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What an amazing day we all had! I'd been super excited about this event for some time now and it was finally here! I decided to camp overnight at Earle Rowe Provincial Park where the event was being held. I don't have many pics of that because I came super late and it was so… Continue reading Hands Across the Water
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I was listening to the radio the other day when this song came on. The song isn't so much what I wanted to tell you about, but rather the video. You've got to see this. I was at work a while back and someone showed it to me. I'd heard the song a hundred times… Continue reading Renegades
It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!
No I don't mean Christmas… or winter. I mean the time of year when camping season is over and gear starts to go on sale! I love shopping for camping gear. It's not that I skimp on everything, but I really love it when I get a good deal on something. Don't you? Here's a… Continue reading It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!
Challenges and benefits
I've been having fun lately tinkering with videos. I'm not really sure what people like… Videos? Pictures? Text? I'm just going with what I like doing, and I'm hoping that it's helpful somehow. I plan on doing my thing regardless, being authentic and whatnot; but I always welcome feedback 😊 (and questions! I'm working on… Continue reading Challenges and benefits
Hike to the Crack
I think this post may just be all about the pictures. In my last post I decided to do something different and I featured each campsite I stayed on in a video. The hike to the Crack was so pretty, I'm not sure pictures or a video would do it justice. And besides, it was… Continue reading Hike to the Crack
A week in Killarney
Recently I decided to take the week off work to go to Killarney. I stayed for seven days and six nights. I had two nights on George Lake, two nights on OSA lake, and lastly two nights on Killarney lake with a hike to The Crack! (The Crack deserves a whole post of it's own!)… Continue reading A week in Killarney
Trail review ~ Scorch Lake Lookout
Scorch Lake is located within Algonquin park. I'd been interested in taking a trip out to this lake for a while now after reading an old blog post about the lookout trail. This trip was more of a challenge than I'd really expected. I knew going in that it would be difficult. The portages alone… Continue reading Trail review ~ Scorch Lake Lookout


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mahabis downtime // embracing a slow morning
Mornings can be stressful and hectic. Sleeping in late, rushing around, missing breakfast and running for the train. Avoid getting up on the wrong side of the bed. Learn to slow down your mornings, get ready for the day with a relaxed pace, and set yourself up for the day.
Ween yourself off the snooze button. For one day a week, practice getting out of bed as soon as you awake, rather than settling back into the comfort of your duvet. Once you are up and out of bed, jump straight into the shower to refresh the senses and clear away any dreariness.
It's the small things that matter in the mornings. Whether that is enjoying perfectly poached eggs, taking the time to read a chapter of a book, slowly drinking a steaming cup of coffee, or getting into the right frame of mind for the rest of the day with a yoga session.
Joseph Meehan from Huckberry adds that "performing a ritual before consumption of food or beverage can increase enjoyment and perceived value of the item in question". His ritual?
"I always take a sip of the freshly-brewed black coffee before adding any cream or sugar or anything else. Something appeals to me about tasting the coffee in its most pure form before adding anything else to it, so this makes the ritual feel very personal."
By adding a similar element of ritual to your morning, you're adding something of value, that will prompt a brighter wake-up as you spring from the sheets.
Breakfast is also a must. Too often we speed through the morning, rushing to get out of the door and breakfast is long forgotten. There's no need for an elaborate meal. Prepare something the night before, or whip up something simple in the morning.
If you've given yourself enough time, then fitting in some light exercise or even just some fresh air in the morning is a great idea. Whether you skip the bus and take a walk instead, or sign up for a morning yoga class, a spot of exercise before you settle down at the desk is a useful way to get yourself in the right frame of mind.
If you can't avoid the commute, then take the time to read the newspaper or a magazine, or bring along a book. Reading a print publication uses a different part of your brain that scrolling through electronic screens, and will help to get your brain in gear for a busy day.
Once you arrive in the office, it is easy to feel overwhelmed with all of your daily tasks. Instead, write yourself a simple list of what you'd like to achieve in the day. Keep realistic about the time certain tasks will take, and prioritise which ones to scratch off during the day. To keep your mind refreshed ensure you take small microbreaks.
Enjoying these simple morning activities at a slow and relaxed pace, rather than rushing through your mornings, will help to prepare yourself for the day ahead with a calm and tranquil mentality.

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Genuine Optimism, Tempered With a Dash of Caution
Since the advent of the nation's financial crisis in 2008, bankers have tended to gather under dark clouds at Ingram's Banking Industry Outlook assemblies, overshadowed by concerns about excessive regulation, lack of qualified borrowers, public misperceptions that commercial banking, rather than investment banking, triggered the crisis, and other buzz-killing trends. No more. When a score of executives from the region's leading commercial and community banks gathered March 1 for the 2017 assembly, the views inside the boardroom at Bank of Blue Valley were as sunny as the vista beyond, overlooking a vibrant commercial district in Johnson County. In a two-hour discussion directed by co-chairs Kristie Remster Orme of the McDowell, Rice, Smith & Buchanan law firm, and Bob Regnier of the host bank, participants assessed the reasons why these are, indeed, good times for regional banks. The down-turn washed out some of the weaker players in the banking scene, loan volumes surged in 2016, and the need for enforcement actions and loan workouts plummeted. Their discussion was a powerful reminder of the link between banks and the broader region's economic fortunes.
This New Year's Eve past must have been fraught with mixed emotions for bankers in the Kansas City region, an experience not unlike saying farewell to a dear friend who only recently had re-entered your life and reminded you why you were so drawn to him in the first place.
For many bankers in the region, and certainly those gathered at the table for this assembly, it wasn't just a good year—it was a record year. And more than a few pointed to a surge in fourth-quarter lending volume that helped set those new standards.
Somewhat surprisingly, none cited any specific reasons for the late-year lending wave, which might tempt one to suggest the cause was The Election Outcome That Dares Not Speak Its Name.
Mark Fortino, chief operating officer for Bank of Blue Valley, said that for the calendar year, the bank had seen 10 percent growth in loan volumes. "But $40 million of that $50 million came in the fourth quarter," he said. "We really saw an uptick in business on the lending side, and we doubled our mobile deposit users last year. I think that holds promise on the deposit side, going forward."
At U.S. Bank, the new market president, Tim Petty, said 2016 started slow, "but we grabbed momentum throughout the year," particularly with activity in commercial and industrial lending. But, he said, "it was really across the board. We finished the year at
20 percent growth on loans, which really is significant growth. And that is on the heels of 12 percent the year before that."
While growth wasn't nearly 20 percent, it was still a healthy 7 percent bump at Central Bank of the Midwest, said CEO-designate
Bill Ferguson. "We look at 2017 as that momentum picks up," he said. "Our credit portfolio continues to get stronger, so we're sitting in a pretty good spot on that growth."
Paul Thompson, chairman, president and CEO of Country Club Bank, said 2016 was the third year of a boomlet that has pushed loan totals 50 percent above 2014 levels. "We did at least three years of about $100 million in net loan growth, most of that around the areas of assisted living, which is kind of a niche we've developed, and also around health care."
The biggest bank represented at the table, in terms of assets in this market, was UMB, No. 2 by that measurement. And CEO Mike Hagedorn had a few success metrics of his own. "We had record earnings, our stock hit an all-time time high and we saw an increase of 70 percent in our stock price," he said. Loan volume growth the past three years was at least double the industry average, reflecting success in its Texas markets geographically, and in agriculture and industrial lending by segment. "It's nice," he said, "to see double-digit growth to the left of the decimal."
Banks that are both newer, and newer to the market, enjoyed the bounty, as well.
Peter Shriver, managing director of business banking for CrossFirst Bank, said the loan portfolio grew more than 40 percent with more of that coming in 2017. The bank opened its doors at the most challenging possible time, in 2008, but has grown with a conservative approach to capital expenditures, and an aggressive one by jumping into new markets, particularly in Dallas. "What's interesting to me is how strong the fourth quarter of 2016 was; generally, that's when business slows down," he said.
And Brian Hoban, market president for relative market newcomer Mutual of Omaha Bank, said the 9-year-old institution was seeing growth in markets from Tampa to Pasadena. While the energy sector was down a bit, he said, "general C&I lending was up, commercial real estate was up, and we're projecting 9 percent growth in 2017."
What's happening with banking is a tide lifting smaller boats, as well.
"We're a small family bank, in the same family more than 100 years, and we had a tremendous 2016," said Bank 21 chairman Tyler Knott. "We also hit a real milestone for us, crossing over $100 million in assets." Much of that came from carving out a niche in rental properties for units accommodating one to four families, he said, but looking ahead, "I do see some potential issues in the multi-family market, especially in the urban core."
Lead Bank, which opened its Crossroads branch in late 2015 with a goal of seeking out small, growing companies as clients, found the strategy paid off. "We had our first full year there, and we're doing better than expected with the first year of a new location. We're happy to be more in the metro area," said CEO Josh Rowland His challenge is "keeping it under control with the demand we've got, making sure we're growing the way we want."
Co-sponsor McDowell, Rice, Smith & Buchanan presented an array of perspectives in financial-services law, and they, too, reinforced the strengths of this region's banks.
"We're a law firm, so I doubt most of you really care how we did last year," said Scott Long, invoking laughter all around. "But from an attorney's perspective, it's clear 2016 was a good year. We've seen a lot more loan activity from the banks we represent. We also represent some borrowers, and their appetite for credit is really out there." Banks are willing to make loans and there is no shortage of strong borrowers shopping for the best deals.
From another angle, Mike Gorman said his work at the firm with enforcement and workouts illustrated a new lending landscape. "You all must have healthy portfolios, because that work is not what it was three or four years ago," he said.
Banking, said the firm's Jonathan Margolies, has both a happy side and a dark one. "Transactions show an ongoing appetite for credit," he said, "and those of us old enough to recognize it know that these are still incredible interest rates." The dark side of banking law, he said, is Chapter 11 bankruptcy, where demand for legal services has plunged. "That seems to indicate to me that business is pretty strong," he said.
A contributing factor to the good times of 2016, said Bank of Blue Valley's Brue Easterly, was what most every bank had endured going back nearly a decade. The consolidation of weaker banks that followed the financial crisis of 2008, he said, was a washing-out that "left us with a lot of strong players."
One trait that defines the Kansas City banking marketplace is the ferocity of competition—it has far more banks, per capita, than markets in peer cities like Minneapolis, Milwaukee or Cincinnati. Kristie Orme cited the number of banks with operations outside the immediate region, and Bob Regnier wondered whether that was driving local banks to seek out opportunities in distant markets, where margins might be higher.
"We're not in other markets because of competition in Kansas City," said UMB's Hagedorn. Rather, the bank had followed its lines of business and its clients' interests back to their home markets, and expanded with acquisitions, as well. "I actually think it's crazy to come into our market—there are a lot of good, very well-run banks here," he said.
Paul Thompson said that the opportunities for growth that have attracted new institutions to this region are the same factors that keep Country Club Bank focused on the home town. "Between organic growth in Kansas City, experiencing that, and our relative market share, there's no reason for us to be looking to different markets," he said. "We still feel like there are great opportunities for us to be here in Kansas City."
Brian Hoban noted that "there are 125 banks in the Kansas City market, so a couple more wouldn't change the dynamics much." What has changed recently, he said, was the flow of money, particularly from the West Coast, into Midwestern real estate. "People like the stability of our Midwestern economy—we didn't swing as much as coastal communities did" during the hous-
ing downturn and rebound cycle.
"This is a tough market," said Bob Regnier. "There are more than 110 really good banks in this market. It's more difficult now than it's ever been to take business away from someone." The occasional opportunities to do so, he said, are often grounded in disagreements between a bank and a customer who starts shopping for an alternative.
Right now, said Mike Hagedorn, banks' balance sheets "have never been as diverse. If you have diversity, it doesn't bring you down" when the economic cycle down-stroke hits.
"I think the overall health of the banks is better," said Tim Petty. "What we try to do is what did before. It's really easy to look your at loan policy in good times and think it's outdated, and want to stretch, but if you've been through it, you know not to do that—stick to what got you there and kept you safe, and in the downturn that is when you grow, because you have the capital to grow."
When times are good and banks can tell clients that they can increase their lines of credit, it's meaningful and strengthens relationships, he said. But in bad times, you don't want to convey a message that you can't help a client because your past lending practices were ill-advised. "We don't want to put clients in that spot," he said. "We want to be realistic and truthful with them on their own plans and educate them, because if we keep them safe, we keep ourselves safe."
Every business is seeing the impact of a new generation of workers, but the Millennials pose challenges unique to banking with both the differing attitudes they bring to traditional concepts of workplace and career, and to the very way they interact with banks.
The first of those challenges is existential.
"My biggest concern is not around credit, it's human capital, and trying to keep up in all our markets," said Peter Shriver. "It is really hard to find the right people. There's a real dearth of talent, and the talent that is out there is really being taken care of well by their organizations." As a result, the bank spends a lot of time "thinking about compensation and incentive packages to be as competitive as we possibly can. It's our No. 1 issue."
Kristi Orme speculated that other financial-services tracks were drawing away prime candidates, and Mike Hagedorn, who also has an instructional role at the University of Kansas, agreed that private equity, analytical and money-management disciplines were siphoning off qualified workers. But it goes beyond that, Hagedorn said.
"We don't produce generalists anymore; everybody gets so specific," he said. "They're 25, 26 and they want to manage money.
My Dad was a banker, and he would often say that nobody should give you money until they have a little gray around their temples." He's considering ways to take formal training programs and "put them on steroids" to deepen the bank's bench.
"In our case, as a de novo bank, we couldn't hire and train," Shriver said of the bank's startup phase. "We're just getting to that point where have to have a bench, an inventory of people we can advance within the organization, or we're going to lose them." So a more formal training program and better recruiting are in order, he said.
Part of the challenge is that Millennials don't think in traditional terms about climbing a corporate ladder. "It's more a corporate lattice," Shriver said. "Most of the younger folks think, 'just put me in best position where it's interesting and fun to work.' "
"What's important to them has changed a lot," said Tim Petty, but he conceded that looking at things from a perspective of wanting more career flexibility—in tasks, responsibilities and scheduling—wasn't necessarily a bad thing, and was something even he found instructive as a manager. "They want it all: the career, the pay and the family."
Paul Thompson noted a greater sense today of young workers' wanting to make a positive impact and create a social benefit in their work. "We're still having a bit of a hangover from the financial crisis in terms of PR with that group," he said. "It shouldn't be a surprise to us that a lot of younger men and women don't know if they want to be part of that, because we've been maligned."
Small banks have an additional challenge, Josh Rowland, said, and that is building a culture that tells young workers they can make a career at a community bank. "We're trying to address that as a training issue, look at people who want to make a difference, problem-solvers who care that what they're doing is making a difference in person's life. Community banking is a great way to do that."
Fortino said Bank of Blue Valley was fortunate in that more than half its staff had been on board for more than a decade. But, he said, "the whole idea of are we going to generate new bankers, and how we do it, has to go back to the educational system." He sits on the board of accounting information at KU, where he says it's clear there's little interest in going into banking after graduation.
Mike Hagedorn said he asked his class of about 40 whether any were interested in careers in commercial banking. "No hands went up," he said. His father, Hagedorn said, "was a great banker, and people had great respect for what he did. It mattered, and it was important to him, but it's all been pushed under the rug. But we're not the people who caused the problems."
The co-chairs jumped into current events and talk from Washington about rolling back some of the regulatory onslaught introduced over the past eight years, particularly with the Dodd-Frank amendment. The hopes were great, participants said, but the practical reality is, they're tempering expectations.
"I don't think it's realistic to truly dial back seven years of this in the making," said Tom Kientz of Dickinson Financial Corp. "We don't expect much change of Dodd-Frank; we're assuming it's going to be pretty much the same. At the same time, we all believe the new president will be beneficial for banks—as long as he doesn't screw it up. There's some uncertainty still, but he is saying a lot of the right things." And 2017, in fact, is the first year in a long time that the bank has not budgeted payroll growth in its compliance section.
Brian Hoban expects things to be "business as usual," and the bank is taking the same approach. "We're going to do what's right for clients, customers, and consumers," he said.
Paul Thompson wondered whether emerging threats to traditional banking, in the form of financial-tech companies with innovative payment and processing applications, would be faced with regulations of their own. "If there's a lot of players who have a different level of playing field than we do, it's going to be more difficult to compete with that," he said.
One thing already changing, Kientz said, was the focus away from non-credit aspects of bank operations, and Barbara Christ of Arvest Bank concurred. "Fair lending and lending presence, where are lenders housed," were emerging as regulators' priorities, she said. "Not just which banks are assigned to low-to-moderate-income areas, but are they actually living in those areas. The person who walks into our Prospect Avenue branch looking for a business or mortgage loan should have the same experience as someone walking into our Johnson County branch."
She also cited compliance with the Com-munity Reinvestment Act and a heightened focus on loan applications from businesses owned by women and minorities.
Mike Hagedorn pointed to the CRA, which dates to 1977, as a piece of banking regulation badly in need of a 21st-centruy reality check. "That law has got to be modernized, and we should push for that," he said. "It's crazy we have the rules we have today. The CRA is about access, but not many banks are opening a lot of branches today."
Paul Thompson observed that banks' commercial clients, as well, were feeling that burden. "A lot of our customers are feeling they are able to breathe again after the election," he said. "We're increasing our compliance people; but they have to, too." And that overabundance of regulation, he said, hampers efforts by those companies to do what they need to do to succeed—interfacing with their customers. "What's good for them is going to be good for the banking industry as well," he said.
Bob Regnier asked what banks were doing today to address the inevitability of economic downturn, especially against the backdrop of a boom. "Bad loans are made in good times," he said. "And I'm seeing some things kind of starting to migrate."
But if the mood at the table is an indication, banks are more resolute than they were a decade ago about avoiding excessive exuberance in lending.
Referencing the 2008 downturn, Josh Rowland said that "what we learned in the last six years, seven years, is how bad it can be. That's the founding myth of our bank: how bad it can be, not how good it can be. We are talking about that a lot with our lenders."
The lesson from 2006-2008, he said, was that even if somebody else were willing to take a chance on a loan that lacked the proper fundamentals going in, "we don't have to make that loan. So we won't. And if they leave, they leave, but we're not going to do it."
Creative destruction, said Mike Hagedorn, had worked wonders within the industry over the past decade. "The real-estate banks that were the biggest challenge for our industry in 2008, they're gone," he said.
Brian Hoban suggested that pockets of the construction sector bore scrutiny. But "a construction project today," he said, "is going to be highly, highly capitalized. I think you're starting to see loan to cost limits coming down. That's something we're preparing for."
Bob Regnier cited the Downtown Kansas City apartment-building boom as one area worth watching, especially for high-end units. "I'll bet there are a thousand units that will come on-stream at almost the same time in the next six months Downtown," he said. "That's amazing to me. That's a bunch."
Josh Rowland did his best not to dampen spirits, but felt compelled to cite another cause for concern in an economic development: We may think we're doing better at promoting innovation and entrepreneurship than we really are. "We tend as a community to look at these as trendy and exciting, and they are exciting," he said. "The fact is, though, that we are not doing that well in finding sustainable companies that are capable of competing."
Part of the challenge, he said, is improving the capital infrastructure with funding avenues outside of banking channels—private equity, venture capital and angel investors. Efforts are going on to change that, he said, "but we're not there yet."
Still, said Duncan Burdette of Enterprise Bank & Trust Co., "the ability to get a loan today is better than it has been in years." Because of intense competition among banks, anyone with a solid business plan and some capital to invest is doing it at an optimal time, with rates comparatively low.
The discussion wrapped up with some observations about the value of the role banks play in the local economy. Not just as lenders, said Tim Petty, "we're also connectors in the community because we serve on so many boards. We're in the community, trying to connect all the time, leveraging opportunities outside the bank."
Eight years ago, Paul Thompson recalled, bankers in general were branded as fat cats who nearly brought down a nation's economy. But "what we do is a noble thing, to figure out where the best flow of capital will go to," he said. "It's not just 'OK, here you go," and push money at people; we have to do it in a thoughtful, responsible manner, giving credit where it's due, but also not burdening people when they can't manage that level of debt."
As Tim Petty sees it, "we get the opportunity to do something special for clients every day. That's kept me in the business for 30 years: I get to see America created every day. That's what's exiting—when you see how you can make somebody's dreams come to life."


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The Islamic State organization has continued to disseminate "business as usual" pictures from Mosul as part of a propaganda push against an ongoing campaign by the Iraqi military and the international coalition to liberate the city.
On Friday, the organization distributed pictures of the city's markets buzzing with people, though men only, testifying to the ban IS imposed on the presence of women in public spaces except during designated hours.
Hibesh policemen were also seen in the pictures. These are IS officials who impose the organization's new regulations, including a ban on installing satellite dishes. According to the captions, they also ensured that all the shoppers go to Friday prayers on time.
In another publication, IS wardens are seen enforcing Zakat payments (a Sharia-imposed welfare tax), under the headline: "Despite the war, Zakat money is collected and allocated to the poor."
The wardens are seen visiting farmers in the desert area near Homs, which is still partly controlled by IS, to collect the charity money, and in other pictures are seen handing it out to the poor.
In the same vein, IS's propaganda team distributed pictures of a bakery in the Syrian town of Massalameh, in which a child is seen tasting freshly baked goods. The headline read: "Despite the war, Massalmeh's baked goods."


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Tierra Mini Rosa
Tierra Mini Rosa
Tierra Mini is a stunning relaxed piece hand made in Chiapas. I designed this piece with beautiful deep arm holes, so it would be relaxed and generously worn. Stunning white cotton with multi embroidery and beautiful hand smocking, it is so easy to wear and looks divine.
Made from a medium weight soft cotton
Please note: we love our Mexican made pieces for the crazy and raw threads, the uneven stitching and the beauty that it is. Each piece will vary in colour slightly and be just as unique as the wearer. Embrace the beauty that is hand made and imperfect.


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About this Episode of SAGEClinician:
On this episode of the SAGEClinician podcast, Brett and I talk about:
- The Tennessee Practice Act for APRNs
- Networking and NPs
- Blogging
- The NPMom and how it can be used as a teaching resource for clinicians
- Getting involved!
This episode was recorded prior to the June 2014 AANP Conference which we refer to as a future event, so don't get too confused by that!
WHO is Brett Badgley Snodgrass, MSN, APRN, FNP-C?
Brett Badgley Snodgrass is a practicing Family Nurse Practitioner specializing in Family Practice, Pain Management and Palliative Care, a national speaker and award winning health care blogger, who's known as The NP Mom. She is passionate about health education, whether it's 1 on 1 with a patient or student, in a lecture hall or conference, or online as The NP Mom. Her warm and engaging personality puts everyone at ease as they learn more about health.
Brett has received numerous awards, and serves on several pharmaceutical and medical advisory boards. She earned both a master's and BS degree from the University of Memphis. She is a Clinical Expert and Guest Lecturer for CO*RE REMS LA/ER Chronic Opioid Safe Prescribing, the spokeswoman for "Know Your Dose" Acetaminophen Awareness, and American Association of Nurse Practitioner national conference speaker, just to name a few.
Active in Social Media, Brett is an award winning health care blogger, as The NP Mom offering "answers to questions, patients often forget to ask" with titles ranging from "To Vaccinate or Not to Vaccinate – That is The Question, to "A Day In The Life Of A Nurse Practitioner", to "I'm So Tired – Treating Fatigue Naturally". She amplifies her reach through Facebook, Twitter, and WordPress with more than 5,000 readers each month. Brett lives in Olive Branch, MS with her husband and two teenage daughters.
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Planning Boards are responsible for generating and updating a community's Master Plan, a comprehensive, long-range plan intended to guide the growth and development of a community. This document contains elements that provide direction for future economic development, housing, recreation, open space, transportation, community facilities and land use. The Master Plan is then used to develop and implement broad land use policies for guiding the growth of a municipality.
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More Tinkering With PyTracery
Having started to look at using pytracery for data2text transforms with pandas dataframes, I've been pondering how to do computational things with it, such as counts, conditional tests, and loops.
Here's where I'm at – defining counters, a branch / conditional statement, and a conditional loop:
def inc(text, *params): return str(int(text)+1) def dec(text, *params): return str(int(text)-1) def branch(text, *params): if text==params[0].strip(): ans = params[1].strip() else: ans = params[2].strip() return '[answer:#{}#]'.format(ans) def whileNot0(text, *params): if int(text) > 0: return '[i:{i}]'.format(i=str(int(text)-1)) return '[do:#{}#]'.format(params[0].strip()) pytracery_logic = { 'inc': inc, 'dec': dec, 'branch':branch, 'whileNot0': whileNot0 }
Count example:
rules = {'origin': 'Count demo - #countdemo#', 'countdemo':'Count at [cnt:#initval#]#cnt#.\n#addone#, #addanother#, #takeone#', 'addone': 'Add one gives [cnt:#cnt.inc#]#cnt#', 'addanother': 'add another one gives [cnt:#cnt.inc#]#cnt#', 'takeone':'take one gives [cnt:#cnt.dec#]#cnt.int_to_words#', } grammar = tracery.Grammar(rules) grammar.add_modifiers(pytracery_logic) grammar.add_modifiers(inflect_english) print(grammar.flatten('[initval:1]#origin#')) > Count demo - Count at 1. > Add one gives 2, add another one gives 3, take one gives two
Logical test:
rules={'origin':'Logical test:[branch:#condition#]#branch# Testing #value# gives: #answer#', 'condition': '#value.branch(VeryTrue, answer1, answer2)#', 'answer1':'This is true...', 'answer2':'This is false...', 'answer3':'nope', 'answer':'answer3' } grammar = tracery.Grammar(rules) grammar.add_modifiers(pytracery_logic) print(grammar.flatten("[value:VeryTrue]#origin#")) > Logical test: Testing VeryTrue gives: This is true... print(grammar.flatten("[value:notTrue]#origin#")) > Logical test: Testing notTrue gives: This is false...
Loop test:
rules = {'origin': 'Loop test: \n#loop#', 'loop':'[while:#i.whileNot0(end)#]#while##do#', 'do':'#action##loop#', 'action':'- count is at #i#\n', 'end':'All done' } grammar = tracery.Grammar(rules) grammar.add_modifiers(pytracery_logic) print(grammar.flatten("[i:6]#origin#")) > Loop test: > - count is at 5 > - count is at 4 > - count is at 3 > - count is at 2 > - count is at 1 > - count is at 0 > All done
I'm a bit out of the way of declarative thinking (which pytracery relies on) atm, so there may be more native /idiomatic ways of doing this sort of stuff in pytracery.
I'm also a bit rusty on assembler / machine code programming, so there may be better ways of phrasing basic computational operations using pytracery using those sorts of operators.
Next step is to see whether I can start to use these reasoning steps in association with data pulled from a pandas dataframe.
A Recipe for Automatically Going From Data to Text to Reveal.js Slides
Over the last few years, I've experimented on and off with various recipes for creating text reports from tabular data sets, (spreadsheet plugins are also starting to appear with a similar aim in mind). There are several issues associated with this, including:
- identifying what data or insight you want to report from your dataset;
- (automatically deriving the insights);
- constructing appropriate sentences from the data;
- organising the sentences into some sort of narrative structure;
- making the sentences read well together.
Another approach to humanising the reporting of tabular data is to generate templated webpages that review and report on the contents of a dataset; this has certain similarities to dashboard style reporting, mixing tables and charts, although some simple templated text may also be generated to populate the page.
In a business context, reporting often happens via Powerpoint presentations. Slides within the presentation deck may include content pulled from a templated spreadsheet, which itself may automatically generate tables and charts for such reuse from a new dataset. In this case, the recipe may look something like:
#render via: http://blockdiag.com/en/blockdiag/demo.html { X1[label='macro'] X2[label='macro'] Y1[label='Powerpoint slide'] Y2[label='Powerpoint slide'] data -> Excel -> Chart -> X1 -> Y1; Excel -> Table -> X2 -> Y2 ; }
In the previous couple of posts, the observant amongst you may have noticed I've been exploring a couple of components for a recipe that can be used to generate reveal.js browser based presentations from the 20% that account for the 80%.
The dataset I've been tinkering with is a set of monthly transparency spending data from the Isle of Wight Council. Recent releases have the form:
So as hinted at previously, it's possible to use the following sort of process to automatically generate reveal.js slideshows from a Jupyter notebook with appropriately configured slide cells (actually, normal cells with an appropriate metadata element set) used as an intermediate representation.
{ X1[label="text"] X2[label="Jupyter notebook\n(slide mode)"] X3[label="reveal.js\npresentation"] Y1[label="text"] Y2[label="text"] Y3[label="text"] data -> "pandas dataframe" -> X1 -> X2 ->X3 "pandas dataframe" -> Y1,Y2,Y3 -> X2 ->X3 Y2 [shape = "dots"]; }
There's an example slideshow based on October 2016 data here. Note that some slides have "subslides", that is, slides underneath them, so watch the arrow indicators bottom left to keep track of when they're available. Note also that the scrolling is a bit hit and miss – ideally, a new slide would always be scrolled to the top, and for fragments inserted into a slide one at a time the slide should scroll down to follow them).
The structure of the presentation is broadly as follows:
For example, here's a summary slide of the spends by directorate – note that we can embed charts easily enough. (The charts are styled using seaborn, so a range of alternative themes are trivially available). The separate directorate items are brought in one at a time as fragments.
The next slide reviews the capital versus expenditure revenue spend for a particular directorate, broken down by expenses type (corresponding slides are generated for all other directorates). (I also did a breakdown for each directorate by service area.)
The items listed are ordered by value, and taken together account for at least 80% of the spend in the corresponding area. Any further items contributing more than 5%(?) of the corresponding spend are also listed.
Notice that subslides are available going down from this slide, rather than across the mains slides in the deck. This 1.5D structure means we can put an element of flexible narrative design into the presentation, giving the reader an opportunity to explore the data, but in a constrained way.
In this case, I generated subslides for each major contributing expenses type to the capital and revenue pots, and then added a breakdown of the major suppliers for that spending area.
This just represents a first pass at generating a 1.5D slide deck from a tabular dataset. A Pareto (80/20) heurstic is used to try to prioritise to the information displayed in order to account for 80% of spend in different areas, or other significant contributions.
Applying this principle repeatedly allows us to identify major spending areas, and then major suppliers within those spending areas.
The next step is to look at other ways of segmenting and structuring the data in order to produce reports that might actually be useful…
If you have any ideas, please let me know via the comments, or get in touch directly…
PS FWIW, it should be easy enough to run any other dataset that looks broadly like the example at the top through the same code with only a couple of minor tweaks…
First Thoughts on Automatically Generating Accessible Text Descriptions of ggplot Charts in R
In a course team accessibility briefing last week, Richard Walker briefly mentioned a tool for automatically generating text descriptions of Statistics Canada charts to support accessibility. On further probing, the tool, created by Leo Ferres, turned out to be called iGraph-Lite:
… an extensible system that generates natural language descriptions of statistical graphs, particularly those created for Statistics Canada online publication, "The Daily". iGraph-Lite reads a graph from a set of graphing programs, builds intermediate representations of it in several formats (XML, CouchDB and OWL) and outputs a description using NLG algorithms over a "string template" mechanism.
The tool is a C# application compiled as a Windows application, with the code available (unchanged now for several years) on Github.
The iGraph-Lite testing page gives a wide range of example outputs:
Increasingly, online charts are labeled with tooltip data that allows a mouseover or tab action to pop-up or play out text or audio descriptions of particular elements of the chart. A variety of "good chart design" principles designed to support clearer, more informative graphics (for example, sorting categorical variable bars in a bar chart by value rather than using an otherwise arbitrary alphabetic ordering) not only improves the quality of the graphic, it also makes a tabbed through audio description of the chart more useful. For more tips on writing clear chart and table descriptions, see Almost Everything You Wanted to Know About Making Tables and Figures.
The descriptions are quite formulaic, and to a certain extent represent a literal reading of the chart, along with some elements of interpretation and feature detection/description.
Here are a couple of examples – first, for a line chart:
This is a line graph. The title of the chart is "New motor vehicle sales surge in January". There are in total 36 categories in the horizontal axis. The vertical axis starts at 110.0 and ends at 160.0, with ticks every 5.0 points. There are 2 series in this graph. The vertical axis is Note: The last few points could be subject to revisions when more data are added. This is indicated by the dashed line.. The units of the horizontal axis are months by year, ranging from February, 2005 to January, 2007. The title of series 1 is "Seasonally adjusted" and it is a line series. The minimum value is 126.047 occuring in September, 2005. The maximum value is 153.231 occuring in January, 2007. The title of series 2 is "Trend" and it is a line series. The minimum value is 133.88 occuring in February, 2005. The maximum value is 146.989 occuring in January, 2007.
And then for a bar chart:
This is a vertical bar graph, so categories are on the horizontal axis and values on the vertical axis. The title of the chart is "Growth in operating revenue slowed in 2005 and 2006". There are in total 6 categories in the horizontal axis. The vertical axis starts at 0.0 and ends at 15.0, with ticks every 5.0 points. There is only one series in this graph. The vertical axis is % annual change. The units of the horizontal axis are years, ranging from 2001 to 2006. The title of series 1 is "Wholesale" and it is a series of bars. The minimum value is 2.1 occuring in 2001. The maximum value is 9.1 occuring in 2004.
One of the things I've pondered before was the question of textualising charts in R using a Grammar of Graphics approach such as that implemented by ggplot2. As well as literal textualisation of grammatical components, a small amount of feature detection or analysis could also be used to pull out some meaningful points. (It also occurs to me that the same feature detection elements could also then be used to drive a graphical highlighting layer back in the visual plane.)
Prompted by my quick look at the iGraph documentation, I idly wondered how easy it would be to pick apart an R ggplot2 chart object and generate a textual description of various parts of it.
A quick search around suggested two promising sources of structured data associated with the chart objects directly: firstly, we can interrogate the object return from calling ggplot() and it's associated functions directly; and ggplot_build(g), which allows us to interrogate a construction generated from that object.
Here's an example from the quickest of plays around this idea:
library(ggplot2) g=ggplot(economics_long, aes(date, value01, colour = variable)) g = g + geom_line() + ggtitle('dummy title') #The label values may not be the actual axis limits txt=paste('The chart titled"', g$labels$title,'";', 'with x-axis', g$labels$x,'labeled from', ggplot_build(g)$panel$ranges[[1]]$x.labels[1], 'to', tail(ggplot_build(g)$panel$ranges[[1]]$x.labels, n=1), 'and y-axis', g$labels$y,' labeled from', ggplot_build(g)$panel$ranges[[1]]$y.labels[1], 'to', tail(ggplot_build(g)$panel$ranges[[1]]$y.labels,n=1), sep=' ') if ('factor' %in% class(x$data[[x$labels$colour]])){ txt=paste(txt, '\nColour is used to represent', g$labels$colour) if ( class(g$data[[g$labels$colour]]) =='factor') { txt=paste(txt,', a factor with levels: ', paste(levels(g$data[[g$labels$colour]]), collapse=', '), '.', sep='') } } txt #The chart titled "dummy title" with x-axis date labeled from 1970 to 2010 and y-axis value01 labeled from 0.00 to 1.00 #Colour is used to represent variable, a factor with levels: pce, pop, psavert, uempmed, unemploy.&amp;quot;
So for a five minute hack, I'd rate that approach as plausible, perhaps?!
I guess an alternative approach might also be to add an additional textualise=True property to the ggplot() call that forces each ggplot component to return a text description of its actions, and/or features that might be visually obvious from the action of the component as well as, or instead of, the graphical elements. Hmm… maybe I should use the same syntax as ggplot2 and try to piece together something along the lines of a ggdescribe library? Rather than returning graphical bits, each function would return appropriate text elements to the final overall description?!
I'm not sure if we could call the latter approach a "transliteration" of a chart from a graphical to a textual rendering of its structure and some salient parts of a basic (summary) interpretation of it, but it feels to me that this has some merit as a strategy for thinking about data2text conversions in general. Related to this, I note that Narrative Science have teamed up with Microsoft Power BI to produce a "Narratives for Power BI" plugin. I imagine this will start trickling down to Excel at some point, though I've already commented on how simple text summarisers can be added into to Excel using simple hand-crafted formulas (Using Spreadsheets That Generate Textual Summaries of Data – HSCIC).
PS does anyone know if Python/matplotib chart elements also be picked apart in a similar way to ggplot objects? [Seems as if they can: example via Ben Russert.]
PPS In passing, here's something that does look like it could be handy for simple natural language processing tasks in Python: polyglot, "a natural language pipeline that supports massive multilingual applications"; includes language detection, tokenisation, named entity extraction, part of speech tagging, transliteration, polarity (i.e. crude sentiment).
PPPS the above function is now included in Jonathan Godfrey's BrailleR package (about).
PPPPS for examples of best practice chart description, see the UK Association for Accessible Formats (UKAAF) guidance on Accessible Images.
Writing Each Row of a Spreadsheet as a Press Release?
A few days ago, I saw via the @HSCICOpenData Twitter feed that an annually released dataset on Written Complaints in the NHS has just been published.
The data comes in the form of a couple of spreadsheets in which each row describes a count of the written complaints received and upheld under a variety of categories for each GP and dental practice, or local NHS trust.
The practice level spreadsheet looks like this:
Each practice is identified solely by a practice code – to find the name and address of the actual practice requires looking up the code in another dataset.
The column headings supplied in the CSV document only partially identify each column (and indeed, there are duplicates such as Total number of written complaints received, that a spreadsheet reader might disambiguate by adding numerical suffix to) – a more complete description (that shows how the columns are actually hierarchically defined) is provided in an associated metadata spreadsheet.
For a reporter wanting to know whether or not any practices in their area fared particularly badly in terms of the number of upheld complaints, the task might be broken down as follows:
- identify the practices in of interest from their practice codes (which requires finding a set of practice codes of interest);
- for each of those practices, look along the row to see whether or not there are any large numbers in the complaints upheld column.
But if you have a spreadsheet with 10, 20, 30 or more columns, scanning along a row looking for items of interest can rapidly become quite a daunting task.
So an idea I've been working on, which I suspect harkens back to the earliest days of database reporting, is to look at ways of turning each row of data into a text based, human readable report.
Something like the following, for example:
Each record, each "Complaint Report", is a textual rendering of a single row from the practice complaints spreadsheet, with a bit of administrative metadata enrichment in the form of the practice name, address (and in later versions, telephone number).
These reports are quicker to scan, and could be sort or highlighted depending on the number of upheld complaints, for example. The journalist can then quickly review the reports, and identify any practices that might be worth phoning up for a comment to ask why they appear to have received a large number of upheld complaints in a particular area, for example… Data driven press releases used to assist reporting, in other words.
FWIW, I popped up a sketch script that generates the above report from the data, and also pulls in practice administrative metadata from an epracurr spreadsheet, here: NHS complaints spreadsheet2text sketch. See also: Data Driven Press Releases From HSCIC Data – Diabetes Prescribing.
PS I'm not Microsoft Office suite user, but I suspect you can get a fair way along this sort of process by using a mail merge? There may be other ways of generating templated reports too. Any Microsoft Office users fancy letting me know how you'd go about doing something like the above in Word and Excel? I'd guess complicating factors are the requirements to make use of the column headers and only display the items associated with non-zero counts, which perhaps requires some macro magic? Things could perhaps be simplified by reshaping the data, perhaps putting it into a long form by melting the complaints columns, or melting the complaints columns cannily to provide two value columns, once for complaints received and one for complaints upheld?
Then you could filter out the blank rows before the merge.
Data Driven Press Releases From HSCIC Data – Diabetes Prescribing
By chance, I saw a tweet from the HSCIC yesterday announcing Prescribing for Diabetes, England – 2005/06 to 2014/15′ http://bit.ly/1J3h0g8 #hscicstats.
The data comes via a couple of spreadsheets, broken down at the CCG level.
As an experiment, I thought I'd see how quickly I could come up with a story form and template for generating a "data driven press release" that localises the data, and presents it in a textual form, for a particular CCG.
It took a couple of hours, and at the moment my recipe is hard coded to the Isle of Wight, but it should be easily generalisable to other CCGs (the blocker at the moment is identifying regional codes from CCG codes (the spreadsheets in the release don't provide that linkage – another source for that data is required).
Anyway, here's what I came up with:
Figures recently published by the HSCIC show that for the reporting period Financial 2014/2015, the total Net Ingredient Costs (NIC) for prescribed diabetes drugs was £2,450,628.59, representing 9.90% of overall Net Ingredient Costs. The ISLE OF WIGHT CCG prescribed 136,169 diabetes drugs items, representing 4.17% of all prescribed items. The average net ingredient cost (NIC) was £18.00 per item. This compares to 4.02% of items (9.85% of total NIC) in the Wessex (Q70) region and 4.45% of items (9.98% of total NIC) in England.
Of the total diabetes drugs prescribed, Insulins accounted for 21,170 items at a total NIC of £1,013,676.82 (£47.88 per item (on average), 0.65% of overall prescriptions, 4.10% of total NIC) and Antidiabetic Drugs accounted for 93,660 items at a total NIC of £825,682.54 (£8.82 per item (on average), 2.87% of overall prescriptions, 3.34% of total NIC).
For the NHS ISLE OF WIGHT CCG, the NIC in 2014/15 per patient on the QOF diabetes register in 2013/14 was £321.53. The QOF prevalence of diabetes, aged 17+, for the NHS ISLE OF WIGHT CCG in 2013/14 was 6.43%. This compares to a prevalence rate of 6.20% in Wessex and 5.70% across England.
All the text generator requires me to do is pass in the name of the CCG and the area code, and it does the rest. You can find the notebook that contains the code here: diabetes prescribing textualiser.


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CLEVELAND, Ohio — Roughly 200 left-wing activists gathered at The Mall in downtown Cleveland, a short distance away from the Republican National Convention, to protest against Donald Trump — and, at times, against Hillary Clinton as well.
Various speakers assailed the presumptive Republican nominee and his probable Democratic opponent as "Tweedledum and Tweedledee," calling for an alternative to the two-party system — and, in the meantime, a revolution against capitalism.
Supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement were present in strong numbers: "No justice for the black? No justice for the brown? What do we do?" "Shut it down! Shut it down!" they chanted.
Others represented the Workers World Party and local and regional immigrants' rights organizations.
Several people from a left-wing Jewish organization called Jewish Action held signs comparing Trump to Adolf Hitler, with the slogan: "JEWS REJECT TRUMP" and the hashtag "WeveSeenThisBefore".
(When pressed by Breitbart News to explain the sign, one woman refused, saying "I'm not a huge fan of Breitbart News.")
The lead organizer and MC was Kait McIntyre of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, who kept proceedings lively. Also on scene was the resurrected Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the radical left-wing organization whose anti-war protests and battles with police outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968 are the stuff of radical lore.
Journalists from NBC News and the New York Times intermingled with the crowd, along with Fox News and Breitbart. At the margins, a small group of masked, black-clad youth with backpacks seemed prepared for violence and clashes with police.
But for the moment, the protest was peaceful in the sweltering heat, as speakers urged the audience to "Dump Trump!" and to continue their organizing efforts against the "racist" Republicans on the one hand, and the party of "Killary" on the other.
The protesters planned a march later in the afternoon through the largely-empty downtown streets, hoping to march as close to the GOP convention site — the Quicken Loans Arena — as police, present in large numbers, would allow them to be.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. His new book, See No Evil: 19 Hard Truths the Left Can't Handle, will be published by Regnery on July 25 and is available for pre-order through Amazon. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.


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> If you have any actual reasons to use AUFS because of features OverlayFS doesn't have, such as multiple RW branches in round-robin, please do comment here.
I use AUFS on my file server to balance the writing to disks
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mdevaev commented on 2017-04-15 23:27
> If you have any actual reasons to use AUFS because of features OverlayFS doesn't have, such as multiple RW branches in round-robin, please do comment here.
Calimero commented on 2016-05-23 18:42
For some time now, OverlayFS has been able to do everything I've been using AUFS for. I'll continue maintaining this, but I won't be using it myself and suggest that AUFS users take a look at the latest version of OverlayFS (which can do several branches, too).
If you have any actual reasons to use AUFS because of features OverlayFS doesn't have, such as multiple RW branches in round-robin, please do comment here.
Calimero commented on 2018-02-12 18:38
Thanks for the suggestion, but after discovering what makepkg-template is, I fail to see how it might be of any help to automatically base this upon the official linux PKGBUILD. If this needs external maintenance anyway, having a patch that applies to the linux PKGBUILD would be the obvious solution, with an automated test environment (VM) to validate the build.
I thought it was best to delete this package, and submit it again later when that is up and running.
Alad commented on 2018-02-12 17:31
You realize this entire argument could have been avoided with makepkg-template, right?
Calimero commented on 2018-02-05 19:57
Thanks for your factual comment here; I have received less pleasant language from others/staff.
To the users of this package, this is the last straw.
I created this package when AUFS was dropped from the Arch kernel, mainly because the (lack of) rebuild automation in the Arch repositories would make it so that AUFS broke at every kernel rebuild (not even updates). After I reported that kind of breakage for the third time, AUFS was dropped, and an awful makeshift solution was used for Archlinux live install images: they would use some COW block (!) device. It was obvious that dropping AUFS because it broke every next kernel rebuild (and, that is true, sometimes didn't provide patches the next day when a linux version went out) made the liveCDs really bad.
Then OverlayFS came around, which made liveCDs fine again, and I asked if anybody was interested in keeping this for its additional features. The answer was yes.
I thought that bootstrapping the official kernel might be a good idea to keep it available.
Staff is telling me, sometimes aggressively, that this displeases them. So, people who rely on AUFS for its distributed writes, pick this package up and do the copypasta that needs to be done, or more clever, an automated test environment for AUFS. If not for the hard feelings, I would be doing it right now, but I don't have the hard skin required.
The package will be deleted shortly. Feel free to pick it up.
Eschwartz commented on 2018-02-05 19:22
This package is not being maintained at all, cloning core/linux is a lie, and currently makepkg --printsrcinfo fails to run properly, let alone actually building successfully.
Oh, and downloading the aufs patches without a checksum is a really bad idea. Maybe if your script at least ran updpkgsums, you would notice that there are no linux 4.15 patches available.
If it is not worth your time to actually maintain this as though it were a real kernel, please don't do us any "favors", and simply ask for it to be deleted.
Calimero commented on 2017-11-27 18:49
No makedepend can possibly be missing since they are loaded from core's linux PKGBUILD in the bootstrap process here.
When you ask for 4.14 do you realize that core has 4.13.12 just the same?
Or are you implicitly asking me to base this upon the linux PKGBUILD from [testing]?
Did you simply forget you were using [testing]?
jrd commented on 2017-11-27 09:29
`xmlto` build-dep is missing.
Can this be upgraded to linux4.14?
timofonic commented on 2017-11-26 14:54
What about 4.14?
Calimero commented on 2017-09-28 17:25
Fixed to use archlinux's git, everything builds fine and branch 4.13 is fresh and maintained.
retox commented on 2017-08-09 23:22
@Shagabutdinov - It looks like the arch build system has been removed see https://www.archlinux.org/news/deprecation-of-abs/
Hopefully @Calimero will be able to patch it soon. I'm needing to use AUFS to get around a openJDK/Wildfly bug when using docker with overlay2.
Shagabutdinov commented on 2017-06-21 10:46
I'm receiving error "@ERROR: Unknown module 'abs'" - any ideas how to fix it?


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Rick Gibbs is co-founder and President of Neutron Factory Works based out of Delta, BC. Established in 1999 as a small electrical contracting company with three employees, today, Neutron employs over 40 staff and works with a number of well-respected sub-contractors to provide innovative solutions to food processing and manufacturing facilities throughout BC and as far away as Shanghai, Japan, Washington, Alberta and Alaska.
Rick and his team understand the importance of giving back and have taken an active role in both their community and industry to share best practices and continue to work with likeminded organizations to raise the bar in BC and beyond;
Director, Delta Chamber of Commerce; Director, Manufacturing Safety Alliance of BC; Chair, ITA's Manufacturing Sector Advisory Board; Chair, Food Pro West, 2012, 2013 & 2014; Chair, Food Pro West Advisory Board, 2015; Vice Chair, BC Safety Charter CEO steering committee; Advisory Board, Earth Renu Enterprises; Events Coordinator/Volunteer/MC - Quest Food Exchange
David is a Partner in KPMG's Enterprise Practice.After obtaining his Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from Simon Fraser University in 1999, David immediately joined KPMG and obtained his CA designation in 2001. David was promoted to partner in 2011. David is the Leader of KPMG's Food and Agri-Services practice in the Fraser Valley and has extensive experience providing audit, accounting, tax and other advisory services to owner-managed businesses in the food sector as well as agricultural organizations. He understands the dynamics of the food industry starting with the food producers, food processors, marketing boards and other agencies and the ending at the consumer plate.David is also passionate about Community and is a member of the Chilliwack Mt. Cheam Rotary Club and Director on the Chilliwack Children's Foundation.
An Electronics engineer that fell in love with the food industry and never looked back. She started in earnest with market research at Nestle Canada where she worked with brands like Lean Cuisine, Kit Kat, Carnation and Hills Science Diet. She followed her heart from Toronto to Vancouver and explored more about food, from the retailer perspective. She spent over 10 years with the Overwaitea Food Group (now Save-on-foods) in category management and Corporate Brand development. She was responsible for the development and launch of many items that are still carried today. Currently Kay is the Director of Marketing and Commercialization for Golden Boy Foods, a subsidiary of Post Holdings Inc.
Rattan Bagga, has worked in just about every role in his family's network of food businesses. Currently CEO of New World Natural Foods, he is also VP of Marketing for Everland natural Foods Inc. and General Manager of Jiva Organics. In his role at New World Natural Foods, he recognized early the gluten-free trend, launching Bliss Balls, the now wildly popular organic gluten-free chocolate snack, into the marketplace.
He gives back generously of his time, including participating as a cabinet member of the Night of Miracles Gala which supports the Children's Hospital Acute Care Unit and co-founding Young Entrepreneurship Leadership Launchpad (YELL) Canada, a non-profit that creates business entrepreneurship opportunities with schools that connect students to the real world with mentors.
Rattan was honoured with a BC Business 30 Under 30 Award in 2014.
Kirk Homenick is the President of Naturally Homegrown Foods Ltd. (makers of Hardbite Chips). Kirk has over 16 years' experience in the consumer food and agri-food marketplace having previously worked at Houweling's Nurseries, Forbes Medi-Tech, and BC Hot House Foods. Throughout his career he has held roles in many different areas including sales, marketing, operations, general management, strategic planning, and corporate development. Kirk holds a Masters of Business Administration from Simon Fraser University, and an undergraduate degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern California.
Ally Bharmal's growing practice focuses on corporate and commercial business advice for a variety of clients, with an emphasis on the technology sector. Ally also has extensive experience and a particular interest in the food sector, including natural food products. He provides legal counsel to food industry clients with respect to corporate matters, research and development, food processing and manufacturing, confidentiality agreements, quality agreements and delivery.
Ally principally represents private companies on a wide range of transactions, including start-up and incorporation issues, shareholders' agreements, debt and equity angel and venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, and advice with respect to ongoing business matters. Ally also advises on the commercial needs of his clients with respect to business and operational matters, including licensing, vendor and supplier arrangements, manufacturing, confidentiality agreements, collaboration agreements, promotional contests, website terms and conditions, development and outsourcing arrangements, distribution and representation agreements, and other matters.
Prior to joining Fasken Martineau, Ally completed his Bachelor of Science degree in the information technology field. He brings both technical and industry experience to assist his client
Jason is the Chief Operating Officer of Vibrant Health Products, a family owned company that includes the Silver Hills Bakery, One Degree Organic Foods and Little Northern Bakehouse brands. Prior to his appointment he was the COO of Garden Protein International. Previous positions have included Vice President of Operations at Pineridge Bakery providing leadership and direction to the Operations group; 10 years at Maple Leaf Foods where he held the senior positions of Operations Manager of the Calgary Bakery, VP Operations and Technical Controller for Maple Leaf Bakery UK.
Jason has been instrumental in the leadership of business turnarounds and multimillion dollar plant start-ups in both Europe and North America. In addition, he has been a keynote speaker at several industry conferences on the topics of leadership, food safety and health and safety.
Robin Smith has had an extensive career in the agriculture, food and seafood industries across Canada and internationally. Currently he is President of Foodwest Resources, an agrifood consulting company, and Chair of the BC Chicken Marketing Board. Some past positions include: CEO of the BC Dairy Foundation; Chairman/CEO of NuFood Pet Inc.; President/CEO of Protein Foods International with interests in Thailand, South Africa, Namibia, Turkey and Australia; CEO/Managing Director of two poultry processors in Jordan and Egypt; and management positions in the seafood processing industry in California, Alaska and BC. Robin managed the agrifood practice of Price Waterhouse Associates and had his own management consulting firm for many years. He was on the Board of the BC Food Processors Association for seven years and was Chair for three years. Robin has a B Sc in food science and an MBA.
I was born and raised in Vancouver, but left to pursue travel and education in Europe and New York during my twenties. I graduated summa cum laude from New York University with an Honors B.A. in English Literature and went on to pursue graduate studies at Cornell University before returning to Vancouver. I worked as an arts journalist in radio (CBC) and print for several years and later served on the faculty of Douglas College for 12 years before finally turning my focus to business in 2014. JillyV's Food Products Ltd. began as a quest to work with ethical, creative and intelligent colleagues who share the belief that it is indeed possible to create ready-to-eat meals that are completely natural and preservative free. We are very grateful for the opportunity to serve the growing demand from today's consumers for the type of food we are proud to make.


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Last year, in 2014, over a thousand backers helped to launch the English book edition of the Wormworld Saga. We were able to fund the production of volume 1 in a wonderful hardcover AND an even more special clothbound Deluxe Edition. Of course our goal NOW is to continue the series with volume 2.
Volume 2 will include the chapters 4 and 5 of the Wormworld Saga in which we learn more about the myths of the Wormworld and the epic quest our heroes are facing. Again, the book will be based on the existing German edition, will be printed in Germany, and it will be produced with the same features and high quality standards of the first volume.
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Flag Craft Note Holder | Various
Holidays | Shapes
Practice |
Preschool Lesson Plan Printable Activities
|Alphabet > Letter H | Crafts > Shapes | Holidays and Events> Feb. 14th > Valentine's
Day - May > Mother's Day - Jun > Father's Day - Sep > Grandparent's Day
In this activity the children will learn about a holiday and have fun creating a useful and practical gift: Easy Shapes Flag Post-it Note Holder. Instead of the post-it note pad use a photo or child's drawing.
This activity and craft is suitable for the following holidays:
Saint Valentine's Day > February 14th
Mother's Day Holiday > Celebrated the second Sunday in May.
Father's Day Holiday > Celebrated the third Sunday in June. Online resource Wikipedia.org
National Grandparents Day - Celebrated in September, the first Sunday after Labor Day.
Resource: Wikipedia.org
Activity 1 > History and Traditions of the Holiday
Ages 2 to 6:
1. Share some simple facts about the holiday celebrated using information from the links provided above.
2. Parents: Share and explain how your family celebrates the holiday and what traditions are observed. Examples: Special dinners, family get-togethers, gift giving, reading a book related to the holiday, visiting Grandparents, what special foods are prepared on that day.
3. Educators can share how the community in general celebrates the holiday.
Activity > Alphabet > H is for Heart > Introduce a related letter of the alphabet. Letter H is for Heart is appropriate for these holidays.
Activity > Craft > Easy Shapes Post-it Note Holder Flag - Ages 2+ (with help)
Young children can enjoy and also practice some important skills by making this craft and gift that will but a smile on the recipient's face. Adjust colors and related materials to reflect the holiday.
The templates in black and white were designed so that caregivers and families together with the children can express in them their favorite colors, their traditions and heritage.
* This craft activity will help children learn about colors, shapes, about the images in the card and about the holiday.
* The children will learn how fascinating it is to create a special gift using shapes and a variety of materials.
* Let's call this technique
"layering,." Using different shapes and images you layer
them to form another image or landscape. Go to the links and
print a template of your choice.
Shapes Post-it Note Holder Flag
Click to view large image
Template 1 - Blue Flag
Template 2 - Pink Flag
Black & White
Template 1 - Flag
Template 2 - People
Letter H is Heart Printable Activities
*construction paper or card stock, white or coordinating colors


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John-Mark Hack – President
John-Mark Hack is the President of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, a national non-profit organization that advocates for the freedom of all people to produce and consume the food of their choosing. John-Mark currently serves the Commonwealth of Kentucky as Commissioner of the Department of Vehicle Regulation in the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. John-Mark is also a co-founder of Marksbury Farm Market ®, a grass-based meat business that slaughters, processes, markets and distributes grass-fed beef and lamb, pastured pork and poultry for the grocery and food service markets. Marksbury also operates two restaurants called Pasture by Marksbury Farm, and provides private livestock processing services to local farmers.
In 1998, John-Mark founded the Governor's Office of Agricultural Policy, established by the Kentucky Governor Paul Patton. He was elected the first President of the Kentucky Tobacco Settlement Trust Corporation in 1999, and in 2000 the first CEO of the Kentucky Agricultural Development Fund, the Commonwealth's historic investment of its national tobacco settlement revenue in its rural and agricultural communities. In the 16-year life of this program, the Fund has directly invested more than $650 million in agricultural business projects of diverse production scales, leveraging more than $1.3 billion of public and private investment that has transformed Kentucky's economic landscape away from tobacco-dependency. The program has been the subject of a case study by the Harvard Business School, named one of the nation's 50 most innovative state government programs by the Kennedy School, and hailed as a "national model for rural development" by the National Governors Association.
John-Mark was a County Extension Agent (1994-1997) and a United States Peace Corps Volunteer in Costa Rica from 1992-1994. He lives with his wife of 27 years, Carol Devine, and their three children in Woodford County, Kentucky.
Joe Ramagli – Vice President
Joe Ramagli and his family run Just Earth Farm, a small-scale raw dairy committed to organic and local feeds, holistic animal husbandry, rotational grazing, and regenerative farm practices. Designed and managed according to the highest sanitation standards in raw milk production, they are listed by the Raw Milk Institute.
Joe is a lifelong public interest advocate and activist who has dedicated most of his professional life to social and environmental justice. While living in Fort Collins, Colorado, Joe worked as an adjunct professor of World Philosophy at CSU, a DOD of the Center for Justice Peace and Environment, and campaign manager of a successful campaign for Colorado House of Representatives District 52. During that time, he also engaged in international development and conservation work in both Nepal and Thailand. In the interest of becoming a more effective public advocate, Joe attended the only fully public-interest law school in the country, CUNY School of Law in Queens, New York. While there, Joe did outreach and pro-bono legal work for the Immigration and Refugee Rights Clinic where he represented individual clients and did Know-Your-Rights trainings within the NYC Muslim community. Having lived in many parts of the country in urban, suburban, and rural communities, Joe has an appreciation for people from all walks of life.
Joe lives with his wife and their two children on their farm outside of Eugene, Oregon. They live a blessed life eating local organic food, learning to farm smarter, and enjoying delicious milk from happy cows.
Marti Secondine – Interim Treasurer
Marti Secondine is from Wichita, Kansas and is serving on the Board as Interim Treasurer. Marti earned an undergraduate degree in accounting and a graduate degree from Wichita State University. Her professional experience has focused on budgeting, reporting, forecasts, operations and capital analysis, and new program development in both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations.
Marti is the mother of three children and has three grandchildren. Her hobbies include knitting and sewing, gardening, and dreaming up and doing projects with the grandkids.
Charlotte Smith – Secretary
Charlotte Smith is the owner of Champoeg Creamery and Charlotte Smith Pastured Meats, a small, diversified farm in Oregon's lush Willamette Valley. Consisting of 75 integrated and rotated acres, Charlotte produces raw milk, grass fed beef, pastured pork, pastured poultry and eggs and sells all products out of her Farm Store on the farm. In September of 2012 her dairy, Champoeg Creamery, was chosen to be the first dairy "Listed" by the Raw Milk Institute, an organization that has developed national common standards for safe raw milk production. This "Listing" showcases the excellent standards the dairy must achieve and maintain at all times for raw milk to be safe and healthy.
After seeing and hearing from so many small farmers going out of business, Charlotte also began 3CowMarketing.com, an online marketing training company which is helping save small farms across the U.S.! Charlotte was featured in Food Forward TV's episode on raw milk. Food Forward is a PBS documentary which aired Fall 2014 on PBS across the U.S. Charlotte is a presenter on stage at the Mother Earth News Fairs and is often a speaker at Wise Traditions conferences. She lives in St. Paul, Oregon, is the proud mother of a United States Marine and works on the farm with her husband, Marc, (a teacher) and her two daughters.
Karin Bergener
Karin Bergener is an attorney practicing in Ohio, where she has a small farm raising Clun Forest sheep. Karin's farm has included at one time or another chickens, ducks, geese, dairy goats, and horses. Her legal practice has been equally varied, including two law firms and five corporations, but always focused on business transactions and helping people create new opportunities. Karin became involved in food freedom as a founding member of the Liberty Ark Coalition, which fought the National Animal Identification System. She remains passionate about people's rights to raise and eat whatever food they choose. Karin is moving from her legal career into a natural health practice, and as part of her client counseling, educates people about the food system.
Baylen Linnekin
Baylen J. Linnekin is a food lawyer, author, columnist, expert, consultant, adjunct professor of law, and scholar. He is the author of Biting the Hands That Feed Us: How Fewer, Smarter Laws Would Make Our Food System More Sustainable (Island Press, 2016), which reveals how regulations often proscribe sustainable food practices.
Baylen has served as an expert in an ongoing federal skim-milk labeling case, has lectured to visiting Chinese food-safety regulators, and has taught the Food Law & Policy Seminar at George Mason University Law School for several years. He has spoken at Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, and dozens of other top law schools, and at think tanks such as the Urban Institute and Heritage Foundation. He is a founding board member of the Academy of Food Law & Policy.
Baylen's writing has been published by the Boston Globe, N.Y. Post, Des Moines Register, Reason, Huffington Post, Wisconsin Law Review, Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, and elsewhere. He has appeared on NPR, MSNBC, Fox Business, BBC Radio, and dozens of other radio and TV programs. He earned an LL.M. in agricultural and food law from the University of Arkansas Law School and a J.D. from Washington College of Law. He is a new resident of Seattle.
Judith McGeary, Esq.
Judith McGeary is an attorney, activist, and sustainable farmer. After earning her Bachelors of Science from Stanford University and her law degree with high honors from the University of Texas at Austin, she clerked for a Federal Appeals Court and went on to private law practice. During that time, she became a passionate advocate of sustainable agriculture, and she and her husband established their own livestock farm. After seeing how government regulations benefit industrial agriculture at the expense of family farms, she founded the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance to promote common-sense policies for local, diversified agricultural systems. Judith has been profiled in the Texas Observer, Edible Austin and Edible Houston, appears in the documentary Farmageddon, and has been interviewed on numerous radio shows across the country. Judith is on the Board of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, has served for several years as the Vice Chair of the USDA Secretary's Advisory Committee on Animal Health, and is also active with Texas Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association and the Weston A. Price Foundation.


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Stamp Kissing with the Stamp Goddess
Friday, June 20, 2008
I've been so anxious to get my first video tutorial finished, and I'm proud to say that it's officially done! Now that I've got the first one completed, additional tutorials will follow. Perhaps I'll have another one ready sometime next month, but if you know me... it might take a while.
You can also go directly to youtube and check out my channel, view my other video (yes, I'm quite a prolific film-maker, I've made two whole videos), and subscribe so that you won't miss any future releases.
Did you enjoyed the video or learn something new? Post a comment here, or you can post your comment on youtube. Kisses to you all!
12 comments:
- littlegreen said...
wow, that was amazing! I am trying to start little tutorials on my blog and yours is amazing! Thanks for the great techniques, can't wait to see more videos from you in the future!
- June 20, 2008 at 1:59 PM
- stampingqueen said...
Happy Birthday!
This was fabulous, by the way. I loved every second. I can't wait to see more.
Thanks for sharing and inspiring.
Lisa P.
- June 20, 2008 at 2:14 PM
- Amanda From: AJ's In-Sanity Center said...
Wow! Now I have 2 favorite blogs for video tutorials! (yours & Kim B's!) I browsed your blog on more than one occasion before, so the videos are a neat bonus!
Wish I could make them lol. If I did I think I would scare everyone away from stamping ;)
- June 20, 2008 at 5:28 PM
- Mare said...
LOVE your video, Tresa!!!! Question for you: who runs the camera while you are stamping?????
- June 20, 2008 at 10:24 PM
- Trinka said...
Thanks so much for showing this...this was so informative and enjoyed learning something new.
- June 22, 2008 at 12:05 PM
- Inkyfingerz said...
Even though I knew all about kissing- your video was so much fun to watch... love the pre-show and the straight forward technique teaching and no waiting and watching stuff. great job tresa!! yOu RocK!!
- June 23, 2008 at 6:59 PM
- Scrap Jaci said...
Awesome video! Thanks so much for creating this and sharing. I learned a few new things.
- June 24, 2008 at 5:37 AM
- Sandra T. said...
Great video Tresa! I saw it on the BB's and thought you did a wonderful job! Now I'm an expert kisser!!!!
- June 25, 2008 at 11:04 AM
- Shemaine said...
Tresa I think you are fabulous!! I love everything you do!!!Keep making the videos!!
- August 5, 2008 at 5:31 PM
What an awesome video! I found you through the CTMH bb and I'm now going to follow your blog. Your work is fantastic!
- August 14, 2008 at 6:20 PM
Thank you for the most thorough directions for the Kissing Technique I've ever seen. Wonderful tutorial!
- October 6, 2008 at 6:55 AM
- Windy Robinson said...
Thanks! That was awesome-- now I'm ready to go try it!
- March 16, 2009 at 9:45 PM


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Alabama vs.Georgia
|Date: 10/1/1977
|Score: 18-10
|In this contest, Alabama defeated a solid Bulldog squad by a score of 18-10 in Birmingham. Bama's first points came in the first on a safety after the Georgia punter dropped the ball out of the end zone. Johnny Davis would then score the Tide's only touchdown of the day on a 1 yard dive later in the first. Roger Chapman would provide the winning margin by hitting three field goals. The 1977 squad finished the season with a record of 11-1, as SEC champions, and with a victory in the Sugar Bowl for Coach Bryant.


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For this unit, our main autobiography is Warriors Don't Cry, a memoir written by Melba Pattillo Beals, one of the Little Rock Nine. In her account of the experience of attempting to desegregate Little Rock Central High School in 1957, Beals reveals her perspective on a series of events that became national and international news.
This assignment asks you to compare her story and perspective with those of officials who were active during the controversy, including Orval Faubus (then the governor of Arkansas), and President Dwight Eisenhower. The goal is to do a detailed analysis of the three sources (Warriors Don't Cry, the Mike Wallace interview with Faubus, and the Eisenhower address) in order to think about what we can learn from different types of sources as we work to understand a historical event.
To organize your thinking, you should frame your discussion around this central question: In what ways were the depictions of events similar and/or different among the three sources? How or why? You do not need a formal thesis statement for this paper, but your essay should indicate your answer to that question. As you write, you should also consider the questions from the worksheet about each document:
- What are three main points the creator of the source makes about the situation?
- Who is the intended audience for this source?
- What is the creator of the source trying to convince their audience to think about the situation?
- How does the creator support his/her/their main points? That is, what evidence do they provide? What authorities do they refer to?
- What are some strengths of this source? What questions does it answer well?
- What are some weaknesses of this source? What questions does it not answer well?
Papers will be evaluated based on the depth of their engagement with each source and the quality of the comparison among the sources. Be sure, that is, to discuss specific examples from each source, quote them when appropriate, and discuss them in comparison to one another. (You should not simply write a paragraph about each.)
- The paper should be 500-1,000 words (excluding footnotes).
- You must use as evidence Warriors Don't Cry and the two video sources.
- You should use any other readings from the syllabus and references to lecture notes as they relate to your argument.
- You must cite all evidence, including both readings and lecture notes, in Chicago format.
- You may not use any outside sources.
How to Cite These Sources
First Citation
Melba Pattillo Beals, Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock Central High School, reprint ed. (New York: Washington Square Press, 1995), 37.
Orval Faubus, The Mike Wallace Interview, ABC, Sept. 15, 1957, from C-SPAN, https://www.c-span.org/video/?288553-1/mike-wallace-interview-governor-orval-faubus.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Speech on Little Rock, Sept. 24, 1957, from C-SPAN, https://www.c-span.org/video/?15186-1/eisenhower-speech-little-rock.
Subsequent Citations
Beals, Warriors Don't Cry, 42.
Faubus, Mike Wallace Interview.
Eisenhower, Speech on Little Rock.


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Xero is an online accounting software package designed specifically for SMEs and is, quite literally, taking the small business world by storm.
Xero allows organisations and their accountants and bookkeepers to work smarter and faster together, with simultaneous access to both the detail of accounts and to management reports. All information can be completely up-to-date, available via PC, tablet, smart phone or Mac.
Hudson is a Xero certified bookkeeper and accountant in Nailsea, Bristol
As we're a silver-rated Xero accountant in Bristol, engaging Hudson as your accountancy partner gives you full access to the software.
Xero allows you to:
- run your business from anywhere
- reconcile accounts
- send invoices online (and get updated when they're opened)
- create and manage quotes, turning them into invoices when you complete the work
- receive and pay bills
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- reconcile your accounts in seconds (Xero imports and categorises your latest bank transactions)
- review your balance sheets at the click of the mouse
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Our Xero certified adviser status also allows us to review your accounts with you, providing real-time business advice. Your data is completely secure, even if you lose your computer or other device. Xero is fully password-protected, customisable by user access and has the latest online security software.
If you need help with your Xero conversion, we're on hand with experience and expertise. We can even copy transaction and contact data from your existing software! But don't just take our word for it, here's what one of our clients who has recently moved to Xero has to say:
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I have to admit, the idea of migrating to online accounting was slightly daunting, but I learnt to concentrate on what I knew, rather than be overwhelmed with what I didn't know. I was trained in Xero by Maralyn from Hudson Accountants, whose patience and cheerfulness knew no bounds. She assured me that everything would fall into place and that I would soon be flying solo on Xero without her help. And she was right, it did all fall into place, it's a great system.
There is a rumour that I recently went on holiday and issued invoices for our business from the Middle East, but I'm not that conscientious – I left instructions back in the office for somebody else to do that, and they managed very well. All in all, I have to say that Xero works really well for us, and I'm so glad that we moved over. It's also great working with Della and her friendly, knowledgeable team and I hope to do so for many years to come." Jill poole, Gordon Poole Agency.


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Rhadana Hotel
Ideally located in the prime touristic area of Kuta / Tuban, Rhadana Hotel promises a relaxing and wonderful visit. The hotel offers guests a range of services and amenities designed to provide comfort and convenience. Facilities like free Wi-Fi in all rooms, 24-hour front desk, 24-hour room service, Wi-Fi in public areas, valet parking are readily available for you to enjoy. Some of the well-appointed guestrooms feature internet access - wireless (complimentary), non smoking rooms, air conditioning, balcony/terrace, mini bar. The hotel's peaceful atmosphere extends to its recreational facilities which include fitness center, outdoor pool, massage, pool (kids). Rhadana Hotel is an excellent choice from which to explore Bali or to simply relax and rejuvenate.
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