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November 17, 2014
Singer Anna Coddington Urges Kiwis to Leave Cosmetics Cruelty on the Shelf this Christmas
Star supports #BeCrueltyFree campaign for cosmetics animal testing ban
New Zealand singer-songwriter Anna Coddington is the latest Kiwi star to join the #BeCrueltyFree campaign for a ban on testing cosmetics on animals. Untold thousands of animals globally suffer in eye and skin irritation and other poisoning tests for the beauty industry. Although banned across the European Union, Israel and India, such testing is still legal in New Zealand. The 'Cat & Bird' singer joins actors Michelle Langstone and Sam Bunkall, and Queen guitarist Brian May in supporting the #BeCrueltyFree New Zealand campaign for a national ban.
Anna believes bunnies shouldn't suffer for the sake of our vanity, and to prove that we can all have beauty without cruelty, she's selected some of her favourite cruelty-free cosmetics in time for Christmas gift-gifting season.
"It's ironic that behind an industry that is supposed to symbolise beauty lurks something as ugly as animal testing," says Anna. "A rabbit's life is worth more than a new lip stick or moisturiser, yet these animals continue to suffer for our vanity. It's time for New Zealand to take a stand against such cruelty. Bunny-friendly cosmetics are easy to buy here in New Zealand, so by leaving cosmetics cruelty on the shelf we can all look great with a clear conscience."
Anna's Cruelty-Free Product Picks
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5. LUSH Fair Trade Foot Lotion
6. NUDE Night Serum (Borage & Rosehip)
The #Be CrueltyFree New Zealand campaign is headed by Humane Society International, the New Zealand Anti-Vivisection Society and Helping You Help Animals (HUHA), part of the largest campaign in the world to end cosmetics cruelty. #BeCrueltyFree is urging Kiwis to lobby their politicians to support a ban on cruel cosmetics animal testing through revision of the Animal Welfare Act. Kiwis can get active by signing an e-card.
Carolyn Press-McKenzie, spokesperson for HUHA, said: "The majority of Kiwis support a ban on cosmetics animal testing, and so there is genuine pressure on the government to take swift action and ensure that New Zealand is not left behind in the global trend towards ending this cruelty. In the meantime, every single one of us can make a difference by ensuring the cosmetics we buy have not been tested on animals. We are thrilled that Anna Coddington shares our desire for New Zealand to #BeCrueltyFree, and her product picks show how easy it is to ensure that this Christmas we don't give the gift of cruelty."
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The awesome Tiger orchid is featured in NParks Buzz Aug 10 newsletter
According to the article, this orchid is extremely rare if not already extinct in the wild in Singapore. The orchid was last found in the wild in Tuas and Pulau Ubin. Since a mature plant could weigh more than a ton, it is a wonder that such a huge plant could live on the trunk of a tree!
As part of NParks' orchid conservation and reintroduction programme, the tiger orchid has been planted at various locations including the Singapore Botanic Gardens, Pulau Ubin, Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, Bukit Batok Nature Park, Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Labrador Park and more. Read the article to find out more about the orchid and how you can contribute to the Orchid Conservation Fund. See also Saving Singapore's wild orchids for more about this Fund and the work being done for our native orchids.
There's also more about our biodiversity in the latest My Green Space, NPark's quarterly newsletter.
Otters in Orchard Road features the 'BiodiverCity' exhibition at Orchard Road which displays works by local photographers that showcase the variety of flora and fauna of our urban environment. The article also shares tips on how you can make a difference for our biodiversity.
How delightful to read a comment left by a reader on this article: "Had wanted to write this for a while. I like to say that the photo exhibition of nature along Orchard Road is fantastic! My husband and I stumbled upon the photos by accident while strolling down Orchard Road and we were simply fascinated by the pictures we saw. We had never known Singapore had so many natural gems all around. Our salute to the photographers for the patience in shooting those gorgeous photos and for National Parks to bring this exhibition to everyone, especially in Orchard Road where it was a breath of fresh air in concrete downtown. Thanks!"
Freeing the Forest from Weeds shares about the plight of our forests from exotic plants. And the work being done by volunteers to remove these 'weeds'.
Roy Tan, Senior Outreach Officer at NParks' Conservation Division, leads this programme which raises awareness on the different types of weeds found in Singapore's conservation areas, and their impact on the surrounding biodiversity. It also provides a unique opportunity for ordinary people to make a difference for our forests.
See also Bad Biodiversity: Invasive alien species about the impact of non-native species on our biodiversity.
Check out the NParks Buzz Aug 10 newsletter which also features nature activities organised by NParks, and latest My Green Space, NPark's quarterly newsletter which also has lifestyle and other articles.


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In making these, Swoon cuts several layers of paper at once, creating what I would call a very limited 'print run.
You call this paper cutting, carving?
"Because it's with a knife, cutting out, the physical process is like carving.""This and this. (The woodcut prints and the paper cutouts) Start out looking really similar. I start out with a big messy charcoal drawing. And then with the prints I stay a lot closer to the original drawing. And with the cutouts I pare it down. Instead of keeping the line of the mouth I would just cut out a little bit of it. So it's like the same drawing but rendered really differently." "It's almost like the rules of the medium are what dictates with this. With the cutouts I try to simplify it because it has to stay within the paper, with the prints I keep it scribbly, because I can. Because the cutouts have to stay in one piece, you have all these different physical visual rules that you have to obey. Whereas with prints you can kind of do whatever you want. Sometime limitations are good." from gammablog
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The festive consumption of food and drink was an important social ritual in the Roman world. Known in general terms as the convivium (Latin: "living together"), or banquet, the Romans also distinguished between specific types of gatherings, such as the epulum (public feast), the cena (dinner, normally eaten in the mid-afternoon), and the comissatio (drinking party).
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I had a quick look in the new Yodobashi Akihabara store and was pretty impressed.
It should now be the biggest electronic store in Tokyo, if not Asia.
However, you can't help feeling a kind of loss for the area, as it has changed immensley.
All the changes have changed the atmosphere from discount computer part stores for computer geeks to hang out at, to a kind of clean shopping mall kind of experience. It's not quite that way yet, but that is definitely the direction it is heading.


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text: Auburn Coach Pat Dye defended the honor of prized tailback Bo Jackson, who took himself out of Saturday's 14-10 loss to Florida after sustaining a thigh bruise two minutes before halftime. Jackson, who similarly sat out most of an earlier loss to Tennessee with a minor injury, returned to action for only one offensive series in the second half against Florida. There were ugly whispers about Jackson's being more concerned about his professional future than Auburn's fortunes, and some players on both teams questioned the leading Heisman Trophy candidate's intestinal fortitude. Even an Auburn assistant coach was heard to utter a disparaging remark about Jackson's second exit Saturday. ''Any assistant coach who would say something like that, questioning that guy's courage after he has come back from a shoulder injury to gain 1,400 yards, should have his head examined,'' Dye told The Orlando Sentinel. ''I'm the only idiot for putting him back in the ballgame. He Jackson sent word through a trainer that he was ready to go back in, but he limped around and had no business being out there.'' Dye insisted Jackson's injury was legitimate, noting that the tailback was on crutches Saturday night and spent 90 minutes taking treatment for the bruise Sunday morning. ''We're hoping we can get it the bruise out of there in time for him to play next week,'' said Dye, whose Tigers (6-2) entertain East Carolina on Saturday. Dye suggested any Florida Gator who ''questioned Bo's courage, didn't question his courage two years ago when he rushed for 196 yards against Florida.''


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Compiere Appoints Don Klaiss President and CEO
Former Oracle Executive to Lead Corporate Transition from Open Source Project to Major Enterprise Solutions Provider
Santa Clara, California – March 13, 2007 – Compiere, Inc., the leading provider of open source business applications, announced today the appointment of Don Klaiss as president and CEO, effective immediately. Klaiss comes to Compiere from Oracle Corporation where he most recently served as senior vice president, applications.
"With more than 1.1 million downloads of our software, Compiere is already the most popular open source ERP project," said Klaiss. "I am excited about building on this early success as we deliver an entirely 'new generation' of enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management solutions. Our model-driven architecture enables rapid implementation and customization, reducing the costs and risks that prevent many small and medium enterprises from fully embracing ERP and CRM."
With more than 25 years of senior management experience, Klaiss brings extensive experience building and transforming businesses in the enterprise applications market. He succeeds Jorg Janke as president, though Janke will continue to play an ongoing strategic role as Compiere's founder and chief technology officer. Janke stated, "I am delighted to have attracted a person of Don's caliber and vision to lead our company through this period of rapid expansion."
"I cannot think of a more powerful team than the combination of Jorg's architectural skills and Don's proven executive talent in building enterprise application companies," said Andre M. Boisvert, chairman of Compiere. "I am confident that their collective efforts will culminate in raising the bar on what the industry has already pegged as the next generation business application suite, which has the added benefit of leveraging the open source business model."
During his 15-year tenure at Oracle, Klaiss was instrumental in growing the company's enterprise applications software into a multi-billion dollar business. He also developed Oracle's entire industry-leading suite of manufacturing, supply chain management and CRM service applications, building a 2,500 person applications development organization. Prior to his time at Oracle, Klaiss held senior management positions at numerous technology firms including Ask Computer Systems, Inc., NCA Corporation, Covalent Systems Corporation and Hewlett-Packard.
In an October 2006 AMR Research report titled "The Enterprise Resource Planning Report, 2005-2010," the supply chain, enterprise applications and infrastructure advisory firm projected the ERP applications market to reach $29B in 2006 and grow at an average of ten percent over the next five years. Klaiss' appointment marks an important milestone in accelerating Compiere's ability to address customer demand within the multi-billion dollar market for flexible enterprise applications.
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Compiere, Inc. delivers the most widely used open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) solution with more than 1.1 million software downloads. Applications are built on an innovative model-based development platform that gives customers unprecedented adaptability, rapid deployment and low cost of ownership. The company is privately held and headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. Compiere, Inc. offers commercial backing, support and services to its global network of nearly 100 authorized partners across 25 countries. For more information, please visit www.compiere.com.


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The Eighth Day: A Novel by Thornton Wilder
I've never read anything by Thornton Wilder other than Our Town, which is a little surprising given how much I love certain lines in that play. In this far-reaching book, Wilder follows the fates of two families in Coaltown when the father of one of them is incorrectly convicted of murdering the father of the other. Everyone is surprised when he is rescued from the train on his way to his execution.
When reading a book like this one which includes a lot of "philosophizing," I always feel like the author is trying to make a big statement about the meaning of life that I don't quite understand. In the end, though, I love reading books like this because they focus my own thoughts on the meaning of life. It matters less to me that I understand what Wilder is saying is true than that I spend time working through my own thoughts on the matter.
On people of faith, Wilder says:
There is no creation without faith and hope.
There is no faith and hope that does not express itself in creation. These men and women work. The spectacle that most discourages them is not error or ignorance or cruelty, but sloth. This work that they do may often seem to be all but imperceptible. That is characteristic of activity that never for a moment envisages an audience.Later, I read about some of the creations by those people of faith:
For Ashley, the function of a room was to be serviceable; it had never occurred to him that it could be beautiful. He who lacked so many qualities--humor, ambition, vanity, reflection--had never distinguished a category of the beautiful. Some pictures on grocers' calendars has pleased him. At school he had been praised for the "beauty" of his mechanical drawings. We remember how on his flight through Illinois he had been overwhelmed by the beauty of dawn, and later of Chimborazo, and of his Chilean peaks. He sat down in a high-backed chair and looked about him. He became aware of an odd sensation in his throat; he sobbed. His eyes rested on the exhausted and submissive head on the wall before him. The world was a place of cruelty, suffering, and confusion, but men and women could surmount despair by making beautiful things, emulating the beauty of the first creation.I found lots of bits and pieces that called to mind other books I've read recently like Boys Adrift.
A man can produce fortitude from his own vitals, but the true food of valor is example.Speaking of boys, Wilder apparently knows them well. As I read this paragraph, I was a little saddened that so many boys today are spending time with electronics rather than other boys in the freedom of unchaperoned time out-of-doors.
Even in the best of homes, at the best of times, a boy is always in the wrong. Boys are filled with exhausting energies; they enjoy noise; they are (or where would we be?) adventurous and inquiring. They creep out onto ledges and fall into caves and two hundred men spend nights searching for them. They must hurl objects. They particularly cherish small animals and must have them near. A respect for cleanliness is as slowly and painfully acquired as mastery of the violin. They are perpetually famished and can barely be taught to eat decorously (the fork was late appearing in society). They are unable to sit still for more than ten minutes unless they are being told a story about mayhem and sudden death (or where would we be?). They receive several hundred rebukes a day. They rage at the humiliation of being male and not men. They strain to hasten the calendar. they must smoke and swear. Dark warnings are thrown out to them about "impurity" and "filthiness"--interesting occupations which seem to be reserved to adults. They peer into mirrors for the first promise of a beard. No wonder they are happy only among their coevals; they return from their unending games (that resemble warfare) puffed up, it may be, with triumph--late, dirty, or bloody.I loved this speech to one of the young men in the novel. He was headstrong and often misguided. Instead of chastising him, she treated him with understanding and respect. Her words give him hope and purpose (though still often misguided).
You are young. You are not happy now because you have not yet discovered the work to which you will give your life. Somewhere in the world there is a work for you to do, to which you will bring courage and honor and loyalty. For every man there is one great task that God has given him to do. I think that yours will demand a brave heart and some suffering; but you will triumph.I think what I liked best in the book is Wilder's language. Like in Our Town, he presents the world and our human experience as bigger than anything we can comprehend. Sometimes I feel that way myself, as if my heart would burst with all the emotion and hope and beauty and fear and despair in creation. These are not feelings to be understood, but shared. When I first read Our Town as a young girl, I realized for the first time I was not alone in feeling that way.
A feeling of something portentous and strange in human experience had been gathering within him. He felt as though he had walked all his life in ignorance of abysses and wonders, of ambushes, of eyes watching him, of writing on clouds. It came to him that surely life is vaster, deeper, and more perilous than we think it is. He dropped the envelope and bent over to pick it up. He was suddenly filled with fear that he would go through life ignorant--stump ignorant--of the powers of light and the powers of darkness that were engaged in some mighty conflict behind the screen of appearances--fear, fear that he would live like a slave, or like a four-footed thing with lowered head.


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They are delightful! I think I like the boy with the rabbits best, too, although the angel is definitely lovely. :)ReplyDelete
They are all so beautiful. The boy with the rabbits is my favourite too.ReplyDelete
They are so beautiful and I am like Melody I love the little boy with the white rabbits mischeif there for sure...your Mum had wonderful taste.ReplyDelete
Your figurines are fabulous. Love the details. yhe boy with the rabbits is adorable.ReplyDelete
I have always loved the Hummel figurines such adorable little faces , I have just one that my son bought me many years ago.ReplyDelete
These are beautiful Rosalie. I like the angel but then I guess you would have picked that of me!ReplyDelete
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Bailey is made in 7 pieces: head and body, 2 legs, 2 arms, and 2 ears. Use size 4, medium weight yarn (about 1oz each for body and contrast colour for inner ears and bottom of feet, and 3.5mm crochet hook for all parts. Like most amigurumi, this piece is worked in a continuous spiral. Do not join rounds. Using a stitch marker can help keep track of rounds. While this project is possible by the novice crocheter, check out the stitches used to determine the level of difficulty.
CH (chain stitch), HDC (half double crochet stitch), puff stitch (instructions given), sc (single crochet stitch), sc2tog (single crochet 2 together, instructions given), sl st (slip stitch)
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The day after the 2008 presidential election, Andrew J. Bacevich wrote in an op-ed column in The Boston Globe that "with Barack Obama's election to the presidency, the evangelical moment in U.S. foreign policy has come to an end." And for Mr. Bacevich, the evangelical moment did not end a moment too soon. What brought him particular relief was that, in his view, "the religious sensibility informing American statecraft will no longer find expression in an urge to launch crusades against evil-doers." Instead of the allegedly simplistic moralism of the outgoing evangelical president George W. Bush, the sensibility of Barack Obama would be that of Christian realism, the philosophy that although power is necessary in a fallen world, its use must be constrained by an acute awareness of human fallibility and corruptibility.
Mr. Bacevich was undoubtedly not the only critic of the Bush administration who felt a sense of optimism at the thought of conservative evangelicals losing influence in foreign affairs. Nor was it just evangelical support of the Bush Doctrine (the policy of fighting terrorism pre-emptively, pursuing ambitious nation-building in the greater Middle East and defending and advancing democracy around the world) that critics were hoping would be sidelined. Conservative evangelicals have long had distinctive proclivities in foreign policy, and typically these have been associated with right-wing and/or neoconservative politics.
Anyone interested in advancing a centrist or even moderately progressive posture for U.S. foreign policy should think twice, however, before banishing all evangelical influence. There is growing diversity in the evangelical engagement of global issues and a rising generation of evangelicals whose practical and global mindset does not necessarily fit into any ideological box. And while this movement toward a different kind of evangelical internationalism is "new," it is not brand new. It actually predates the George W. Bush administration.
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To understand the new evangelical internationalism, one must first understand the "old" evangelical (read: Christian Right) approach to international affairs and its contemporary context. This stream of evangelicalism manifests a number of dispositions. The fundamental one is the tendency to embrace American exceptionalism and American civil religion—the idea of America as a kind of "New Israel" specially favored by God and responsible for bringing the blessings of democracy, human rights and free markets to all the people of the world. This distinctively American version of Christian nationalism is not derived from evangelical theology per se, but it has resonated more strongly with the American evangelical tradition than with most other American religious traditions.
Related proclivities of conservative evangelicalism include:
• Support for the idea that America has a special destiny in the world and therefore must be a world leader, not just another nation subject to conventional expectations and limits;
• Opposition to communism specifically and suspicion of state-centered economic policy approaches in general;
• Resistance to the idea of trying to solve international problems with international institutions, such as the League of Nations and later the United Nations; and
• A tendency to see foes of the United States as unambiguously evil.
Israel and Islam
Another longstanding characteristic of many evangelicals, especially those of a fundamentalist bent, is unwavering support for the State of Israel. This derives in part from a particular theological tradition called dispensational premillennialism, which leads many evangelicals to interpret the founding of the State of Israel in 1948 as a fulfillment of biblical prophecy and as a sign of Jesus' Second Coming. Evangelical Zionists have swelled the ranks of a variety of pro-Israel advocacy organizations like Stand for Israel, International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, Churches United With Israel, American Alliance of Jews and Christians and Christians United for Israel.
Then there is Islam. Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, publications critical of Islam have circulated in conservative evangelical circles. Various high-profile conservative evangelical leaders have also made incendiary anti-Muslim public statements. Perhaps the most widely covered of these rhetorical bombs was the one dropped by the preacher Franklin Graham, who in 2001 famously called Islam a "very evil and wicked religion." Shortly thereafter, the conservative evangelical magazine World honored Mr. Graham as its "Daniel of the Year" for his public stand on Islam. By stoking explicitly antagonistic sentiment, evangelical leaders like Franklin Graham at the very least reinforced a predisposition among many rank-and-file evangelicals to support tough U.S. measures against radical Islamist threats.
For some observers, the Bush presidency (and George W. Bush personally) seemed to be the virtual embodiment, almost in caricature form, of everything that is wrong and dangerous about letting "fundamentalists" influence foreign policy. This was a fairly widespread bias. It contributed to the collective sigh of relief uttered in 2008 at the alleged passing of "evangelical foreign policy," which critics often took to be synonymous with unilateral, militant, nationalistic and right-wing.
The New Internationalism
This narrative of what an evangelical foreign policy must look like remains commonplace. Yet for over a decade now a competing narrative has been gaining strength, a narrative of the "new evangelical internationalism," which deserves a wider hearing. Whereas evangelicals were once thought to have a rather narrow and predictably right-wing agenda in foreign affairs (and to devote far more attention to domestic "culture war" politics), the new view is that evangelicals today are increasingly likely to have a global mindset and an ideologically diverse array of foreign policy priorities and positions.
The new evangelical internationalists are diverging in important ways from the fundamentalist stereotype. They are active on a broad range of international human rights, humanitarian and environmental issues, and they are joining coalitions diverse in ideology, religion and party allegiance. While they are not entirely displacing the old Christian Right constituency in foreign policy, they have coalesced to the point of providing a genuine evangelical alternative.
To my knowledge, the first person to attach the label "new internationalist" to this movement was the New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. In a column on May 21, 2002, titled "Following God Abroad," he announced that "the old religious right led by Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, trying to battle Satan with school prayers and right-to-life amendments, is on the ropes." Kristof suggested that a new generation of evangelical leaders is emerging, interested in battling sex trafficking, slavery, AIDS, poverty and global warming.
Then in a column on Feb. 3, 2008, titled "Evangelicals a Liberal Can Love," Mr. Kristof profiled the Rev. Rick Warren, one of the key new-internationalist leaders:
Today, many evangelicals are powerful internationalists and humanitarians, and liberals haven't awakened to the transformation. The new face of evangelicals is somebody like the Rev. Rick Warren, the California pastor who wrote The Purpose Driven Life. Mr. Warren acknowledges that for most of his life he wasn't much concerned with issues of poverty or disease. But on a visit to South Africa in 2003, he came across a tiny church operating from a dilapidated tent—yet sheltering 25 children orphaned by AIDS. "I realized they were doing more for the poor than my entire megachurch," Mr. Warren said, with cheerful exaggeration. "It was like a knife in the heart." So Mr. Warren mobilized his vast Saddleback Church to fight AIDS, malaria and poverty in 68 countries.
Religious Freedom and Human Rights
In addition to church-based humanitarianism, the new evangelical internationalism has also found expression in specific foreign policy issues and specific legislative campaigns on those issues. The best account of this dimension of the movement is Allen Hertzke's book Freeing God's Children: The Unlikely Alliance for Global Human Rights (2004). In it he chronicles how the movement first began to crystallize in the mid-1990s over the issue of international religious freedom. Evangelicals had always been keenly aware of religious persecution as it affected missionaries, but in the 1990s evangelicals began to approach the issue in a more systematic and multifaith way, and to insist that the U.S. foreign policy establishment do the same. In one of the most remarkable instances of religious lobbying on foreign policy in U.S. history, evangelicals provided critical leadership in a coalition that successfully pressed for passage of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (see the article by Thomas Farr in this issue, pg. 11).
The energy and networks catalyzed by that campaign led to evangelical activism in several successful legislative campaigns on other foreign policy issues. The efforts led to the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (2000), the Sudan Peace Act (2002) and the North Korea Human Rights Act (2004), among other achievements. And the list of evangelical involvements that fit the new-internationalist narrative just keeps growing. Here is a sampling:
Energy. The Evangelical Environmental Network has sponsored a "What Would Jesus Drive?" campaign related to fuel efficiency.
Global Warming. The Evangelical Climate Initiative has issued major statements and run television ads supporting concerted action on global warming.
Torture. Evangelicals for Human Rights has issued an "Evangelical Declaration Against Torture" and joined multifaith coalitions on the issue.
Global Health. Evangelicals (especially Michael Gerson, who was a senior adviser to President Bush) supported the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the President's Malaria Initiative.
Israel-Palestine. Major evangelical scholars and leaders have issued open letters supporting a two-state solution.
Christian-Muslim Relations. Prominent evangelical scholars and leaders have participated in major Christian-Muslim dialogues, like a conference series at Georgetown University co-sponsored by the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and the Institute for Global Engagement. The "Common Word" dialogues have also attracted key evangelical participants.
Immigration. The National Association of Evangelicals has published a full-page ad in the Washington, D.C., newspaper Roll Call, advocating for comprehensive immigration reform that includes providing a path to legal status for undocumented migrants.
Changing Views
Finally, it is important to note that evangelical support for new-internationalist issues is not limited to a clutch of moderate and left-leaning evangelical elites, but extends to a significant proportion of evangelicals at the mass level (see sidebar).
Across these diverse indicators, a majority or near-majority of evangelicals supports what could be described as new-internationalist views.
In short, American evangelicalism today is not your father's fundamentalism. Rather, there is now a growing diversity of issues, leaders and perspectives in play. Evangelicals' engagement of foreign policy and global affairs is not likely to end anytime soon, regardless of who occupies the White House. Indeed U.S. foreign policy in both the near term and the long term might be stronger precisely because of, rather than in spite of, evangelical participation.
Thomas Farr answers questions on religious freedom and the new evangelicals.


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|Pocket squares by Post Imperial
|That's my silhouette. Stranger makes for great pictures.
In stranger, you are lost, and then you are found. It exists in complete isolation from the rest of Lagos. It is decidedly anti-fashion. It stocks clothes that are anti-fashion but they must not be mistaken more being unfashionable. They are subtle and timeless, which is a stark juxtaposition from Lagos fashion. The other day, I was at a premier for a tv show and I noted that seven out of ten shoes worn by men were bedazzled, bespiked, bejewelled or beglittered. What many fail to realise is that in a room where all the birds try to outshine, out colour and out glam each other, it is the dullest darkest one that steals the show. This is what most of the clothes that the stranger sells will do. You won't be the brightest, but that doesn't mean that you won't be the most memorable.
They stock Yohji Yamamoto, Orange Culture, Post Imperial and a few other brands who all fit into the Stranger spirit. It's got more menswear than womenswear but menswear and womenswear are words that hold no sway there. Several of the pieces sold feature a sizeless aesthetic that is distinctly sexless.
The second half of the store is a magenta tinged coffee house and tearoom that I have come to love. I do not use love lightly. You must understand that it opened in August this year, and I only made my way there in December, but there no longer exists a future for me where there isn't Stranger. I'll be there on today for a five minute conversation with Yegwa and Bibi, the proprietors. We'll talk about Shingeki no Kyojin and One Piece, and they'll tell me about Yohji Yamamoto and everything he's accomplished. They say that they need the space, and I understand their need profoundly. I need the space. Anyone with even a smattering of creativity needs the space. It's everything, it's nothing, it's strange. There aren't enough words, but at the same time these are too many words. It's the space between the line. It's the current that moves the words that drop from our lips. It's a place of refuge for everyone that's been searching for that thing. There's something about the space that communes with your spirit and calls you. Once you have been called, you'll find yourself going back.
|Yegwa in the magenta tea room. I like how noisy this image is.
These are far too many words for a store but then again it's more than a store.
|Here we've got Mai Atafo, the iconic designer and Mode´ of the Studio of Mode´, both shot in Stranger.
ps. Stranger's on nuMber 3 Hakeem Dickson street, Lekki phase 1. Their number's 0802 761 4903


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New York, US (PANA) - The Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has urged young people to create and shape the new UN strategy on youth and HIV/AIDS through an online collaborative project launched Tuesday.
The project, tagged: CrowdOutAIDS.org, will use several social media platforms to facilitate the development of new policies to combat the pandemic.
PANA learnt that the UNAIDS' initiative would run for a period of two months, in which anyone aged 15 to 29 would be able to submit and share their ideas and proposals for the strategy.
Michel Sidibe, Executive Director of UNAIDS, who spoke at the launching in New York, said: "The initiative's name alludes to the popular concept of crowd sourcing, which consists of letting large undefined groups of people collaborate and come up with innovative solutions for tasks traditionally performed by individuals."
Sidibe said that, "we are asking youth around the world to debate, draft and work with UNAIDS to implement this new strategy.
"It is absolutely critical that we engage young people – not as recipients of our message but as the actors and creators of change,'' he noted.
He also disclosed that, "CrowdOutAIDS.org will use a four-step model of collaboration, which will allow participants to use a range of social media platforms to connect, share and collaborate on a new strategy that speaks to them and addresses the key issues they face when it comes to HIV/AIDS."
PANA also reported that participants would be able to use their personal social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Orkut and personal blogs, to spread the word about the project and then discuss their ideas through online forums and other collaborative platforms, such as Google Docs.
They will also be able to shape the new strategy and see it transform from an initial draft to completion through a wiki-platform, which allows users to add and edit content in a collaborative way.
An information leaflet on the project stated that, "around 3,000 young people aged 15 to 24 become infected with HIV on a daily basis, making their involvement essential for an effective response to the epidemic."
It quoted Jennifer Ehidiamen, a blogger and journalist from Nigeria and online content
curator for the project's website, as saying that, "it is important to involve young people in policy development in order for our views, expectations and aspirations to be fully represented."
Ehidiamen also added that, "CrowdOutAIDS.org is an innovative way to build a strong
community, interested in sharing solution-based ideas and actions on AIDS."
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Now you'll ask if I was forced to read or listen to the review. I wasn't but I still do as there is no escape. Its on the TV, it's in the newspaper, it's on the radio, people blog about it, colleagues discuss it over lunch and coffee. Now how the hell do I escape all this? In my media savvy world ignoring so much noise is practically not possible. I can't virtually insulate myself.
Case in point – Remember Mithya?? I was keenly waiting for it. And then just before going for the movie I happened to hear what Rajiv Masand had to say. He went all out praising Mithya giving it 4 stars and calling it an answer to everyone who feels Hindi movies are mindless and predictable.
So whoop goes my expectations. And ironically I didn't find it too great.
No doubt it is an interesting movie, with a brilliant performance by Ranvir Shorey and an exciting plot too. So why was I not all that thrilled after watching it??
The answer is "EXPECTATIONS". Yes expectations - the mother of all agony. Expectations - that build up as an after effect of these reviews.
Another example is of Jodha Akbar, a movie that received comparatively sad reviews but I liked it. my colleagues hated it and they made it a point to come and tell me so. And as a result throughout watching the movie more of my attention was on being critical about it rather than enjoying it.
Not just these two but many more movie watching experience has been spoiled because of listening to people talk about them. So in the general interest of many more sufferers like myself I plead all the day 1 watchers – zip your mouth and don't solicit information unless I ask for it.
I essentially dash away from the sight of these reviews but it feels like I am being bombarded with these reviews from all possible directions. Looks like there is no escape. Ahhmmm.


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Samsung Galaxy S Plus is a slightly updated version of the Galaxy S. It comes with 1.4GHz Processor and 512MB RAM. It has a 4 Inch Super AMOLED Display, TouchWiz 3.0 UI, 5MP primary camera With 720P Video Recording, Android OS V2.3, 8GB Storage and a 1650 MAh Battery.
Galaxy S Plus is more than 3 years old, so Samsung has discontinued the official OTA updates for this phone. But Android Lollipop can still be installed on this device via the CM 12 custom ROM. This is a highly functional build with almost all working features except the power-off changing animations. Follow the guide to install CM 12 on the Galaxy S Plus.
Disclaimer: Follow the instructions at your own risk. If the device gets damaged, the writer or the owner of the site must not be held responsible.
Pre-requisites and Backing up your Galaxy S Plus:
- Create a Nandroid Backup
- Backup and Restore your Android smartphone via Desktop PC
- Backup/Sync and Restore contacts on Android smartphone
- Backup WhatsApp messages on Android Smartphone and Email
- Galaxy S Plus must be rooted
- Custom Recovery like CWM or TWRP installed
- CM 12 zip file
- Gapps zip file
Steps to install CM 12 ROM on Galaxy S Plus:
- Create a Nandroid backup from recovery, in case anything goes wrong.
- Download the CM 12 ROM zip file and Gapps zip file and transfer it to the phone.
- Switch off the phone and boot the phone into Recovery mode.
- Next, wipe the cache and the dalvik cache.
- Now go to "Install zip" and then "Select zip". Choose the CM 12 ROM zip file.
- Now again clear cache and dalvik cache.
- Go to "Install zip", then "Select zip". Choose the Gapps zip file.
- Then perform full data wipe task. To do so, click "Wipe Data/Factory Reset", then choose "Yes" on next screen to confirm.
- After the process is complete, reboot the phone.


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Once you become a mom, there are already plenty of excuses for not having sex. In fact, it often seems that the sun and the moon have to align perfectly in order to get some get-down time when no one is sleeping, has the flu, or is taking one of the kids to yet another birthday party. Still, if you really want to give non-verbal cues to your partner, why not go the extra mile and try one of these messages that screams, "Don't even think about it tonight, honey. You're not going there."
(If you actually like having sex with your partner, please use this list as a cautionary tale.)
1. Dress Like You Just Don't Care
Sure you could break out the acid wash mom jeans, but why not just say you've completely devoted your days and nights to inhabiting your child's world? The Koobli (as seen above) will certainly keep you protected from dirty toddler hands and dirty husband talk. Oh, look! There's a man version too!
2. An Evening With the Real Housewives
Definitely invite your husband to watch, but be very clear that the night will not end until Parts 1 and 2 of the reunion show have been viewed and tweeted about.
3. Costco-Sized Midol Bottle by the Bed
It's stereotypical, because it's true. If your significant other doesn't get the hint by the huge pain reliever bottle you're clutching, let out a well-timed moan.
4. Integrate Baby Talk Into Your Daily Convos
Because isn't he a cutsie-wootsie lil' hubby?
5. Take a Facebook Lover
Because nothing says, "I don't care about my actual life" like living for the next status update from your high school sweetheart. Or co-worker. Or cute dad at pick-up. Really, anyone else who is as checked out as you are*.
*Please note, if you really don't ever want to have sex with your partner, it's time to seek some marital counseling.
Image via Koobli


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Many people want a bigger online presence these days. Building an audience gives you success in a lot of areas, like marketing. Blogging is an effective vehicle for establishing an online voice and reaching a wide audience.
Strive to maintain a presence on your blog and be there when your readers have questions. Make a habit out of responding to posts or starting new blogs at specific times. Connecting to your readers means that you won't let them down. If you are feeling ready to quit, you won't only be disappointing yourself.
Make search engine optimization a priority when setting up your blog. Search engine results are likely to be the main way people find your site, so a high ranking for the keywords you think your readers will use ensures that they get to your blog and not your competition. Choose appropriate keywords to use in your titles and posts to help boost the number of followers your blog has.
Blog about something readers want to know. Blogging about mundane things like vacuuming or doing dishes probably won't hold anyone's interest. Such content would have to be presented in a unique way to get readers to care. Choose topics that will make visitors feel involved, intrigued, or intent on reading further. After all, you want to turn your blog into something that people want to read.
A great way to increase traffic to your own blog is to leave comments on other blogs. If you like Google reader, create a separate folder in it for other blogs you're following. Comment on these regularly, when there is something you want to divulge.
Use images in your posts. Pictures can show a lot more than words can say sometimes. This is extremely true in blogging. Images can convey a wealth of information, especially that which words cannot adequately describe. The effective use of images will improve the look of your blog and attract readers.
While blog posting can be fun, don't let it consume your life. Not giving yourself some occasional free time can affect your enthusiasm and, by extension, your writing. Therefore, schedule some time to exercise, see friends, or simply just take a time out for 5 minutes or so. This time will refresh you and let you create fresh content for your blog.
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Write a blog about things people want to know about. No one is able to escape daily jobs like vacuuming or dishwashing. If you have a way of presenting information on topics like this that will help them to become more efficient, then go ahead and blog about it. If your information is not interesting and engaging though, you will quickly lose readers and create an unsuccessful blog. It should always be clear from your writing why you believe your chosen subject matter would be interesting for your readers. The main goal in blogging should be to get as many readers to your site as you can.
Keep links to your social media pages visible and readily available to readers, so they can keep up with you. You can increase your blog's impact and your own reputation if you make use of social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. You can get many options with these portals to communicate and add followers for your blog.
Include images with your posts. Pictures are attention grabbing and are an easy way to convey your ideas without words. This is particularly true about writing a blog. The right image can communicate much more than words can. So, always use images as often as possible in your posts.
Enable reader comments on your blog. Take the time to respond to comments, whenever possible. You can develop a good relationship with readers this way and become more active in your blogging community. If your readers see that you reply to other people's comments, they will come back to check your response to their own comments.
it is useful to add lists to your blog. Lists can effectively provide information that does not require a lot of explanation, such as ingredients for a recipe or parts needed to assemble a device. Lists separate important information from the rest of the text, which makes it easier to read.
Don't write content just for the sake of getting words on the pages. Your articles need to be well researched and relevant to your target audience and keywords. You won't succeed if you are simply writing on the wrong topics. Remember always that the key to your blogs success is the content.
While trying to build a blog following, stay patient. It may take a while for people to find your blog. You also have to build up the amount of content on your blog before there is enough to entice a large audience to visit. The older your blog and the larger amount of content you have, the more readers will see it and visit regularly.
If you post lengthier pieces, you should break them up through the use of subheadings. This will keep your blog easy to read and ensure that you get the maximum number of readers, even with your longer posts. Breaking down your blogs will also make them easier to share.
In longer blog posts that you make, it is important that you separate the article and use subheadings throughout. This will give you a wider viewership and make your blog easier to read and digest. It is simple for you to do this, and will really raise the quality of your blog posting.
Your love and enjoyment of your blog is integral to its success. If you are bored, your content is probably boring to your audience; being disconnected and uninterested in your content shows through in your writing. Seek out a topic that you enjoy, and you will feel excited when you write about it. Stay creative, happy and upbeat, and your readers will reflect their enjoyment by sharing your content with others.
Whenever you can, make lists that include your keywords. Doing this will help make your content easier for both search engines and your readers to digest, and will give your traffic a boost. This is a useful tip that is powerful for your blog.
Use bold and italicized type for all your keywords. That will help your keywords stand out to all of your readers, and is also good for search engine spiders. Keywords and phrases which stand out in your content will get clicked on by visitors, which is your goal.
Make use of social media platforms to direct visitors to your blog, but don't go overboard with this. People will quickly learn to ignore your tweets if they always just link back to your website. Combine links with other, interesting content.
Determine why you are starting the blog and what you'd like to get out of it. Do you want to make a name for yourself, to become known as an expert in a particular field? Maybe you are seeking to generate profit. You might have several goals in mind. Knowing exactly what your goals are will help you make your blog more effective.
Build your blog through promotion on social networks. Social media sites are the most recent way for people to interact online, and if you ignore those sites, you miss out on huge amounts of potential blog readers. Learn to use Facebook and Twitter and take advantage of the great potential that these sites have to offer.
Encourage people to leave comments. This shows your readers you value their participation in your bog by their taking an active role. In addition, you should make an effort to respond to readers' comments as often as possible. This will encourage your audience to return to read further and interact with the exchange of opinions on your subject.
Don't take shortcuts when researching blog topics; do as much research as you can before beginning to write. If you are not up to date with the subject, you might end up giving misleading and false information. You also need to have sufficient mastery of the topic to respond intelligently to comments.
Long blog posts need to be divided into smaller chunks. Readers struggle to consume big blobs of information. Thus, you really do need to visually divide such pieces to prevent overwhelming readers.
Figure out what you want to gain from your blog, before you start. Is your goal to make your name known, to be seen as knowledgeable in a certain field? Maybe you simply want to earn money. Maybe you want to do a mix of all these things. It's very important to keep your goals in mind while you build your blog.
Remember to use the correct font size for your blog. Since written content is crucial on your blog, you need to be sure it's font is readable. You need to strike a balance; text that is too big will make readers scroll endlessly, while readers will need to grab the magnifying glass to read tiny microtext.
Encourage your readers to comment on your blog. This will make your readers feel important to your blog. Do your best to respond to the comments they leave. This will keep your readers coming back to read more and to be a part of your living conversation on your topic.
Try to keep each blog that you make about one simple topic. If you try to write about multiple topics in each blog that you make, your writing will become cluttered and hard to follow. While this tip might seem like common sense, it is one of the most important things to remember while blogging.
Be certain you set up a "contact me" page. That will enable your blog readers to contact you anytime they have a question or idea. As your blog grows in popularity, more people of all types will visit your blog, so a way for you to receive feedback via the contact page is invaluable.
Attempt to write about evergreen topics. It is wise to choose blog topics that will be relevant for quite some time, as this will attract the most traffic to the blog over the long term.
Think hard about any decision to incorporate advertisements within your blog site. Most blogs use advertisements to make money. The problem with advertisements is that, well, they are advertisements. The reader immediately figures out that you're trying to earn money.
You should try using relevant and brief content near the link so that it can possibly show up in the search results. This area is a known hotspot, and should be utilized as such. Include the total number of your subscribers. It should be the third most important area of your page (after the start and end of each post) and is best used as a subscribing aid.
Post consistently and have a schedule. Your readers will learn your schedule and be waiting for new content. People will like your new structure and the new content you continually post. Have diverse topics within your realm of interest to write about, and prevent fresh content from seeming repetitive.
You have to decide if your blog will have advertisements. This is a great way to make money, but your visitors may be turned off by ads. Ads can irritate some of your readers and reduce the effectiveness of your message. It can take away the personal touch you have with readers and look like you are attempting to make a fast buck.
By following these tips you should know what writing a blog is all about and how to attract readers. Blog Posting is not complicated. Get to work on utilizing this information and reaping the rewards. However, allow your efforts some time to start producing results. Soon enough, you'll develop a base of avid followers who look forward to reading your latest blogs.
Choose a theme that is SEO friendly. This is not only good for your search engine placement, but your site's loading time, as well. Given that time is of the essence, visitors do not want to look at a site that is stuffed with slow videos and plug-ins. They'll go back to the search engine and be at a faster blog before you know it.


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As a horse trainer, I often hear stories about "stupid" horses, or an owner commenting that a particular horse is not the sharpest tool in the shed. In fact, Google or YouTube "stupid horse" and you get a heck of a lot of results. Yet I haven't met a single horse yet whom I would classify dumb. Which got me to thinking. Is it intelligence people are rating, or is it actually just trainability?
I've seen horses do some pretty intelligent things, including things that pretty clearly required reasoning. I've also worked with some horses who seemed to have practiced what I taught them the day before, overnight - they performed what I asked, what they'd just learned, flawlessly the next time I asked. So how much can be attributed to trainability and how much is intelligence? It can be difficult to differentiate at times. In the mean time, some examples of trainability:
One horse I work with, a Thoroughbred, I thought maybe really was the first dumb horse I'd ever met. Until he actually did learn a few tasks exceptionally quickly. Which caused me to think, and re-evaluate. He learned so fast because he was in a setting he enjoyed, where he wanted to learn. When motivated, he is very responsive (notices every detail in my body language) and is an extremely quick learner, but when he isn't, he just doesn't even try (I think his young age and thus maturity level definitely has something to do with it as well). Which is why he never made it as a racehorse...it was never a problem with intelligence, just with trainability.
Another example is a mare I currently work with - very independent. I was working her in an outdoor ring until just recently, and she didn't seem to be picking up on things. This is a mare I know is brilliant, as I have worked with her previously - she has blown me away with her intelligence and/or trainability. Yet she just wouldn't learn and seemed to even have forgotten previous things I had taught her - so frustrating! Instead of focusing on what I was trying to tell her, she was so focused on extrinsic distractions. So I took her away, moved her into a small pen away from her old, distracting, friends, and started working her in an indoor arena. Suddenly she "remembered" what she'd previously "forgotten" and she was learning all sorts of new things. She'd always been smart, and her trainability skyrocketed in a different situation.
There are enough stories out there where horses have used reasoning and obvious intelligence to help their human or horsey friend, to get help, to let us know they are sick or hurt, and to do simple tasks such as open stall doors or otherwise solve a puzzle, that I don't think we can question the intelligence of the horse as a whole. In my experience, I have yet to meet a stupid horse and I honestly think such a horse is rare - perhaps one example could be a horse deprived of oxygen at birth and thus experiencing brain damage.
I think as well that our perceptions of why horses do the things they do also plays a role when we're evaluating a horse's intelligence. We're human, predators, and to boot, we're not in that particular horse's head. So we really have no idea what they're thinking - why they might do certain things. I think a lot of times people make assumptions about a horse's intelligence without looking at things from the horse's perspective. Maybe the horse is indeed intelligent, but just doesn't want to learn, or is just doing something because he's a horse. On a related note, in my opinion a person's assessment of a horse's intelligence is determined also via that person's training approach or methods. The trainer with the right approach for that horse might experience a great deal of success and thereby reveal the intelligence of a horse, whereas the trainer with the wrong approach for that horse might experience little success and thus draw the conclusion that horse lacks intelligence. This means a horse's level of trainability and the trainer's approach will both play a role in the determination of a horse's level of intelligence.
Here are some links to check out as they pertain to equine intelligence:
Testing Equine Intelligence - From Horse & Rider
The Thinking Horse - Cognition and Perception Reviewed, Evelyn B. Hanggi, MS, PhD


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Artists who want to exhibit at the 11th annual Maitland Arts Festival must submit their applications before Sept. 4. More than $15,000 in cash and prizes will be awarded during the festival, which will be held Oct. 16-18 by Lake Lily.
Artists can enter in eight categories -- oils, acrylics and mixed media, watercolor, graphics and drawings, photography, sculpture, pottery and creative crafts.
For an application, write to Maitland Arts Festival, P.O. Box 1234, Maitland 32751; or call Joel Swann, chairman, at 830-2700.


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Cape May: Spring Migration - Birds and Their Habitats
May 11-14, 2017
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The shadow of a hawk glides overhead. Herons and shorebirds search for food in tidal pools. Salt marshes and woodlands vibrate with life.
Few sites on the East Coast of the United States are such compelling stopovers for migrating birds as Cape May, the southernmost point of New Jersey. Waterfowl, birds of prey, shorebirds, and songbirds all converge there—especially in the spring, when the weather is right, protective cover reassuring, and food plentiful.
Our aim for this long weekend seminar is to explore wildlife at a most exciting time of the year in a beautiful setting. In the company of Eliot Miller and Sarah Wagner, two exceptional birders and evolutionary biologists from Cornell's acclaimed Lab of Ornithology, we will observe the characteristics, behaviors, and habitats of resident and migrant species of birds, from the Summer Tanager to the Clapper Rail to the Black-bellied Plover. On daily trips and in evening lectures—and perhaps during a half-day coastal foray by boat—we'll scout natural environments from dunes to marshes, wetlands to woodlands to shore.
Eliot Miller
Eliot Miller is a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow collaborating with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. He will become a full-time postdoctoral fellow at the Lab of Ornithology beginning December 2016. His work at the lab focuses on how species'... > more
Sarah Wagner
Sarah Wagner is currently working with the education program at the Lab of Ornithology on curriculum for the new Handbook of Bird Biology and the Kids Discover the Trail program.
Sarah earned her PhD at the University of Colorado,... > more
The Lab of Ornithology, a Cornell and national treasure, works to interpret and conserve the earth's biological diversity through research, education, and citizen science.
Program notes
- Double occupancy: $2,114 per person
- Single supplement: $300 per person
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- Fitness scale: Slightly strenuous. May require extended walking over uneven ground as well as the ability to climb stairs and to stand for considerable periods of time.
Preliminary itinerary
May 11: Arrival
Arrive at Montreal Beach Resort. Check-in begins at 3:00 p.m.
Convene at 6:30 p.m. for drinks and introductions at Harry's Ocean Bar & Grille. At 7:00 p.m. we will move into the dining room for dinner.
After dinner, we will convene for our first faculty lecture: "How Do So Many Bird Species Coexist?"
May 12
Sunrise: 5:47 a.m.
6:00 a.m.: Birding on the beach
7:30 a.m.: Breakfast at Harry's Grille
9:00 a.m.: Depart for morning field trip to Belleplain State Forest (boxed lunch in the field)
1:30 p.m.: Afternoon field trip to Cape May Point State Park
5:00-7:00 p.m.: Free time to explore Cape May on your own
7:00 p.m.: Dinner at Harry's Grille
8:00 p.m.: Faculty lecture: "In the Red: The Imperiled Red Knot"
Sunset: 8:04 p.m.
May 13
Sunrise: 5:46 a.m.
6:00 a.m.: Birding on the beach
7:30 a.m.: Breakfast at Harry's Grille
9:00 a.m.: Depart for morning field trip to Stone Harbor Point (group lunch at location TBA)
1:30 p.m.: Afternoon field trip to Wetlands Institute
5:00-7:00 p.m.: Free time to explore Cape May on your own
7:00 p.m.: Celebratory dinner (location TBD)
8:00 p.m.: Faculty lecture: "Problems Faced by Migrating Birds—What Can We Do?"
Sunset: 8:05 p.m.
May 14: Departure
Sunrise: 5:45 a.m.
6:00 a.m.: Birding on the beach
7:30 a.m.: Farewell breakfast at Harry's Grille
9:00 a.m.: Optional field trip (location TBD)
Check out by 11:00 a.m.
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Taylor Swift may not have found her Prince Charming yet, but the execs at Disney still saw a princess in her! The recently single singer has dated and ditched a whopping dozen men in three years, but that didn't deter casting directors from singling her out as the new face of Disney's Rapunzel!
You may have seen the new celebrity ads for Disney Land–my favorite is actor/comedian Russell Brand as Captain Hook from Peter Pan. The photos help to bring the characters to life, and get a celebrity endorsement. After a photo session with Annie Leibovitz, and a little bit of Disney magic (or computer animation, as I call it!), Rapunzel was born. The picture shows Taylor sitting in the window of her tower, looking longingly at the world outside, while her cumbersome hair snakes around the base.
Taylor looks gorgeous in the photo, but we have to wonder if she was the best choice for the image. She's got the face down, but her music (to me) comes off as "I'm the victim, won't some handsome man come help me," rather than "I'm a strong, confidant woman. I can do anything." Maybe they were sticking to the original Rapunzel story, instead of the updated Tangled version, in which the Princess does a lot of the rescuing herself? Do you like Taylor's ad? Could a new Rapunzel movie be in the making, or, as with their other celeb character posters, is this just a one time thing?
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If the eyes are the windows to the soul, then it follows our eyebrows are some sort of window frame. Or maybe curtains.
Terry Barber, Director of Artistry at M.A.C , describes them as "the coat-hangers for the face", which is admittedly a strange and painful-sounding image.
But she's on to something. Any beautician you encounter will tell you the same thing - our brows are important to get right.
Most of us have had some trial and error getting them right.
Threading may sound a little too close to 'stitching' and therefore painful but, done well, it can make a HUGE difference. And beauticians, like modern-day miracle workers, can do it very well - as this video shows.
Much in the same way we love spot-squeezing footage, there is something undeniably satisfying about watching some unwieldy brows getting groomed.
Lynette Nersisian is one such miracle worker. Footage of her threading, trimming and colouring her clients' brows is both compulsive and hypnotic to watch.
Tempted to thread?
Here's what to expect, according to Cosmopolitan .
1. Bearable pain
"Depending on the therapist/your tolerance/the time of the month threading feels like tweezing multiple hairs at at once."
And be warned, flinching could result in bald patches!
2. Your participation
"You'll be asked to pull your eyelids in opposing directions, so the skin is taut and easy for the therapist to work on."
Make sure you tell them if it's your first time, as your beautician should talk you through it.
3. Don't wear lots of eye makeup
It WILL get smudged.
4. Trimming is also an option
"It makes unruly hairs look much neater. If you have especially fine hair or sparse brows you might want to decline."


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Summer is a great time to
recharge and to get ready for new beginnings. Over the
last year, the Business Relationships Group has
accomplished some good things that I would like to
share. I came to PMINJ with a background as a project
manager and over 19 years experience in the IT
industry. I am leveraging this experience as a
volunteer at PMINJ as the Director – Business
Relationships. This group is primarily responsible for
developing and maintaining relations with speakers,
venues, and sponsors and assisting the other VPs with
building PMINJ chapter programs.
Currently, I am leading a
project for PMINJ that leverages these relationships
using a customer relationship management database. The
initial CRM database is now complete and the team is
working on testing and optimizing the tool. We
developed standard templates to capture information
for venues, vendors, sponsors, speakers, and other
data that will help with the sharing of information
between various teams within the PMINJ chapter. This
will enable us to collaborate effectively and provide
value to our members and sponsors.
Currently, we have over 100
vendors and speakers in the pipeline and we continue
to build our sponsor contact database. The sponsors
and vendors provide value to our members year round in
our monthly events and our hallmark bi-annual
Volunteer of the Quarter award recognizes the outstanding
accomplishments of a volunteer from the PMINJ chapter.
PMINJ board members submit nominations for the award and
have recently awarded Pamela Kunz "Volunteer of the
Pamela Kunz assumed the position of
project manager for the 2014 Chapter Excellence Awards
initiative with a minimal knowledge about the
program, but she hit the ground running. Pam quickly
reviewed all the available documentation, reached out to
the Board members and was able to fully grasp the project
When global PMI published the Chapter
Excellence application, Pam conducted a gap analysis,
collaborated with many people, and was able to quickly
gather information supporting PMINJ's 2013
accomplishments. This was a big challenge since the
categories being measured and the requirements for
submitting documentation had changed dramatically from the
prior year.
Nominating Board Member, Nita Parikh,
affirms that Pam went above and beyond to ensure
requirements were understood and adhered to by the PMINJ
Board members and she provided the insight and detailed
work involved in demonstrating the quantifiable and
measurable results. Under strict time constraints, Pam
spent countless hours completing the new requirements.
"Her dedication is inspirational," as a PMINJ board member
noted. "She even fills in at the registration desk at
monthly meetings … she takes her work at PMINJ very
We look forward to keeping Pam on in a
new role—PM-Chapter Excellence, which she initiated by
carefully identifying lessons learned and ways we can act
upon them to continue to provide excellent service to our
Do you
have a registration question? A
question about the website? Trouble registering? Not
sure where to find the webinars? Want to learn more
about professional development? Want to offer your
services as a volunteer but don't see what you're
looking for? At the June Program meeting, the PMINJ
Membership team officially launched the Member Service
Center, which is your single point of contact for
members at PMINJ. The Member Service
Center helps make it very easy to get in touch with the
right people, right away and, to enhance your Member
Bruce leads our Member Service Center along with online
registrations. She has a team of "frontline" volunteers
who can quickly answer your questions and concerns, or
route them to the appropriate person at PMINJ that can
resolve your inquiry.
Member Service Center will make sure we take good care
of your inquiry and you don't have to worry about the
right place to go. To use the Member
Service Center click "Contact Us"
on the menu bar. This section
provides a series of Frequently Asked Questions. If more
information is needed, members can email
. The team will provide a response within a day or
two or will route your question to an appropriate person
in PMINJ who can answer it. Be sure to visit our Contact
Us section and FAQs to become familiar with all PMINJ
offerings for the new Member Service Center!
City, are you there?" is the familiar way the PMINJ
Programs A/V Team starts the monthly meeting sound
check, prior to its webcast to the remote "satellite"
locations. The roll call voice from volunteers Harry
Chiovarou and Dennis Ryan is a familiar sound as the
remote sites confirm their attendance at the monthly
PMINJ has nearly 20 remote locations
across the state to receive broadcasts of the Chapter's
monthly meetings. Each offers PMINJ members the
opportunity to attend the meeting from a remote location
and to network with fellow PMINJ members and host
location employees.
Glickman, former VP-Programs began the satellite
location program in 2008, starting with two remote sites
and less than a dozen participants. Since then, the
initiative has enjoyed a steady growth in locations and
member participation, with the guidance and direction
from Prasanna Punnam, Programs Director – Satellites,
and support from Bhaskar Dasgupta, Programs Satellites
Project Manager, and Morris Wrubel, former Satellite
Team Leader.
members and partner host corporations have driven the
growth and popularity of the remote locations. There are
over 40 active volunteers responsible for leading and
coordinating the remote location meetings. These
satellites provide a convenient alternative to commuting
to the main meeting location and provide the benefits of
attending the monthly program on a smaller scale.
Typically, the webcast is held in a
conference room with Internet access, speakerphones,
projection equipment and accommodations for at least 20
people. A benefit available only to PMINJ Chapter
members and host location employees, attending the
meeting from a remote location earns PDU credits for
maintaining PMP certification. Another advantage is:
there is no charge for attending a meeting from a remote
location! While there are no pre-meeting activities and
formal dinner is not served at the remote sites, some
locations coordinate pizza or take-out to enjoy during
the program.
It is easy for PMINJ members to register
and attend a monthly Program
meeting from a remote location, though preregistration
is required. To register, simply log into PMINJ.org site
and sign-up to attend the monthly meeting at a satellite
location. Once registration is completed, you will
receive a confirmation email along with directions to
the location. Remote satellite meeting locations are a
great way to stay connected and earn PDUs, especially if
your home and/or work location is far from the main
meeting venue. A complete list of locations is found on
the PMINJ website.
remote locations help PMINJ build positive relationships
and strengthen connections with corporations, colleges
and local communities. For example, DeVry University
hosts remote meetings at both their North Brunswick and
Paramus campuses, Merck has made multiple satellite
locations available to its employees. Also,
the emote meeting locations regularly participate in
PMINJ Cares outreach food drives being held at the main
meeting by contributing to local food banks, using the
meeting as a collection point.
If you know a
person who you think would make a good speaker at one of
our monthly meetings, you can now get up to 2 PDUs for
nominating them if your suggestion is selected.
We all know a
person or two that has experiences to share and the
Speaker Selection Team can now accept direct input from
all Chapter members. Just submit your suggested speaker's
topic and contact information and if they are selected to
speak, you will receive 2 PDUs as a speaker team
This year's Symposium theme,
"Managing Disruptive Technologies," guided project
managers through the 'new' world in which they are
expected to manage projects involving integrating and
implementing all forms of disruptive technologies and to
deliver business value for their organizations.
Increasing the agility of the organization, improving
customer experience and innovating business processes
were among this year's relevant presentations offered by
industry leaders.
Judy Balaban,
President PMINJ, and Deven Trivedi, kicked off the 2014
Symposium on May 5, 2014. Peter Sattler, keynote
speaker, is an Industry leader and CIO of International
Flavors and Fragrances. His presentation "Staying
Relevant in the Age of Mobility," began with a
fascinating history of mobile technologies "from
crackberry to tumbleweeds and from email to the iPhone
mobility." We are barely half way through the tech
revolution, but the challenge remains for companies to
realize and deliver what people want --ease and access
are the new normal. The irony of
Kodak's bankruptcy, holding onto their cash cow - print
and film--even though they invented the digital camera,
further speaks to the challenge for organizations to
stay relevant while also thinking about the future.
"What got you here, won't get you there" and
understanding the customer remains key.
Among the first
track speakers, the KPMG Team, Lou Trebino and Michael
Benza spoke from their experience on "Managing
Technology Disruption" including cloud computing, big
data and social media. Brian Smith
affirmed the need for soft skills in leadership to build
collaborative teams by describing "The Top Ten Sins Most
Managers Make & How to Avoid Them." Heath Suddleson
PSP reviewed the different functions of planning and
scheduling tools from among the tools in the "Project
Scheduling Toolbox;" advising that no one tool serves
all purposes, considering such factors as timescale,
audience and purpose.
In the second
track, Jimmy Nalepa talked about how the music industry
has been dealing with disruptive technologies such as
music streaming services and mobile devices. Scott Propp
recognized that it requires courage to spend time on
innovation versus optimization. Scott
presented a matrix for assessing where to focus
innovation efforts. Charles Cobb challenged the audience
with his session, "Is Agile Project Management an
Oxymoron?" and described the changing role of the
project manager with the analogy of project manager as a
'cook' following a recipe in a book versus an agile
project manager as a 'chef' who needs a broader range of
skills to adapt to changing customer's needs.
Lunchtime keynote Ron Taylor's wisdom, "winning does not make you a better person just as standing in the garage overnight does not make you a car!" made it into the event's Twitter Feed. Ron's key pointers for removing potential stumbling blocks for contending with challenging team members:
The third track
session included another high-tech session focused on
planning and implementing cloud with Steve Carter. His
work at the 451 Research Group says the cloud is not for
every storage application and that mindful application
is essential. Kit Welchlin provided a communications
roadmap for dealing with difficult people, noting this
is about 1 in 5 people that you work with! Examples of
changes you make in communication behavior, such as
confronting the 'sniper' by repeating their random
insults, until they knock it off! Barbara
Troutlein identified that almost 70% of change
implementations fail, resulting in financial loss and
employee cynicism. The Change Intelligence system is
based on her philosophy to "think globally, act locally
and panic internally!" An
interactive exercise allowed the participants to
identify their dominant leadership style, e.g., heart,
head or hands, and how to effectively utilize this style
to manage change and create lasting results.
On May 8, 2014, Kermick Santos
and Tod Burrus, PMINJ volunteers and Dennis McCarthy,
PMINJ Corporate Outreach, represented PMI and the
PMI New Jersey Chapter at Merck's 2014 Annual
Project Management Day.
and Tod staffed the PMINJ
information table where Merck employees and
contractors were able to find out about the benefits
and opportunities that PMI and PMINJ membership offers
as well as sign-up for specific areas of interest
(such as membership, PMP prep training, and
volunteering). Later in the afternoon, Dennis gave a
joint presentation about PMI and PMINJ along with Raji
Sivaraman, PMI Chapter Member Advisory Group (CMAG),
who spoke about best practices in change management.
thanks to the folks at Merck for having us at their
Project Management Day! Specifically, Tina Gertsch for
the initial arrangements, Tina Scavron
for final arrangements, Lea Landis for being our liaison, Charles
Sosoo for reviewing the presentations beforehand,
Jonathan Walsh for getting us all setup to present
and Aaron Corona for follow up.
"You the Product - How YOU Can
Become a More Attractive Product" was the key topic for
the May 2014 monthly meeting. Speaker George Pace, took
us into a new reality by challenging members with "think
of yourself as a product," to potential employers and
"try to differentiate your 'service offering' from those
of your competition" during his presentation.
He presents "YOU, the Product" by identifying key influencers used in making large purchasing decisions and suggesting many actions taken across all dimensions of a the Product Lifecycle. He shows how our world can take a definitive turn when we implement these same techniques and we follow through with taking "ACTIONABLE" steps toward becoming a more attractive 'product.'
Additional information: the presentation slides, pictures, and the webinar are available on the PMINJ website
The Crawford Slip Technique for Risk
Management as introduced by Bruce Fieggen at the PMINJ
June meeting, is a quick and comprehensive
technique to identify project risks and can be an
essential tool for project managers.
Fieggen demonstrates this technique by
simulating a risk identification workshop entitled, "Risk
Management in King Arthur's Time." Using data he found
poking about in the ruins of an ancient British Abbey,
Bruce found a book written in Old English that he has
translated and is preparing to convert to a project
management novel. The book tells the story of a project
manager building watchtowers in King Arthur's Britain who
discovers project management techniques in the process.
Fieggen prepares the team for the simulation exercise with a structure for writing the risks which provides the right context as each risk is identified in the process. He suggests two options for writing risks:
The Crawford Slip involves handing out
a chart and directing members to "Write down one risk
associated with your project," and then repeating that
question ten times. This technique quickly helps identify
many different project risks within a short period of time
and offers a democratic approach to contributing to the
Risk register.
The presentation demonstrated the
process of Risk Management Planning, Risk Identification.
Risk Response Planning and showed how avoiding,
mitigating, transferring or accepting a risk provides the
project team with data to manage ongoing project risks.
Finally, Bruce role-played a fascinating Root Cause
Analysis done by the old project manager of the
watchtowers leading to the original use of the '6 Why's'
Risk Management in King Arthur's Time
provides a novel approach to the process of Risk
Management. Members can see the Webinar again by visiting
the Members section on PMINJ.org.
information: the presentation slides, pictures,
and the webinar are available on the PMINJ website
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Purya Chauhan
Kevin Crisson
Sunil Dubey
John Feist
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Udhaya Govindaswamy
Kevin Halliez
Checheng Huang
Michael Kappmeier
Matt Kearsley
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Barbara Kesselring
Michelle Lamendola
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