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For more than two years, my Animal Matters column has focused only on companion animal issues. I have confined myself to dog and cat issues – despite the horrible suffering faced by so many other species – because the Norfolk SPCA adopts out only dogs and cats.
But many people think of horses as companion animals and proposed federal legislation would help more than 100,000 annually.
The federal Safeguard American Food Exports Act would prevent American horses from being slaughtered. It would also prohibit horses from being transported out of the country – typically to Canada or Mexico – for the purposes of slaughter.
The bill has strong bipartisan support. It was, for example, introduced in the Senate by a collection of senators as diverse as Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Robert Menendez, D-N.J.
A fact sheet on the bill from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals says it all: "Horse slaughter is especially inhumane because horses are extremely difficult to stun. They often endure repeated blows to the head and sometimes are alive and kicking during dismemberment. USDA inspectors cited rampant cruelty violations at plants previously operating in the U.S."
As if those are not sufficient reasons to support the legislation, there are more.
Horses are not raised for food in our country. Horsemeat is a food safety threat because of the "hodgepodge of drugs regularly administered" to American race and companion horses, according to the ASPCA.
The organization also cited a 2012 survey showing that 80 percent of Americans support a ban on horse slaughter and a 2016 study noting that 2.3 million Americans are willing and able to adopt a horse.
One local horse advocate working to get this bill passed is Virginia Beach resident Alicia Mahar, who a few years ago founded a nonprofit called Circle A Home For Horses. Her organization rescues horses who have been sold for slaughter and matches them with at-risk children. The goal is healing for all parties, human and equine. Transformations for both species have been moving.
During a recent tour of the Norfolk SPCA, Mahar told me she wrote to Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Taylor, in whose district she lives, to try to convince him to support the SAFE Act. Democrats Bobby Scott and Donald McEachin, as well as Republican Rob Wittman, are already on board.
Let's educate our elected officials about the grotesque cruelties and public health risks of horse slaughter. Perhaps, then, they will all get on board with this legislation that could save and improve so many lives.
Rob Blizard is executive director of the Norfolk SPCA. Reach him at [email protected].
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The benefits of water are endless. Crucial for nutrition, energy and vitality, humble H20 is the ultimate building block for a healthy lifestyle.
Although it may be important, for most of us, the thought of drinking glass after glass of plain old water isn't that appealing. One way to make getting you H20 hit more enjoyable is by infusing it with fruit - try using Rooi’s range of sports water bottles, made especially for just that.
Here are a few of our favourite naturally flavoured water recipes that we'll be keeping hydrated with this summer...
1. Citrus infusions
Brimming with nutritional boosters and benefits - vitamin C-rich citrus fruits are the ideal ingredient for an enriching infused water.
Much more than just a natural sweetener, fruits rich in vitamin C contain super-antioxidants that work to keep your skin nourished and aid in the healing of wounds and blemishes. Not only that, it works to combat the effects of free radicals on the body - harmful molecules that help to develop diseases such as heart disease and arthritis.
Traditional options such as limes, lemons and oranges work perfectly. However, for a much more diverse flavour, try clementines, mandarins or grapefruit to give a zingy, zesty taste.
2. Fresh fruit water
Thanks to their emergence as a so-called ‘superfood’, it’s no wonder we have seen an increase in berry sales over the past few years.
Their natural sweetness and versatility make berries the ultimate fruit for perfectly balanced infused water. When incorporated into a healthy diet, the fibre found in berries can contribute to tackling weight loss - particularly raspberries.
Raspberries and blackberries work perfectly together, whilst strawberries possess a unique ability to be partnered with a huge variety of ingredients; they're delicious with both mint and basil for a complex flavour.
3. Herbal infusions
Herbs boast a wide range of health benefits; sage has been found to tackle Alzheimer's, whilst thyme and oregano are packed with powerful antioxidants.
Although the flavour of herbs has always leant itself more to savoury cooking, when twinned with certain fruits they deliver a beautifully intricate flavour. Extremely easy to source and grow, herbs are incredibly popular for maintaining healthy skin. Peppermint contains menthol, which helps to cool the skin and lemongrass naturally minimises oil secretion - combating skin irritation in the process.
Our personal favourite water bottle concoctions are bananas and parsley, thyme with pears and cherries and mint paired with watermelon.
4. Chilled teas
Green tea has long been famed for its ability to enhance sporting performance and weight loss.
Although more commonly perceived as a hot drink, when served chilled its spicy, aromatic notes shine through.
Herbal tea remedies - especially those containing thyme - work to assist kidney function. By doing so, it helps to promote clearer skin, as any toxins are ‘flushed out’.
The lively qualities of lemon and lime work brilliantly with green tea, whilst adding a touch of black tea to a raspberry-based infusion makes for a deliciously refreshing replacement for your standard mug of tea.
5. 'Superfood' water
The superfood has been the definitive ‘buzzword’ of the food and drink industry for a few years now, and unsurprisingly - it has become a must-have ingredient for infused water recipes.
The beauty of so-called superfoods, whatever the latest trend may be, is that they are filled to the brim with antioxidants, vitamins and minerals - all promoting a healthy lifestyle. Pomegranate (bone strength), watermelon (healthy blood flow) and beetroot (combats skin problems) are some of the most popular choices - and ideal for infused water recipes.
This year's health food of choice has been the naturally sweet and immune-boosting goji berry. When mixed with pomegranate or blueberries, it creates an exhilarating and fresh taste. Packed with vitamin C, A, iron and fibre - it is the perfect drink to satisfy your thirst.
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This legging is a bit tight. I am supposed to buy size XS, but I purchased XXS. It fits me ok but a bit tight. I didn't return it because the martial is great, not show my lines of the underwear, and not very thin. My most of the leggings show my underwear clearly. The smaller size makes me control my weight and looks skinny. The best part is the pockets. They are exactly what I want. I can insert Iphone in the pocket located in the leg. My keys are put in the back pockets. My card is put in the pocket in the waist. Then I purchased another one with size XS for my daughter. She loves it as well.
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Whimsical Decorated Poinsettia Cookies
When Georganne (Lila Loa) and I began organizing this old-school ‘Christmas in July’ “blog-hop,” I was super pumped! I had big plans to pull out my external hard drive and choose from my long to-do list of cookie ideas and sketches. Except, my hard drive was hopelessly lost and a few unexpected things came up at my day job. Add these to the fact that it’s my nature to procrastinate, and my kids are out of school for the summer, and… I blinked and it was July 23rd! I hadn’t even
started THOUGHT ABOUT my cookies!
As I went back and forth in my mind, simultaneously kicking myself and trying to figure out what to do, it hit me! In addition to sharing how I made whimsical decorated poinsettia cookies, I’d share something even more useful… my SERIOUSLY tried and true tips for making cookies in a crunch.
First, I always try to keep things as simple as possible. Instead of debuting a new design, I try to choose fun and easy designs that I’ve made before. To take it up a notch, I use pretty palettes and incorporate simple, smaller cookies to add color and texture to create an eye-catching display. While it takes a bit of time to mix extra colors, it’s a very quick way to add interest without the time and effort it might take for a new design.
Since the moment I purchased this flower cutter from That’s A Nice Cookie Cutter, it has been a poinsettia in my mind, so, that’s what I chose for this project.
To make these cookies you will need:
- That’s a Nice Cookie Cutter’s Flour Power cutter, or similar design
- Ateco #2 piping tips
- PME #1.5 piping tips
- Sweet Sugarbelle Decorating Bottles
- Rustic red piping and flood icing
- Dark green flood icing
- Golden yellow flood icing
Step 1: Use a #2 tip to outline the cookie.
Step 2: When the outline is dry, fill the inside with flood icing.
Step 3: Let the flood icing set for a minute or two, then use dark green icing to randomly drop a few dots into the center of the wet base. The wet-on-wet technique is all about timing. If you add dots too soon, they can spread and become distorted. Too late, and they will never fall flat and become completely flush. Royal icing can be affected by many variables, so it’s important to be aware of this as you work, practicing until you know how the icing will react in your environment.
Step 4: When the icing base layer dries enough to have formed a crust, use golden yellow flood icing to add smaller dots over the green dots, along with a few smaller dots to fill in voids if necessary.
Step 5: When the base is dry, create definition by using red piping icing and a PME #1.5 tip to loosely outline the cookie.
That’s all there is to whimsical poinsettia cookies in about five easy steps.
In the past, I’ve made realistic-looking poinsettia cookies, but as I’ve matured as a decorator, I’ve become a little more aware of “eatability” (is that even a word?) and mouth feel, as well as my own personal style.
All in all, this is a pretty simple cookie, but this whimsical design reflects my artistic journey and my long-time approach of combining simple cookies and techniques to create small parts of larger displays including my poinsettia and turkey cookie platters. It is always fun when life and procrastination force me to stretch my creative skills in unexpected ways.
As I mentioned before, this is an old-fashioned “blog hop,” so be sure to check out even more Christmas in July Creations from some of my long-time cookie decorating friends:
- Lilaloa’s Tropical Santa Cookies
- How to make Christmas Llama Cookies with Semi Sweet Mike
- Elegant Jumbo Snowflake Cookies via the Partiologist
- Easy Christmas Buttercream via The Decorated Cookie
- Christmas in July Santa and Snowman Ice Cream Cookies via Bake at 350
- Shark Christmas Cookies via The Barefoot Baker
- Watermelon Snowman Cookies via Haniela’s
- Christmas Angel Wings via Laurie and Jeanette of Blyss Cookies
- Decorated Santa Cookies via Montreal Confections
- Swimming Santa Cookies via Jill FCS
- Build Your Own Elf Cookies via Mrs. P’s Biscuit Trove
- Milk and Cookies with Santa Cookies via The Painted Pastry
- 3-D Gingerbread Christmas Tree with Mehndi Design via The Hungry Hippopotamus
- Holly Wreath and Berry Cookie Cutter Set via Bobbi’s Cookies and Cutters
- Christmas Gnome Cookiescape via Munchkin Munchies
- Gingerbread Cookie Accordion Village via Bee in Our Bonnet
- Tropical Gingerbread Men Cookies via Sugar Baked
- Cozy Christmas Mini Cookies via Swanky Sweets
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Minimal and ethereal: Losanghe is the artistic wallpaper from Tailorwall that makes its geometric pattern its distinctive feature. The succession of lines intersects to create spaces filled with textured grey hues and lighter nuances. This is perfect for minimalist spaces that have not done away with subtle, delicate details. The graphic design is never boring and is sure to enhance the walls of every room with its unmistakeable simplicity.
Geometric details take form in the lines and nuances to create a simple, multi-faceted feel and interact via symmetries, lines and geometries. The linearity of the design combines with vibrant hues, incorporating intense colours, labyrinthine patterns, optical style and black and white accents to create a strong material effect, that even hints at ceramics, majolica tiles and enamels. A clean, nuanced style for all the transformation needs of the room being furnished: a wallpaper line that is able to provide an essential feel that provides a decorative punch to all spaces at the same time.
Test your chosen wallpaper by buying a sample. The printing proportions 1:1 with the original design and the measurements are 50x70 cm, at the cost of €5 (VAT at 22% inclusive)
Insert the measurements of the wall to be decorated
We guarantee you maximum quality in conformity with the certifications:
➔ FSC® (Forest Stewardship Council) for environmental protection
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Grade Level: 8 (6-8)
Time Required: 1 hours 30 minutes (can be split into two 45-minute sessions)
(can be split into two 45-minute sessions)
Expendable Cost/Group: US $5.00
Group Size: 4
Activity Dependency: None
Subject Areas: Science and Technology
SummaryStudents are introduced to safety protocols by evaluating unsafe situations, sharing their ideas with their peers, developing a list of recommended safety protocols as a class, and finally, by comparing the class list to a standard list of safety rules. This activity seeks to demonstrate the importance of safety engineering and illustrate how it helps to prevent injuries and save lives. A PowerPoint® presentation, pre/post quiz and student handout are provided.
Safety engineers develop procedures, systems, products and regulations to keep people safe at their workplaces. They influence lives on a daily basis by preventing construction workers from falling, keeping hospital workers from contracting infectious diseases, preventing office workers from developing compressed nerves while working on computers, and more. Engineers’ safety rules apply to school labs and workshops as well. For instance, technology and engineering (TE) students must learn procedures associated with lab safety before they may use the machinery and equipment in TE labs. This activity teaches students vital safety rules in order to be successful and safe in engineering labs. This activity also teaches students to analyze and evaluate existing systems and procedures—skills that are central to engineering.
After this activity, students should be able to:
- Safely learn in a classroom that doubles as an engineering or “shop” workspace.
- Safely interact with classroom tools.
- Create a “safety culture” in which they work towards preserving their own safety and the safety of their classmates.
Each TeachEngineering lesson or activity is correlated to one or more K-12 science,
technology, engineering or math (STEM) educational standards.
All 100,000+ K-12 STEM standards covered in TeachEngineering are collected, maintained and packaged by the Achievement Standards Network (ASN),
a project of D2L (www.achievementstandards.org).
In the ASN, standards are hierarchically structured: first by source; e.g., by state; within source by type; e.g., science or mathematics;
within type by subtype, then by grade, etc.
Each TeachEngineering lesson or activity is correlated to one or more K-12 science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) educational standards.
All 100,000+ K-12 STEM standards covered in TeachEngineering are collected, maintained and packaged by the Achievement Standards Network (ASN), a project of D2L (www.achievementstandards.org).
In the ASN, standards are hierarchically structured: first by source; e.g., by state; within source by type; e.g., science or mathematics; within type by subtype, then by grade, etc.
Each group needs:
- writing utensils, one per student
- poster board
- Lab Safety Rules Assessment, two each per student
- Health and Safety Engineering Handout, one per student
- Workplace Safety Poster Rubric, one per team
To share with the entire class:
- whiteboard or poster-sized piece of butcher paper
- tape or push pins, to hang the posters
- computer and projector to show the class the Safety Engineers Presentation, a PowerPoint® file
Worksheets and AttachmentsVisit [ ] to print or download.
This activity is designed as an introductory exercise. No prior knowledge is necessary.
Have you ever been injured? Or have you ever witnessed an injury? Have you or your parents ever been injured at the workplace? Think back and consider the circumstances. Could anything have been done to prevent the injury? If you could go back in time, could somebody have done something differently to prevent the injury? By considering these changes, you are already thinking like a safety engineer!
Safety engineers develop procedures, systems, products and regulations for keeping people safe. If you think about it, every job runs the risk of different types of injuries. An office worker who sits at a desk and works on a computer all day may compress his nerves if his body posture is incorrect, and a nurse might catch an infectious disease from a patient and injure her back while trying to help a patient move off of a bed. The list of possible workplace injuries is very long, and it includes the types of injuries that you just mentioned that you and your families have experienced.
Safety engineers identify possible hazards and take steps to protect people from injuries. For instance, health and safety engineers have developed rules related to hand washing and clothing in order to keep nurses, other hospital workers and patients from being exposed to diseases. Safety engineers partner with other engineers to develop products that keep people safe as well. For instance, safety engineers and mechanical engineers have designed ergonomic keyboards to help prevent people from developing compressed nerves from typing, while safety engineers and mechanical engineers have designed lifts to help nurses safely move sick patients out of bed.
Many safety engineers also study accidents in order to prevent them from happening in the future. They also analyze procedures and equipment in order to keep people safe. As a young engineer, your first job is to analyze a lab and then develop some safety procedures to keep yourself and your classmates safe in the lab.
Before the Activity
- Gather materials and make copies of the Lab Safety Rules Assessment, Health and Safety Engineering Handout and Workplace Safety Poster Rubric. The assessment is a pre/post quiz, so make two copies per student.
- Prepare the classroom by setting up the seven-slide Safety Engineers Presentation, a PowerPoint® file, to show the class. The slides are animated so clicking the mouse or keyboard brings up the next item.
- Administer the Lab Safety Rules Assessment to determine what students already know about lab safety.
With the Students
- Present to the class the Introduction/Motivation section.
- (Slide 1) Introduce students to the job of safety engineers: In kitchens, on construction sites, using building tools and machinery, and in all sorts of other situations—safety is a concern for health and safety engineers. This presentation will inform you about what safety engineers do, and prepare you to act as one in order to make your classroom a safer place to work.
- (Slide 2) Present examples of safety engineers: Safety engineers design rules and procedures for workers to follow in order to keep them safe. For instance, consider these welders. Their job working on this pipe can be very dangerous because they use flame in close proximity to gas. Safety engineers designed these rules to help them do their job safely: wear eye and clothing protection, and throw a spark into the pipe before welding to make sure no live gas is in the pipe.
- (Slide 3) Here is another example. Although this person is not working with open flames, as an industrial laundry worker in a hospital, he is also exposed to hazards when handling dirty laundry. The materials he comes into contact with every day might be contaminated by any number of biological agents. Safety engineers designed a few procedures to help keep this worker safe: wear glove and clothing protection that you leave in the workplace to avoid spreading any bacteria or viruses outside of the laundry
- Ask students: How many of you have ever had a family member or friend get injured at a workplace? As students share examples, list on the classroom board their examples of threats to safety.
- Distribute the handout. Read aloud the paragraph about safety engineers.
- (Slide 4) Direct students to analyze the seven pictures in the handout by circling anything that might be unsafe, dangerous or potentially lead to injuries.
- (Slide 5) Next, ask students to act as safety engineers by writing two rules or procedures for the lab where prompted on the handout (bottom of page 5). Then, ask them to write these same two rules on a poster board so that the entire class can see. Have students hang their poster boards somewhere in the room.
- Next, have students to turn to the “Technology Lab Safety Rules” section of the handout (page 6). Read aloud the list of rules as students follow along. As you read, have students put a check by each safety rule that they (or their classmates) came up with from looking at the handout pictures and circle the rules that they and their classmates did not come up with from examining the lab pictures.
- Afterward, praise students for coming up with (some of) the same rules as the safety engineers. Consider the differences between student safety recommendations and the safety rules on the list. Ensure that students understand the purpose for any rules that were new to them.
- (Slide 6) Finally, turn to the “Promoting Safety through Workplace Poster” section of the handout (page 7). Organize the class into groups of four students each. Assign each safety engineering team one of the hazards from the construction worker fatalities table and ask them to brainstorm ways workers could safely work around the hazard. Ask them to create a workplace poster to display in order to remind workers of good safety protocols. The slide shows one example of a workplace safety poster about cleaning chemicals. You may want to show students additional examples of workplace posters on the OSHA website listed in the Additional Multimedia Support section.
- (Slide 7) Hand out the rubric and go through it with students so they know the poster grading expectations. Later, use the rubric to evaluate teams’ workplace posters.
- Administer the assessment again to determine whether students improved in their understanding of lab safety rules.
analyze: To study and consider carefully.
evaluate: To determine the significance of an idea.
lab: An informal term for a laboratory. A place where research and experimentation takes place.
prediction: An educated guess about a possible outcome.
procedure: A standard list of steps to follow in order to stay safe.
safety engineer: An engineer who designs systems and/or procedures that keep people safe.
Pre-Assessment: Before starting the activity, administer the 10-question multiple-choice Lab Safety Rules Assessment to determine what students already know about lab safety. Adjust the content presented accordingly. This is a pre/post quiz that will be given again at activity end.
Activity Embedded Assessment
Handout: The Health and Safety Engineering Handout guides students through the activity, including the examination of seven photographs to analyze unsafe procedures and practices. Review students’ circled items and answers to gauge their engagement and depth of comprehension.
Poster Rubric: Assign each team a different construction worker fatality from the table on the Health and Safety Engineering Handout and direct them to each create a workplace poster that provides appropriate safety rules and procedures. Use the Workplace Poster Rubric to evaluate students’ posters in order to gauge their understanding of the activity concepts and content.
Post-Assessment: Administer the Lab Safety Rules Assessment again and compare pre/post scores to determine whether students improved in their understanding of lab safety rules.
Today, you are going to be safety engineers. Safety engineers think of ways to keep people safe. What could you do to help keep people be safe at your school?
Instead of using the pictures provided in the Health and Safety Engineering Handout, take photographs of your school’s lab equipment and ask students to develop safety rules and procedures specific to their lab spaces. You may want to modify the Health and Safety Engineering Handout to include the rules that are associated with your specific safety tests.
Have students analyze photographs of unsafe practices at various real-world workplaces and make recommendations for improving those workplaces. They could compare their recommendations to procedures established by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA).
Assign students to research common workplace injuries or hazards, and the procedures that OSHA has established in order to protect people from those injuries.
- For lower grades, provide students with more guidance. It may help to model for students how to analyze several pictures before having them work in pairs to analyze the pictures themselves.
- For higher grades, encourage students to think of more than two safety rules. Spend more time critically evaluating the differences between student conceptions of safety and the “Safety Rules” list. Identify different ways in which safety engineers might keep people safe beyond the context of school laboratories.
Additional Multimedia Support
You may want to show students additional examples of workplace posters on the OSHA website at https://www.osha.gov/pls/publications/publication.AthruZ?pType=Types&pID=5.
Haynie III, W. J. (2009). Safety and Liability in the New Technology Laboratory. Technology Teacher, 69(3), p 31-36. http://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ861083
Lazaros, Edward. J., and Shackelford, Ray. (2009). Safety Awareness: Empowering Students to Be Technologically Literate. Technology Teacher, 68(8), p 5-11. http://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ838913
Copyright© 2016 by Regents of the University of Colorado; original © 2016 Utah State University
ContributorsAmy Wilson-Lopez; Christina Sias
Supporting ProgramNSF CAREER Award, School of Teacher Education and Leadership, Utah State University
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation CAREER award grant no. DRL 1552567 (Amy Wilson-Lopez) titled, Examining Factors that Foster Low-Income Latino Middle School Students' Engineering Design Thinking in Literacy-Infused Technology and Engineering Classrooms. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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There are profound differences between digital SLRs and 'compact' or 'prosumer' cameras. It's not just the radically different optical viewing system employed in the SLR design, but the sensor size too. Non-SLRs use sensors the size of a child's fingernail.
The actual imaging area of a 1/1.8-inch sensor (the size usually found in high-end compacts) measures approximately 7.2mm x 5.5mm. The sensor in the average entry-level digital SLR measures around 21mm x 15mm. That's around nine times the area and the reason why even a modest 6- megapixel D-SLR will offer sharper images, less noise and higher ISOs than any 8- megapixel compact.
Pixels, as we keep saying, aren't everything. That's why high-end 'prosumer' compacts have been having a tough time. Once, every keen photographer aspired to one of the cutting-edge 8- megapixel flagships, such as the Sony F828,
Olympus C-8080, Canon PowerShot Pro 1, Nikon CoolPix 8800 or Konica Minolta A200. Now though, you can get a D-SLR for the same money or less. But that's all changed. The Sony DSC-R1 marries a D-SLR size sensor to a prosumer body, offering - we hope - the best of both worlds.
It has a wider zoom range than any D-SLR/kit lens combination, a fixed lens that eliminates sensor dust problems, and yet offers the image quality that only a physically large sensor can provide.
Actually, the Sony goes one better. It uses a brand new 10-megapixel sensor which easily outstrips (in megapixel terms) entry-level DSLRs, even Canon's 8-megapixel EOS 350D. It all sounds too good to be true, doesn't it?
First, let's take a tour through the DSC-R1's feature highlights. You'd have to pay £1,300 for a Nikon D200 to match the Sony's 10-megapixel resolution, and that's for the body only. To beat it, get ready to part with £2,000 for a Canon EOS 5D (body only, again).
And how about that lens? The 24mm wide-angle setting is usefully wider than the 28mm of any SLR's kit lens, while the 120mm longest setting easily outstrips the 90mm or 105mm maximum of its rivals.
Unlike D-SLRs, the DSC-R1 doesn't have a mirror. This means the designers have been able to position the rearmost lens element a mere 2.1mm away from the sensor. The argument is that this enables an optical design which reduces chromatic aberration.
Larger sensors use more power, but the use of a CMOS chip rather than the usual CCD design keeps consumption within manageable bounds. Indeed, you should be able to get 500 shots on a single charge. That's hardly exceptional by D-SLR standards, but it's good for a prosumer model which does, after all, have to power an LCD display as well.
Sony has implemented its usual infoLithium technology to display a constant readout of the battery's (predicted) remaining life, in minutes. It's a nice idea in principle, but different types of usage place different demands on the battery and hence constant re-calculation of how long it will keep running. It's not as useful as it sounds.
Like all prosumer cameras, the DSC-R1 offers digital rather than optical viewing. There's an eyepiece for the camera's 235,000-pixel EVF on the back and a larger 2-inch, 134,000-pixel LCD for composing shots with the camera held away from your eye.
Unusually, this is on the top of the camera rather than the back, though it has a tilt-and-swivel mechanism so that you can view it at practically any angle. And then there's the ISO range. D-SLRs usually stop at ISO 1,600, but the DSC-R1 goes one stop further, to ISO 3,200.
On paper, this camera's specifications, features and value for money look absolutely staggering. But you don't use cameras on paper, you use them in the real world, and the DSC-R1's got to pass this test too.
This is not a pretty camera. It consists principally of that big fat lens, on the back of which is a roughly rectangular 'body' which is dwarfed by the optics. And on the right of this rather diminutive body is an oversized handgrip.
The shape is, at least, quite practical. It handles no worse than the average compact D-SLR, though it's not as wieldy as the excellent Nikon D50/D70s, and that huge lens does give it a somewhat awkward weight distribution.
The startup time isn't bad. Sony quotes a time of just 0.68 seconds. That's good for a non-SLR, though modern SLRs start up so fast there's essentially no delay at all. And it's D-SLRs that the DSC-R1 is up against - there are no prosumer cameras in its price range.
The zoom ring is manual and mechanically linked. You take that for granted on a D-SLR, but it's a welcome change for non-SLR users who are accustomed to the feeble, stodgy reactions of press-button zoom motors.
There's a manual focusing ring too, but here you come up against a fundamental difference between prosumer and D-SLR design, and one that's got nothing to do with megapixels. The electronic viewfinder doesn't have the resolution for manual focusing.
Also, the image doesn't 'snap' in and out of focus, possibly because EVFs don't have the instant reaction of optical systems. The moment you turn the ring, the image is enlarged to aid focusing accuracy, but it's not enough.
This isn't a selling point, it's a cack-handed solution to a problem you shouldn't have. In fact, the best way to focus 'manually' is to use the push-button AF control - the camera focuses as you hold the button in, then retains that focus position when you release it.
Isn't it about time camera makers started using good, high-resolution EVFs? The 235,000 pixels in this one sound a lot, but the image is still gritty and lacking in detail. Konica Minolta experimented with a 1-megapixel EVF in the DiMAGE A1, and it's a shame other makers didn't follow suit.
Of course, you could use the 2.0-inch LCD on the top. You can flip it out and rotate it to compose shots with the camera held out at arms length in front of you, or you can fold it flat and use it to compose shots at waist level. But remember to switch off the EVF's auto-sensor.
With this enabled, the camera automatically switches from the LCD to the EVF if the eyepiece sensor is covered up (usually, by your eye). Hold the camera close to you at waist level, though, and it will have the same effect, annoyingly blanking out the LCD at the very moment you planned to take the shot.
And it's hard to find any logic in the button layout. The ISO button is by the shutter release, the AE lock button's on the back, the metering, bracketing and self-timer buttons are on the back to the far left, while the flash, white balance and focus controls are on the left side of the lens barrel.
You'll remember it all eventually, of course, but until you do you have to check three or four possible locations to find the button you want.
The rear of the camera hosts a secondary control wheel, similar to those on the back of some EOS SLRs. The action's a bit heavy for rapid thumb-spinning, though. In the middle of this is a fiddly joystick for menu navigation.
The DSC-R1 lacks the finesse of the digital SLRs which are its price rivals. Whatever its technical merits, as a camera, it's more awkward and not particularly satisfying to use.
But what are the pictures like? The captions accompanying the sample shots with this review offer more detail on specific characteristics. Broadly, though, it's very good. But it's not a great leap forward.
Interestingly, when you examine its images closely they have the same glassy-smooth look as those of the EOS digital SLRs - which also, of course, use CMOS sensors. Fine detail is good, but it's debatable whether the DSC-R1 can resolve significantly more than the Nikon D50/D70s, say. The files are bigger, but the per-pixel detail's also a little 'woollier'.
The colour and overall colour rendition, though, is very good. The auto white balance produces consistently bright, natural-looking shots and for the most part the multi-pattern metering does a good job without any manual interference. Having said that, any camera in this price bracket can be relied on to do the same.
The only exposure problems encountered in our test boiled down to the controls rather than the camera. Most cameras use a now-standard method for applying EV compensation - you hold down a button and rotate a control wheel. On the Sony, EV compensation is applied simply by turning the control 'dish' on the back.
While you're still getting used to the camera it's all too easy to turn the wrong dial while you're trying to make adjustments or - as in this case - you hand the camera over to someone else to look at, not realising they've turned the dial. The EV compensation is 'sticky'. It still applies after the camera's been shut down and restarted. In this instance, a dozen shots got spoiled before the error was spotted.
The DSC-R1 will probably sell by the truckload because of its resolution, its sensor size, its photographic controls, its zoom range and its price. Technically, it's a fascinating camera, and would make a great talking point for pub gatherings and camera clubs.
As a photographic tool, it's less impressive. Whatever the merits of the sensor and the lens, the electronic viewing system is a major drawback. The design is either 'bold' or 'bizarre', depending on your own aesthetic sensibilities, and the control layout has little to commend it.
The DSC-R1's size, appearance and unique top-mounted LCD will attract plenty of attention, but they don't help you take pictures more effectively.
But the DSC-R1 is encouraging in other respects. Does it mean camera manufacturers will start including big sensors in compacts? If so, we could see another step up in image quality that the current megapixel war seems incapable of providing.
And don't overlook the fact that Sony makes sensors for many other camera manufacturers. Clearly, they now have the ability to produce a large, high-resolution sensor at a mass-market price? Where is this sensor going to appear next, we wonder...?
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CodeRED warning call issued to some Palm City residents
Recent burglaries prompt alert
The Martin County Sheriff's Office has a warning for people who live in communities off Citrus Boulevard, in Palm City.
Three reported burglaries have taken place in that area within the last week.
The burglaries happened on Southwest Cherokee Street, Southwest Lasso Lane and Southwest Greenridge Street.
Authorities said guns were stolen in two of the burglaries.
Investigators said there were nine burglaries in Martin County within the last month, and 10 firearms were stolen.
"My fear is, as the sheriff, some of these guns will wind up in the hands of somebody who will use them against law enforcement, (or) might well use them against an honest, everyday citizen," Martin County Sheriff William Snyder said.
A CodeRED call from the Sheriff's Office is being issued to residents in the area.
Snyder said he does not believe the burglaries are connected. An arrest was made in one of the incidents.
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The panel at Clark University Wednesday night, including elected officials and representatives of area banks.
By Bill Shaner
March 28, 2018
Two dominant issues emerged from a forum on banking practices among communities of color Wednesday night: the lack of bank branches in Worcester’s poorer neighborhoods and home foreclosures.
More than a dozen residents spoke to the large panel consisting of elected officials and representatives of major area banks and credit unions.
The forum at Clark University Wednesday night was called a Dialogue on Banking, hosted by the statewide advocacy group Communities of Color. It was part of a statewide tour.
Mayor Joe Petty opened the event by discussing the challenges faced by Worcester’s poorer residents and neighborhoods using banks and making good financial decisions.
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A visit from his boyhood friend, feted poet Lord James Dewhurst, author of the sensational Maid of Milan, persuades Tristan that leaving the countryside behind for a London season will be in everyone's interests.
But as Tristan's political career rises, and Adelaide revels in society's adulation, the secrets of the past are uncovered. And there's a high price to pay for a life of deception.
Focused and driven, Aurora has built her PR and event management company into a thriving success. But, it’s come at a cost. Her relationships suffer, and she has virtually no social life. When her boyfriend suggests a holiday to mend the bridges, it seems like a good idea to rekindle their attraction and make some new life choices. Instead, she finds herself in the tropical paradise of Bali, heartbroken and alone.
When Marcel, the hotelier, offers to show her the real Bali, she doesn’t hesitate — he might be just the pick-me-up she needs. Pinning Marcel as a Casanova, Aurora decides to have fun and not overthink things. Exploring her more sensual side brings a newfound confidence, and she finds herself falling for the French hotelier and the Bali he shows her...until an unexpected visitor arrives at the hotel.
As her holiday draws to a close, will Aurora choose to leave with good memories, or follow her heart?
Fletcher Stone was forced out of the pack life, and now he makes his living as a hired thug, living day-to-day without honour or commitments. Shame over his choices and his lifestyle keep him from returning to the pack to claim Delaney — the woman who holds his heart. But when a rival pack hires him to kidnap her, Fletcher takes his chance. Now he must convince her that he never wanted to leave…and reveal a betrayal that will break her heart.
Delaney Jones has spent the last five years convinced the man she loves is dead. Nothing else would keep him from her. So when Fletcher shows up, whole, healthy, and very much alive, she’s devastated — and pissed off. He broke her heart once and he's never going to get close enough to do it again.
Seventies rock star Davy Morgan is a man with a secret: rockin’ in one time and living in another. He holds his privacy close to his heart, so when a beautiful girl who not only loves but truly understands his music moves in next door, he works overtime to keep her at a distance. Easier said than done.
Megan follows Davy to the rock festival, but it’s not what or when it seems. The lure of the music draws them closer, but can their newfound love span across the decades, or will it get lost in time?
His childhood nemesis is the last person Arthur Davenport expected to require his services. When a spurious claim against her late husband’s estate brings Sarah Wetherall to his door, he can’t refuse the pretty widow, no matter how much he wants to.
Thrown together by fate, will they discover there is a fine line between scorn and passion?
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This beautiful baby cot bed will gently let your baby go to sleep. Parents can keep their baby close by in a confined environment for babies to sleep. It is simple and durable, made from Nigerian teak wood and comes with secure fixed sides, it is an ideal and safe sleeping option for your baby.
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This may come as a surprise to many people but there are smart, savvy, clear thinking cool people who love the Hallmark cable TV channel... the movies, the series, GoldenGirls, Murder She Wrote. The acting is usually mediocre, with a few exceptions... like when a well known celebrity is past their prime but can get a laugh or a cry. Actors are usually the same regardless of plot but they seem to enjoy being adaptable. And the female actors, while a little stiff are usually attractive in that inoffensive way. But the male actors are simply geeks. Usually I think, “where did they get that guy? Why would anyone fall for him? And does the heroine really have to kiss him?” Yech! The plots are always similar if not exactly the same. It makes me happy that all these plain people can make a lucrative living.
If there are all these problems, then why watch it and further, love it? Before I answer, a confession is in order. On the list of favorite networks is TLC, home of Say Yes to the Dress, and ‘My 600 Pound Life.” There is also Turner movie channel (TCM), which has great uninterrupted old films. MeTV is another 24/7 possibility. Columbo, Perry Mason, Wagon Train, Gunsmoke, the list just goes on and on. And everything can be taped for perusal in the middle of the night when reality rears it’s too ugly head and prevents a peaceful sleep.
Back to the answer of why watch? Because it’s mindless pure entertainment. You do not have to think about the chaos in real life. There is no Donald Trump with all his lies and no moral core. There are no issues like immigration, loss of choice, corruption, lies from elected officials or destitute veterans not able to feed themselves or living on the streets. Then there’s Trump’s breathtaking lack of respect — we’ll get back to that as well.
Senator John McCain died on Saturday. He was an extraordinary politician, war hero, role model and “mensch.” Whether or not you agreed with him on issues, you had to agree that he was a person of character. He thought that he had a responsibility to do the best he could for his constituency and for the good of the country. He knew the meaning of friendship and he knew friendship had nothing to do with politics. When Morris K Udall, (the Democrat Senator, who was also principled and ran for President in 1976), was suffering from dementia and spending his last few years in a Veteran’s facility, John McCain visited him every week. They disagreed on issues but connected by a friendship based on character and respect for one another’s views, no matter how diverse. The flag on the White House flew at half mast for only one day. A statement was issued after a few days, but somewhere in there Trump, reiterated his obnoxious statement about how McCain was not a hero because he liked heroes who “weren’t captured.” Like he would even know what a hero was.
Speaking of “Respect”, Aretha Franklin also died this weekend. In case you didn’t know, Donald Trump says he played a critical role in her success. (“I hired her….”) We also lost Neil Simon, and Robin Leach, who created “Lives of the Rich and Famous”. As he drank champagne and ate caviar he remarked that someone had to do it. Trump credited himself with helping them along the road to stardom.
Wouldn’t it be grand if our politicians returned to an age of civility? Wouldn’t it be sensational that they cared more about the country than themselves and their own private agendas. Wouldn’t it be terrific if they all took a lesson from Senator McCain and were simply nice to one another regardless of party? One can only dream. We’re just sayin’…. Iris
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All I want for X-Mas is dollar store crap
During the holiday season the twins get sent home from nursery school with many different solicitations for us to buy stuff so that the proceeds can go to funding the school or heaven; it is a Lutheran nursery school because we believe in the civil rights movement.
In the latest fundraiser, the school set up a room so the kids could “shop” for Christmas presents for their family. They were sent home with an envelope where we could write on it who should get gifts and for how much money. I threw a twenty into the envelope and wrote “whatever” on it.
When I picked up the kids from school they were so excited to tell me about the presents they bought us. As I suspected, they had no idea they were to wait until Christmas before giving them to us. Upon getting home, they ripped them open immediately. It happened so fast. I looked away just for a second to ignore them when they were annoying me.
This is what we got from Stella and Xavier.
A princess crown tac board. It's s a Christmas miracle! The little match girl won't have to freeze to death this year. I mean seriously, how dumb do you have to be to keep lighting matches to stay warm instead of burning some old newspapers in a garbage can?
Their sister "Fifi" got a bear. This is actually the only gift that makes any sense.
The kids have been practicing a song for their Greek school performance. Yep, that boy up front is our son. You wouldn't believe it from this video but he hates being on stage. This behavior was inherited half from me and half from my father-in-law. Stella on the other hand, LOVES being on stage. She thinks it's the best thing since people stopped doing the Macarena. "Right arm out, palm down, Left arm out, palm down." STUPID!
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That is why on April 5, the Chamber & EDC will host its annual ATHENA Award luncheon to honor the challenges women often face in today’s marketplace and name one of the following women as the 2018 ATHENA award recipient: Cindy Aubrey, Pikes Peak United Way. Shelli Brunswick, The Space Foundation.
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The arresting officer, aldo rosales montoya, publicly admitted to fabricating the accusations against Nunez at the direction of a State Security official in a video recorded on September 14 and subsequently in a signed statement. Rosales admitted the purpose of Nunez’s arrest was to weaken the opposition organization.
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The Media’s Negative Influence on Society There is a lot of controversy about how the media affects people, but in my opinion I think the influence we get is more negative than positive. The media is one of the things that impact people the most because in today’s society it is impossible to ignore.
Here’s How the 2018 Midterm Elections Could Be Fatally Undermined By doubling down on their voter-suppression tactics, Trump and Co. could put the House of Representatives beyond the reach of.
NAMB elevates current president Donald Frommeyer to CEO Open Letter to President Trump from American Religious. – Dr. Steve Gaines, President of the Southern Baptist Convention and Dr. Jerry Young, President of the National Baptist Convention are signatories on a letter released september 28, 2017, denouncing the Alt-Right and respectfully calling upon President Trump to speak out against the Alt-Right movement.
Serayah McNeill looks super chic in a metallic dress at the 2018 Women In Film Max Mara Face Of The Future Award Recipient in Los Angeles, California. Donato Sardella/Getty Images 29
Municipal elections in Miami-Dade County, Florida (2018) The special district candidates will only appear on the general election ballot. There was also a special election for District 5 of the Miami-Dade County Commission on May 22, 2018. A runoff was held on June 19, 2018. The special election was called to replace bruno barreiro, who resigned in order to run for the U.S. House.
PMI Expects Lower Housing Prices in 2011 Housing Index in China averaged 4.41 percent from 2011 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 12.60 percent in November of 2016 and a record low of -6.10 percent in March of 2015. In China, Housing Index is measured by year over year change in house prices in 70 medium and large cities.
A preview of what LinkedIn members have to say about Myriam Nunez,: Myriam is 100% committed on the success of all the people around her. She really goes above and beyond to help and assist.
Women. Rape and Domestic Violence: The law specifically criminalizes rape of women, including spousal rape, and separately criminalizes “lascivious abuse” against both.
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last night our friend sean invited us to bar hill to hear him sing. sean and his group where absolutely incredible! (such talented friends we have.)
we had a really great time sitting and listening to them sing while we munched on crab-artichoke dip and hummus with pita chips. yum!
while we were there, we ran into a million people we know. it was like some sort of crazy reunion. i swear that people we haven't seen for years were just popping out of the wood work.
(i apologize for the horrible iphone photos. bad lighting, moving people, yadda yadda yadda . . .)
have a great weekend!
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Choosing an experienced bedbug exterminator is, of course, a crucial step in eliminating the bedbug from your home. navigate to this website
Bed bugs are becoming a growing problem for people as they infest at an unprecedented rate houses, apartments, condos, hotels, dorms and motels. Such bugs are nocturnal and feed on their victims ‘ blood in the early hours of the morning just before dawn when our deepest sleep is in.
You may not even know you’re having an infestation until you start noticing the little itchy bites. Bed bug bites are almost indistinguishable from other insect bite marks so often the only way to know their origin is by catching a bed bug actually.
The small size of a 1/4 “bedbug allows them to easily hide unnoticed in the small nooks and crannies around the sleeping areas. Only a thorough, diligent examination can decide if you have an infestation. Their small size also makes them the ideal infiltrator of your house. They can travel the world in shipped boxes and packages.
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By April 21st last year I had seen exactly 89 birds on the patch. I don't do fractions. This year I have seen, oh look, exactly 89 species. There is actually less cross-over than I thought, with seven birds seen this year that I hadn't seen by this point last year, and vice versa, but rest assured that it will all even out in the end. My patch year lists are, barring a few species, identical every time, with only the order being slightly different. I could mix it up I suppose, see how many I can get in March, how many in April etc, but do I look like the Prof? (No I do not).
April is usually excellent, and whilst the quantities have been down - only one Wheatear for instance - the expected birds have all, one by one, found their way onto my list. The latest bird, #89, was Ring Ouzel, a reliable species here year after year. And to think I once twitched one in Hertfordshire so little did I know of my local area. Well, all that has changed now. The where and when hold few surprises these days, but with a fly-over White Stork last week, and the run of fantastic birds last year, you just never know and so you go out every morning with the spring of hope in your step.
Despite what I said about being unable to get up, lately I have cracked it and am hitting the patch nice and early. One of the great benefits of this is that I am alone and I get to see the sun rise. You can generally tell quite early if the birding will be any good or not, and so some mornings you invest the time, and others become perhaps a shorter sortie. Last week saw a mixture of both. A run of ten hours over three consecutive mornings bagged nothing more than a single Yellow Wagtail. The following three days have seen Green Sandpiper, a new Cetti's Warbler, two Sedge Warblers, a Rook, quite a few hirundines and the aforementioned Ouzel. I think I'll stick at it for a few more weeks.
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dash is beautifully tailored for urban adventures in cities & parks. with stylish marl fabric options and pastel colored seat liners available, dash is dressed to impress! breathable, comfy snug rest on the go! for additional comfort, the dash snug carrycot offers a spacious lie flat bed for baby on & off the stroller – perfect for a newborn baby. With a soft aerated mattress and ventilated base your little one can snooze while you cruise. travel system ready dash&go! enjoy the convenience of transporting baby from car to stroller and back again. dash offers more travel system riding options than most for one baby, siblings or twins. available as a travel system with phil&teds alpha infant car seat and many other car seat brands.
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Design submitted by Djordje from Serbia.
Djordje says: Motivation of time, I wanted to achieve the effect of ease of watching at time, to understand better their own time.
The idea for this watch is classic plastic bracelet, with incorporated lines inside the watch that show the current time. Those three line are rotating around the watch and show the time, while the seconds line is going around all the time.
All those people who want simplicity of reading time.
As opposed to other watches this watch is distinguished by its shape, purity, and ease of looking at the watch as its highest function and therefore the aesthetics.
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When you wake up in the morning, fresh and full of life, you’re probably thinking about many things that you have to do that day and onward. But as you continue to get dressed and prepared for the day, you’re probably not dwelling on the fact that you’ve got a whole bunch of teeth in your head. Even as you grab your favorite toothbrush or mouthwash and dutifully swish, your mind is probably on a whole host of other things far removed from your dental hygiene.
There’s no need to feel bad about the obliviousness to your teeth, we all take basic things in our life for granted from time to time. But you can bet that as soon as you bite into breakfast, you’re grateful that all your teeth work as intended and not the other way around. Like an ex-lover or favorite television show, don’t wait until your teeth are rotted and awaiting oral surgery to appreciate them. Instead, take precautionary measures to guard your natural teeth while you still have them so that you don’t have to buy dentures or sip your food through a straw.
In this article we’re going to go over how to take care of your teeth properly, while also highlighting how to fix things that go wrong. We’ll also mention cosmetic dentistry, how to find an affordable dentist, and more. Since the most common New Year’s resolution is that people want to improve their health in some way, this is a component of that. It may not be the most entertaining topic in the world, but they’re dental health tips worth knowing. After all, once your teeth are gone they cannot be put back as they were for any price. It’s simply better to take care of them while they’re in your mouth and ready for action.
Choosing Your Dental Technician
If you’ve never gone to the dentist before, then consider yourself lucky to be alive now, when dentists are plentiful and well trained. Of all the dental health tips you can read and scour on the internet or library, choosing a quality dentist should be near the top. Compared to just letting your teeth fall by the wayside, dentists end up being miracle workers in the long run for a whole host of reasons.
Until our modern era, high-quality dental care was not a service that the average person was exposed to. Throughout history, dental care was for the privileged classes, and because dental hygiene and technology was not very advanced (until the advent of modern dental schools and practices), you wouldn’t have wanted it anyway. But luckily nowadays dentists are both plentiful and highly trained, so even if you only go to them expecting dental health tips to bring home you’ll likely receive a whole lot more. They can not only clean your teen but provide composite dental fillings, fit you for dentures, take X-rays (to ensure bone health) and reassure you that your current dental routine is working.
If you’re apprehensive about choosing a dentist, don’t be. Not only are there lots of online reviews you can read about specific dentists, but you can even look up public health records related to licensing and what specific dentists are allowed to practice. Word of mouth is still one of the oldest dental health tips for a reason (because people don’t recommend dentists that mistreat them), but take it with a grain of salt. Good dentists can have bad reputations and vice versa, they are just as dependent on the economic conditions as any other business or specialty.
Go For a Cleaning Twice a Year
One of the most basic dental health tips was probably drilled into your head as a child: remember to brush your teeth twice a day, after breakfast and dinner. If it wasn’t, then now you know that’s a good idea to carry on into your older years. But what about teeth cleaning from a quality dentist? It has moved to the top of the list for dental health tips but is a relatively recent phenomenon.
A cleaning usually consists of several phases, depending on the dentist you go to. First is the actual cleaning, where the dentist uses surgical tools to scrap your teeth for plaque and other oddities or to locate problem areas (such as sensitive teeth). Next, they will usually provide a fluoride rinse or paste, to bond to the newly cleaned teeth. Last, they will check for cavities visually or with newer technology that can penetrate deep into teeth. You’ll know about problem areas before they become a problem, which will save you a fortune in stress and dollars.
If you’d like to get the cleanest teeth imaginable while still getting bang for your buck, it’s recommended that you brush your teeth before going to the dentist so that they can really focus on all the hard-crusted plaque and problem areas that are exposed. While they are certainly there to clean your teeth and don’t mind scraping off gunk, they will be able to give you a lot more information if they are able to view the totality of your mouth and gums without having to wipe away cheese from your most recent pizza.
Use the Right Products at Home
Speaking of dental routine and dental health tips, do you have a good one? This means having a quality brush replaced every six months, and brushing with fluoride toothpaste that has anti-cavity qualities. An additional thing to remember is to floss as well. It’s easy to forget, but dentists harp on it for a reason: sugar, foodstuff, and bacteria hide between your teeth to create plaque and destroy your precious choppers. If you’re unsure about which routines you need to focus on most, ask your dentist to take a detailed look next time you’re in for a regular cleaning.
If you don’t like some of the conventional products that you’re supposed to use, remember that in this technological age you can upgrade. If you’re not a big fan of using floss, you can switch to a WaterPik, which uses jet streams of water to achieve the same goal. If you’re a lazy brusher, then get an electric toothbrush that “does the bushing for you” via vibrations, timed modes or some established routine. Dental health tips aren’t just about what you can do for yourself, but what quality products can help you achieve.
Diet: The Hidden Tooth Mangler
Using the right products at home doesn’t just end in the bathroom. It also means recognizing bad habits that don’t support your dental health and contribute to disease, such as drinking sugary sodas or eating lots of processed foods. You won’t find diet on any list for dental health tips, but it’s radically important to both preventing cavities and improving your overall dental health. You can even think of it as a form of insurance policy: eating better saves your teeth and makes you healthier, therefore saving you money on healthcare costs down the line. It’s almost like you earn money by being healthy!
There can even be hidden costs to eating “healthy food” like fruit or salted nuts if you don’t take care of your teeth. Fruit like pineapple and bananas are wonderful for you but contain high amounts of sugar that can end up rotting your teeth if you don’t take care of them. In a similar vein, nuts can be very healthy if unsalted or not coated with sugar, but detrimental otherwise. Processed foods like deli meats and candies should be avoided if possible simply for health reasons, but if you give yourself a good cleaning afterward there is probably not much harm. The real detriment is in the beverages you consume and other habits you indulge in.
Coffee is a wonderful elixir of modern life but will also stain your teeth. This is simply a fact that any dentist or cosmetic surgeon will confirm. As long as you’re drinking your coffee black (with no sugar, cream, or additives) then all you’ve got to worry about is the cosmetic imperfections, which are easily fixed with whitening strips or hydrogen peroxide treatments. But as soon as you add sugar, milk, and other things into your coffee not only are you on the train to a wild caffeine addiction, but you are going to wreak just as much havoc on your teeth as you would if you were drinking soda pop straight out of the fountain.
The reason that sugary beverages are so insidious, and why they are often listed in dental health tips as things to avoid, is because the sugar is literally able to get into the nooks and crannies of your mouth where it doesn’t belong. This can be hard to floss/brush out, and when it sits there long enough it will form cavities. Sugar-free beverages have their own health risks, and the only “safe” beverages for your teeth are those that are both nourishing and without sugar. Water is the best example, but coffee/tea without additives are acceptable. Fruit juices are fine in moderation but can pose the same problems as soda in the long run.
If Things Get Out of Control, Consult a Specialist
Alas, sometimes even the best dental health tips and tricks can’t prevent something bad from happening. Scientists are still trying to figure out whether some people are genetically prone to disease and dental issues that eventually require periodontal care, or whether it is all the result of what enters the mouth. Regardless of the cause, the resulting condition(s) is not fun at all and can be quite serious if not taken care of. If you happen to need oral surgery, root canals, or more serious dental care, do your research into anyone your dentist recommends. Don’t be afraid to ask questions, shop around for better service at lower prices, or simply get a second opinion.
Surgery always carries with it a degree of risk, even when it is limited to something like your teeth. It may seem like operating on your arm or leg is more important, but your teeth contain many sensitive nerves and blood vessels that lead to other areas of the body. Contamination in your mouth could result in blood poisoning or worse, and an infected jaw is not fun by any means. Always try and seek out a medically sterile environment when going in for any dental surgery procedure, and be well briefed on all the risks that could occur, if only for insurance purposes.
Cosmetic Dentistry and More
Cosmetic dental treatment used to be the domain of a minority of tooth owners, with braces being universally maligned as gaudy and tacky outerwear. That is no longer true, and braces are more common than ever and orthodontists are only happy to provide them. Even celebrities seek out cosmetic dentistry now, whether it’s to fix a gap tooth or keep them from chewing like a giraffe it’s no longer something to be ashamed of. There are many types of cosmetic dentistry other than wire braces, so you don’t have to look like an awkward teenager if you don’t want to.
Clear teeth straighteners emerged recently as an alternative replacement to braces, allowing you to keep the cosmetic look of clean teeth while actually straightening them at the same time. Once you have a mold of your teeth made, they will be crafted with clear material in order to straighten your teeth to where they are supposed to be instead of where they currently are.
Dental veneers occupy a similar space as straighteners, the only difference being the material they are made with. While providing the same function as clear teeth straighteners, veneers are sometimes made of porcelain and can be painted to look better than your regular teeth. They are not nearly as popular as they once were because of improvements in teeth straightening technology, but still work well for consumers that prefer them.
Take Care of Those Chompers, Unless You Want Dentures
It can be easy to fall into a routine where even the most basic dental health tips that you’ve absorbed into your life fall by the wayside. One day of eating your favorite sugary foods turns into three or four, and by the time you’re able to say “cavity” you might well be on your way to a full-blown ordeal. This is especially true when thinking about dental health care for kids, who are known to get into sweets and not let go! But with a little bit of monitoring and a dash of education, you can help instill lifelong habits that will actually pay dividends over time, if only in reduced dentist bills.
Remember that taking care of your mouth and teeth is also taking care of your body, and the benefits you reap up above will also translate down below. A healthy mind (and mouth) tend to work in tandem with everything else. You won’t read that in any dental health tips except for this one, so keep it close to your heart. Or perhaps blurt it out in public, so that everyone can finally see those shiny, pearly whites that you’ve worked so hard for.
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Life kind of feels right now like a bad job or relationship where you know something drastic needs to change, but you aren’t sure what or how. Which is, in my experience, when it tends to happen for you. While I’m tightening my already-buckled belt, here’s some of what’s going right.
I’m trying to learn how to think about time differently — to view it, paradoxically, as abundant rather than scarce. That’s a key tenet, if not the whole point, of Off the Clock by Laura Vanderkam.
No matter how much I might like to brand myself as “consistently inconsistent,” I’d like to find a better way. I’m not a fan of either separate accounts or one social network per interest. Neither feels quite right to me; it’s as if you’d be getting pieces, but not an integrated whole, not the full representation of me as a writer.
Writing this blog this week, I had the thought that I’m really doing an awful lot. Two very different kinds of fiction, plus journalism, plus freelance clients, plus nonprofit work, plus family and home is… more than I suspect a lot of people do.
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eDiscovery Daily Blog
eDiscovery Trends: 2012 Predictions – By The Numbers
With a nod to Nick Bakay, “It’s all so simple when you break things down scientifically.”
The late December/early January time frame is always when various people in eDiscovery make their annual predictions as to what trends to expect in the coming year. I know what you’re thinking – “oh no, not another set of eDiscovery predictions!” However, at eDiscovery Daily, we do things a little bit differently. We like to take a look at other predictions and see if we can spot some common trends among those before offering some of our own (consider it the ultimate “cheat sheet”). So, as I did last year, I went “googling” for 2012 eDiscovery predictions, and organized the predictions into common themes. I found eDiscovery predictions here, here, here, here, here, here and Applied Discovery. Oh, and also here, here and here. Ten sets of predictions in all! Whew!
A couple of quick comments: 1) Not all of these are from the original sources, but the links above attribute the original sources when they are re-prints. If I have failed to accurately attribute the original source for a set of predictions, please feel free to comment. 2) This is probably not an exhaustive list of predictions (I have other duties in my “day job”, so I couldn’t search forever), so I apologize if I’ve left anybody’s published predictions out. Again, feel free to comment if you’re aware of other predictions.
Here are some of the common themes:
- Technology Assisted Review: Nine out of ten “prognosticators” (up from 2 out of 7 last year) predicted a greater emphasis/adoption of technological approaches. While some equate technology assisted review with predictive coding, other technology approaches such as conceptual clustering are also increasing in popularity. Clearly, as the amount of data associated with the typical litigation rises dramatically, technology is playing a greater role to enable attorneys manage the review more effectively and efficiently.
- eDiscovery Best Practices Combining People and Technology: Seven out of ten “augurs” also had predictions related to various themes associated with eDiscovery best practices, especially processes that combine people and technology. Some have categorized it as a “maturation” of the eDiscovery process, with corporations becoming smarter about eDiscovery and integrating it into core business practices. We’ve had numerous posts regarding to eDiscovery best practices in the past year, click here for a selection of them.
- Social Media Discovery: Six “pundits” forecasted a continued growth in sources and issues related to social media discovery. Bet you didn’t see that one coming! For a look back at cases from 2011 dealing with social media issues, click here.
- Information Governance: Five “soothsayers” presaged various themes related to the promotion of information governance practices and programs, ranging from a simple “no more data hoarding” to an “emergence of Information Management platforms”. For our posts related to Information Governance and management issues, click here.
- Cloud Computing: Five “mediums” (but are they happy mediums?) predict that ESI and eDiscovery will continue to move to the cloud. Frankly, given the predictions in cloud growth by Forrester and Gartner, I’m surprised that there were only five predictions. Perhaps predicting growth of the cloud has become “old hat”.
- Focus on eDiscovery Rules / Court Guidance: Four “prophets” (yes, I still have my thesaurus!) expect courts to provide greater guidance on eDiscovery best practices in the coming year via a combination of case law and pilot programs/model orders to establish expectations up front.
- Complex Data Collection: Four “psychics” also predicted that data collection will continue to become more complex as data sources abound, the custodian-based collection model comes under stress and self-collection gives way to more automated techniques.
The “others receiving votes” category (three predicting each of these) included cost shifting and increased awards of eDiscovery costs to the prevailing party in litigation, flexible eDiscovery pricing and predictable or reduced costs, continued focus on international discovery and continued debate on potential new eDiscovery rules. Two each predicted continued consolidation of eDiscovery providers, de-emphasis on use of backup tapes, de-emphasis on use of eMail, multi-matter eDiscovery management (to leverage knowledge gained in previous cases), risk assessment /statistical analysis and more single platform solutions. And, one predicted more action on eDiscovery certifications.
Some interesting predictions. Tune in tomorrow for ours!
So, what do you think? Care to offer your own “hunches” from your crystal ball? Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.
Disclaimer: The views represented herein are exclusively the views of the author, and do not necessarily represent the views held by CloudNine Discovery. eDiscoveryDaily is made available by CloudNine Discovery solely for educational purposes to provide general information about general eDiscovery principles and not to provide specific legal advice applicable to any particular circumstance. eDiscoveryDaily should not be used as a substitute for competent legal advice from a lawyer you have retained and who has agreed to represent you.
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Im a total newbie, I have 1/2" plywood from home depot id like to engrave. I was wondering what settings I’d use? and is there somewhere with this info listed?
There are plenty of posts in the forum here with different settings. The settings for plywood will be pretty much the same as they would be for the type material the ply is made of. Just the focal length will change with the thickness of material.
Obviously, the .5" material won’t be able to be cut, but it should engrave just fine.
Just experiment is the best way to learn this machine. Start out fast with lower power and increase power up to max then decrease speed until you get what you are looking for. Also check out the magnifying glass and ask away. I’m sure somebody has asked this before. Remember you can’t put anything over 1/2 inch (even 1/2 inch in some cases) on top of the tray. Your plywood may have to be propped up on the base after you remove the tray to get the proper focus.
thank you. I have tried searching all day and figured this must have been asked before, but the only results coming up don’t answer my question.
1/2" plywood was one of the first things I tried to no great results. For a starter it is pine and that burns more readily than most hardwoods, And while mine did not burst into flames, coals would get started that would eventually consume the whole thing. Though like most mine was sold as half inch it was a bit under that. I was trying to make a small table top that would have veneer added so did not try to engrave an image but did try to deep engrave an outline, so the final cut would make it through but it was a burn’t mess that needed a scroll saw to finish.
Are you trying to engrave something like text, that will all go to the same depth? Or are you engraving a photo or picture of some kind? The answers are very different.
The thing about 1/2" plywood is I doubt you will get through it in one pass, so Full power and a slow speed won’t do a ton of damage to it. If you’re engraving a solid fill, like text, try that and then decide if you want it shallower or deeper and adjust.
just all the same depth. text and a solid image
Then I would just try something and adjust from there. Make some filled squares, of different colors and test on a piece of your material. You can always use the glowforge defaults for a material as your starting point.
I was not trying to be intentionally obtuse, so I apologize if I came across that way. What wood is the plywood? I get 1/8" Baltic birch ply from a local store, and basically use the PG settings for Medium Maple for engraving. It amounts to full speed, full power, and depending on what I’m engraving, I can get away with 195LPI. The only difference, I think, is the LPI I use. I don’t usually do any plywood that is 1/2". I have, however, done some cedar-wood plaques that are nearly that thick, and I drop the power for those to 90%, leaving the speed at 1000. cedar will char if it gets too much power, but I don’t want to get too shallow on the engrave.
So you see, it really depends on what kind of wood you’re using. (I did try some oak 1/2" ply once, as I had some scraps. I didn’t like how the oak engraved. The grain is quite coarse, and very distinct, and each line engraved differently, so that the image looked like it was behind bars.)
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Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America (2012).
More than one teenager growing up prior to the gay movement, as I did, at some point believed (or feared) that he had personally invented homosexuality. Certainly, there was scant public evidence that it existed and, if it did, it was sick. Worse, in high school life, the mere suspicion that you were a queer or a fruit or a fag was total social death. That’s still true in some North American high schools today. Once you reached legal drinking age, you could explore a furtive world of gay bars, but they were subject to random reputation-wrecking police raids. If you happened to be in the military (I did a hitch in the American Navy), you had to operate with the discretion of “special forces” troops and, even then, you flirted with dishonourable discharge if not brig time. It’s difficult to convey, a half-century later, what a dirty, dangerous secret homosexuality once was.
So, when Christopher Bram begins his history of contemporary gay writing in the U.S., Eminent Outlaws, with the bold declaration that “the gay revolution began as a literary revolution,” it has an odd ring. A revolution sparked by mere words? After all, as gay poet W.H. Auden put it, “Poetry makes nothing happen.” Bram’s novel claim (offhand, I can’t recall anyone else having made it) at first glance seems dubious, but upon reflection, it turns out to be surprisingly accurate.
Much more than the concurrent civil rights, women’s, students’ or anti-war movements of the 1950s to mid-1970s — though all generated significant writing — the gay movement was unusually dependent on books, journalism, theatre, and screenwriting to spread its message, both to others and itself. That was so for a very simple reason. Unlike women, African-Americans, and other activists, homosexuals, except for the stereotyped sub-culture of flamboyant “queens,” were mostly invisible to each other, and even to themselves.
The only tolerant sanctuaries available to young gays were to be found in the world of art and a handful of ghettoized occupations. Still, “the love that dare not speak its name,” to recall the phrase associated with Oscar Wilde, began, after World War II, to write that name in fugitive books and hastily scribbled notes. Bram’s account, combining social history and literary criticism, “is the history of fifty years of change shaped by a relay race of novelists, playwrights and poets,” and their writing, as Bram says, “was the catalyst for a social shift as deep and unexpected as what was achieved by the civil rights and women’s movements.” Surprisingly, “the story of these men has never been told as a single narrative before.” The one near-predecessor to Bram’s work is Reed Woodhouse’s Unlimited Embrace: A Canon of Gay Fiction, 1945-1995 (1998), a book of feisty and intelligent readings, though less concerned with the social narrative than Bram’s history.
Bram, 59, is a gay novelist probably best known for Father of Frankenstein (1995), which became the acclaimed movie Gods and Monsters. Given his story-telling talents, it’s perhaps not surprising that Eminent Outlaws is thoroughly readable, as well as useful and timely. It brings together into coherent form what had been little more than scattered anecdotes and half-forgotten memories, and it appears at pretty much the right momet. The largely successful struggle for gay equal rights in North America and parts of Europe has turned into “post-gay,” while its history remains within the living memory of an elder generation. (It should be duly noted that in other, darker places of the earth, homosexuality is still subject to punishment up to and including death.)
Eminent Outlaws is unpretentious, appropriately gossipy (lots of who slept with whom), and while unburdened by literary Theory (with a capital T) is punctuated by shrewd judgments about books and writers. The last may merely be a way of saying that I mostly agree with Bram’s opinions about such writers as Gore Vidal, James Baldwin, Christopher Isherwood and Edmund White. Of necessity Bram is selective (he’s not writing an encyclopedic survey), he isn’t attempting to establish a gay canon (although he’s not shy about telling us what he thinks is good), and he properly doesn’t attempt to take on lesbian writing in the same era (which requires its own history and historian).
The story, which stretches from just after WWII to the near-present, begins with Gore Vidal. In 1946, the handsome young military veteran from a well-heeled, prominent political family (his grandfather was a U.S. senator), precociously published, at age 19, an early WWII novel, Williwaw. It was hardly of the stature of the blockbuster war novels of a few years later, Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead (1948) and James Jones’s From Here to Eternity (1951), but sufficiently interesting to attract the attention of the New York publishing world and to land its author an editor’s job. Vidal circulated in the bohemian literary circle of Anais Nin, an experimental writer whose name was associated with that of the scandalous Henry Miller. Later at night, Vidal followed his own scandalous inclinations in the gay zones of Times Square. It was at Nin’s salon that he met other young (and gay) writers, including Truman Capote and poets James Merrill and Robert Duncan.
In conversations with friends and editors, Vidal discussed the phenomenon of a gayer post-war society and was encouraged to write about it. Nineteen forty-eight, the same year as Mailer published his bestselling war novel, was a sort of annus “mahr-velous,” if not mirabilis, for the public discussion of homosexuality. Within short order, Vidal published his unambiguously gay novel, The City and the Pillar; Truman Capote’s homo-suggestive debut work, Other Voices, Other Rooms appeared (as did the suggestive Capote himself); an influential essay by literary critic Leslie Fiedler, “Come Back to the Raft Ag’in, Huck Honey” argued that homoerotic, interracial and intergenerational relationships were deeply embedded in the core of American literature; and perhaps most important of all, sexology researcher Alfred Kinsey published Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male, which reported that as many as a third of American men had had homosexual experiences. In terms of social impact, it was Kinsey’s controversial findings that reached the largest segment of the general public.
Early gay writing and writing about gays had a double function. It told gay readers – the people who bought books by Vidal, Capote and, shortly, James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room (1956) — that while they might be invisible, they weren’t just making it up. For gay readers, those early novels had the function of newspapers, presenting dispatches from the front. Second, all of these works provided the occasion for larger circulation mainstream media to talk about homosexuality as a phenomenon and/or “problem,” thus generating public awareness. This was one of those instances where all publicity, good or bad, was good publicity.
Vidal’s City and the Pillar is not a great book, marred as it is by what Christopher Isherwood called the “Tragic Homosexual Myth” (Vidal revised it a couple of decades later), but Bram credits it with putting the issue of homosexuality on the literary table as well as authentically describing proto-gay life. It was greeted with mixed reviews, or in the case of the New York Times’ book pages, conspicuously ignored, and Vidal retrospectively regarded it as near career-suicide. Nonetheless, it as well as Capote’s book sold enough copies to put them both on the Times bestseller list for a few weeks.
It was only somewhat later, after success as a TV and Hollywood screenwriter, that Vidal developed into a first-rate historical novelist, and the country’s pre-eminent essayist of the era, writing pieces that frequently discussed homosexuality and its bigoted opponents in waspish but always witty tones. Vidal took the interesting position that there was no such thing as homosexuals, only homosexual acts. His point is technically true — our identity shouldn’t be reduced to our identification with our sexual preferences — but at least for a time, during the period of “gay liberation” and the subsequent AIDS epidemic, homosexuality was so high up on the list of many gay men’s identifications that it provided an identity, as well as energetic arguments about whether there were gay writers or just writers who happened to be gay. Vidal objected to the watertight binary definitions of gay and straight, pointing out that desire was far more bisexually fluid than was generally allowed, as Kinsey had demonstrated in his surveys of sexual behaviour.
Bram next focuses on Allen Ginsberg and his remarkable book of poems, Howl (1956), which announces its Whitmanic scope in its famed opening line, “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness…” Bram rightly emphasizes “what Ginsberg and others have said: this was a coming-out poem. There is nothing coy about the homosexual imagery.” It’s also a poem about politics, America, culture, capitalism and an emerging “Beat Generation,” but as Bram observes, it’s the homosexual thematic that tends to be downplayed in critical accounts.
Yet, for its early readers and for the subsequent censorship trial that unsuccessfully tried to ban the book as obscene, Ginsberg’s open declaration of homosexuality as a legitimate sexual desire was a large part of what made it shocking, and distasteful to many. John Hollander, an established poet of the day, called it “a dreadful little volume,” and proto-neoconservative critic Norman Podhoretz, writing in the pages of The New Republic, used Howl to attack the Beat Generation for embracing “homosexuality, jazz, dope addiction and vagrancy,” in order to rebel for solely nihilistic purposes, a notion popularised by the James Dean movie, Rebel Without A Cause (1955).
Bram has his doubts about the quality of much of Ginsberg’s poetry, but not about his role as a gay public figure. It’s a point that deserves to be underscored. For more than a decade prior to the Stonewall demonstrations — those several nights of resistance to police harassment by the patrons of a New York gay bar in 1969 that are now seen as the official commencement of “gay liberation” — Ginsberg was the sole artist, or public figure of any sort, to present himself openly as a gay man, one engaged in cultural and political affairs as much as sexual politics. When people publicly asked him why there were so many homosexual references in his poetry, he replied, “Because I’m a homosexual.”
As the 1960s unfolded, the extent of Ginsberg’s influence grew. He addressed himself to an emerging youth culture (including a massive protest movement), presenting gay desire as something “hip,” or “cool,” as we would say today. For the Sixties generation, gathering at political rallies and attending Ginsberg’s own poetry readings, he was a role model for an alternative idea of living one’s life, one that included the right to sexual preference.
There’s another gay-relevant context in which to discuss both Ginsberg and post-war American poetry that Bram doesn’t quite get around to, but which is worth mentioning. Ginsberg was singular as an “out” cultural leader, but he was simultaneously part of a movement known by the title of its 1960 anthology, The New American Poetry, a book edited by the discreetly gay Don Allen at Grove Press. The movement consisted of overlapping circles of poets across the U.S. who saw themselves as writing a new kind of oppositional verse that put them in sharp contrast to the American poetry “establishment” and its institutions. Among its many characteristics, the New American Poetry was gay-friendly, and many of its prominent figures were gay. In addition to Ginsberg and other Beat writers, a group of San Francisco poets, led by Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer and Robin Blaser, as well as circles of New York and Boston poets, including John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara, James Schuyler, and John Weiners, were substantially gay, and the aforenamed gay poets were as prominent as heterosexual poets in the movement.
The absence of homosexual taboos was of course only an indirect feature of the new poetry, but what it meant for younger gay writers was not simply a social sanctuary but an educational site where the history of poetry that was informally taught to neophytes included, in their appropriate place, gay poets. I can recall Ginsberg, who, along with his partner Peter Orlovsky, I knew since I was a teenager, reciting Hart Crane for us and, when we were in Paris (c. 1960), directing me to the English translation of Jean Genet’s Our Lady of the Flowers, which was still sold at the Kroch and Brentano’s Paris branch from under the counter. Similarly, one learned from Jack Spicer in San Francisco about Rimbaud and Garcia Lorca (Spicer’s After Lorca appeared in 1957, only a year after Ginsberg’s Howl). At San Francisco State College, where I studied in the early 60s, I remember writing essays about Whitman as a gay poet long before it was an acceptable scholarly topic. Not only were you not alone, you were part of an historical tradition. This literary oasis of sanity in an otherwise sex-panicked American landscape saved me, I think, from the hours of psychiatric treatment described by writers like Edmund White and historian Martin Duberman.
Bram devotes considerable attention to the theatre world, especially postwar gay playwrights Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee, whose writing dominated the American theatre (itself a milieu suffused in a gay ambience) from World War II to the mid-60s. Their work didn’t directly address gay issues, but they were read by both gay theatre-goers and anti-gay critics as covertly registering gay nuances. There was even a mid-60s backlash from critics, that Bram carefully charts, complaining that Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962) and other works simply tricked out their secretly gay protagonists in heterosexual drag. As Bram describes the dilemma, “Gay writers could not win for losing. If they wrote about gay life, they weren’t universal. But if they wrote about straight life, they were distorting what they despised or didn’t understand.” The canard about Albee’s Virginia Woolf wasn’t put to rest until Mike Nichols’ 1966 film version of the play, when famously heterosexual actors Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor easily persuaded viewers that Albee’s play wasn’t merely a matter of homosexual bitchery.
Not until Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band (1968) did gay threatre come out, a year before the Stonewall riots. The first explicitly gay play was controversial, even among many gays who regarded its tones of camp and bitterness as a distorted portrait of gay existence. Still, it enjoyed a thousand-performance run. For those of us living outside New York’s theatre district, we only became aware of Crowley’s play through William Friedkin’s 1970 film version. Bram offers a substantial and deserved nod of recognition to Crowley, but I recall the movie of Boys in the Band being unfavorably contrasted with a better film the following year, gay director John Schlesinger’s Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), in which Peter Finch plays a middle-aged, middle-class Jewish doctor in England having an affair with a mid-20ish bisexual artist who is simultaneously involved in a part-time relationship with Glenda Jackson. Bram doesn’t mention Bloody Sunday, a made-in-England film that lies outside his U.S.-bounded purview. The movie featured the first ever homosexual screen kiss between Finch and actor Murray Head, a gasp-producing moment that sucked the air out of many movie theatres. Later asked about the kiss, the heterosexual Finch quipped, “I did it for England.”
The other pre-gay movement literary work of special note is Christopher Isherwood’s A Single Man (1964). Bram is particularly good on the transplanted-to-California British-born Isherwood (1904-1986), who emerges as one of the quiet heroes of this narrative. Isherwood’s 1939 book of linked stories, Goodbye to Berlin, about the rise of Nazism in Germany, was already understood by gay readers as a gay-inscribed text. But it wasn’t until A Single Man, about a day in the life of a gay middle-aged, British-born professor teaching in a California college, still mourning the recent death of his long-time companion, that gay writing produced, at least arguably, a literary masterpiece. Like the later Sunday Bloody Sunday, Isherwood’s novel doesn’t succumb to the Tragic Homosexual Myth, but instead presents a gay man living an interesting if mundane life that doesn’t require a sensationalized denouement to fulfil any imagined moral requirements. Nonetheless, the Los Angeles Times headlined its review of the book, “Disjointed Limp Wrist Saga,” which says more about the anti-gay temper of the times than Isherwood’s elegant prose.
Bram, as do I, thinks that Isherwood is underrated, compared, say, to his famous friend, poet W.H. Auden. Bram makes a strong case not only for A Single Man, but especially for Isherwood’s previous gay-themed novel, Down There On A Visit (1962), as unjustly neglected. Bram also favourably and extensively discusses Isherwood’s post-gay lib memoir of 1930s Berlin, Christopher and His Kind (1976), in which Isherwood is able to talk openly about what really happened in the gay bars of Berlin.
Another virtue of Bram’s history is his tracking of the interwoven friendships and rivalries of the authors he’s writing about. The relationships, both intellectual and occasionally sexual, between Vidal, Williams, Capote, Isherwood and others are carefully traced. For example, Isherwood’s late Berlin memoir was greeted at the time with a finely crafted review-essay in The New York Review of Books by Gore Vidal, who had known and worked with Isherwood in the sometimes acidic vineyards of Hollywood, and was the writer to whom Isherwood had dedicated his Single Man. One footnote to the Isherwood-Vidal friendship is that it was Isherwood who in 1948 provided a blurb for Vidal’s City and the Pillar, but at the same time wrote Vidal a private letter criticizing not the book’s subject matter, but its unnecessary melodrama.
The central literary figure of the post-1969 era in Bram’s account of gay writing is clearly Edmund White, a young writer who was present at the Stonewall riots. Whereas Vidal, Ginsberg, Baldwin, Capote and their heterosexual counterparts, Mailer, Jones, Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller were all born in the 1920s, White (b. 1940) represented a new generation whose work was rooted in the political and cultural upheavals of the 1960s. Writers like Baldwin, Vidal, and Capote had multi-faceted roles and concerns, and were only peripherally involved in the new gay movement, but White and many of his contemporaries could plausibly be seen as primarily gay writers, with respect to the subject matter of their work. Of the older writers, Ginsberg and Isherwood, both of whom embraced the gay movement, were exceptional.
The flourishing of gay fiction in the 1970s and ‘80s was dependent, as Bram demonstrates, upon a national infrastructure of gay bookstores, newspapers, and the interest of a literate readership, all of which burgeoned as an organized gay political movement quickly developed. If at first gay writing was news from the front that assured its readers that they existed, gay writing in the ‘70s addressed the question of what gay existence meant. Bram tags 1978 as his candidate for gay writing’s miraculous year. It saw the publication of Andrew Holleran’s Dancer from the Dance, Larry Kramer’s Faggots, Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City and an early experimental novel by Edmund White.
Kramer’s book, a fairly crude satire directed against the sexual promiscuity of gay culture itself, “an erotic novel that denounces sex,” as Bram puts it, was the most confrontational of the books that year, and its author soon turned out to be equally volatile, to good and bad effect. I think that, in literary terms, Holleran’s Dancer, an elegiac portrait of desire in the all-night gay club-and-beach scene of New York and nearby Fire Island, is the best of these books, though Bram is inclined to award the palm to Maupin, whose Tales of the City began life as a Dickensian serialized novel in the pages of the San Francisco Chronicle, eventually growing into a best-selling multi-volume saga. As for White, his best work lay just ahead of him.
White, whose day job was at Time-Life Books and who had written a couple of artsy early novels, discovered himself, oddly enough, as the co-author, with his former psychiatrist, Dr. Charles Silverstein, of a sex guide, The Joy of Gay Sex (1977). The book, a follow-up to Alex Comfort’s Joy of Sex, was a success, part of the general “Sexual Revolution” of the period, as well as evidence of a large, untapped gay reading market, something proved by the sales of the following year’s novels. As for White, he followed up his sex guide writing with a gay travelogue, States of Desire (1980), followed by an autobiographical coming-of-age novel, A Boy’s Own Story (1982). Between his early artistic experiments and his commercial writing, White melded the two into a distinctive style, at once beautiful, and yet effective at moving the story along. It was a style that gay readers first, and then others, quickly identified as one of the recognizable literary voices of his generation. White’s gay-coming-of-age book drew favourable comparison with J.D. Salinger’s classic adolescent novel, Catcher in the Rye.
Over the next quarter-century, White’s autobiographical story – to which he added The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988), The Farewell Symphony (1997), and The Married Man (2000) — grew into the defining gay Bildungsroman of his generation; his lengthy stay in Paris in the 1980s yielded a massive biography of French gay writer Jean Genet which won the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award; and along the way, there were volumes of short stories, essays, and memoirs (the best of which, I think, is My Lives (2005)). Although Bram offers some thoughtful reservations about White’s sizeable oeuvre, and appears to be more drawn to the work of Armistead Maupin and playwright Tony Kushner, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America (1993), I suspect that when all is said and read, White will be judged to be the major writer to have emerged from the gay movement.
The concluding sections of Bram’s account are understandably more diffuse than the earlier part of the book. There’s a substantial survey of the politics, culture and sheer horror of the AIDS epidemic as it affected the gay community. Much of the literary side of the story is given over to the political and theatrical activities of Larry Kramer, the author of Faggots, whose “manic, high-octane, punching-in-all-directions voice,” as Bram describes it, for the next several years outshouted everyone engaged in the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, to recall the name of the New York AIDS organization that Kramer helped found at the outset of the epidemic. Nonetheless, Bram gives Kramer his due as a crusading gay journalist, political activist, and the author of The Normal Heart, the widely-seen AIDS play that galvanized public attention about the illness that struck like a plague.
There’s also an epilogue to bring us up to the present. In Andrew Holleran’s Dancer from the Dance, one of the characters advises writers to “keep the chapters short… no one has a very long attention span anymore, and that’s why the world is so unhappy.” If that was true in the ditzy disco days of the late 1970s, you can imagine what the state of mind of the digitalized present is like. Gay readers moved on from novels to Facebook and YouTube, just like everyone else. The gay bookstores mostly shut down (but so have other bookstores). The gay newspapers that survived became less political, more social, and the Gay Pride parades have become ethnic celebrations, fully integrated into the local tourist industry. If the gay movement started out as a revolutionary proposal about human relationships, its success has mellowed it into something closer to the Rotary Club. What most gays wanted, it transpired, was what everybody else wanted, marriages, mortgages and good credit ratings. It can be argued that homosexuals are almost the only category of Americans who take marriage completely seriously these days. No wonder gay marriage drives “social conservatives” crazy. Finally, somebody more Family Values than thou. Still, gay normality is better than the terrifying pre-gay equality period.
Although the initial reviews of Eminent Outlaws were generally favourable, they struck me as slightly grudging in their praise. The notable exception is a generous Washington Post review by Isherwood biographer, Peter Parker, who likes Bram’s “breezy” combination of lit-crit and social history, and his “pleasantly relaxed and always very readable style.” My favourite New York Times regular reviewer, Dwight Garner, finds his reaction to Bram’s book similar to that of theatre producer Joseph Papp’s first reading of Larry Kramer’s play about AIDS, The Normal Heart: “This is one of the worst things I’ve ever read,” Papp said, but the play so moved him that he added, “and I’m crying.” Garner appreciates Bram’s “often resonant” arguments, “lit from below by a gossipy wit.” The book’s power, he says, “is less sentence by sentence than cumulative. You don’t realize how much the details of these writers’ books and difficult lives have touched you until the book’s final chapters.”
John Leland, author of Why Kerouac Matters, writing in the Times Book Review section is dubious about what he sees as “mainly a reverie for a time past, seen through a romantic lens.” Leland lists a score of writers Bram misses or slights, finds his view of gay culture rather naïve, and chides Bram for inexplicably not connecting gay lit “to the broader sexual revolution.” (The last charge is simply a mistake; Leland missed Bram’s direct comment in the text about general changes to sexual mores.) He grants that Bram’s book deserves “a prominent place” in the window of the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop, the first gay bookstore in New York, but cattily adds, “alas, the store closed in 2009 — once vitally necessary, now made obsolete by its own success.” The implication is that Bram’s book is similarly unnecessary.
I’m not quite sure why there’s less generosity than might be expected. Perhaps it’s because Bram isn’t a professional literary historian, or that he doesn’t offer up the sort of theory that is currently found in Cultural Studies programs. Leland thinks Bram underplays the possible worth of the writing itself in favour of its role in political triumphs. As for Leland’s claim about missing significant writers, Bram makes clear at the outset that he’s not doing a who’s who catalogue. The only substantial absence that I would argue ought to be remedied is that of Dennis Cooper. Cooper and a group of like-minded “transgressive” writers who were briefly known as the “New Narrative” group (c. 1990), represented the singular strain of experimental prose in gay writing. Cooper himself explored DeSadean subject matter that a lot of people found more than distasteful. But writing is not merely a matter of taste, but a question of quality and importance, and there’s a case to be made for Cooper. All in all, Bram covers most of the ground, and does so intelligently.
Now that the story is mostly history, how does it feel for those who remember it as life? Well, in one sense, for those of us who were participants, it turns out that an adolescent’s imagining of having personally invented homosexuality is not so far from the truth. Those isolated teenagers — and a thousand books, a thousand demonstrations, and a million like-minded agemates — really did invent a different kind of public homosexuality that significantly changed American society. But it’s also true that the past is Another Country (to recall the title of a James Baldwin novel) glimpsed from across the River Styx. To have lived through, within a single lifetime, the transformation of the understanding of the concepts and realities of women, black people, and gays must be something like what it felt like to live through the Reformation in the early 16th century. Or perhaps gay writing of a particular period is akin to the writing of Eastern European dissidents before the collapse of communism. Once the regime changed, there was gradual freedom and attention turned to normal life. There are still books, movies, and even TV sitcoms with gay characters, but there is less necessity for specifically gay writing, and there is a general diminishment of a public attention span that makes reading possible. What remains is what Wilde said about moral or immoral books. There’s no such thing, only books that are well-written, or badly-written.
Berlin, March 18, 2012
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With many companies releasing their own version (or versions) of wireless Bluetooth earbuds, it’s definitely getting tricky maneuvering the market for the best pair. Today, we are going to be looking at one of the various releases of Raycon Global: the Raycon Performer E55.
The Raycon Performer E55 is the upgraded version of Raycon Global’s E25 and E50 Truly Wireless. It sets the bar high, claiming to have an impressive 36 hours of battery life, wireless charging, and comfortable fit with its arc-shaped design. With all these features, it’s a great travel-friendly pair that you can use during different activities such as long flights, workouts, and relaxing after a long day. This comes at a steep price of around $120 though which is definitely on the expensive side. Is it really good enough to warrant such an expensive price? Find out with us.
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After seeing its great fit and glamorous design, we probed further and looked at its technicalities. This time, we found some not-so-good things about them. Here are the Cons that we found.
Dated Features. As numerous tech companies release their own versions of wireless Bluetooth earbuds, competition is stiff as most of them offer new and exciting features. Unfortunately for the Raycon E55, we found that it isn’t up to par with the others in terms of modernity. It doesn’t offer noise cancellation and does not have an app to control preferences for music or tap functions. There are also issues with connectivity which is a hassle especially if you’re the type to move around without your phone glued to your side the whole time.
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Expensive. The Raycon E55 costs $120 which is pretty steep considering that it doesn’t offer the modern features other earbuds do. Even if it does have its own charm, it’s still not enough to overweight the Cons and justify the price. A look around other earbuds being offered at the same price level would suggest that it is simply too expensive for what you get.
Overall, Raycon Global showed a pretty good attempt in upgrading their earbuds after launching the E25 and E50. The wireless charging feature is pretty impressive especially for those who already use wireless charging for their smartphone or their other gadgets. This would make it very handy and convenient when travelling. The fit of this pair was also improved with a cool arc-shaped design that feels and looks good on the ear. It’s something that you definitely wouldn’t mind wearing for hours on end during an 8-hour workday or flight.
Despite these improvements though, we still found some shortcomings that don’t make this pair the best in the market. Even though it’s an updated version of past products, it still lacks some high-end features that other brands offer such as active noise cancellation and EQ customization that makes the sound quality pretty poor. This means that even if it is comfortable to wear for a long period of time, it probably won’t be able to satisfy you with its quality making your favorite songs sound flat and not as enjoyable. All this comes at a high price point of $120 which is definitely no joke. For that price, you would expect top-notch quality and features which the Raycon Performer E55 just lacks. Unfortunately, for our verdict, it does not have enough to warrant a $120 price point and we think that you can definitely find a more modern (and even cheaper) alternative.
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Religious Exploration Policies & Procedures
PARTICIPATION – Participation forms must be completed to enroll any child or youth, from birth to age 18, into our programs. Participation and permission forms are available on our website, and on the RE Bulletin Board in Dodd Hall. Regular attendance is expected and encouraged so that parents and children become familiar with the teachers and procedures. Consistent involvement helps students to reap all the benefits of the curriculum that is offered throughout the year. Visitors are always welcome.
COOPERATION – The Religious Exploration program is cooperative and its success will continue only because of our volunteer parents, guardians, members and friends! For our families who have been attending six months or more, the parents/guardians are required to help in the program. The RE Committee will work with you to find the best fit, whether it’s teaching on a team, assisting in the classroom for a Super Sunday, taking part in special RE events, or providing materials. Please contact the DRE if you would like more information about joining our Religious Exploration Ministry.
COMMUNICATION – Information about RE programs and events can be found:
- On our website, under Religious Exploration Learning Events & Learning
- On our website Calendar of Events
- In the weekly Sunday Order of Service
- In our weekly E-Newsletter
- On the FUUFHC Facebook – Twitter – Instagram feeds
- Through the FUUFHC Community Email Listserve
SAFE CONGREGATION – FUUFHC and the RE Committee take the safety of children and youth very seriously. We have an open classroom policy and we will strive to provide a teacher and assistant in each class for a safe and productive learning environment. In addition, the FUUFHC Safe Congregation Policy pertains to other aspects of the Religious Exploration program. Parents/guardians are required to read the policy so that they understand the fellowship’s role and parent/guardians’ role in providing the safest possible environment for everyone. We ask you to also discuss the policies and procedures with your children and youth. We need full compliance in order to ensure everyone’s safety.
SOME KEY POINTS OF THE SAFE CONGREGATION POLICY ARE:
- All children and youth are their parent or guardian’s responsibility when not directly engaged in an RE class. This includes before services begin and during all other fellowship times (coffee hour). Consistent and direct supervision is expected at all times.
- Parents who have children in Child Care (of any age, during regular service or special events), must provide a signature on the attendance form in order to release the child from care. Please see our separate Child Care Handbook for details.
- The school house and grounds belong to the Schoolhouse Association. Climbing any structure, except those designated for play (in the fenced area to the left of Dodd Hall), is not allowed. In addition, climbing trees, whether on the fellowship’s property or the school property, is prohibited.
- The wooded grounds behind Dodd Hall are off limits to all congregants. Not only are there many physical hazards which make the grounds unsafe for play, but the land is not ours and so it is not for our utilization.
- If you see ANY children or youth who are playing or interacting in an unsafe manner, we strongly encourage you to stop the behavior immediately and alert the DRE or the student’s parent/guardian directly thereafter. It takes a village to raise good children, and we count on everyone’s eyes, ears, and words for support.
- Children/youth with symptoms of illness will not be accepted into child care or classrooms. If a child has had a fever within the last 24 hours (over 100 degrees) or any illness symptoms (unless due to allergy), he/she should be kept home.
- We may have fire/evacuation drills during the year. The fire drill meeting place is the pump by the old schoolhouse, next to the parking lot. Do not return to Dodd Hall to look for your children or youth.
- To ensure the safety of all children, members, and friends, Dodd Hall is a nut-free facility. Please be mindful when bringing food.
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The Distinguished Alum Award is annually presented to a former graduate of the Biostatistics Department working in government, industry, or academia, who by virtue of applications to support of research, methodology and theory, significant organizational responsibility, and teaching has impacted the theory and practice of statistical science. The overall career of the individual is considered with an emphasis on how the nominee has used their experience to bring out the best in life with research and academics. The award recipient will be invited to deliver a lecture on their career and life beyond the Department at the Harvard School of Public Health, for the primary benefit of our students. The recipient will also be presented with a plaque.
The recipient of the 2008 Distinguished Alum Award was Robert Strawderman of Cornell University. Receiving the award in previous years were Masahiro Takeuchi of the Kitasato University School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Daniel Siegel, 1961 Harvard Alum.
Nominations for the award, to be given in May/June 2009, should be sent to:
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Nominations should include a letter describing the contributions of the candidate, specifically highlighting the criteria for the award, and curriculum vitae. Supporting letters and materials are welcome but not required.
The deadline for submission of nominations is January 31, 2009.
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In criminal defense cases, police body cameras can be beneficial in presenting evidence for a trial that can result in acquittals and reduced charges. As body cameras become standard issue for an increasing number of police officers around the country, the evidence they provide is helping reinforce- or contradict- the testimony provided by people at the scene.
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When law enforcement agencies began outfitting police officers with miniature body cameras, their main objectives were to protect residents from overly aggressive officers during arrests and to shield police officers from any unfounded complaints by perpetrators and bystanders. As people become more accustomed to body cameras, there is acceptance among the public, law enforcement, and many civil rights organizations who assert that these cameras will provide benefits for the justice system. While these tiny cameras are effective protection for citizens and police, they also provide valuable evidence for prosecutors and defense attorneys in a trial.
After an unarmed teenager, Michael Brown, was fatality injured by a police officer’s gunshot, President Obama instigated Congressional action to buy 50,000 police body cameras in Ferguson, Missouri. In 2013, Washington DC and Maryland launched pilot programs to test the impact of police body cameras in several communities. Many other states have since launched programs to test body cameras for law enforcement in various cities.
Many courts around the country now use body-camera footage as evidence in criminal trials. In 2016, a body camera video was used in a Montana murder trial. The first police officer on the scene had a body camera attached to his jacket, which allowed him to ask the dying victim important questions about his attacker. In Vermont, prosecutors were able to convict a man of assault with a baseball bat on his wife because the acts were recorded on the arresting officer’s body camera. In Washington, evidence from a body camera was used by both the prosecution and the defense in a common assault case.
Many criminal convictions come down to credibility contests between the arresting police officer, witnesses, and the accused perpetrator. These cases are often determined based on the testimony presented at trial. If body cameras become standard issue for police officers around the country, some of these cases will be dismissed when video fails to support the witnesses’ or officers’ accounts of the events. Other cases will end quickly when the footage shows overwhelming evidence of guilt.
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This stone is deeply associated with the Death card of the Tarot, which represents natural endings.
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What a beautiful moment! To be able to see what’s been there all along and want to do something about it. Maybe your family and friends have seen it for years, maybe you’ve seen it but haven’t been willing to deal with it. Maybe this year is your year to do something about it.
If that’s you, let’s figure out how to get you moving forward to the end with that 20/20 vision. One of your first steps can be to contact a professional organizer. I happen to be one of those! There are many others all across the world too so chances are if you aren’t near me, there is another one near you.
If a friend or family member came to mind right away as you’ve been reading this, maybe you’d like to get them started with a gift card. If you would like to do this, please be kind in your approach. Having a lot of things in your home is a deeper issue than having a lot of things and many times it is incredibly sensitive. On the other hand, maybe your friend or family member is more than ready! I can think of no better gift than one that will help someone move forward in peace and freedom in their homes!
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By Paul Ross, Managing Editor, Navy Medicine Magazine, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
I joined the military in 2004 as a way to pay for college and because it seemed like a better option than roofing houses and waiting tables. There wasn’t much patriotism behind my decision. Both my grandfather’s had served, one in the Air Force and one in the Army. As I was closer to the former, I arrived down in San Antonio, Texas, to learn how to be an Airman in the U.S. Air Force.
As we crossed underneath the historic arch at Lackland, Air Force Base, I remember asking myself, “Why did you do this?” After serving four years and then getting out to work as a civilian for the Department of Veterans Affairs and the U.S. Navy, I now know what I didn’t then.
Throughout my short government career I’ve had a few moments where I have truly realized the essential and difficult role veterans of the U.S. military serve.
While working at a VA medical center I met a young Marine who was severely injured in an IED blast in Iraq. He lost both of his legs from the thigh down. While talking in his room I asked, “What made you join the Marines?” He replied simply, “To serve my country.” He then said something that I’ll always remember, “And I would do it the exact same way if I had the choice.” His love for this country astounded me. Here was a young man who will never be the same, yet he could not wait to get back to duty serving and protecting each and every U.S. citizen.
There are four boys in my family; three of us have served in the military. The youngest of the four joined the Army and graduated from infantry school at Fort Benning, Ga. When he got in trouble at the age of eight for digging a foxhole in my mom’s backyard, we knew this would eventually be his decision. Shortly after getting the blue cord put on his shoulder, he shipped out to Mosul, Iraq. His main missions included convoy support and searching for insurgents. He lost close friends and fellow Soldiers. He had two brushes with death – one in the form of a sniper’s bullet flying inches from his head, the other an IED that exploded underneath his humvee, which sent shrapnel through the bottom of the vehicle, again missing him by inches. There were a few times when the sounds of his choked-back tears were clear over a static-filled call from across the world. He told me that there is nothing grand or beautiful from the frontlines of a war. But before he hung up he would reassure me that he made the right decision and of his undying love for the Army and for this country – that is why he joined, why he took up arms to fight for freedom.
Now I have the great privilege of helping tell the story of Navy Medicine and its numerous brave Sailors, who deliver care all around the world to their fellow shipmates and Marines whenever called upon. They treat the visible wounds and the hidden ones of service members returning from war. And there is no other story I’d rather tell.
Most of us know someone who has served or who is currently donning a uniform. So in recognition of Veterans Day, please take the time to pay respect to those who deploy aboard massive ships, those who dirty their boots with desert sand, and those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for defending our country and its star-spangled flag.
And if you are a veteran, thank you for your commitment to all of us and our way of life.
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How much will title insurance cost on the purchase or sale of my property? – is a question clients often ask when planning for their closing costs or reserves.
To help consumers with that very question and to overcome confusion about title insurance, the California Land Title Association has just launched the CLTA TitleWizard web site.
On this web site you may enter the zip code and selling price of the property in question. You also enter whether you are the seller or buyer and if the property has sold within the previous five years.
After entering all information, the web site lists the cost of title insurance available from the CLTA Member insurance companies.
Keep in mind, however, that your Realtor may have a relationship with a particular title insurance company or representative who can provide a rate that is lower than those published on the CLTA TitleWizard web site. The best procedure would be to review the TitleWizard results and then ask your agent to get a quote for the cost of title insurance through their contacts.
Keep also in mind that not all title insurance policies are identical. Some which are more expensive may provide more coverage than the others. You should review the coverage of policies you are considering to determine if the coverage is all that you desire or more than you need.
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Last week I tried to show that although it is easy to see the direct influence of military on 1940s fashion, uniform-inspired fashion was not necessarily carried into the 1980s simply as part of a 1940s retro. While designers of the 1980s adopted the broad shouldered silhouette of the 1940s, they also poured into the mix ethnic elements that were influenced by current events, as well as military iconography that originated from the youth movement of the 1960s. It is interesting that during this decade, and especially in the earlier years, many editorials and ads in fashion magazines used imagery that evokes World War II to promote fashionable product.
My research focused on Vogue Italia because brands such as Armani and Versace were extremely successful and directed the look of the decade internationally. In September of 1982 the magazine published a black and white editorial titled “Un’altra Moda Militare”(Another Military Fashion). This thirteen pages-long editorial shows that romanticizing the 1940s war years, as Yves Saint Laurent did a decade earlier, was quite common in fashion magazines of the period.
The models, in glamorous 1940s Hollywood-style hair and makeup, are photographed against a backdrop of bombed buildings and deserted streets. Each is wearing at least one military-style element, such as the trench coat, aviator cap or sunglasses, leather boots, and even a medal decorated beret. The looks and poses are meticulously stylized; one would not mistake these for real pictures of World War II. There is a stark contrast between the subject of the pictures and the way in which it is represented. The clothes of heavy woolen fabrics and leather, and the background which is set to look like a destroyed city, contrast with the romanticized hair and make up styling and the soft camera lens. Clearly, this is not an attempt to face war memories of Fascist Italy’s collaboration with the Nazis, or an attempt to recreate a true image of women in war time. But rather, the background is there only to make the image more authentic so the clothes will appear more desirable, and therefore become more saleable.
It is, of course, interesting to compare how fashion magazines in war time confronted the problem of reporting on current events, yet continuing to promote fashion. The photographer Lee Miller, American Vogue‘s war correspondent, who accompanied the Allied Forces was one of the firsts to send out pictures of the concentration camps Buchenwald and Dachau, as well as pictures from occupied Germany. One of the most famous pictures of that period was of her in Hitler’s bathtub in his Munich residence, taken by Life Magazine photographer David E. Scherman.
Miller’s report, accompanied by explicit pictures of starved bodies, injured soldiers, and beaten prison guards, was published by American Vogue, June 1945, in an article titled “Germany… out of the German Prison.” It is a stark contrast to the 1980s editorial in Vogue Italia. But, more interestingly it is also quite different from the Paris fashion report that was published in the following page, spanning five more pages and including illustrations. Although Vogue‘s report is brave and serious, it reveals the split-personality of women’s fashion magazines at that time. On the one hand reality cannot be ignored, on the other women were still expected to care about fashion and to consume it.
As the editorial in Vogue Italia suggests. the 1980s version of war or military iconography was watered-down, fashion designers of the 1980s often stripped these elements of their original context. By doing so they stripped them of their political and ideological meaning and turned them to mere decorative elements. Fashion editor Stefano Tonchi notes that:…shiny black leather boots, riding pants, jackets with hussar braiding, coats with epaulettes decorated with gilded fringe, capes and mentals, coats of arms, decorations, metal eagles and gold buttons are all decisive elements. Freed of their practical function- the epaulette, for example, was created as protection against blows of the sword- these elements have assumed a symbolic and at time ideological value, but to an increasing extent they are merely decorative, to the point of becoming simply the surface on which to place a logo or a set of initials: the Armani eagle, the crossed C’s of Chanel, or the Versace’s medusa
But while the specific function of these military design elements may no longer be necessary, their stylistic language serves the clothes, or the way they appear at least. Last week I showed an image from Elle magazine, where this point is made clear. The model, leaning on a black stretch limo, is wearing a satin trench coat and black aviator sunglasses. Her head is covered by a tight stretch hood and her bare legs are exposed- one of them on top of a black suitcase from which the Soviet Union’s flag is hanging. It is suggested to the viewer that under the coat the model is wearing only a short bodysuit- the trench coat therefore no longer serve its intended function, that of providing warmth and protection.
While the adoption of military-like fashion in the 1940s was in great part due to necessity, and therefore served a purpose and function- newly added pockets, pants instead of dresses- fashion designers of the 1980s used uniforms, or excerpts of it, only to convey an idea and a desirable image.
This photograph uses the eroticism associated with uniform, especially when worn by a woman. The model’s posture displays a provocative, unashamed sexuality, and although the setting evokes spy movies, clearly she is not attempting to blend in. This brings to mind role playing and cross dressing. In the essay “Eros and Uniform,” author Richard Buckley proposes that by “Idealizing the masculine form, uniform represent power, simultaneously inspiring emotions of security, awe, fear, repulsion and desire…because of their association with a sense of authority and force- soldiers, policemen and prison guards- uniforms are related to sexual potency, Affording the wearer a sense of anonymity, they can intensify or subvert conventional gender role playing.”
This model is at the same time anonymous (sunglasses, head cover, gloves) and exposed (bare legs, chest thrust forward), she is both masculine and feminine. In many ways this photograph is 1980s quintessential, not only for the overt sexuality, but also for diffusing seemingly foreign concepts in a way that no longer relates to just one or the other. The juxtaposition of opposites is characteristic to postmodernism, and what makes the fashion of the 1980s, and its relating imagery, unique.
Next week’s post in the series Uniformed Individuality, will focus on men’s fashion of the 1980s. I will try to trace the uniform, military and 1940s influences in the men’s department as well.
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An audio book narrated by David Stevens, MD. Jesus - the ultimate doctor. His touch extended grace to the sick and sinful of ancient Palestine and left a miracle in its wake. And his ministry hasn't ceased. Today, he looks for willing hearts and hands through which he can heal a needy world. Dr. Stevens knows. His eleven years at Tenwek Hospital in Kenya have shown him more than the drama and sacrifice of missionary medicine. In this audio book, Dr. Stevens shares the insights he has gained into the character, power, and purposes of the Great Physician and what it means for you to follow in his footsteps. Electrifying, moving and thought-provoking, "Jesus, MD" will help you see your relationship with God and your world in a brand-new light. Your life is filled with incredible possibilities waiting to unfold one by one as you walk in the presence and provision of Dr. Jesus.
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Two posts at Watts Up With That bring news that that ought to turn the Gaea-cultists’ sweet dreams into nightmares. First, a study from Civitas in the UK demolishes any idea that wind-power is a practical, economic alternate energy source:
The focus on wind-power, driven by the renewables targets, is preventing Britain from effectively reducing CO2 emissions, while crippling energy users with additional costs, according to a new Civitas report. The report finds that wind-power is unreliable and requires back-up power stations to be available in order to maintain a consistent electricity supply to households and businesses. This means that energy users pay twice: once for the window-dressing of renewables, and again for the fossil fuels that the energy sector continues to rely on. Contrary to the implied message of the Government’s approach, the analysis shows that wind-power is not a low-cost way of reducing emissions.
(Full report here (PDF))
They have to pay lip-service to the idea of reducing CO2 emissions, even though there’s no credible evidence of a man-caused greenhouse effect from CO2, because of the success the Green Statists in and outside of government have had in demonizing a gas that’s essentially plant food. The key takeaways, though, are these: because of the unreliability of wind, conventional power stations have to be kept running on standby to handle those times when the turbines aren’t running, either because there’s no wind, or the wind is blowing too fast. That means costs to the consumer skyrocket, as UK residents are finding out. (And we will, too, if Obama and the Eco-lobby in the US have their way.)
But wait, there’s more! It turns out that wind-turbines actually increase the use of CO2 -spewing fossil fuels:
In a comprehensive quantitative analysis of CO2 emissions and wind-power, Dutch physicist C. le Pair has recently shown that deploying wind turbines on “normal windy days” in the Netherlands actually increased fuel (gas) consumption, rather than saving it, when compared to electricity generation with modern high-efficiency gas turbines. Ironically and paradoxically the use of wind farms therefore actually increased CO2 emissions, compared with using efficient gas-fired combined cycle gas turbines (CCGTs) at full power. [p. 30]
Second, you know all those fears of “ocean acidification,” the Green Left’s latest environmental bogeyman? Turns out it’s another …say it after me… natural process:
It turns out that far from being a stable pH, spots all over the world are constantly changing. One spot in the ocean varied by an astonishing 1.4 pH units regularly. All our human emissions are projected by models to change the world’s oceans by about 0.3 pH units over the next 90 years, and that’s referred to as “catastrophic”, yet we now know that fish and some calcifying critters adapt naturally to changes far larger than that every year, sometimes in just a month, and in extreme cases, in just a day.
Data was collected by 15 individual SeaFET sensors in seven types of marine habitats. Four sites were fairly stable (1, which includes the open ocean, and also sites 2,3,4) but most of the rest were highly variable (esp site 15 near Italy and 14 near Mexico) . On a monthly scale the pH varies by 0.024 to 1.430 pH units.
The authors draw two conclusions: (1) most non-open ocean sites vary a lot, and (2) and some spots vary so much they reach the “extreme” pH’s forecast for the doomsday future scenarios on a daily (a daily!) basis.
pH varies widely and often, yet life adapts and prospers, in a process that’s gone on for hundreds of millions, if not billions of years. No need to invoke the Demon Man and his evil capitalism to frighten people into obedience and submission to a bunch of liberty and economy-killing transnational bureaucracies.
Though I’m sure they’ll try, anyway.
Keep dreaming, cultists.
(Crossposted at Sister Toldjah)
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Listen to this narration if you prefer
Chapter 22 discusses how the structure of the U.S. real estate business has changed critically over the 25 years from 1992 to 2017, identifies the economic “forces” that triggered this change, and illustrates in what ways the forces have impacted the business.
Commercial real estate is a highly capital-intensive business, with developments and acquisitions typically involving tens of millions of dollars. Every capital-intensive industry, from steel to aerospace, has experienced a critical transition period, typically lasting 20-30 years. The transition of these capital-intensive industries was driven by the search for cheaper capital and resulted in a stronger and more rational industry, with greater transparency, higher consolidation of players and much lower use of leverage. The same has been the case for real estate since the early 1990s.
Prior to 1986, the U.S. commercial real estate business was fueled by financial gimmicks such as unsustainable tax write-offs, mispriced debt, over-leveraged properties, and inside deals with friendly local bankers. These features created highly fragmented ownership within the industry. As recently as 1990, 95-110% LTVs were the norm. This excessive debt financing was even available for speculative development projects, allowing real estate entrepreneurs to achieve wealth through acquisition and development, regardless of whether they created economic value.
The economic catalysts for the structural change in the U.S. real estate business started around 1990, primary of which were the withdrawal, en masse, of lenders and the industry’s subsequent collapse; regulatory changes in the banking and insurance industries; and the emergence of mutual funds as a preferred investment vehicle.
There were three main economic “forces” that triggered the change in U.S. real estate that started in the early 1990s:
Starting in the early 1990s, the “forces” converged to impact real estate ownership and, in part, determined which long-term owners were able to create considerable wealth for their financial stakeholders. The keys to successful long-term real estate ownership are:
The impact of the forces is seen in the growth in real estate company size, liquidity, and prominence. It is also seen in continued low LTVs and growth in transparency among real estate companies.
These are the types of questions you’ll be able to answer after studying the full chapter.
1. Name three financing gimmicks that fueled the U.S. real estate business prior to 1990.
2. Since 1990, have capital structures shifted towards less debt and more equity, or the reverse? Why?
3. What evidence is there of the impact of the forces that changed the real estate industry since 1990?
A force that will change real estate over the next 40 years
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The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MIT) wrote to The Straits Times Forum to say that, “the Government’s aim is to create good jobs for Singaporeans by building a competitive and vibrant economy, with productivity as a key driver.” MIT had also said that, “Our strategy is directed towards achieving good employment outcomes for Singaporeans, including raising median wages.”
Finally, MIT said that, in response to “Mr Perera (who) has suggested using wage share as an indicator of quality jobs,”, “wage share, while important, does not reflect the wages of Singaporeans. Compared to those in many developed countries, Singaporeans earn higher real wages even though our wage share is lower. A more detailed analysis of wage shares can be found in the 1Q 2013 Quarterly Economic Survey released yesterday.
So, I took a look at the survey and it said that, “Singapore has one of the highest GDP per capita in the world. However, our wage share of GDP (at around 43%) is lower than the shares of most developed economies (at 50% or more). Some argue that this shows that workers in Singapore are underpaid, and that Singapore’s economic growth has disproportionately benefitted multinational companies and capital owners at the expense of workers.” It then said that, “Nonetheless, a country that has a low wage share need not necessarily have lower wages.”
MTI justified that, “In Singapore’s case, our Purchasing Power Parity-adjusted average monthly remuneration per worker, at US$3,106 between 2000 and 2009, in fact exceeds that of workers in countries like Japan, the Euro area and South Korea even though they have higher wage shares. Furthermore, real remuneration per worker in Singapore grew by 1.4% per annum in the past two decades, higher than that experienced in many developed economies.”
The Real Statistics and The Truth
I am not sure where MTI had gotten their statistics from. So, I had decided to take a look at the other statistics available. However, the statistics that I had managed to locate were contrary to what the MTI had claimed.
In fact, Singapore has the lowest wages and lowest wage growth among the developed countries!
Compared with cities in other developed countries, Singapore had the second lowest wage level (Chart 1).
Chart 1: UBS Prices and Earnings (2011)
The Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy had disputed Singapore’s ranking in the UBS report but even in their adjusted rankings, Singapore’s wage level fell below that of New York, London and Tokyo, even though our GDP per capita is on par with them (Chart 2)!
Not only that, Singapore had the lowest hourly pay in manufacturing in 2010 (Chart 3).
Not only do Singaporeans have the lowest wages, our real hourly compensation (in manufacturing) also grew the slowest and actually became lower than in 2002 (Chart 4)!
According to the International Labour Organisation’s Global Wage Report 2008/09, between 1995 and 2000, Singapore actually had one of the highest average real wage growth among the developed countries, at 5.75%. But from 2001 to 2007, this dropped to only 1.8%.
In fact, you can see that between 1995 and 2000, Singapore’s average real wage growth had followed the GDP annual growth closely, but between 2001 and 2007, our real wage growth fell way below the GDP annual growth (Chart 5).
If you look at the wage growth to GDP growth ratio, between 1995 to 2000, Singapore had one of the highest wage growth to GDP growth ratio (Chart 6).
But after 2000, everything changed. Between 2001 and 2007, Singapore actually a much lower wage growth to GDP growth ratio (Chart 7)!
However, this is even though Singapore had one of the highest GDP annual growth between 2001 and 2007 (Chart 8) among the developed countries! – which means that after 2000, even though the Singapore economy was doing very well, the government was treating Singaporeans poorly and Singaporeans suffered.
So, all in, you can see that real wages have remained stagnant in Singapore in the past decade (Chart 9).
Chart 9: Ministry of Manpower Income
Worse still, not only are incomes the lowest in Singapore and have risen the lowest, incomes are not evenly distributed and the rich earn much more than those who are not as rich in Singapore.
In Chart 10, you can see that a junior manager in Singapore is ranked 21st in terms of his/her buying power, which is much lower than other developed countries.
But for the rich, an executive is ranked 8th in the world and 1st among the developed countries in terms of buying power (Chart 11).
Not only do the rich have the highest buying power in the developed countries, the rich in Singapore are ranked the highest, but the less rich are ranked one of the lowest!
But of course, the income inequality, as represented by the Gini coefficient, has been rising in Singapore (Chart 12).
Chart 12: Key Household Income Trends, 2012
In fact, Singapore has the highest income inequality among the developed countries in the world, after deducting for taxes and transfers (Chart 13)!
So, you can see that the incomes of the rich have been rising several times faster than the poorest in Singapore (Chart 14).
As you know, the salaries of Singapore’s ministers, until 2011, were pegged to the top income earners in Singapore – which means that the salaries of the Singapore ministers have grown at a faster rate than the average Singaporean!
From 2002 to 2010, the nominal salaries of the ministers increased by 5.64%, but it only increased by 3.23% for the average Singaporean (Chart 15).
According to Singapore News Alternative, “our ministers earn approximately 108.3 times more than bottom earners. (Chart 16)”
Khaw Boon Wah: Degree Isn’t Important. What About Wages?
Recently, The Straits Times had reported that National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wah had said that, “Singaporeans do not need to be university graduates to be successful.” Khaw had said that, “If they cannot find jobs, what is the point? You own a degree, but so what? That you can’t eat it. If that cannot give you a good life, a good job, it is meaningless.”
In an article in The Straits Times, ‘Is a degree really all-important?‘, it was reported that, “A diploma holder’s average starting salary is $2,000, while that of a degree holder is $3,000. So the difference is $1,000 at the starting line. The gap widens further over their working life. There are no up-to-date figures, but a 2007 study by the Ministry of Manpower showed that every extra year of schooling increases a worker’s earnings by 13.7%. The rate is higher for tertiary education.”
But not only that, over a person’s working life, the diploma holder is more likely to earn lesser and lesser, as compared to a degree holder.
In Chart 17, you can see that by age 60, a degree holder would earn a higher wage than what he/she did at 25.
However, for a diploma holder, his/her wage at 60 would on average, become lesser than it was at 25 (Chart 18).
So, a degree isn’t important, Khaw said?
If the government sincerely believes that a degree isn’t important, then wages have to be brought up to parity, so that regardless of what job you do, you will receive a wage that is commensurate to the cost of living in Singapore.
Question is, will this happen – under Singapore’s elitism-driven meritocracy?
Tan Chuan-Jin: Wages Have Remained Stagnant. Government Kept Wages Depressed
Not only that, Acting Manpower Minister Tan Chuan-Jin had admitted, “that entry-level salaries had been stagnant for five years”. The Straits Times had reported that, “In 2007, the median monthly gross starting pay for a local university graduate was $2,750 … Last year, it was $3,050, up almost 11%. Yet cumulative inflation over the same period was 21% – meaning that in real terms, starting pay actually fell 10%.”
If you look at the news releases by the Hay Group (Chart 19), average salaries for diploma graduates had risen from $1,743 in 2009 to $1,799 in 2011 – or had hovered around $1,800. For degree graduates, this has risen from $2,433 in 2009 to $2,593 in 2011 – or had hovered around $2,500.
Tan had said that “salaries had been stagnant for five years”. Do you know why? The real reason why is because the qualifying salary for an S Pass had been kept at $1,800 and that for an Employment Pass had been kept at $2,500 for several years. In effect, the government has pegged the S Pass to a diploma holder and the Employment Pass to a degree holder.
The real reason entry-level salaries have stagnated? – the government allowed it to. They had maintained the qualifying salaries rigidly at a fixed amount, even as inflation and prices have increased, and the cost of living has increased. Employers are thus not motivated to offer higher salaries to local graduates when they can hire foreigners at a chronically depressed rate.
The government should have increased the qualifying salaries year-on-year, adjusted for inflation and the cost of living – as they have done for the increases for our CPF and Medisave minimum sums. Now, if the government has the foresight to see the need to increase the minimum sums to account for inflation, why not the qualifying salaries? Lack of foresight? I doubt so. In the first place, a policy pegged to a rigid salary structure would necessarily contain the growth of the wages of the people.
The Real Reason Why The Government Won’t Increase Wage Share
MTI had surmised that, “A more meaningful discussion on how to raise wage levels in Singapore should thus focus on tangible measures such as on-going efforts to raise productivity across the economy (e.g., through skills upgrading and job restructuring) and policies to encourage employers to share these gains with employees, rather than on wage shares.”
But what productivity is MTI talking about when Singapore has one of the lowest productivity growth (GDP per hour worked) among the developed countries (Chart 20)?
In fact, “while Singapore had the second highest level of GDP per capita, it had a relatively low level of GDP per hour worked (or productivity) (Chart 21). The difference is related to Singapore having the highest average annual hours worked per employed person and the highest employment-to-population ratio of all countries covered.”
But perhaps the most damning criticism of MTI’s survey comes from an article within MTI itself, ‘Productivity and Wage Growth in Singapore‘, which had said that, “In recent years, however, falling relative output prices has dampened the translation of productivity growth to real wage growth for residents.”
The report had also said that, “Indeed, if we examine the relationship between productivity and the real median wages of residents in Singapore, we find that it is weaker than that between productivity and the real average wages of residents (Chart 22). You can see that real median incomes (green line) grew slower than productivity (full black line).
The report surmised that, “this suggests that there are distributional concerns in Singapore, and that more effort will be needed to ensure that the fruits of productivity gains do not just benefit the average worker but also workers at the lower end of the income spectrum.”
But the whole truth about why wage share has been maintained at a low level? The Department of Statistics report in 1998, ‘Income Components of GDP: Trends and Analysis‘, will reveal it all.
According to the report, in 1997, “remuneration (wages and salaries) is the second largest income component of GDP, comprising nearly 43% of GDP at current market prices.” And so, why doesn’t the government want to increase the wage share of GDP? Because “a sustained increase in the share of remuneration tends to raise the cost of production, which will have an adverse impact on competitiveness.”
In fact, “a rising remuneration share preceded the recession (in 1985) and the slowdown (in 1992) (Chart 23). An article on AsiaOne, ‘First World country, but not First World wages?‘ (via Diary of a Singaporean Mind) explained that, “in 1980, the wage share was a low 38%, climbing to a peak of 48% in 1985, due to high wage policies during that high-growth period. But recession hit in the mid-1980s, and the high wage policies were seen as adding to the severity of the situation as they eroded the profitability of companies.”
The government had believed that, “this eroded the profitability of Singapore companies.” It continued to say that, “however, in recent years between 1993 and 1997, Singapore companies have been successful in moderating increases in wages and salaries. Remuneration share has therefore been maintained at a relatively stable level of around 42%.”
Finally, the report surmised to say that, “wage restraint will help to control wage costs and avoid substantial decline in this ratio. This will ensure that businesses operating in Singapore continue to be profitable.”
So, the real reason why wage share of GDP remained low? Profits – the government wants to make money, and not only that, but money at the expense of the people. In 1998, right before the government embarked on a path to depress the wages of Singaporeans, the government had analysed that the best way for them to increase their profits is to marginalise Singaporeans’ pay.
(If you are interested to see how the profits of some of the Singapore companies perform with what the rising prices that the government is making you pay, you can read this article here.)
PAP Has Not Performed for Past 3 Elections. It’s Time for Change.
Now, do you know why our wages have remained stagnant? Now, do you know why our wages have not grown and things have become more and more expensive?
Do you believe it when the government had said time and again that they had no control over wages, that they were left helpless? Nonsense. Utter nonsense. This government knows how to control our wages. They had known how to since the mid-1990s but it was only from 2000 onwards that they became so efficient that could cut down on the wages of Singaporeans more effectively.
It is not because this government is incapable which had resulted in our wages diminishing. It is because this government is so capable that they knew how to grow the wealth of the richest, and then peg their salaries to the richest, so that they could share in the wealth. And the people? They suffer. We suffer.
The government’s own report in 2011 had shown how productivity isn’t increasing wages, especially for the poor. The government’s own report in 1998 showed how the government had embarked on a path to cut down on Singaporeans’ wages. All these – straight from the horse’s mouth.
This government is shrewd and cunning. It knows how to act helpless while crying wolf and acting all innocent. It’s all lies. I have poured over so much statistics that I no longer trust this government. It doesn’t care about the people but it cares about it’s own pockets. I do not know how else to put it. Our politicians are selfish people who have lined their own pockets, because they control all power in Singapore and they have taken for granted that they can do whatever they want and Singaporeans won’t bat an eyelid.
I am very clear who I will vote for at the next elections and it won’t be PAP. I do not want PAP to win the next elections because after 3 elections, they have ruined our lives, while they continue to make up stories and cry crocodile tears. All this while, while they enrich their own coffers. All this while, when the poor and elderly in Singapore suffer.
Enough is enough. At the next general election, I know many Singaporeans and I will vote decisively against PAP. We have to put in a government which will work for the people and care for the people.
Enough is enough.
If you might be asking about what the solution might be to achieve wage parity, this article, ‘Low-wage Lessons’, from the Centre for Economic and Policy Research in America gives a good summary – “The experience of the last few decades suggests that we have a pretty good idea of how to reduce the size of the low-wage workforce. “Inclusive” labor-market institutions that extend the pay, benefits, and working conditions negotiated by workers with significant bargaining power to workers with less bargaining power appear to be the most effective general remedy for low-wage work. The specifics can take many forms, from extending collective bargaining agreements to cover workers who are not themselves members of unions, to setting a minimum wage at or near the threshold for low-wage work. Greater public social spending may be another way to increase the “inclusiveness” of national industrial relations systems since a generous social safety net improves the bargaining position of low-wage workers relative to their employers. The national details aside, the available cross-country data show a strong association between higher levels of inclusiveness and lower levels of low-wage work.
Mr Leong Sze Hian had also written an excellent article, ‘18 Ways to Reduce the Income Gap‘., where Mr Leong had discussed, “four key areas where new policies – or in some cases, a return to previous rules – could reduce the income gap, increase purchasing power and ensure that catastrophic illnesses do not also bankrupt families.” It is worth a read.
There are plenty of solutions for the uneven wage distribution and stagnant wage growth in Singapore. The question isn’t whether the government knows about them, but whether this government has the heart to do what’s right for the people.
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TENNESSEE RIDGE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Ridge Board of Commissioners and Mayor Stony Odom were shocked Monday night to hear that $52,000 would be donated to help add to the proposed Veterans Park, being built near Tennessee Ridge City Hall.
Tommy Mitchell of Traditions First Bank told the board the bank’s board would be donating $40,000 for playground equipment to be placed behind City Hall.
“What we’re looking to add is something much like Rotary Park,” Mitchell said. “We would very much like to work with the Veterans Park committee to add playground equipment.”
Mitchell said they had first looked into a splash pad, as several counties have, but the upkeep and utilities alone would cost the taxpayers.
The entire Veterans Park project, including walking trails, plaques with the names of veterans, benches and more than 200 trees to be planted Saturday, have all come via donation or volunteer work.
“None of this has cost the taxpayer a dime,” Odom said.
Mitchell said he envisioned parents using the walking trail while allowing their children to play in the park.
During his presentation, Frank Young, a member of the Houston County Lions Club, told Odom the club wanted to donate $12,000 toward the project as well. The club wants to donate money toward something accessible for those with disabilities, and Mitchell agreed to work with the club on the project.
“This is so very nice,” Odom said. “Words can’t describe how thankful we are and how thankful the community will be to have this park.”
Odom said the city is blessed to have so many donors and volunteers to help make the Veterans Park project a reality.
“The debt that some veterans paid … we can never repay that,” Odom said. “I think this will be something the community will be proud of.”
“We’re very lucky to live in a community where leaders such as these are here to make such a difference,” said Commissioner Darrell Allison. “We just make the decisions; these people make things happen.”
In other business, Odom said representatives of the J.D. Lewis Senior Center approached him and asked for help in securing a new building.
“We would love to have them in Tennessee Ridge,” Odom said, adding that he told them he would do all he could to help them find a building and see if they could find grants to help pay for the building.
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F22 is an ultra-thin fingerprint time attendance and access control terminal with BioID sensor and Wi-Fi, which offers unparalleled performance with advanced algorithm for reliability, precision and excellent matching speed. F22 features the fastest commercial-based fingerprint matching algorithm and ZK high-performance, high-image quality infrared detection fingerprint sensor. F22 provides a superior touching experience with touch keypad, and offers flexibility for standalone installation or with any third-party access control panel that supports standard wiegand signal. TCP/IP, RS485 and Wi-Fi are also available that the device can be used in different networks.
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Dear Human Beings,
A letter from Shay
It's 2017 and I can see so many amazing women taking steps into achieving their goals. One of my goals is to host many lifestyle events that get people out of their comfort zones and to leave people feeling motivated, inspired and open to take on life. Dear Humans With Love is the tribe of humans that care about other humans and for my birthday I really want to give the gift of laughter, love and motivation to you ladies.
It is my first event, I really am just figuring this whole thing out but I have put a lot of money, time and creative planning into the day. It may not be perfect, but the energy will be pure and I can promise you that the brunch and decor will be amazing.
I need you, all of you. I hope to see your beautiful face next weekend, Sat 11th of February 2017.
P.S - It's my birthday!
P.S.S - I need you all to make my day extra special, please!
Shay RS x
So I have been a little off schedule but all for a great cause of MY DAMN BIRTHDAY. I have been super busy working, preparing for our event next week and getting my life together. Thank you so much for all of the support as always, It literally makes my life. Let me get straight in to what Soul Full, So Full is...
I am aiming to feed the soul, minds and hungry bellies of all of you amazing women. I am going to feed you with Positivity, Knowledge, Confidence, Jerk chicken, Avocado Salads and much much more.
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For me it is a confidence thing, I don’t really start up conversations or ask people about themselves. That is one my faults, I am bad at networking and talking to people most of time, tell me I am not the only one who feels this way. It’s crazy because we are all struggling with the same things and praying for the same sunny days.
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Dates to remember:
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Seeing Stockholm from the water is a must. Take a short boat tour or book a longer excursion and enjoy nearly 30 000 islands, islets and rocks.
The Stockholm archipelago offers a wide range of experiences. Bike or hike along a nature trail or have a picnic on the cliffs. Explore uninhabited islets as well as islands with new communities and ancient villages, where large houses and small cottages stand side by side.
Regular boat services serve most of the larger islands, and many of the tours depart directly from Stockholm city center and take you to the outer archipelago and open sea. Buses and most boats run all year round, although more frequently during the summer.
Go island hopping! One of the many ways to experience the Stockholm archipelago is to travel by ferry from island to island. Lapping waves, sunny rock ledges, and unparalleled scenery await you.
There are many different lodging options on the islands. Camp, stay at hostels or check into hotels. In less than an hour, you can get to the closest spots and still experience that true archipelago feeling. Fjäderholmarna or Vaxholm for example.
Fjäderholmarna, Stockholm's closest archipelago island has a lot to offer, only 30 minutes from the city. Enjoy true archipelago atmosphere. Relax on the sunbathed cliffs, visit the museum for old ships or the craftsmen. Here you will find glassblowers, pottery makers, smiths and small shops selling interior decorations and handicrafts. There are several places to eat and drink on the island.
The archipelago ferries depart from Nybrokajen or Strömkajen.
Gröna Stockholm Archipelago
Invisible App Zone
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By Eric Thomas: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum is interested in working with the high powered manager Al Haymon, who he currently has a lawsuit out on. Arum is open to working with Haymon right now, and he specifically has two fights he’d like to make at this time if there’s mutual interest. Arum would like to match his fighter WBO light welterweight champion Terence Crawford against Haymon’s fighter WBA 140lb champion Adrien Broner in a unification fight.
Further, Arum would also like to match his guy, WBO welterweight champion Jessie Vargas, against Haymon’s fighter WBC welterweight champion Danny Garcia in a unification fight at 147. Whether Haymon is interested in either of those fights is unclear. Crawford and Vargas, although champions, are not big names and don’t have a large following. They not pay-per-view fights or even close to being pay-per-view fights. The chances are that Crawford and Vargas will never be PPV fighters.
“I’m not making a war, I’ll fight any of their guys, any of their guys. They want to make matches, and we have Terence Crawford, Adrien Broner wants to fight Terence Crawford, I’m happy to do it,” Arum said to Fighthype.com. “For me, it’s possible. I am only one side. Man, I’m not kidding, I’m not playing games. They want a guy, they want [Danny] Garcia to fight Jessie Vargas, I’d do it tomorrow.”
While you can make an argument that Danny Garcia would have to be favored against a limited fighter like Jessie Vargas, you can’t make that same argument about Broner in a fight against Crawford. Browne has already been exposed twice by Marcos Maidana and Shawn Porter. It’s pretty clear from watching those two fights that Broner has to be matched carefully in order to keep him from losing again.
Crawford would likely be a clear favorite if he were matched against Broner. Danny Garcia would probably be the favorite against Vargas. However, Arum still comes out ahead in a Garcia vs. Vargas fight, because it’s a match that would increase the popularity of Vargas even if he lost the fight.
“For me there’s no problem. For them, it seems to be a problem. They can solve their problem by getting on the phone, they know my number, and calling me up and we’d make the fight,” said Arum. “I’m making an attempt fight now! I’m willing! They want to fight Crawford, give me Broner. They want to fight this kid Vargas, give me Danny Garcia. Just ‘I’m ready to do it, Al!’ I’m ready to do it.”
I hope the 84-year-old Arum isn’t holding his breath while waiting by the phone for Haymon to call him to make those two fights, because I do not see that happening. Haymon likely isn’t going to bother contacting Arum to work with him. What this means is that Arum loses out because he doesn’t have anyone to match against Crawford and Vargas.
Arum will likely match Vargas against Tim Bradley later this year, but there’s only so many times Arum can force feed the boxing fights between those two fighters. Arum is talking about wanting to match Crawford against Ruslan Provodnikov next. Provodnikov has lost two out of his last four fights.
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Waiting for news
Crowds outside the police office 1953
Waiting to be evacuated. Crowds at the police office at the Council Offices, some with bags packed waiting for the mass evacuation after the floods that devastated Canvey in 1953. Were you there, can you tell us more. Please comment below.
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We spend a large part of our lives behind the wheel, running up hundreds of miles a month commuting to jobs, running errands and taking pleasure trips.
But many drivers may forget a basic truth: Driving probably puts our lives in greater peril on a day-to-day basis than any other activity.
Five driver activities are more likely than any others to result in fatal accidents, according to statistics from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
These behaviors also pose financial risks, often resulting in an expensive ticket and a corresponding hike in your car insurance rates.
5. Distracted driving (using phone, talking, eating): 6.6 percent of fatal crashes
Distractions are an inevitable part of modern life, but they're especially dangerous for drivers. In recent years, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has sounded the alarm about cellphone usage.
A 2014 IIHS study found that drivers who interact with cellphones have a 17 percent higher risk of crashing. Interestingly, the risk was most associated with reaching for, answering or dialing the cellphone, not actual conversation.
Other distracting activities that pose a major risk include:
- Adjusting a radio.
- Eating and drinking.
- Interacting with passengers.
Premium increase after infraction: 27 percent (careless driving)
A February 2015 survey by insuranceQuotes.com found that a careless driving infraction can cause your car insurance rates to jump an average of 27 percent.
"The No. 1 step drivers can take is to not use a cellphone -- handheld or hands-free," says Deborah Trombley, senior program manager of transportation initiatives at the National Safety Council (NSC).
4. Failure to yield the right of way: 7.1 percent of fatal crashes
Drivers have an obligation to yield the right of way in certain situations. But these rules are often poorly understood.
According to the American Safety Council, the most misunderstood rule is the need to yield to anything to your right -- such as other cars, pedestrians and bicycles.
There are other situations where you're expected to yield, including when you encounter:
- Emergency vehicles.
- A "yield" sign.
Premium increase after infraction: 19 percent (failure to yield)
Failure to yield could cost you a hefty amount with your insurer.
Trombley says young, inexperienced teen drivers often misjudge gaps in traffic and turn too soon in front of other vehicles.
older drivers are also at high risk of failing to properly yield, due to changes in their vision and cognitive abilities that make it more difficult to handle the complexities of making decisions at intersections.
3. Failure to keep in the proper lane: 8.3 percent of fatal crashes
When a driver is tired or distracted, it's easy to creep into an adjacent lane, or even to veer toward going off the road altogether. Such lapses can lead to dangerous and even fatal accidents.
New technology may help lower the risk of these types of infractions in the future. Lane-departure warning systems use camera technology to alert drivers when they stray across lane markings.
Premium increase after infraction: 18 percent (driving in the carpool lane)
One way to see your premium increase is to intentionally drive in the wrong lane -- such as zipping over into the carpool lane even if you don't meet the requirements to be there. If the police catch you, you may face a hike in your insurance rates
But even if you veer out of your lane unintentionally and end up in an accident, your rates may increase as well.
There are three aspects to driving without distractions -- keep your mind on driving, keep your eyes on the road and keep your hands on the wheel," Trombley says.
2. Driving under the influence of alcohol, drugs or medication: 13.5 percent of fatal crashes
It's no secret that the combination of alcohol and driving can lead to disastrous consequences.
In 2013, about 10,000 people were killed in crashes where alcohol was a factor, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That represented almost one-third of all traffic-related deaths.
Premium increase after infraction: 92 percent (DUI/DWI)
Driving under the influence is more likely to send your insurance rates skyrocketing than any other behavior, according to the insuranceQuotes study.
There's ample evidence that someone who has driven after drinking once -- and been arrested for doing so -- will engage in this criminal behavior again," says Michael Barry, spokesman for the Insurance Information Institute.
1. Driving too fast: 19.9 percent of fatal crashes
Speeding is a factor in one-third of all motor vehicle crash deaths," says Russ Rader, spokesman for the IIHS.
If we could address our national speeding problem, it would go a long way toward reducing the 30,000-plus deaths that occur in road crashes each year," he adds.
Premium increase after infraction: 21 percent (speeding 1-15 mph over the limit)
Get caught speeding, and your insurance company is likely to make you pay. But somehow, the desire to speed outweighs our fear of the consequences.
People usually don't see speeding as a big deal," Rader says.
Rader says statistics show a clear link between lower speed limits and reductions in road deaths.
Vigorous and well-publicized enforcement of speed limits is necessary if states hope to reduce speeding, Rader says.
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Some time ago, encryption-based messaging app Telegram introduced the concept of stickers to their program. While emojis have their purpose in casual communication, stickers have a graphical edge and allow the use of more special-purpose images.
In 2018, Facebook’s instant messaging application WhatsApp also implemented the feature too much fanfare. This is because the user base was quite elated to know that they were granted the privilege of using stickers in WhatsApp.
What Is a Sticker?
Put simply, stickers are a special type of image that can be used in tandem with your text-based messages to offer a more dynamic base than emojis. Before the feature was implemented, third party applications had to be used to attach them to messages, however, now that native support for them is built into the application, this limitation has been removed. Below is an outline of how stickers are used in the application.
How to Use a Sticker?
Using stickers in WhatsApp is a very simple operation once you’re familiar with the steps involved.
1) Open WhatsApp and select the required chat – This one is self-explanatory, however, it’s important to know that they cannot be sent in bulk and must be sent from within a chat whether individual or otherwise.
2) Navigate to the sticker section – This is the most complex part of the operation and even it is a very simple task. First you need to access the image menu, which consists of smiley, GIF, and sticker options. To access this menu from within a chat, click on the smiley icon located to the left of the chat bar. Once you do this, the program opens the emjoi menu providing you with various emoji options. However, you are interested in stickers. If you look at the bottom of the screen in the center, there are three icons that denote emojis, GIFs, and stickers respectively. Just in case you’re unsure, the sticker icon is the one that looks like a piece of paper with a folded edge. Tapping this icon leads to the sticker selection area.
3) Choose your sticker – The final step is to choose whichever sticker fits into your conversation.
Downloading Additional Stickers
Unlike the emoji selection area, the sticker area seems a bit short when you initially use it. You may wonder why the sticker choices are so limited. This is by design for storage conservation purposes and for separation from third-party content.
However, it is very easy to get to a wider range of stickers on demand. Upon navigation to the sticker selection area, instead of choosing a sticker you can click on the plus sign to the right. This brings you to the sticker download area where stickers are arranged by category for your downloading pleasure. To the right of each grouping, there is a download icon.
Simply click on the download icon, wait a couple moments, and look for the icon’s change to a tick. This indicates the sticker has been downloaded. You can now return to your chat and proceed to use your new set of stickers.
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PLEASE NOTE: THERE IS A 14-21 DAY LEAD TIME ON ALL iMOP ACCESSORIES.
Tough composite dirty-water extraction tank, which is compact and handy enough to empty at the sink, with a 9-litre capacity. Easily clipped on and detached.
Standard mainland UK delivery (Courier) £6.99
Deliveries will be despatched in the order that they are received. Orders within Mainland UK will be sent using a courier company, and will normally take 2 - 3 working days from receipt of order.
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Colombian Artesanies Foundation has received the support of many committed individuals and
groups since we started up in 2012. We are grateful to all who have given us the benefit of their expertise, their moral support and tireless fundraising, and of course donations big and small
that have enabled us to reach out to the most disadvantaged Wayuu population. Together, we are committed to achieving our goal of alleviating poverty and improving the life quality in this
communities by working long-term with the wayuu kids and their families.
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A few months ago I received a message from a professor at the Khomeini Institute for Education and Research in Tehran, Iran, informing me that my 2010 book “War and Empire: The American Way of Life” (London, Pluto Press) had been translated into Farsi. He requested that I write an Introduction for Iranian readers. What follows is that Introduction. Two years ago the Xinhua Peoples’ Press in Beijing, China also published a translation in Mandarin.
In the aftermath of Saddam Hussein’s 1991 attempt to annex Kuwait the U.S. deliberately destroyed much of Iraq’s water and sewer infrastructure. The Pentagon even admitted on its website that these acts would lead to mass outbreaks of disease. These were certifiable war crimes under international law. After Saddam’s defeat the U.S. also imposed widespread sanctions on his regime that included preventing necessary medicines from reaching Iraq. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi citizens perished as a result. In an infamous interview in 1996 Madeleine Albright, then the Secretary of State, was asked to justify the deaths of 500,000 children. She defended these atrocities by saying “I think this is a very hard choice but we think the price is worth it.” Twenty-one years have elapsed since Albright uttered her rationalization of this vicious barbarity and it has been virtually “disappeared” from the collective memory of Americans. But it is far from being the only one.
Today much the same is being visited upon the children of Mosul, Syria and Yemen. Fifty thousand more marines are slated for deployment to Afghanistan and the new Defense Secretary’s bellicose rhetoric threatens Iran.
When I undertook to write this book I could not imagine that it would ever be translated into Farsi or Mandarin Chinese. Over the course of my teaching career I had become increasingly concerned about the vacancy of knowledge about their nation’s past on the part of my students and by extension many millions of my fellow American citizens. This condition of ignorance is the effect of the incomplete and, too often, dishonest orthodoxy in required school texts and by the distortion of the real past by popular culture, Hollywood films and corporate controlled network television, especially the purported “news.” George Orwell was correct. “Who controls the present controls the past.” What the majority of Americans are conditioned to think they know about their past (and that of many other peoples) is myth, and too often, sheer illusion. Misdirection and manipulation about proclaimed threats from abroad since 1945 has led directly into wars and unjust armed interventions and coups in many other nations. The results are always tragic on a colossal scale.
None of this is accidental or new. Since the end of World War II the U.S. ruling elites have set forth an agenda claimed to foster what they call a “liberal world order” in which democracy and human rights for all are the declared goals. But little about real U.S. actions in the world supports these claims. Washington has overthrown elected governments and waged catastrophic war upon helpless civilians in many nations since 1945. The public is told that national security and “vital interests” are at stake and the corporate controlled media ensure that key realities are omitted, or distorted. It is no secret that today much of the human species is living in existential crisis-whether from war, economic exploitation or dire effects of climate change- and the profound ignorance about how the past shapes the present is a major factor in our failure to fashion a more peaceful and beneficial future. This volume is simply an attempt to illuminate much of the hidden history of the United States in the hope that more citizens in the United States will realize that we cannot continue on this destructive path and must find a way to cooperate with other nations instead of seeking to dominate them or outcompete them in a self-defeating contest for diminishing resources. Many American officials pay lip service to international cooperation but they really mean collaboration with the overarching American agenda.
The words of those who have formulated the grand strategy for American global dominance since the U.S. emerged as the most militarily dominant nation after WWII must be taken seriously but desires for global dominance were evident long before. Consider the oft-quoted language of George F. Kennan, the U.S. State Department’s architect of the Cold War with the Soviet Union immediately after World War II. In a top secret document circulated only to other key officials he took notice of the fact that the American population was (in 1948) only 6.3% of the world’s but that the U.S. effectively controlled about 50% of the world’s resources. The object of U.S. policy, he declared, should be to maintain that disparity and employ “straight power tactics” to enforce this global inequality, while avoiding all rhetoric about commitment to human rights, raising other peoples’ living standards, democratization and the like. Kennan’s vision, coupled with the U.S. creation of the World Bank and International Monetary fund, anticipated a globalized economy under firm control by American and allied European banks and industries, and backed by American firepower.
Much closer in time to the present is the comprehensive plan for complete American dominance of the planet projected in brutally frank and exacting detail by former national security chief Zbigniev Brzezinsky in his book, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geo-strategic Imperatives.
Eurasia is the globe’s largest continent and is geopolitically axial. A power that dominates Asia would dominate two of the three most advanced and economically productive regions. A mere glance at the map also suggests that control over Eurasia would almost automatically entail Africa’s subordination…About 75 percent of the world’s people live in Eurasia and most of the world’s wealth is there as well…Eurasia accounts for about three-fourths of the world’s energy resources.
Upon assuming the presidency of the U.S. in 2001 George W. Bush filled his administration with so called Neo-Conservatives, members of the Project for a New American Century, who, with their allies in the Pentagon, called for nothing less than “full spectrum dominance” of planet Earth. Exploiting the hysteria mounted in the U.S. after the events of September 11, 2001 Bush II then proceeded to call for all-out war against what he termed the “axis of evil.” General Wesley Clark, a 2004 Democratic Party candidate for president, later revealed that the Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld Administration had secret plans all along to overthrow the governments of Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Somalia and Sudan, and “finish off” Iran. All that was needed was a “new Pearl Harbor” and the events of September 11, 2001 provided that pretext, launching a state of permanent war primarily against the Muslim world.
Citizens of the U.S., like myself, who have long studied these matters and have opposed our nation’s imperial policies know that what these men, and many others like them, have proposed is exactly what they accused Nazi Germany and Communist Russia of attempting. Of course, proponents of what the first Bush deemed the “New World Order” in 1991 allege that this American imperium will constitute a radical departure from past empires and will instead usher in and guarantee a new age of democracy and human rights for all humanity. They assert this even as their bombs and those of their allies shatter the lives literally of millions in the Islamic world.
The U.S. began its history as a colony of the early British Empire and an outpost of nascent capitalism though this essential fact is de-emphasized in standard accounts in favor of the claim that the primary incentive for the colonial project was “freedom of religion.” The earliest British colonies in North America, Virginia and Massachusetts, were established as joint-stock companies, precursors of the modern corporation, to return profits to the mother country from resources of fish, game, furs, lumber and later, tobacco, cotton and the industries that followed. Acquisition of these valued assets required the conquest, displacement or extermination of the native populations already living here. The name, Massachusetts, for example, the state where I live, is all that remains of the people who once inhabited the area of what is now Boston. Later, the profits derived from forcible acquisition of the land, and the slave labor to cultivate it underwrote the industrial revolution and this catapulted the United States into position as the richest nation on earth and soon the militarily most powerful.
Only a century after breaking away from British rule the United States itself leapt upon the stage of empire to compete with other Europeans for dominance in the world, taking the former Spanish colonies of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam by force, and annexing Hawaii. Brooks Adams, the descendant of two presidents, exulted that “this war is the first gun in the battle for ownership of the world.” In the Senate Albert Beveridge proclaimed that “The power that rules the Pacific rules the world.”
U.S. entry into both World Wars and all subsequent armed interventions is almost always mystified and characterized as a defense of democracy and human rights. In no case was American national security remotely threatened if by that we mean the vulnerability to invasion and military defeat.
Since the end of World War II the United States has waged numerous full scale wars and many smaller conflicts in the name of national security and claims of principle and high ideals. Americans are unremittingly habituated to believe Madeleine Albright’s all-encompassing contention that the United States is “the indispensable nation.” The end result of our actions has been many millions dead, maimed, reduced to penury, and desolated with grief. Americans are encouraged to see ourselves as humanitarians yet the widespread denial of our collective responsibility for the raw misery for those on the receiving end of our military firepower is nothing less than indefensible.
Until WWII the U.S. was perceived, if not exactly as a benevolent friend of Muslim peoples, at least it was not yet seen as one more imperial power set upon exploiting the greater Middle East. This positive estimation changed virtually the moment that war ended and the regional shift toward virulent anti-Americanism originated in Iran.
During World War II Iran had been co-occupied by Soviet, British and American troops. The Allies violated Iran’s declared neutrality because they thought that the country’s ruler, Reza Shah, was too friendly with Nazi Germany and they wished to use Iranian territory to transship supplies from the Persian Gulf to the USSR. The British owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (now British Petroleum) had virtually monopolized production and profits from the industry and the Allies also wanted to prevent the country’s oil reserves from potential access by Germany. The three nations had agreed to withdraw from Iran within six months after the war’s end. In March of 1946 Soviet troops had still not withdrawn and Washington claimed that this was evidence of Stalin’s desire to expand communism and threaten the entire region. The reality was that the Soviet Union had suffered immense damage from the war and needed energy supplies to rebuild. Russians wanted some guarantee from Iran that they could purchase a certain quota of Iranian oil for this purpose and sought to gain an oil concession in the Azerbaijani region of Iran, which bordered the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan. Washington and the Iranian government feared that the Soviets might act to annex the territory when Iranian Azerbaijanis declared a separate republic. President Truman later claimed that he threatened the USSR with American military intervention. The U.S. State Department advised the Iranian prime minister, Ahmad Qavam, to negotiate and when Iran accepted the oil concession the Red Army withdrew. However, the Iranian parliament, the Majlis, later disavowed the agreement.
These actions undertaken by Washington constituted the first direct American intervention in the Middle East as well as the first skirmish of the post-WWII Cold War. Anti-Soviet rhetoric claimed that the Soviet Union was bent on “world conquest” and pointed to the occupation of Eastern Europe by the Red Army. Omitted was all mention of the fact that as Nazi Germany had marched through the nations of Eastern Europe it had subjected their governments and made them allies. Then many waged war themselves against the USSR. Thus, the Red Army was occupying those nations for the same reason the United States and Britain were occupying Germany, Austria and Italy. American elites had plans for the reconstruction of Europe that would reintegrate the entire region into a revived capitalist order under American authority and communist Russia’s occupation of Eastern Europe was seen to obstruct those goals. No consideration was given to the very real security concerns that the Soviets had, especially about their eastern borders from whence twice in the early 20th Century they had been invaded.
In fact, Russian non-actions at the time, not only with respect to Iran, indicated exactly the opposite of what Washington wanted the world to believe. The Red Army could easily have re-entered Iranian territory after the Majlis reneged on the oil concession and there was nothing, short of the atomic bomb that could have dislodged them. But it did not. Within a few years Soviet troops also withdrew from Austria and Manchuria quite in contradiction to the American assertion that they were intent on global conquest. There was no evidence whatever of Soviet designs to expand beyond what it declared to be its security zone in Eastern Europe. The U.S. had committed itself to an adversarial relationship with its former ally, in the absence of which the Nazis would never have been defeated, and it had initiated its long-term intervention into the internal affairs of Iran and many other nations, which, of course, continue to this day.
When the Shah was overthrown in 1979 few Americans had any sense of why this occurred, especially because most journalists supinely omitted any reportage of crimes committed by the “king of kings” against the Iranian people. The public had been conditioned to believe for decades that Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi was a benevolent sovereign, beloved by his people, a staunch ally of the United States, and a pillar of stability in the region. Most had no sense that the Shah was installed by the Central Intelligence Agency when it conspired with other Iranians to topple the elected government of Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953 because he had the temerity to insist that the oil resources of his nation were the birthright of the Iranian people rather than the property of western oil companies. The public had no understanding of how brutal the Shah’s dictatorship was in fact and no comprehension of the role Washington had played in enabling his feared secret police, the SAVAK, to terrorize all Iranians who objected to his policies. To the extent that the general public took any notice at all of Iran they accepted the claim that the Shah was America’s “policeman in the Gulf,” aiding the United States in its efforts to “contain” the threat of the Soviet Union.
The real menace to the interests of American corporate elites emanated from the upsurge in nationalism among all peoples around the globe who had been victims of western colonialism. World War II effectively finished Europe’s empires and nations from Indonesia, Vietnam, India, to Kenya, Congo, Guatemala, Cuba, Chile and many others were rising in the post-war period to obtain independence, and who, like Iran in the early 1950s, sought to nationalize their resources. From the perspective of the would-be American overlords this was their cardinal sin. Such appropriations of national reserves like Vietnam’s independence movement, Egypt’s nationalization of the Suez Canal, Mossadegh’s actions, or Qassim’s appropriations of oil in Iraq in 1956, if successfully carried out and allowed to stand, would have thwarted the grand strategy of the U.S. to exert American corporate control over such assets, markets and cheaper foreign labor and the immense profits that would acrue to American industrial and banking giants. Since communist ideology also promoted national independence for western colonies intense government and media propaganda convinced the American citizenry that resistance to the American agenda and global turmoil was all the work of the Soviet devil.
Even before WWII ended key members of the ruling elite sought preventive measures against a return to depression and mass unemployment. Sixteen million veterans were returning to civilian life. Would they face renewed unemployment and soup kitchens as so many had in the Great Depression of the 1930s? The director of war production, who had formerly been chief executive officer of the General Electric Company, a giant in what President Dwight Eisenhower would later designate the “Military-Industrial Complex,” argued that the U.S. needed a “permanent war economy.” Many of the massive corporations that now dominate the American political economy either grew exponentially during WWII or got their start as a result of government contracts financed by new taxation and borrowing. Only such massive government intervention put citizens back to work or in the military regiments. Given the nature of capitalism few among elite decision makers in the postwar could imagine restructuring such production to meet purely domestic purposes primarily because there was less profit to be made. War or the manufactured threat of war is the lifeblood of the military corporations and their financiers.
Thus the ally that had been indispensable in the defeat of Nazism overnight became the new menace to American national security, despite the fact that the USSR had suffered upwards of 30 million deaths and its principal cities lay in ruins. From that moment on the “Cold War” became the ideological organizing touchstone of American society. Even then many citizens resisted the new precepts. Henry Wallace, who had been vice president under Roosevelt, led the popular movement for cooperation between the two post-war giants but he was reviled by the high priests of political orthodoxy as a “fellow traveler” of the communists, as were any who dissented from the new agenda.
Inside the inner sanctum of the new “National Security State” a top secret document, NSC-68, specified a comprehensive blueprint to militarize American society, called for a tripling of taxation to expand the military budget and achieve nuclear supremacy by creating the hydrogen bomb. Even so the populace resisted until in the words of Secretary of State Dean Acheson “Thank God Korea came along.” Though Acheson himself had declared that Korea was outside of America’s “defensive perimeter,” warhawks in Washington and on Wall Street declared that the civil war between Korean factions on the other side of the planet imperiled the “free world.” What actually was at risk was the new militarized superstate, and the tax guaranteed profits to the corporations embedded in the war economy. The war that followed left 3 million Koreans and 37,000 US soldiers dead, threatened China with nuclear destruction, leading the Chinese to deploy their own nukes in short order.
To cite only some cases, from 1947 to the present the United States has intervened politically or violently in Iran, China, Ukraine, Italy, Greece, Egypt, Vietnam, Guatemala, Indonesia, Congo, Cuba, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Cambodia, Laos, Chile, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, and most recently has intruded brutally in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Syria. Though internal domestic opposition to American interventions and wars has always surfaced the majority of the public historically succumbs to the incessant propaganda projected by U.S. governments of either party and their corporate allies and the media that military action is necessary for reasons of national security or to protect favored allies.
Recently “humanitarian intervention” has surfaced as justification for American deployments in Muslim countries. The doctrine’s principal exponent, former UN ambassador Samantha Power, was instrumental in toppling the Libyan regime of Muammar Qaddafi, with catastrophic results for innumerable civilians. Along with her boss Hillary Clinton, and National Security adviser Susan Rice, these “gentle” women also encouraged the Obama administration to support and arm the rebellion against the Assad regime in Syria leading to today’s incessantly violent chaos, uncountable deaths, the outflow of hundreds of thousands of refugees and the destabilization of numerous nations from Africa to Europe.
In 1991 the pretext of the communist menace disappeared with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. That brief window of peaceful cooperation closed rapidly and Russia was soon demonized again as the principal menace to “liberal order.” The Trump Administration won election in great part because it promised a more cooperative relationship with Russia, one of the only ray’s of light in that dismal campaign. But what is now termed the American “deep state” is fostering a renewed condition of militarized tension with that nation. Trump also promised millions that he would renew the American economy and bring back jobs for millions who feel betrayed and impoverished by the flight of investment capital overseas in search of cheaper labor and the robotization of such industries that remain. “America First” is Trump’s watchword. Yet he has turned management of the U.S. economy over to the very bankers who orchestrated the swindles that led to the near collapse of the world economy in 2008.
As I write these words Trump has launched missiles at a Syrian airfield, employed the U.S.’s deadliest weapon short of nukes in Afghanistan, bombed Yemen, and sent troops to Somalia. His Secretary of Defense, former General James Mattis, affectionately called “mad dog” by his troops, threatens Iran, falsely accusing it of violations of the recently signed agreement on nuclear proliferation. Trump is recklessly threatening North Korea, potentially creating an extreme risk of a nuclear event that would certainly also engage China. He has called for an increase in military spending that by itself is almost larger than the entire military budget of any other country. Despite promises of prosperity for all the taxes to fund all this will fall on the shoulders of the broad American middle class and generations to come, not on the giant corporations that are all but tax exempt- as it appears Trump himself has been for decades. Rather than sanely reducing the risk of war as he promised his presidency looks increasingly worrying. As his foreign policies take shape they are indistinguishable from those of his Democratic Party opponents and the global dominance doctrines of Bush’s neo-conservatives. They are all fated to fail and unless derailed ensure yet more widespread war and suffering.
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Seems like the new year comes around and I am motivated to use EFT to move beyond where I was before. I have been watching many different EFT videos on Youtube, but love to fall back on my old reliable (and very pleasant to look at 😀 ) Brad Yates.
This morning I tapped along to two of Brad’s videos to get my day started off on the right foot.
Tap O’ the Mornin’ with Brad Yates
Have an Amazing Day
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You never ever know when you will require the providers of a plumber since your heating and air conditioning installations can fall short anytime without having warning. The very same is correct for clogging of drains and drinking water line leakages. Possessing entry to a reliable plumbing services supplier can assist you deal with this kind of demanding scenarios easily particularly when breakdown of solutions take place at odd hours.
Regional plumbers are your best bet in this sort of problems because they will be ready to achieve out to your location more rapidly. Since they function in the vicinity, they will be far better equipped to recognize the situation far better and offer the necessary resources and providers in the shortest achievable time.
Most plumbers have an hourly rate for their services. Usually this time begins from the time they get your get in touch with. Possessing the providers of a neighborhood plumber will ensure that they invest considerably less time on traveling and more on tackling the difficulty on hands. It is a smart concept to compare the hourly rates of reliable regional plumbers. Of program the high quality of companies supplied have to also depend simply because a low-cost plumber who does not have the specialized experience to evaluate and deal with the dilemma can consider a lot more time than an specialist who charges somewhat increased.
Your local plumber need to have the experience in tackling all sorts of plumbing related troubles. They must be certified and have the relevant certification from the proper authorities. Boiler repairs Bracknell ought to have the back again up of an efficient crew that is relaxed managing residential and professional plumbing and associated installations. They must also be qualified in managing issues connected to air-conditioning, heating techniques and new and old plumbing installations so that all your plumbing related issues are handled effectively by one team and there is no want to get in touch with in diverse businesses.
There are a few other approaches in which you can lessen the time your local plumber will devote at your spot. Try out to assess the issue by yourself and make a listing of the troubles which you consider could be the trigger of the problem. This can assist your plumber get the required data proper away as an alternative of paying time looking around evaluating the scenario. Of system, they will want to make their possess assessment to do a proper repair task but your input can help them pace up the assessment component of the task.
The occurrence of issues can be minimized if you make sure routine maintenance of your plumbing installations from time to time. The want to call your nearby plumber will be minimized substantially.
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I have been, or can be if you click on a link and make a purchase, compensated via a cash payment, gift, or something else of value for writing this post. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers.
Amanda Orson (aka Phillian) and Ad Hustler (aka… Ad Hustler) presented at Affiliate Summit West 2011 on Local Lead Generation. This was one of the best-received sessions at Affiliate Summit, based on the non-scientific Twitter chatter I was monitoring.
They started by throwing some facts at the audience about how 90% of purchases are made within 20 miles of the consumer’s home, and that 75% of new vehicle buyers began with internet-based research.
There is little competition in local lead generation, so it can be an attractive means for an internet marketer to make a buck.
Currently, local businesses are spending their money with print (newspaper, phone book), radio, cable, direct mail, and outdoor advertising. But, as we know, it’s difficult, if not impossible, to track the ROI on these media purchases.So why aren’t companies doing internet lead generation themselves? They have little or no knowledge about the Internet, it’s too complicated, they can’t afford the testing, and most don’t even know where to start.
As an internet marketer, you can get your traffic from paid search, organic search, the content network, Facebook ads, or media buys (independent or network). Ad Hustler and Amanda recommend dayparting, as most people who are doing local search are doing so during the day.
There was a conversation on building a landing page versus sending the traffic directly to the client’s website. With a landing page, you have more control (over tracking, split-testing, etc) and if you lose the client contract, you can sign a new client and sell the leads to them. However, sending traffic to the client website directly could give you the advantage of the domain’s age and better quality score for PPC.
In local lead generation, tracking has to be done over both e-mail leads and phone calls. With e-mail, you can start with simple mail forwarders but if things really pick up, you’ll want a database keeping track of things.
However, phone tracking requires a bit more. You can use a service such as Hosted Numbers (I previously wrote a post on how to track calls for local lead gen) for tracking these calls. Of course, if you’re doing local lead generation, getting a local number converts much better than a toll-free one.
It’s important that your client is able to answer the phone or, if the lead comes in via e-mail, call the contact within 10 minutes. If the call-back happens later than 10 minutes after the user requested the information, 90% of the time, the sale is lost. Remember this when creating forms – if the form is submitted after-hours, let the user know this so they’re not expecting a call-back at 2am!
Amanda and Ad Hustler showed a slide with tons of proven niches, from CDFNetworks, then went on to discuss some case studies, and finally some pros & cons of local lead generation.
The business behind local lead generation was only touched on as they discussed how you could charge if you wanted to get into the business: per lead, per sale, hybrid (client pays ad spend, plus per lead), or a management fee. I wish they had time to talk a bit further about how they pick up clients (other than word of mouth, which they mentioned during the presentation) but I had a chance to have dinner with Ad Hustler, so I asked everything I wanted to know about local lead generation 🙂
Slides from this presentation are available on Amanda’s blog at www.amandaorson.com/local-lead-gen-presentation-slides
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-- WE ARE THE NEW "ALTE MITTEL" ---
The restaurant is located in the middle of the Tyrolean Alps next to the skiing slopes and we offer a cool atmosphere for our guests and our crew. During the winter season, we provide modern dishes combined with Tyrolean specialties and the best parties on the mountain.
Working at the Alte Mittel is like a city trip with friends, stressful and exciting ;)
We are usually open every day during the winter season from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm.
The restaurant is accessible by car, skies or a 45 minutes walk from the village.
Free accommodation is provided in the village in the brand new staff house.
Join our crew and enjoy working in the Tyrolean Alps!
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Department of Justice is now the Department of Communities and Justice. Find out more >
If you have applied for a default judgment for goods and you are seeking payment for their value (rather than the goods back), you may need to attend an assessment hearing at court.
If the court decides to hold an assessment hearing, you will be sent a listing notice telling you when and where you have to go to court.
If you are unsure what to do at the assessment hearing, you should get legal advice.
To find out how to prepare for an assessment hearing, follow the steps in the guide on this page.
You will need to prepare evidence that will show the value of the goods you are claiming.
When you filed your application for default judgment, you should have included in your affidavit in support, evidence about the value of the goods.
If you believe there is more information that you could provide, you should prepare a written statement or affidavit form. The court will give directions on how to file your evidence.
Depending on the type of goods and how they came into your possession, you could include information in your statement or affidavit about:
If you are unable to find second hand goods of a similar type, you should get legal advice.
For some types of goods (for example if they are rare) you may be able to get an expert to give an affidavit about the value of the goods, and how they were valued. Before getting an expert witness to write and sign an affidavit, you should get legal advice. There are special rules for using expert witnesses.
Some examples of documents that you could provide to support your claim include:
You should attach these supporting documents to your statement or affidavit as 'annexures', and refer to them.
For more information on statements or affidavits, see Affidavits, statements and statutory declarations in the Legal Skills topic of Representing Yourself.
File your statement or affidavit with the court
The court may make orders about filing your statement or affidavit and evidence, including when to file them. If you are not sure when you have to file them, it's a good idea to file them as soon as possible or contact the court.
Plan what you are going to say in court
You could use the following format:
Remember that before the hearing the assessor or magistrate will have read the documents you have filed so you don't need to repeat everything that is in your statement or affidavit.
You should make sure you get to the court at least 30 minutes before the time for your case in the Notice of Listing. When you arrive you should:
Be prepared to wait some time as other cases may be dealt with before yours. If you wait outside the courtroom make sure you are close enough to the courtroom to hear if your case is called.
The magistrate or assessor may adjourn (close) the courtroom for morning tea, usually around 11:30am, or for lunch, usually from 1:00pm to 2:00pm. You will have to leave the court room during these breaks.
If you are running late, you should call the court registry to let them know. The court may dismiss your claim if you are not in the courtroom at the time the case is listed.
Remember to turn off your mobile phone before going into the courtroom.
The defendant will not usually attend an assessment hearing where a default judgment has been awarded.
The magistrate or assessor may ask you to present your case. You should briefly:
You can speak from prepared notes. This can be helpful if you are nervous.
The magistrate or assessor may ask you some questions or ask you to explain some things in more detail. The magistrate or assessor may also ask you to move on to another point if they feel you have said enough about a certain issue or that you are speaking about something that is not relevant to the case.
The magistrate or assessor will often give their decision straight after the hearing, or after a short break. They will give reasons for their decision. They can also include a costs order against the defendant, if a lawyer is representing you at the assessment hearing.
Once you know how much money for the value of the goods you can claim from the defendant, you can enforce the judgment. For more information, see Enforcement.
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True story: Immediately upon receiving an official invite to Marie Claire's holiday party, my coworker and I slacked each other about what to wear. After some back and forth conversations (sweatpants were briefly considered), she settled on shopping for a new look.
Meanwhile, I decided I'd wear my trusty black lace jumpsuit. I've worn it to interviews, events, and past holiday parties. The ASOS one-piece is basically my own version of the LBD. I prefer a jumpsuit over the latter in the winter because it covers my legs. Pants, but make it fancy.
Instead of writing a novel about my jumpsuit, however, let me help you find one of your own to love. Ahead, I curated 11 one-pieces fancy and festive enough every holiday party you have on the calendar.
When you want to be a tad dramatic, choose this one-shoulder black jumpsuit with a high-neck design and golden embroidery. It's a modest look that will also earn you stylish compliments from your coworkers. Wear with gold heels and small earrings, so as not to compete with the suit's flashy details.
Can't decide between sleeves or no sleeves? Compromise with sheer sleeves. They offer the illusion of coverage without completely hiding your arms. It's a unique detail that will help you stand out—in a good way.
Show off your sweet side in this blush velvet jumpsuit. Skinny spaghetti straps, a waist-cinching belt, and a plunging neckline add subtle sexiness to an otherwise conservative one-piece. Wear alone to your BFF's party or with a black blazer for a work-appropriate look.
This velvet jumpsuit is similar to the one above, except for one thing: the neckline. I've found, as a small chested gal, that a square neckline is much more flattering than a plunging v-neck. Best part: you don't need a specially cut bra.
Sequin anything can come across as flamboyant, but not this jumpsuit. It has a tuxedo-style neckline and dark sequins, which means you can sort of blend in with the LBDs...if you want to. Once the spotlight is on you, however, don't be afraid to let your one piece sparkle as you show off those dance moves.
You might recognize the name Roland Mouret because Meghan Markle wore this navy dress from the brand. You'll find that her dress and this jumpsuit both share the same elegant and polished qualities. This one, however, is definitely more daring around the shoulders. The Duchess of Sussex might pass on this style (because Queen E), but I'll take it.
When in doubt, walk into the room in a black jumpsuit. To make it feel fresh and fun, pick one with cutout lace panels and a sweetheart neckline. This one piece features a bustier-style fit and tapered pant legs. Pair with a houndstooth jacket.
This & Other Stories jumpsuit gives off an old school vibe thanks to the '80s-inspired puff sleeves, buttons, and wide belt. It's for the gal who wants to stand out at the party, but not in the latest flashy sequin minidress kind of way. Pair with leather knee-high black boots.
Holiday parties are filled with satins, silks, and velvets, but who says flowers aren't festive? To make this dark floral print one-piece feel dressy, simply throw on a pair of heels and add a clutch. When summer comes, you can rework the wintery look with white sandals and straw hat.
Diane von Furstenberg doesn't just do wrap dresses—she also designs jumpsuit masterpieces. Take this one, which comes in a midnight blue color. Pretty silk satin frames the neckline, sleeve cuffs, and sash, while the rest of the look is sumptuous velvet. Wear with these IRO red heels for a little more color or go with classic black pumps.
Your party has a casual dress code. Perfect. You can wear this green suede one-piece with white sneakers to the office. Then when it's time to party, swap your kicks for heels or black boots so the event feels a like a change from work. A pair of chandelier earrings like these will complete your holiday outfit.
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Need care and support for an advanced illness? We are here to provide comfort care.
Seeking hospice or palliative care isn’t about giving up hope or hastening death, but rather a way to get the most appropriate care.
For many seriously ill patients, hospice or palliative care (also known as comfort care), offers a more dignified alternative in dealing with their serious or advanced illness. If a patient is still benefiting from treatments intended to cure their disease, they may be eligible to receive palliative care. This type of care is aimed at helping manage the pain and stress associated with dealing with their illness. If a patient has decided to stop receiving curative treatment, our hospice care program will help improve the quality of life for both the patient and their family.
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If you’ve ever heard your sink faucet dripping overnight, you know how frustrating and concerning plumbing leaks can be. While these leaks may seem like minor annoyances on the surface, they could be indicative of a larger problem. Common causes of leaky plumbing include water pressure issues, pipe damage, and climate harm.
Over time, your pipes will age and corrosive substances such as rust will form throughout your plumbing system. This corrosion eats away at your pipes, creating openings for water to leak out. Discoloration or warping can be signs of corrosion. If your plumbing is 30 years old or older, consider immediate replacement. The material in older pipes cannot withstand corrosion as much as newer pipes can.
During installation, your plumber places watertight seals on your pipes wherever they connect to a fixture, such as a sink. These seals can degrade over time, causing leaks at their source. If you notice puddles of water around an appliance, this may be a sign that one of your seals is damaged.
High Water Pressure
Pipes can only withstand a certain water pressure level before they start to give out. The harder your water hits the pipes, the more it damages them. Sometimes, this pressure can even lead to bursting pipes. More often, you will notice a periodic leak after you turn an appliance off.
Drastic Temperature Change
During times of extreme cold and heat, metal pipes expand and contract with the temperature. If you live in a climate where freezing cold days suddenly replace extremely hot ones and vice versa, this can wreak havoc on your pipes. Rapid and drastic temperature changes can cause your pipes to expand or contract quickly, causing cracks, leaks, even bursts.
Untreated Drain Clogs
Clogs may seem like a slight annoyance around the home, but like leaks, they could be a sign of an underlying issue. Sometimes, these clogs can contain corrosive materials and toxic chemicals that could eat at your pipe and cause leaks.
Need help fixing a tough leak in your Houston home or business? Contact Mr. Rooter Plumbing today to schedule an appointment with one of our expert plumbers.
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Corsair Gaming Sabre RGB Gaming Mouse
- All prices mentioned above are in Australian dollar.
- This product is available at Jbhifi.
- At jbhifi.com.au you can purchase Corsair Gaming Sabre RGB Gaming Mouse for only AU $89.00
- The lowest price of Corsair Gaming Sabre RGB Gaming Mouse was obtained on September 24, 2020 1:16 pm.
Didn't find the right price? Set price alert below
The Corsair Gaming Sabre RGB is a light weight performance gaming mouse with four-zone 16.8M color backlighting. If you like playing at lower DPIs and taking advantage of a larger mouse mat, you’ll be able to react quicker and you’ll have less fatigue over long playing sessions. The high-performance switches are custom designed for the fast response that gaming domination requires, and the 10000 DPI optical sensor is paired with instant DPI selection with a multicolor indicator so you’re always in control. It’s easy to customize the eight buttons to your requirements with the CUE software, and the 1.8 meter braided easy-flex resists snagging for unencumbered play.
Just 100g total weight. React more quickly and play longer with less fatigue.
10000 DPI OPTICAL SENSOR AND MULTI-COLOR DPI INDICATOR
Confident, high-accuracy tracking makes every click count.
FOUR-ZONE 16.8 MILLION COLOR BACKLIGHTING
Enjoy virtually infinite customization.
Powerful and intuitive Corsair Utility Engine gives you performance tuning and customization control.
8 PROGRAMMABLE BUTTONS
Fully configurable layout for personalized play.
HIGH-PERFORMANCE OMRON SWITCHES RATED FOR 20 MILLION CLICKS
Custom designed for gaming, with fast response and high reliability.
Fits comfortably in your hand and supports multiple grip styles.
1,000 HZ USB REFRESH RATE
Lag-free responsiveness for fast play.
BRAIDED EASY-FLEX USB CABLE
1.8 meters of unencumbered roaming.
Specification: Corsair Gaming Sabre RGB Gaming Mouse
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This symposium focuses on the issues associated with the preservation of dance halls and similar sites throughout the rural South. Some of the constant threats include relevancy, development pressures, deterioration, and financial viability. This symposium brings together experts and enthusiasts to discuss history, architecture, and culture associated with these buildings. A dialog will be created to share successes and failures and assist states in sharing information about their resources.
The symposium will be held March 22-23, 2016 at the Performance Center at Vermillionville in Lafayette, Louisiana. Pre-symposium workshops are planned for March 21st on condition assessments of the halls and financial aspects of preservation at sites near Lafayette. We are soliciting oral presentations that discuss topics which center on preservation and culture of these landmarks. These topics include building/architecture, culture, relevancy, issues facing the halls, deterioration, developmental pressures, and royalties. For more information and to register visit the event announcement.
Talks will be 30 minutes in duration, including questions. Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words (excluding figures and references). Abstract should contain: presenter’s full contact information (name, title, organization, address, phone, fax, email), and a 100-word biography for the author and each co-author. We recommend no more than two presenters per paper. Suggested key issues, topics, and concepts of papers may address include but are not limited to:
- Relevance/Importance Today
- Issues facing the halls
- Development Pressures
- Financial Concerns
- Condition Assessment
Special Speaker Registration $
Registration fees have been waived due to a generous partnership with Bayou Vermilion District.
Abstract deadline has been extended to January 22, 2016. Email notification of accepted presentations will be sent on January 29, 2016. Presentations addressing similar topics will be combined into sessions.
Abstracts for peer review should be sent to:
Sarah Marie Jackson
645 University Parkway
Natchitoches, LA 71457
- All accepted proposals must be presented at the conference by at least one author.
- Authors of an accepted presentation must provide an abstract of no more than 500 words (not including diagrams, figures, and references) for publication in the conference proceedings.
- Presentations given by students are welcomed but not required.
- We welcome student participation in the conference. The number of students registering at the discounted Student rate ($99) is limited to ten. Other students may register at the regular rates.
- Submissions whose main purpose is to promote a commercial product or service will not be accepted.
Conference Partners: National Center for Preservation Technology and Training, Friends of NCPTT, National Park Service, Center for Louisiana Studies, Louisiana Division of Historic Preservation, Bayou Vermillion District
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Reviews for the HP Pavilion dv9033cl
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Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 07/19/2007
Rating: display: 50% mobility: 80% workmanship: 40% emissions: 40%
NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600: The NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 is a middle class video card of the 7000 series and suited for games of the year 2006. The performance is very similar to ATI X1600 / X1700. Compared to the desktop 7600 it is clearly slower.
Only some 3D games with very low demands are playable with these cards.
Intel Core Duo: Double Core processor with a very good relation of performance to current consumption. The 2 MB L2 Cache are used together by the double. The maximum capacity of 31 watts is only 4 watts more than with the Pentium M (predecessor). Both cores are lowered automatically and independently of each other by speed steps down to 1 GHz. In addition it now supports also SSE3 instructions. At least it is just as fast as a equivalent Pentium M. With applications, which were designed for multi-processors, the performance can be nearly twice as fast as with the Pentium M (e.g. CineBench around 86% fast)
T2300: » Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
This large display size is used for laptops which are mainly intended for an use on a desk.
Large display-sizes allow higher resolutions. So, details like letters are bigger. On the other hand, the power consumption is lower with small screen diagonals and the devices are smaller, more lightweight and cheaper.» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
This weight is representative for typical laptops with a 14-16 inch display-diagonal.
HP: The Hewlett-Packard Company, founded 1935, commonly referred to as HP, is a technology corporation headquartered in California, United States. HP specializes in developing and manufacturing computing, storage, and networking hardware, software and services. Major product lines include personal computing devices, enterprise servers, related storage devices, as well as a diverse range of printers and other imaging products. Other product lines, including electronic test equipment and systems, medical electronic equipment, solid state components and instrumentation for chemical analysis. HP posted US $91.7 billion in annual revenue in 2006, making it the world's largest technology vendor in terms of sales. In 2007 the revenue was $104 billion, making HP the first IT company in history to report revenues exceeding $100 billion.
Up to 2015, the company was named Hewlett Packard Company. After a split, the computer range was renamed to HP Inc.
In the laptop segment, HP was the world's largest manufacturer from 2014 to 2016 with a market share of 20-21% from 2014 to 2016, but they only exceed Lenovo by a small margin as of recently. HP is not present in the smartphone sector (as of 2016).
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
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Masterpieces of frida kahlo self portrait in a velvet dress 1926 the bus 1929 two women 1929 frieda and diego rivera 1931 my birth 1932 self portrait along the boarder line between mexico and the united states henry ford hospital 1932 my dress hangs there . Frida kahlo masterpieces of art hardcover october 6 2017 by dr julian beecroft author 48 out of 5 stars 21 ratings see all formats and editions hide other formats and editions price new from used from hardcover october 6 2017 please retry 1999 1313 1300. Frida kahlo masterpieces of art book read 2 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers the painful exquisite art of mexicos favourite art. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for masterpieces of art ser frida kahlo masterpieces of art by julian beecroft 2017 hardcover new edition at the best online prices at ebay free shipping for many products. Frida kahlo masterpieces of art by flame tree studio 9781786644824 available at book depository with free delivery worldwide
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Central Oval Turf Upgrade
A contract has been signed with Belair Turf for the work with grant funding of $486,500 provided through the Office for Recreation, Sport & Racing’s Grassroots Football, Netball and Cricket Fund.
The project, which includes new irrigation, removal and replacement of base soil, ‘crowning’ of the oval surface to improve drainage, and new turf is designed to enable the potential inclusion of a turf wicket for cricket in the future if required. Whilst the ground works is commencing now, the new turf will not be laid until January 2020 to ensure availability of ongoing monitoring during the critical growing period.
Council has commenced removal of a portion of the existing turf for use at other Council sites including Stirling North Garden Cemetery.
This project will provide an optimum playing surface for local sports, reduce maintenance costs in the longer term whilst also provide an opportunity for Council to pursue State and National level sporting games.
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Immediate Media's Tom Bureau becomes PPA deputy chair
Immediate Media chief executive Tom Bureau has been confirmed as deputy chairman of the Professional Publishers Association.
Bureau, who has been a member of the PPA Board and Executive Committee since 2012, was appointed to the role at the annual meeting of the association’s Board of Directors.
He will support the current Chairman, Marcus Rich, CEO of TI Media, during his tenure as Deputy for 2019, and will then become PPA Chair for two years from January 1, 2020.
Barry McIlheney, CEO of the PPA, said: “I am thrilled that Tom has taken on this vital and important role, especially at such an exciting time for the industry and the PPA. Following a root-and-branch review of the PPA’s service to members over the past year, a new and rejuvenated PPA has emerged, with a clearer offer to members focussed on really changing the conversation and delivering on key areas where the industry can do better, together."
Tom added: “It’s a real pleasure to take on the role of Deputy Chairman and I look forward to being able to provide my full support to both Marcus and Barry. Having been involved with the PPA for many years, I know how essential the work they do on our behalf is. I’m looking forward to working with the PPA Team to drive our industry forward through an exciting chapter.”
Bureau has more than 20 years’ experience of running online content and cross-media companies, and launched Immediate Media Co in 2011, which has doubled in size and revenues in the last seven years, publishing some of the UK’s best loved brands, including Radio Times and BBC Good Food.
Tom also oversaw Immediate's successful sale from Exponent Private Equity to the Hubert Burda Media Company in 2017.
Previously, he was co-founder and CEO of Silicon Media Group launched in 1998 and backed by a number of blue-chip VC’s. Silicon.com was sold to CNET Networks in 2002 and as a result of the transaction, he joined CNET to run the UK business and launched CNET Networks UK. He then joined the Exponent backed Magicalia as CEO in 2008, whose merger with Origin Publishing and BBC Magazines formed Immediate.
Bureau takes over as PPA Deputy Chairman from James Tye, CEO at Dennis Publishing Ltd, who has now completed what McIlheney described as “four exceptional years” as both Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the PPA.
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[This article was first published on Thinking inside the box
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While we are in a competitive market and hiring is tight, Brian Fink, our Sr. Technical Recruiter from the RentPath Talent Acquisition team, put together some of our favorite interview tips to help you land that next step up in your career.
Whenever someone is making a hire, it’s because there is a business problem that needs to be solved. This is the crux of the interview and ultimately frames your conversation. The job description may list 10-15 bullet points, but chances are there are really 2-3 things that are top priority for the hiring manager. Try to understand what you can take off their plate Day 1 (or Day 30 or Day 90 or…) and share aspects of your experience that give them confidence that you can alleviate the pain they feel while this role sits vacant.
Bonus Tip: Not everyone who interviews you will necessarily see the business problem in the same way. Try to understand where this role intersects with each interviewer and how you can make their job easier.
This is your opportunity to give your thesis statement about why you’re super excited to interview for this particular role and/or this particular company.
Avoid the temptation to air your grievances about your current company, but rather compliment the things you’ve enjoyed about the experience and turn your focus to the great things this new opportunity can offer. “I’ve learned a lot at my current role, but when I heard about the chance to work for a company with a reputation like yours and gain exposure to X,Y, and Z, I couldn’t pass it up!”
A strong way to finish your interview is to address, head-on, any concerns the new company may have regarding your background. Find a way to ask comfortably, in your own words, something along the lines of: “Mr/Ms hiring manager, I’m very excited about this opportunity, let me ask, do you have any concerns about my ability to be successful in the role?”
The most important part of this question is to ask about their worries, concerns or doubts or in other words, “Why wouldn’t you hire me?”.
Not everyone will candidly answer this question, but it gives them an opportunity put their concerns on the table and you the opportunity to give a 30-second elevator pitch about why you are the right person for the job. This also provides a chance to end the interview on a high note (and hopefully a chance to circle back if you didn’t answer that one question the way you or they had hoped).
One of the most underrated parts of interviewing is to simply connect personally and professionally with your potential coworkers.
Don’t forget that you’re interviewing a company as much as they’re interviewing you and at the end of the day, people want to hire people they like and you want to work with people you like…especially if you’re going to spend 40, 50 or more (hopefully not) hours with them each week. Find your commonalities, understand what excites them about the company and have an honest conversation about how you can support the business problem and hiring manager.
It’s no mystery that one of the most important aspects of job satisfaction is working for a great manager. The interview is your opportunity for that snapshot about the type of working relationship you will have with them.
We’re hiring! Check out our open positions at workatrentpath.com.
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19 Best Online Time Tracking Tools and Software
Online time tracking tools – there are loads of them, each with a different user experience and feature set.
But which time tracker should you use?
To make the hard work of comparing time billing software easier for you, we’ve reviewed 19 paid and free options, underlying the benefits and top features.
In this list, you’ll find both the tools that only focus on time tracking as well as comprehensive time tracking software with invoicing capacities.
Ready to find your next time tracking software (and to get paid for every minute of your work)?
Scoro gives you all the tools you need for efficient time billing, including invoice templates, automated reminders, and recurring billing. But there’s more to Scoro – it serves as an all-in-one work management solution where you can manage projects, clients, and finances.
Work in a creative, digital, PR, or an advertising agency, Scoro can replace all your current tools and you’ll end up paying a lot less.
- Project management + meeting scheduling
- Task management, to-do lists, notifications and reminders
- Reporting on work, sales performance, budgets, etc.
- Invoice templates and automated monthly billing
- Emailing invoices to clients based on the hours worked
- Managing clients’ billing and communication history
Pricing: From $26 user/month
Hubstaff helps to track the time spent on work as well as your team’s leisure time. It’s a great option for organizations looking to track all the time spent at work (not just the time spent on tasks). Many companies use Hubstaff to check on their remote workers and to deliver payments based on the time worked.
- Tracking the time spent on tasks with screenshots
- Tracking the time spent on websites + desktop apps
- Reporting on the team’s time usage
- Billing clients for projects
- Emailing custom reports to clients
- Making payments to employees based on the time worked
- Keyboard & mouse activity level data
What’s interesting about this tool: In addition to the time worked, Hubstaff also tracks the time spent on various websites and desktop applications. You will get reports on your team’s time usage and can monitor how they spend their time.
Pricing: From $49/Month for 10 users
Everything about your business, one click away
FreshBooks wants to make your accounting job easier, providing you with the tools for invoicing, expense tracking, and time management. You can automate most of your billing activities and have more time left for projects and meetings.
- Time tracking and billing for work
- Automatically importing and categorizing expenses from bank accounts and credit cards.
- Auto-billing clients’ credit cards
- Capturing expenses with a mobile app
- Reports on received payments and billing history
What’s interesting about this tool: FreshBooks is more than a time billing tool – it also helps you with expense management ensuring that all client-related expenses will be billed for.
Pricing: Evergreen plan $29.95/month (bill up to 200 clients), Mighty Oak plan $39.95/month (bill an unlimited number of clients)
Freckle has been commented by their client as “ridiculously easy time tracking that our team actually uses”.
- Time tracking
- Timesheets (can be exported)
- Dashboard that shows your time expenditure
- Categorizing people and running reports
- Invoicing and billing for the time worked
- Mac timer app, iPhone app, mobile web app
What’s interesting about this tool: Freckle uses tags to track projects and to navigate between billable and non-billable tasks. This makes adding time entries a quick and easy process.
Pricing: Team plan starts with 5 users $49/month
5. Tick & QuickBooks Online
Sometimes, two tools are better than one. Tick is a time tracking app that integrates seamlessly with QuickBooks. Monitor your team’s time usage with Tick and bill your client with QuickBooks.
- Running timers to track the time worked on tasks
- Mobile apps and browser extensions for time tracking
- Budget feedback based on time cards
- Integration with QuickBooks for sending invoices
- Integration with all 3 Basecamp versions
What’s interesting about this tool: Tick permits to track time to hit budgets for customers that do value billing. But if you’re already using QuickBooks, you can use this tool to efficiently invoice for your time as well.
Pricing: 10 open projects $19 / month, 30 open projects $49 / month, 60 open projects $79 / month, unlimited projects $149 / month
If you’re looking for a simple yet powerful time management tool, Paymo might have the answer. The tool brings project management, work reporting, and time billing under one roof, making it easier to get an overview of your team’s performance
- Tracking the time spent on tasks and projects
- Thorough work reports
- Dashboard to see your team’s performance
- Billing customers for completed tasks
- Mobile and desktop apps for accurate time tracking
What’s interesting about this tool: With Paymo Plus, you can automate the time tracking completely. All you need to do is download the desktop app, set it up, and at the end of each day, categorize all your time entries.
Pricing: $8.95/user per month + project accounting add-on for $9.95 per month
7. Replicon TimeBill
Like Scoro that was mentioned before, Replicon is a large multi-feature solution that includes various project tools. Replicon’s TimeBill helps companies to track the time spent on work and bill their clients for finished projects.
- Time tracking and timesheets
- Project and task management
- Project budgeting and expense management
- Analytics on time usage
- Multiple billing rates for different users
What’s interesting about this tool: Replicon appeals to large organizations, looking to manage their employees’ time more efficiently. The tool helps to get a comprehensive overview of every minute spent at work.
Pricing: Replicon TimeBill costs €20 user/month with additional features for HR €8 user/month
8. eBillity + Xero
If you’re already using Xero or QuickBooks, you can benefit from their integration with eBillity. This simple online time tracking tool allows you to record time from any device, delivering timesheets based on your work.
- Tracking time from any device, including offline work
- Timesheets with billing and payroll approval
- Monitoring employee activity
- Productivity reports
- Tracking time worked for specific customers
What’s interesting about this tool: eBillity is a simple time tracking tool. But by integrating it to Xero, you’ll be able to turn your timesheets into branded invoices and forward these to your customers.
Pricing: Time Tracker $9.95/month for the first user + additional users for extra fee, Time Tracker +Billing $19.95/month for the first user + additional users for extra fee
9. Active Collab
Active Collab combines time billing with project management, making it easier to plan and track creative projects. Moreover, this tool provides features for team collaboration and real-time communication.
- Creating tasks with multiple users and deadlines
- Filtering tasks by users, dates and labels
- Commenting on tasks and mentioning colleagues
- Gantt-like timeline for planning
- A shared team calendar for collaboration
- Time tracking and sending invoices
What’s interesting about this tool: Active Collab improves the team’s collaboration and makes it more fun. Every user can set a custom theme for their platform for quick personalization.
Pricing: 5 members $25/month, 15 members $49/month, 30 members $99/month, 60 members $199/month, unlimited members $299/month
10. Zoho Invoice
Zoho Invoice is part of the Zoho Online Office Suite. You can use this tool to track time spent on tasks and invoice your clients. Combined with other Zoho tools, you’ll get a wide set of features to manage your company more effectively.
- Tracking time spent on tasks
- Sending invoices to customers (Zoho CRM integration needed)
- Automated payment reminders
- Insightful reporting on your work
- Online payments for faster invoicing
What’s interesting about this tool: As mentioned before, Zoho Invoice is part of a large software suite. If you use Zoho for managing other business processes as well, it will be a good choice for billing for your time. Otherwise, you might want to pick another tool with no strings attached to a large business suite.
Pricing: Only for Zoho Invoice (projects, CRM, etc. for extra price) STANDARD $15 organization/month, PROFESSIONAL $30 organization/month
Harvest is one of the best-known time billing tools on the market. With its simple interface and light feature-set, Harvest makes it super easy to track time and bill your clients accordingly.
- Time tracking from any browser, Mac, iPhone, or Android
- Creating estimates and invoices based on the time worked
- Real-time reports on time spent
- Integrations for tracking time across all your favourite project management tools
What’s interesting about this tool: Harvest is a time billing tool rather than online project management software. It is focused on doing one thing and doing it well.
Pricing: From $12 user/month
BillQuick has built a tool that’s easy to use even when you’re not around your computer. In addition to project management, it provides a comprehensive set of time billing features such as a time tracker, invoices, and an overview of all expenses.
- Project management and work reporting
- Generating invoices and billing clients
- Running multiple timers concurrently
- Tracking personal time off, overtime, compensation time, vacations, etc.
- Attaching pictures, documents, and web links to time and expense records
- Emailing invoices as PDFs
What’s interesting about this tool: BillQuick has a tool called Employee Workload Forecaster that let’s you see the tasks assigned to each team member.
Pricing: Professional plan $19.95 user/month, Enterprise plan (unlimited features) $24.95 user/month
ClickTime helps businesses track both billable time as well as employee time usage. You’ll get complete control over your project budgets and receive accurate timesheets.
- Online timesheets and billable time entries
- Time tracking with stopwatch
- Dynamic billing rates
- Analyzing project profit, costs, and billings
- Reporting on employee and project performance
- Forecasting the time needed for tasks
What’s interesting about this tool: ClickTime gives you more insight into your time usage than other time billing tools. It is focused on improving your team’s workflow and helps to plan your budgets and time more efficiently.
Pricing: Corporate plan (time tracking + budgeting) starts at $12 user/month (max 200 users)
Bill4time gives you the tools to better manage and organize your project workflows. With this tool, you can schedule projects, track time, and send invoices to clients.
- Track billable and non-billable time
- Get daily, weekly and monthly work summaries
- Client portal
- Invoicing and online payment options
- Extensive reporting on accounting, projects, etc.
What’s interesting about this tool: Bill4time offers a wide set of reports about the team’s productivity, project profitability, and much more.
Pricing: Pro plan (best for small teams) $30/month + $10 for each user, Enterprise plan (best for larger firms) $75/month + $20 for each user
Nutcache is an all-in-one project management tool that includes time tracking and invoicing features. It is meant for small teams that bill their clients on a project basis and are looking to plan their time more efficiently.
- Collaborating with your team
- Managing projects and tasks in an organized way
- Time tracking and billing
- Expense management
- Linking projects and finished tasks to clients
What’s interesting about this tool: Nutcache has an easy-to-use user interface, making it easier to collaborate on projects.
Pricing: Free up to 20 users (limited features), $6 user/month for project management features, $15 user/month for unlimited features
Toggl is a no-hassle time tracking software that integrates with tens of different project management and billing tools. It is the perfect add-on to your existing tools, helping you to be more productive throughout the day.
- Unlimited projects and clients
- Sub-projects for accurate time tracking
- Setting billable rates
- Shareable time reports
- Tracking time while offline
What’s interesting about this tool: Toggl is completely focused on time tracking, which means that they’re really good at it.
Pricing: From $10 user/month
17. Wrike + Harvest
Wrike is one of the best project management tools out there. Harvest is the most popular tool for time billing. Luckily, there’s a seamless integration between these two tools.
- Visualize your team’s work with reports
- Use Harvest to track the time worked and bill for it
- Plan and manage your projects and tasks in Wrike
- Manage all your project resources
What’s interesting about this tool: While Wrike doesn’t have time billing functions, it works in perfect harmony with Harvest. If you’re looking for tools to manage your work and time, these two will be a great choice.
Pricing: For Wrike: Free for up to 10 users, Professional plan for $9.80 user/month
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Journyx makes up for its average user experience with a wide set of features for time and expense tracking, resource scheduling, and Gantt Charts.
- Monitoring the time worked and the time off
- Tracking resource usage across projects and non-project activities
- Reviewing schedules in real time
- Tailored rates for individual clients, employees, and projects
- Accounting for billable and nonbillable time and expenses
What’s interesting about this tool: Journyx has customizable dashboards that let you monitor the exact information you need to know. It is also the perfect tool for those who like old-school software interfaces.
19. Teamwork Projects
Teamwork provides a wide set of project management features, including time tracking and billing for hours worked. As you start using Teamwork, you’ll get a complete overview of your team’s time usage, and can optimize your work for higher productivity.
- Estimating and tracking time spent on a project
- Custom time reports with export options
- Tracking time on the go
- Sending invoices based on the time worked
What’s interesting about this tool: The invoicing feature in Teamwork isn’t as strong as in some other tools, but it integrates with all your favorite billing tools, such as QuickBooks, Harvest, Xero, etc.
Pricing: Startup plan (up to 25 projects) $24/month, Small Office plan (up to 40 projects) $49/month, Professional plan (up to 200 projects) $149/month. More plans available on the website.
The final words
We truly hope you’ve found some interesting and helpful time billing tools to consider.
If you’re interested in project management tools, have a look at this list of Agency Project Management Tools with over 30 excellent tools for every need.
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New 49ers coach Chip Kelly is known for his zone-read offense, and it takes a quarterback with an accurate arm, nimble feet and a sharp mind to operate it at maximum efficiency.
Whether that person is Colin Kaepernick, Sam Bradford, Blaine Gabbert, Jared Goff or someone to be determined is the first important question of the Kelly era.
Kelly liked what he saw of Bradford while they were together with the Philadelphia Eagles this season, and Bradford probably will test the open market soon. March 9 is the first day of the free-agent season.
While speculation is that the 28-year-old Kaepernick has the inside track for the position, any number of factors may preclude his return to the 49ers. While he recovers from hand, thumb and shoulder injuries, there’s no way of knowing anytime soon if he’ll be healthy enough to assume the role.
For his part, Kaepernick may prefer to cut ties with the organization, although he has not indicated as much.
“In terms of Kap, he was very difficult for us to play against on this field two years ago,” Kelly said. “I haven’t done a ton of tape study on how he played [last year]. We’re in that process right now.”
The organization cannot speak with Kaepernick about football-related matters until April 4, the first day that teams with new coaches can begin off-season workouts. That’s three days after his $11.9 million salary for next season becomes guaranteed.
“We signed that contract for a reason,” general manager Trent Baalke said. “We’re not worried about the financial part of it at this point. What we’re worried about is getting him healthy and ready to compete.”
Kelly denied a report that he wanted to pursue Kaepernick in a trade earlier this season. “I don’t know where that report came from, but we were very happy with Sam in Philadelphia,” Kelly said.
The Eagles could place a franchise tag on Bradford, 28, but the price would be steep — nearly $20 million for one season. Feb. 16 is the first day that teams can begin the process.
Despite health concerns, Bradford had hoped to sign a longterm deal last year, but Kelly considered his request of $25 million per season to be exorbitant.
New Eagles coach Doug Pederson is impressed with Bradford as well, saying this week, “Sam’s a quality quarterback. I think he’s a top-notch quarterback. Look what he did that last half of the season, the numbers he was able to put up. As a quarterback, he would fit perfectly with a system I’m going to bring.”
Bradford finished the season with 3,725 yards, 19 touchdowns and 14 interceptions. He was at his best in the final eight games, when he completed 68.2 percent of his passes for 1,959 yards, 10 touchdowns and four interceptions.
Free agent Robert Griffin III also could interest Kelly and the front office as a backup. A less likely possibility is Johnny Manziel, whom the Cleveland Browns are expected to make available.
If Bradford were to be signed, Kaepernick could be moved in a trade, a contract settlement could be reached or he could be released as a last resort.
Otherwise, Kelly indicated he wouldn’t be opposed to a Kaepernick-Gabbert tandem.
“Obviously, Kap is an extremely talented football player, and you need to have a good quarterback to win,” Kelly said. “But I was also impressed in the film I watched in terms of how Blaine played this year, also. I think statistics bear out that you probably need two good quarterbacks in this league with the injury rate quarterbacks have. I think both of those players make this an attractive
If Bradford and Kaepernick were not options, then Gabbert would be next in line. In that case, the front office could draft a quarterback of the future with the seventh pick in the first round. The 49ers also have the resources to trade up in the order — 21 draft picks in the next two years — possibly for Cal’s Jared Goff.
Untested backup Dylan Thompson also is on the roster.
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This is me, the girl behind the camera!
Born and raised in Southern California (which means I say "like" WAY too much and 60 degree weather is FUN because I get to wear my "winter" clothes)
Pride myself on being a simple gal... bottomless fries and iced coffee with salted cream foam make me happiest. (maybe not that combo together, but ya know what I mean)
Show me a picture of your dog and I instantly love you... bring your dog to our session and we are best friends forever. I LOVE THEM. Wish I could adopt a million dogs, but until then I'll continue loving on my little cattle dog Benji.
I'm a Pisces... if you're not into astrology it basically means I am an introverted extrovert. Can anyone else relate?!
Passion drives EVERYTHING for me. I am the person blasting motivational podcasts in my car and running around trying to motivate other people to chase their dreams!
John Mayer and Norah Jones are my faves.
Humor is my go-to daily. The good, the bad, the ugly... it's all just a little better with some humor (so if you shoot with me get ready to laugh at yourself or me LOL)
If I could have one wish I would wish to have a private chef because I am always hungry but never in the mood to cook... WHY... WHYYYYY!?!
Did I mention dogs yet? ;)
Few random little things about me until we meet in person!
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We’ve all been there. We’re late to class or to school, and we’re going to have to come up with some excuse other than the truth that we were playing video games or were on Facebook and just lost track of time. There are all kinds of excuses for being late to class or to school – some are serious
What Are the Best Excuses for Being Late to School? Check Out The List
These are the serious types and should be used with instructors who are very serious and do not have any sense of humor. If you are late often, however, you will need to keep track of which excuse you have used for each instructor, so you don’t repeat any.
- There was a bad accident, and I was stuck in traffic. (Of course, this doesn’t work if you live on campus)
- I was in a car accident and had to wait for the police.
- I witnessed a horrible accident, and people were injured. I had to call 911 and wait for the police since I was a witness.
- The power went out sometime in the middle of the night, and my alarm clock didn’t go off.
- My aunt (or any other relative) got really sick, and I had to drive her to the hospital.
- My dog died, and I had to bury him/her.
- My neighbor’s house caught on fire, and s/he had to run to my house to call 911. I felt I needed to stay at least until the police and fire trucks got there.
- I fell on the ice (winter, obviously), and really hurt my back (remember to limp and be slightly bent over.)
- I left my wallet (purse) and had to go back to get it – it has all my ID’s.
- Another student had a bike accident, and I had to help him get to the infirmary.
- My microwave caught on fire, and I had to make sure it was out before I could leave the dorm.
- My roommate is really sick, and I had to help her get to the infirmary.
- I got food poisoning and was up barfing most of the night, so I overslept.
- My roommates played a trick on me and turned all of my devices back an hour, so I thought I was actually early to class.
- I woke up thinking it was Sunday and went back to sleep.
When Your Instructor Has a Decent Sense of Humor
Some instructors appreciate real creativity, and if so, here are some good excuses for being late to school.
- I let some Jehovah’s Witnesses in to get a glass of water, and I couldn’t get them to leave.
- I killed my roommate and had to dismember the body and bury it.
- My AA meeting ran late – sorry.
- I hit a car in the parking lot. By the way, don’t you drive a (describe instructor’s car)?
- I had to go to the infirmary, and I have lice.
- I had a panic attack over the financial crisis.
- I was on the phone with my mom. They are moving and not giving me a forwarding address.
- I had to go to the infirmary. The diagnosis is giraffe flu, but no one is sure if it is contagious.
- I was abducted by aliens last night, and they ran a bunch of tests. But they agreed not to suck out my brains and let me go just a little while ago.
- I fell back asleep in the shower.
- I saw Elvis and tried to chase him down.
- The FBI busted down my door and then discovered they had the wrong house.
- I was up most of the night having an argument with God.
- I was reading my textbook and got so engrossed I just lost track of time.
- A gang of ruffians grabbed me and made me go to Krispi Kreme for donuts.
If you plan ahead, you can always come up with excuses for being late to school or class. Have your list prepared in advance.
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5 Things to Know about a Company Financial Income Statement
How to identify a stock that grow profits consistently and separate them from a pool of other stocks that fail to do so?
The answer lies in reading a stock’s statement of profit or loss, or widely known as income statement. It tells us whether or not, the stock has been profitable in a stipulated period of time. Personally, I believe this information is important as stock price movements tend to mirror stock profits over the long-term, which is a reason why value investing works.
Here is a sample of a company’s income statement:
In this article, I’ll share 5 main things on a company’s income statement so that you can interpret it easily. They are as follows:
#1: Reporting Period
From above, the financial year ended stated is 31 December 2018. As such, the statement accounts for the amount of revenues and expenses the company has made and incurred for a period of twelve months (annual report), starting from 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018.
Beside its 2018 figures, the company would report its 2017 figures which would mostly be used for comparison purposes.
#2: How Revenues of a Company are Recorded?
Isn’t Revenues in the statement an account of how much cash the company has been collected after selling its products or services?
Not quite. It depends on the stock’s business models. To better understand this, let me share the actual definition of revenue in the world of accounting and the number of ways a company can record a revenue or sale in its accounts.
Revenue is recognised when or as a performance obligation in its agreement or contract with its customers has been satisfied.
Methods of Recognition:
In general, there are three major methods of how a company may record a sale and they would impact its financial statements (balance sheet and statement of cash flow) differently.
They are as follows:
- Method 1: If I’m a Retailer:
I collected $1 from selling a can of Pepsi. The $1 is cash sales. Thus, the sale would be recorded as follows:
- Method 2: If I’m a Manufacturer:
I secured a sale of 100,000 cans of Pepsi to a supermarket. This sales is worth $40,000. I have delivered them to the supermarket and issued a bill (invoice) where its credit terms given is 90 days. As such, the sale is recorded as follows:
Subsequently, 90 days later, the supermarket made its payments to me. As such, the cash received would be recorded as follows:
- Method 3: If I’m a Contractor
I was given a contract to construct a condominium building valued at $ 100 million. The duration of the project is three years. In its first year, I have completed 40% of this project (estimated by engineers) and have received 25% of the payment from my master builder.Thus, my sale would be recorded as follows:
Isn’t this an eye-opener? Thus, it explains why we should study and learn about a stock’s business model before investing in its shares.
The above income statement belongs to Heineken Malaysia Bhd (HMB) which is a manufacturer (Method #2) of alcoholic beverages in Malaysia.
#3: 5 Types of Expenses
Let us focus on HMB. When running its business, HMB would incur a number of expenses. They are segregated into five different categories. The categories are as follows:
The fifth category is corporate tax expenses.
Thus, the reporting format of an income statement is as follows:
#4: 3 Profits Margins to Measure Business Performances
I have highlighted the above for investors would be focusing on these figures to find out whether or not, the stock is profitable and to also evaluate its ability in controlling costs. It involves the calculation of the three profit margins stated in the table above.
It simply means the following: From every RM 100 HMB makes in revenues,
- It is left with RM 32.20 in Gross Profits after cost of sales.
- It is left with RM 18.76 in Profits before Tax after cost of sales, business expenses and non-business expenses.
- It is left with RM 13.92 in Profits after Tax after cost of sales, business & non-business expenses, and corporate tax expenses.
Revenue > Gross Profits > Profits Before Tax > Profits After Tax
RM 100.00 > RM 32.20 > RM 18.76 > RM 13.92
#5: How to Calculate Earnings per Share (EPS) of a Stock?
In 2018, HMB has made RM 282.52 million in shareholders’ earnings.
But, how many of us can afford to buy and own 100% shareholdings of HMB to make RM 282.5 million in annual earnings?
Fortunately, as HMB is a publicly listed company, we can invest in HMB’s shares to own a portion (small fraction) of the company. Hence, we would calculate its earnings per share (EPS). It is its shareholders’ earnings on a per share basis.
From above, we are given the following:
|HMB’s Profits After Tax (100% Shareholdings)||RM 282.52 million|
|HMB’s Earnings per Share (1 Share)||RM 0.935|
How do we get the figure of RM 0.935 in EPS?
Let us take a look at Note 9 of its Notes to the Financial Statement.
From Note 9, we would learn that HMB has 302.098 million shares. Thus, EPS is calculated as follows:
EPS = Shareholders’ Earnings / No. of Ordinary Shares
HMB’s EPS (2018)
= Shareholders’ Earnings / No. of Ordinary Shares
= RM 282.52 million / 302.098 million
= RM 0.935
How much would you invest into HMB which is earning RM 0.935 a share in the year of 2018?
As I write, on 31 August 2019 (That was how I spend my Merdeka Holiday), the company is trading at RM 24.44 a share.
So, if you invest in HMB’s shares, your earnings yield is 3.83% per annum.
HMB’s Current Earnings Yield (31 August 2019)
= (Latest EPS (2018) / Current Stock Price) x 100%
= (RM 0.935 / RM 24.44) x 100%
Alternatively, most investors use P/E Ratio as a valuation tool. I’d discussed this in detail – How to Find Undervalued Stocks by Using P/E Ratio?
In short, HMB’s P/E Ratio is 26.14, which means, if you buy, you are investing as much as RM 26.14 to buy HMB for every RM 1 it earns a year.
HMB’s Current P/E Ratio (31 August 2019)
= Current Stock Price / EPS
= RM 24.44 / RM 0.935
Income statement is a document that enables us to assess a stock’s capabilities in generating profits and controlling costs. It is dangerous to invest without first reading this statement as you need it to separate a good stock that consistently grow profits from others that don’t.
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Our older buds have been to The Moth a couple of times, so when I heard that The Moth was doing their story slams remotely, I let all the older buds know. Of course, technology is always a bit complicated, and most socially distant things take a few tries before everyone's able to join. Eleanor and I joined a slam last Monday, and we had a great time. There was a new intimacy that came from everyone telling stories on screens mere inches from our faces and speakers mere inches from our ears. Since everyone muted themselves out of courtesy, it felt like each storyteller was speaking directly to each listener. Of course, The Moth still provided a room full of applause for each storyteller, captured live from their story slam in March. Eleanor chose not to tell a story that night, but the format isn't much different from Best Day's. I'm looking forward to seeing more older buds on The Moth's virtual stage, and for theme to have one-on-one storytelling moments with people all over Philly (maybe even the world.)
I don't have any stories to share from The Moth, but I've sure got plenty of stories to share from older buds who had gone to The Moth:
She Is My Sister and She Is My Friend
I am fortunate because my friends said there ain’t no such thing as luck, but mainly I think that I am blessed. I grew up crazy. We were in foster care from that time I probably they gave that book up to my mother and I didn’t come back until I think it was about 10 to stay with a stepfather who was sort of nuts. I wasn’t really…my sister and I were together was my two brothers who died, my sister and I, and I had other sisters in this life. They’re dead. The oldest one is alive, the youngest one is alive. And I was never really…I was close to Pat, who died. I met up with her because I used to hang around the barbershop and they thought that was terrible and then I was hanging around the soda fountain and that was terrible because we moved all over the place. So I met up with Pat and I sort of got myself together but I’ve never really been close to women. I do not like women, I’m telling you all. I tolerate people, I treat you the way you treat me. But, I’m afraid of women. That’s why I don’t like them so much. My mother left us, gave us whole story, and I live with that, but that’s why I’m not crazy about women, okay?
But I have a friend Delores. We met in college, a hundred years ago. Delores is my, I’m blessed. I am truly, truly blessed. When I asked a question if I’m wrong girl you better get it together, you know that ain’t right, or you know you’re absolutely right. She doesn’t tell a bunch of lies, she is my sister and she is my friend and I think I am fortunate enough to have met up with her. She was sitting down when we were in college in this bench, on the end of a bench, and she had this hat on and I said, “That’s the funniest looking hat,” to myself and I kept looking at her. She said, “Oh this is my uncle his name was Pete,” and they used to call my father Pete, and I said, “Oh, my father’s name was Pete, my real father.” We started talking and we talked ever since. She now has cancer and I’m gonna lose my friend, but I had the best memories, and I’m still going to be asking her questions when she go and I expect an answer.
One Experience Two Perspectives
I'm amazed about how an early experience can be so permanent and how at the same time, the person involved in it can be so distant. When I was 7 years old, even being almost a total introverted kid, I loved to visit my neighbor friends. On this particular day, my mother gave me as a present, a Mickey Mouse clock. Oh it was so neat! It surpassed all my worldly possessions that were some marbles and some plastic little trucks and one ball, . So happy I was with my MM clock that I decided to visit my friend Marino Rios who lived 2 blocks away. He was impressed about my clock and suddenly he went to his room and returned bringing a shoe box full of plastic toys and told me, "Pepe, I change you my toys for your clock, think about it." Playing for me, was more important than counting the time so I accepted. So proud, I immediately showed my mother the super acquisition and explained the big deal I just made and the fun those plastic toys will give me. "You have been robbed!" She responded impatiently, almost mad. "But it will give you a less of the value of things." She explained to me a huge comparison of prices, money, dollars, and fairness. At the end, I felt more like a stupid kid than a happy kid. But later I felt that such experience was funny and I spoke about it freely. Until one day 67 years later, I found Marino Rios again, now a prominent physician. Believing he would remember the Mickey Mouse of my infancy, I tried to make a deal to refresh his memory. He told me, "I have no idea what you are saying." I looked at his face and he was uncomfortable being spotted and ended, "I think you are confusing the person. I will never take advantage of nobody" specifically an innocent kid.
Planning a trip to France to celebrate a milestone birthday in October has gotten me reminiscing about my first trip to Paris.
It was 1969 and my friend Kathy and I had gone on our first trip to Europe for 3 ½ months, backpack and Eurail Pass in hand. We landed in London, spent a week there before heading to Paris. Kathy and I were both Francophiles and made a pact that we would speak only French in Paris. Getting off the train we were walking on air through this exotic station where everyone seemed exotic and romantic, smoking Gitanes and drinking espresso. In those days there was a Kiosk in every train station where you could book a hotel. We easily got one on the Left Bank for $5.00 a night.
The hotel was run by a cute older couple. Our walk-up room was on the 4th floor. Every morning at 7:00 there was a knock at our door and Madame delivered a tray with big bowls of coffee, fresh croissants, and homemade jam. The hotel doors were locked at 11:00 PM. But the cute couple slept by the door so they could let people in after hours. They warned me and Kathy not to let guys up to our room.
One night Kathy and I went to a discotheque where we met 2 French guys. My guy and I really hit it off, and walked around the streets of Paris for hours. When I looked at my watch it was midnight. I felt embarrassed to go back to the hotel so late, so my petit ami and I stayed out all night on our romantically innocent escapade. Kathy and I met up in the morning. She and her petit ami had stayed out all night as well!
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We had some surprise visitors on the morning of Day 3! Click to read about what happened on Day 1 and Day 2.
I couldn't believe it when Joanna and I woke up on Day 3 of our Coloma adventure: it was almost 7:00 a.m.! The girls were so tired that they had actually slept in! We spent the early morning packing up our sleeping bags and things, and cleaning up our dorm. The girls were determined to win the Golden Dustpan Award (a glittery gold bead for their pouch), so they made sure all their trash was thrown away, and swept the floors till they gleamed. Once everyone was packed up and ready to leave, we had breakfast (bacon, eggs, and biscuits -- The Pea was right when she told me three years ago that I should definitely volunteer to chaperone the boys to Coloma because the food was so good!).
After breakfast, the kids went off with their town leaders for one last session (learning about the effects of the Gold Rush on the local environment, and ways they can help the environment today), while the parent chaperones and teachers had a debriefing session to share thoughts about what worked, what didn't, and what CODS could do to make things better. Then we joined the kids on the banks of the American River for their "graduation ceremony". Each child dipped their name pouch into the waters of the river as their town leader bestowed on them title of Sourdough (the Gold Rush nickname for a seasoned miner, as opposed to Greenhorn, the name he gave them when they first arrived).
Finally, all the Sourdoughs gathered at the campfire area for one last Town Meeting. The staff recognized the parent volunteers for all their hard work, and gave each one a special bead to string onto their name pouch (the kind of bead depended on how many times the parent had been to Coloma; most of us were first timers although we had one dad who was on his second trip, and another dad who was on his third). They also cheered and thanked the teachers, and gave them special beads as well. This was 3Po's teacher's second time at Coloma, The two other teachers present were on their 4th and 6th years. Jammy's teacher has been to Coloma 13 times!
After the Final Town Meeting, there was just enough time for one last lunch, one last run around the playground, one last chance to pose for class photos, and one last chance to pan for gold, before everyone had to board their buses for the ride home.
The ride home was much quieter than the ride to Coloma; some kids were so tired they went to sleep on the bus.
It was great to see the kids get off the bus and go straight into the arms of their parents, full of smiles and stories about the great time they had. It was even better to see one of my friends greet Joanna and me with a bottle of beer (I don't drink beer but I appreciated the gesture!), and to know that I would be sleeping in my own bed that night!
Each child got to take home with them:
The bandana that they used throughout their adventures (as a placemat, napkin, sweatbands, and bandit costume!).
A vial filled with all the gold they found from panning.
Their name pouch.
The letters that their parents wrote.
A renewed appreciation for the challenges of living during Gold Rush times.
A lot of fun memories.
I didn't come home with any gold; I tried panning on our first day and didn't find anything, then didn't have the time to go back. But the smiles on all the kids' faces were all the gold I needed. I had a fantastic 3 days with the kids, and I'm so glad I got to experience Coloma the way my kids did!
NOTE: If your child has been to the Coloma Outdoor Discovery School (and a good many 4th graders around the Bay Area have), here are a few questions you can ask him (for purposes of brevity, I'm referring to him or he instead of "him/her" and "he/she", but you know what I mean) beyond the usual "How was it?" or "Did you find gold?" or "What was your favorite part?":
Ask him which town he was assigned to and who was in his town.
Ask him what his town cheer was. Can he remember any of the cheers of the other towns?
Ask him what the name of his town leader was.
Ask him what each bead on his leather pouch signifies.
Ask him to tell you about forming a Skinny River, the Red Bead of Respect, and KP duty.
Ask him if he took the Apple Challenge and ate the whole apple.
Ask him if he remembers any of the stories that Mary Talking Hands told the group.
Ask him what his favorite meal was.
Ask him what his favorite hoedown dance was.
Ask him to sing one of the songs that they learned.
Read the complete series:
Coloma Outdoor Discovery School, Day 1
Coloma Outdoor Discovery School, Day 2
Coloma Outdoor Discovery School, Day 3
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Clifford was indisputably one of our greatest trumpet players, but it's not his playing that explains the hold he has on our psyche, especially compared to the emotional connection we feel to other greats from the late 40's to late 60's era, like Fats Navarro, Sonny Berman, Kenny Dorham, Blue Mitchell, Lee Morgan, Booker Little.
We have plucked Clifford out of this group because we want to celebrate the fact that in Clifford, musical genius managed to coexist with an open, humble and yes, sweet personality.
In a recent post, I said that Clifford didn't have "it," as defined by a player's reputation outweighing his musical contribution. But observing the Clifford phenomenon, it becomes clear that he sits in a singular category of "it-ness;" one not rooted in flashy personal style or the charisma of the bad boy. He was the rare soul in jazz who could play it straight and still be the best; who wouldn't let the harsh road and escapes from same (drugs, booze, promiscuity, overbearing ego) run roughshod over his innate gentleness.
The fact that this seems to be a rare personality constellation in the most elite realms of music-and art in general-is vaguely disconcerting, summoning up as it does all those hoary adages about the tortured genius. We'll not soon escape that labyrinth of romanticism (one corner of which is "it-itude"), so for the moment let's just celebrate a joyous spring of relief from such burdens:
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We haven't seen an offer ... should we advertise in California?
We've heard this question many times over the years and our answer is still NO with much more emphasis. We have advertised in the L.A. Times, San Jose Mercury, Portland Oregonian, Sacramento Bee, Seattle Times, etc. over the years with the same results - it is very expensive and yields zero results. It is a natural thought that such advertising would pan out, after all those are large population bases that feed our market.
The question becomes ... would you look in the Record Courier or the Nevada Appeal for a property in Los Angeles? If you are looking to move to Denver wouldn't you get a copy of the newspaper from Denver to check out the market? That is in fact what happens. We have many people planning to move to our area that subscribe to the Record Courier so they can keep their finger on the pulse of our market.
The biggest single reason we now say NO is the biggest change in our industry since the financial calculator ... the Internet. There are so many sites that are consumer friendly ... Our Northern Nevada Website allows consumers to shop the entire northern half of Nevada. Consumers can not only see a list of homes in the neighborhood they want to live in, they can often take a video tour of them room by room by what is called a virtual tour. Interested buyers can also sign up to receive daily email updates of all the listings that interest them by registering for Listings by Email.
Additionally, for insight into the actual daily activity of an area one can usually find several good local blogs that chronicle the local market activity ... try ours Experience Is Priceless!
We recently listed a home and the Seller told us how she just bought a home on the East coast via the Internet. She shopped here in the comfort of her home, found two houses she liked, flew back to look at them, discarded the anticipated first choice as the pictures embellished the property, and bought the second choice. We see that same phenomenon with people coming to our area - they know our product when they call and are just calling with the fine tuning questions or to make an appointment to physically see the property.
Our Advice: If you aren't getting showings ask your agent what can be done differently to achieve a different result. Are the pictures touting your property of good quality, or is the agent's car in the middle of your driveway? Worse yet - is there still snow in the picture? What Internet presence do you have? Are you priced right ... for today's market considering your property's location, features, aesthetics? Is your property staged for sale? Are there weeds around the sign ... is there a sign?! Is the brochure box kept full ... is there a brochure box?! Are you aware of the agent feedback after tours and showings? Are you and your agent discussing that feedback to determine the viability of your position in today's changing market?
Homes are selling every day as a result of planning, focus and work on the part of the agents. Yours will sell that way too - not by advertising over the hill. When it comes to choosing professionals to assist you with your real estate needs... Experience is Priceless! Lisa Wetzel & Jim Valentine, RE/MAX Realty Affiliates, 775-781-3704, [email protected] or [email protected] . Visit our website at www.carsonvalleyland.com
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Congratulations to Bob Swanson for winning our club’s International Speech Contest!!!
As the name of the contest suggests, there is an international winner. The contest starts at the club level and subsequently proceeds to the area, division, district, national, and international levels.
In place of our standard line of prepared speeches, we listened to a presentation on Pathways–Toastmasters’ new educational system.
- Flexible to meet individuals’ needs
- Designed to teach the current real world communication and leadership skills most desired by employers and businesspeople
December 21st was our holiday-themed meeting.
One person decided to go all-out for the occasion.
First, we had an Icebreaker speech. We absolutely love to listen to people stepping up to the challenge of giving their first speech.
We also had a speech on the topic of communication and conflict resolution with an interesting “Christmas Carol”/Ebeneezer Scrooge twist.
The entire club engaged with Scrooge through a series of difficult prepared questions. Scrooge had some points to make–and he made them!!!
Bob Swanson lead the Table Topics portion of the meeting. During Table Topics members speak extemporaneously on a topic given to them.
A ribbon was given to the club member giving his Icebreaker speech.
The evening started out with Mary Hiss delivering her Icebreaker speech. The Icebreaker speech is the first speech a member gives. It is 4-6 minutes long and gives the member a chance to introduce him/herself.
Justin Weichel discussed the benefits of adopting a wholefood diet and how one can get started.
Jeff McRaven then gave an analysis of “Rudoph the Red-nosed Reindeer” from an interesting perspective.
For the Table Topics portion of the meeting we were given several selections to choose from that linked to the topic for discussion.
The Table Topics Master:
Table Topic #1: I have to have that! –talk about that for 1-2 minutes.
Nate Otto took the lead on that one.
Table Topic #2 I have to have that #2!
John Satorius took a stab at that one.
Table Topic #3: You have to see that #1! The photographer stepped aside to try his luck at that one. “It’s a Wonderful Life” Why do we have to see that movie?
Table Topic #4: You have to see that #2! Santa and the Martians…. Why do we have to see that movie?
Finally, Mary Hiss received a ribbon for giving her Icebreaker speech.
At a Toastmasters meeting, you never know what interesting topics find their way into a speech next. This meeting started off with a speech about fire alarms with a bit of artistry and drama built into it.
Our second speaker was Sheila Wilkinson. She gave a speech about clutter. It was a very animated speech that was structured in a very interesting and effective way.
Nate Otto lead the Table Topics.
We spun the globe, pointed our finger, and landed on countries that we spoke about for 1-2 minutes.
Jeff McRaven was first up speaking about Portugal.
John Wendtland talked about the Dominican Republic.
Sheila Wilkinson was next up giving an impromptu speech on Peru.
John Satorius spoke about the Pacific Ocean.
Finally, Wyann Hoage related all she knew about Papua New Guinea to the group.
Several other speaking roles followed. At each meeting we strive to give everyone the opportunity to exercise their public speaking skills.
To fill in our new members, we replaced our prepared speech section of the meeting with informational speeches about our organization and what we do.
First, Heidi Schreiner spoke on officer roles.
Then, we were debriefed on the Competent Communicator series of speeches that everyone begins with.
Next, Jeff McRaven gave a talk on the Leadership Manual and how leadership is integrated into our educational program.
Finally, Steven Daigle talked about speech contests, conventions, and “Distinguished Clubs”.
Following the prepared speeches, we moved on to Table Topics. This is the time during the meeting that we get an opportunity to speak extemporaneously on a topic given to us.
First up was Jeff McRaven. Jeff is well-known for creating challenging Table Topics sessions. This particular night he was on the receiving end.
Long-time member Nate Otto followed up with the next question. Nate is a Table Topics speaker extraordinaire.
We do not require guests to speak; however, we had a guest who did a wonderful job of tackling a topic.
Finally, Sheila Wilkinson chimed in on the final topic of the night.
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