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I Quit! Now give me a Ladle
By: Alythea Ho
Last week, I blogged about how I quit my job to go on a sabbatical.
To my surprise, it inched its way into the lifestyle section's popular list. When a career post is up there with "'10 reasons to avoid dating a metrosexual guy"', you know there's something about work-life balance (or lack thereof) that resonates with Singapore workers.
Just the other day, a corporate lawyer friend swore she want to quit her job. It was 9 pm and she bemoaned how it was the earliest she's left the office in half a year.
"You know what I really want to do? I want to bake cupcakes."
Now, this is one classy lady I'm talking about. She walks, talks, and speaks with perfect poise. Her English would make the Queen swoon. Even her Louis Vuitton bags oozes style.
I had trouble picturing her in kitchens, sweating among tin foils and all the domestic paraphernalia that comes with baking.
But she's not the first Singapore professional I know who prefers an oven to a 19-inch desktop monitor. Let's face it: we're in Singapore. We love food like the English adore football. In fact, I know people who happily ditched their cubicles to start their own F&B businesses.
People like…
- The travel sales lady who didn't like the corporate world. At 27, she quit her job and enrolled in At-Sunrice GlobalChef Academy. Today, she runs her own French café The French Ladle.
- The corporate guy who spent four years posted overseas. At 36, he grew tired of his job and quit. With a wife and four kids in tow, he returned to Singapore to pursue his passion: baking cakes. Today, he runs a chiffon cake store Pure Pandan.
So why would a person drop everything to chase their dreams in a kitchen?
You know the playing field has changed
We're living in a time where we can do away with the middleman. Need help starting a business? Hit Google for advice. Want to promote your products? There's always Facebook, Twitter, and blogging. Hey, you can even sell cupcakes online.
You choose loved ones over your boss and coworkers
Be honest. How much time do you spend in the office surrounded by your colleagues and bosses? Are they people you've dreamed of spending your best years with? No? Chances are, you probably spend more time with them than with your kids at home.
You're tired or afraid of just thinking about your dream
Fear is real. But when it comes to the point where the thought of Mondays makes you dive deeper under the covers, maybe it's time to take a revisit of your passion!
You've more than six month's reserves of finances
Worried whether you can support your business? A capacity of anywhere between six to twelve months of financial reserves should give you an idea on whether you can support your own business.
Now if you'll excuse me, it's time to check on how those beer bottles are doing.
Would you quit your job to start your own food business? Or have you already done so? Share your experiences with us in the comment box below!
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MiG-21 fighter jet crashes in eastern India
07:42 08/08/2010 A MiG-21 fighter jet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed in the eastern Indian state of Assam, local media reported.>>
Air forces throughout the world
The Beriev Be-2500 Neptune is a super-heavy transport seaplane proposed by the Beriev Aircraft Company of Russia. Its maximum take-off weight should reach 2,500 tons! It would be the largest aircraft ever proposed. It might weigh four times more than the largest aircraft in the world, the Antonov An-225.
This gigantic project would range from $10 to $15 billion. The Be-2500 would be a « flying ship » able to compete with the maritime shipping and air transport industries. Its size is not clearly quoted due to a discrepancy in the figures available. However, it would nearly double the Airbus A380 size!
It is deemed to be an ekranoplane (also known as a « wing-in-ground-effect – WIG », « flarecraft », « wing-in-surface-effect ship – WISE », « sea skimmer », « ground effect vehicle – GEV » thanks to its cushion of high-pressure air provided by the aerodynamic interaction between the wings and the surface, which is known as ground effect.
Last but not least, it could fly far over the surface (airborne) like any heavy cargo. Watch what it could look below:
India's first Naval variant of Light Combat Aircraft, the LCA (Navy) Trainer Naval Project (NP)-1 was rolled out by the Defence Minister AK Antony from Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Aircraft Research and Design Centre at a glittering function in Bengaluru, today. The Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Nirmal Verma, Secretary Defence Production RK Singh, Scientific Advisor to the Defence Minister Dr. VK Saraswat, Chairman, HAL Ashok Nayak, Director Aeronautical Development Agency PS Subramanyam were present on the occasion. READ FULL ARTICLE on FRONTIER INDIA website. Vous pouvez lire en français ici un article sur le Tejas version Marine indienne (sur Avianews).
You can watch a video about the LCA NP1 roll out below:
(Article adapted from AVIANEWS) According to Pascal – you can read here in French – the Rafale has numerous assets, and might become the winner in the NAC competition to replace the F-5 fleet, id est: Switzerland might buy Dassault's fighters.
Industrial partnership:
The industrial consortium Rafale International – Dassault Aviation, Snecma (Safran Group), and Thales – MBDA, and their subcontractors are able to offer Switzerland an industrial and scientific cooperation for the benefit of the townships . This offer concerns the whole range of suppliers ie: the military, but also the civilian sector which includes programs for Falcon business jets, the civilian CFM56 engines, and Aircraft and helicopters avionics.
Some elements of the Rafale have already been produced in Switzerland – cockpit, fuel tank and more recently additional elements of the Thales radar RBE2.
The offer includes the outsourcing of many structural components, final assembly andmaintenance in Switzerland for all of the Rafale program, and research and development. The manufacture of weapons (MICA missiles) is also proposed and the development of helmet-mounted sight GERFAUT are also concerned, as well as systems such as the system of self-protection SPECTRA and OSF (Front Sector Optronic).
France would have confirmed the Swiss access to all technologies used in the aircraft including development tools, source codes, and to the most sensitive data.
Optimized for Switzerland:
According to Dassault, the Rafale would suit Switzerland, because as a neighbor, the military and industrial collaboration can be eased considerably. Moreover, the latest block (F3+) which was tested in Switzerland responded to 95% in specifications and offers the following possibilities:
Multisensor system proposed:
The proposed version of the Rafale in Switzerland is the most recent available, that is to say the block F3+ (sometimes identified F4). This version is not in service yet. However, 60 Rafales of this kind were ordered by the French Air Force and Navy in late December 2009. The F3+ features:
In terms of propulsion, it is not excluded that a more powerful version of the SNECMA M-88 jet engine might be available
(to be confirmed).
Military training cooperation:
Switzerland is already training with the French Air Force (air-to-air refueling, and EPERVIER exercise). In case of Rafale acquisition, pilots would also have flight simulators at their disposal as well as several training sectors in France. De plus, la base aérienne 113 de Saint-Dizier serait ouverte pour nos pilotes. Moreover, the air base 113 at Saint-Dizier – already equipped with Rafale facilities – would welcome the Swiss pilots.
Pascal's comments:
Although not a favorite in early trials, the F3 + version has demonstrated its excellent capabilities and respond in exemplary fashion to the specifications. In addition, Dassault personnel were able to conduct a remarkable campaign thanks to both technical and interpersonal skills. The Rafale now has many assets that could very well do to win the Helvetian market!
(Article adapted from Pascal's AVIANEWS blog – Photos: © Xavier Cotton's gallery and his blog http://passiondesavions.blogspot.com/)

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Gil has served as Chairman of the Communications Committee of J Street New York City since the chapter's founding in 2008/09. A long-time Middle East peace activist, he was one of the founders of Brit Tzedek v'Shalom in 2002 and was a member of its board until it merged with J Street. From 1966 to 1989 Gil was a career Foreign Service officer, serving in Somalia and Ethiopia and in Israel during (what I call the "good") Camp David era, 1978-82, under legendary ambassador Samuel Lewis. As one of the embassy's foremost Hebrew speakers, his portfolio included goings-on at the Knesset, where he spent several days a month, and the then-nascent settlement phenomenon. His assignments at the State Department in Washington included two years as a speechwriter for Secretary of State George Shultz and as director of South African Affairs. Growing out of his experience in Ethiopia, Gil was one of the founders of the American Association for Ethiopian Jews, the organization ultimately responsible for placing the plight of Ethiopian Jewry on the American Jewish — and eventually the Israeli — agenda, and leading to the aliya of the entire community. From 1995 to 1999 he served as Communications Director of the New Israel Fund.
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Theresa's Photo Shoot
Theresa & The City I always tell my close friends that you should have a set of photos that reflect your personality. One day you will look back and have the chance to reflect on those fond memories. You don't need to wait for a special occasion to have a professional set of pictures, so...
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California Sun & Sand Words are just not enough to describe this very cute couple! They are total sweethearts and their personality exudes nothing but ultimate kindness. Unfortunately, I was not going to be able to attend their very extraordinary wedding extravaganza. I was more than touched when Vaishali asked me over dinner, if I...
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You know that your pleated or cellular shades are older, but you still love them. Plus, the fabric is in great condition and matches your decor. Maybe you even have lots of the same shades providing seamless coordination throughout your home. There's no need to replace them; you have no desire to replace them. But when you took them down to paint or have new windows installed, the brackets broke. You've been to the big box stores and small hardware shops in your town, but no one has the mounting hardware. Are you doomed?
We have the answer! At Fix My Blinds, we carry many different hard to find mounting brackets for various ages and brands of cellular and pleated shades. Below are some of our most popular brackets. The graphics show the older style bracket and the newer replacement bracket that we sell. Check out our entire selection here: Brackets. It is very important to verify that your bracket matches what we label as the Old/Obsolete bracket before purchase.
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Eh, average
He should have tripped and broke multiple limbs. And crazy awkward background running/screaming is always funny
Eh, average
He should have tripped and broke multiple limbs. And crazy awkward background running/screaming is always funny
Heh heh.
Even though it was awkward, it was still funny. That laugh is stuck in my head now >.<
That was different and ackward
I was quite suprised with naked dragon pictures popped up out of my camera drones, and of course I had to investigate. Suprise to me something of yours I havent seen! Not quite an episode of ytown or fro frog though .,. but a short is a short is a short...is a monkey.
Now you get to work on Fro Frog, with sexy aliens this time about ._. I invested $200,000,000.73 into these camera drones, and I expect to turn a profit between black mailing you and selling the naked alien pictures to horny geeks. Now I can't exactly make a profit if no new episode comes can I?
Oh and heres your foot back - hands over foot perserved in a jar - I suppose I forgot to give it back ^^' my bad my bad. Now go Marcus! Animate! Animate like the wind! That is if the wind could animate! Which I suppose it can't... Animate like Dahlstrom then! Cause the wind can't animate! Cause it sucks!
short and sweet
I write a lot of really long reviews, I must be really up myself. Anyway, yeah this was funny. I love his little hysterical laugh! It was pretty short, but you didn't leave anything open, which is good, and everything closed really nicely. Your direction style is pretty cinematic, and a welcome relief from all those people who wouldn't bloody change the camera (lets call it camera even though it's an animation) angle if their life depended upon it! You integrated the photo(s?) really well, and it was pretty convincing. And your animating style is quite nice. All in all, everything is great, but not absolutely bloody amazing.
nice to get some new feedback on this short animation. I'm thinkning about making some new animations with Mr DragoonBreath.
Change of Pace
An interesting change of pace from your other series, I think, not hysterical, but cute/funny. I really liked the facial expressions of the guard.
Pretty funny, but I REALLY wish that you'd continue the FroFrog series, that was a friggin awesome cartoon.
Nicely done, I look forward to more of your work (and hopefully someday more frofrog)
Well am afraid the Frofrog-series is dead because it was to bog a project.


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A bike that very much stays true to the brand's good natured but darkly "evil" temperament, the Insurgent is a FULLY capable trail bike marked with nefarious underpinnings. In reality The Insurgent is two very different bikes, with different ride qualities that can appeal to distinct sets of riders and a wide variety of trails. This is the result of two geometry settings available via flipping a chip in the suspension linkage. The higher setting results in a thoroughly modern long travel bike, but one with an entirely reasonable disposition and geometry. A 65.6° headtube angle, 346mm high bottom bracket, and 430mm chainstays are smack dab in the middle of where many of today's more capable riders want an all around trail bike that pedals uphill with relative ease and maintains a playful, carefree feeling of all around enjoyment. In the lower setting, the headtube angle drops almost a full degree to 64.8°, both the wheelbase and the chainstays lengthen by two millimeters, and the bottom bracket drops 12mm to a category low of 334mm. These are numbers that can no longer be described as "carefree," and certainly push the limits of what is appropriate in many riding contexts. The beauty is that this setting can be changed in a matter of minutes, leaving you free to explore a wide variety of trials at a moments notice. To learn how to adjust the geometry settings, take a look at our How-to.
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Date: 5/7/2011
The Planning Officers Society and Local Government Group have submitted a joint response.
The Planning Officers Society and the Local Government (LG) Group agree that there is a pressing need for additional residential development in many areas. Local authorities balance this need with the importance of promoting economic development through the planning system. Crucially the current system allows for local people and their elected representatives to shape their area according to local needs and priorities.
POS and LG Group are not aware of any evidence that the planning system is causing undue delay or obstruction to change of use. Evidence we have received from our members suggests that applications for change of use are overwhelmingly approved with important conditions attached to ensure that adverse affects are mitigated and the development is both viable and sustainable. This suggests that the principal cause of reduced house building rates is market rather than planning related.
POS and the LG Group consider that the government's stated objective of increasing availability of housing could be more effectively achieved through better use of existing tools and policy instruments. We outline the role of the current system in mitigating undesirable impacts from change of use and suggest alternative mechanisms the government may wish to pursue in this section. We believe these alternate mechanisms would achieve similar outcomes but retain the opportunity for local people and their elected representatives to shape their local area rather than imposing blanket national requirements.
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Kids learn new skills at High Desert Museum
by Kate Ramsayer / The Bulletin
The kids stood in a semicircle, eyes focused at Rebecca Moergen's feet. With a bow in one hand, a stick in the other and a small board under her boot, she crouched down, trying to start a fire. "The most important wilderness survival skill is a positive attitude," she had said earlier. "You guys think we can get a fire going?" The crowd at the High Desert Museum answered yes, and sure enough, after moving the bow back and forth to make the stick spin, a little pile of dust started smoking.
Moergen and others with the Coyote Trails School of Nature were at the High Desert Museum as part of Kids Day on Friday, teaching children how to track mammals, build a simple shelter in the woods and listen to the birds around them. Even if people just have an awareness of basic survival skills, like building a shelter or starting fire, it can help them not panic if they ever get lost in the woods, Moergen said. "We're really using primitive living skills to help people have connections to the world around them," Moergen said.
Skills like being able to pick out birdcalls could clue hikers or trackers in to other things going on in the woods. And showing kids how to make fire demystifies the process a bit, she said. The instructors showed two ways to get little piles of dust smoking, once with a bow and once by simply rubbing a stick back and forth in their hands to create friction in a notched board. "Is that wood splinter-free?" asked Annie Hawkins, 9, of Bend. Moergen said that it does sometimes cause blisters. Hawkins noted later that if she was stuck without matches, she would use the bow method to avoid any potential splinters. But she enjoyed the demonstration, she said. "It was really cool because I think it's really good to know some fire-starter ways without matches," she said.
Jesse Christensen, 7, who was visiting from Oregon City, liked the bow method as well. "It's pretty good," he said. He had spent the day "just playing around" at the museum, he said, climbing rocks and looking at the animals. Kids Day, which the museum puts on about three times a year, is full of events for children of all ages, said Jamie Chapman, visitor programming specialist with the museum. Friday's events all focused on a winter theme, including games and crafts?like pinwheels and paper dolls. "These are all activities based on things pioneer children would have done to while away the winter months," Chapman said.
Debbie Keefer-Smith, of Bend, had brought her children to the museum not knowing about the special events, but they took advantage of the?opportunity to make a natural bird feeder out of pine cones and peanut butter, to decorate gingerbread cookies shaped like fish and to take a horse-drawn wagon ride. "It's great because it has a lot of activity centers for the kids," Keefer-Smith said. Her daughter Elise Smith, 9, was busy making a pinwheel, and then was off to look at some of the animals. When she walked in today, she said, her first thought was: "I have a lot of things to do."


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Paradise>> Five Paradise High School seniors won first place in the SkillsUSA Regional Competition Saturday in Sacramento and qualified to compete at the State level.
Bobcats Joseph Levin, Bennett Ervin, Lorissa Parks, Lauren Offutt and Anthony Lindsey represented from Project Lead the Way.
The Quiz Bowl tested the students' savvy in politics, current events, math, science, history and SkillsUSA procedures.
"It is like a group Jeopardy competition," Coach Lowell Forward said. "We competed against two other teams and answered more questions correctly."
Paradise's Project Lead the Way teachers Forward and Chris Hansbrough organized the event.
SkillsUSA is a national organization with more than 300,000 students annually through 4,000 local chapters as an integral part of career and technical education. The skillsUSA framework provides students with personal, workplace and technical skills to empower students to become world class workers, leaders and responsible American citizens.
The state competition is scheduled in April in Ontario, CA.


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This summer, we've immersed ourselves in a conversation surrounding the issues of hunger. Inspired by DRAW: Here, There and Everywhere, the LPK-sponsored exhibition at the Cincinnati Art Museum that uses art to shed light on hunger-related issues, we've explored how creative and artistic approaches to the problem can affect positive social change.
The cause-based exhibition is a direct result of Museum Director Aaron Betsky's challenge to the museum's staff: extend creative responsibility to all museum employees regardless of role, position and previous creative experience. This shift in approach led to the first-of-its-kind exhibition at the museum, sparked by Senior Accountant Jennifer West and brought to life with the expertise of Director of Learning and Interpretation Emily Holtrop.
We spoke with both women about the inspiration, challenges and positive change that has come from their work.
LPK: What inspired DRAW: Here, There and Everywhere?
EMILY: Well, the inspiration for this exhibition really came from my co-curator Jenni West's experience packing food boxes at the organization Kids Against Hunger (KAH). She was so impassioned by what she learned while there that she felt a deep need to act. I came into the picture very early as her co-curator and we took it from there. I think the real inspiration was our desire to do something new, different and impactful for the community and the Art Museum.
JENNI: After volunteering with KAH, I was inspired to give a voice to those who cannot speak for themselves. KAH Director Larry Bergeron uses the phrase "here, there and everywhere" to describe the universal existence of hunger, so with their permission, we used it to define a concept for the new DRAW exhibition.
LPK: How did the concept grow from an idea into a first-of-its-kind exhibit?
JENNI: The concept grew from my experience with the KAH organization. I was so taken back by the number of children dying each day from hunger that I felt a responsibility to do something. My first thought was to make a quilt of the painting in the KAH factory and sell the art to raise money. Instead, my husband suggested that I put the painting in the museum for the public to see, thereby generating awareness of the need to help fight hunger here, there and everywhere. The museum had never had an exhibition based around a social cause, so the DRAW exhibit that grew from our passion to fight hunger became the first of its kind.
EMILY: We knew we wanted to do something with our permanent collection and re-interpret works through the lens of hunger. We knew we wanted to take a stand and call people to action. When we proposed the exhibition internally, no one shot the idea down. We were all energized to do something new, something experimental. I don't think we saw this as a first-of-its-kind exhibition when we proposed it, it just happens to be a first of its kind.
LPK: How did your participation in DRAW: Here, There and Everywhere challenge you in new ways?
JENNI: The exhibit challenged me to research a topic and put my thoughts and ideas to pen and paper. My natural creative style is to make things — quilts, dresses, cross-stitch and knitted pieces, items that have simple, tangible uses. In creating this exhibition, I was challenged to think in a different way. My accounting background helped bridge the gap. Focusing on numbers helped me translate the data into a concept for sharing information with our visitors. Also, thank goodness for Emily — she's a fantastic writer!
EMILY: Part of my role as the Director of Learning and Interpretation at the Art Museum is to work with curators on manifesting special exhibitions and gallery re-interpretations. Working on this exhibition called on those already-acquired skills of research, editing and interpretation. However, this exhibition was different. I was challenged because this was not another person's work I was critiquing and working on; it was mine, it was Jenni's. We were the owners of this research, we were the ones wholly responsible for the outcome of the exhibition — this was great, but also a bit daunting at the same time.
LPK: How has the experience of creating this exhibit affected the perspective or approach in your day-to-day?
EMILY: The work that I did on this exhibition has affected the way that I look at the world and has really given me a great sense of perspective when it comes to dealing with stressful situations. When you are looking at issues of hunger and all the things that people are dealing with in the world that are so much bigger than the petty little things you may get stressed about, it really gives you perspective.
JENNI: My approach to the day-to-day is different. I have more focus for the "big picture" and my confidence is heightened with proof that it's possible to attain even the largest of goals. I thrived on being part of the next big thing in what has become a milestone achievement in my life. If an organization truly wants to develop creative energy across departments, the freedom to be creative must be supported by all members — employees, management and beyond. When individual creativity is valued and encouraged, organizational creativity will flourish!


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What to CookMexican
Grilled Corn and Summer Squash Quesadillas
For those nights when you get home hungry, stressed, and impatient, Hangry is here to help. Each Monday, Kendra Vaculin will share quick, exciting meals that anyone can make -- whether you're in your first apartment or feeding a hangry family.
Today: Grilled vegetable quesadillas, for those of us without a grill.
Oh little lines of black from the grill, oh subtle summery char, how dearly I do love thee. I want you on my chicken, I refuse hot dogs without you, and when you mark my vegetables, the heavens erupt in song. Do you hear that, char? Those are angels, and they are singing the "Oh Happy Day" arrangement from Sister Act 2. The angels like Whoopi Goldberg.
I know it feels like I've neglected you this summer, char. But I promise it isn't my fault. At my parents' house in California there is a barbecue the size of a Jetta in the backyard, so grilled food is as easy to come by as clean laundry -- with just as negligible an effort on my part. Like all suburban dads before him, my father readily stands before the behemoth, flipping meat. But no such fiery meal-maker is available to me in New York City, where a Jetta couldn't even fit into my bedroom. If I want to see you, char, I am going to have to get creative.
Luckily, stovetop grilling is actually very simple, particularly with corn. Armed with tongs and no fear, blackened vegetable victory will soon be yours. Naturally, the follow-up move is cheese.
More: Another cheesy filling for your tortillas? Diana Kennedy's scrambled ricotta.
As was astutely mentioned to me recently, very wasted frat boys regularly knock quesadillas out of the park. You are neither wasted (I hope) nor a frat boy (well, probably not), so your success is guaranteed. Plus, now you have grilled corn! Are you kidding me? You're so close to a melty meal that even I can taste it.
Grilled Corn and Zucchini Quesadillas
Makes 4
2 ears of corn
8 mini tortillas
1 heaping cup shredded pepper jack cheese
1 small zucchini, sliced into 1/4 inch-thick rounds
4 ounces goat cheese
Freshly ground pepper
Tomatillo salsa (homemade or store-bought), for serving
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Kiwis selector Tawera Nikau is unsure if Tongan World Cup defector Jason Taumalolo could ever play for New Zealand again - but believes loyalty should be shown to players that are committed to the black and white jersey.
Taumalolo threw the Kiwis World Cup plans into disarray earlier this week, when he made the shock announcement to play for Tonga - together with David Fusitu'a, Manu Ma'u and Sio Siua Taukeiaho - rather than New Zealand at the upcoming tournament.
Melbourne Storm premiership winner Kenny Bromwich, West Tigers back-rower Elijah Taylor and Sydney Roosters front-rower Jared Waerea-Hargreaves were initially overlooked but answered an S.O.S call at the 11th hour before the Kiwis 24-man squad was officially announced yesterday.
Nikau stopped short of saying the door would be closed to Taumalolo when future Kiwis sides are picked but, as tempting as it might be to give the world's best forward another shot, believes selectors need to stay loyal to players that are fully invested in the New Zealand cause.
"Those will be tough decisions that we've got to make and discussions that we've got to have once we get to that position," said Nikau.
"But if you're picking players for this World Cup, you've got to show a bit of loyalty to those guys that have put their hand up and said they want to be playing.
"Those are the discussions that the selectors will have when it gets to the time but if you're looking at players that have said 'yep, I want to be a part of this' that are 100 per cent committed to the black jersey, that are respecting the jersey, and all those that have gone before them, you'd certainly take that into consideration.
"When you look at the guys that you really want in the team, it's those guys that are going to do the hard yards when the going does get tough, you want them to be there."
Taumalolo's absence will also impact on Kiwis coach David Kidwell's attacking plans for the five-week tournament.
Together with Kiwis technical analyst and former veteran NRL coach, Brian Smith, Kidwell devised a plan which was set to rely heavily on the power running and second-phase off-loading strengths of Taumalolo.
The onus will now fall on captain Adam Blair and fellow ball-playing middle forwards Martin Taupau, Joseph Tapine, Waerea-Hargreaves and Kiwis debutant Nelson Asofa-Solomona to pick up the slack and generate attacking opportunities for halves Shaun Johnson and Te Maire Martin and fullback Roger Tuivasa-Sheck.
"We're going to be working on that," said Kidwell.
"I've been working closely with Brian Smith over the last three months.
"It won't change our style. There will just be different personnel in there using that style that we're going to play."
In the wake of the mass exodus of players, the New Zealand Rugby League are preparing to lobby the International Rugby League Federation to tighten laws around players changing allegiances so close to a World Cup.
"The International Rugby League Federation has to have a look at the rules around the eligibility during the World Cup's and flip-flopping," said Nikau.
"Whether you just change once and that's it, you've got to play for Tonga for the rest of your career, then that's it you've got to play for Tonga, or you're going to play for Samoa.
"In the past you've been able to change, so I'm sure that will be on the agenda for the Rugby League International Federation later at the end of the tournament."


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"My house sits on about 10-feet elevation so if the storm surge gets up to 12 feet it's going to be a bit of a problem. If it's 15 feet I'll sit on the roof and surf my way into downtown Corpus. But I'm hunkered down. I've got food. I've got water. If my power goes out I'll eat what's in the fridge then eat stuff cold, out of a can. I'm a Boy Scout, so I'm prepared. I can ride this thing out."(Wade Walker, quoted in "Hurricane Harvey is Scaring Everyone Away But These People," by Alex Hannaford, Reuters, 08/26/17)
I rarely turn on the television news in the evening as I once did, unwilling to let the constant stream of negative news—violence, shootings, Washington politics, war and the suffering—consume my thoughts and mood. But I followed the news of Hurricane Harvey on Friday and again last night, full of heartache for the many hundreds of people who suffered so much devastation and loss. It will be days yet before the full extent of the damage will be assessed, but despite the losses, people are already coming together to help one another. It's that, in the midst of such sorrow and suffering, enables people find hope, something we witness again and again in the midst of tragedy and loss.
Hope is something we all need at so many different times in our lives. It plays a major role in our healing, whether from tragedy, loss or serious illness. Siddhartha Mukherjee, physician and author of the Pulitzer Prize winning The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (2011) defined hope as a "vital organ" in a lecture he delivered nearly three years ago at University of California, San Diego. According to Mukherjee, hope gives cancer patients added life force. Is it any wonder then, that in the world of cancer, loss and suffering, hope might be one of the most powerful medicines we possess?
If a man die, it is because death
has first possessed his imagination.
(William Carlos Williams, in Mukherjee, p.306).
Hope is an expectation that something good can happen in the future—and in the midst of suffering or sorrow, we sometimes forget that hope is there, waiting to be discovered in many different situations in our lives. Anne LaMott's 2013 book, Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope, and Repair, illustrates how hope exists–even in a world punctuated by vitriolic political discourse, frequent reports of random shootings, car bombs, wars, natural disasters, hunger or life-threatening disease. "Hope is a conversation," LaMott states. "What allows us to go on and find those small moments of goodness, are to be found in "attention, creation, love, and," she adds with incomparable wit, "dessert."
"…those small moments of goodness." Hope is what we experience in the embrace of neighbors and friends, helping one another in the wake of devastation from hurricanes and tornados. It is present in those acts of unexpected kindness from complete strangers. Red Cross volunteers from the Dakotas, Arizona and many other states are already heading to Texas to offer assistance, and many organizations, like Airbnb, food banks– even diaper banks for those families with infants and toddlers–have already sprang into action, all of these efforts so necessary and vital in re-igniting hope and healing.
Healing, which is sometimes simplified in the way we think of it, is more than medicine and treatments. Healing, in the truest sense of the word, is the process of "becoming whole," whether from a natural disaster or a cancer diagnosis. It is a multi-faceted process of transformation. There is a strong connection of mind and body in healing, and hope plays a central role. In studies exploring the impact of hope among cancer patients, researchers conclude that hope helps decrease patient anxiety and increase quality of life. Even among the terminally ill, hope is an essential resource. It helps us cope during times of intense physical and psychological distress.
Where can we find hope? It's present in test results that show a shrinking tumor or promising clinical trials of a new therapy; it's hope that's ignited in those unexpected acts of kindness from strangers. Hope resides a child's delight in finding a tree frog as he explores his own yard, in an infant's first smile, a young woman offering her seat on the subway to an elderly person, or a bouquet of summer dandelions picked for a mother by her child. Hope waits to be discovered, like in springtime, when determined crocuses poke their heads through snow and ice at winter's end or the brilliant explosion of color in autumn as mornings turn cool.
I know I sometimes have to stop and remember to look for those small moments of goodness—of hope—when I find my spirits sagging in the frustrations of daily life, human crises, or the constant thrum of divisive political discourse. Hope sometimes seems to get lost. But I can find it if I only stop to notice: a hug from a grandchild, singing together with a random crowd of people at an evening of "Choir! Choir! Choir!" or walking my dog through the park and watching her unflagging hope of catching a squirrel (she never does, but she never gives up either). It's in these small moments of goodness and delight that reminds me of the resilience of the human spirit, and hope, then," springs eternal."
Tomorrow will be beautiful
For tomorrow comes out of the lake.
("Hope," by Emanuel Carnevali, in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, 1921)
Writing Suggestions:
- This week, consider hope. How would you define it if asked?
- When have you felt as if you were losing hope? Why? What changed?
- What helped you regain a sense hope?
- When have you discovered hope in a "small moment of goodness? "Describe it.


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After developing the initial prototype of Cryptonite in Costa Rica, I continued working on it independently. After a much needed cleanup of the code (prototype development had been hectic and had left not much time to refactor or test the code), I worked on a number of Perl modules and components that would be needed next, to make the jump from a simple prototype to a scalable product. These included Crypt::GPG (with an interface almost identical to that of Crypt::PGP5, so that switching to GnuPG for the crypto operations in Cryptonite involved little more than a single-line change to the code), and Persistence::Database::SQL and Persistence::Object::Postgres (which provide object persistence in a Postgres database, with a similar interface to Persistence::Object::Simple, making the backend database switch quite seamless as well).
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Visit our parish school's website for tuition and financial aid information, and to learn more about providing a quality Catholic education for your child.
Weekly Scripture Study
Every Wednesday evening, Father Dominic and Pat Ireland will be hosting a weekly reflection on the Sunday readings, entitled, "Come and See!" in Our Lady of Peace Spiritual Life Center (the former Convent) from 7:00 - 8:30 pm. Sessions are very casual and informal. Bring a friend! For more info, contact Patrick Ireland at: firstname.lastname@example.com or 484-620 -7149.
Women's Group
Our newly formed Women's Group will meet in Our Lady of Peace Cafeteria on the 1st Thursday of each month at 6:30 pm. Ladies, come join us and help put a women's touch on parish events and services to help our parish family and community. All are welcome, come share your thoughts, time and talents in doing God's work and spreading His love.
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Christmas brings a lot of happiness and joy. The holy season decrease the distance and bring our loved one close to us. Gifts are an integral part of Christmas. But it does not matter, how small or inexpensive they are, personalized gifts always make the recipient happy and surprised. They help rekindle bonds of family, friendship and love. Nowadays, there are various types of Christmas gifts available in market. While readymade gifts and hampers are popular giveaways at Christmas, personalized gifts are more special in this holy season.
Christmas is a special occasion and it demands an added touch to even a personalized gift. If you are looking for a special gift for your loved one, you can give a custom photo blanket. Usually, the problem lies not only with the giver, but with the gift recipient as well. Some people just seem to have everything. And photo blanket is a fabulous gift alternative for them.
Personalized photo throws are a great way to commemorate special occasions with the addition of a quality photo on to the design of this classic heirloom. A special process called dye-sublimation results in an image that looks much like painting, versus simply stamping the photo image on top of the blanket fibers. Adding a quality border designed specifically for Christmas will make high-quality gift even more special to the recipient.
Personalized gifts reflect the personalities of the recipient and the one who is gifting. When gifts are selected with care and thoughtfulness, it shows. Of course, personalized Christmas gifts must be selected keeping in mind the recipient's personal tastes, preferences and requirements.
Christmas photo blankets are something that beyond the imagination. The recipient will be surprised to receive the gift and will give you a big "Thank You" for this wonderful gift option. From a new born baby to an old everyone deserve a special gift on this holy season and that is a photo blanket.
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Moreover, with the assistance of modern technological innovations, now it is really easy to make photo blankets. There are several websites that offer photo blanket with your preferred image along with attractive design. However, before choosing any manufacturer, make sure he has years of experience on making photo blankets in this domain. Price is a great factor while making a blanket. In that case, you need to check and compare with other manufacturer before choosing one.


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Exercise Physiology
(ěk'sər-sīz fɪzɪˈɒlədʒi'): Noun.
The art of helping you to move better and live in better health, regardless of your situation.
Using human adaptability and enabling exercise in daily life to achieve beyond what is perceived to be possible.
Exercise Physiology is an incredibly powerful way to help you achieve your health and well-being goals, however, it can be hard to explain.
Think physiotherapy and personal training combined. This is a simple way to describe exercise physiology that doesn't give credit to the breadth of conditions we can help with. If you're injured; experience low back pain; have conditions like diabetes, obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure, PCOS, anxiety, depression or cancer, we help YOU to improve your health and well-being, keep you doing the things you love, all through living an active lifestyle.
We listen to your unique wants and needs and focus on your goals to tailor your experience. We incorporate exercise, goal setting, dietary advice and education to provide a holistic, patient-focused approach.
Our Exercise Physiologist will help you feel comfortable – there is no boot camp style screaming in our sessions – and to exercise and implement healthy habits in a way that is safe and suitable for you. Just a handful of the things we can help you with are:
- Exercise to reduce and manage chronic (long term) pain, including low back pain, fibromyalgia and arthritis
- Prevention and rehabilitation of sports injuries, including running related injuries
- Management of Type 2 Diabetes, PCOS, obesity – including weight reduction strategies
- Exercise for cardiac rehabilitation
- Exercise for people currently undergoing treatment for cancer, or following cancer treatment
- Exercise for every body, regardless of fitness level, age, gender or limitations to movement.
- Goal setting and health coaching
- Home exercises to ensure your results.
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Self-paced e-Learning
Would you like to provide more compelling training for your agency?
IGIST motivates its clients to adopt a cutting edge e-Learning program that is client focused instead of software focused. We perform instructional systems design to build out your story, your character, and you're methods. The product is a memorable storyline tutorial that your users are self-motivated to take.
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This format for training is web-based, and students can set their own schedule to work through the training material. Software tools allow existing and new curriculum to be migrated into a web-based format, in which courses can be taken online, and a variety of administrative tasks (like registration, knowledge assessment, performance tracking, and tracking of an individual's particular learning path) can be tracked through an LMS (Learning Management System). IGIST is experiencing significant growth in this area, as companies and agencies are coming to appreciate the significant Return on Investment of this form of training.
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Pros shake it up at mixology championships
Pros shake it up at mixology championships
DES MOINES, Iowa —
Cocktail creators battled it out at Americana Restaurant in downtown Des Moines Wednesday night.
The restaurant was packed for the 2014 Mixology Championships.
The event is hosted by the Iowa Restaurant Association. It featured 11 finalists who battled their way into this final round, all hoping to become Iowa's top Mixologist.
All the finalists created three separate cocktails to be judged by industry professionals.
The winner was Rex Schulze of Splash Seafood Bar and Grill. The runner up was Amanda Scheiber of Crème Cupcake.


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Railay Beach and Ao Nang are two of the most beautiful places in Thailand and we got to see the best of them. From rock climbing the side of a cliff to adventuring across
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15 years after landmark gathering, women still lack equal rightsMar 1, 2010
High-level meeting at the UN assesses advances and challenges in women's rights
New York - Thousands of government officials, activists and women leaders from all over the world are gathered in NY today to assess the progress and challenges in women's empowerment at the 54th session of the Commission on the Status of Women. The meeting takes place at the United Nations Headquarters from March 1-12 — 15 years after the milestone gathering in Beijing when governments pledged to advance equality for women everywhere.
"Progress towards gender equality has been uneven and slow, making it more difficult to meet the Millennium Development Goals," said UNDP Administrator Helen Clark. "To meet the MDGs by 2015, we must all work harder on the empowerment of women, gender equity in education, and on improving maternal health. These are not only critical in their own right, but will underpin progress on other MDGs too."
At the 1995 gathering, 189 countries unanimously recognized gender equality and the empowerment of women as fundamental for development, peace and human rights, adopting the Beijing Declaration. They also adopted the Platform for Action, an internationally agreed plan for achieving equality for women across critical areas ranging from education and economy to armed-conflict, power and decision-making. The landmark conference was the largest-ever gathering of governmental and non-governmental representatives at a United Nations conference, with around 47,000 participants, men and women.
Challenges ahead
Looking back, it is clear what were once called 'women's issues' have been transformed into matters of primary national and international significance. Stronger women's networks and alliances have taken shape, across issues and borders. But many challenges remain.
Education – Around 60 per cent of countries have achieved gender parity in primary education, 30 percent in secondary education and only 6 per cent intertiary education. Gender disparities in education are clearly evident in some regions. Sub-Saharan Africa and Oceania, for example, have the largest gender gaps in primary enrolment. The gender gap in school enrolment is more evident in secondary education, where many more countries are falling behind.At the current rate of progress, the target of eliminating gender disparity in all levels of education no later than 2015 remains far from being achieved.
Women in politics - The global average of women holding parliamentary seats (18.6 percent) is far from the target of 30 percent set in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. At the present rate, it will take another 40 years to reach gender parity. By March 2009, 15 women were serving as heads of state or government, up from nine in 2000. Gains were made in Latin America and the Caribbean, where women hold 22 percent of all legislative seats, the highest regional average.
Economy - In developing countries, women consistently lag behind men in formal labour force participation and entrepreneurship, earn less than men for similar work, and have less access to credit and lower inheritance and ownership rights than men do.
Women occupy almost 40 percent of all paid jobs outside agriculture, compared to 35 percent in 1990. But almost two thirds of women in the developing world work in vulnerable jobs as self-employed persons or as unpaid family workers. This type of work accounts for more than 80 percent of all jobs for women in Southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
As a result of the global economic crisis, many more women are being pushed into vulnerable jobs with limited or no safety nets that guard against income loss during economic hardship. The large number of women unpaid workers in family businesses also adds to their already heavy burden of unpaid care work in households.
Violence - Despite tremendous progress made in establishing international standards and enacting national laws to address gender-based violence, there is still no evident decrease. Security Council resolutions 1888 and 1889 on gender, peace and security are important landmark resolutions, but they are only the beginning of what must be done to ensure the security of women throughout the world.
In the course of her lifetime, at least one in three women is beaten, coerced into sex or abused by an intimate partner and one in five women will become a victim of rape or attempted rape. The number is higher during periods of armed conflict.
UNDP works with governments, civil society organizations and the private sector in 166 countries to address women's needs and to ensure equality and justice for women and girls.
Other Resources:
UNDP side events during the Commission on the Status of Women [PDF]
UNDP's work on Women's Empowerment
UNDP Fast Facts on Progress since the Beijing Conference [PDF]
UNDP's messages for the Commission on the Status of Women 2010 [PDF]


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October 07, 2009 06:30 ET
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Oct. 7, 2009) - Anaconda Mining Inc. ("Anaconda" or the "Company") (TSX:ANX), is pleased to announce that Mr. Glenn Kosick, Mr. Thomas Pladsen, and Mr. Glenn Dobby have joined its Board of Directors effective October 2, 2009.
Mr. Glenn Kosick has 30 years of experience in the global mining industry. After 9 years of working as an engineer in both industrial research and various mining operations, he founded MinnovEX Technologies Inc. and held the position of President and CEO from 1988 until 2005, conducting work in 30 countries through four offices. After 18 years as an industry leader in the areas of plant process design and operation, geometallurgy and advanced process control, MinnovEX was sold to SGS in Switzerland. Glenn spent the following three years as their director of acquisitions, primarily in the resource and water industry. He left SGS in 2008 and started G.A. Kosick Enterprises, a company focused on funding for the venture capital market and business consulting. Mr. Kosick currently serves on the Board of Directors of several private companies.
Mr. Thomas Pladsen has extensive experience in corporate finance and financial reporting for public and private companies. Mr. Pladsen received his Chartered Accountant designation with KPMG LLP in Toronto in the mid 1980s and has since held various financial positions with TSX listed, TSXV listed, and private mining and technology companies. These positions included CFO of Katanga Mining Limited from 2004 to 2006, CFO of Andina Minerals Inc. from 2005 to 2008 and CFO of Merc International Minerals Inc. since December 2008 as well as consulting work for several TSXV listed junior mining companies. Mr. Pladsen holds a BBA from Wilfrid Laurier University, is a director of Merc International Minerals, Northfield Capital Corporation, Hosted Data Transaction Solutions Inc. and White Pine Resources Inc.
Mr. Glenn Dobby was a principal at MinnovEX where he held the position of Vice President from 1990 until its acquisition by SGS in 2005. He is presently an independent consultant and an associate at SGS. Prior to his time at MinnovEX he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science at the University of Toronto. He holds a PhD in metallurgical engineering from McGill University.
John McBride, Chairman of Anaconda's Board of Directors commented, "We are very pleased that these three gentlemen have agreed to join Anaconda's Board of Directors. This adds depth and experience in the areas of engineering and mineral processing, as well as additional capability in finance and capital markets, which will further enhance our position as a gold producing mining company. I believe their contributions will immediately benefit our mining operations at the Pine Cove gold mine as our platform for future growth-oriented initiatives."
President, CEO and director Lew Lawrick added, "I am very enthusiastic about working closely with this group of professionals who possess the precise skill sets required at this juncture in the Company's evolution. As the Company's largest individual shareholder, I take particular comfort knowing that all three are significant ANX shareholders whose interests are therefore genuinely aligned with all shareholders."
Concurrent to these appointments, both Mr. Nick Tintor, and Mr. Mario Caron have resigned from the Board. On behalf of the Management and the Board of Directors, Lew Lawrick, President and CEO of the Company would like to thank both Mr. Tintor and Mr. Caron for their considerable time and valued contributions serving Anaconda and its shareholders.
About Anaconda
Anaconda is a Toronto, Canada based mining and exploration company focused on advancing its principal assets, the Pine Cove gold mine in Canada and the San Gabriel Iron Project in Chile. The Company is committed to bringing Pine Cove into full Commercial Production, as well as developing near term production opportunities for San Gabriel.
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Interaction & Engagement, Grades K-2
What can a primary classroom teacher do to help guarantee that all students in diverse classrooms are successful when working with complex text and utilizing complex language structures? Develop critical thinking skills through high levels of student interaction and engagement with collaborative, challenging and open-ended tasks.
This professional development session will focus on formative assessment, a crucial component of lesson design that provides students and teachers with the information they need to increase learning through immediate feedback. Focus will be on how teachers can increase their ability to monitor student performance during a lesson and give immediate and differentiated support to all students.
Teachers will learn:
· practical strategies and tools to assist with monitoring student performance during all parts of a lesson
· how to provide strategic feedback
· how to use information gathered during formative assessment to adjust instructional plans in ways that increase students' capacity for higher order thinking.
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Conductor of award-winning choirs for over many years, Ms. Beaupre was the founder and conductor of the Bach Children's Chorus (BCC) for 30 years. Her choirs, which have included choristers from the age of five through university, have won many first place awards at both the provincial and national levels of the Canadian Federation of Music Festivals, including receiving the overall national award for Best Choir in both 2013 and 2017. BCC has also been awarded three first prizes in the Children's Choir category of the CBC/Radio-Canada National Competition for Amateur Choirs. The BCC has released several solo CDs, and can be heard on soundtracks for movies, television shows, films, and a video by the Canadian Brass, "A Christmas Experiment." Members of BCC II and III have had many opportunities to work with composer Stephan Moccio, including recording his song "I Believe" for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics.
Ms. Beaupre has been honoured with a Bi-Centennial Award of Merit from the City of Scarborough, an award given to individuals whose achievements have brought honour and recognition to the City of Scarborough; the 2002 Guelph YM/YWCA Women of Distinction Award in the arts and culture category; and, in 2013, the Queen's Diamond Jubilee medal for service to her community. In 2014 she was the recipient of the Helen Hosmer Award for Excellence in Music Teaching by the Crane School of Music at the State University of New York at Potsdam.
Linda Beaupré maintains an active schedule as clinician and adjudicator for other choirs and has conducted children's choir camps, workshops and honour choirs throughout Canada, in the US and as far away as Australia and Indonesia. Along with Jean Ashworth Bartle and Eileen Baldwin, she is co-author of a series of theory and ear-training workbooks and CDs entitled A Young Singer's Journey, which are in use throughout North America and beyond. This integrated musical literacy programme is published by Fred Bock Publishing and distributed by Hal Leonard.
Ms. Beaupré received a Bachelor of Music degree from the State University of New York at Potsdam, and a Master of Music degree from the University of Western Ontario. She has taught music in Australia and Nova Scotia, and for several years she was a professional singer with the Elmer Iseler Singers and The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir.
Kimberley Denis, M.Mus. Choral Conducting and Vocal Performance (University of Alberta, 2007), B.Mus. (Mount Allison University, 2003), B.Comm. (Mount Allison University, 2003) is known for her energy and enthusiasm both on stage and off, and is sought after as a soloist, choral clinician and adjudicator for voice and choir. She has conducted a wide variety of ensembles across the province, and has been the guest conductor at Naramata Music Week, Festival 500: Cornerbrook Regional Festival, and a number of school district honour choirs throughout Western Canada. She is a frequent musical theatre vocal coach for local colleges, universities and high schools. Kimberley is also a core singer with Pro Coro Canada, Edmonton's professional choir. In addition to her work as a singer and conductor, she arranges pieces for choirs and is published by Cypress Music and Augsburg Fortress. She is currently teaches voice through the Conservatory of Music of MacEwan University: Alberta College campus.
Richard Sparks is currently Full Professor and Chair of the Division of Conducting & Ensembles at the University of North Texas in Denton Texas, having joined the faculty in 2009. He was Artistic Director of Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton, AB) from 1999 to 2011 and with them toured across Canada and broadcast on CBC Radio. He was also the first non-Canadian conductor to direct the Canadian National Youth Choir in 2006, and in 2008 he was Music Director for a staged production of Monteverdi's opera Orfeo in Edmonton with period instruments.
He was a faculty member at Mount Holyoke College and Pacific Lutheran University, where he was Director of Choral Activities from 1983-2001. Sparks' DMA is from the University of Cincinnati and his dissertation (Swedish A Cappella Music Since 1945) won the ACDA's Julius Herford Award in 1997 and was later published as The Swedish Choral Miracle. Sparks has been active in the professional world, guest conducting the Anchorage Music Festival (his first year substituting for an ailing Robert Shaw conducting Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem), Portland Symphonic Choir, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Northwest Chamber Orchestra, Exultate Chamber Singers in Toronto, Santa Fe Desert Chorale, and the Swedish Radio Choir. He first worked with the Swedish Radio Choir in 2002, and again in 2007 and 2008, the first North American in more than 35 years to work with that ensemble. With the Radio Choir, he conducted their Spring concert in 2008 and prepared them for a variety of performances, including the Brahms Requiem for Valery Gergiev and the Rotterdam Philharmonic, which was released on DVD on the BIS label.
He founded Seattle Pro Musica and led three ensembles from 1973-80 in over 70 concerts; conducted the Seattle Symphony Chorale from 1990-94 (preparing the choir for nine recordings on the Delos label, many now on Naxos); founded and conducted Choral Arts in Seattle from 1993-2006 (with whom he made three recordings on the Gothic label). Since coming to UNT he has led the Collegium Singers to the Boston Early Music Festival three times, the National Collegiate Choral Organization's Conference, and also the Berkeley Early Music Festival. The Collegium Singers/Baroque Orchestra performance of Vivaldi's Gloria, led by Sparks, now has one and a half million hits on YouTube.
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The nephew revenges himself for this, by holding his breath and terrifying his kinswoman with the dread belief that he has made up his mind to burst. Regardless of whispers and shakes, he swells and becomes discoloured, and yet again swells and becomes discoloured, until the aunt can bear it no longer, but leads him out, with no visible neck, and with his eyes going before him like a prawn's. ~ Travelling Abroad - City of London Churches
Not that I have any curiosity to hear powerful preachers. Time was, when I was dragged by the hair of my head, as one may say, to hear too many. On summer evenings, when every flower, and tree, and bird, might have better addressed my soft young heart, I have in my day been caught in the palm of a female hand by the crown, have been violently scrubbed from the neck to the roots of the hair as a purification for the Temple, and have then been carried off highly charged with saponaceous electricity, to be steamed like a potato in the unventilated breath of the powerful Boanerges Boiler and his congregation, until what small mind I had, was quite steamed out of me. ~ Travelling Abroad - City of London Churches


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William Golding is one of the most prominent British novelists and poets. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983 and his masterpiece is Lord of the Flies, which has given him the best praise. The successful use of symbolism is one of the most remarkable features of Golding in this story. This paper focuses on analyzing symbolism of four important characters and three important objects, which will make the reader understand the characters and the plot of the story better. First, the paper gives a simple introduction of the significance, the thesis statement and the organization of the paper. Second, the paper introduces the previous study on Lord of the Flies in the literature review. Then it analyzes the important characters and objects in the story which are endowed with different symbolism, in order to give a better way to understand the story. The last chapter is conclusion.
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Epson Artisan 1430
Epson, www.epson.com.au
Beautiful prints; vibrant colours; detailed blacks; easy to set up
Leaves streaks printing large borderless prints; ink is pricey
A dedicated A3+ photo printer used to be a product limited to only the most passionate photographers. Bulky, expensive and with limited functionality compared to the army of multi-functions on the market, the A3+ photo printer was never designed to be a product for everyone.
Or it wasn't, until Epson managed to carve the price of the Artisan 1430 down to just $399. At that price, even keen amateur photographers can justify dropping the cash to be able to print off large photos.
Setting up the Artisan 1430 is a breeze. The included software DVD may not include drivers for Lion machines, but is still smart enough to point a browser to Epson's website to make the setup simple. The printer has integrated Wi-Fi, which is surprisingly simple to connect given there is no need to enter in pesky wireless passwords on the device itself.
If you want to connect via USB, you'll need to BYO cable though – it's not included in the box. Annoyingly, it's the same 'Type B' USB cable used to connect most printers, which are much less common than the 'Type A' cable every other gadget uses.
Print quality is generally outstanding. Colours are bright and vibrant, with plenty of fine detail when printing a large image. Printing on Epson's own super-gloss and semi-gloss paper showed off just how impressive home photo printers have become in recent times. The blacks are especially deep, and monochrome photos offer a pretty wide spectrum of grey between white and black, although most photos have a very slight coloured hue.
The catch with the Artisan 1430 is that it really struggles with large, borderless prints. Every one comes out with streaky lines at the start and the end of the print job, an issue that disappears when printing images with a small white border around the photo. While that's a pretty big sacrifice to have to make for a professional photographer, for an amateur on a budget, having a white border on every print shouldn't be a deal breaker.
The Artisan 1430 is far from the fastest printer on the market, preferring to concentrate on quality over speed. There is a fast print mode, but the speed versus quality compromise isn't worth using it. Although if you are honestly hoping to print high quality photos as opposed to word documents, speed shouldn't be your biggest concern anyway.
The Artisan 1430 features six different ink tanks – yellow, black, light cyan, light magenta, magenta and cyan – each of which costs $27 to replace. While the printer is pretty economical with each ink tank, there's no indication of how much ink is actually stored in each cartridge, making it hard to work out a cost per print. Still, $160 for a full array of ink cartridges is going to end up more expensive than paying for prints at the local Officeworks.
Epson's Artisan range of printers also works with the company's dedicated iOS app, Epson iPrint, which lets you wirelessly print from an iPhone or iPad with next to no effort. Connecting the app to the printer is painless providing you're on the same wireless network, and while the Epson app doesn't offer any editing, it's certainly good enough for what it does.
Macworld Australia's buying advice
Having a dedicated photo printer is a great way for photographers to showcase their work, and the Artisan 1430 offers fantastic value for money. It struggles to create borderless prints at large sizes, but given the price, that can almost be overlooked. Ink is still expensive, though.


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If you are a business owner, you are no doubt always looking for ways to further improve your business. People long to improve their business so that they can take it up to the next level. One way that you can improve your business is to find new ways to further market your business. Marketing is very important, without a good marketing strategy, there is no way that your business can grow. There are actually a lot of marketing strategies that you can use today. One of the best marketing strategies today is to market your business digitally. Everyone who decides to try out digital marketing will discover the world of benefits that it will give them. Now, let's take a quick glance at some of the reasons why everyone who is in business should consider using digital marketing to market their business.
People who decide to market digitally, especially when they market through the internet, will have the advantage of a lower cost. Traditional methods of marketing, such as newspapers, radio, and television can cost quite a lot of money. This is not the case when you market digitally. Someone who uses digital marketing will find that the price that they have to spend is so much lower than the price they will have to spend if they use radio, television, or newspaper to market their business. Someone who wishes to cut the costs should seek to market their business digitally.
You might be reluctant to enjoy the saved money because you think that it will not be as effective as traditional methods of marketing. This isn't a legitimate reasoning though. Someone might be shocked to know that traditional methods of marketing reach actually far less than people than digital marketing will. If people decide to use digital marketing strategies, such as marketing through the internet, they can reach people from all across the globe. Someone who uses the traditional methods of marketing will never gain this amount of reach, they will always be limited to local reach. If choose to market your business digitally, you will not only save money but you will also reach more people!
So what are you waiting for? You should certainly go for digital marketing today so that you can enjoy all these wonderful benefits that are mentioned here. But that is certainly not all, people who decide to go for digital marketing will enjoy a lot of other advantages that are no mentioned here. So don't wait, and market digitally today!
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Music Man Stingray Bass 5 HH Limited Edition Rosewood Neck Bass Guitar
Music Man Stingray Bass 5 HH Limited Edition Rosewood Neck Bass Guitar
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Bass guitar condition: The bass is in the perfect new condition. Everything works and functions well. It is a new store exemplar.
Sound: it's not an ordinary Music Man Stingray 5, it is more complex modification with 2 pickups: 2 humbuckers that have the possibility to switch coils in different modes. Due to these electronics possibilities, the bass guitar sounds variously in different modes. If to take only the variant of coils switching, there are 5 of them:
- H. Bridge humbucker, coils work in parallel mode. Classic sound of stingray in parallel mode.
- S S 1. Here the inner humbucker coils are working. It sounds a little bit like jazz bass.
- HH. All 4 coils in serial mode. Mode HH is the original only for such modifications. It has a very delicious and modern sound, where all is balanced.
- S S 2 – two outer coils mode.
- H n – neck pickup. Warm and soft sound of Fender Precision.
If to add flexible electronics with 3-band equalizer, we get the universal contemporary instrument that will suit for different aims. Moreover, the bass guitar has the right resonance wood, which together with the well-matched electronics form the universal concert and studio rocket with balls. Rosewood neck adds more warmness and right compression and due to this makes it possible to get in mix better.
Tuning and convenience: Wonderful balance of the instrument, comfortable neck profile, and great possibilities at regulating strings height help to make the guitar compliant. Strings are in a good balance.
Packaging: The bass guitar is delivered with original hardshell case. There are new nickel strings; in addition, there's a very stylish pickguard that imitates rosewood.
The general result and my subjective opinion: Music Man Stingray 5 HH is a universal and characteristic bass guitar. Besides, this is a limited version with all rosewood neck, more expensive and rare model. Such a specification is usually available only to Music Man of BFR line. Due to the presence of the 2nd pickup, the guitar has a wide range of tuning. The tone is recognizable in any mix. The neck gives the natural compression, which helps the bass to sound with confidence. There's strength, attack and characteristic low mids thanks to which the instrument will always be heard in the mix. This is the bass that will never let you down!
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Leo and his beautiful sitar photographed in Tulum, Mexico.
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"The Descendants" actor met with South Sudan's minister of defense, a regional governor and President Salva Kiir during the visit, according to a government official.
Clooney made the dangerous crossing from South Sudan into Sudan's Nuba Mountains region to meet with residents who have been forced to seek shelter in caves because of aerial attacks by Sudan's military.
Violence has flared along the Sudan-South Sudan border since South Sudan seceded last year, and some experts worry the conflict could grow. South Sudan shut down its oil industry this year after accusing Sudan of stealing its oil.
A Senate committee on Wednesday will examine the oil dispute and the limited access aid groups are being given to Sudan's southern regions. Aid experts say people who live in Sudan's Nuba Mountains will soon face a hunger crisis.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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The convertion of VMware Fusion virtual machine with OS X 10.8 fails with the error:
Error 41300: Failed to convert the virtual machine.
the following error can be found in the logs:
F /VmConvert:11423:507/ Error : No hard disk found in source VM configuration
Manual convertion shows that there is no OS installed inside the virtual machine.
Converting Fusion virtual machines with SATA drive may cause an error.
In order to resolve the issue please do the following:
- Go to settings of VMware Fusion virtual machine.
- Hard Drive > Advanced options and in Bus type choose SCSI.
- Convert the virtual machine using Parallels Desktop (if it fails with error, please check Importing Vmware virtual machine fails. Error ID 41300
- After conversion, set SATA back in your VMware Fusion virtual machine.
- Go to Terminal (Finder > Applications > Utilities)
Type in:
prlctl set VM_name --efi-boot off (hit Return/Enter)
Where VM_name is full name of the virtual machine that you can see in Parallels Desktop list.


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Transformative Civic Engagement Through Community Organizing
Maria Avila
Foreword by
Scott J. Peters
Afterword by
Michael Gecan
Paper: 978 1 62036 104 7 / $35.00
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Maria Avila presents a personal account of her experience as a teenager working in a factory in Ciudad Juarez to how she got involved in community organizing. She has since applied the its distinctive practices of community organizing to civic engagement in higher education, demonstrating how this can help create a culture that values and rewards civically engaged scholarship and advance higher education's public, democratic mission.
Adapting what she learned during her years as an organizer with the Industrial Areas Foundation, she describes a practice that aims for full reciprocity between partners and is achieved through the careful nurturing of relationships, a mutual understanding of personal narratives, leadership building, power analysis, and critical reflection. She demonstrates how she implemented the process in various institutions and in various contexts and shares lessons learned.
Community organizing recognizes the need to understand the world as it is in order to create spaces where stakeholders can dialogue and deliberate about strategies for creating the world as we would like it to be. Maria Avila offers a vision and process that can lead to creating institutional change in higher education, in communities surrounding colleges and universities, and in society at large.
This book is a narrative of her personal and professional journey and of how she has gone about co-creating spaces where democracy can be enacted and individual, institutional, and community transformation can occur. In inviting us to experience the process of organizing, and in keeping with its values and spirit, she includes the voices of the participants in the initiatives in which she collaborated – stakeholders ranging from community partners to faculty, students, and administrators in higher education.
Table of Contents:
Foreword by Scott J. Peters
1) Introduction and Overview
2) Four Community Organizing Practices: Creating Culture Change
3) How Community Organizing Evolved at Occidental College
4) The Market, Civically Engaged Scholarship, and Reciprocity
5) Concluding Points and Final Reflections
Afterword by Michael Gecan
About the Author
Chapter 1
Reviews & Endorsements:
"Since 2001, when she became founding director of the Center for Community-Based Learning at Occidental College, Maria Avila has been a pioneer in bringing the relational organizing methods she learned as a grassroots community organizer into cultural and institutional change in higher education. This is tough, difficult and also transformative work at the cutting edge of reviving the public purposes of higher education and education.
Transformative Civic Engagement through Community Organizing
is a brilliant gift to all who believe in and work for vibrant democratic societies in turbulent times."
- Harry C. Boyte, Senior Scholar in Public Work Philosophy
Augsburg University
"There is no greater challenge in higher education than the construction of a genuine democracy within the system and in the wider community. Only re-finding its original mission to seek knowledge to build a better society will achieve this. Maria Avila's book is an exemplary contribution to this mission based on deep study but also, indispensably, her own experience in community organizing. A must read for faculty, students and all who care about education and democracy."
- Ronaldo Munck, Professor and Head of Civic Engagement
Dublin City University
From the Foreword:
"Maria Avila… teaches us a set of practices that… can enliven and humanize our engagement work, and keep us from turning it into deadly, dehumanizing, formulaic programs. Used well they help us open spaces and paths for learning, theory building, and knowledge making that are highly complex and transdisciplinary (which, by the way, most of our pressing issues and problems are as well). They help us turn the naming and framing of issues and problems and the development and implementation of strategies for action to address them into a deliberative civic rather than expert-dominated technical task. And they enable us to pursue a key public purpose: the discovery, development and strengthening of civic leadership, capacities, agency, and power—individual and collective—for long term rather than episodic work. In short, they offer higher education a way to 'do democracy', in the living relations of person to person, at all its levels and in all its fields of specialization.
What Maria is offering us here not only gives us ways to enhance the effectiveness of our work, but also its joyfulness."
- Scott J. Peters, Professor of Development Sociology, Cornell University; and Faculty Co-Director (2012-2017), Imagining America
From the Afterword:
"With the publication of this work, Maria Avila joins a small but growing number of authors shedding new light on the role that colleges and universities have played – and play today – in American society. She applies the lessons and universals she learned as one of thirteen children raised by her parents in Mexico, a seventeen-year-old factory worker denied bathroom breaks and medical attention, a full-time organizer, and as a grad student and tenure-track faculty member, to the challenge of recovering higher education's public mission. Her description of the four practices of organizing – a process of individual meetings, building a team of talented leaders, analyzing and using power effectively, and be willing to engage in in-depth reflection and evaluation – is key to her public life, her approach to her work, and to this book.
She leads us through a series of experiences in a number of college and university settings, as she applies those practices in her daily life. In doing so, she conveys both the possibilities and opportunities that emerge when someone applies these practices with skill and patience, but she also communicates the obstacles and setbacks that occur. She shows what the work of organizing, in the context of higher education, looks like when it is done with professionalism on a day to day basis, over many years."
- Michael Gecan, co-director of the Industrial Areas Foundation
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ADX Introducing Apex Simulations!/
FSX/P3D. Whoa, whoa, WHOA! Stop the clock! What do we have here? A new developer? Yes! A new aircraft for FS? Yes! Amazing visual quality? Yes, yes, yes!! I just love introducing new development teams to the community and this dedevelopment team is packing quite a wallop for their first project. It's the EMB-312F Tucano and it looks amazing! The team has also announced development of the KAI T-50 Golden Eagle! Look out Iris! We have a new military aircraft trainer team on our hands! Be sure to head over to their Facebook page and give them a like if you are on Facebook. These new teams can use all the support they can get! Damn that looks good! Thanks again to Zachary Kerr who is working much harder for AirDailyX today than me!!