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I frequently meet with clients to discuss college planning, and these conversations almost always have one thing in common: a stunned look, followed by, "Wow, I had no idea it might cost that much. …"
Today the cost for four years of higher education at a private university—such as Stanford, Harvard and USC—is approximately $200,000; this includes tuition, room and board, books, and other school-related expenses. For public schools, such as UC Berkeley, the cost is just over $100,000. Regardless of whether it's for a public or private institution, the numbers are significant, especially when considering that many families support these outlays with after-tax dollars. For new parents, like me, you can't help but wonder how today's college expenses will translate 18 years from now, when a child born in 2011 would be entering college.
College calculators—a number of which are available for free on the Internet at websites such as savingforcollege.com—generally recommend adding 6% a year to today's estimated current costs. So the family of an infant today can potentially expect that four years at a private university will cost more than $615,000 in 2029 compared to $315,000 for a public university. No matter which—public or private—this is a very expensive proposition—which makes planning and saving for it particularly important.
There are three main ways that one can save for a child's college education: custodial accounts, 529 plans and traditional investment accounts. There is no silver bullet here; each account comes with numerous pros and cons. Feel free to discuss the matter with your First Republic wealth management professional if you need help deciding which approach, or combination of approaches, might work best for you.
Custodial accounts, sometimes called "Uniform Gift to Minors" (UGMA) accounts, are easy to set up and available everywhere. The account has a beneficiary, the child, and a custodian, generally a parent or grandparent, who is responsible for overseeing the account until the child reaches the age of majority. These accounts are quite flexible, as a custodian who is not the child's parent has full discretion to use UGMA funds for any expense that benefits the child. If the custodian is the child's parent and the child is under age 18, the custodian/parent may not use UGMA funds to pay any expense the parent is legally obligated to pay, such as expenses for health, education, welfare and support.
The downside to UGMA accounts is the ownership structure. Since they are titled in the child's name, UGMAs officially belong to the child and thus would be considered part of his or her assets when qualifying for financial aid. A potentially greater concern is the fact that upon reaching the age of majority (which can be 18 or 21, depending on your state) the child will gain full control of the money. Given adolescents' propensity for risk-taking, this may cause many families to think twice before setting up this type of savings account for their children's college education.
Simply put, a 529 savings plan offers a tax-advantaged way to save for higher education. Funds invested in a 529 plan are allowed to grow free from federal dividend and capital gains taxes as long as plan assets are used to fund qualified post-secondary education. The term "qualified" is quite broad: Items such as tuition, room and board, books and various other expenses are all included. Some individual states may even allow for tax-deductible contributions. It's important to always keep in mind, however, that 529 assets cannot be used to fund anything related to K-12 education—at least not without giving up the tax-free benefit of the plan, in addition to paying a 10% penalty.
529 plans are also flexible in that they can be opened for anyone—your child, grandchild and even yourself—and anyone can contribute to them. As for who controls the assets in the plan, the rules are very clear-cut: The donor, not the beneficiary, is the owner. Thus 529 plans are never within the control of the child. If the listed beneficiary decides not to go to college—or if the donor simply wants to change the beneficiary for any reason—he can do so without penalty as long as the new beneficiary is related to the current beneficiary's immediate family.
Because of the ownership structure of the 529, the content of these plans is not counted as part of the child's assets when qualifying for financial aid. While parental assets do count, they count to a lesser extent than assets over which the child has direct control.
When it comes to funding either a UGMA or a 529 plan, it's important to note that all contributions are considered gifts per IRS gift tax rules. In addition, anyone can make a contribution to either plan, up to $13,000 per year, without having to file a gift tax return. With regard to 529 plans specifically, gifting rules are even more generous as they allow donors to contribute up to five years of tax-exempt forward gifting during one year. As always, please consult your tax advisor for detailed advice before making contributions.
The simplest way to save for educational expenses is to open a segregated account in a parent's name and earmark that account for education. There is no tax benefit to this strategy, but it does preserve full flexibility and control for the parents.
Is there a downside to this approach? Absolutely. Saving in this manner requires discipline; an education-oriented account such as this should not be relied upon when other expenses arise.
So which option is best? That's going to depend upon your value system and personal situation. The one common thread is that, as with most investment endeavors, an appropriate plan of action—especially one that begins as early as possible—should ultimately pay huge dividends toward reaching your goal.
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How theatre is made in the words of the people who make it.
Dedicated to celebrating excellence and supporting education in the theatre, the American Theatre Wing has been an integral and influential part of the theatrical community for the better part of seven decades. Adapting its activities for each successive theatrical generation, ATW focuses today on programs and activities which help students, audiences and members of the theatrical community itself to learn more about what makes theatre tick from the people who make it so vital.
Best known for creating The Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards, now presented with The Broadway League, ATW has developed the best-known national platform for the recognition of theatrical achievement on Broadway. Yet ATW's reach extends beyond Broadway and beyond New York, with educational and media work that offers the very best in theatre to people around the world.
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- Working in the Theatre brings together the theatre's top performers, producers, playwrights, directors, choreographers and designers to discuss the rewards and realities of working in the theatre. Over 30 years, more than 850 different guests have been featured in more than 225 revealing and entertaining programs. "Working in the Theatre" is available five times weekly on CUNY-TV and on the American Theatre Wing website; it also provides the basis for a new series of theatre books from Continuum Publishing: Acting, Writing and Producing and the Theatre Business.
- Downstage Center, a collaboration of the American Theatre Wing and XM Satellite Radio, is a weekly theatre interview show offering in-depth conversation with top theatre artists both on stage and behind the scenes. Now in its fifth year, having produced over 200 interviews, Downstage Center sets a national standard for sustained conversation about theatre.
- AmericanTheatreWing.org, ATW's website has become the premier site for free online audio and video about the making of theatre -- in the words of people who make theatre. AmericanTheatreWing.org offers free, on-demand access to the ATW archive of the Working in the Theatre and Downstage Center programs, as well as the Guides to Careers in Theatre, making the work of ATW available internationally. More than 500 hours of material is available as both streaming media and downloadable podcast, with new material added weekly. The site has more than 40,000 unique visitors each month and as of July 2008, ATW programs have been downloaded more than 1.5 million times.
- SpringboardNYC is a two week concentrated pre-professional training course for college students planning careers in the theatre. The curriculum includes a series of workshops, seminars and master classes, placing participants in the center of New York's theatrical community, with access to influential working artists. Students from around the country learn job-seeking skills and urban survival tools to translate their academic training into productive careers. SpringboardNYC alumscan be found successfully working in many areas of theatre such as Director of Training for Blue Man Group; playing Tracy in the National Tour of Hairspray; and in the casting office of Manhattan Theatre Club.
- The Theatre Intern Group, a networking and professional development group for young people beginning their careers in theatre administration and management. Theatre Intern Group creates social and professional development opportunities for the young people who work in theatrical offices, enabling them to build contacts with their peers immediately upon starting work in the theatrical community. TIG Members are invited to attend monthly panel discussions on the many varied facets of the theatre industry. More than 100 interns participate in the program on an annual basis.
- The Theatre Company Grants Program provides funding to New York City's institutional theatre companies for their continuing commitment to quality in the theatre. Annually some 50 New York not-for-profit theatres receive general operating grants enabling them to continue their creative endeavors in classical, contemporary and experimental forms. To date, the American Theatre Wing has awarded nearly $3 million in support.
- The American Theatre Wing is the new home for the Jonathan Larson Grants, begun 12 years ago to recognize and support composers, lyricists and book writers at the beginning of their careers, honoring the memory of Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize recipient Jonathan Larson. Established with the resources of the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation and gifts from the Larson Family, a restricted endowment at the Wing will sustain these awards in perpetuity.
- The American Theatre Wing's Henry Hewes Design Awards recognize excellence in scenic, costume and lighting design, as well as noteworthy effects on the Broadway, Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway stages.
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Short Bio: Geoffrey Morrison is a freelance writer/photographer for CNET, Forbes, and TheWirecutter. He also writes for Sound&Vision magazine, HDGuru.com, and several others. He was Editor in Chief of Home Entertainment magazine and before that, Technical Editor of Home Theater magazine. He is NIST and ISF trained, and has a degree in Television/Radio from Ithaca College. His debut novel Undersea (UnderseaNovel.com), and its sequel, are available on Amazon and B&N.


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Singapore's Budget 2016, presented to Parliament on 24 March 2016, contains several items of interest to employers and employees:
The Government will pay employers a Special Employment Credit ("SEC") twice a year to offset the wages of older Singaporean employees and Singaporean employees with disabilities, whose wages do not exceed S$4,000 per month. "Monthly wage" is gross salary as computed from the CPF contributions, and includes components such as overtime, bonus and leave pay.
Up to 8% of monthly wage
The SEC wage offset is in addition to the Wage Credit Scheme ("WCS") that is being phased out in 2017. The WCS, first announced in Budget 2013, allows employers to receive co-funding from the Government of 40% of qualifying wage increases given to Singaporean employees earning up to S$4,000 per month. In Budget 2015, it was announced that WCS would be extended until 31 December 2017, but at a lower rate of co-funding (20%).
With the SEC, employers are encouraged to hire and retain older workers and workers with disabilities. Employers are also encouraged to re-employ workers who wish to continue working past their retirement age. When considering wage increases in 2016, employers will be able to factor in the twice-yearly Government co-funding through SEC (to offset total wages) and annual Government co-funding through WCS (to offset wage increases) for qualifying Singaporean employees earning up to S$4,000 per month.
The Government will enhance the Workfare Income Supplement ("WIS") Scheme and the Workfare Training Support ("WTS") Scheme to benefit more workers.
The WIS was introduced in 2007 to provide a short-term cash payout and long-term CPF supplement to reward the work of older lower-wage Singaporeans, and to encourage them to stay employed. It also provides these workers with funding support through subsidies for training to upgrade their skills.
The WTS complements WIS by providing a 95% course fee subsidy and 95% absentee payroll funding for employers who send eligible workers for training. It also provides a Training Commitment Award of up to S$400 a year for WIS recipients who have completed the required training modules.
Foreign worker levies in the following categories and sectors will increase:
S$650 (1 July 2016)
While there is no change in levy for man-year-entitlement ("MYE") waiver workers in the construction sector (currently S$600 and S$950 for R1 and R2 workers respectively), the minimum work experience requirement for a worker to qualify for the waiver will be raised from 2 years to 3 years from 1 July 2017. Levy increases for the marine and process sectors have been deferred for one year due to challenging business conditions in those sectors.
In light of the levy increases and MYE-waiver changes in the construction and services sectors, employers who rely on such foreign manpower will need to continue to assess how they can better make their businesses more 'manpower-lean' and productive.
From 1 July 2016 until 31 December 2018, the Government will give a 250% tax deduction on costs incurred by a business in supporting its employees who want to volunteer and provide services to Institutions of a Public Character ("IPC"). This deduction is subject to a yearly cap of S$250,000 per business and S$50,000 per IPC.
Employers who wish to support corporate social responsibility engagement with IPCs will now have additional incentives to encourage their employees to do so. Employers may wish to have clear policies on flexible working arrangements to enable employees to volunteer time or be seconded to IPCs for this purpose.
The Ministry of Manpower will enhance employment support through the 'Adapt and Grow' initiative, to help job-seekers adapt to changing job demands and to grow their skills.
The initiative involves:
Employers who wish to hire additional staff now can draw from a better qualified and skilled pool of human resources, as job-seekers can benefit from the 'Adapt and Grow' initiative to train and upskill themselves.
A new TechSkills Accelerator will be set up as a skills development and job placement hub for the ICT sector. It will identify specific skills in demand and work with specialised training providers to meet these complex demands, develop industry-recognised skills standard and certification, and work with anchor employers to commit to hiring and paying based on certified skills proficiency rather than academic qualifications alone.
The TechSkills Accelerator is part of the broader effort to enable workers to quickly acquire expertise and skills in the ICT sector. Employers will benefit from being able to train and upskill their existing workforce, and to draw from a better qualified and skilled pool when making hiring decisions.
What this means for employers
The effect of Budget 2016 for employers is twofold:
Employers are encouraged to take advantage of these Budget 2016 measures to make their organisations more productive and resilient in any economic conditions.
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Went to the Calcutta Grill at the Newcastle (Bellevue area) golf course this evening and had a great dinner.
For starters the delicious bread was served with a side dish containing olive tapenade, butter and a spoonful of roast garlic paste. I've never had such a paste, and it was outstanding.
My wife had a dungeness crab salad ($12) and smoked salmon chowder ($6). Nice large portions of each, and the crab salad was all dressed up to look as good as it tasted. I had grilled Alaskan halibut with pecans, wild rice and asparagus--and I got a huge piece of fish, served on one of those giant plates like they have at Buca Beppo. What a nice surprise to have the grande size, and that fish was perfect! So was the rice and asparagus. $22.
I don't know if the "kid's meal" is of much interest to anyone here, but we ordered macaroni and cheese for my daughter and a cheeseburger for my son. The kids meals were excellent. Big portions of everything, and each kid's meal came with a few very fresh strawberries, orange slices and bunches of grapes. Soda included. $4.95 each. Great bargain for the kids!
Somehow I don't think this is a typical "chowhound" destination, like the chef is probably not some Euro lady who co-authored a book on organic mini carrots, but I was really pleased with everything and thought I'd mention it here.
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The discovery of nylon-eating bacteria has been used by critics of creationism and intelligent design, in both print articles and on websites, to challenge creationist claims. These bacteria can produce novel enzymes that allow them to feed on by-products of nylon manufacture which did not exist prior to the invention of nylon in the 1930s.[1] Critics of creationism have argued that this contradicts creationist claims that no new information can be added to a genome by mutation, and that proteins are too complex to evolve through a process of mutation and natural selection. Creationists have posted responses to these challenges on their own websites, which have in turn generated more responses from their critics.
Critics of creationism[edit]
The issue was first raised by critics of creationism such as the National Center for Science Education, and New Mexicans for Science and Reason (NMSR) who stated that research refutes claims made by creationists and intelligent design proponents.[2][3] The claims were that random mutation and natural selection can never add new information to a genome and that the odds against a useful new protein, such as an enzyme, arising through a process of random mutation would be prohibitively high.[4][5]
Physicist Dave Thomas, the President of NMSR, has stated that gene duplication and frame-shift mutations were powerful sources of random mutation.[6] In particular, in response to comments by creationists such as Don Batten, NMSR has stated that it was these mutations that gave rise to nylonase, even if the genes were part of a plasmid as suggested by Batten.[7]
Proponents of creationism, such as Answers in Genesis and Creation Ministries International, have cited analyses posted by Don Batten that cited scientific research that showed the genes involved were on a plasmid, and stated that the phenomenon is evidence that plasmids in bacteria are a designed feature intended to allow bacteria to adapt easily to new food sources or cope with toxic chemicals. Batten stated
It seems clear that plasmids are designed features of bacteria that enable adaptation to new food sources or the degradation of toxins. The details of just how they do this remains to be elucidated. The results so far clearly suggest that these adaptations did not come about by chance mutations, but by some designed mechanism.[8]
Opponents of creationism have dismissed Batten's analysis. NMSR has stated that the gene duplication and frame-shift mutations that gave rise to nylonase were powerful sources of random mutation, whether or not the genes were part of a plasmid as suggested by Batten.[7] A posting at TalkOrigins Archive by Ian Musgrave states that bacteria carry many genes in plasmids, particularly those involved in xenobiotic handling or metabolic functions. He states that in Pseudomonas, most of the xenobiotic degradation genes are on plasmids. Therefore it is entirely likely that a xenobiotic handling enzyme will arise from mutations of xenobiotic handling genes. The fact that these genes are on plasmids does not invalidate the fact that they exist, and exist only in two strains of bacteria. Musgrave also criticized Batten for mis-stating the conclusions of some of the authors of the scientific literature on nylon eating bacteria.[9]
Intelligent design[edit]
MSNBC published an editorial from science writer Ker Than that stated that the evolution of the enzymes, known as nylonase, produced by nylon-eating bacteria was a compelling argument against the claim made by intelligent design proponents that specified complexity required an intelligent designer, since nylonase function was both specified and complex.[10] The intelligent design proponent William Dembski posted a response that questioned whether the genetic changes that produced nylonase were complex enough to be considered specified complexity.[11] Ken Miller said that intelligent design proponents claim that we can't see either design or evolution taking place and that therefore, according to the design proponents, intelligent design and evolution are both just matters of faith or world view. However, Miller said, the evolution of the enzyme nylonase, which scientists were able to repeat in the lab with another strain of bacteria, is one of a number of cases that show that evolution can be observed as it occurs.[12]
See also[edit]
- ^ Kinoshita, S., Kageyama, S., Iba, K., Yamada, Y. and Okada, H. Utilization of a cyclic dimer and linear oligomers of ε-aminocapronoic acid by Achromobacter guttatus K172, Agric. Biol. Chem. 116, 547-551 (1981), FEBS 1981
- ^ New Proteins Without God's Help – William M. Thwaites
- ^ Evolution and Information: The Nylon Bug
- ^ Claim CB101_2
- ^ Dave Thomas's New Mexicans for Science and Reason article about nylon eating bacteria
- ^ a b update to New Mexicans for Science and Reason website.
- ^ Don Batten "The adaptation of bacteria to feeding on nylon waste" Creation Ministries International
- ^ Musgrave, Ian Nylonase Enzymes, TalkOrigins Archive Post of the Month, April 2004
- ^ Why scientists dismiss 'intelligent design', Ker Than, MSNBC, Sept. 23, 2005
- ^ Why Scientists Should NOT Dismiss Intelligent Design by William Dembski
- ^ Miller, Kenneth R. Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul (2008) pp. 80-82


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Is it difficult to define DREAMS? I guess, yes! If you can define what you dream about then you can easily define yourself as well. So, here I give a try to define myself.
Dream 1: Born To Dance
Well! My first dream took birth when I was in 1st standard. Too quick, huh? 😀
It was my first dance class. When I entered the class, it had the aroma of music which gave me goosebumps. It had all the musical instruments like guitar, sitar, tabla, harmonium etc. and one small tape recorder. As the class started, my dance teacher started teaching some dance moves. But the real face-off came in my life after the class.
When the class got over, my teacher called and asked me, 'do you like dancing?' I guess she saw that spark and love for dance in my eyes while I was following her like a baby. I replied 'Yes!' with a smile and blushing cheeks. Somewhere at the bottom of my heart, I knew what she's going to demand next so obviously, I was begging to God for an escape. But I guess He was busy answering some more important prayers.
She asked me to show some moves on any of my favorite songs. Initially, I refused due to my hesitation. I was always a shy baby, you know (Don't forget 'was' here 😛 ) but she had the power of a teacher. And like any other teacher, she too scared the poor soul of a student (me) with those horrifying stares. 🙁
Like an obedient student, I showed a couple of 'thumkas' to her. I asked her to sing my favorite Bollywood number of those times, 'mere hathon mein naun naun chudiya hain'. Without wasting a single second, she started singing and I started jumping with my favorite hastaks… Oopss… I meant hand movements. 😛
For about 2-3 minutes, I danced. Those few minutes introduced me to my first love, DANCE. I knew that my 'thumkas' were not good but I also knew that I can make them awesome some day. I just needed a professional training. Yes, I worked on it. I have already completed my beginner level Kathak dance classes. So, now my thumkas are much better than the first ones. 😀
Thank you, Mam! You asked me to say 'Hola' to my passion and first ever dream. Yes! This was my first dream… to dance flawlessly… and endlessly! 🙂
Dream 2: Love For Hindi Poems
The story doesn't end here. It was just the beginning. I was soon introduced to my another dream. I was in 7th standard and it was my English class. One day, our English teacher told that as a daily activity we are supposed to write an English poem, which will be pasted on the notice board. I got fascinated with the idea of writing a poem. (Though, it was too early)
For practice, she asked us to write a poem in that class. That was the day when I wrote my first poem, 'Moon'! Trust me, it is one of the worst poems I have ever written. I can say that because of my little experience in the writing industry.
But creativity is beyond critics and appreciations. It lies within us.
However, most of the times, we close our eyes and even brains due to the judgments, bad remarks, and own lose confidence. It must have happened to me too, if my bestie wouldn't have held my hand. 🙂
After facing the criticism of my teacher and whispers and weird smiles from the classmates, I sat down with a sad face. And then one hand held my hand. It was my best friend and sister, Jyotsna. She was sitting next to me and noticed my broken heart. She just held my hand with a smile and confidence on me. I owe my love for writing and success (be it big or small) to her. 🙂
I then decided not to give up. Although, I soon realized that English poetry was not my cup of tea, however, I always loved to play with Hindi words. So one fine day, I decided to use this skill and guess what? A Hindi poet was born! 😀
I finally started writing Hindi poems. I started maintaining a diary. Neither, I was having computer/laptop/tablet/smartphone nor exposed to the online world. Whenever some Hindi words knocked my brain, I just used to pen them down in my diary and called them my Hindi poems. 🙂
And then, that special day came in my life. I saw some fascinating Hindi poems from emerging writers on the internet (Thank God, my father gifted a PC). It was 2007 when I found RedifIland (now known as Rediff blog). I started publishing my Hindi poems and since then there is no looking back.
My diary is almost 20+ years old now and I am running this blog since 10+ years. Again, a teacher helped me to identify my skills and fall in love with it.
Thank you, Mam! 🙂
Personal Interest Turned To A Profession
These Hindi poems gave me strength and confidence to become a content professional. Now, I proudly share with everyone that I did good enough mistakes, learned from them, and made a profession out of it. My interest (which was known to be just a hobby in my country a few years ago) is now my profession.
Below is the gist of my personal interests, out of which I made a profession.
- Started as a blogger, turned to be an entrepreneur of a digital media agency, and now serving a cloud consulting organization as Digital Marketing Lead. I hold 10+ years of experience in content and digital marketing.
- Blogging was indeed my first choice of career. Hence, I can proudly say that I am a blogger not just by choice but from heart and soul too. Shouting loud and clear on my blog is what I love the most.
- I love social media and use it heavily for sharing personal as well as professional opinions. It connects me with like-minded people. So, I also use it to enhance my blog's reach.
- Kathak, being my first dream was indeed my foremost milestone to accomplish. I can proudly say that I have already completed the first (beginner) level of professional training in Kathak.
- Audio blogging is something that I really love. Publishing own voice on an online platform with perfection and conviction in the narrative tone is a challenge and I love taking it.
- I strongly believe in WordPress community and look forward to keep contributing my skills and knowledge.
To know more about my professional accomplishments, you may consider looking at my detailed CV and/or LinkedIn profile.
At the end, I'll only say that if writing/blogging is my life then dance is my soul. And, yes! I am born to DANCE and WRITE. 🙂
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my trip in Margaret River has come to an end, this year we got some amazing waves and i had a lot of fun. I did alright in the comp, only made one round but finally got good scores in a heat (8,0 and 6,5) and I will try to take that as something positive, to move onto the next comp in France.
Im going to be in Bali surfing for the next to weeks (kept the best for the end!), and then finally back home.
I have a bunch of videos that I want to put online too, but Australia has the worst connexion in the world, maybe Bali will be better?
I will try sending news more often now. Thanks for the ones who have been supporting me during those contests! I know I could have done much better but I still had fun and learned a lot.
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The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has happily surpassed its fundraising aim. Its fundraising efforts were for an upcoming expansion project. The center didn't decide to stop its fundraising campaign, however. It has decided to actually increase its aim by a cool $50 million. The campaign has secured a total of 135.9 million for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The money is set aside for a growth project that already has approval. The expansion project will introduce a pedestrian bridge and a riverfront pavilion. It will also increase the size of the actual center. The project will tack on three additional pavilions. It will also enhance available rehearsal, educational, dining and office facilities. This campaign began back in 2013. It intended on collecting $125 million for its mission. $25 million was to be set aside for all programming efforts. $100 million was to be set aside for its expansion work.
Many prominent figures donated to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' campaign. The Dick and Betsy DeVos Family Foundation contributed $1 million to it. Dick DeVos is a business and entrepreneur who comes from the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan. His birth name is Richard Marvin DeVos, Jr. DeVos has four children with his wife Betsy Prince.
DeVos attended college at Northwood University in in Midland, Michigan. He got a business administration bachelor's degree from the school. He also went to Harvard Business School in Boston Massachusetts. DeVos has been given honorary doctorate degrees from a variety of noteworthy institutions. Examples of these institutions are Central Michigan University and Grove City College. DeVos' wife in the past served as the Michigan Republican Party's chairperson. DeVos' father is Richard DeVos, one of the co-founders of Amway. Amway is a famed company that focuses on multi-level marketing methods.


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I think I've cracked the code. Yesterday I wrote for several hours in the evening and managed to crank out over 2000 words. And that happened because when I got home from my meeting with Meredith and Grace, two Tostan volunteers, I did NOT blog. My head was crammed full of ideas and possibilities, and for a couple of hours I just sat with my thoughts and mentally rearranged my novel outline. Then I pulled up the file, tweaked my actual outline, and got to work. I was struck by something the young women told me—rather, they thanked me for listening to them as they shared their experience. I'd never really thought about that—how challenging it might be to find a sympathetic audience once you've lived and worked abroad, especially when the work they do involves such complex issues. It would be particularly hard to convey that experience to someone who had never been to Africa and/or thought about the politics of international development (which is most Americans). I couldn't thank them enough for answering my many questions; in The Return, Keem's sister Nasira is in Senegal working with an NGO that focuses on women's health. Tostan has a lot of different programs but they're often reduced to (or known best for) the work they do to end female genital cutting. I want to find ways to weave Nasira's politics into the narrative without getting on my feminist soapbox. And I want to convey the complexity of FGC, the tension between respecting tradition and reshaping cultural attitudes. My tour guide joked that he was "Muslim on the left"—he drinks beer but not during Ramadan. Then he asked me if I was Christian "on the left or right." I usually just say that I was raised in a devout Christian family. I haven't entirely rejected my Christian upbringing but I did make a deliberate decision not to live like my parents once I began living on my own. I admire the discipline that Islam demands of its practitioners but I struggle sometimes to understand how religion could determine every aspect of one's life: what you eat, what you wear, how you talk, how you socialize, or marry, or parent, etc. I'll need to talk to more Muslim teens as I work on this novel so that I better understand the way they navigate both here and in the US.
Last night I was chatting online with Sayida—a friend I met ten years ago when we both signed up to teach in Djibouti. I left after 5 weeks but Sayida toughed it out and over the years we kept in touch. Now she's expecting her first child and her partner's sister is a seamstress here in Dakar, so in a little while I'll be meeting Fatou to have my measurements taken. She speaks Wolof and French only, so I've been using Bing translator to brush up on my vocabulary and phrasing, and I went online this morning to find a style of dress that I like. Shorten the skirt on this one and it's parfait!


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The how and why one company website ranks higher than another is complex, there isn't "one thing" you can do "to" a website or "for a website" to get yours to perform better.
There are a number of factors in combination that need to work together, not only in combination with each other but the timing of execution also plays an important role in getting your company website to perform in a Google search result
Below is an infographic from one of the world's top SEO gurus, Danny Sullivan
The chart below outlines how complex a total SEO campaign really is: it involves more than building backlinks, more than hiring a social media person to "improve your companies presence on social networks, it's more then producing content (actually content has more to do with distribution among various marketing channels)
Below are just some of the factors in getting your website to perform. Remember ranking in Google isn't everything, it is only the first step. Now you can begin to see why we charge $2400 a year to get your company to dominate one county, $500 a month to manage your total social media marketing ($6000 a year with a contra ct)
Interesting to note is that there are On Page things you can do to improve your sites ranking (this is what web designers think is important) and there are Off Page things to do (a web designer typically doesn't want to talk about Off Page SEO or Link Building )… then there is content (the search engines can only spider text… the copywriting on your site determines if big G "trusts you" or not. One of the most important ranking factors is TrustRank, or does Google consider your site an authority on your topic or genre. Web designers I know refuse to want to get into the content creation business…
The Periodic Table Of SEO Ranking Factors, used with permission
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The process of getting your companies website published on someone else's website, creating what is known as a backlink (a link pointing back from them to you). At first you had to ask another webmaster (more like beg really) to add your link to their website.
Then it was discovered that if you listed your company website on dozens of what I call "yellowpages clone websites" or online directories, Google would value those as links pointing to your sites… Circa 2005, enter MySpace and social media profiles, it was found if you opened profiles on dozens if not hundreds of social networks AND added your website url, that counted as a back link as well.
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Opec, IWA in deal to boost Africa utility projects
VIENNA, March 1, 2018
Opec Fund for International Development (OFID) has signed an agreement with International Water Association (IWA) for the implementation of climate resilient water safety planning utility projects in several major African countries.
OFID recently hosted the launch of a wastewater report of the IWA - The Reuse Opportunity: Cities seizing the reuse opportunity in circular economy.
The report highlights both the global wastewater challenge, and the reuse opportunity in eight cities in low- and middle-income countries.
OFID supported the production of the Report with a grant that also helped fund the participation of 30 delegates from developing countries at the 2017 IWA Development Congress and Exhibition.
On the sidelines of the event, OFID director-general Suleiman J Al Herbish and IWA executive director Professor Kala Vairavamoorthy signed a $400,000 grant agreement for the Implementing Climate Resilient Water Safety Planning project, which aims at improving the capacity of water utilities in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya and Senegal to ensure the safety of water supplies and safeguard public health with increased resilience and ability to prepare for extreme weather events.
During the signing ceremony, Al-Herbish highlighted OFID's previous grants extended to the IWA which, including the present grant, total $1.25 million.
These funds supported the participation of delegates from low and middle-income developing countries at four IWA Development Congresses and Exhibitions, as well as a recently-completed Program for Water Safety Plans Implementation in West Africa, he added.
According to him, the issue of access to safe drinking water ranks very high in OFID's corporate priorities for 2016-2025.
"We expect the present grant to contribute to the sustainability of water and sanitation infrastructure investments in the countries concerned." He noted that the latest IWA project would complement OFID's financial assistance to the beneficiary countries in the water and sanitation sector," he added.
Prof Vairavamoorthy said: "OFID's goal to support the Sustainable Development Goals and make a difference to developing countries is consistent with the values of IWA. The funding we get from OFID allows us to think out of the box and do more creative projects."
"We work very much in partnership to craft some important projects. It's a very important relationship," he added.-TradeArabia News Service


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Cobalt aka Electric Blue has been on everyone's lips.
This bold colour is flowing thru every season. An eye catcher your hips don't want to miss.
A colour so bright and intense, leaving you feeling cool and fierce. Cobalt is definitely the new black! I cannot resist, but I am using this colour for my wardrobe inspiration – Thursday night Staffparty @MadameZingara.
I want to be daring by wearing it with a pop of lime. Perhaps teaming it up with Bold Statement Silver or Gold accessory? I simply LOVE this colour, as it brings versatility. It makes you look good and feel fabulous at the same time.
If you are colour-shy (like me) to wear it as a garment, first try it as an accessory, such as a handbag or a shoe. You may even try a belt , as this is seen as a minimal piece.
Here are my STYLE TIPS "How to Wear Cobalt"
Note to self: Cobalt head to toe is a definite NO-NO or NO-GO!
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I can definately relate to that "colour-shyness" !
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|piles and piles of prairie postcards
They are done now! I cleaned them all up, numbered them, and signed the backs.
You can find them in my Etsy shop for a limited time. I dusted that poor place out just for you. : )
|After spring officially arrives, I'll transfer them to the SCC Boutique here in town.
For now, they are available online only & the shipping is free. : )
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[Comment] Blood pressure lowering trials: wrapping up the topic?
After years of recommendations for a low target blood pressure in hypertensive patients, particularly those with diabetes or previous cardiovascular or renal disease, major guidelines on hypertension management1–4 released since 2013 have re-evaluated the concept of the lower the better (ie, the lower the systolic and diastolic blood pressure achieved, the better the patient outcome). The target blood pressure was raised for high-risk patients, particularly for those with or at high risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) and elderly patients.


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STAGE TUBE: New SIMS 4 Trailer, "So Smart, It's Weird"
A trailer has just been released for the latest installment of the video game, THE SIMS. THE SIMS 4, set to be released September 2, 2014, has the tagline, "They're so smart, it's weird."
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The Sims 4 is an upcoming life simulation game. It will be the fourth installment in The Sims series. Electronic Arts announced the game on May 6, 2013, and it is scheduled to be released for Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2014.A Mac release has been confirmed, but a date has not yet been announced, and there are currently no plans for a console release.
The game has the same concept as its predecessor, The Sims 3. Players control their Sims in various activities and form relationships. The game, like the rest of the series, does not have a defined final goal; gameplay is nonlinear. The Create a Sim and Build Mode tools have been redesigned to allow more versatility when creating game content. Emotional state plays a larger role in gameplay than in previous games in the series, with effects on social interaction, user interface, and personality.[citation needed]
On August 20, 2013, The Sims 4 was revealed via gameplay demo and release trailer at Gamescom. Previews of the building and character creation systems debuted earlier in 2014. Additional game footage and the release date were revealed at the Electronic Entertainment Expo on June 9, 2014.


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Philanthropy at Work
The Martin Ryan Institute was one of the most significant examples of university philanthropy in Ireland, following a significant donation by the late Dr Tony Ryan, founder of Guinness Peat Aviation and Ryanair, in the name of his father, Martin Ryan. Dr Tony Ryan was a commercially astute business leader as well as a visionary philanthropist, and the Ryan Institute for Environmental, Energy and Marine Research (formerly the Martin Ryan Building) could not have been established without his farsightedness in supporting marine research.
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The Ryan family has carried on this legacy of visionary giving and the Dr Tony Ryan Trust supports PhD scholarships, for environmental, energy and marine reseach at NUI Galway. In today's competitive economy, the focus on this valuable natural resource is crucial to Ireland's success and these PhD Scholarships will see innovative research in an area of real competitive advantage to Ireland.
We gratefully acknowledge the generous support of all our donors who have contributed greatly to the advancement of NUI Galway.
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On a daily basis….I get to talk about Atoms, Atom options, Atom driving, and Atom racing; in general…..Atoms 24/7 which is great. The chance to speak with prospective buyers, buyers, current owners, and enthusiasts is a great way to spend my time. Within these conversation comes a variety of standard questions that I thought may be helpful if I share some of these and their respective answers.
One of the most common questions we get is – Will I fit, and is it comfortable?
The standard answer is generally yes…..although there are some parameters to work within…but the cockpit of the Atom is one of the roomiest exotics I have come across.
Here is the view from an Atom 3 driver seat.
The Atom is a car that you sit within……you feel like you are part of the vehicle……It is exciting to just sit in it. The seat on the Atom 3 is adjustable and we have had owners of Atoms that range from 5' to 6'7" tall…and a wide range of weight ranges. The low seating position makes all day driving sessions comfortable as all the controls are within excellent operating range.
You may notice in this picture that there is a full glass windshield blocking the wind; this is a standard feature on the Atom 3 and 3S that allows for spirited driving without a blast of air directly on your face. The open sides, in addition to air coming through the foot well give just enough airflow to keep the visceral driving experience alive.
Is there room for 2? Yes, absolutely room for a full size adult passenger/co-pilot/significant other. A standard footrest makes for a comfortable place for the passengers feet to rest. Now – as we all know the passenger is generally given the rights to operate the radio for any road trip…..however, in this case the passenger will have to give way to the driver controlling the sound track with the throttle pedal! The High rev-ing Honda engine is certainly top 40 worthy!
Have any part of the Atom you want to see in more detail? Let me know….happy to show all areas.
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text: The Chronicle of Higher Education Monday, August 29, 2011 Race, Class, and Obama By Clarence Lang In his latest book, The End of Anger: A New Generation's Take on Race and Rage (Ecco), published in May, the journalist Ellis Cose argues that middle-class African-Americans are uniquely optimistic about the future. A few months later, however, the Pew Research Center disclosed that from 2005 to 2009, the racial wealth gap had reached a record high, with wealth falling by 53 percent among black households. That news arrived as President Obama and Congress brokered an end to the debt-ceiling standoff, laying the groundwork for deficit cuts that will disproportionately affect black Americans. Meanwhile, prominent voices in the black public sphere have been urging African-Americans to defend Obama against his detractors. How to reconcile Cose's optimism, Pew's findings, and the appeals of African-Americans to circle the wagons, even as Obama appeases Republicans by sacrificing black constituencies and interests? Simply put, you can't. The dissonances of the past few months indicate how class complicates black politics. African-Americans have traditionally perceived their fates as linked, so for some, the thinking goes, public criticism of Obama undermines the collective interests of the black community. This view, expressed recently by the Rev. Al Sharpton and the radio personality Tom Joyner, reflects the anxiety and optimism of striving black professionals, many of whom regard the president as a symbol of black middle-class triumph. But their insistence on keeping quiet, however well-meaning, carries dangers that black-studies scholars are well positioned to highlight and critique. To do so, we need to take a look at how race and class have shaped the Obama phenomenon from the beginning. As the sociologist Jennifer F. Hamer suggests in Abandoned in the Heartland: Work, Family, and Living in East St. Louis (University of California Press, 2011), Obama's presidential campaign unfolded during a calamitous period for most African-Americans, beginning with the disenfranchisement of black voters in the 2000 elections; the deprivations exposed by Hurricane Katrina; and a staggering black jobless figure that is more than twice the rate for whites. According to "The State of America's Children," a 2011 report put out by the Children's Defense Fund, nearly 40 percent of black children in America lived in poverty in 2009. Predatory loans, turmoil in the housing market, and the scaling back of public-sector professions has now begun to erode the black middle class. Class and race provided a subtext to Obama's campaign. Projecting an image of black middle-class respectability, Obama understood that displays of emotion, especially anger, put him at risk of being framed as a thug. (Note how the Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann has used this tactic, referring to his administration as "gangster government.") Paradoxically, Obama's opponents also used his Ivy League credentials, cerebral manner, and air of relaxed confidence to accuse him of being, in Georgia Rep. Lynn Westmoreland's words, "uppity"—a term historically used by whites to disparage African-Americans considered too smart or successful for their own good. But Obama was not simply the object of race and class anxieties. He strategically employed them, too. As Thomas J. Sugrue notes in Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race (Princeton University Press, 2010), Obama admonished African-American audiences for their overreliance on government and their dysfunctional child-rearing. This rhetoric was aimed at white television viewers, who wanted proof that Obama could get "tough" with black people. Yet he was also drawing on a heritage of black "racial uplift," whereby black middle-class professionals assume stewardship of the poor masses—lifting them on their backs as they climb the ladder of racial progress. Those African-Americans who applauded Obama's words weren't castigating themselves; rather, they were making clear that they don't engage in backward behavior, while acknowledging that others in the community were in need of uplift. Obama's performances were, moreover, consistent with the Democratic Party's overall swing to the right. The narrative of racial uplift was reinforced by the Black Enterprise magazine publisher, Earl G. Graves Sr. In a widely circulated essay, he asserted that Obama's victory proved that black youth had "no more excuses" for not succeeding. From Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery to The Autobiography of Malcolm X, faith in perseverance and victory over adversity have been mainstays of black narrative. Obama's election confirmed that belief, and Graves echoed it. Yet Graves's message, intended as motivation, nonetheless implied that poor blacks were to blame for an economic debacle they did not cause. Since then, as the right has challenged Obama—sometimes with crude racist mockery, cultural "othering," and political caricature (as in the case of an Orange County Republican official who distributed an e-mail to party members depicting Obama's head on the body of an ape)—entreaties from within the black public to defend the president have grown more boisterous. When Mark Halperin, of Time magazine, used a vulgarism to describe the president, Tom Joyner published an open letter blaming Tavis Smiley and Cornel West—both outspoken critics of Obama—for contributing to an environment in which white journalists feel at ease slurring a black president. By throwing brickbats at Obama, Joyner suggested, Smiley and West effectively legitimized white racism. Such denunciations capture what Ellis Cose—in an earlier book—characterized as the rage of a black privileged class. Scorned and marginalized in their own professional lives, they identify with Obama as a symbol of self-affirmation. Yet this attitude threatens to distort black discourse at a crucial moment. Emphasizing Obama's heroics prioritizes personal charisma over collective ability and wisdom. Why is the president more deserving of support than members of the Congressional Black Caucus and the Progressive Caucus, a number of whom have lobbied against Tea Party Republicanism, pressed for jobs programs and public-investment initiatives, and refused to vote for the draconian debt-ceiling compromise? Of what value is the president's virtuosity if it bolsters a longstanding liberal retreat from issues of racial and economic inequality? What good is his "cool" if it masks, as the entertainer and civil-rights veteran Harry Belafonte has claimed, Obama's lack of moral courage? From the black-convention movement of the 19th century to the freedom struggles of the 20th, the African-American public sphere has been the site of robust exchange about the state of black America. Neither black interests nor anyone else's are served by making the president an exception. During the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery campaign for black voting rights, when Martin Luther King Jr. turned marchers back at the Edmund Pettus Bridge to avoid disobeying a court injunction, grass-roots activists regarded the act as a betrayal and took King to task. Their disapproval helped push King to higher planes of political consciousness. Likewise, Obama must be held accountable for his missteps. As class and similar intraracial dynamics continue to complicate black opinion, and as scholars of the black experience persist in seeking historical and interpretive meaning in Obama's presidency, the need for such engagement grows ever more acute. Clarence Lang is an associate professor of African-American studies and history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is author of Grassroots at the Gateway: Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936-75 (University of Michigan Press, 2009), and co-editor, with Robbie Lieberman, of Anticommunism and the African American Freedom Movement (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).


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Last week, I shared my experience at the DC Big Flea and I promised I'd show you my finds. Unfortunately, I did a bit of Christmas shopping so I can really only show two of my purchases. BUT, both of them are awesome! First up, I finally found a vintage Pyrex refrigerator dish in pristine condition, with a pattern I wanted, and I could live with the price. This Butterprint pattern is actually turquoise rather than the dusty blue it appears to be. I've been on the hunt for a refrigerator dish for quite sometime to store bacon grease. It's a southern thing y'all and adding a bit to your hot cast iron skillet before pouring your corn bread batter in makes an amazing and tasty crust.
My big purchase of the day was two of these sling arm chairs with attached cushions and brass trim from a super sweet retired couple who go to these shows for fun. If you recall, I have been in mourning after I let two chairs get away, BUT in spite of that lesson, I still waffled back and forth on purchasing them. After a text message picture sent to Mr. 3 who told me to buy them and we could find a spot for them and a conference call with Briana (which J helpfully interpreted while Briana was driving around St. Pete), I decided they were a must have! As with all second hand goods, I made sure to smell them for smoke and check them for wear and tear to the fabric and the seat bottoms. Aren't the brass bits on the legs awesome?
I talked the lady down by $100 by offering cash and playing hard to get (but super interested). Playing hard to get means coming back to see the chairs twice and check them out for damage. The seller had already knocked $50 off for me when I made my first pass (probably because it was the end of the first day), but then I told the lady that I had sent a picture to the my husband who said that he liked them (true) but they needed to be $50 less (not true).
Her super sweet husband then offered to carry the chairs out for me and waited with me at the curb until my friend Amy pulled the car around to load 'em up.
Even though I originally had no clue where I would ever fit these chairs into my house, I found out that it was meant to be after all! I had two previously undiscovered nooks in need of seating!
The black leather (pleather? unknown.) works great in the living room and I plan to keep them this way for quite sometime...however, I have briefly thought how awesome they would also be in dark blue leather orrr banana leaf fabric with green leather sling arms. Future home, perhaps?
Do I still mourn for my thrift store chairs? Yes, a bit (Briana has taught us that one can never have too many thrift store chairs after all), but I can console myself with the fact that these pretty pieces don't need their seats replaced and they fit right in with my current furniture.
Between my great finds and the Christmas gifts I picked up, I'll be headed back to the DC Big Flea for sure!


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If you've had your share of negative outcomes and have had enough, then start to visualize only positive outcomes from this point on.
Be determined to succeed.
Keep in mind that even if you don't accomplish the task the next go-around, it doesn't mean you have failed. In fact, you have succeeded if you have tried anything at all. Each try is further practice leading towards the mastering of the art.


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Teaser Tuesday is hosted by Should Be Reading.
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
'The Italian' by Ann Racliffe is a book I am severely struggling with at the moment. So much that I am wondering why I ever chose to read it. So I thought perhaps picking out two teasers and seeing your reaction would remind me why I chose it and perhaps push me into starting it again. So, here we go!
- 'On looking from the lattice, she perceives a person perched on a point of the cliff below, whither it appeared almost impracticable for any human step to have climbed, and preserved from the pre-twilight did not permit her immediately to ascertain whether it was Vivaldi, and the situation was so dangerous that she hoped it was not he.'
Ok, this might be the perfect example of why this book is difficult to read. This sentence is very log, stretching multiple lines, yet the subject matter is simply that Ellena sees someone on a cliff and hopes it's not the man she loves. This could be explained in a much more straight forward way, yet that is not the Victorian Gothic style.
- 'Vivaldi understood all the delicacy of her scruples, and though they afflicted him, he honored the good sense and just pride that suggested them.'
And I achieved in immediately found another quote that explains the difficulty I am having with this book. We are told about her perfect morals and values over and over again and it leads all of her actions and decisions. She refuses to give into her love for Vivaldi and just acts unrealistically!


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|Die, cold, die!
I've seen it all - tonsilitis, laryngitis, bronchitis, strep throat, the flu... but by far the worst illness you can get as a singer is the common cold. Why? Because it's a viral infection, which can't be cured by antibiotics. And it just looooves to linger. So while other sicknesses might be cured in a few days by a magic pill, the only thing you can do with a cold is rest, stay warm, and drink lots of fluids. Easy enough, right? Maybe not when opening night is in four days.
I've heard it said that singers are neurotic about their health. Ok, fair enough. Guilty as charged. But when your body is your instrument, and the slightest sniffle might be heralding The Cold of Doom, and thus the cancellation of your next gig, well, it's only sensible to be a little bit neurotic. As they say in the Princess Bride...
And so we singers watch our health like a hawk. We drink litre upon litre of water. We drink litre upon litre of herbal tea. We take echinacea and vitamin C and ginseng and whatever other immune-boosting potion is hip these days. We eat healthy foods. We exercise. We don't drink alcohol. We always make sure we get plenty of sleep. Yes, singers always take good care of themselves. We are a paragon of health and wholesomeness.
Yeah, right!
Aside from the water and tea and echinacea business, I don't think any singer can claim they do all these things. Ok, maybe we would like to do all these things. They all sound very nice in theory. But they're much harder to put into practice, especially with a busy and stressful rehearsal schedule.
It's been a long week at the studio. In the run-up to opening night (which is Friday), we did five 12-hour days in a row, and having had a day off we're now doing three days of dress rehearsals. In the past month or so everyone has been getting sick. This is only natural - we're stressed out, exhausted, and run down. Also, it's winter.
I didn't get sick. At first. I have to admit, I felt a bit smug for a while there about being the healthy one. While others missed rehearsals or saved their voices by marking (marking, v. - the act of singing quietly and/or down the octave to indicate one's part in rehearsal whilst preserving one's voice), I was always there and always singing full voice. But I should have known, it would only be a matter of time before I too would succumb to The Cold of Doom.
For a while there, I was doing pretty well. I was getting lots of sleep, going for runs, and even doing yoga at home. Ok, so my diet isn't the healthiest in the world, even at the best of times (spag bol, anyone?) but I was cooking for myself most nights, and getting some fruit and veg every day. However as pressure mounted and our rehearsal days got longer, it became harder and harder to stay healthy.
A musician's lifestyle is not always a healthy lifestyle. In fact, with the long and unusual hours we work and the frequent travelling, it can seem impossible to take good care of yourself. Eating healthy is a great idea - if the grocery store is still open by the time you're finished rehearsal. Exercising is great too - if you have the energy for it after another 12-hour day.
Ok, but at least after a 12-hour day I can enjoy a good night's sleep, right? Wrong. When I finally do get home from rehearsal, I find it's impossible to turn off my brain. I've been concentrating so hard on the music all day that it's become lodged in some distant corner of my brain and it will never find its way out. (By the way, I think this is the reason so many musicians drink). Have you ever tried sleeping with a 90-minute opera running through your head on loop like some kind of perpetual motion machine from hell?
|"Ach, ich fühls...."
|Basically, I would be like a hippie Snow White.
At one point I visited the grocery store on my lunch break, and in a last-ditch effort to fight back I purchased some healthy food to keep at the studio. No sooner had I done this than some kindly old ladies came to the studio to bring us a huge pile of chocolate and cookies on behalf of Sinterklaas. I think there were also some oranges in there, but I don't really remember because my response to chocolate is always this:
Anyway, eventually all of the junk food, and the lack of sleep, and the fact that it's cold season, caught up with me. I got a cold. I missed the last 12-hour day of rehearsal. I spent 2 days in bed. And now that I'm past the critical stage and into the annoying almost-gone-but-still-lingering phase (which could last for ages, in my experience) I'm leading a double life. By day, I rest, stay warm, drink lots of fluids, and try to get rid of the last of this cold. By night, I run around the stage in costume (marking, of course, because my voice still isn't back). After all, opening night is Friday and the show must go on!
Could I have avoided this cold? I'm not sure. Perhaps it was inevitable. Everyone gets colds. Try as we might to stay healthy, we all have to succumb to our body every now and then. But it certainly would have been easier to fight it off if I was taking better care of myself.
As it stands, I'm getting pretty fed up now of not singing (probably the most frustrating feeling in the world). And although I know I kind of brought this on myself, I'm really annoyed with my body. But I'm pretty confident that my voice will be back by Friday. And I'm promising myself, once again, to take better care of myself from now on.
It's never easy to put your health first, but then maybe that's why colds exist. We need to be reminded sometimes how important it is to take care of ourselves. Of course a cold is not convenient this close to opening night, but then again, when is it ever convenient?
And on that note, I'd better go steam again.


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The Fartz - Injustice !
The Fartz - Injustice
Alternative Tentacles 2002 CD
01 - Rich White American
02 - Don't Want No Gun
03 - Out Of Control Pt - 2
04 - Satan
05 - Cracked
06 - Out Of Control
07 - Get Along
08 - Apathy Is The Enemy
09 - Get Off Your Asses
10 - What Do You Stand For
11 - Injustice
12 - God Fearing Christians
13 - Martyrs
14 - Buried Alive
15 - State Control
16 - Untitled
The Fartz, hailing from 'neath the dreary skies of Seattle, terrorized the Northwest in the early 80's and reformed in 1998 after a long hiatus.
Finally, here's an album of all new material channeling their pent up hardcore rage of post-Reagan years! Blaine's caustic paint-peeling vocals are still intact, fortified by the return of the original bassist/lyricist/art "genius" Steve, plus Alex Maggot Brain (ex-Accused) on guitar and Karl Fowler (ex-Detonators, North American Bison) on drums.
This album was set up, recorded, and mixed on December 22 and 23, 2001 at Private Radio in Seattle by legendary Seattle producer Jack Endino (Nirvana, Mudhoney, Zen Guerrilla, No WTO Combo, etc., etc.), showcasing some serious production chops in addition to the robust, no-frills songwriting of the Fartz.
These are the first new songs the band has written and recorded since they reformed four years ago. (As you recall, we re-issued their early 80's material in 1998 and last year's 'What's In A Name...?' was a re-recording of those songs.) The band's current lineup has been solid for the past three years, occasionally playing in the Seattle area to instill fear and reverence in the youth of today.
Steve Fart- original bass player, artist, lyricist.
Blaine "Zippy" Fart- worn out vocal chords.
Alex "Maggot Brain"- 666 string. Replaced Paul Solger in 1999. Alex was the bass player for Seattle's Maggot Brains--an early 80's outfit that simply featured bass, drums and vocals. He later went on to join Blaine in the Accused.
Karl Minus - the drums. Been with the Fartz since the day they reformed. Former member of the North American Bison and the Detonators. (A.T.)
THE FARTZ - "Injustice", 2002: Twenty years prior, THE FARTZ unveiled their happy talent for offending the easily offended via their blaring, club-footed clatter and lewd lyrics. "Injustice" finds them showing the youngsters how it's done in 2002, but this time the vehicle is inconceivable speed...and lewd lyrics. For a band determined not to take itself seriously, these guys kick up a major ruckus with "Injustice". Stuff like "God Fearing Christians" makes high-velocity ZEKE or SPEEDEALER sound like some kind of FLIPPER demo.
ACCÜSED fans that haven't checked this one out should take a break from Ebay (you're never going to get that original CD of "Open Casket" anyway) and lose themselves in these cheap thrills. "What Do You Stand For" would fit on any splatter rock collection, and if THE FARTZ version of "Buried Alive" was any faster, it'd be grindcore.
Plus, there's a bitchin' version of DISCHARGE's "State Violence, State Control". Damn, they thought of everything.(Peacedogman.com)
224~320Kbs Mp3 encoded + scans & tags.
Unzip pass: deathburger
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Paul Foot
- Reform! The Fight for the 1832 Reform Act by Edward Pearce
Cape, 343 pp, £20.00, November 2003, ISBN 0 224 06199 2
No one disputes that the British electoral system before 1832 was a mockery of representation. Members of Parliament did not want or pretend to be representative: the word 'democracy' conjured up in the minds of most of them the spectre of the French Revolution and the guillotine. Membership of Parliament was largely in the gift of the rich. Property was represented, not people. A third of MPs were elected to 'pocket boroughs', nominated by a handful of rich landed aristocrats. There were scores of 'rotten boroughs' – some were near-deserted villages in which a tiny number of inhabitants could elect an MP. The right to vote was restricted to wealthy men or to 'potwallopers', who could afford a hearth and a cooking pot and were almost entirely in thrall to their landlords. The only elections that offered their diminutive electorate anything like a choice had come about by chance in a handful of places, such as Preston and Westminster. Naturally, most of the men who became MPs regarded this system as the best and fairest in the world. Equally naturally, most of the people who didn't have a vote wanted to have some say in their government, and occasionally were moved to say so. Such were the sixty thousand trade unionists who met in St Peter's Fields in Manchester in August 1819 and were greeted by the yeomanry, who charged at them with sabres, killing 11 and wounding around four hundred. After the Peterloo massacre, however, politics seemed to settle down again into its accustomed unrepresentative groove.
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Vol. 26 No. 9 · 6 May 2004 » Paul Foot » Shoy-Hoys
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Official PlayStation Magazine UK issue #84 is available now. Handy Tips.info presents a full scores and features preview so you know exactly what page you want to read first when you buy it. Killzone: Shadow Fall is featured on the cover with an extensive look at it inside. There is an article on Diablo III makes dungeon crawling cool again. There are previews of Splinter Cell: Blacklist, The Witcher 3, Thief and Battlefield 4 for PS4. Reviews of Injustice Gods Among Us, Thomas Was Alone and Star Trek which claims it's more borked than Borg.
Only a few more weeks to go.
So Gameinformer scores an infamous:second son cover story and OPM UK scores the Killzone cover, I wonder if IGN will score Knack or Driveclub
I don't know about any of you guys but I miss this magazine. I was bummed out when they stopped it in the US. Then they gave all current subscribers PC Gamer for the remainder of their subscription. I cancelled right away after that. I thought they entirely stopped the magazine. Surprised to see they still make them for UK. Bad ass cover by the way. He looks pissed off man!


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It was starting to look a bit biased towards the traditional Poole on here, but this Freeform bowl makes a nice change. This is one of my favourite patterns, painted by Glenys Hallett in the mid 1950's. But I've not added much Freeform pottery to my collection recently as the prices seem to have rocketed. This one was more affordable because it has a small chip! I try not to buy damaged pots but every so often I can't help myself.
Being busy collecting doesn't leave very much time to update the Rob's Poole Pottery website, so all my new finds I'll post on this blog, and for the main site follow the links on the right.
Friday, 30 April 2010
Freeform Bowl - Totem Pattern, PY 356
Posted by Rob Barnsley at 02:03
Labels: Contemporary, Freeform
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Hey Rob it`s me Ged I got into a bidding war on Ebay yesterday for the exact same Scoop/pot as in yr picture here in the end I had to let it go as it reached £300 fkn Quid Jeasus it looks like freeform`s starting to rise again as predictedReplyDelete
Hi Ged, I was watching that too. I sold this bowl to someone in Spain a few months back. Mine wasn't perfect and sold for quite a bit less than that. I think your right about the prices for Freeform.ReplyDelete
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Friday, April 26, 2013
Frugal Fashion Friday - Graphic Tees
It wasn't intentional but I guess there is a running theme this week. It may have been my visit to the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame but I can't get enough of graphic tees paired with all sorts of bottoms. Of course you can wear them with your favorite jeans or shorts but I'm loving them with unexpected choices
like pretty skirts
tuxedo jackets and printed pants
. Lately I've been searching for lots of different graphic tees. My jaw hit the floor when I was searching and I saw a tee for over $1500! I don't care if it's a Lanvin t-shirt. $1500?! That's nuts. There were lots that were in the $300 range. How can anyone justify paying $300 and up for a t-shirt? I couldn't even pay over $50 for a t-shirt. That just doesn't work for my budget. There are so many fun options that are $35 and under. Even $35 is pushing it for me because I know there are fun options that are under $20. For a t-shirt that you'll wear occasionally, $35 is my max. Check out all of these fun tees!
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