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Dallas Cowboys Tailgate and Transportation from Downtown
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Bus will depart the Omni Dallas Hotel 3 hours and 30 minutes (04:00 PM) before kickoff. Bus returns 45 minutes post game. Tailgate and Transportation. includes Round trip transportation with parking immediately across the street from Cowboys Stadium. Tailgate is in a covered tent with restroom access. BBQ Buffet with Brisket, Sausage, and\or Chicken Unlimited Beer, Margaritas, Soft Drinks, Bottled Water DJ/Big Screen TV Meet and Greet with Bill Bates (autographs extra) Email questions to firstname.lastname@example.com or call 972.915.7300 (Ticket sales end two hours before buses leave the Omni Dallas.) FAQs Are there ID requirements or an age limit to enter the event? No. If the attendee is under 21, the price remains the same. All guests should adhere to AT&T Stadium's official bag policy. Please review here: http://www.dallascowboys.com/bags What are my transport/parking options getting to the event? For pick up at the Omni Dallas Hotel, we will pick up at the Owner's Box Entrance. We will park across the street from the stadium at the Fish Bone Grill and will leave the same location 45 minutes post game. Where can I contact the organizer with any questions? Email questions to firstname.lastname@example.com or call 972.915.7300
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Last week I ended the WMBIP Video Thursday series and I was going to start a new Thursday series today, but I'm still kind of fine-tuning the idea and how I'm going to present it, so I'm not ready to start that yet. I was trying to think of something to do this week in the interim and I decided to take you on a tour of The MBIP World Headquarters. I haven't given a tour of the place since 2016 and there's some new stuff in here. So fasten your seat belts because here we go on a three hour tour...well, actually it's probably more of a three minute tour, but who's counting? Oh, apparently I am. Okay, I'm going to quit talking to myself and we'll begin the tour!
The MBIP World Headquarters 2017 Tour
Here we are at the MBIP World Headquarters! I love that sign that they made for me at CJ Signs and want to thank them again for doing such a fantastic job on it!
We're inside and the tour will officially begin right now!
This is the front hallway and I recently added some pictures to this area and it was framed and expertly designed by my friend Colleen Kimball from Technicraft! Thanks for the great work, Colleen!
Here's the front room where the socializing happens at MBIP World Headquarters! It's also where I nervously pace around all the time and worry about eleven different things all at once.
These are some of my favorite things in the front room, including my trusted roommate, Sgt. Squeak! One thing I love is that Sgt. Squeak's name is highly Googleble!
This is the MBIP Kitchen And Food Tasting Area. The collage on the refrigerator is still a work in progress as is...
The collage on the cabinets. The pictures below the collage feature metal cut art by my brother Jim, my favorite paragraph from Huckleberry Finn, a portrait of myself and brothers, Jim and Tom and my sister Terry. I think that picture was taken in 1962! And the bottom picture is one of my all-time favorite things, The Furious LIttle Monkey!
This door leads to The MBIP Bedroom where this blog gets created and sleep is always hard to accomplish. I'm not showing you the back of the room because there's shit everywhere and I need to clean it up. In fact I need to start working more on this room and get some pictures on the walls in here. That will be my goal for the 2018 tour, if I'm still alive for that—stay tuned!
These are a few pictures from the little hallway that leads to...
The MBIP Bathroom, shower, grooming area and reading room. There's the three books on top of the toilet I'm currently reading, they are: Sticky Fingers by Joe Hagan, Petty by Warren Zanes and Hell's Angel's by Hunter S. Thompson. For the record, this is the 379th time I've read Hell's Angel's and I consider it Hunter Thompson's finest work.
And as we conclude this 2017 MBIP World Headquarters tour, I'll leave you with a bastardized quote from one of my favorite movies, Cool Hand Luke: "Sometimes MBIP can be a real cool hand." We'll see you all tomorrow!
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Ever participated in the corporate social responsibility program at your office? Guess, you do get a tax break for the contribution from your salary income. Don't you wish you could actually go across to that orphanage occassionally with a bunch of books and toys? The US grants a tax break for donations in kind. We should follow suit, this will reduce social inequality, one of the fears expressed recently by our Prime Minister.
Click here for the url to this months column. As always it is also cut and pasted below.
Happy reading and happy donating.
Good deeds deserve tax breaks
Law Street -Edition dated June 29, 2007
Recently Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's statements took the entire corporate world in India by surprise. His intentions were no doubt laudable — to bridge the divide between the haves' and have-nots' since social inequity can lead to unrest. However, his hinting that huge salaries paid by India Inc were the cause for this divide was perhaps a bit unfair. Globalisation means that a person does not compare his salary with what his peer in another domestic company gets, but rather what his or her value is in the global market place.
In this knowledge economy, no company can afford to lose its key people. It is not surprising that India Inc revolted against his suggestion. Yet there are other ways of curbing this divide — including the digital divide. This can be done by perhaps providing incentives for companies engaged in charitable work or what is popularly known in corporate cubicles as corporate social responsibility.
It is true, that under the current provisions of section 80G of the Income tax Act, 1961 ('the Act) tax deduction is available to any taxpayer (be it an individual or company) for donations made. This ranges from 50% to 100% of the amount of donation, subject to an overall limit. There is a restriction clause in the tax benefit, which states that for donations made to specific funds, the amount that is contributed and claimed as a deduction should not exceed 10% of the adjusted gross total income. This is called the net qualifying amount and it restricts the tax benefit that can be claimed by a taxpayer.
The need of the hour is to further incentivise charitable work. Perhaps, corporate entities could be encouraged to directly sponsor government-aided schools or hospitals? Have you ever walked into one such school? Zenobia Aunty, once an avid social worker prior to her bout of arthritic pains, states that most of these schools are in shambles. The roofs are generally leaking, the walls are cracked, the furniture is broken, the rooms are crowded, the toilet facilities largely lacking. True, in most states, lunch is provided to the children under a mid-day meal scheme, but even this, at times, is mired in political battles. Ditto is the case with most government hospitals. The doctors there strive to do their best, but lack of funds, means limited facilities.It cannot be denied that we are still a developing country. What is required is large scale participation from India Inc. Perhaps a cement company could donate tonnes of cement, an architect could provide his services free, a computer manufacturing company could provide computers, a software company the requisite software, a food manufacturer — confectioneries for special occasions such as Children's Day?
India Inc could also arrange to provide for donations in kind — to ensure that it reaches the children directly without any intermediaries (sometimes things do get lost if the delivery mode comprises of a long chain), such as clothes, woollens, medicines, etc. Unfortunately, such donations in kind at present do not get any tax sops. But then, there is the tendency to think only of oneself. Focusing on I, me and mine can lead to social unrest, as well, and it is time to think more on the lines of 'we' in the social spectrum.
We at India Inc, including all its employees can do a lot more towards social upliftment. While this columnist was chatting with her US-based tax-author friend Kay Bell, she learnt that donations in kind are eligible for tax sops in the US. Kay says, many charities are happy to accept used clothing and household goods and you're actually allowed to claim the fair market value of these items as a tax deduction. However, to curb the misuse of this provision, household goods that are donated must be in good condition (charitable organisations generally give a receipt to help support such claims). The tax return is required to detail, non-cash charitable contributions. There are additional caveats, if you are claiming a deduction of more than $5,000 for an item, a certificate from a qualified appraiser is required to be attached with the tax return. In some circumstances, the entire deduction is not allowed in the same year, but is staggered.
Yet the moot point is that donations in kind are eligible for tax sops. Now if the same could be emulated in India, it would definitely help boost corporate social responsibility. Further, Zenobia Aunty would also be assured that the biscuits donated by her actually reach the school children, instead of a cash donation that could perhaps be lost in the way.
Friday, June 29, 2007
Law Street in The Economic Times (June 2007)
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Foxconn Technology Group, the biggest maker of iPhones and iPads for Apple, said today that it has no intention of taking legal action after a US radio show retracted some claims about activity in its factories.
However, the company said that the broadcast, which led to further investigation of working standards in Apple's supply chain, has "ruined" its corporate reputation.
Last week, radio show This American Life pulled an episode which was highly critical of working conditions at Foxconn factories in China, after admitting that it contained "numerous fabrications".
The episode in question, originally aired on January 6, was based heavily on the one-man theatrical show of actor Mike Daisey, entitled The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs.
In a statement issued to Reuters, Foxconn spokesman Simon Hsing said: "Our corporate image has been totally ruined. The point is whatever media that cited the program should not have reported it without confirming (with us).
"We have no plans to take legal action... We hope nothing similar will happen again."
Working practices at Foxconn's massive plants in China came under intense scrutiny in 2010 after several young workers committed suicide.
This was followed last June by an explosion at the Foxconn plant in Chengdu, western China, that resulted in three workers losing their lives. It was caused by dust created from polishing iPads catching fire.
Daisey's play and its broadcast on This American Life led to a much deeper investigation by The New York Times, after which the resulting international pressure forced Apple to agree to an "unprecedented" independent audit of its manufacturing plants in China, including the Foxconn facilities.
This American Life's executive producer said last week that most of the retracted programme's content was true and corroborated by an independent investigation.
However, the fabrications were linked to Daisey's trip to China, including claims that he witnessed various abuses, such as underage workers and people suffering from Hexane poisoning from cleaning Apple gadgets.
Daisey has also admitted that he made up parts of the show about Apple's suppliers in China, and has cut the disputed sections from the monologue and added a prologue explaining the controversy.


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In my writings so far (collected in my blog), I have been discussing current and future energy dependence and possible renewable sources - mostly in general and based on books and articles from the global North. For me and others down here this discussion has lacked structure but that can now change, hopefully, by initiatives from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its workhorse, the Conference of Parties (COP).Earlier, it has been a lot of flimsy reasoning and speculations by "greens and deniers", pragmatic perma-culturists and serious researchers. Everything from 0 to 100% renewable energy proposals have been on the board. Now nations from all over the globe is discussing urgent climate change issues (as they are felt everywhere) and now it is possible to see a light at the end of the speculation tunnel. That must be the basis for continued writing and discussion – a structure to use as the basis for Our Renewable Future! The decision makers have a forum, albeit often on opposing sides of the table and now we have to include the common man, otherwise we will not reach the important goals, in my opinion. The problems in the global North are not the same we have here in the South – a bit simplified we can say that they created climate change and we are only suffering observers also hoping for a viable future.
Looking in the back mirror, we also realize that some "green" enthusiasm is needed. Ancient technology and concepts are important knowledge for the future but impossible as a single basis for it. The ecological balance in the olden times has been totally changed by the industrial revolution and we have to base a future life on the often disastrous results of that – consequently our fight against climate change, the result of earlier neglect.To be fair, the 100% renewable energy needed for the global North to keep up their expensive life styles, is theoretically feasible but not viable in a future without cheap fossil fuels – and we have to find a way of surviving the effects of earlier neglect even if it will mean less energy per person (e.g. a proper balance between South and North). Saving electricity will be an important issue.
So let's see how our African "global South" can achieve a decent energy basis – a question argued in the last COP meeting in Marrakech. The global North is disagreeing with a few queries/opinions from the South and that is a matter of concern. It has to do with conceptual matters, geography, pollution and finance.
Now, there is an interesting sub-board at COP – it's labeled NDC for Nationally Determined Contributions. I have some issues to discuss and propose for our readers and delegates to the subsidiary meeting in May/17 (in Bonn) and the next COP 23 in Nov/17 on Fiji. Let me argue the following, a way of "reflecting before":
We are since long used to the frustration that comes with big megaprojects – Morocco for instance has such a one just a short trip to the east of Marrakech called the Quarzazate Solar Plant. I guess most delegates have admired that project and I will be back on this issue in future writings about the myth of mega projects..I start my conceptual discussion with this pictorial metaphor – picture 1 is a simple home with some solar panels and picture 2 is something like a Sua Pan covered by solar panels – in order to find a viable energy concept for Botswana:
As intended, the illustrations span from simple roof panels to a mega-plant but there are logical steps in between. However, I like to propose that we start simple with a step by step concept, as Pic 1 indicates:
Step One - let's create a program for improving and saving electricity by lessen the power used for individual houses and install solar panels everywhere including community service buildings. With GoB support, BPC can make it a "purchase loan scheme" like the ones they (and the Housing Corporation) already have. Raising the value of the national housing stock by increasing standards with cheap loans is in fact making a wealthy nation – often used in the Scandinavian countries.
As the BPC power is already there in most cases and needed to overcome the intermittent power problem, it seems to me very simple: some panels, transformer/converter and a battery installment is all that's needed as long as there is the BPC backup. Consequently, it is an energy saving concept rather than a complete renewable future solution and a step towards a more decentralized provision. The savings will also be used to power the 20% of the rural villages not covered so far and upgrading of existing power grid.
Step Two could be to start medium scale solar and wind plants, scaled for small villages and urban neighborhood units – between 2-5 ha unused fields or natural impediments are needed, only. This is often a concept used in the Nordic countries I've seen, and the scale is acceptable environmentally due to the minimal impact. In short, this kind of planning will improve savings and also result in an improved employment situation and not a conclusion in the learned books we have been penetrating.
Furthermore. many large consumers like urban industries seldom have their roofs plastered with solar panels (to my astonishment not even for hot water) as well as most greenhouses for vegetable production that also need lots of power are seldom using solar panels. Here are more savings possible that might result in fewer large scale plants out of reach financially for us and often with negative environmental impacts). The problem here is the energy storage and we return to this later.
This medium scale, decentralized energy plants can be illustrated like this pic below and we can easily imagine an African village with a disused field near and filled with solar panels albeit this is a Scandinavian small town.
What's neglected in most conceptual writings about the "renewable future" is the important issue of the social inclusion of the common man, thus the education about the necessity of saving energy. So, we have to find a step by step approach here and find a long-term viability of proposed concepts as well as being able to meet costs and it means less energy per capita as savings start at home.
If we dare to get into heavy debts on behalf of our next generations, we are hand cuffing them to a forever ongoing dependency syndrome. And if the costs and debts are not met, they are forever sentenced to structural adjustments, austerity and unemployment. Please note, that the renewable future projects already implemented here and there, consequences like the ones I mentioned are a fact!
The social, common man involvement is crucial, as I see I, but I've noted recently that the issue is part of the BOCONGO and BCC concept for their Selibe-Phikwe project. That's fine but it must also be part of the future energy solution for the country. It is seriously needed if the "dependency syndrome" should be avoided – more self help is preferable! And this will have impact on future energy concepts, to be sure.
The storage of renewable energy/electricity is possible in the low and medium range of intermittent power. The BBC News online pages recently had an interesting project presented – "The Cryogenic Energy Storage (CES) in an article dated 10/12/2016. In short it spells out the following:The CES project, now leaving the experimental stage (5 MW) for reality (200–1200 MW already in the design stage) is using some electricity produced to freeze air (cleaned of CO2 – a very old technology today) into a liquid state and stored in containers of different kind. When warmed up, the liquid air expands 700-1000 in volume and will drive "steam" turbines producing electricity when solar or wind turbines are "sleeping". Thus, the need to depend on the existing traditional grid is eliminated. A solar plant can be self sufficient in other words.
And here we have another plus for our country with rather bad waste management: Combined with waste treatment, it can be run on the electricity produced by the refuse tip/landfill! This part of the project is nowadays routine in developed countries but not here, yet. And there is more interesting news and let's hear it from this source:
Highbrow Power's demonstrator plant is next to Pilsworth landfill gas generation site in the Manchester plant. The large insulated tanks are between this site and the new cryogenic plant. The rubbish burning generates methane gas produced from decomposing rubbish to produce electricity, not enough to be of serious interest for large scale housing and industrial areas though, but enough to produce and heat liquid air, essential for the cryogenic process.
And there is a remarkable side effect – when putting in both electrical and thermal energy, the amount of resulting electrical energy can in some cases end up being more than the electrical energy you put in!Those are very interesting news to us here in the global South – we can combine efforts for a better environment and, so to say, have two birds with one stone! But as a conclusion, I think some quotes from renewable energy experts are prudent. The first one from Prof M Mooiman, at UB 2015/16:
"One of the axioms of the energy business is: It takes energy to get energy. We have to expend energy drilling into oil deposits, pumping, refining, and transporting the oil before we can use it as petrol to power our cars; we have to expend energy mining, processing, and transporting coal before we can burn it; even in the renewable energy field, where we have free fuel sources, such as sunlight, we have to expend energy creating the components of solar panels, transporting, and installing them. Every energy source requires an investment of a certain amount of energy to recover energy that we can use somewhere else. The trick is to be sure that the energy invested is less than the energy produced. This concept called EROI – energy return on investment (also referred to as EROEI – energy recovered on energy invested). The formula for EROI is straightforward:
EROI = Energy recovered/Energy Invested = Energy output/Energy input
One always wants the EROI to be greater than 1, i.e., one wants to recover more output energy than input energy. There are many ways to calculate the inputs and outputs, but the most rigorous way is to undertake a life-cycle analysis and compare all the inputs and outputs over the whole life of the project. The range of EROI values in the energy field is wide: for hydropower, it is of the order of 80; for ethanol from biomass, it is of the order of 5… "
and the EIOI coefficient for solar power, often promised by manufacturers to 10-12 is in reality down to 2-3.
Another interesting voice on the internet is Prof Ugo Bardi, a distinguished member of the Club of Rome:
"I still want to know if the following can be done and does the EROEI include it all (plus the extra energy demand I haven't thought of):
1. Mine the raw materials using equipment powered by solar panels.
2. Transport and convert metal ores, eg. bauxite-aluminum, using equipment run by solar panels and in a factory built using the energy from solar panels.
3. Make the finished panels in a factory run by solar panels, including building and maintaining the factory.
4. Transport, install and maintain the solar panels using equipment running on solar panels.All this is presently being done (mainly) with the energy from fossil fuels. How will it be done when they are gone?"
Let me conclude with some positive news – naturally we cannot for the future go on by hooking solar panels to buildings and build plants over useful land. We must do that only for the existing built up environment. The long term solution is to include the energy gadgets among the construction elements. Solar panels of the type we have today will be roof construction material, for instance. Its an architecture, engineering and planning issue to be solved. For instance, the bright innovator Elon Musk is already presenting roof tiles and shingles with solar collection qualities, expensive for a start as well as his battery cars but a right innovation.
We can also do that! Already in year 2000 there was a report that especially Egypt, Botswana and the Philippines were ideal for solar energy production!Well, there we are and the discussion must continue!
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Sing to the LORD a new song;
sing to the LORD, all the earth!
Sing to the LORD, bless his name;
tell of his salvation from day to day.
Declare His glory among the nations,
His marvelous works among all the peoples!
For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised;
He is to be feared above all gods.
For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols,
but the LORD made the heavens.
Splendor and majesty are before Him;
strength and beauty are in His sanctuary. –Psalm 96:1-6
Do we believe this? Do we do these things? Sharing the gospel is, well, a struggle. Oh, but look at our God! "Splendor and Majesty are before Him; strength and beauty are in His sanctuary." By His grace, we know and serve the magnificent, sovereign King of the Universe. In light of who we are and who He is, we should be sharing of His great might, without ceasing.
So, what is it? Why can we not seem to muster up the courage to "tell of His salvation" and "declare His glory among the nations"?
The most common place the Church in America is encouraged to be a "missionary" in, is the workforce. How does one, be the salt and the light among those you spend a large portion of your day with? The most common misconception that I have heard of is the "nice guy effect." You know, the approach where you overwhelm everyone with inexplicable niceness and joy and this most certainly leads to coworkers innately understanding you are a Christian and Jesus is what they need to have a good attitude at work. Maybe your work ethic leads to Gospel conversations–and that is wonderful. However, that leaves the rest of waiting and hoping, that today we will be good enough for someone to know Christ. We all know that our works and salvation do not go together, and you are falsely hoping in something besides Christ. Romans 10:14 very plainly says, "How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?" "So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ." (Romans 10:17) We cannot be passively "sharing" the gospel, conforming to the mundane, but rather taking a bold stand for the majestic God, who made the heavens, and for some reason, saw it fit to save wretches like us.
This is intimidating. I one hundred percent get it. I work outside of the home, on a part-time basis. The environment that I work in heavily relies on teamwork, and there are a lot chatting women during downtime. Many opportunities to share the biblical worldview. In my last job, I knew that I was going to be leaving and starting a new job, and there would be very little likelihood that I would be interacting with these coworkers again. This created in me a much more aggressive approach to the Gospel, because, what did I have to lose? Well, I made a woman cry. This is not me bragging. I do stand by what I said. I shared the Gospel, unashamedly. This woman who was old enough to be my mother had lived the majority of her adult life, perhaps her entire life, believing a false Gospel! This is absurd. I spoke truth to her, offering her the grace that only the truth can offer, and she was frazzled and crying. I know she needed to hear it, but I know that I also found comfort in telling her because I knew I'd most likely never speak to her again.
How selfish of me, though, to only find Christ and my coworker that valuable when I had nothing left to lose? It's despicable. A great fear of man has settled into my heart again as I have started this new job. Waiting for the moment to come, when people will truly know who I am. In those moments, I am ashamed of the God that died for me and I worship what sinful man thinks of me and find higher value in it than the commands of Christ. I tell you this to encourage you. That the person behind this screen, is young and sinful and NEEDS Jesus, but to also tell you, that we are without excuse.
But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ. –Phillippians 3:7-8
Paul was in prison when he wrote this letter. For what? "For the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus." All things are a loss for the sake of Christ. Paul was a man, that had attained what his culture had to offer, but in a jail cell, he renounced it all for Christ. I love this passage of Scripture because I believe it really helps keep things in perspective. As basic as Christianity gets, this is there, nothing in this life can offer us satisfaction, but Christ. Fortunately, we live in a country, where it is currently legal to share the gospel. An arrest does not threaten our mission. So what is it? What in your life are you not willing to count as a loss for the sake of Christ? What loss are you not willing to suffer, in order to gain Christ?
If knowledge is your stumbling block, I want to encourage you that there are great resources available. Tracts are a great place to start. YouTube has several videos of skilled preachers debating and sharing God's Word, in a way, that you can do it too. The most empowering thing to a Christian woman, is not worldly achievements, status and what parts of your body, you have control over, but rather, being empowered by the Word. There is scripture to refute every worldview and religion. There is literally nothing new under the sun. Study all the great and wonderful things of God that we can attain, expose idolatry in false religions, expose the teachings of heretics, own it, get nerdy with it, and share the Gospel! (Ephesians 5:11) We are commanded to. (Matthew 28:16-20; 1Peter 3:15)
If we want to reform, sharing the Gospel must be central to our mission. It is the only reason, that we can count gain as a loss, for the sake of Christ!


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On Saturday my baby sister was married to Don Church, a wonderful man who will be a great dad to her two little boys. The kids and I had a lot of fun (although Bobby was mortified when his sister and mom danced at the reception), and I'm so glad we were able to help welcome Don into the family.
At the beginning of the ceremony there was a brief remembrance of her first husband, Gabe Custer, who was taken from us suddenly and much too soon. His family was all there, too--very touching. I'm so impressed with his parents--who have two young sons with Down syndrome and run a dayhab for adults with developmental disabilities in their home--for their support of Katy, Don, and the little ones, Sammy and Seth.


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News flash! Sound-bite headlines are often misleading—not that the media or anyone would ever want to mislead, of course.
There are three aviation safety sound bites to strike from your repertoire (unless, of course, the objective is to obfuscate):
"If you can drive a car you can fly an airplane." While most humans can become pilots with enough instruction, flight does require much more skill and judgment than driving a car.
"Flying is safer than driving." But only when compared to the airlines. Light aircraft flight is quite a bit riskier, although it can be significantly improved by following the rules, periodic practice, and exercising good judgment.
"GA safety is 40 times worse than the airlines." While the raw number may be accurate, the question is why this comes up at all—because, as with most bites, context is all-important. This is not to suggest any relaxation of standards; if we all flew to just private pilot specifications, as written today (see "Safety Pilot: Flying to Standard," June 2011 AOPA Pilot) the accident rate would drop significantly. For a few pilots, the last time they met the spec was when the ink dried on their temporary certificate. In my view, CFIs should cover some critical items on most every flight review: stalls and slow flight, basic instrument proficiency, consistently safe takeoffs and landings, and some discussion on assessing risk.
Let's assume that GA's raw flight hours, the denominator, are accurate even though they are only an approximation. Actually, as recently as 2010, flight time for amateur-built aircraft was underestimated, thus inflating the accident rate. It's probably not realistic to expect homebuilt aircraft to fare as well as certificated machines, but in many cases, the aircraft was incidental to some ill-considered act. The point is that a single number doesn't illustrate complexity well. Comparing light GA to the airlines is like comparing watermelons to grapes, motorcycles to buses, or Jet Skis to cruise ships. About the only attributes the airlines and light GA share are that we both fly aircraft, vastly different in capability, and occasionally occupy the same airspace.
Where GA and air carrier operations use similar aircraft—jets—the safety records are similar. But GA's diversity is the source of statistically stupid comparisons. Consider a single-engine piston aircraft flown by an inexperienced, lone VFR pilot operating from a short runway, with no weather-detection gear, no dispatcher to assess weather before and during the flight, possibly to a destination he's never been to before.
For the airlines we have a professionally-crewed jet operating under IFR, flying out of an approved airport to another approved airport, by a crew that has been route checked, dispatched, and assisted by a team of professionals they can consult at any time during the flight. Airline aircraft fly over most of the weather, are pressurized, approved for significant icing, and have thunderstorm-detection gear. The vast majority are turbine-powered, equipped with at least two engines, and must be capable of aborting or continuing a takeoff on the available runway. En route, they must be able to divert to another airport regardless of distance or terrain.
Conversely, GA aircraft are vastly different from one another. They include the smallest amateur-built craft carrying one person to 15-passenger business jets. Add light sport machines, trainers, agriculture airplanes, banner towers, and aerobatic aircraft. Their missions are equally varied and often much riskier than flying from A to B.
Takeoff or landing is the most dangerous phase of flight for most flight operations, and is where about half of GA accidents occur. GA, as a group, typically makes many more takeoffs and landings per hour than the airlines, which dramatically increases the risk and the accident rate. And yet, some people still think the sound bite is valid? Does anyone compare the safety of driving in the Daytona 500 with a trip to the supermarket? Of course not! That doesn't keep NASCAR from working diligently to improve its safety—and we shouldn't stop either—but let's quit using airline safety comparisons as a justification.
The paying public has the right to the highest possible safety in buses, ships, and airliners. GA passengers and pilots should understand that they are not afforded the same level of protection, any more than when they get onto someone's motorcycle, small boat, or automobile. Ground fatalities, off-airport caused by an aircraft, are the source of great public angst but are rare—the risk is nine times greater of getting hit by lightning.
Where to draw the safety line in GA will always be debated because opinions and operations are so varied. There are pilots in our system who shouldn't be flying and some who never should have been certificated in the first place—as in all other personal activities. How to fairly identify and remove them on a consistent basis is a vexing problem. The Air Safety Institute has more than 30 free online courses, publishes a quiz every other week, and offers about 200 free live seminars annually. What more should we do? Are you convinced that the government can make GA much safer than it already is, without a significant reduction in your freedom to fly? That's really up to us, as pilots in command. So the next time someone tosses off the GA/airline safety stats for shock value, ask them if they equate the high banks of Daytona with the supermarket parking lot.
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In hopes of becoming among the leading business schools in the world, the Faculty of Business and Accountancy (FBA), University of Malaya (UM) is now seeking the prestigious "triple crown" status from the most sought-after international recognized accreditation bodies: Association of MBAs (AMBA), Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), and European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS).
FBA UM is the first public business school in Malaysia to obtain an international accreditation from AMBA, United Kingdom since 2007. Later in 2016, FBA achieved another significant milestone for receiving full accreditation for a period of 5 years from AACSB. AACSB is based in the United States and known as the longest serving global accrediting body for business schools.
In addition to the international accreditations, FBA was also awarded 4 Palmes of Excellence status for its recognition as one of the top business schools with significant international influence in the Eduniversal ranking, which assesses the international reputation of business schools. This is the highest recognition among other higher education institutions in Malaysia.
In line with the University's vision and mission, FBA is moving towards the next target in 2018 and is aiming to seek accreditation from EQUIS. Administered by the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD), EQUIS is an international accreditation system that primarily focuses on higher education institutions of management and business administration.
These accreditations and recognitions affirm the University's commitment in delivering top-notch and world-renowned quality education in business studies and accounting.


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When Van Tongeren Kennemer (VTK), a Netherlands-based OEM, won the business to build six double inlet centrifugal fans for a refinery in Malaysia, they needed to provide units for ethylene ovens where temperatures could reach 350° C. VTK is a leading specialist in process engineering and manufacturing for air, gas, and solids systems, and has provided customized fan solutions since 1893. The key requirement for this project, according to VTK project manager Peter de Wildt, was reliability; the end customer wanted the fans to operate without fail for at least six years.
"We were told that if a fan stopped running, production would shut down, costing nearly one million euros a day," said de Wildt. "Because bearings are the most critical component in our fan design, we wanted to look beyond our standard vendors to find the most reliable bearing. Even more important to us, we wanted to find a technical partner capable of ensuring our success."
VTK had recently become aware of ABB's Dodge Sleevoil bearings, having installed two of them on a small fan project. Pleased with the level of support and impressed with the quality of the product, VTK selected ABB as their partner to supply Dodge RTL series hydrodynamic bearings for the refinery project.
"Dodge Sleevoil bearings have a higher recommended load and maximum speed compared to competitive bearings, which made them perfect for this application," explains de Wildt. "We worked closely with ABB's bearing technical specialists on all of the calculations to come up with a customized bearing design that would meet all of the specified requirements."
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Campus Exercise Creates New Understanding of Poverty
Poverty simulation workshop involves Ashford University faculty, staff and students
Students, staff, and faculty of Ashford University came to understand poverty from a brand new perspective following a poverty simulation workshop held on Ashford's campus last Thursday afternoon.
The simulation, hosted by Ashford University's Office of Service and Leadership and facilitated by Amanda Hohmann of Dubuque's Operation: New View Community Action Agency, is a widely used educational tool to help individuals better understand the complexities of poverty.
As participants of the simulation, each player experienced a month of poverty compressed into the real time of the event. After being clustered into various family units – two parents and two children, an older man living alone, a single mother with children, or a couple with a blended family caring for an elderly family member – each family was tasked with paying bills, maintaining jobs, buying groceries and caring for their children, etc., while struggling with limited means and additional stressors. Ashford faculty and staff volunteers played the roles of community members, including mortgage collector, town banker, quick cash operator and social service employees.
"They have to figure out how to navigate through the system and it's not easy," said Hohmann. "Even with resources out there, one is not always aware of what is available or how to access it."
Many of the 60 participating students observed experiencing feelings of stress and many felt overwhelmed by the obstacles facing their families.
"Getting groceries, applying for assistance, trying to make ends meet while juggling family responsibilities, it was extremely difficult," said a participant. "I can understand where someone might feel like they are on a treadmill, never really getting anywhere."
"I didn't know what I was getting into. Even though we did everything in our power, there were so many hurdles to overcome and our income was insufficient. It really opened my eyes to how challenging it is for so many on a day-to-day basis," another student added.
"The discussions after the simulation are what inspired me. Everyone who participated in the simulation – whether a participant or volunteer – learned something valuable," said Kristen Drake, Ashford University service learning administrator. "The experience and resulting discussion changed attitudes and reminded all of us that, without a doubt, we can always be more aware of our neighbors' needs. You never know where life is going to take you. We are fortunate to have gained this new perspective."
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Ashford University is defining the modern college experience by combining the heritage of a traditional campus with the flexibility and effectiveness of online learning. The University provides a vibrant learning community where high-quality programs and leading-edge technology create a dynamic, immersive and stimulating learning experience. The University offers practical and progressive associate's, bachelor's and master's degree programs online, as well as bachelor's degree programs at its Clinton, Iowa, campus. Ashford University – where heritage meets innovation. For more information, please visit www.ashford.edu or call Shari Winet Rodriguez, vice president of Public Relations, at 858.513.9240 x2513.


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|Liz Bennett Is A Liar
"Crown counsel's wrongful non-disclosure seriously infringed Mr. Henry's right to a fair trial," Hinkson wrote in his decision.
"If Mr. Henry had received the disclosure to which he was entitled, the likely result would have been his acquittal at his 1983 trial … and certainly the avoidance of his sentencing as dangerous offender."
In 1982 Elizabeth Bennett, a newly admitted lawyer, went to work for the same dirty law firm, the Provincial Crown Counsel's office that suppressed evidence and otherwise destroyed a person by locking him up when he had committed no crimes.
According to her online biography:
From 1987 to 1994 Elizabeth Bennett was a senior appellate counsel dealing with criminal appeals.
From 1996 to 1997 Elizabeth Bennett was acting director of criminal appeals.
During all of this period, Elizabeth Bennett and her pals at the Crown Counsel`s office were part of an organization that suppressed evidence and kept an innocent man in jail.
This kind of conduct is commonplace by government lawyers in British Columbia.
In 1997, a corrupt Canadian Justice Minister, Anne McLellan, appointed Liz to the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
McLellan appointed a number of crooked judges to the Courts of Canada and those judges caused a lot of harm and harmed many innocent people and Elizabeth Bennett is one of those judges.
Observers say Elizabeth Bennett is a sadistic psychopath because she takes delight in harming people.
In the Editors opinion, Elizabeth Bennett is a lowlife criminal who made a fraudulent judgment in the case involving the English family and lawyer Greg Harney who tried to rip them off for $1.12 million because she took secret instructions from third parties connected to Mr. Harney and the Government of British Columbia.
Mr. English and his advisors have documented proof that Liz Bennett is a liar and her judgement was fraudulent and they have provided that proof to the RCMP the Canadian Judicial Council, the Minister of Justice for British Columbia and the Minister of Justice for Canada.
Elizabeth Bennett is not the only judge person from the Crown Prosecutors office who may have been directly involved in the suppression of evidence in the Ivan Henry case.
The current Associate Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia Austin Cullen was formerly the Regional Crown Counsel when the Crown Counsel Office that was suppressing evidence in the Ivan Henry case and current Supreme Court of British Columbia Justice Heather Holmes was also a lawyer in that crooked office. Heather Holmes has a clear and established record of suppressing evidence to protect BC government insiders in at case involving British Columbia lawyer John Carten who was railroaded by the lawyers at the Attorney General Ministry and judges from that Ministry a few years back. Mr. Carten maintains the Water War Crimes web site that has done an excellent job exposing legal and judicial corruption in Canada resulting in the termination of a number of those legal and judicial criminals.
|Dirty Suzanne Anton
Suzanne, like the criminal perverts that kept and innocent man behind bars for 27 years instructed her crooked lawyers to resist the Ivan Henry case to the bitter end when the Federal Crown under newly elected Justin Trudeau had already agreed to a settlement.
Suzanne Anton was a player in the same effort by Heather Holmes to suppress evidence in the case of lawyer John Carten where both Elizabeth Bennett and Healther Holmes were actively protecting criminals inside the administration of justice.
Suzanne, Elizabeth and Heather should all be given lengthy jail terms so they can have a taste of their own medicine.
Elizabeth Bennett, Heather Holmes and Austin Cullen, all of them crooked, was all appointed to their judge positions by the notorious former dirty Minister of Justice, Anne McLellan.


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A friend has serious food allergies. Want to give her a fun party where she can eat EVERYTHING. She can do sheep's milk. And ghee because the milk solids are removed.
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salad with sheeps milk feta & melons (or if no melons in season, pineapple), lemon vinaigrette, cilantro
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potato (or other root vegetable) pancakes made with no wheat flour at all, or a non gluten substitute like rice starch or potato starch
taramosalata - fish spread (Greek recipes)
hummus all decked out with garnishes to taste - olives, whole garbanzos, pickled peppers or cucumbers, chopped parsley, mint or cilantro, pomegranate seeds, smoked paprika, chipotle or ancho powder, fried chicken cracklings.
beet salad - many recipes
orange onion & olive salad (Italian side dish)
stuffed things - olives, mushrooms, artichokes (cold or fried)
deli meats - two or three of her favorites
To recap, you can mix some proteins and produce, nuts herbs and spices. Use what's in peak form or best available near you, or a unifying cuisine she likes (one of the Mediterranean countries, or we haven't even touched Asian ideas yet). Use toothpicks to skewer small bits, non-gluten crackers and vegetable dippers like endive.
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4. chicken fingers and dipping sauce (cut chicken breast into strips. Use an egg wash and either almond flour or GF panko. Serve with 1/3 Sriracha 2/3 ketchup, or a roasted red pepper sauce like peperonata)
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It seems that Tikona co-founder Prakash Bajpai has finally managed to find a buyer for its 4G spectrum. Bharti Airtel is in final stages of negotiations to buy Tikona's 4G spectrum.
In last five years, Tikona has been trying to sell its 4G spectrum that it acquired in 2010 through auction. However, it couldn't launch its services as it couldn't generate enough funds to launch services. It bought spectrum in Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh (East), Uttar Pradesh (West) and Rajasthan for Rs1,058 crore.
In fact, there was no business case for stand-alone data service providers. The market was already flooded with a number of mobile service providers.
Tikona bought 20 megahertz (MHz) of 4G airwaves in the 2,300 MHz band. Details of the deal are not clear. Out of 20 years of Spectrum lease, seven years have already lapsed. It is highly unlikely that Tikona will get any premium over the value of remaining 13 years of Spectrum.
Tikona will hive off its wireless broadband business, Tikona WiBro and will continue running it.
If Airtel acquires Tikona's spectrum, it will not breach 50% ceiling norm for Spectrum.


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Adrian Adams, a law clerk in the 24th Judicial District Court in Jefferson Parish, has announced his candidacy for the Division G judgeship. He said his experience qualifies him for the job.
Adams, a Harvey resident, clerked for Judge Melvin Zeno for 16 years and Judge Lee Faulkner for six years. He said he also has served as a traffic hearing officer in 2nd Parish Court in Gretna.
A graduate of West Jefferson High School and Southeastern Louisiana University, Adams received his law degree from Southern University. He is president-elect of the Jefferson Bar Association and a member of the Academy of Southern Trial Lawyers.
Adams is a Democrat. The winner of the Nov. 4 election will succeed Judge Robert Pitre, who is retiring. Qualifying for the fall ballot is Aug. 20, 21 and 22.
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CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article incorrectly reported that Adams was president-elect of Southern Trial Lawyers.


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Experiences and observations from the business front lines in the post dot-com world
Despite the current economic winter, the entrepreneur spirit is alive and well. Emerging companies are vigorously working to launch or reinvent themselves and deploy strategies that will grow their current marketshare and revenue. For every company that has deciphered the magic code dozens still struggle with the challenge. To assist you in "kickstarting" your business, we've identified seven critical factors that successful businesses, both large and small, have embraced. They will not only help ensure your business' survival but will also accelerate your competitive advantage.
Be realistic about your business objectives.
Passionate leaders command most startups. They have an aura of electricity and their enthusiasm is contagious. Unfortunately, many of these same leaders operate under the myth that the product will sell itself, and so they set unachievable goals. This is one of the most common mis-steps that end up crippling a business.
Setting goals that are overly optimistic and vague, such as, "to be the company to grow to $1B faster than any other business," lack substance and meaning. Others such as "to become the defacto standard for web-based self-service in 12 months" include a time horizon, but fail to indicate how, what, or with whom success will be achieved.
Every company needs a clear vision and a mission statement, but specifying ambitious goals without support will lead to agitation in the board room, frustration for the sales team, and a detrimental cash burn rate. Those companies that were the most successful shared a common trait of setting clear business goals that included credible and complete information for their staff to execute them. As the economic conditions changed, they were also quick to revise their short- and long-term business goals to match the industry. Finally, each company went to great lengths to enlist the involvement of their employees to ensure not only the development and articulation of the business objectives and measures, but their adoption throughout the organization.
Success Factor #1: Identify stretch goals with reasonable milestones and timelines that can be matched with current investment and spending plans.
Understand your unique value proposition.
Successful companies know that it takes more than technical leadership to create a sustainable business – there must be value for the customer that exceeds the value currently being offered by other solutions.
A value proposition starts with careful focus on a single target. The temptation to try to be all things to all people leads to the overextension of resources and the inability to execute. Next, a value proposition needs to clarify the specific problem you are solving and quickly explain the compelling reason why your solution is best.
Value propositions are not created in a vacuum or the boardroom. We discovered that several startups frequently solicited input from prospective customers early in the product development phase, collecting feedback regarding the problem, the product, the sales process, and the anticipated market reaction. This information helped them hone their business plan and accelerated a return on their marketing and sales investment.
Success Factor #2: Based on customer and/or prospect feedback, frame a value proposition that identifies the target customer and what you do for them better than anybody else.
Take a hard look at your competition
It is surprising to find that many startups and emerging companies are convinced they have no competition. Some entrepreneurs are focused so intently on their product that they fail to recognize evolving market trends or anticipate competitive advancements in markets that may overshadow their own value proposition. With product lifecycles shortening, it is critical that companies accurately judge the competitive landscape in order to take full advantage of their market window.
Many of the startups we've worked with considered two dimensions of competition: First, How are users addressing this need today without your product or service? In most cases, users have adopted some solution or service to address the problem you solve. These startups spent time understanding alternatives being used today before they launched their product. Second, What similar products or technologies are being employed today? One startup we worked with researched 30 competitors and distilled them into three categories. From this grid they were able to clarify their points of differentiation.
Success Factor #3: Research the competitive landscape and categorize your competitors, noting their strengths and weaknesses. Then compare your company against this landscape. This exercise helps identify points of differentiation that can be communicated in sales and marketing programs.
A marketing foundation is absolutely necessary for your success.
It is common for entrepreneurs to incorrectly believe that marketing is not important at the early stage of a company's development. Many view marketing as something to be done later when they are ready to build a brand. However, the successful companies we studied spent time and resources to carefully craft their unique value proposition and build a foundation of sales tools before the product launched. This did not require a full-fledged marketing organization from day one. However, each of these companies was able to insert marketing requirements into the DNA of their initial business plan and investor presentations.
There remains a lot of confusion around branding. Branding does not mean extravagant launches at the Ritz, full color ads in the Wall Street Journal, or extensive direct marketing campaigns. These are tactics that will undoubtedly support the brand, but they may or may not be necessary.
Branding is all about mission, message, and living it. Successful companies create a clear message, then repeat it, reinforce it, and drive it home consistently in everything they do. Having a successful marketing foundation will help ensure that every employee can and will communicate and sell the product's value proposition, from the CEO to engineering to human resources, to finance.
Success Factor #4: Invest early in marketing to clarify and articulate your value proposition, key messages, and defendable points of differentiation. Integrate this market strategy into your product development plans, and later, your sales organization.
For best results, marketing and sales should work hand-in-glove.
If you look within any large business, you will likely find a polite but adversarial relationship between marketing and sales. Turf battles and political agendas waste time and energy and ultimately lead to poor results. In contrast, we found that several successful startups short-circuited this by building an integrated sales and marketing team from the ground up, linked by common objectives.
As an example, consider a military campaign where one team defines the strategy and another team executes it. To function at peak performance, sales and marketing must work in a similar fashion where marketing sets the strategy, and sales determines the field tactics and best approach. Marketing develops the weapons (e.g. the messages, sales tools, competitive intelligence). Sales learns to use them effectively in each unique customer environment to win the battle.
Another common trait of successful companies is in their ability to establish joint sales and marketing measures and metrics early, allocating appropriate resources to let the teams function as one. A common goal expressed by one VP of marketing is that at the end of each day, marketing and sales must be able to conclude that their combined efforts accelerated sales in some way. The most successful businesses we've worked with embraced this philosophy. It led to one startup growing its revenue stream from $100K to $3.2M in 9 months.
Success Factor #5: Regardless of organizational structure, build a sales and marketing team with common objectives, milestones, and measures.
Plan for the future.
In planning for the future, we were interested to find that successful companies tended to juggle these three management dimensions: managing their cash burn rate, looking for "learning" in every corner of the organization, and embracing creative hiring practices.
Managing the cash burn rate: It's easy to not spend money and manage a business from an income statement perspective. Unfortunately, no company ever saved its way to profitability. Successful companies, we found, were able and willing to make strategic investments when appropriate, both in terms of filling out the organization as well as executing sales and marketing programs.
While the days of Hollywood-style events and lavish press conferences are over, important infrastructure investments are critical for any company's ability to grow. Sales force automation tools, customer resource management tools, sales training, a professional looking website, and engagement with a press relations firm were all key investments that allowed them to build a solid image and operate their business smoothly.
Be careful with that axe: All executives would agree that terminating weak links that don't bring continuous learning into the organization is a necessary tactic. However, successful companies are cautious before pulling the trigger. As an example, it is easy to terminate a sales person for not making their numbers. But, if that sales person is bringing the organization critical information regarding competition, sales process, market acceptance, product utilization and customer reaction, perhaps the weak link is somewhere else. In this example, the weak link could be the market message, product capabilities, positioning or services.
Embracing creative hiring practices: We also found a trend with the more successful startups exercising greater creativity in their approach to hiring and firing. They "beg" retired executives to volunteer their time as part of their advisory staff. They "borrow" expertise through consultants who become a temporary or interim extension of their staff to add unique expertise to projects and meet specific objectives. And, some seek to "steal" from the best by hiring away good employees into needed positions.
Success Factor #6: Be fiscally prudent, but willing to consider targeted investments to build a solid business infrastructure quickly.
It's all in the execution and learning.
In the 1980s, planning was often viewed as strictly an academic exercise performed by folks in the "ivory tower." Nowadays, its very common to find organizations that are measured solely on its ability to execute programs on a daily basis where there is no time to plan. Unfortunately, aggressive but untargeted execution is ineffective and wastes valuable resources. A challenge for all businesses is in their ability to balance these two extremes. A common practice we discovered within a few companies was the development of an architectural level plan with a three-to-five year time horizon. They also prepared detailed objectives covering a 24-month window. Another company established a list of the quarterly top eight business objectives (dubbed the "Uber 8″) and reviewed their progress against this list monthly with its employees. It was common to see this list on every employee's wall.
With a plan in place, effective execution of marketing and sales programs can more easily be achieved. However, not every program will be successful, despite the best-laid plans. The challenge is to learn from the success and failure of these programs and fine-tune them quickly while they are still in progress.
With as solid strategic foundation, some of these startups took steps to encourage new thinking and were not afraid to make mistakes. They seemed able to harness the creativity of each individual, encouraging them to be part of the "extended leadership team."
Success Factor #7: Speed and ruthless execution is everything. To maximize your ROI, identify and widely communicate business plans and objectives throughout the organization, and encourage widespread adoption and involvement at every level.
About the authors:
This paper reflects the recent collective experiences of the KickStart Alliance team: Mary Gospe, Mike Gospe, Janet Gregory, and Mary Sullivan. The KickStart Alliance is a team of senior marketing and sales leaders who assist startups and emerging companies develop and execute a variety of marketing and sales goals and objectives. We augment business teams by managing short-term projects, implementing extended programs, and engaging in interim executive assignments. We serve a variety of hi-tech companies with proven experience in defining value propositions, sales & market planning, messaging, e-marketing, market analysis, program management, sales operations, direct sales, and sales support.
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Bergen's Gingerbread City is - by far - the largest in the world. This year they are celebrating their 25th birthday, and the goal is to make it even bigger and better than before. The buildings in the gingerbread city are baked by kindergardens, schools, families and groups from all over Bergen.
There is no fee for participating in this event. Study Bergen will provide the gingerbread dough, glue and decorations. All you need to bring is a smile and good construction skills.
Where and where
The event will be at St. Pauls childrens school on Saturday 7th November. There will be two times for baking and constructing, one from 11-15:30 and one from 14:30 -18:30. There will be about 10 stations, so you'll be around 6-8 people per station. You will need to make, bake and assemble the house on your own. When the houses are done, we will go together to give them to the Gingerbread town. This will be at about 18:45. By that time you must also have cleaned up your stations.
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We encourage participants to bake a famous momument or building from their home county. Whatever you build, it is important that you plan your building in advance of the event, and draw it out on cardboard templates which you take with you to the event.
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This is traditionally a popular event, and places a limited. If you want to participate please make sure you use the registration form:
This event is now fully booked