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Planned Giving
Planned giving is an expression of dana that can help to ensure the long-term viability of Southern Dharma Retreat Center (SDRC). The mission of Southern Dharma is to create an atmosphere of quiet reflection, within an ecumenical setting, where one can nurture a sense of peace and uncover the truths within the heart. A planned gift to Southern Dharma provides unique and invaluable support and becomes your living legacy to this cultivation of wisdom and compassion. A planned gift can be made for unrestricted purposes, for restricted purposes such as our Legacy Endowment Fund or for some combination of the two.
Some of the different forms of planned giving are presented on the following pages, and we hope the following guidelines and examples will be helpful. Please note that this information is general and that tax and inheritance laws vary by state. Through our affiliation with the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina, a nonprofit organization that manages Southern Dharma's endowments, we offer free consultation with planned giving professionals; but for those exploring a planned gift to SDRC, we recommend that you contact your accountant, attorney or financial planner for additional professional guidance.
If you have any questions about or interest in making a planned gift to Southern Dharma, please contact us at:
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Thank you for considering a planned gift to Southern Dharma Retreat Center. With your help, we can ensure that Southern Dharma will continue its life-changing work for generations to come. Informing us of your decision to make a planned gift helps us in our long-range planning and provides us an opportunity to thank you now for your generosity.
What is included in your will is a reflection of what is most valued in your life. By making a will, you ensure that those values are clearly expressed, and that your wishes will be followed by those administering your estate. Also, the taxable portion of your estate is reduced by the value of any charitable bequest to Southern Dharma Retreat Center. A bequest can be made to SDRC by writing a simple addition to an existing will (meeting the legal requirements of the state in which you live). Bequests can take various forms, and we provide a description of each below, along with sample bequest language. The sample language in each example is for unrestricted bequests.
A Specific Bequest states a specific amount or asset. It may be a gift of cash, securities, real estate or tangible personal property.
Example: "I give and bequeath (specific dollar amount or accurate description of assets) to Southern Dharma Retreat Center, a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) educational organization located at 1661 West Road, Hot Springs, NC 28743, for its unrestricted use."
A Percentage Bequest states a percentage of your estate to be given.
Example: "I give and bequeath an amount equal to __% of my estate, as finally determined for federal estate tax purposes, to Southern Dharma Retreat Center, a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) educational organization located at 1661 West Road, Hot Springs, NC 28743, for its unrestricted use."
A Residual Bequest bequeaths all or a percentage of the remainder of the estate after specific bequests have been fulfilled.
Example: "I give and bequeath all (or 10%) of the residue of my estate to Southern Dharma Retreat Center, a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) educational organization located at 1661 West Road, Hot Springs, NC 28743, for its unrestricted use."
A Contingent Bequest takes effect only if a primary beneficiary named in the will predeceases you or if a primary bequest cannot be made. Naming Southern Dharma a contingent beneficiary can prevent the property from going to the state if there are no heirs.
Example: "In the event that any of the above-named beneficiaries should predecease me, or that any of the above bequests shall otherwise not be effective, I give and bequeath the amount not successfully transferred to my contingent beneficiary, Southern Dharma Retreat Center, a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) educational organization located at 1661 West Road, Hot Springs, NC 28743, for its unrestricted use."
A Restricted Gift: In case you wish to restrict your gift to a specific use or purpose, it is wise to include a saving or escape clause. If conditions change in a way that would nullify or make the original purpose impractical, a saving or escape clause would allow your gift to continue to be useful to SDRC. Consider adding the following language:
Example: "In the event that the above stated use becomes impracticable, then the said Fund may be used for such other uses and purposes as the Board of Directors of Southern Dharma Retreat Center shall deem necessary and advisable, keeping in mind the intent and goals for which the Fund was originally established."
This form of gift is gaining in popularity because of the significant tax benefit involved. Assets from a tax-deferred retirement plan can be a good source of retirement income but are often a poor choice for making gifts to heirs. When such assets are left to an individual they are always subject to income tax and possibly to estate tax. Thus, a child, grandchild, or other beneficiary may receive considerably less than the before-tax value of the gift. If you name Southern Dharma as the beneficiary of some or all of your retirement plan, these assets will be transferred tax-free, leaving for your heirs other assets which are not subject to income taxes.
All tax-deferred retirement plans require the participant to name one or more beneficiaries, and making Southern Dharma a beneficiary is easy. Simply fill out a new beneficiary form supplied by the plan's custodian.
A gift of life insurance can result in a significant donation at a relatively low cost. Consider making Southern Dharma the beneficiary of an existing policy or purchasing a new policy in which SDRC is named as the beneficiary. If your estate is subject to the estate tax, the amount of the benefit payable to Southern Dharma will constitute a deduction in calculating the tax. All you have to do is file a change of beneficiary form with the insurance company.
Appreciated securities, which have been held for more than one year, can make very effective gifts, for the donor as well as for Southern Dharma. The donor is entitled to an income tax deduction equal to the fair market value of the securities. A deduction limited to 30 percent of your Adjusted Gross Income is available, with any excess deduction carried over for a five-year period. Since Southern Dharma does not pay any tax upon selling the securities, it receives their full market value as a gift. These tax advantages make gifts of stock far more effective than gifts of cash obtained through the sale of stock.
A life-income gift results in the donor, or a person the donor designates, receiving income for life. After the income-beneficiary dies, Southern Dharma uses the remainder of the gift as intended by the donor. Charitable Gift Annuities, Charitable Remainder Trusts, and Pooled Income Funds are a few examples of this type of gift. There are differences among kinds of life-income gifts, but their common advantage is twofold: income to the donor or a designated beneficiary and favorable tax treatment.
These giving vehicles can be a good option for people who would like to make a substantial gift to Southern Dharma but need to keep the associated income for the remainder of their life. Life-income agreements are generally more complex than other types of planned giving, and while we are happy to speak with you about this option, we emphasize the need to get professional assistance.
With Gratitude
Thank you for your interest in supporting Southern Dharma and for taking the time to explore the benefits of planned giving. Your support will ensure that SDRC will continue to support those seeking solitude and reflection in a supportive environment on the mountain.
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After the wonderful success of last month's instalment of the Under £10 project I am very pleased to share with you three new projects for June! You can find the Under £10 kit here if you wish to join in with me.
As you might have guessed from the kit, this month we will focus on how to make the most out of your papers.
For this layout I used the white sheet of card stock and covered it entirely with torn papers from the pad. I only used uncoloured papers for the background so that the coloured paper on which I mounted my photograph would pop out more. Want to save even more money? Well we all have sheets of card stocks on which we made some trials with paint or ink that we don't like or some outdated patterned papers; why not cover those? That way you will save a perfectly fine sheet of blank card stock!
For my journalling I simply decided to use the Alphabet paper that came in the paper pad. It is a great replacement for mini alphas. Also, I decided to stamp my title as I really don't like my own hand writing. If you don't own any alphabet stamp set why not try printing your own title directly on the paper or printing it on some plain white paper to then hand cut it out? It is a great cheap option when you have run out of alphas!
I hope this inspired you!

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+1 on Runping's comment. It is very important to report the information about the matching input files to the user (as the output of Hadoop Streaming command) Specifically -- each wildcard parameter that does not match any files, should be explicitly reported, but not to cause a failure -- an exact (non-wildcard) parameter that does not match any file or directory has to be reported and CAUSE a failure -- for every directory, the number of files in the directory should be reported. -- if after successful wildcard matching the input has 0 files, the command should fail. Failure implies -- exit with non-0 return status -- produce an error message explaining a failure. No un-handled exceptions. -- ab On Dec 1, 2006, at 8:52 AM, Runping Qi (JIRA) wrote: > [ > http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-619? > page=comments#action_12454951 ] > > Runping Qi commented on HADOOP-619: > ----------------------------------- > > > We should check the existence of the path(s), but leave the pattern > matching to InputFormatBase class. > > We have three cases to consider: all paths exist, non exists, and some > do, some do not. > Cases 1 and 2 are easy. Case 3, I hink it is reasonable that the job > proceeds, but records that in the job > status. > > When a job starts, we may should record all the input directories and > number of files under it matching the pattern. If no file matches the > pattern, the job should stop. Otherwise, the job generates splits from > the matched files and proceeds. > >> Unify Map-Reduce and Streaming to take the same globbed input >> specification >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ----- >> >> Key: HADOOP-619 >> URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-619 >> Project: Hadoop >> Issue Type: Improvement >> Components: mapred >> Reporter: eric baldeschwieler >> Assigned To: Sanjay Dahiya >> >> Right now streaming input is specified very differently from other >> map-reduce input. It would be good if these two apps could take much >> more similar input specs. >> In particular -input in streaming expects a file or glob pattern >> while MR takes a directory. It would be cool if both could take a >> glob patern of files and if both took a directory by default (with >> some patern excluded to allow logs, metadata and other framework >> output to be safely stored). >> We want to be sure that MR input is backward compatible over this >> change. I propose that a single file should be accepted as an input >> or a single directory. Globs should only match directories if the >> paterns is '/' terminated, to avoid massive inputs specified by >> mistake. >> Thoughts? > > -- > This message is automatically generated by JIRA. > - > If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the > administrators: > http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa > - > For more information on JIRA, see: > http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira > >
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Yom Kippur Morning – Grief
Near the end of my sabbatical this past summer, Colleen took a call from a woman who seemed very eager to speak with me. She assured Colleen it could wait, and so it did until I returned. But I understood from Colleen the urgency, and called the woman back just as soon as I could.
It turned out that she was in her mid-forties, and her wife was dying from brain cancer. She had been reading a lot about death and grief. She was particular moved by Sheryl Sandberg's postings. If you don't recognize that name, Sheryl is the CEO of Facebook. Her 47-year-old husband David Goldberg died of a heart attack in 2015 while on a treadmill on a family vacation. Sheryl wrote much about how her faith and religious traditions sustained her – her writings first appeared on her Facebook page. And so the caller asked me if I would help her, after her wife died, to "have a shiva and a sh'loshim."
I immediately realized from the way she worded her request that she was unfamiliar with the Jewish traditions surrounding death and mourning. I asked if she or her wife were Jewish, and discovered that neither were. And so I explained shiva and sh'loshim to her, and then helped her explore possible ways that she might be able to get what she needed by borrowing from the Jewish traditions. A few days later, I read her wife's obituary in the Concord Monitor. Although I never heard from the caller again, I learned from a friend who knows her that our conversation had been helpful in giving her a framework in which to grieve.
Grief. We are a community all too familiar with grief this year. Later this afternoon in our Yizkor service, when Gary Sobelson reads the names of TBJ members and close family members who have died this year, he will read 30 names.
As most of you know, one of those names is my father, Robert Leonard, who died on March 6. Since my earliest memories, I was a daddy's girl, the child who followed her father everywhere and took so much delight in how he doted on me. A second name Gary will read is Deborah Silverman, Cantor Shira's mother, who died on June 11. When Debbie and I met 17 years ago, we quickly became close friends. Then she became my mother-in-law. Then I became her rabbi. Our relationship was deep and rich.
I've learned a lot about grief this year. This morning, I share with you some of those lessons, along with what you all have taught me about grief and grieving.
As Sheryl Sandberg quickly discovered, the Jewish practices around death and grief contain tremendous therapeutic smarts. Back in 1974, author Audrey Gordon wrote in a book entitled Jewish Reflections on Death, a chapter called "The Psychological Wisdom of the Law." Let me unpack it.
From the time of death until the funeral, mourners are in a state of what is called aninut, or deep sorrow. During that time, nothing is required of the mourners other than the planning of the service and burial. That is it. It is a time to take care of the most immediate need, and to feel. The emotions are likely to be messy and all over the place. In addition to the sadness, there may be relief after a long illness; shock in the event of a sudden or violent death; despair when a child or parent of young children dies; anger when the relationship was difficult or the deceased was an abuser, an addict, or just plain mean; or disappointment when words remain unsaid.
Every feeling, every emotion is the right one. Every person mourns differently. One mourner may need to look at every photo of the deceased. Another may need to hide in bed. The third might be in "doing" mode, making arrangements with the funeral home or cemetery.
We honor the memory of our loved ones when we give each other the room to mourn as we each need to.
Following the funeral and burial, we enter the period of shiva. Shiva means "seven," as the traditional period of mourning following a burial is seven days. The reality of most people's lives is that we don't take one day or three days for shiva, never mind the full seven days. I did after my father's death and it was one of the greatest gifts I could have given myself.
Most people in this community associate shiva with having a religious service in the home. But that's not what shiva is about. Shiva is about mourning and allowing people to provide companionship, comfort, and food, which are the obligations of the members of the community following a death. It's not about the service. Back in the days when Jewish communities were small, if everyone was visiting the mourner when it was time to pray, they said the service then and there. That's how a service became associated with shiva. My grandfather died when I was 16. My mother observed shiva for the full seven days. I don't remember a single service in the house.
Shiva gave me the chance to talk about my dad – the great, the good, and even the not as good. I could put him and my relationship with him into perspective and context.
One night at shiva when I was still in New Jersey, a man whom we did not know came to the home. He introduced himself as someone who grew up in the same neighborhood as my dad, though he was four years younger. My dad died at the age of 82, and this man had not seen or spoken to my dad in nearly 65 years. But he made a shiva call after seeing my dad's obituary in the paper simply to tell us that my dad was the nicest guy he ever knew, who let a kid four years younger hang around, never being dismissive or nasty. Without shiva, we would never have heard his story.
Shiva also allowed me to connect with those of you who told your own stories of when your parents or another close relative died. These gave me great comfort. Sometimes we laughed together. Sometimes we were near tears. As our shiva book reminds us, "Who among us has not passed through trials and bereavements? Some bear fresh wounds … and therefore feel more keenly the kinship of sorrow; others, whose days of mourning are more remote, still recall the comfort that sympathy brought to their sorrowing hearts."[1] Thank you for sharing your loved ones with me.
Following shiva, we enter a period called sh'loshim, which means 30. It tells us that for the next 23 days (assuming a full seven days for shiva), we are now slowly returning to our lives. We go back to work. We may accept social invitations, but usually just for a meal or conversation. During sh'loshim for my dad, CONTY, our youth group, hosted a concert with the young musician, Spike Kraus. I wanted to attend to support CONTY, and I wanted to stay away because I wasn't in the mood. So I came and I sat in the vestibule, greeting attendees, but staying out the actual concert room. It was the perfect balance for me. I also forewent the Purimshpiel and other moments of hilarity. I attended the auction and listened to the jokes with only half of an ear – sorry Donna and Steve.
Our tradition teaches that after sh'loshim, for the entire first year of mourning, we re-enter the world at the pace that feels right for us. My re-entry was probably slower than many who experience the death of an 82-year-old father with whom he or she had a wonderful relationship, for shortly after I emerged from sh'loshim, Debbie's health began to take its toll and we moved to her last few weeks of life. I hope and pray that I became for Shira the supportive presence she was for me, while I also did all that I could to learn how to be with and support a three-year-old who would suffer the death of two grandparents in a three-month span.
We are not sure what Liba understands or remembers. But we tell her and she tells us that while Grandpa and Bubbe are no longer alive, they live on in our hearts.
For a death that is sudden, unexpected, or otherwise tragic, these Jewish mourning periods can provide a safe structure during a time that is otherwise pure hell. Sheryl Sandberg wrote about sh'loshim, "I have lived 30 years in these 30 days. I am 30 years sadder. I feel like I am 30 years wiser. It was a long 30 days – the longest of my life by far. And I was, in many ways, marking those days because every single one was just a victory to live through. It wasn't just the grief. I felt like I was sucked into a void where I would never really be able to catch my breath. My brother-in-law described it as a boot sitting on his chest."
For some, the best way to get through the grief is to live a bit higher, inspired by what the deceased taught us. My childhood friend, Jill Ginsburg, a physician living in Portland, Oregon, did a second sh'loshim following the first 30 days after her mother's death. Jill's mom stressed with her children the obligation tzedakah, to help out those in need. Jill honored her mother's memory by putting a $100 bill in her purse each morning for 30 days. Some time during each day, she gave the money to a person she encountered who seemed to need the cash, a boost, some love, a meal, an affirmation, or even a "thank you" for being awesome. Jill, like Sheryl Sandberg, posted her experiences on Facebook, encouraging others to honor their loved one's memories in ways that fit their budgets and desires.
Grief, of course, is not just about working through the Jewish time frames. A blogger named Jamie Anderson writes that "Grief … is really just love. It is all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go."
What do we do with that unspent love? My friend Jill gave it to 30 people who needed a bit of human recognition. My father-in-law, Russ, became the baker that Debbie had been, showering the people in his life with cakes, cookies, and pies. Sometimes, we need to say to the deceased what we didn't have the time – or the courage – to say in life. We can sit at a grave and converse. We can talk with a friend or therapist about what need to articulate. We can write a letter that we will never send.
I found that writing was an extraordinarily therapeutic way to deal with my grief – and I did not initially realize that this was what I was doing. I love to write. I was a writer before I attended rabbinical school. As I began my sabbatical, I intended to spend a great deal of time writing. One of my challenges as a writer has been finding the right topic. I'm not a fiction writer. I write what I always called "creative non-fiction" and what I learned might be called "the braided essay."
I bought a book entitled 642 Things to Write About. I paged through and nothing caught my eye. And then I saw it: "Write about a natural disaster you lived through." I immediately thought of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, the 7.1 tremor that shook the California Bay Area while I was living in San Francisco. So I wrote. I considered more natural disasters and storms I had experienced: 1980's summer heat wave; the blizzard of 1978; and hurricane Donna, which hit New Jersey the day I was born in 1960. My writing expanded to human disasters as well: the second Intifada – the Palestinian uprising while I lived in Jerusalem; I even touched a bit on living in New York City on 9/11.
It became clear to me that I was writing about loss – loss of lives, loss of property, loss of equilibrium, and loss of innocence – without having to write about the loss of my dad. This was incredibly healing. A wise therapist once told me "the psyche knows no time." One loss conjures up all other losses.
I wrote not only about loss, but also and perhaps more importantly, about memory and remembering. Our tradition teaches that the way we keep our loved ones with us is by remembering. Yizkor, our memorial service, comes from the Hebrew root zion-chaf-reish, "to remember." It is the obligation of every Jew to remember. Remembering lets us hold our loved one as we want to – I think of my dad buying me my first puppy when I was nine, standing proudly with me at my bat mitzvah, asking me when he first met Shira, "why couldn't you have met her sooner," and sitting on the floor playing with Liba, even when his bones ached from his metastases.
What do we do with the difficult memories – the hurts, the let downs, the disappointments, the neglect, and even the abuse? Our memories are allowed to be selective. We can choose to put out of our minds that which causes too much pain. At the same time, we can use those memories as life lessons or we can reframe them into something less painful. During a funeral at which I officiated many years ago, I remember saying about the deceased who had abandoned his family, "The greatest gift he gave you was to get out of your lives and let your mother raise you."
Elie Wiesel describes our patriarch Isaac as the most tragic of all Biblical characters. His father appears to be willing to offer him up as a sacrifice. The text tells us that he and Abraham walk down the mountain separately unlike their journey going up. Wiesel writes, "He is alone – on the verge of despair. And yet he does not give up. On the contrary, he strives to find a place among the living."
Isaac's mother, Sarah, dies just after his father takes him up the mountain and binds him to the altar. These two experiences – the binding and his mother's death – allow him to develop empathy for Hagar, the mother of his brother Ishmael whom his father had expelled from the family. The midrash teaches that he sought her out, acknowledging their losses to be different, but their pain to be similar.
The death of a loved one – a beloved loved one or a challenging loved one – can leave us feeling broken. Broken is an okay place to be. Sometimes, brokenness falls in the midst of wholeness, like the sh'varim three blasts or the t'ruah nine blasts of the shofar, which come between two calls of t'kiah, the whole note.
Sometimes, brokenness is next to wholeness, as we learn in the midrash on the broken tablets. According to our tradition, Moses picked them up and placed them in the Ark of the Covenant right next to the second set of whole tablets.[2]
Tish Harrison Warren, an Anglican priest from Austin, Texas writes: "The human heart is sufficiently complex that we can be both deeply grateful for the good we experience daily, and simultaneously mourn brokenness. If we do not allow sorrow and gratitude to exist in the same moment, we lose the ability to have both. We'll shame ourselves out of grieving, which in turn prevents us from embracing wonder and gratitude. Mourning and thanksgiving are not only not opposed to each other, but often grow together, so intricately entwined that we can't stifle one without killing the other."[3]
By allowing our grief, our mourning, our brokenness to live in the midst of or next to wholeness, we eventually move to a place and time where we will actually feel joy.
In 2015, when Vice President Joe Biden's son Beau died of brain cancer, a talk on coping with death from a few years earlier resurfaced. In discussing his first wife and son who had died in a car accident forty years prior, Biden said:[4]
"There will come a day – I promise you… when the thought of your son or daughter, or your husband or wife, [and we can read into this, father or mother or any loved one] will bring a smile to your life before it brings a tear to your eye. … It will happen."
Sheryl Sandberg describes it like this: "About four months after Dave died, I was at a friend's bar mitzvah, and a childhood friend pulled me onto the dance floor. And a minute in, I just burst into tears. I ran out of the room really quickly, not really know what was wrong. And then I realized what it was: I felt okay. I felt okay. For one minute four months later, I felt happy. And I felt guilty.
"My friend Adam said to me, 'Of course you haven't felt happy. You don't do a single thing that would make anyone happy since Dave died. You're waiting to feel better in order to do something that will make you happy, but really it goes the other way. Give yourself permission to do things that make you happy.'"
Grief, loss, mourning. They are messy. They linger. They abate. They return. And they teach us.
Our shivah minyan book contains these words:
Build me up of memory
loving and angry, tender and honest.
Let my loss build me a heart of wisdom,
Compassion for the world's many losses.[5]
Ken y'hi ratzon, may this be God's will. And may 5778 be a year of health and well-being for us and all of our loved ones.
[1]Mishkan T'filah for the House of Mourning, page 1a
[2]Bava Batra 14b
[4]Vice President Joe Biden as quoted here: http://www.vox.com/2015/5/30/8693325/joe-biden-beau
[5]Debra Cash, Mishkan T'filah for a House of Mourning, page 13b.
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Shortly after reviewing the Shaka Innovative Beauty Blush, I received an email from Shaka's PR team asking whether I were interested in reviewing some of their new products. Since Italian makeup and fashion have always been well appreciated, I thought this was a great opportunity to share this beauty brand with you on my blog. Shaka Innovative Beauty is an affordable drugstore makeup brand sold at OVS, Upim and Coin. I've been familiar with it for quite some time as I spent 4 years living and working in Italy. I decided to start with reviewing the Shaka Innovative Beauty Concealer Sticks first. Want to see more Shaka makeup? I did a 'What's New At The Drugstore Makeup Unboxing' here.
Shaka Beauty has 14 different corrector sticks available with every shade and undertone possible, white, yellow, pink, dark, it's pretty awesome! You can have a look at the full range on the OVS website. I always find it exciting when an affordable drugstore makeup brand releases so many different shades, especially for those of you who have a darker skin tone than me, since I mostly review pale people products. The way this product is named by Shaka is a little puzzling to me, the sticks are sold and marketed as concealers but claim to be for contouring too, only on the packaging though. I assume Shaka wants to encourage their fans to try contouring and highlighting with the sticks as well. I was sent mostly darker shades so I did conceal, contour and highlight with them.
As you might have noticed from the content you see on my website, concealer sticks have not been among my most-liked products. I'm a liquid concealer addict and those are the type of concealers you've seen come and go, from different brands, in my articles and youtube videos. In the past, whenever I tried cream or stick anything, it would appear patchy and uneven on my skin so I then decided to stick to powders instead, as my skin wasn't having any of it. Right now, makeup sticks are a trend that is making a comeback. I've noticed foundation sticks are insanely popular and so are contouring and highlighting sticks in the high end makeup spectrum, so I'm not surprised drugstore makeup brands are following their lead.
I have to say I'm pleasantly surprised by the Shaka Concealer sticks. It's the first formula that doesn't crease on me or show up like a patchy mess whether I prime my skin or not, which is a miracle in itself as prepping is something that is pretty important when it comes to using products like this, especially when you have dry skin. The formula is not creamy, greasy or smooth but yet really easy to blend, leaving the skin feeling very comfortable and nourished. The Shaka Concealer Sticks also have a certain luminosity to them that makes the skin look flawless and natural, definitely like a semi dewy finish, so maybe not the best option for those of you with oily skin. The concealers don't settle into fine lines and respond very well to powder, meaning it won't cake up when set with extra product to keep your makeup in place all day long (e.g. powder foundation, powder highlight or powder bronzer). One aspect of these sticks that I particularly enjoy is their scent, they have this faint smell of yellow pudding that I just to die for (and reminds me of eating pudding during my childhood). I also need to point out how beautiful and good the quality of the packaging is, most concealer sticks come in very fragile and flimsy containers, with Shaka this is not the case!
Shaka Innovative Beauty Concealer Stick €4.99
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I am sad. It pours out of me in gasps and chokes, a geyser of emotion too strong to stopper up. Each year it lies in wait. Quiet, tame. Masked by boredom with the details, the mundanity of every day life. And then, as his tires crunch gravel outside the window, and the door closes solidly … Continue reading On Goodbyes
The Merits of Being Alone
Alone. It's a weighty concept, one packed with loneliness and independence and freedom. It means handling problems that arise all by yourself. Bearing life's weight on your own back. But with that independence comes freedom from another person's opinions and needs. It means living your life exactly the way you want to live it, unrestrained … Continue reading The Merits of Being Alone
On Change
Spring is wrapping up here in Mississippi. Now when I step onto the deck each morning with Chara, the air is as warm and soft as a second skin. The brilliant spring blooms have faded, and the garden is well established. And with these changes come other big life changes. About three weeks ago … Continue reading On Change
On Money Matters
Talking about money can be awkward. But I think it's important too, so I'm just going to dive right into it: Jordan and I are poor. He's a graduate student with a meager stipend, and I work for a non-profit. In the last few months, we've had a huge shift in how we think about … Continue reading On Money Matters
On Moodiness
Yesterday, Jordan and I got into a fight. I'm sharing this because it's an important reality of our relationship. We aren't perfect. We are messy, we are human. But it's easy to come off as perfect when you write pieces about the beautiful little moments together. The fight started with me, before even I could have guessed … Continue reading On Moodiness
On wanting what you have
Here in Mississippi, spring is on its way. The air is balmy and warm, birds flitter around our feeder, and Chara's fur gathers in tumbleweeds in the corners of our home. These changes, along with talk of New Year's resolutions, always turn my thoughts to the future. What's the outcome I see for myself? What … Continue reading On wanting what you have
On Near-Murder and Marriage
It has been two months since Jordan and I got married. Given all that has happened, it feels like it's been two years. Jordan's sister stayed with us for a month (to be clear: this was the best ever), Donald Trump got elected to lead our country, our car broke down, and--right after our car … Continue reading On Near-Murder and Marriage


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Suzie Liles
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Barbara Setsu Pickett and her son Michael create highly textured silk scarves for their Mihara Shibori Studio collections. Barbara is an Associate Professor Emeritus in the Department of Art at the University of Oregon. The focus of her teaching and creative practice is velvetweaving, shibori, natural dyeing and artists� books. Michael specializes in indigo dyeing and shibori and has created unique shibori patterns.
Carol James
Carol James has been exploring sprang and other low-tech, easily transportable textile methods for 30 years and is of the opinion that anywhere is a good place to weave. She has examined sprang items in collections across North American and Europe, and has made replicas of some of these items for clients such as George Washington�s Mount Vernon, the German Archaeological Institute, and the Norwegian Army Museum. A very patient teacher, she has taught in Canada, the US, New Zealand, and Europe. She is the author of numerous articles and three books: Fingerweaving Untangled and Sprang Unsprung and a new book of Sprang Lace Patterns.
Jane Dunnewold
Jane Dunnewold teaches and lectures internationally, and has mounted numerous oneperson exhibitions, including Inspired by the Masters (Visions Quilt Museum 2016) Her work won Best of Show in the exhibition Timeless Meditations (Tubac Art Center/2013). She is a recipient of the Quilt Japan Prize, and Gold Prize at the Taegue (Korea) International Textile Exhibition. Dunnewold has authored numerous books, including the classic,Complex Cloth (1996). Interweave Press published Art Cloth: A Guide to Surface Design on Fabric (2010.) In 2016 North Light Books will publish Creative Strength Training: Prompts, Exercises and Stories to inspire Artistic Genius. She is the former President of the Surface Design Association.
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Having briefly learnt to weave from his father at the age of 18, Jason returned to the discipline 6 years later and setup his own workshop in 1986, located in Nayland, Suffolk. Over the last 29 years Jason has woven to commission somewhere in the region of 2000+ rugs. Mostly for private clients, though also for some corporate clients, and worked with numerous architects and interior designers. Large commissions include a series of 24 rugs for the Sheraton hotel in Dar-es Salaam, in Tanzania; and a series of rugs for a castle in Switzerland. Exhibitions include a one man show in Amsterdam, and two man shows in Oxford, Connecticut (USA), and Portland (USA). The rugs can be woven to any size and colour way, are strong and durable for use on the floor, but equally can be used as wall-hangings. In addition to designing and weaving, Jason spends 3 - 4 months each year teaching at various art schools in America, Australia, Canada and Europe. This has led to Jason having his own brand of rug wool in America, as well as instructional DVD's and publications.


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The weekend beginning Saturday, 13th September, will go down as the two-day period that changed the face of Wall Street. Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch were on the ropes, at the mercy of short sellers. Rumours and speculation were rife. Would Lehman fall or merge ? Would the US government come to the rescue with a bailout ? Would Merrill Lynch be the next shoe to drop ? And what would happen to Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley ? As a comprehensive Wall Street Journal article has now made clear, the decisions made over those two days sealed the fate of all these key financial markets players.
Here's the story:
Lehman CEO Richard Fuld appeared to be close to panic. Having been adamant that no crisis would be big enough for him to consider merging or selling his firm, he was now after a deal - any deal. It was a deal or bankruptcy now, as Fuld had two days to save the firm he built.
Over the weekend, Fuld had reached out to both Bank of America and Barclays. Both firms in the end backed away from a deal due to the questionable value of some of Lehman's toxic assets, and in the absence of the offer of help from the US government (although Barclays later acquired the firm's US businesses post Chapter 11). After reviewing Lehman's books, Bank of America's due diligence deal team were nearly home in Charlotte, when they were ordered back to New York - to look over Merrill. Merrill boss John Thain, fearing that his firm could also end up filing for Chapter 11, wanted to sell a 9.9% stake. Bank of America boss Ken Lewis, however, was only interested in the whole firm. And he is said to have refused to return increasingly desperate calls from Dick Fuld (Lewis's wife was apparently charged with finally giving Fuld the brush off, telling him: 'If Mr Lewis wanted to call (you) back, he would call back').
Thain also started talks with Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack about a merger. Mack needed a couple of days, however, to get his board in line. Thain didn't have the time. In the meantime, Goldman was interested in taking a 9.9% in Merrill, but Merrill executives began to worry that this would just not be enough.
Come Monday, and the mists began to clear. Bank of America acquired Merrill Lynch, and Lehman filed for bankruptcy. Morgan Stanley decided to plough ahead with a deal to sell a stake to Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Financial, and both Morgan Stanley and Goldman soon became bank holding companies, in order to access the Fed's discount window. In two days, the face of Wall Street had changed.
Finally, The Times reports that the fact that Lehman rushed to bankruptcy without a credible plan could have cost creditors some $75bn. The newspaper quotes Bryan Marsal, the co-CEO of Alvarez & Marsal, which is helping with the restructuring of the firm, who said that the bankruptcy resulted in an 'unconscionable waste of value' as Lehman executives had no proper wind down plan in place. Marsal said: 'Had rules of crisis management been followed, much of the value that was lost by the unsecured creditors would have been prevented'.
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Effect of Biphasic Insulin Aspart 30 on Blood Glucose Control in Subjects With Type 2 Diabetes
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00280046
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : January 20, 2006
Last Update Posted : January 6, 2017
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|First Submitted Date ICMJE
|January 19, 2006
|First Posted Date ICMJE
|January 20, 2006
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|January 6, 2017
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|November 2003
|Actual Primary Completion Date
|July 2004 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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|HbA1c [ Time Frame: after 16 weeks of treatment ]
|Original Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|- HbA1c, measured after 16 weeks of treatment
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|Complete list of historical versions of study NCT00280046 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site
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|Brief Title ICMJE
|Effect of Biphasic Insulin Aspart 30 on Blood Glucose Control in Subjects With Type 2 Diabetes
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|Effect of Biphasic Insulin Aspart 30 on Glycaemic Control in Subjects With Type 2 Diabetes
|Brief Summary
|This trial was conducted in Russian Federation. This trial aimed for a comparison of the effect on glycemic control in subjects with type 2 diabetes of three different treatment regimens: biphasic insulin aspart 30 thrice daily, biphasic insulin aspart 30 twice daily in combination with metformin and treatment with oral anti-diabetic drugs.
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|Ushakova O, Sokolovskaya V, Morozova A, Valeeva F, Zanozina O, Sazonova O, Zhadanova E, Starceva M, Kazakova E, Saifullina M, Shapiro I, Tarasov A, Al-Tayar B, Starkova N. Comparison of biphasic insulin aspart 30 given three times daily or twice daily in combination with metformin versus oral antidiabetic drugs alone in patients with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes: a 16-week, randomized, open-label, parallel-group trial conducted in russia. Clin Ther. 2007 Nov;29(11):2374-84.
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|July 2004
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|July 2004 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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|40 Years to 70 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
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Month: September 2015
Women in the Business World
Women have recently risen to the challenge and they are currently venturing in areas though to be men's only activities. This has been fueled by the rising demand that equal opportunities be granted to all regardless of their gender. As a result, women have taken the challenge and they have become more aggressive especially in the business arena. Susan McGalla is one of the greatest business executives in the world. Being a woman, she has made great progress in advancing the thought of women getting into business. Through her, many women and young girls have been inspired to chase their dreams.
Susan P. McGalla based in the US, Susan P. McGalla has been in the business scene on bizjournals.com for years now and she has made tremendous progress. She has risen in the business world through her various positions in various organizations. She has worked in many business organizations throughout her career and this has helped her to develop great experience. However, she attributes her success to her first job at Joseph Horne Company. She worked here for years and over this period, she moved from one position to another gaining experience on different levels of leadership in the corporate world.
At Joseph Horne Company, she worked for almost a decade before she went to work for American Eagle Outfitters. In her new company, she joined from the very least position being a product merchandiser. She was very keen to study the market and understand the timings and the trends in product demand. She chose to merchandise women clothes and in this she worked very hard and made a name for herself. It was not long before her efforts won her a better position in the company's leadership. She was so brilliant in her work that she became the president of the same company.
Susan P. McGalla is a very resilient woman who stays focused on the task she has put her mind on and she is never distracted. Her resilience helped her scale high in her profession to become the top leader in a company where she started out in a very humble position. Today she has not only become a great leader but also a source of inspiration to many people around the globe. After accumulating great experience over the years, she reached a point where she felt she needed to move on to a more rewarding venture where she would have more control.
This is when the idea of starting her own business was born. She had worked in the industry for years therefore she understood the environment very well. It was therefore not very difficult for her to decide on the line she wanted to follow. She decided she was going to move on and start her own business and that when she founded the P3 Executive Consulting Company. Mount Union College graduate of marketing was determined to make an impact in the business world. She was well connected therefore it was not very hard for her to venture in the business world having been in the industry for years.
Apply These Incredible Tips To Improve Pet Caring
Pets are a great addition to the life of humans and offer some sense of fulfillment. Most people have dreamt about owning a well looking pet, but the most challenging part has been taking good care of the animal. Not everyone who owns a pet is trained on matters regarding taking care of one. Therefore, it is necessary to ensure all things that are done towards the pet impact positively to the health and fitness of the animal. Lack of appropriate information has derailed many people from taking care of their animals in the right manner. Here are simple guidelines that can offer help to people looking to take care of their pets.
To get precise and clear information about the health of a pet, it is vital to consider embracing the help of a professional in the field. One can visit a vet doctor, who will offer guidelines on how to take care for the pet. One of the main roles these professionals play is to screen the animal for possible diseases that could be hidden and the right medication is issued in time. There are diseases that one cannot easily identify until when the disease attacks to levels that are beyond the immunity of the animal. Such diseases can prove dangerous to the animal if a quick response is not issued. The doctor is able to identify all types of diseases and can issue a statement regarding the overall health of the pet. Visiting regularly for checkups helps one to easily track to progress of the animal to ensure all measures necessary to keep it healthy are embraced.
Feeding a pet has been a major concern and affects the overall health status of the pet. Foods like baneful have been beneficial to the health of dogs and are recommended by most experts. Beneful is a product that is created to offer dogs the health that is needed to keep the animal strong and active. It is a unique product that is made with all the nutrients and vitamins that are necessary to maintain the health of an animal at optimum levels. The product stands on its own and does not need supplements as it contains all the materials that are needed to keep a dog healthy. Buying such products as baneful can help keep a pet healthy and active all day as they offer more energy and strength.
The environment in which a pet stays also matters a lot. Hygiene is something that cannot be overlooked if one dreams about keeping a healthy animal. Most diseases that attack pets come as a result of poor living conditions that allow easy attack by pests. Therefore, it is necessary to ensure the houses in which animals live are cleaned and disinfected regularly. This also extends to the utensils that are used for feeding the pet. They should be cleansed using detergents and disinfected to protect the animal from contacting diseases. Also ensure the house of the pet is designed to prevent easy entry of cold or too much sun.
Hedge Fund Managers Are Weighing In On Brazil's Currency Devaluation And Political Situation
The good news, according to hedge fund manager James Dondero, is Brazil's Congress stood behind President Dilma Rousseff's veto of spending increases. Rousseff's plan is to cut spending and raise taxes to fortify the budget so there won't be another credit rating cut. Mr. James Dondero is the co-founder of Dallas-based Highland Capital Management. Highland Capital, under Dondero supervision, has more than $21 billion in assets under management, and some of those assets are in emerging markets like Brazil. Mr. Dondero has an office in Sao Paulo, so he knows first-hand what is happening to his investments as he watches the Brazil's currency drop like a ton of bricks. Dondero says Brazilian stocks on facebook.com are also taking a beating even though the government got the Congressional vote it needed to shore-up their 2016 budget.
Mr. Dondero thinks China's faltering economy is playing a big role in Brazil's financial issues. China is Brazil's top trading partner and the Chinese have drastically cut imports from Brazil and other countries. The fact that Congress agreed with President Rousseff is a positive sign for investors, but most foreign investors are in a wait and see mode at the moment, according to Dondero. If China can't get its economic act together and import more Brazilian raw materials, the situation in Brazil could continue to erode. The Brazilian stock market fell by 2 percent, and Petrobras stock is dropping even though its offshore investments are still very profitable. Petrobras stock hit its lowest point since 2003, according to Mr. Dondero.
Hedge fund managers like Dondero have a bearish attitude about Brazil because some economists say President Rousseff's plan to raise taxes and cutting spending could cause more economic turmoil. But Dondero and other investors are not giving up on Brazil. There are signs that the country will weather this financial storm. Brazilian companies that export most of their products are taking advantage of the four real for one dollar exchange, and business is booming. Rousseff wants to keep the value of the currency low in order to attract more export customers. If Brazil export business improves especially in the oil and steel industries, the country will show some growth in 2016.
The big challenge for investors is the China situation. Even though the Brazilian real's value is attractive, China is not reacting to it yet. Without China, Brazil will have a hard time meeting or exceeding its export numbers and investors like Dondero know that's going to hurt them in the short run. But Highland Capital hedge fund managers firmly believe Brazil will bounce back. History shows that Brazil always bounces back, and most hedge fund managers are staying to reap the rewards of that recovery.
Mr. Dondero believes signs of a recovery will begin to develop in 2016 if President Rousseff's plan works and China begins to import the raw materials it desperately needs from Brazil. Brazil is still most hedge fund managers' long-term choice even though the short-term returns will be flat, according to Dondero.
Kyle Bass, Investment Professional
Investment professional Kyle Bass has an eccentric history as an investor, with a backlog of investment strategies that have gone either extremely well or terribly, terribly wrong.
Bass is well known in investment circles for his prediction, back before 2008, of the looming real estate bubble burst that would wreak serious havoc on the US economy. Bass founded his Dallas, Texas based fund, Hayman Capital Management, in 2006, and his prescient prediction of the subprime mortgage crisis lead many to think he knew absolutely everything about everything, real estate investment-wise.
As time went on, however, it became increasingly clear that while Bass was certainly right about the coming economic meltdown in 2008, he was very wrong in a lot of his investment strategies. As we well know now, being wrong in this industry can be very expensive in a multitude of ways.
Due to Bass's notoriety early on with his dead on prediction, he became a popular guest on financially oriented news shows, which love to have experts on to give their take on current trends. It's been noted, however, that Bass often goes on these shows to make pronouncements that seem to do more to serve his own bottom line than the public good. Given the other activities this once well regarded investor has been involved in, none of this should be very surprising.
One of the most glaring issues in Bass's recent career moves has been his willingness to become professionally involved with people whose reputations should send out huge warning signals. One of these folks is Argentianian political leader Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. Though Argentinia defaulted on its debt for the second time in a thirteen year period, Bass is on the record as vigorously defending her. Given the very dark side of what is going on with finances in Buenos Aires, many wonder why Bass is willing to associate himself with de Kirchner and her team of defaulting henchmen. Is there some very shady dealing going on between them financially? All signs do seem to point to "Yes."
Bass has had other lapses in judgement, beyond his involvement in the Argentinian economy. After investing in General Motors, he went on the record defending the company even after it was being investigated for very shady practices as far as safety goes. He actually tried to blame the victims of car accidents stemming from problems with GM cars (non-functioning air bags and faulty power steering), and did it all with a straight face.
The list of questionable practices by Bass goes on and on, leading many to wonder why any legit business would be involved with him. Any ideas?
Doe Deere-One of the leading ladies in the makeup world
Doe Deere has many pictures of herself on Instagram where she is wearing beautiful makeup hues that are the representation of her brand Lime Crime. Doe Deere is one of the leading ladies to be named an inspiring female entrepreneur by Self-made Magazine. She recently sat down with an interviewer and talked about every little detail that had to do with Lime Crime on galoremag.
As a child, she had a passion for color. She would often put as much color on herself as possible, that included clothes, accessories, and her mother makeup.She eventually would like to expand her brand to other colorful things.
One of her earliest makeup memory is when she attended a slumber party with two of her closest friends. Doe Deere and her friends had deck themselves out in some fun outfits but decided that there was something that was missing from their look.This was when Deere decided to pull out her makeup bag and begin to put on a mixture color of makeup.
The interviewer then went on to ask Deere what is her best and worst makeup moments. She did not become a makeup expert into she got into her 20's. She began to post bad makeup looks back in 2006, but after experimenting with different looks, she got better. She starts to gain a following of girls, who waited excitedly to see what was going to be her next look. It was only two years later when she launched Lime Crime.
The next question the interviewer ask was how did Deere came up with her company name. She had an eBay store back in 2004, and the name limecrime popped into her head.
She mentions that she would have chosen a different name if she knew that her company was going to be such a success.Even though she say that she would have chosen a different name, she is now proud of her name because it is so unique. The next question the interviewer ask if Deere is glad that her company is so internet based. She mentions how it have its pros and cons. Some of the pros being that her brand is huge on social media and a con she mentions is that she have to deal with a lot of internet rumors.
She mentions that she call her fans unicorns because she see unicorns as being unique, brave, and love color. She belikeved that this is a genuine definition of a unicorn. Deere is inspired by women who is not afraid to take chances and is fearless in their fashion choices. She takes inspirations from famous figures such as Dita Von Teese to the girls she sees posting images on Instagram like her friends Elena and Stella Jones. She feels amazing that people see her as one of the top self-entrepreneurs. If you would like to read the full interview, please be sure to visit https://galoremag.com/lime-crime-creator-doe-deere-colors-haters/.
Corporate Law: Corporate Tax
It can be tough living in the United States, especially for someone who was raised in the inner city. Crippling misinformation keeps people impoverished communities voting against their own best interests. For instance, welfare reform could reconstruct the inner city, but the residents of these communities are adamantly opposed to the changes. Nothing embodies this self-defeating behavior more than poor people's opinion of the corporate tax.
Corporate Law and Corporate Taxes
There was a time when a corporation was almost forced to consider the US as a location for their global headquarters. Now China is poised to replace the US as the world's largest economy, and international competition to attract corporations has changed the global business landscape. There are still lots of advantages to locating a company in the US, but the 40% corporate tax rate is a liability. Countries like China and India have extremely lenient tax laws with which America can't compete. Worse of all, the people who support the lofty 40% corporate tax are the people whom it hurts the most. Those with less are usually the biggest supporters of the corporate tax, but it prevents them from finding better jobs. In countries like China, the governement shows favor to the corporations to attract them there. It's far better to collect taxes on the employees, than to see the company move to Asia, Europe or even Africa. Unfortunately, it's extremely difficult to get the corporate tax lowered, because impoverished people think the wealthy should have to pay outrageous taxes.
A Closer Look at Corporate Law
It's important to note that corporations are only taxed on their profits and they can write off anything that helped them pursue a profit. Corporations are essential for a vibrant economy, and people's failure to recognize this is giving America's competition an advantage. China isn't the only country attracting international companies to its shores. India, England and even South Africa now attract international companies with competitive corporate taxes. Corporate attorneys like medium.com's Frans Schoeman of Phatisma Diamond (A South African corporate law firm) must understand international corporate law and domestic law. This is necessary, because there are companies with branches in multiple countries.
Defeating the US Corporate Tax
Perhaps the citizens of the US will begin to familiarize themselves with corporate law, especially the corporate tax. Contrary to popular belief, raising corporate taxes does nothing to hurt the business professionals. These individuals have the resources to simply relocate their companies. The international economy will continue to grow with or without the US, but our tax rate will directly affect our role.
Stephen Murray: The Man Who Left an Investment Legacy
Stephen Murray CCMP Capital was spun out from JP Morgan in 2006 and is involved in leveraged buyouts and growth equity investments. The fund has raised a number of funds and its most recent one was last year where they raised $3.6 B. After the company was founded, it raised its first fund, which was about $3 B.
Greg Brenneman is the company's Chairman and was appointed in 2008. The company's name is derived from the names of the companies that merged to form it(Chemical, Chase and JP Morgan).
CCMP was spun off from JP Morgan because of the conflict of interest between JP and Its clients. Before the spin off, JP was relatively successful at making investments but at times they invested in the same companies as their clients. Stephen Murray CCMP Capital has a diverse portfolio and has invested in a number of high profile companies including Aramark, Renovo, Medspace and Vetco. The company has grown and expanded to house offices in Asia and Europe. It now has around $12 B in assets and has been recognized as one of the most successful funds.
A number of its investments have gone public, and some are in the course of doing so. Ollie's Bargain and Milacron Holdings, Corp are on track to going public soon. Its Asian subsidiary has operated independently for the most part and in 2008, it was separated from the parent company and was renamed Unitas Capital.
The company typically invests over $100 million in companies, and it is involved in healthcare, energy and consumer sectors. One of the largest deals the company has been involved in was the sale of Medpace to Cinven last year for nearly $1B. The man who spurred the meteoric growth of the company is the late Stephen Murray.
Stephen Murray is the former CEO of CCMP Capital. Mr. Murray was born in 1962 and graduated from Boston College with a degree in economics and later earned his MBA from the Columbia Business School. He trained as an analyst after school and after a series of mergers at his company, he found himself at JP Morgan where he would oversee buyouts.
He is mostly known for his work at CCMP, which he cofounded and would become its CEO in 2007. He passed away earlier this year and left a legacy at the company. He is deeply missed by his colleagues, and the incoming CEO will surely have a hard time filling his shoes. Murray served on the boards of a number of companies such as AMC Entertainment, Aramark and Pinnacle Foods. He was also involved in philanthropy and charity and was affiliated with the Stamford Museum and the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Andy Wirth Approves of Clean Power
In Andy Wirth's recent op-ed in the Reno Gazette-Journal, he takes on the topic of clean power and how it helps both the economy and the environment. He discusses how the Reno City Council voted to support the Clean Power Plan. This plan seeks to move our country away from reliance on coal power, which is dirty, to clean and renewable energy sources.
Andy, the CEO of Squaw Valley Ski Holdings, takes the environment seriously as he is active in environmental and community service organizations in the Lake Tahoe area. He seeks to improve the area for people of all ages.
Mr. Wirth's op-ed piece says that the times have "changed." People are accepting clean energy as a responsible alternative to former forms of energy we've used. Andy wants the City Council to move forward with actionable measures to embrace the Clean Power Plan. He also believes that business people can benefit from the plan and it can help create a robust economy.
Andy Wirth once suffered a serious injury while skydiving – he had to have an arm reattached. He does not shy away from his injury. Instead, he created an Ironman team called "Wounded Warrior Support." They raise money for the Navy Seal Foundation.
His dedication to improving Lake Tahoe and the economy in the region is very inspiring. He is genuine in his endeavors and seeks to make Lake Tahoe a better, more hospitable place than it even is now.
Purina Stands the Tests of Time for Happier Pets
I love talking about great products. I also love my dogs. From the days of my childhood to current times as an adult knowing how and what to feed my dogs was a part of pet ownership. Some folks take this topic lightly. Others want the best and go to great lengths to provide the best.
In earlier days Purina Beneful dog food was the primary dog food meal option, if not the only option. Everybody fed their dogs this trusted dog food. When people hear the name Purina, they know exactly who it is and what kind of great quality can be expected. Grocery stores and pet stores have stocked and sold Purina for eons. Ever-evolving, Purina continues to grow by developing even higher quality food options and varieties. Purina's popularity has sustained itself for over 80 pet-loving years – 80 years!
There is something pretty special about this brand when there is a heavy desire to offer specific meal types for specific pet health purposes. Variety is important for the consumer to make better choices for their pet. One of my favorite Purina food choices has been Beneful. My rough collie loved Beneful for years. His health and taste buds were happy eating one bowl of this crunchy, kibbled goodness.
Pet-friendly Purina creates deliciousness for our furry babies while also stepping out-of-the-box in humane ways our communities are proud of. Remember, Purina's original days meant good quality, a genuine respect for the product and the consumer, and reliable customer service attitudes.
For example, the passion of Purina proudly extends itself to its employees. Purina incorporates respect and reward for employees by helping them understand how important it is to actually care about the products they are making. Purina stands for families and appreciates the value our pets bring to the heart of the home and community. When a company is ranked Number 3 as one of the best places to work for not one, but several years, I know this is a company I can entrust my dog's health and happiness to.
Purina's Pet Care Development Centres have been thoughtfully created for ongoing educational purposes to better understand the nutritional preferences and requirements of both dogs and cats. Incorporating training in socialization, group play and other enrichment programs designed to benefit our pets is only a small part of how Purina is impacting the world.
Try Purina products on your pet family and see for yourself how many furry smiles and purrs you get. Joining Purina's heartwarming legacy means happy-ever-after for the pets we love so much.
The In's and Out's of Affiliate Marketing
Cost per action marketing, also known as affiliate marketing is a type of marketing that allows you to make passive income on the Internet. Since the dawn of the Internet, people have shared links and helped each other's businesses grow. This is another way to help your business grow as it has helped other marketers develop their businesses develop into world-class companies that dominate the web.
I want you to imagine this: you have a product that you want to sell. You don't know how to promote it and you do not have the money to buy traditional advertising space via Google AdWords. "So how can I advertise my product?" You're probably thinking. Well, you collect people to sell your product for you, that's how.
Now, I'm sure you're thinking "why would someone want to help me sell my product? What's in it for them?" Well, they are going to make money from selling your product, that's why. "But I don't have any money to give." You may exclaim. Well, they only receive money when you make money.
Lots of savvy marketers place what are called affiliate links on their websites in order to generate cash. Affiliate links' link back to a website selling a product or a service. By clicking the link, it tracks the visitor to the website that is selling the product and also tracks which affiliate led them, although it mainly tracks whether a purchase is made by the browser of the affiliate website. If a browser of your website clicks the affiliate link that you are promoting and purchases a product, you get a percentage of whatever the product costs.
Affiliate marketing is extremely valuable because it allows people to place advertisements on their website and monetize their websites without having to deal with intrusive pop-ups and banner ads, as would typically happen in your traditional web environment.
Affiliate marketing is a very widespread activity and is responsible for most of the Internet's biggest hitting companies and products. Products such as clothing are often marketed via affiliate links on top blogs and websites that promote women's fashion. A woman could create a blog for fun and add an affiliate link on her website for a specific brand that she loves. Since her fans are loyal, they are enthusiastic about anything she endorses and will eventually click her affiliate link and buy something on the site that it leads. When her fan buy something on that site, the blogger could earn anywhere from 3%-20% of the price that the product that is being sold. Affiliate marketers are not losing money by having their links hosted on people's websites because they only pay a fee when the advertisement actually makes a sale.
Ivan Ong is a cost per action coach that specializes in showing webmasters how to build your affiliate-based business as well as showing you how to effectively affiliate market in the real world. He began his Internet empire very humbly in his parents basement and now, he is a millionaire several times over with a reputation as the world's number one affiliate marketing coach.


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Fully supervised program for your children while you enjoy your evening out!
Includes dinner, snacks, activities & a movie. We recommend bringing: PJ's, pillow, blanket, and running shoes for Rocks and Ropes course. Ages 4 - 12.
Drop Off Dates (2017-2018)
Camp Hours
Friday, March 16, 2018
6:00pm - 11:00pm - SOLD OUT
Registration Fees
$27.95 per child (plus taxes) when booked in advance
$32.95 per child (plus taxes) when registered on the night of Drop Off
Please read the Day Camp Behaviour & Code of Conduct
All our programs include: full use of the FunworX facility, with the addition of
bowling, Rocks & Ropes Course, arts and crafts, games, outdoor time (weather
dependant). Lunch and snacks will also be provided each day. All programming
is designed for ages 4 - 12 years.
Day Camp hours 9:00am - 4:00pm.
Extended care hours 8:00am - 9:00am & 4:00pm to 5:30pm.
Camp Dates
January 26, 2018
April 2, 2018 (Easter Monday)
April 13, 2018
May 4, 2018 (WRDSB only)
June 1, 2018
June 29, 2018 (WRDSB only)
$44.95 per full day session per child when booked more than 3 days in advance
$49.95 per full day session per child when booked 1 to 2 days in advance
$52.95 per full day session per child when booked day of the camp
$270.00 for your choice of any 7 full day sessions per child.
Individual Camp Days - $52.95 per child per day SOLD OUT
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Kalio intermediate rendang is a dish that is lightly browned, if kalio in dry with low heat will be colored black and was called rendang. Kalio same basic ingredients with rendang, namely coconut, finely ground red chillies, ginger, galangal, shallots, garlic, lime leaves, bay leaves, turmeric leaves. Rendang and kalio not use turmeric as it makes the texture of the meat is not good. Fill kalio usually chicken, beef, beef liver, or jengkol Special care and Jering not be made dry rendang because it will make the material hard and uncomfortable.
beef kalio padang ( kalio daging sapi padang )
½ kg beef
10 pieces Potatoes
1 item Coconut
¼ cup cooking oil
10 pieces of red onion
1 cm Ginger
4 cloves garlic
½ stalk Lemongrass
15 pieces of red Lombok
2 pieces of kaffir lime leaves
5 seeds Pecan
3 bay leaves
½ teaspoon cumin
4 acid eyes
1 piece Laos
2 tablespoons salt
Shredded coconut, coconut milk 6 cups made.
All the finely ground spices.
The meat is cleaned, cut into pieces, mixed with bumbubumbu, pan-fried, covered, until tender left.
Put coconut milk, cooked until the oil out.
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With a large programme of work throughout 2018, we are gearing up to be just as busy.
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There are no rules about introducing a bedtime routine, if you have one or not is completely up to you. You might want a bedtime routine from when your baby is a few weeks old or you might feel you don't need one for several months. The key is being guided by your baby and what you need.
Daytime can be busy, noisy and fun with learning, developing new skills, communicating, coping with new sounds, faces and places so helping your baby to settle down for sleep can be about creating a calmer environment. According to The Science of Parenting: "The primary aim at bedtime is to being your child down from a superalert awake state by activating oxytocin and the sleep hormone melatonin…when a soothing routine is used it can help to activate these calming chemicals in the brain."
- For some parents the bedtime routine starts with bath time, which can be calm and or happy and splashy, depending on your baby.
- Before you dress your baby, a massage can be a great way to help her wind down. If she isn't too hungry or too tired, then this can help her feel calm and ready for sleep. It may be more beneficial to do this in a warm, quiet room, with no TV and with dimmed lights.
- When your baby is dressed plenty of cuddles and milk could be needed.
- When you talk to your baby, speak quietly and gently. Some parents also like to sing gently to their baby. And it's never too early to read to your baby, this can be a wonderful addition to those cuddles.
- Settle your baby to sleep in your usual way – whether this is in her Moses basket or cot or snuggled up next to you.
Benefits of having a relaxed bedtime routine mean that:
- It is calm time with your baby, when you wind down and relax as well.
- It helps your baby feel calm and secure, so you can use it if you go away and if you are making changes to your baby's bedtime, such as encouraging her to settle herself or moving into a cot or into her own room.
- You don't have to do it at a fixed time, it's the pattern and responding to your baby that is important, not the timings.
With a bedtime routine, it is important to remember that:
- You and your baby will both benefit from this time together if you are both relaxed. If you are feeling frustrated and anxious because you want to rush off and do something else, then it may not work because your baby could pick up on your anxiety and be more difficult to settle – which will frustrate you!
- A bedtime routine is not about helping your baby to sleep all night. It is quite normal for babies to wake throughout the night for food and comfort but it can make your evenings calmer. When your baby wakes in the night, keep the room calm and dimly lit, speak quietly and softly to your baby to encourage her to settle back to sleep again.
- If you are trying to encourage your baby to settle to sleep on her own, this probably won't happen straight away especially if she is still a new baby. Babies are designed to need cuddles to feel safe and secure before going to sleep. But having a gentle bedtime routine could enhance her feelings of safety through its familiarity and the quiet time together.
- It doesn't always work and sometimes you can't always be bothered to do it, give yourself a break and don't feel guilty about it, just pick it up again when it feels right.
- Be guided by your baby and what feels right for you, change the bedtime routine as you need to, to help your baby settle.
Good reads:
Science of Parenting by Margot Sunderland
The No-cry Sleep Solution by Elizabeth Pantley


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Heather says the following about her entrepreneurial journey:
Heather shares her favorite time-saving resources, which are apps called Trip It and Fave It. She shares what motivated her to join the Real Housewives show, along with her favorite part and least favorite part of being part of the show. Her NEXT BIG THING is Yummie's loungewear line, launching later this month. Join us for inspiration from Heather!
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It's been a while since the last update.
iOS and Android versions will be released later this month.
Looks like an improvement over FIFA 18.
Clear up some space.
There will be no separate store for classic games.
Lots and lots of games to look forward to.
Digital Foundry compares the Switch and Xbox One versions of the popular online multiplayer game.
Finally, a good deal at GameStop.
Great news for Star Fox fans.
Plus 20 minutes of gameplay video.
20+ minutes of gameplay from the upcoming Switch brawler.
Reminds us of… Star Fox.
Didn't even bother to bring a teaser or a CGI trailer.
Coming this Fall.
Download it now for free.
Ubisoft brought Shigeru Miyamoto on stage to reveal the news.
Includes new stages, new heroes, and new gameplay features.
According to Best Buy leak.
The mobile game has a free Switch version out now.
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"Go now, and remember that I am sending you out as lambs among wolves." - Luke 10:3
In the professional sports world we have the Bears, the Lions, the Jaguars, the Rams—but never the Squirrels or the Lambs. There is something muscular, aggressive, and intimidating about the former—those names command respect. But a sports team named the Squirrels or the Lambs would generate pity and concern and laughter.
The people of Jesus' time weren't into professional sports, but they still had an aggressive side and did not hesitate to impose their wills, like bears and lions, on others. This, however, did not concern Jesus. He frankly said that, as far as his men were concerned, they were about to be commissioned "as lambs among wolves" (Luke 10:3). His team of witnesses was not called the Capernaum Cheetahs or the Jerusalem Jaguars. They were the Lambs, and their opponents in the first round were the Wolves. "No contest," you say. "If it was a prize fight, the referees would stop it in the first round!"
But Jesus knew better. Lambs they were to be, and wolves their opponents certainly were. But the difference was found in the statement, "I am sending you" (10:3). The secret of effective Christian ministry is not found in the extraordinary abilities of those who are sent, but rather in the sovereign authority of the one who sends. Without his sending, the seventy-two would never have ventured forth. And without the assurance, "I have given you authority over all the power of the enemy" (10:19), the Lambs would never have taken the field. But they did! And what was the final score? Lambs 72, Wolves 0.
Jesus was the one who "chose" the seventy-two (10:1). He himself is the "Lord who is in charge of the harvest" (10:2). He is the one to whom the disciples should "pray" (10:2). He, and he alone, can adequately "send" people where they need to go to do what they must do. He is the one who gives instructions on the behavior of disciples, on ministry techniques, on the solemnity of the occasion, and on the urgency of the hour. It is to him that tired but excited disciples return, and it is from him that they hear the words, "Don't rejoice just because evil spirits obey you; rejoice because your names are registered as citizens of heaven" (10:20).
What, then, is the role of those who are sent out by Jesus? It is to be willing to be propelled into the action—against all odds, sometimes against better judgment, and occasionally against concerted advice. Then their job is to proclaim—to let people know about Jesus and his kingdom. Their role is also to pray for reinforcements! Finally, they are to persevere. This way, the Lambs will rout the Wolves every time!
For Further Study: Luke 10:1-20
Excerpted from The One Year Devotions for Men, Copyright ©2000 by Stuart Briscoe. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.
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