the suffering of particular minority groups. In this respect, reaching and involving women victims is crucial given the particular social stigma and prevalence of sexual violence in violent conflicts.
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Collective Reparations: Concepts and Principles
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Project 55 Fellows are selected each year from a competitive applicant pool of Princeton University seniors and recent graduates. Approximately 12% of the Princeton senior class applies to the Project 55 Fellowship Program each year. Between forty and fifty applicants are placed with nonprofit organizations each year. For the 2019-20 Fellowship year, we anticipate placing fellows in the Bay Area, Boston, Chicago, Connecticut, Denver, New Jersey, Philadelphia, New York City, Seattle, and Washington, DC. A complete list of partner organizations will be made available in December.
It should be noted that applicants apply to the Project 55 Fellowship Program and not to specific partner organizations.
We encourage applicants to view recent Fellowship Directories, and to view a complete list program alumni to learn more about the individuals and organizations who have participated in this program.
The 2019-20 Project 55 Fellowship application consists of the following steps:
1) Meet with AlumniCorps at an information session, career services event, or by scheduling an appointment during office hours (see our FAQ page). This first step will allow you to learn more about the Project 55 Fellowship Program, and provide you with an opportunity to ask specific questions related to the application process and the fellowship year. You can find us at on-campus events for the 2019-2020 cycle below:
Get the Scoop – Senior Year Essentials: September 11th, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm (Career Services)
Hire Tigers Career Fair: September 21st, 11:00 am – 2:30 pm (Dillon Gym)
Princeton Post-Graduate Fellowship Panel: October 1st, 5:00 pm (Career Services)
Project 55 Information Session: October 5th, 7:00 pm (Friend Center 006)
Project 55 Meet and Greet: October 11th, 6:00 pm (Frist 201A Lounge)
Project 55 Meet and Greet: October 12th, 6:30 pm (Friend Center 006)
Project 55 Information Session & Interview Workshop: November 9th, 6:30 pm (Friend Center 006)
2) Complete an application (login below) by Monday, December 3, 2018 at 11:59 p.m. EST. The online application consists of the following: Contact Information, Interests, Short Essays, Resume, Transcript, Recommendation Letter, and a $50 Application Fee. As a reminder, applicants are applying to the Project 55 Fellowships program and not to specific partner organizations.
3) Interview with AlumniCorps staff and volunteers. Selected applicants will be asked to participate in a 45-minute interview to take place between January 9 and January 28, 2019. After the interview, applicants will be asked to rank their preferred partner organizations. While many applicants are referred to an organization on their preferred list, it is possible to be referred to additional organizations. Applicants can be referred to as many as three organizations. Referrals to partner organization(s) are based on information received during interviews, applicant preferences, and the needs of partner organizations.
4) Complete organization specific responses as determined by each partner organization. Applicants who have been referred to organizations will be asked to submit brief responses to prompts provided by partner organizations. Applicant responses will be provided to partner organizations alongside that applicant's Project 55 application.
5) Interview with partner organizations between February 1 and February 28, 2019. Most interviews are conducted remotely, but some interviews will require travel for in-person meetings. Exact interview dates are determined by applicants and partner organizations. Applicants will be notified of offers in early March by Princeton AlumniCorps. Applicants will have 2-3 business days to accept or decline any offers.
Fellows are required to attend an orientation in May 2019 at Princeton University, and most fellows usually begin work in June or July.


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Troll: (noun)
- One who posts a deliberately provocative message to a newsgroup or message board with the intention of causing maximum disruption; and
- an ugly cave-dwelling creature
I received a nasty, stupid comment regarding one of my posts. Fortunately for me, I have fairly thick skin and rather than rise to the bait, I deleted the comment and it will never see the light of day. It was clear that this person (troll) had not read my blog and was trying to get some kind of argument from me. Now, anyone who knows me, knows that I am argumentative (FYI – I am also inquisitive, and friendly and a good mum…). But I do not have time or energy to respond to ignorance. So, in light of (but definitely not responding to) that, I wanted to comment about my beliefs of and experience and history with complementary medicine – just so that you know where I am coming from:
My mum used to visit a psychic. I am not sure whether she still believes, but it was my first "hearing"of this "alternative" world, and I had LOADS of questions! Not ones that needed answering by a psychic, but more about how it was possible. I remember listening to the cassette tape she came home with, and the psychic person sounded so other worldly and so knowledgeable. In hindsight, it was probably just a bit warped (remember that!) and that made it sound very "real".
It was not until the start of the 90s, when I began playing with essential oils (without any knowledge of their potential benefits or harms) that I began to explore complementary medicine. In 1998, I started working as PA to a fairly well known and published Australian energy healer and I was introduced to a whole world of magical, esoteric alternative medicine. I learned about energy healing, reiki, meditation, crystal healing, crystal scrying, numerology, psychic healing, astrology- the list goes on. I loved my job. I loved the people who were always around – their positivity was awesome, and at that time, I needed that.
I still meditate, and if I don't have enough time for a full "session" (a bad excuse, hey!), I use the tools of relaxation to help me focus and to chill. I find this skill particularly useful when my head is spinning following a day of writing, and I cannot get to sleep. I am feeling relaxed right now just thinking about how it feels to meditate! I love the images that people use to depict meditation, because they induce relaxation. I have had some almost "religious" experiences when I have meditated and I love being able to take the time out to focus a little on me.
I have given and received countless healing treatments, and I don't know what it was that I felt – whether it was anticipation or fear, a want or a need, or whether it was the transference of "universal energy". It does not matter, because it was amazing, and it was an experience I had and loved, at a time in my life when I was looking for "something".
In 2006, following the birth of my 1st child, I decided to (finally!) educate myself; I wanted to learn something practical; I wanted to set myself up in business, and work from home. I read about a course at Edinburgh Napier University, and I jumped right in! The course was the now completely defunct (another subject for another day) BSc Complementary Medicine/BA (Honours) Complementary Healthcare. At university, my colleagues and I learned how to be good practitioners. We learned about the history and traditions of aromatherapy and complementary health, the chemistry of essential oils, anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, massage (it was a health science degree, so we learned a lot), regulation, ethnomedicine, reflexology, five element theory and Chinese medicine, we learned about running a small business and so much more. And I was introduced to research.
There were people in my class who wanted to practice from a very spiritual place and there were others who adopted a more scientific approach (not reductionist, but looking for evidence!). I LOVED this course! I met some amazing teachers, and I made some wonderful friends (I have even been asked to contribute to one of my lecturer's books!) I left Napier with a 1st class honours degree, a very wide knowledge of complementary medicine, a thirst for more education, and, finally, an understanding of what I actually wanted to do with my life. I did not want to be a practitioner, I wanted to help people en masse. I WANTED TO BE A RESEARCHER IN THE ACADEMIC FIELD OF COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE… (but I still love to make things, and doing fun stuff with essential oils, which will happen… watch this space…)
Now I am close to finishing my PhD and my focus is very clear. I want to go and find evidence for the benefits of CAM. I still think about the esoteric – the unicorns and the angels – but I am very focused on the evidence. I am not opposed to modern scientific medicine, but I wonder if there are any cheaper, safer (ie less side-effects), alternatives to current prescriptive medicine, and if so, in what areas of health? How can CAM be useful for chronic illness, and how can it be used effectively to prevent ill-health and promote wellness?
I do not agree with Tim Minchin's quote: "You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? Medicine", because I think a lot of the benefit of CAM comes from holistic practice, and that is much more than a prescription in a bottle! I do agree with another one, though, that "alternative medicine … has either not been proved to work, or has been proved not to work" – much more of the former, and, I wonder, is this "proof" better (ie quality, more rigorous and without bias?) than some of the poor scientific evidence of effect? I am not so sure…
From my happy place of fond memories, I really want to believe that all CAM works. But the reality is, it doesn't ALL work, and we need to start developing a scientific evidence base to support those that do. The public needs the real low down; they need to know where they can get good advice, and when they are being completely shammed. I love complementary healthcare; I love its history and tradition and it is because of all my life experience, that I want to be a very big part of the future.
And so, a final note – One very "traditional" CAM practitioner and educator once said to her audience that science, and learning about CAM in a university setting means that you lose the intuitiveness of the practice. To that, I say: you are not born with the knowledge of how to practice any complementary medicine; you need to learn this, and a university is the right institution; it has access to the most current knowledge, it is not biased, and it is a very broad education (with many transferable skills). An intuitive practitioner does not innately "know" which oil to use before they speak to a client; the "intuitive" is the practitioner who learns how to listen AND hear, they watch and feel (through massage or palpation), and then they can be intuitive with their practice, because then they have a better understanding of the clients needs. All of this comes from education. Intuition is important.
So is the knowledge that drinking some essential oils will kill you!
Look out for my next blog – something about "Show me the evidence…"
"…I realized that rewards are not the goal- if one seeks the ultimate it will elude you. The reward is life itself, in its richness, in its sadness, and joy."
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When my brother and I were in junior high school, we thought farts were the funniest thing in the world. They fascinated us so boundlessly that we even developed a Fart Taxonomy, as it were. We'd hypothesised that every form of gastointestinal expulsion known to man arose from one of three distinctive categories: The Rotten Egg Fart, The Potato Salad Fart, and the Cooked Carrot Fart.
The Rotten Egg Fart wore its self-explanatory name on its shoulder. It packed a sharp, attention-getting, nostril-stinging, sulphuric stench that usually erupted wetly, killed small birds at ten paces, and never failed to elicit maximum snickers. Rotten Egg's slightly less-potent cousin, the Potato Salad Fart, shared a bit of the nostril sting, only leavened by a foody, potatoey undertone.
But the most unspectacular, dreary fart--the one that extracted naught but resigned groans and dull disdain--was the Cooked Carrot Fart. Cooked Carrot usually trumpeted its arrival with low, growling notes, like a tuba being played underwater slowly or a naugahyde chair being punched. It was a thick, heavy, ugly--and worst of all, crushingly unhumorous--smell. It was the smell of the most uninteresting substances consumed by man, converting to an uninteresting gaseous state. It was the Boring and Unremarkable Wallflower Fart.
I'd readily concede to flaws in our classification at the time (we were a few years away from eating Taco Bell, which surely created its own sub-strata of stench), but I thought of John's and my Flatulence Classification System frequently as I watched Whiteout.
Bad movies, it could be argued, skew pretty close to the Tony and John FCS. The most entertainingly outlandish ones sting at the senses and elicit laughter or other extremes of attention-getting emotion, Rotten Egg-style. Others flirt with Potato-Salad-esque moments of potency, leavened by mitigating factors like budgetary limitations or a trickle of originality; less bold but still worth a chuckle or two.
Whiteout, put straight-up, is a Cooked Carrot Fart of a Movie.
Whiteout, put straight-up, is a Cooked Carrot Fart of a Movie.
Based on an acclaimed Oni Press graphic novel, Whiteout serves up a pretty standard-issue whodunnit. A scientist gets gruesomely murdered on the frozen tundra of Antarctica, and it's up to spunky US Marshall Kate Beckinsale to solve the mystery before too many more bodies pile up amidst the subzero temperatures. Through circumstances far too convoluted to mention Beckinsale, mysterious FBI guy Gabriel Macht, crusty-but-loveable on-site doctor Tom Skerritt, and nice-guy pilot Columbus Short wind up isolated at their arctic base to face a shadowy killer who may or may not be one of them.
The actors are appealing enough, I suppose, and Beckinsale does emote during one scene in her underwear (not a liability by any measure from this corner). But the piss-lousy script trots out cliches by the bucket. The Big Twist Ending gets telegraphed within the first ten minutes; numbingly literal flashbacks to Beckinsale's past as a Florida cop pepper the proceedings; and you can bet that when a character stumbles across a dead body with a bullet in its skull, he or she will state, "It's a dead body. And it's got a bullet in its skull." Such hackery would be forgiveable--hell, welcome, even--if director Dominic Sena actually shoved things along with something resembling verve and brio. But don't let Whiteout's abyssmally low Rotten Tomatoes approval score (6%, ladies and gents!) fool you into thinking it'll be any damn fun: the movie unspools as slowly as molasses flowing up an arctic hill. It makes you appreciate the enthusiastic Rotten-Egg energy that you get from, say, an Uwe Boll film. Seriously.


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Real networking winners don't compete… they collaborate!
Those people who may be in your same business as you are are not your enemy. Some of them are so protective of all they know about what they do that it hinders them from making the connections that might just help them get to where they want to go. They believe that one wins and the other loses.
I prefer to believe that both can be winners. There is plenty of business to go around. It takes a bold step forward. I no longer fear the competition, I embrace it. Some say that competition brings out your greatest potential. However, when it comes to business, I no longer believe that. In sports, perhaps. The gift of collaboration yields more than the gift of competition. For it to work collaboration must be reciprocal.
Compare someone who is protective of their turf and someone who believes that there is no competition and you will find that there indeed is but one winner in that comparison. It's not the one who protects their turf and is afraid to collaborate with others.
The real winners in the real world are those who join forces to meet the challenges of everyday business together. They find ways to work together – to combine their forces – to help each other. They make friends of the so-called competition and learn to pool their creative resources – to help each other. It's about building up rather than tearing down. You must learn to trust the process and respect the synergy that flows from collaboration. They realize that becoming a better professional networker begins with adjusting their priorities. It's no longer about "me, me, me," it collectively about us and how we can best work together.
In essence the two – working together – become a team. And together they share new ideas on effective teamwork, and experience a quick surge of creativity, or burst of innovation! How can that not help each other grow?
It's true that there are company secrets that one must guard, I'm not talking about that. Guarding company secrets is one thing but for managers or companies to forbid fraternization with the so-called enemy is stupid. It is ineffective to subscribe to the total gridlock that has brought many people and companies to a grinding halt.
Study to learn the collaborative etiquette of networking. You have the ability to discover and develop new relationships and to learn the skills of working together – so do it. What is the collaborative etiquette of networking?
Collaborative, n.
1. The act of working together; united labor.
2. To work together, especially in a joint intellectual effort.
Etiquette, n.
1. The practices and forms prescribed by social convention or by authority.
2. The customs or rules governing behavior regarded as correct or acceptable in social or official life
So, collaborative etiquette is: The act of working together within the practice of mutually beneficial social convention. Put another way, it is networking in a way that subscribes to the idea that networking is about using your creative talents to help others achieve their goals as you cultivate a network of people strategically positioned to support you in your goals… expecting nothing in return. Collaborative etiquette is the lubrication that makes things run smoothly. Without it, you may permanently alienate others.
What if it were not the economy but the mindset within the the person networking and the company? Networking not only requires effective collaboration to succeed, it demands it and those who are willing to bend to the winds of attitude adjustment will benefit from it and those who don't will be left behind.
For me, I prefer to seek out people in my industry that seem to have a bigger following than me. I review their Facebook and Twitter posts, look at their upcoming events, review their other social networks, determine the best way I can offer service to that person and then reach out to them. Some are willing. Some are not. Be okay with that and don't take it personally.
One way to ensure your long-term success is to get strategic collaborative partners to help you gain exposure and new prospects. The business and partners will automatically follow. Next… you count your blessings!
There is no competition… only cooperation!
BONUS Article: The Joy of Collaboration – Part 1 of 3
The Networking Collaborative
Networking Events are a Waste of Time…
Larry's Note: A special "thank you" to Robert Green, Chairman of Intergrated Biomolecule Corp., Tucson, AZ for inspiring this article.
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The Benefits of an Efficient Central Vac in NYC
Central vacuum systems are convenient for home-owners with larger homes or homes with more than one level. These systems can be useful in any home, but are excellent for larger two or more story homes. Central vacuums can be installed in new constructions or be added to an existing home. You just need a reliable central Vac contractor in NYC to do the work. The following information will address the benefits of central vacuum systems.
Back-Saving Solution
Anyone who has ever lugged a vacuum cleaner up and down the stairs knows how back-breaking it can be even with lightweight vacuums. It is more about the bulk than the weight, but heavier vacuums do create more problems if you have to haul them up and down stairs. If you have a bad back already, it is even more harmful and painful. Central vacuum systems save back problems.
Quiet Operation
Even the "whisper" quiet vacuums can be loud enough to distract you from hearing your phone or doorbell. Central vacuums are very quiet so you can hear your phone, doorbell, and the kids in case someone gets hurt. It is quieter because there is no motor running in the attachments you hookup to the vacuum ports in each room. The source of the motor noise is located in a part of the house like the basement or garage so you don't hear it inside your home.
Long-Lasting Solution
The problem of replacing portable vacuum cleaners is eliminated by a central vacuum system. The investment pays for itself over time by preventing you from having to buy numerous vacuums over the years. You gain a system with a large capacity for trash and debris, no filter issues, lower costs in the long run, longevity of the parts and system, no extension or power cords, and no issues with recirculated dust and allergen particles.
Central vacuums make a smart investment for keeping your home clean. They clean carpet and upholstery better and reduce the allergens in your home over conventional vacuums. These systems are more convenient, easy to use, efficient, energy efficient, cleaner to run, and cost-effective for homeowners. If you are considering having a central Vac system in NYC installed in your home, you need to research service providers near you.


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Invicta FC 13 comes to us live tomorrow night from The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas. Tickets are available via Ticketmaster or you can watch all the action live on UFC Fight Pass for $9.99 starting at 11pm ET. Check out the full fight card listed below and send a shout out to your favorite fighters via Twitter by clicking on their names.
Cristiane Justino (13-1, 1 NC) vs. Faith Van Duin (5-1) for featherweight title
Irene Aldana (5-1) vs. Tonya Evinger (15-5) for vacant bantamweight title
Herica Tiburcio (9-2) vs. Ayaka Hamasaki (11-1) for atomweight title
Jessica-Rose Clark (5-1) vs. Pannie Kianzad (7-0)
Amber Brown (4-1) vs. Catherine Costigan (5-0)
Amy Montenegro (6-1) vs. Jamie Moyle (2-0)
Amber Leibrock (0-0) vs. Marina Shafir (1-1)
Posted on July 8, 2015 by www.babesofmma.com
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Invicta FC 13 Visits Las Vegas Tomorrow
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-Cristiane Justino defeated Faith Van Duin via TKO at 0:45 of round 1.ReplyDelete
-Tonya Evinger defeated Irene Aldana via TKO at 4:38 of round 4.
-Ayaka Hamasaki defeated Herica Tiburcio via split decision (47-48, 48-47, 49-46).
-Pannie Kianzad defeated Jessica-Rose Clark via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27).
-Amber Brown defeated Catherine Costigan via submission (rear-naked choke) at 3:34 of round 1.
-Jamie Moyle defeated Amy Montenegro via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28).
-Amber Leibrock defeated Marina Shafir via TKO at 0:37 of round 1.
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The super popular 4th & Mayor app for Windows Phone is one of the better (albeit unofficial) Foursquare apps out there. The app was released back on Windows Phone 7 and still the developer is releasing updates with more support and functionality implemented. Today's release adds yet more Windows Phone 8 support, as well as some other bits and pieces.
Here's what is new in version 3.14:
- Save contact feature added to friend profiles on the social page
- Official Windows Phone 8 support with high resolution app icons
- Support for 16:9 phones (including the Lumia 1520, etc.)
- Bug fixes in explore and badge experiences
Haven't yet tried the app? You can download 4th & Mayor from the Windows Phone Store for free. Thanks, Leoberto, for the heads up!


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Colorful Simple PhoneX OS - APUS launcher theme is the latest theme and designed for all Android users. The colorful simple theme includes HD colorful wallpaper and simple icon pack. All icons and wallpaper designed very exquisite, and will personalize your phone stylish and cool. Now download the blue racing speed car theme, give your phone a fresh look.
Install Colorful Simple PhoneX OS - APUS launcher theme and personalize your Samsung galaxy, Huawei mate 8, Sony, Lenovo, HTC and any other brands of Android mobile phone cooler.
APUS Launcher, provides kinds of themes in APUS theme & wallpaper shop, such as snoopy, luxury, gold, business, black, simple, magic, comic, sports(football,basketball,cricket),festival(Valentine's Day, New Year, Halloween, Christmas)、cute cat and dog, butterfly ,dawn theme. Install APUS launcher to enjoy more themes.
★How to use Colorful Simple PhoneX OS - APUS launcher theme & wallpaper?
Colorful Simple PhoneX OS - APUS launcher theme is free, but only compatible with APUS Launcher. If you want to apply it, please install APUS Launcher on your Android phone. We can't support CM launcher, go launcher. Download the theme and you will love the fabulous app.
1. You should down the Colorful Simple PhoneX OS - APUS launcher theme
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APUS Launcher is a free, simple, faster and stylish launcher. APUS Launcher can make your phone faster and hope become a faster launcher. APUS also has many fabulous apps.
❤ Provide kinds of stylish wallpaper and fashion theme with icon packs. APUS provide kinds of themes, comic, black, cartoon, car, love, animal, sport (football, basketball, cricket), festival (Valentine's Day, New Year, Halloween, Christmas), dawn etc. All the themes are free.
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Archivally varnished, Giclee of hand colored collagraph print...
"Religionator in the Garden, Edition Variation #3"
with golden edges ...
words are hand printed on the back....
"7th in an edition of 35" written in pencil.
2.5" x 3.5"
woodcuts, paintings,
various creative curiosities
Links to Older Posts and Archives is WAY at the bottom.
There's an ETSY link way below
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I will set up a class if there are enough. email me
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This incident happened early on the morning of Thursday 7 August, and led to the discharge of stabilised oil to the sea from the Eldfisk FTP field terminal platform.
The facility was then in the process of starting up again after an emergency shutdown (ESD) and loss of power on 6 August.
According to operator ConocoPhillips, a blowdown valve in the separator was left open during the start-up, so that stabilised oil flowed to the sea via a sea sump and knockout drum.
The leak was discovered and halted at 05.00 on 7 August. A helicopter was dispatched to monitor and assess the size of the spill, and mechanical recovery of the oil initiated.
The PSA's decision to launch its own investigation reflects the seriousness of the incident and the information received about it. Among other goals, the inquiry will seek to establish the course of events, identify the direct and underlying causes, and follow up ConocoPhillips' own investigations of the ESD and leak.
The investigation will result in a report, which will be published on www.ptil.no.
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Job Responsibilities Include:
Responsible for first line supervision for mechanics and electricians who maintain equipment within the production facility. Assists in establishing methods, controls and standards for the actual execution of maintenance work.
Position Requirements Include:
Candidate must have flexibility to work 3rd shift if needed.Coca-Cola Refreshments is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.