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By: Joyeeta Dutta Ray in Toronto, ON
Toronto has always been a magnet for new immigrants. Some come here to escape bullets. Some come to fill up their wallets. Some are here to breathe in unpolluted air.
Over the last few years however, more and more skilled immigrants have traded their Permanent Resident garlands for a rosy life elsewhere.
The Toronto Star reports that every province and territory except for Ontario, saw immigration numbers rise drastically. Whereas in Ontario, the numbers dropped from 133,600 to 99,500.
The reason is almost always one of the two: Unemployment or underemployment!
This was seldom the case even a couple of decades back.
When Mila Lebuda fled to Toronto from communist Poland in 1991 at the age of 21, the country embraced her with open arms. It did not matter that she did not speak English or that she didn't have much work experience. The grounds for adopting her were purely humanitarian.
"Canada gave me a new lease of life" she says. This is where she met her future husband, Vlad Lebuda another Polish immigrant like her. She made money as a caregiver. He drove a truck. As finances improved, their lifestyle did too. For Mila, the biggest barrier was language. Once that hurdle was crossed, life was sunshine and tulips.
However, not everyone finds the same success in Canada!
Mila's tech-savvy Polish friend, Aron* (named changed for privacy) had higher ambitions. He went back to Poland as soon as conditions improved. "There are better opportunities there now. Despite living here for 10 years, he never got his due," says Mila.
Not surprising! Statistics Canada reports that even after being in Canada for 15 years, immigrants with a university degree are more likely than the native-born to be in low-skilled jobs.
New Immigration Policies; New People
There's a shift in trends. As new policies replace older ones, immigrants flying in to Canada now, are visibly different than those who came in earlier. They are better educated, better versed in English and better positioned professionally.
There's a reason behind that. Earlier Canada took in more unskilled workers to meet economic needs. But recruitment efforts for skilled workers, entrepreneurs and investors are the need of the hour now. "Since 2006, the government has made dramatic changes to the federal skilled workers program by raising language requirements, restricting eligibility to specific professions and pre-screening applicants' foreign credentials", says the Toronto Star.
Yet, these very skilled immigrants are the ones who are having it rough.
For Roopa Rakshit who moved with her husband and 12 year old son to Thunder Bay (Ontario) from Thailand in 2012, migration was a decision based on being located closer to their daughter who was studying in UBC, Vancouver.
It was an intimidating prospect at a stage in their lives when they were well-settled professionally. But they were confident that their international resumes would open doors. They were in for a surprise!
It took Roopa 4 years to find a job suited to her skills. "I was an environmentalist in a United Nations affiliated organization in my previous life (Bangkok). While my International experience was appreciated, I was made to realize that I fell short of the "Canadian experience."
In the race to build her "Canadianess", Roopa sprinted on the volunteering path, networked along the way and picked up a scholarship for PHD at Lakehead University. That was the trophy that gave her the much needed break. "It was my research topic on energy planning with the First Nations people that led me to my current job in a First Nations Technical Services Organization."
Malak Ahmed, who moved from Egypt in August 2016 with her husband and three daughters, has a similar story. She was a Business Unit Director in a leading advertising agency in Cairo. Despite her fancy title and a McGill Graduate Certificate, no employer was ready to lay out the red carpet for her.
"While I did expect to work my way up, I didn't expect to stumble so many steps down the ladder in the process. I was surprised that a city that boasted of a high rate of immigration would put so much emphasis on 'Canadian experience'!"
To cross the barrier, her next step was to get an employment agency to rewrite her CV. That's quite another story.
The Great Canadian Resume
Few countries have elevated the resume to such heights. It's almost an art form here, based not on jotting down your skills but how strategically you phrase them. No matter how clipped your English, how impressive your name card or how many reference letters you come armed with, it's hard for foreigners to master this skill.
Only Canadians know the trick! They have ingeniously made a business out of it, creating employment for themselves to help clueless newcomers like Malak.
When the planets finally aligned to bless her with a job, the pay didn't match up to her qualifications. But despite it all, Malak chooses to stay on. "After the revolution in Cairo, the economy struggled and so did we. But it's all been worthwhile. We like the cultural diversity here. The kids love their schools."
Easy to see how soaring cost of living, rising crime and jobs with unscrupulous hours in Cairo make Canada seem like Disneyland.
For Alexa, who came from Honduras (Central America) to North York, the road was as rough. She arrived armed with a Bachelor's degree in Business, a Masters in Marketing, 5 years at an International Telecommunications company and dreams to make it big. None of these made things any easier!
"I was a Marketing and Sales Manager at Huawei Technologies in Honduras. The biggest challenge for me was to start my career from the bottom up." But she wouldn't head back either. "Honduras is a small country where 50% of people live in poverty. There is a high rate of homicides and corruption." In contrast, Canada offers commuting safety, free education and healthcare. The choice is clear!
Escaping corruption was high on the list for Marcia to move from Brazil as well. She arrived with her husband in Toronto in 2016. "The social discrepancy of wealth makes for very dangerous streets, with thefts happening everywhere" she says. While it's a dream to stroll around North America's safest metropolitan "without fear of getting mugged", the Marketing professional who worked for 9 years in a leading multinational company, found it hard to find a job. It took her 3 months to find full-time employment and when she did, the job was an entry level position in Customer Service that paid less than she expected because of her lack of "Canadian Experience".
"You feel like your experience in a foreign country is devalued because you haven't applied it in Canada. Recruiters tend to disqualify you too", she says.
Canada: More dependent on new immigrants than ever
Canada thrives on new immigrants to bring in the bucks. Estimates from the Conference Board of Canada reveal that if Canadian employers recognized and rewarded immigrant skills, the country would earn an additional $10 million annually.
Instead, every year, Canada loses valuable doctors, engineers, accountants and marketing professionals to the USA, where "American Experience" is an unheard of criterion! While others take up blue collar jobs that don't do justice to their skills.
Local employers argue that "Canadian Experience" assures understanding of the soft skills essential for success here.
However, it pays for them to remember that the Ontario Human Rights Code (OHRC) has laid down a strict declaration that "Canadian Experience" is discrimination and can only be used in very limited circumstances.
Interestingly enough, smaller cities and rural areas in Canada have set a better example. In 2013, Moncton, New Brunswick ran career fairs that encouraged employers to hire immigrants. In Manitoba the tiny cities of Winkler and Morden have not just drawn newcomers in large numbers with their successful immigration programs, but also helped them settle in to a quality lifestyle.
How can Ontario follow suit?
Roopa suggests, "Employers should be encouraged to accept professional immigrants to maximize on their experience. The integration can include in-house orientation." Marcia agrees. "There should be more incentives from the government to encourage companies to hire qualified foreigners in appropriate positions. The success of the immigration policy should be measured not by the number of people who come in but by the number of people who stay on successfully in the country."
For a country that prides itself on being humanitarian, learning from the smaller towns and listening to the less heard voices could be the key to turning things around before an ageing population and shrinking birth rate get the better of the nation.
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I haven't had a chance to really sink my teeth into Assassin's Creed III yet, but it seems there's a little conjecture over whether it's a step forwards or a step backwards for the series.
Which is an argument for reviews. Fine Art is all about the pretty stuff, and I doubt you'll find many objections to how slick the game's concept art is.
The images below, of which I'm pretty sure a few haven't been seen before, are all from Ubisoft's team, and like pretty much everything else ever publicly released from ACIII's vaults will be included in the game's official art book, which unlike the last big Assassin's Creed book is focusing purely on concept and production images.
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The main focus of this week is on JPY and EUR. The BOJ (Bank of Japan) will decide the overnight rate followed by a rate statement. This event should bring volatility to JPY currency basket. Let's take a look at the important fundamentals events this week. The BOJ is expected to leave the rate unchanged. Similarly, the ECB will decide on a minimum bid rate which is expected to be unchanged.
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USD CB Consumer Confidence is due on Tuesday, 25 April.
The data represents a level of a composite index based on surveyed households.
Why should you care? Financial confidence is a leading indicator of consumer spending
AUD CPI is released on Wednesday, 26 April.
The report measures a change in the price of goods and services purchased by the consumer.
Why should you care? This could be one of the AUD's most important inflation data because it's used as the central bank's inflation target.
USD Crude Oil Inventories are due on Wednesday, 26 April.
A build-up in crude oil inventories usually signals decreasing demand from refiners. On the other hand, a drop would signal that refiners are still producing at elevated levels and the inventory overhang in oil products could continue.
Why should you care? This is primarily a US indicator, but it also affects CAD due to Canada's huge energy sector.
USD Unemployment Claims are released on Thursday, 27 April.
These claims are the earliest national economic data, representing the number of individuals who filed for insurance for the first time during the past week. If the actual result comes weaker than the forecast, it could be deemed good for the currency.
Why should you care? The number of unemployed people is an important signal of the overall economic health and could hint at future monetary policy steps.
JPY Interest Rate Decision will be announced on Thursday, 27 April.
Source: Historical BOJ rate decisions
Rate decision is usually priced in the market so it tends to be overshadowed by a statement that follows the decision.
Why should you care? The statement contains the outcome of their decision on asset purchases and commentary about the economic conditions that influenced their decision. Volatility of all JPY crosses could be high. It has an effect on Nikkei index too.
ECB Minimum Bid Rate Decision is released on Thursday, 27 April.
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CAD and USD GDP are out on Friday, 28 April.
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Each volume includes comprehensive details about the games of each Olympiad (Summer and Winter), written by former Time-Life editors. Photographs, complete games' results, appendix of the venues, and schedule of events are included in each volume.
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CLARK, NJ - More than 80 people attended the Olympic Archery Clinic at Oak Ridge Park last evening to learn about and take a turn at archery. Held at the Union County Archery Range, the event was part of New Jersey Olympics Week, a grassroots effort to highlight Olympic sports. It was one of several events in the area leading up to Olympic Day 2014 on June 23.
Olympic Day is an international event held annually to promote fitness and highlight the Olympic ideals of fair play, perseverance, respect and sportsmanship every year. New Jersey Olympic Week organizer Andrew Bondarowicz said the goal of the local events is to generate interest and encourage participation in some of the smaller Olympic sports. "We tell people to find what you have a passion for and get good at it," said Bondarowicz.
The events draw attention to local resources and enable smaller programs to grow and formalize as more people become aware of them. Bondarowicz explained that the events are also a way to notice and appreciate the daily efforts of Olympic sport athletes who train constantly yet are only in the news during an Olympic year.
Sharing pointers and showing off his style was Yuji Sugimoto. This young archer is ranked 10th in the United States in the Cadet age division. He is a junior at the Union County Magnet High School and is starting to look for colleges that meet both his academic and archery ambitions. He trains daily, shooting up to 150 arrows per day, under the direction of Coach Mike Usherenko of the NJ School of Archery.
Proving that archery is an ageless sport, several senior Olympic athletes were on hand to demonstrate their skill. Lelia Nelson, the 2011 winner of the National Archery Senior Olympics, took up the sport in 2006 when tennis became too strenuous of an activity. Fernando Alano, Jr. spends his days babysitting his grandchildren, but spends his evenings practicing his sport. He is a gold medalist in the Senior Olympics and has held his title for three years.
Children's Lightning Wheels, a Paralympic Sports Club sponsored by Children's Specialized Hospital, participated in yesterday's event. Members of the Club, who shoot every Monday at the range, compete in the Junior National Disability Championships.
New archers were given an opportunity to try the sport under direction from Union County archery instructors. Gerry Decaro, president of Traditional Archers of New Jersey, was a founding member of the Oak Ridge range and one of the instructors in attendance. He is proud of the more than 1,500 permits that have been issued since the range opened. He said that safety and proper range etiquette are stressed during county-run certification classes.
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First the outside perimeter. Ok, let's get it on the table, do not use bales of hay to surround the rig.
Why they are cheap and easy to stack?
Because of FIRE, rodents, and bugs. If for some unknown reason the hay should catch fire there would be little chance of survival. And don't forget that many outdoor creatures would love to come inside your RV and spend the cold winter months.
What can be used? You can use skirting for your specific RV. Which is shown below;
While this is expensive it is a good solution to the problem of cold air getting under your RV.
Click on the link below the above picture or on the following link for details. EZSnapDirect.com
There is another solution for the DIYer and that is
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There is another solution for the DIYer and that is
Foil-Faced Foam Sheathing board is a rigid polyisocyanurate foam sheathing that provides exceptional heat, moisture, and air control.
- 4'x8' sheet (9' and 10' available via special order)
- 3/4" thick
- One side has a reflective foil face typically installed toward the warm air surface to reflect energy back toward the dwelling and the other side has a white non-reflective foil face typically installed toward the exterior.
- Can be used in residential construction as insulated sheathing in above grade exterior walls, above and below grade interior walls crawl spaces attic, and cathedral ceilings as well as Type I-V commercial applications
- Highest R-value per inch of any rigid board insulation.
- Does not melt when exposed to flame versus other types of rigid foam board (ASTM E84)
- Reflective aluminum foil face blocks radiant heat and prevents penetration of air and intrusion of moisture
Dimensions: 3/4" x 4ft x 8ft Cost as little as $9.25 per sheet
This type of foil backed foam board can be cut to fit and close-in around the RV to protect the underbelly of the RV from freezing. This type of insulation is available at Home Depot, Lowes, Menards, etc.
You would secure the foam to the RV and to itself by using aluminum heating duct tape.
The area under the RV that you create by enclosing the area needs to be heated with a low heat generator such as this mini heater.
This heater uses about 200 watts of AC power and I would use two of them for a 40ft trailer. The heater should be placed off the ground several inches in case of water flow.
Second is the water and control compartment.
Yours may look different, but the issue is that it needs heat. This area should be kept warm by a Mini Heater or 60 watt light bulb. The concern is the water hookup to the trailer and the ability to release the black and grey water tanks valves. One problem you can encounter with a light bulb as a heat source is light. In many articles that I have read on winter camping one solution to heating, a small area is using a 60 watt light bulb. But at no time does anyone offer a solution to the light pollution that is given off by the bulb. Here is one solution you might consider, a
60 Watt Non-Lighting Heat Source
Following is a sample of a clamp on a lamp base.
Following is a sample of a clamp on a lamp base.
For the fresh water lines, you will need to use the shortest hose you can to go between your rig and the fresh water source.
- Provides a constant source of water in freezing temperatures
- Thermostatically controlled
- Turns on when temperatures are below 45 degrees
- Turns off when temperatures are above 50 degrees
- Made from drink-safe PVC
- Keeps water from freezing down to minus 42-Degrees Fahrenheit
- Tougher thermostat
Do not let the hose lay on the ground. You can do this by wrapping the water hose in pipe insulation. You can get some from Home Depot, Lowes Menards etc.
Use some of the Aluminum Tape to seal the pipe insulation and do not forget to wrap the water source with pipe insulation to help keep it flowing. Some people even build a box out of the foil foam board to cover the water source to further insulate.
Next the sewer and sewer hose. "DO NOT LEAVE THE DRAIN VALVES OPEN" Open as needed to dump the gray or black tank. Use the shortest sewer pipe you can and you need to support it off the ground. Wrap the sewer hose with heat tape first.
Next wrap the sewer hose and heat tape in a blanket made from a Hot Water Heater Insulation blanket
You want to wrap it tightly and then tape it very well to hold it together. Leave an overlap at both ends to go over the sewer connection and the sewer pipe that comes out of the ground and be sure the heater tape is wrapped around the end of the pipe that is attached to the RV as well as the water heater insulation blanket.
To keep the sewer hose off the ground and well supported you can use rain gutter pipe or you can use,
Some RVers even put a gallon of RV antifreeze down the black tank after dumping the tank to help ensure that nothing gets frozen between dumps.
I have not tried this myself, but there is no reason it would not be a good idea. It is an added expense that would need to be considered.
I believe that covers the outside of the rig now let's move inside and see what can be done to keep out the cold and keep in the warm.
You need to check all the doors that you go in and out of the rig with. If you can see daylight around the edge of the door with the door closed. You will have cold air coming into the rig. You need to put door weather seal around the door to seal the door better.
What about the windows you say. You are right if your rig windows are single pane, as most of them are, you will need to winterize them as well. The easiest way is to use the small bubble pack wrapping material that you can find almost anywhere.
- Cut the bubble wrap to the size of the window pane with scissors.
- Spray a film of water on the window using a spray bottle.
- Spray a film of water on the bubble side of the bubble wrap using a spray bottle.
- Apply the bubble wrap while the window is still wet and press it into place.
- The bubble side goes toward the glass.
- To remove the bubble wrap, just pull it off starting from a corner.
Fits standard 14" RV vents
Reflective surface blocks the sun's damaging rays
Full 2.75" of foam to help stop heat transfer
Durable and easy to store
Keep your RV cooler in the Summer and warmer in the Winter
Now that we have sealed the rig against the cold air we have now trapped water vapor from cooking, propane heating, showers, and human breathing inside the rig. You will begin to see water or moisture on the walls of the rig and anything that is colder than the inside air. This is not good and can cause mold. To get rid of the moisture and reduce the humidity we need a dehumidifier. Several ideas come to mind.
Quiet Small-Size Dehumidifier with No Moving Parts
Removable 16-oz. Water Tank & Washable Air Filter
Features 'Tank Full' Indicator Light
Auto-Shuts When Water Reservoir is Full
Measures Just 5.75" x 5.32" x 8.78" in
You might need two of these in a large 40ft rig. They do work and keep the air drier but not completely dry.
Next is the Goldenrod Heaters. You also will need several of these in larger rigs but they are smaller and you do not need to dump them, like the one above.
This unit comes in different sizes up to 36 inches in length. It consumes about 1 watt per inch and is mounted along the wall at the floor level. You will need several in a large rig as they can dehumidify approximately 200 cubic feet of air. So if you have a bunkhouse then that room would have its own unit. The main living area would have one and the master bedroom would have one.
Something I have used is DampRid in closets and drawers where moisture is not wanted and may be harmful to the contents of the surrounding area.
Something I have used is DampRid in closets and drawers where moisture is not wanted and may be harmful to the contents of the surrounding area.
That should do it. You have done your best to get the rig ready for winter and now the daily grind begins. In a separate blog post, we cover how to keep you and the kids warm when it is cold outside.
Until next time.
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Shopping in Taiwan is not difficult, once you learn the basic shopping skills, especially the money system. Of course it is easy to drive to the local Costco, park in the underground parking, walk up one ramp to the photo and food court, and then take your cart on a moving ramp to the main floor. Costco is pretty much like Orem, except the crowds make Orem look empty, and the variety of foods cater to the Chinese diet. However, we can buy many of the Kirkland products making it feel somewhat like home.
But, shopping at Costco is for wimps. (And we wimp out about twice a month). Real shoppers go to the various markets all within walking distance of our apartment. It is impossible to live in the center of Taichung, and walk one block without passing vender after vender. Some are on the streets in their trucks or motorcycles converted into a "truck of sorts." (see photo) Some use the front of their homes as a store front. They look like a garage door at night, but in the morning open to a store with an apartment in the back and in some cases upstairs.
This morning on our two mile walk we ran onto a huge day market in the back alleys of a neighborhood close to ours. It was raining but we wandered through the market for about 45 minutes buying peppers here, mangos there, onions at another vender, and of course pineapple and broccoli. No, we did not buy any pigs feet or duck blood. We'll save that for another lifetime. The chickens were fresh, head and feet still attached after they were killed on site. The vegetables and fruit are superb. The mangos we bought today were the size of small cantaloupe. The pineapple is better than Maui Gold What a fun adventure. We came home wet from the rain, but with memories of a wonderful morning in the market we will never forget.
The money system is a base-10 system so once you get the math down you are on your way. Until you ask the price and the Chinese they speak is not the Chinese you were prepared to hear. After a few blank stares the kind vender will write the number on his/her hand with a finger and then you understand. The prices are actually comparable to what we pay in the states. The experience is priceless.
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Market---(Shir Chong)
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It looks like you're adjusting well. I love fresh markets. I wish we had more around here. It's so crazy to know you guys are over there but I know and trust that you're being taken care of and watched over. We love and miss you guys. If there's anything we need to go for you back here let us know. We'll keep Andy and Missy in line lol.ReplyDelete
Love you guys! Keep the pictures and info coming. We love to look and read it.
Chris and Rog. (your best looking brother and sisterinlaw)
"and we whimp out about twice a month" ... oh, that had us cracking up. Love the pictures! What an amazing adventure you two are on. Wonderful stuff.ReplyDelete
sending our prayers...
oops...wimp, not whimp. silly me.ReplyDelete
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THE quarter-finals of the William Hill Scottish Cup have thrown up an intriguing derby clash after Dundee were drawn to play host to Dundee United.
Dundee were rarely troubled as they swept aside Morton 5-1 in the fifth round today, and will play a United side who booked their progression with a comfortable 3-0 win over Rangers yesterday.
Celtic have been offered the chance of gaining quick revenge after being draw away to St Mirren, who knocked the Hoops out of the Scottish Communities League Cup at the semi-final stage last month.
A team from the Irn-Bru First Division will be represented in the last four after Hamilton drew a home tie against Falkirk, while the remaining quarter-final sees Hibernian visit Kilmarnock.
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The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) has sealed Nicon Hotels Limited, Lekki, Lagos, for allegedly failing to remit taxes amounting to N14.4 million to the state government.
The Head of Distrain Unit of LIRS, Mrs. Folasade Coker-Afolayan, told the News Agency of Nigeria, on Thursday in Lagos, that the debt had accrued since 2010.
Coker-Afolayan said the amount was the workers' income tax, which the management failed to remit to the state government.
"We decided to seal Nicon Hotel because it owed the Lagos State Government N14.4 million. The amount is the workers' income tax for 2010.
"The hotel will not be reopened for business until the tax liability is remitted," she said.
Coker-Afolayan said the state government had written the management of the hotel on the need to remit the tax.
According to her, the Distrain Unit of the LIRS had no alternative than to seal the hotel when the management failed to respond to its request.
She reiterated that payment of tax is the civic responsibility of everyone to enable any government provides infrastructure for its citizens.
The team leader urged companies to remit their taxes promptly to avoid being sealed.


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When you first start flying drones, it can feel like there are a lot of details to keep track of. But after you log a few flights and build your confidence with the basics, you're probably eager to explore some new locations and see what your drone can really do.
Drones are easier to fly than ever before, but it's important to not allow ease-of-use to create a false sense of security. Millions of new drone pilots are expected to take to the air for the first time in the coming years, and many of them will undoubtedly experience crashes and flyaways that could have been easily avoided. Becoming a skilled drone pilot takes time, practice, and incorporating habits for safe and successful flights.
So, before you take off into uncharted territories, here are a few habits that can help you avoid costly incidents, and establish a track record of safe flights.
For many pilots, scouting a new location starts with online research using Google Earth or other digital tools. Online resources can be a good way to gain a basic understanding of the terrain, but even if you've done your digital due diligence it's best to explore a new location in person before you fly.
Here are a few things to look for when scouting a new location:
Identify the safest place for take-off and landing: Find an open area with a level surface that's clear of debris. There should be about 15 feet between you and the drone during take-off and landing, and make sure there's plenty of room to maneuver freely once the drone is up in the air.
Map your flight plan: Even if you're just planning a basic flight in a familiar field, it's important to map out your flight plan. Ensure the path you intend to fly is safe and clear of trees, buildings, power lines, cell phone towers, guy wires, and any other potential obstacles that might impact your flight.
Look for sources of interference: Fire hydrants, underground pipes, power lines, cell and radio towers, rebar in concrete, and other nearby metal objects like your keys, smartwatch, or cell phone, can all cause magnetic interference that impacts the drone's compass. Interference can cause a failed compass calibration before takeoff and other in-flight problems such as drifting or loss of camera controls.
Thoroughly researching a new flight location will help you familiarize yourself with potential in-flight threats and be better prepared to manage unexpected challenges.
Before you head out to your flight location, check the weather report for that area. You'll want to keep an eye on these five factors:
Mobile apps like Hover (see screenshot above), make it easy to check these key measurements and determine if it's safe to fly. If any of these conditions are not favorable, you should move your flight to a later date or different location. Check your user manual for more information on how weather-related factors might impact the performance of your drone.
Creating a preflight checklist enables you to identify the steps essential to a successful flight, and confirm that you complete those steps every time you fly. As you build up your piloting experience, a checklist might start to feel unnecessary. But the reality is that experts throughout the aviation industry – from captains of large passenger planes to experienced quadcopter pilots – utilize checklists before each and every flight.
The checklist you create will vary based on the drone you fly, but here are a few general factors to consider:
Your checklist might also include confirming that you have local emergency and air traffic control contact information, a copy of your insurance details, and a copy of your remote pilot certificate (if applicable).
If you're a beginner or novice pilot, it's best to hone your flight skills in a large open field or park, free of trees and away from crowds. Spend at least a month practicing in a familiar, open area before you start experimenting with more challenging locations. Getting overly confident and flying in a difficult area (like right outside your front door) can lead to crashing or losing your drone.
Remember to check your proximity to airports and other restricted areas. Check city ordinances and signs at the location, as your favorite park might actually prohibit drone flights (AirMap and Hover are two great tools that can help you fly safely in authorized areas). Lastly, don't forget the basics: keep your drone under 400 ft., within line of sight, and away from crowds and restricted areas.
There are some inherent risks associated with flying drones, and unexpected things will happen. But establishing habits that ensure safe flight, such as scouting new locations, checking the weather, creating and using a preflight checklist, and always flying within your limits, enables you to reduce avoidable incidents, better prepare for the unexpected, and consistently complete successful flights.


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Emma Watson is the top contender for the female lead role in the sci-fi prison thriller "Incarceron" for Fox 2000 reports Just Jared.
Based on Catherine Fisher's young-adult novel series, the dystopian fantasy follows a young man named Finn (Taylor Lautner) incarcerated in a futuristic and completely self-contained living prison ruled by rivalry and savagery.
The daughter (Watson) of the prison's warden lives outside in a future world made to resemble the 17th century and is being forced into an arranged marriage. Both find a device, a crystal key, which allows them to communicate with each other and hatch a plan to escape their respective incarcerations.
Jennifer Lawrence and Blake Lively were previously considered the front runners for the role. Adam Cooper and Bill Collage ("Moby Dick") are adapting the script while Hugh Jackman and John Palermo will produce, though no director is yet attached.


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Someone who thinks they can dance and or constantly does the same dance or a variation of the same dance and also has more than once had drunk hook ups with someone they would not were they soberwhich they may or may not remember, possibly resulting in a child. This person may also have a resounding reputation as a creeper when in fact it is not actually true, they just come off that way.
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There are two different types of pooled silver accounts or certificate programs, allocated and unallocated.
Allocated accounts are opened when a client requires specific metal such as gold or silver bars and coins to be stored separately and a detailed account of the physical characteristics of the precious metal, such as weights and assays, is recorded. The client has full title to these assets and the dealer or mint simply holds these assets on behalf of the client as a custodian. Usually there are storage fees to be paid on the holding and sometimes other fees also.
There are a number of dealer that provide for allocated precious metal accounts.
A good example is the Perth Mint. With the Perth Mint Certificate Program (PMCP) You own title to specific coins and/or bars, which are placed in a physical form in the PMCP storage facility. You also meet the quoted precious metal cost, fabrication charges and storage fees at the time of your purchase. The storage fees are based on the purchase value of your precious metal, so your storage costs will not rise if precious metal prices increase and the annual storage fees are collected every three years in arrears, with one year's storage payable at time of purchase.
Most of the dealers of allocated silver accounts operate this way with some variations.
Unallocated Accounts
This is quite different in that the precious metal is not segregated or separated from other account owned metal. Instead it is pooled. Each person owning some of the pooled precious metal shares that with all the others also owning a share of the pooled precious metal. However, it is the most convenient, cheapest and most commonly used method of holding metal.
Again using the Perth Mint as an example. The PMCP gives you legal title to precious metals held by The Perth Mint on a unsegregated (unallocated) basis. The Certificate is in your name and identified by a Certificate number. The PMCP is also the only Government Guaranteed certificate program in the world, making it one of the safest ways to own precious metals.
When you buy unallocated silver from the Perth Mint, they will issue you a Certificate confirming your purchase of the requested precious metal, which is stored at the Mint on your behalf.
With unallocated silver, usually the units of these accounts are one ounce of silver based upon a .995 LGD (London Good Delivery) .999 fine LGD silver bar. Based on the LBMA. The LBMA is a small market in terms of transacting participants, but since it operates as an OTC market, the transaction levels on the LBMA dwarf those of any other physical gold market in the world. Note the IMF statement earlier that nearly all loans and swaps involve unallocated gold (i.e. not audited).
Many of dealers and mints around the world operate in a similar way, again with slight variations as in the allocated accounts.
The PMCP offers investors a unique range of precious metal storage options on attractive terms:
Account opening minimum: USD 10,000 (AUD 5,000 for Australian/New Zealand residents)Some of the advantages of allocated and unallocated silver accounts include confidentiality, low cost security, flexibility and, in many cases, no sales or other taxes are levied (Check with your own financial advisors as far as the tax laws in your country are concerned) for one's precious metal assets
Minimum subsequent purchases or sales: USD 5,000 (AUD 5,000)
All Certificates are purchased through a reputable international Approved Dealer network a list of which is on the Perth Mint website.
The advantage with the Perth Mint, which other metal storage facilities do not have is that All precious metal held by the Perth Mint Depository in both allocated or unallocated storage accounts is covered by a Western Australian Government Guarantee.
Appealing to many investors with the Perth Mint Certificate Program is that transaction confidentiality is provided for under the Gold Corporation Act 1987 and the Perth Mint Certificate Program's administrative procedures.
The Perth Mint Certificate gives you legal title to precious metals held by The Perth Mint on either a segregated (allocated) or unsegregated (unallocated) basis. The Certificate is in your name and identified by a Certificate number. The PMCP is also the only Government Guaranteed certificate program in the world, making it one of the safest ways to own precious metals.
If you want more information about the Perth Mint Certificate Program (PMCP) you can locate a dealer here: www.perthmint.com.au/cp_dealers.aspx
All of these types of allocated and unallocated silver accounts offer an alternative to the problematic issue of storing large amounts of silver or entering the more economically dependent silver exchange traded funds or, even worse, silver futures!


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Summer reading group
This summer, a group of graduate students and I met about every week to discuss 1-2 articles from recent conference proceedings. It has been an amazing experience that taught me 3 main things:
- This is what learning is supposed to be like
We met because we wanted to, not because we had to (which is actually true of graduate school). We talked about all sorts of other things, we drank tea, ate, giggled. The meetings were, I think, free of stress, pressure, and grade anxiety. Yet, we learned a lot. This makes me think of how universities first started – a group of people gathered around an older, "wiser" person, walking around and discussing. Because they wanted to. A model where students sought the teacher and instruction was personal.
- Creating a family away from home is a very good idea
Many of the students in the group, as well as I, are internationals. We are far away from our families. Let's face it, we get lonely. I know I do. It is possible, and even a very good idea, to create a makeshift family by gathering nice people you care about around a table (food or tea help!). We held a couple of meetings at my house. We ate. We laughed at the cats' antics. We felt a sense of warmth and belonging, and possibly of the kind of safety that only being in the midst of family gives you.
- Female fellowship is precious
Over the summer, all the participants to the reading group were female. I loved the energy and the relaxed atmosphere (and the giggles!) of an all-female group. As I get older, I appreciate more and more the special qualities of female fellowship and friendship. I don't quite have the vocabulary to express why this is so precious to me, but I feel it very clearly.
I would really like to thank each and every one of the bright and lovely women in this summer's reading group – and would love to hear what you got out of this experience!
I look forward to this semester's meetings 🙂
With gratitude,
Dr. V
Reading notes: Twitterville
Twitterville is a collection of stories about Twitter written by a twetizen who is enchanted with the Twitter village. It is a business book as much as it is a piece of
anthropology – by reading stories about a place, we infer its values, social norms, and culture.
Most of the stories are wonderful, uplifting, and show the positive side of Twitter. They are not, I think, your everyday Twitter stories – they are the extraordinary events that stand out in a place's history. I'm glad someone took the time to document and save them. I remember living through most of them, and it felt great to read these accounts of recent Twitter history. Israel is an excellent story teller, and if I didn't envy his warm, fluid, friendly, yet clear and simple writing style so much, I'd go on and on praising it :).
I loved reading the book, and enjoyed every page of it. I can imagine critics complaining that the book is overly positive – that it portrays Twitterville as a better place than (they think) it is. Israel's Twitter enchantment doesn't bother me, primarily because, like a respectable ethnographer, he spells out his biases clearly and repeatedly. He explains his point of view and enables the reader to decide how to interpret the content. As a qualitative researcher, I do not believe in the myth of objectivity. I think the best we can do is explain our biases, so readers can make informed decisions about interpreting our writing. I see very little of this in popular literature, and I hope more authors will adopt this practice.
… and Israel's enchantment with Twitter doesn't bother me, because I can relate to it and I share his point of view. I was initially amused by the claim that Twitter can lead to… world peace. But as I read the last chapter, I realized that, as a firm believer in the power of communication to make and break our world, I too, think, that conversation is the best solution – and that it can, indeed, help us make peace.
How I read a book in 2 hours
I promised this post to my students. This is how it works for me:
- quiet time, free of distractions and noises (TV, music with words)
- clear, rested, focused mind (coffee or tea help, or read in the morning)
- upright body posture to maintain alertness: sit at table, not lounge chair or bed. Look down at book.
- keep large notebook & pen on hand (for outlining main argument and/or book's structure)
Clear goals in mind:
- to understand what the book is about (TOPIC)
- to understand the MAIN ARGUMENT of the book
- to understand what types of SUPPORTING EVIDENCE the author uses to support the main argument
My strategy: get the big picture of the book by understanding its structure (outline).
I read word for word, in this order:
- inside flap – b/c it's usually a concise summary of the book
- back cover – the praise for the book tells me in which contexts the book has been found useful (i.e. education, or marketing, or economics). This helps me place the book in context. (oh, this is useful for marketing professionals).
- table of contents – I spend a lot of time with the table of contents, because it tells me what the outline/structure of the book is. If the chapter titles as smarty-pants instead of descriptive (boo!) I flip through the book to see what the author means by a certain smarty-pants chapter title. Here, I make my selections of chapters I might be more interested in than others.
- Preface, Introduction, first chapter – the Introduction especially gives me 80% of what I need to know: the problem addressed in the book, the book's main claim (thesis statement) and an overview of the contents of the book. I ask myself: if this book could be summarized in ONE sentence, what would this sentence be? I hunt for this sentence and underline it boldly when I find it (sometimes I find 2 or 3, but not more – you have to be very picky here).
For example, I think this is that ONE sentence from Content Nation, found in Ch. 1, p. 2:
"In the process of becoming publishers who can reach and interact with a potentially global audience whenever they need to or want to, something is changing in the way that everyday people look at themselves and their world. […] We are beginning to look upon institutions that we used to rely on for providing us with cohesion and value in our lives as less valuable in the face of publishing technologies that allow us to organize ourselves and our lives more to our suiting."
This is, I believe, the thesis statement of the book. It tells me what to look for from now on:
- I know the book is about self-publishing – I will look for definitions and explanations of self-publishing (TOPIC)
- I know the book is about change brought about by self publishing – I will look for an argument about the nature and the dynamic of that change (MAIN ARGUMENT)
- I know the book will talk about change in specific contexts or institutions – these will be examples, EVIDENCE that SUPPORTS the main argument
Once I identified the 3 main ingredients of the book, I go looking for them in the other chapters. I will read carefully (if I have time) the parts that inform the 3 main ingredients above (topic, main argument, supporting evidence). But, to get an idea of the entire book, I read:
- the first paragraph of each chapter – it is usually the thesis statement of that chapter. If it's not the first paragraph (boo!) then I look for it further down the page.
- the first sentence of each paragraph (GRE tip, remember?). If the book is well written in the U.S. writing style, the first sentence of each paragraph is the paragraph's main idea. In European writing style, it's more complicated. It may be the last sentence.
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- headings and subheadings (love them!), and the first sentence/para under each of them
- the last paragraph of each chapter, because it should be a summary/conclusion of that paragraph
- the Conclusion chapter (last chapter) because it should contain a summary of the book, some context for the book, and takeaways.
Try it out. Share tips that have worked for you. And most importantly ask yourself:
Do I write such that people can quickly grasp the meaning of my text?
[update/one more thought:] – ultimately, no matter what you do, make sure you get a few specific ideas out of your reading. If, after spending time with a reading, all you have in your head is an amorphous blur and no specific ideas, then you know you're doing something wrong.


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The ruins are spectacular and are overlooked by a 16th century Arab castle from which you should go to view the ruins at dawn or dusk.
Although the only similarity with Ephesus is the fact that they are both well-known Roman sites and on many people's 'must see' lists. Palmyra was one of the cities of the Roman Decapolis, a line of ten cities which marked the border of the eastern empire. It is in the desert, and only after driving along a two-lane asphalt highway for about an hour do the ruins suddenly come into view.
As well as being a Roman garrison city, Palmyra was also a trading hub and the brackets you see half way up the columns originally held statues of local notables. In total there must have been thousands of statues.
When Lady Hester Stanhope, a Victorian woman who travelled widely in the Middle East visited Palmyra in the middle of the 19th century, young dancing girls were placed on all the brackets and she entered the city by riding her camel between two rows of 'living statues'.
The ruins are spectacular and are overlooked by a 16th century Arab castle (see picture above) from which you should go to view the ruins at dawn or dusk. As it has been blowing a gale for the whole of our visit with occasional rain showers, we shall have to imagine the famous view from the castle – or make sure we next visit at a time of year when the weather is more benign.
The most famous ruler of Palmyra was Zenobia, who took over after her husband and elder son were murdered in Cappadocia where they were leading a campaign on behalf of the Romans, whilst her other son was still too young to rule. She eventually took control of the whole of Syria, south as far as Egypt and west well into Turkey.
It seems she dreamt of splitting the Roman Empire – she would rule in the east leaving the western part of the Empire to Rome itself. In 272 the Emperor Aurelian decided enough was enough and led his army across Anatolia, recapturing key cities en route, and finally attacked and took Palmyra. Zenobia fled across the desert on a camel but was caught whilst trying to cross the Euphrates, and paraded in Rome as part of Aurelian's triumph, draped in golden chains. She was then kept in captivity near Hadrian's villa in Tivoli.
Palmyra continued after the fall of the Roman Empire as an Arab stronghold. The Arabs fortified the Temple of Bel, the most impressive structure remaining on the site, and later built the castle which still overlooks the site today. But by the time the Ottomans reached this area the ruins had been allowed to almost disappear under the desert sands.
Today Palmyra is almost totally dependent on tourism, and in early February tourists are thin on the ground. The minute you arrive the hassling starts with Arabs wanting you take their taxi, stay at their hotel (or the hotel that will give them a commission for delivering you), eat at a certain restaurant or buy their trinkets. It is tiresome, and in sharp contrast to all the other places we have visited in Syria.
Everything costs more here because it has to be trucked in across the desert.
In fact our verdict on Palmyra has to be 'amazing ruins, shame about the people.'
The only answer would seem to be to visit as part of an organised tour group, or come in spring or autumn which are peak visiting seasons, when with luck there will be sufficient tourists around to keep all the touts busy and happy.


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Straightforward Statistics: Understanding the Tools of Research is a clear and direct introduction to statistics for the social, behavioral, and life sciences. Based on the author's extensive experience teaching undergraduate statistics, this book provides a narrative presentation of the core principles that provide the foundation for modern-day statistics. With step-by-step guidance on the nuts and bolts of computing these statistics, the book includes detailed tutorials how to use state-of-the-art software, SPSS, to compute the basic statistics employed in modern academic and applied research. Across 13 succinct chapters, this text presents statistics using a conceptual approach along with information on the relevance of the different tools in different contexts and summaries of current research examples.
Students should find Straightforward Statistics: Understanding the Tools of Research easy useful and engaging in its presentation while instructors should find it detailed, comprehensive, accessible, and helpful in complementing a basic course in statistics.
1: Why Do I Need to Learn Statistics?
- Examples of statistics in the real world
- The nature of findings and facts in the behavioral sciences
- Descriptive and Inferential Statistics
- A conceptual approach to teaching and learning statistics
- What you should get out of this class
2. Describing a Single Variable
- The nature of variables: continuous vs. categorical
- Frequency distributions as descriptions of single variables
- Creating frequency distributions
- Representing frequency distributions graphically
- Interpreting frequency distributions
- Mean, median, and mode
- Why is the mean the most-utilized index of central tendency?
- The conceptual elements of standard deviation
- Computing standard deviation
3. Standardized Scores
- Why are standardized scores needed in the real world?
- Why are standardized scores needed in statistics?
- Computing Z scores
- Interpreting Z scores
- A real research example
- Summary
4. Correlation
- Real-world examples of correlations
- Representing correlations graphically (the scatterplot)
- Representing correlations quantitatively (Pearson's r: an index of correlation strength and direction)
- Computing r using Z-scores
- Interpreting r (what you can and cannot conclude knowing that a correlation between two variables exists)
- A real research example
- Summary
5. Statistical Prediction and Regression
- The basic rationale underlying regression
- Standardized model of bivariate regression
- Raw-score model of bivariate regression
- The regression line
- Estimating error of prediction
- Basic rationale underlying multiple regression
- A real research example
- Summary
6. The Basic Elements of Hypothesis Testing
- Probability
- The normal distribution
- Estimating likelihood of outcomes
- A real research example
- Summary
7. Introduction to Hypothesis Testing
- Basic rationale underlying hypothesis testing
- What is meant by statistical significance?
- The five steps of hypothesis testing:
- Stating the null and research hypotheses
- Delineating the nature of the comparison distribution
- Determining alpha (by defining a part of the comparison distribution is highly unlikely)
- Comparing a sample from the special population with the comparison distribution
- Commenting on the null hypothesis
- A real research example
- Summary
8. Hypothesis Testing if N > 1
- The basic steps of hypothesis testing always remain the same
- The comparison distribution needed for comparing a sample mean: The distribution of means
- Hypothesis testing using the distribution of means
- Confidence intervals
- A real research example
- Summary
9. Statistical Power
- Defining Power (p(rejecting the null hypothesis when the research hypothesis is true) and Beta (p(Type-II error))
- How N, population-level standard deviation, and effect size affect power
- Computing power
- How power affects real research
- A real research example
- Summary
10. t-tests (One-Sample and Within-Groups)
- How a t-test differs from a Z-test
- The nature of the t-distribution (and why it varies as it does)
- Computing a one-sample t-test
- Computing a repeated-measures t-test
- A real research example
- Summary
11. t-tests: Between-Groups
- The basic rationale of the between-groups t-test
- Computing the between-groups t-test
- Interpreting results
- A real research example
- Summary
12. Analysis of Variance
- Basic reasoning of F as a ratio between effect and error variance
- Concepts underlying a one-way ANOVA
- Computing a one-way ANOVA
- Factorial ANOVA
- What results from an ANOVA can and cannot tell you
- Post-hoc tests
- A real research example
- Summary
13. Chi-Square
- What happens when all our variables are categorical?
- Basic rationale underlying goodness of fit test
- Computing the chi-square goodness of fit
- Computing the chi-square test of independence
- Interpreting chi-square results
- A real research example
- Summary
Appendix A: Normal Curve (Z) Table
Appendix B: t Table
Appendix C: F Table
Appendix D: Chi Square Table
Appendix E: Advanced Statistics You May Run Into
- Factor Analysis
- Multiple regression
- Structural Equation Modeling
- Repeated-Measures ANOVA
- Mixed-Design ANOVA
Appendix F: Using SPSS to Compute Basic Statistics
- Benefits of SPSS
- Different kinds of SPSS files
- Entering data with SPSS
- Computing frequency distributions with SPSS
- Describing variables with SPSS
- Using SPSS to examine correlations
- Using SPSS for a repeated-measures test
- Using SPSS for a between-groups test
- Using SPSS for a one-way ANOVA
Answers to Set B Homework Problems
Glenn Geher is Professor and Chair of Psychology at the State University of New York at New Paltz, where he has taught Statistics and various other courses related to psychology and evolution since 2000. He also is the founding director of New Paltz's Evolutionary Studies Program, which has been awarded thousands of dollars from the National Science Foundation to help advance evolution's place in higher education. He has over 60 publications including several books and articles on various topics related to evolution and social psychology. His work has been covered in several media outlets including the New York Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, Redbook, and Cosmopolitan. He lives with his wife Kathy and two children, Megan and Andrew, in rural upstate New York.
Sara Hall has earned degrees in both Psychology and Criminology. She lives in Oregon with her husband, Benjamin, and their four children, Jackson, Stella, Susanna, and Sailor.


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Things want to exist
In the tradition of major exhibitions aimed at the enhancement of contemporary art through monumental exhibitions in the most representative public places, Saturday, December 2, 2017 at 12 the town of Pietrasanta inaugurates the personal exhibition Things want to exist of the Tuscan artist Roberto Barni (Pistoia, 1939).
Some of the symbolic places of Pietrasanta for about three months will host the project promoted, as well as by the Municipality, by the Versiliana Foundation, chaired by Massimiliano Simoni, artistic director of Start, and with the support of the Poggiali Gallery of Pietrasanta.
Throughout the Christmas period, and until 25 February, no less than 17 large patinated bronze works can be admired in Piazza del Duomo, in the Church and in the Cloister of Sant'Agostino side by side, in the latter cases, in interiors, from works on canvas and paper.
The work of Roberto Barni is presented through the exhibition of works colarmente iconic made in the last 20 years and here, edited by Enrico Mattei, are collected for the occasion with the title Things want to exist.
The works in Piazza del Duomo
In piazza find space Impresa, sculpture of over four and a half meters, Continuo of 1999, Double Controversia of 2017, also of almost five meters, Sadovasomaso, Impresa and Walking on the Cross that have accompanied all the recent poetics of the Tuscan artist, including the presence in the Basilica of Santa Maria dei Frari during the 2017 Venice Biennale, and which are gathered together for the first time because "things want to exist given that between being and not being there are the entities themselves, in this case the sculptures, which decide to be present "as the artist himself says because" they have intrinsic strength ".
The works in the Sant'Agostino complex
Sculptures appear throughout the exhibition they self-determine theirs space: in Sant'Agostino appear men in a basket, Capogiri d'Oro of 2017, for the first time in a public exhibition after the Basilica dei Frari in Venice and in the Cloister the Celeberrima Atto muto, whose first version had been presented at the the entrance of the Gardens at the Venice Biennale in 1988. Since the sculptures, similarly to things, want to exist, they find space, like apparitions, Adagio, which manifests itself in the garden of Sant'Agostino, Remar Contro or NSC in the Church of Sant'Agostino.
For the occasion the exhibition catalog will be created with texts by Alberto Boatto and Enrico Mattei, and the latter, among other things, writes: "My curiosity about the research Roberto Barni's sculptural has always been addressed on the embarrassing situations of his men, a small serial and inexpressive army that moves through an underlying disquiet ". And again: "the common denominator of these sculptures is their style, which is not to be recognized, but to know, as the artist explains. On their skin you can read the imprint of Roberto's hand which becomes his resistance to emptiness ".
Opening Saturday, December 2nd, 2017 at 12 pm
Opening hours: 4.00pm - 7.00pm | closed on Mondays; Saturday and Sunday 10.00am - 1.00pm 4.00 pm - 7.00 pm
Special openings:
Friday 8 December 10.00 am - 1.00 pm | 4.00 pm - 7.00 pm Monday 25 December 4.00 pm - 7.00 pm Monday 1 January 4.00 pm - 7.00 pm
When: until 02/25/2018
Where: Chiostro di S. Agostino/La Rocca, Pietrasanta
Time: Orari: 16.00 19.00 | chiuso il lunedì; sabato e domenica 10.00 13.00 | 16.00 19.00 Aperture straordinarie: lunedì 25 dicembre 16.00 19.00 lunedì 1 gennaio 16.00 19.00
Information: Telefono per informazioni: +39 0584 795500 Sito ufficiale: http://http://www.museodeibozzetti.it
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Father left the United States on January 15, 2015 for Mexico. He is traveling to Guadalajara to stay at a seminary and study Spanish at the University there. He is planning on being back to Miraculous Medal by February 15. We're pretty sure he meant 2015 when he told us that.
Here he is wishing us a good-bye as he set off for his journey.
This is Juan Paulo welcoming Fr Carmen to Mexico. Father Carmen helps us with a translation of Juan Paulo's welcome.
Father Carmen and Juan Paulo had time to visit a local mall. Paulo will tell us a little about a local ice cream maker, while Father translates.
Father Carmen shares with us a panorama of the minor seminary where he is staying. Thankfully, he presents this one in English. Yeah!!
Father Carmen enthuses over the beauty of Lake Chapala. Juan Paulo will translate this time. (Ignore the misspelling in the video - all Don's fault! Perdón, Paulo.)
Here is Father Carmen with his Spanish language professor, Pedro Barba Nuño
On the streets of Guadalajara, Father Carmen tests his newly acquired skills in language on a pair of totally random, thoroughly unsuspecting gentlemen. I understood what Father said to them, so it must have been pretty basic. (spoiler alert: He said to them: "hello.")
Father takes some time out of his hectic schedule to visit the quaint town of Tlaquepaque. Unfortunately, in this case, his language acumen fails him somewhat ...
The seminarian, Alejandro, was kind of enough to have Father to his home for a meal and wonderful company.
After Father's return in mid-February, we had our inaugural Mass to begin our weekly celebration in Spanish. After the Mass, we were treated to traditional Mexican dances. It was great fun!


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I loved the way Adam's eye looked while he was reading in bed. I just had to play around with the reflection.
Don't you just love these huge bees? Ihad to get so close to this! Luckily he was kind (even though he wouldn't willingly hold still for a picture).
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