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Villa Franca Positano - Luxury on the Amalfi Coast
Tara and I love to travel. We love to experience new cultures and different foods and see how beautifully diverse our world really is. We both have this innate passion to find beauty in new ways and from different perspectives. But while we love the big picture of a new experience, our focus always comes back to the details. As an artist/designer, I'm always obsessing on the details. I want the color just right, the perfect paper weight, the texture exactly as desired, and the composition spot-on. Tara is much the same with fashion. She loves the feel of a fabric, the tiny stitching details, and perfect distressing or color or the way a garment falls just right when you put it on.
Last week we spent some time traveling around Italy, and we spent 3 days in Positano and stayed at Hotel Villa Franca. Positano itself is stunning- built into the mountains on the Amalfi Coast, it looks like something straight off of a postcard. The colorful town cascades down the mountain until it meets a colorful umbrella-adorned beach and turquoise waters. It's one of those places you don't really believe exists until you step foot on the shores and smell the lemon trees for yourself. I could talk for days about Positano. The jaw-dropping scenery, the food, the people... but we'll save that for another post!
Hotel Villa Franca is situated on the top of one of the hills overlooking Positano and the Mediterranean Sea. It's a short drive up the hill from the beach where our boat dropped us off (Villa Franca has a complimentary shuttle to and from the town center, and one of the local porters took our bags up for us). From our very first step inside the door, we were floored by the attention to detail. Every door is automatic or opened by a smiling steward. The art on the lobby walls is beautiful and elegant. The check-in feels more like a warm welcome to a friend's home than a hotel arrival. We were were served cold water with local lemons, and by the time we had a drink, our check in was complete and we were on our way! Luigi, the front office manager, brought us on a quick tour of the hotel before escorting us to our room. It's impossible to have a bad view from the hotel's hilltop location, but our balcony looked out over the sea with a vista that pictures don't do justice.
Every part of our experience at Villa Franca was marked by the details. HVF is a member of the exclusive Small Luxury Hotels of the World, and for good reason. Once a private home, the property has been transformed into a luxurious escape from reality. The family still runs the hotel, and the staff truly makes you feel like family in every way. The rooms are a beautiful combination of classic Positano style and modern luxury. Hand-painted tiles on the walls and floors, marble bathroom, the coziest locally-made linens on the bed, and of course fluffy bathrobes and slippers that make breakfast in bed an all-too-appealing choice.
Breakfast is included in the room and it's not to be missed. Apart from the breathtaking views, the spread is a never-ending assortment of breads, cheeses (fresh mozzarella knots for breakfast, yes please), fruits and vegetables, pastries, fresh juices, cereals, made-to-order eggs and coffees. Get there early to score a seat by the window! On Tara's birthday, the staff even brought us a small cake and champagne. Breakfast was a highlight for us every day!
Lunch can be enjoyed from the Gallis Grill- either poolside or at one of the rooftop tables overlooking Positano- both of which is worth a stay on their own! Stay and lounge at the pool for the afternoon, spend some time in the beautiful O'SPA (tara got a facial and hasn't stopped raving about it in over a week), or get out and explore Positano for a few hours. Just make sure you're back in time for a pre-dinner aperitivo at the Gallis Bar, best enjoyed on the small balcony just opposite the bar.
Every last ingredient is meticulously chosen and proudly presented during dinner at Li Galli restaurant (we recommend the chef's choice tasting menu- Executive Chef Vincenzo Esposito does not disappoint!). Alessandro, the Maitre D'Hotel looked after us throughout dinner and often stepped in to explain a dish or let us know who had designed a plate or bowl or recommend a wine pairing. He seemed to know every single detail of the restaurant, and it was one of the most enjoyable dinners we had in Italy because of it. He even knew where the paper came from that the menus were printed on! The man was a total legend.
If you're planning a visit to Positano, Villa Franca is a League Travels Non-Negotiable. It fit and far-exceeded all of our criteria for a great vacation getaway. Beautiful, spotlessly clean property, Warm professional service, excellent location for exploring Positano, world-class restaurants, great bar open late, internet and gym, spa, rooftop... and every single detail beautifully, tastefully, and luxuriously done.
Thank you Luigi, Antonio, Allesandro, and all of the amazing staff at HVF for making our experience so wonderful.
We can't wait to visit Villa Franca again!
-Zach + Tara


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The United States economy rebounded strongly in the second quarter of the year, shaking off the negative effects of an unusually harsh winter and stirring hopes that it might finally be establishing a solid enough footing to put the lingering effects of the recession squarely in the past.
The Commerce Department, in its initial estimate for April, May and June, reported on Wednesday that the economy grew at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4 percent, surpassing expectations.
During the first quarter, output shrank at a rate of 2.1 percent, less than had been reported. The department had earlier said that first-quarter output fell 2.9 percent.
Some experts, citing a range of indicators including an improving job market, were encouraged by the signs of healthy business investment and consumer spending, but others cautioned that the economy had yet to break out of an underlying pattern of steady but relatively sluggish growth that has plagued the nation since the Great Recession officially ended in mid-2009.
President Obama heralded the positive economic news on a visit to Kansas City, Mo.
Federal Reserve policy makers, meeting this week in Washington, said they were taking a wait-and-see attitude toward the latest data, emphasizing concern about the millions of Americans who still cannot find jobs.
In a statement released Wednesday afternoon, the Fed acknowledged that growth had "rebounded," but its tone was measured and it made clear that it had no plans to raise interest rates anytime soon. It described the chances of faster growth as roughly even with the chances that the expansion would slow down.
"The recovery so far has been unspectacular," said Ben Herzon, a senior economist at Macroeconomic Advisers, a consulting firm based in St. Louis. "With the exception of a few wiggles here and there, it's been on this steady growth path, which is not great but it's been good enough."
Democrats are hoping to use the signs of an improving economy as a selling point in the run-up to midterm elections as proof their policies are working. Mr. Obama seemed energized by the report, though even his take was muted. He said a healthy jobs market was the real measure of whether the economy was working.
"I'm glad that G.D.P. is growing, and I'm glad that corporate profits are high, and I'm glad that the stock market is booming," the president told a boisterous crowd in Kansas City. "But what I really want to see is a guy working 9 to 5, and then working some overtime. I want that guy making more than the minimum wage."
Consumer spending on automobiles, furniture and recreational goods helped bolster G.D.P. for the second quarter, as did an increase in state and local government expenditures that offset a modest decline in federal spending. But the biggest factor in the quarterly expansion was a sharp increase in the stocks of goods in warehouses and on store shelves as businesses anticipated that consumers were developing a greater urge to shop.
The rate at which businesses stock their shelves can be volatile, and the second-quarter gains could falter if consumers do not continue to spend freely in the second half of the year. For all the exuberance over Wednesday's news, at least one economist chalked up the latest numbers mostly to "payback" for the poor showing in the first quarter.
Looking back over the last 12 months, the overall inflation-adjusted output of goods and services for the second quarter was 2.4 percent higher than the same quarter a year earlier, barely ahead of the average pace of 2.2 percent growth since the recession ended.
Still, most economists say that — little by little — the economy is returning to a healthier state.
"It isn't something people are going to get excited about, but it does represent honest, real progress," said Michael Gapen, a senior economist for Barclays, which predicted more of the same for the rest of the year.
Perhaps the biggest factor holding back the economy has been slow wage growth, as the high number of people out of work means that businesses see little need to pay much more to attract new employees. Housing has partly recovered from the depths it fell to during the recession but has not significantly helped power the economy forward as it did in the early stages of past expansions.
Second-quarter earnings for many companies have been mixed. Labor conditions continue to be underwhelming, contributing to the belief of many jobless Americans that the economy is leaving them behind.
"We made up some of the ground lost in the first three months of this year, but there's nothing in today's data to indicate that the economy is growing more strongly than it has for the past couple of years," the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning nonprofit group focused on low- and middle-income workers, said in a release on Wednesday.
The White House Council of Economic Advisers said in a statement that the economy could perform even better if Congress makes sure infrastructure improvements such as road and bridge work do not stall.
Bob Baur, chief global economist for Principal Global Investors, made up a name for what he thinks has been holding back both consumers and businesses from the more exuberant kind of spending that would help close the gap of as much as $1 trillion between the economy's current level and its larger capacity for generating goods and services without setting off a significant rise in inflation.
He called it "post-crisis relapse disorder," which he defined as behavior based on the expectation that the economic outlook will be grim merely because it has been so grim for months before.
Still, another positive sign for the economy came this week when the Conference Board said consumers were more upbeat about the economy than they had been in the last seven years. On Wednesday, ADP, the payroll processing company, said private employers added 218,000 jobs in the last month, down from 281,000 in June. It was the fourth straight month of job gains above 200,000.
But the company's figures cover only private businesses and often do not track with the government's jobs report, which will be released Friday morning.


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In this episode I am joined by medicine hunter, author and educator Chris Kilham. Chris has conducted medicinal plant research in over 45 countries, and works with companies to develop and popularize traditional plant-based food and medicinal products into market successes. These include kava, maca, rhodiola, schisandra, tamanu oil, cat's claw, dragon's blood, ayahuasca, and hundreds of other plants. Chris also works to bridge worlds, regularly sharing information about other cultures through presentations and media, having appeared in over 1500 radio programs and in more than 500 TV programs worldwide. Check out his site: www.medicinehunter.com
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Take the ride of your life with Honey Palomino's best selling Gods of Chaos Motorcycle Club trilogy and escape to a dangerously sexy world filled with thrilling outlaw bikers with hearts of gold that know how to stand behind the strong women they love.
Leaving the past behind is never easy, so Daisy Sinclair didn't expect a smooth road when she jumped in her truck and headed West to escape an abusive relationship. She prepared herself, and she grew stronger by the day, ready to face her past full-on when the time came.
As the President of the Gypsy Riders MC, Mike Montgomery spends his days preparing for the worst case scenario. Bold, daring, handsome and dangerous, he's exactly what Daisy doesn't need in her life. But how can a girl refuse a deliciously seductive man that's slathered in tattoos, wrapped in leather and promising her the ride of her life?
Growing up as the daughter of the Blackhearts MC's President, Olivia LaVelle has seen it all. Drugs and violence darken her everyday existence. But everything changes when her parents die, and she is taken in by a cop and his wife. Years later, life takes another unexpected turn as she grows up and joins the force herself.
When Liv is sent on an undercover mission to spy on the Dirty Crow Motorcycle Club, it requires getting deliciously intimate with the sexy President. It's all part of the job until sparks fly, and all hell breaks loose. Liv quickly realizes that dangerous men might just be her one weakness.
Vanessa Valentine is spoiled, rich, and beautiful. When her ruthless father cuts off her flow of cash, she finds herself in the company of strangers and working as a high class call girl to maintain her posh lifestyle.
She never expected to be captured. She never expected her father to care more about politics than his youngest daughter's life. And she certainly never expected to fall in love with her captor, the dark and mysterious Hawk, president of the Devil's Horsemen Motorcycle Club.
Jett is beautiful, talented, and one of the biggest rock stars in the world. But fame isn't all it's cracked up to be. Relentless touring, a grueling schedule, and fanatics that want much more from her than an autograph, have left her jaded and tired. When a madman gets too close and threatens her very existence, she calls on the only person she's ever trusted – Colton James.
Once a dear friend that was ripped out of her life, he's now the vice president of The Loyal Bastards Motorcycle Club. Colt shows up dripping in tattoos, wrapped in leather and oozing smoldering masculinity, ready to protect the woman that still haunts his dreams. But Jett's uninhibited wild side and roller coaster curves make it impossible for Colt to stay professional. Sparks fly, and Colt is tempted until he can no longer resist. When he finally gives in, the mistake costs him more than he ever imagined it could.
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Potato SALAD is usually considered to be an economical SALAD. It may be made with left-over potatoes or potatoes cooked especially for this purpose. If there are in supply a large number of small potatoes, which are difficult to use in ordinary ways, they may be cooked with the skins on and peeled to be used for SALAD when they have cooled. A boiled SALAD Dressing is perhaps the most desirable for such a SALAD.
POTATO SALAD No. 1
(Sufficient to Serve Four)
- 2 c. diced potatoes
- Salt
- 1 medium-sized onion
- Boiled SALAD Dressing
- 1/2 tsp. celery seed
- Lettuce
- 1 Tb. parsley, chopped
- 1 hard-cooked egg
Dice the potatoes into 1/2-inch dice, chop the onion fine, and mix the two. Add the celery seed and parsley and season the whole with salt. Just before serving, mix well with boiled Dressing. Garnish a SALAD bowl or SALAD plates with lettuce, place the SALAD on the lettuce, and then garnish with slices of hard-cooked egg.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4
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Magnetic Locking Air Vent Phone Mount
Forget the fiddly clamps that only hold specific phones, these magnetic mounts are the perfect solution for multiple devices. Simply hold the phone near the mount and feel the powerful magnet cling onto it with surprising force. The locking vent holds the mount securely in place, whilst the swivel ball allows the device to be positioned perfectly. Supplied with two adhesive metal sheets, the mount can be used with any hand held gadget from mobile phone to walkie talkie.
- Easy magnetic attachment
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OPI How Great Is Your Dane?
OPI How Great Is Your Dane (a cool toned brown) is part of OPI's Nordic Collection which is their fall release for the rest of the World who are rapidly tumbling into Autumn now! In Australia its a whole different ball game, we are in the last throe's of Winter with non-stop rain, but as you can see I did happen on a patch of sunlight!
In order to brighten up my mani and myself I decided to try some stamping with Jade Mirage a beautiful emerald green. The results are very subtle as you can see! Still they looked nice in the sun that managed to shine for all of ten minutes. On to my mani then three coats of OPI How Great Is Your Dane? Stamped with Jade Mirage using MoYou London Explorer 26 for the smaller images on my ring and pinkie fingers and MoYou London Explorer 27 for the larger image on my middle finger.
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RC Hagen 15396 Fluval Edge Burnt Orange Glass Aquarium
Inspired by architectural styling the Fluval Edge Aquarium is a three dimensional water cube that provides a unique visual effect capturing emotion and serenity of an aquarium within a contemporary setting. The sealed glass top provides high definition viewing and reduces evaporation for less maintenance. The Fluval Edge Aquariums retractable halogen lighting system is suitable


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Some of us like colors that might not actually be flattering...(and some of our girlfriends won't let us know!!) When choosing a hair color, it's important to consider these three things:
- Your natural hair color
- Your skin tone
- Your eye color
At Citrine Salon, our stylists are trained to know exactly what satisfies those three important things and most importantly what you want!
We know that some clients like to pick out pictures before a consultation (and that's perfectly fine - we like to know where you want and hope to go with your color! We're very visual people!) When tearing those magazine pictures out, keep these key points in mind:
- Most hair colors flatter PALE skin tones! (Just like most haircuts flatter most oval face shapes!)
- Avoid shades of golden blonde or red if your skin is pink. Golden blondes and reds are warm. Pinks are cool. You'll want to stick with ash tones to remain neutral or you won't balance out!
- Avoid gold, orange or yellow tones if your skin is yellow. Stick with the deep red family.
- Lately we've been seeing lots of dark hair coloring on the red carpet - but its best on our olive skin girls!
If you're fashionable and know what color to select that looks good on you, chances are you're on the right track to picking the right hair color....
- If you look good in red, orange, golden yellow, olive green or rust: You suit warm hair tones! Think any of the goldens...
- If you look good in bluish red, fuscia, black, royal blue or pine green: You are totally COOL! Think platinum, ashy brown, a cool jet black and for those daring ladies - a burgundy!
- If you look good in red, purple, charcoal grey, periwinkle or teal: You have remained neutral! Think sandy blondes and chocolate brunettes! And for those sultry women - mahogany is hot, hot, hot!!!
Schedule a consult and color appointment with your top colorist today! Mention this quick blog consult and receive a complimentary shine and color locking treatment!
Colorists: Holly Yerton Hunter, Angie Aiken, Heather Thomas-Slott & Gordon Nixon
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Shiny S312 Dater
Featuring a plastic mount, Shiny self inking date stamps are an economical solution for occassional stamping needs.
- Prints the date plus your choice of 12 different stock messages
- Small date bands for limited space applications
- Date Band Height: 1/8"
- Date band includes 12 years of dates
- Thousands of impressions before re-inking is necessary
Refund Policy
Customer satisfaction is important to us. We are proud to warranty our products against defects in material and workmanship for a period of one year from the date of purchase. In addition, we offer a Lifetime Warranty on our Pre-Inked and Xstamper products. If for any reason we make an error on your order, or the product does not function according to it's specifications, we will replace it free of charge.
We cannot honor warranty claims for any defects or damage caused by re-inking our stamps with the incorrect ink or with ink purchased from another company, or if using our stamps on chemically treated paper.
We cannot be held responsible for any mistake a customer makes when entering an order and we will not replace these orders at no charge.
In addition, we manufacture a custom product which cannot be returned or exchanged if the customer simply doesn't like the product. Stock items will be accepted for a return only with prior authorization from RubberStamps.com. A 25% restocking fee may apply.
To meet our fast turnaround times, orders are entered into production almost immediately after the order is placed. Therefore, if you realize you need to make a change to your order or cancel your order, we cannot do so unless we receive notice within 1 hour of your order being placed. You will be charged the full amount of the order for any order cancelled after this time.
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Most orders ship within 2 business days excluding weekends and holidays. Large volume orders and embossing seals may take an extra day. Special order items such as Custom Band Stamps may take an extra 2 business days. CA & OR Notary Stamp orders ship after we receive your original "Certificate of Authorization to Obtain or Manufacture a Seal".
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All orders ship from Wisconsin via the shipping method you choose at checkout. Our default shipping method is First Class Mail. If you need your order fast, please choose an expedited shipping method
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Orders placed with the Standard Shipping option ship via USPS first class mail and should arrive 2-5 business days after we ship.
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- Ground: Orders should arrive 2-4 business days after we ship.
- 2nd Day: Orders arrive 2 business days after we ship.
- Next Day Air: Orders arrive 1 business day after we ship.
International Shipping
We normally only ship to the United States and Puerto Rico. Contact us to discuss international orders. Standard UPS Shipping to Canada is available starting at around $14.95, other International Shipping is available starting at $35.
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Taco Casserole Recipe
- 1 bag tortilla chips 10 oz
- 2 cans cream of chicken soup or use our favorite homemade cream of chicken soup recipe 10.75 oz
- 1 1/2 cups sour cream
- 1 can diced tomatoes and green chilis 14 oz
- 1 can black beans rinsed and drained
- 1 packet taco seasoning 1 oz
- 3 cups Chicken cooked and shredded
- 2 cups cheddar cheese
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease a 9×13-inch pan.
- In a large bowl, combine the chicken soup, sour cream, tomatoes, black beans, taco seasoning and chicken. Set aside.
- Crush chips and spread half of them on the bottom of the pan. Spread half of the chicken mixture over the tortillas. Top with 1 cup of cheese. Repeat layers.
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We pride ourselves on providing exceptional client service. We understand buying, selling and dividing property is not a transaction you deal with every day and it can be exciting, but also overwhelming. Our efficient systems and checklists keep things on track and ensure you are kept informed throughout the process.
Give our friendly team a call before you sign a contract. We offer independent advice to protect your interests relating to: Contract Conditions, Encumbrances, First Home Owners, Forms of Ownership, Form 1 & "Cooling Off", Insurance and Costs.
Our role is to guide you through to a stress-free settlement.
When you are looking to purchase a property:
- vacant land to build
- an established "dream home"
- an investment property
- a beach house for family vacations
- commercial premises
Contact us BEFORE you sign a contract, we offer independent advice to protect your interests, relating to: Contract Conditions, Encumbrances, First Home Owners, Forms of Ownership, Form 1 & "Cooling Off", Insurance or Costs.
As the Vendor, you are bound by the contract once you have signed – you are not able to cool-off.
With this in mind, we can check the contract, especially any conditions added to the contract, before you sign.
We will explain any contract conditions and clauses to protect your interests. Remember that it is easier to negotiate any changes required before you sign, rather than after.
However, it is when a property transaction does not occur as planned that the true importance of our role as your Conveyancer becomes apparent. We will then negotiate on your behalf with all concerned parties to ensure your rights under the contract are upheld.
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Natural Foods Just as God Intended
Want access to fresh, wholesome, natural foods just as God intended? The kind that are produced by small, family farmers, that are raised as simply and naturally as possible, and that are available directly from the farmer? Then join the Colossians 2:16 Private Membership Association! Our members enjoy 24/7 access to our Pantry, stocked with fresh, delicious, all natural, straight from our farm products. You won't find a better source of dairy, beef, and pork anywhere! And yes, we have RAW MILK!
Yes, We Are Open!
Folks driving by the Pantry often tell us they wonder if we're open. The answer is YES! Our Pantry is fully stocked with all the farm fresh products we offer and we are still accepting new members. However, our Pantry doesn't operate quite like your typical store - only members may gain access. Joining is a simple process. Visit our Become A Member page for more information.


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I got all excited at the title and the first sentences mention of downhill biking. What if they built a man size flowy jump trail, optimized for video, leading into the contest site from above. The world could watch on the big screen as they flowed and boosted through the woods then pop out into view, perhaps off a big drop out of the trees. Then do their style run. Two score that add up? Maybe that's the evolution of speed and style? It could be the evolution of something.


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ABOVE THE FOLD PMCA - Pasadena Museum of California Art, September 2011- January 2012
In this immersive multichannel-multimedia installation, Kritselis created a vast landscape/newscape of 366 issues of the Los Angeles Times he collected in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 to explore how the national media helped shaped people's perceptions of that significant event. His installation was previously installed in 2002 at the Armory Center of the Arts exhibition space in Northwest Pasadena to observe the first anniversary of the NY attacks, and also in 2003 at Crazy Space Art Gallery in Santa Monica, California. It was reimagined for the Pasadena Museum Of California Art to commemorate the tenth anniversary of 9/11/2001, pose new questions about the lingering effects of the attack on our national psyche, and take a closer look at the pivotal role of the national media played during the twelve months following the terrorist attack.
TRANSMISSIONS / PROMETHEUS RECONSTRUCTED Long Beach City College, February 11 - March 15, 2014
This painting/video installation is addressing the relevance of ancient myth in the 21st century. The exhibition examines the relationship between traditional linear story telling practices and - propelled by fragmentation - media driven information. The compelling question - "On Whose Authority" - remains in effect. The Past Is The New Present.


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ILM Case Study: RMS
Paul Hodges works in Merchandising & Retail Support at RMS. He completed the LEAD21 course in December 2017. Watch the video or read the transcript below to hear Paul explain how the course challenged him to reflect on his leadership mind-set and evaluate his decisions. At the end, Paul's manager describes the benefits of his training to the organisation, especially his structured approach to problem-solving.
Reflecting on my leadership style
The LEAD21 course gave me the skills to stand back and look at my business, and reflect on how I manage my teams and myself. It challenged me to change my mind-set and do things differently. The course has helped me consider how I could improve in ways which are integral to my business, such as how I develop my teams and how I develop training.
Back to basics
The skills I've learnt have helped me reflect on how I bring value to the business. Sometimes in business we need to act quickly, but the course has made me think about my decisions and evaluate outcomes in a more in-depth way.
A stand out ILM programme
The difference between LEAD21 and other ILM programmes is how you interact with other managers on the course. Even though we only met every couple of weeks, the course encourages us to use technology (for example Google classroom) to keep in touch. The fact that everything is delivered online is the way forward.
The LEAD21 experience
The whole process for me has been very open. I thought I was in a good place as a manager and I was set on my approach. The course made me rethink that and took me on a journey where I realised there were areas I could improve. That for me has been the most valuable aspect of the LEAD21 course.
Advice for future participants
If you have the opportunity to take this course, go for it. It's unique and completely different from the norm but the interaction I had with the tutors is second to none; I received 1-2-1 feedback that developed me as a leader.
Another tip would be to make the most of interacting with the different people you are attending the course with.
What Paul's manager says
Paul's manager says, "The most significant difference has been a more planned and structured approach to problem solving on a day-to-day basis, which benefits both Paul and the business.
The digital delivery of the course offers an alternative to the more traditional approach. It's important that there's choice so people can choose the course delivery which suits them."
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EC408 DSP Systems and Architecture
Course Name:
EC408 DSP Systems and Architecture
B.Tech (ECE)
Elective (Ele)
Credits (L-T-P):
(3-0-0) 3
Course Objectives: On completion of the course, the students should be able to appreciate the various strategies used in VLSI implementation of DSP systems.
Course Outcomes: Students are expected to apply concepts to design and implement various Signal Processing Algorithms on FPGAs / ASICs etc.
Course Content:
Introduction to the Course and Recap of DSP Concepts, Implementation of Digital Filters and Discrete transforms - FIR,IIR filters, FFT, DCT, Finite Word length effects and low power implementation strategies, Implementation Strategies at arithmetic level - Need for alternate number systems, Residue number system, Double base number system, Redundant number system, Adder Architectures, Multiplier Architectures, Algorithms for fast convolution - Cook Toom algorithm and modified Cook Toom Algorithm, Winograd Algorithm and modified Winograd Algorithm, Iterative convolution, Performance Improvement and Power Estimation Strategies - Data Flow representations, Pipelining and Parallel processing, retiming, systolic architectures, Probabilistic Power Estimation Tech, SELF STUDY COMPONENT - Speech Coding, Data Compression etc.
K. K. Parhi, '' VLSI Signal Processing Systems : Design and Implementation" John Wiley , 1999.
Lars Wanhammer, '' DSP Integrated Circuits ", Academic Press, 1999.
Roger Woods, et.al. , " FPGA based implementation of Signal Processing Systems " , John Wiley
Uwe Meyers - Baese, " Digital Signal Processing with FPGAs ", Springer 2007.
B. Parhami, " Computer Arithmetic Algorithms and Hardware Designs ", Oxford, 2000
J. P. Deschamps, G J A Bioul, G Sutter, ``Synthesis of Arithmetic Circuits: FPGA, ASIC and Embedded Systems", Wiley, 2000


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Forms of in-person professional development can be considered genres -- and like literary genres, they evolve. (NB: Forms of online PD are another topic.) (What is it about us as animals/mammals that being in a room together is different than a Google Hangout? I liken ebooks to Skype conversations - we do miss something, whether faint pheromones or just broader visual clues about the physical entity/environment.)
The big conference with keynote speakers and multiple vendor displays is the most established. Outside that paradigm, everyone is experimenting with combinations of macro (whole audience keynote), mini (1 hour workshop/presentation), micro (20 min), and nano (5 min, lightning round style) sessions. The degree of expected participation assumed in the design of the event also varies, from prepared presentations (whether read or spoken, with or without slideshows) to hands-on exercises to a free-flow unconference style. Identification of themes and strands helps to tie the event and people together.
What works in one physical setting won't work in another (we all know what the lack of decent wifi and acoustics does to any gathering) -- and the composition and size of the group has an enormous influence on what is effective and what isn't. (Can I say here that the app I'm waiting for is the one where everyone can speak into their mobile device and it acts like a microphone such that the whole room can clearly hear the question being asked.... If you know of one, contact me immediately.)
The online support for any event is also terribly important. A decent website, available both before and after the event - with all the relevant backup materials - goes without saying, as well as well-publicized hashtags, so people not able to attend can easily eavesdrop.
As a teacher-librarian, I participate in events designed with teachers in mind (e.g., Learning 2.0 Asia, EARCOS Teachers Conference and Google Apps for Education (GAFE) in Singapore) and events designed with librarians in mind (e.g., the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) and the American Library Association (ALA)), but the best for me are the hybrid kind -- where teacher-librarians get to meet and exchange ideas and experiences related to both teaching and to librarianship.
Local network after-school meetings provide that kind of in-person contact. Here in Singapore we have ISLN (International Schools Library Network of Singapore), as other cities do -- Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Hong Kong, China, Japan, etc. But more dedicated time together with other teacher-librarians is definitely worth it.
In the region, there are several recurring events, e.g., the Librarian Knowledge Sharing Workshop (LKSW) (now coming up to its 4th year , back in Kuala Lumpur where it started); the School Librarian Connection, initiated last year in Hong Kong, up for repetition somewhere, perhaps Singapore; the Shanghai librarians conference; and in Taiwan this November an EARCOS-sponsored weekend on Tech-Integrated Libraries.
The large-scale version of these are the International Association of School Librarianship (IASL) and the ECIS Triennial Librarians Conference -- though timing and distance are sometimes a problem.
To give an idea of the range of ideas explored in the small-scale regional professional gatherings, see this summary sketch-note from the February 2015 Librarian Knowledge Sharing Workshop in Bangkok -- by Maggie Appleton.
And to give an idea of who attends these events, see this "Who We Are" Google Doc from the November 2015 School Librarian Connection conference in Hong Kong.
This past June I attended the 2-day "Research Relevance: K-12 Library Instruction for the 21st Century" Colloquium in California. Hats off to Tasha Bergson-Michelson, Jole Seroff, and Debbie Abilock - and all the others who organized the event that brought over 80 teacher-librarians together in Palo Alto at Castilleja School, just before the ALA annual conference started in San Francisco.
I was lucky to be attending, both this colloquium and ALA, with a small cohort of international school teachers - the ever-ebullient Kate Brundage from the Singapore American School; the online-wonder Dianne McKenzie from Hong Kong; my new parallel campus secondary teacher-librarian at UWCSEA in Singapore, Kurt Wittig, previously in Cambodia; and a new UWC-related friend, Michelle Fitzgerald from Japan.
Research Relevance was a good combination of experiences. We started off with a communal exercise using raw creative materials -- based on "Build a World" from the Gamestorming book (which was inspired by the classic picture book for kids by Ed Emberley - "Build a World").
Our task? To build our ideal library as symbolically or literally as we wanted. We then did a gallery walk with each table explaining their creation to others. Depending on your group and attitude, could have been painful or fun. (Dianne and I had fun....)
Making things is quite trendy in the school/library world. So we all enjoyed a tour of the school's makerspace -- the Bourn Idea Lab. Click here to see my Google photo album.
Hands-on experience and group interaction were admirably built into the two days. For example, someone demo'ed a "write-around" exercise - where you move between tables, visually commenting on provocative snippets.
And when there was a session on exploring the difference between taking paper written notes vs. notes on a tablet using a stylus vs. notes typed on a laptop, the organizers had tablets and styli (those Latin plurals always look awkward, don't they?) for people to play with. And every session ended with us writing Post-It note reflections publicly displayed.
The residuals? A Twitter stream (#ResearchRelevance) and a Google Folder of presenter materials -- bit.ly/ResearchRelevance (a bit dense to navigate - only for the dedicated). I'll relay my own pertinent take-aways about teaching and leading research in a separate blogpost.
If you are interested in considering forms of conferences from an anthropological point of view, here's an interesting Medium article by the organizers of a conference on "Genres of Scholarly Knowledge Production." It considers conferences from an international university humanities perspective, but you can't help but apply it to our own school teacher/librarian PD experience. E.g., the reliance on one screen and a slideshow. The front of the room focus. Thinking how to make the most of human beings being together. Contemplating how the infrastructure of a conference affects the content and impact of the event....


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I just finished my second weekend of yoga teacher training, and I'm happy to say I still absolutely love it! This weekend was very different from the first weekend, in that we spent the entire time filling our heads with all things anatomy. While a bit overwhelming at times, I already have such a new appreciation for the human body and how it relates to yoga. It was so great to see my fellow yogis again and spend some quality time with them while we put all that we learned into practice.
Our weekend began Friday evening at the NoDa Yoga studio, where we met our guest instructor for the weekend, Rebecca (who really knows her sh*t). We went around the room stating how we felt at that moment and what our intention was for the weekend. This is the second time we did this exercise, and I particularly like it because it gives us a chance to check in with ourselves and really think about what we want out of our weekend instruction. I was feeling anxious for some reason, but my intention for the weekend was to be open to learning all about anatomy and get myself to a grounded place.
Rebecca began our anatomy instruction by discussing our physiological selves, as that's key to understanding anatomy as a whole. We focused on the nervous system and breath. It was quite eye-opening to learn certain aspects of this. For example, I realized that my sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight) frequently overtakes my parasympathetic nervous system (rational thinking), resulting in my being an emotional and inconsolable mess some days. Simply using the breath is enough for the parasympathetic nervous system to gain back control, but it's something most of us don't do often enough, or don't know how to do effectively. We also discussed why long, slow breaths are effective in ridding the body of carbon dioxide, conserving energy and relaxing the muscles. Relaxed muscles result in stronger muscles and less risk of injury. As an experiment in controlling our breath, she had us do 3 sun A salutations, 2 sun B salutations and 25 jumping jacks as fast as our bodies would allow. Once done, we had to immediately sit and breath to get our heart rates down. Lesson to be learned: yoga postures don't matter unless you're breathing.
Next we talked about nutrition and "detoxing." So basically, your body needs carbs, protein and fat to function. So those of you doing a no-carb or no-fat diet? STOP. And detoxes are a bunch of BS. Your body doesn't need your help, and as long as you're not overloading yourself with alcohol and eating generally healthy, you are functioning just fine. So those of you doing juice cleanses or week-long fasts? STOP. You are doing a bunch of damage because our bodies were meant to digest real food, not be deprived of it. Rebecca made a good point in that if something is seriously screwed up in your body, no amount of lemon or alkaline water is going to fix it. I had to laugh a bit as we discussed this, because I used to do all of these things at some point in my life. But I was also happy that I'm at a point where I don't feel the need to do any of these things anymore and have a good understanding of basic nutrition.
A true body "detox" can actually be done through a specific kind of yoga practice, which Rebecca led us through at the end of the night. Yoga that involves a lot of twists, folds and deep breathing will strengthen your organs, so that if something damaging comes along your body is better equipped to fight it off. It's also great for "cleansing" the body, and I'm not ashamed to admit that things were definitely moving around quite a bit in my digestive system afterwards on the way home!
Mr. Bone-jangles was being quite sassy this weekend. So I gave him a run for his money.
The entire second day was another head-cramming day of anatomy, this time focusing on muscles, bones, joints, tendons and ligaments and how these apply in a yoga practice. We discussed the need to find a balance between strong and flexible muscles, the different types of muscle contractions and how they apply in various yoga positions, and how to move with intention to both protect your muscles and deepen your yoga practice. We learned the names of pretty much every muscle and bone in the body (there are a TON). We discussed the importance of protecting our joints, as tendons and ligaments take forever to heal if damaged (i.e. protect your knees!). We also discussed the vulnerability of the spine, and how backbends should never be done from the lumbar (low back) or cervical (neck) spine. And most importantly, stability is everything.
To apply what we learned, Rebecca had us go through two sets of sun A and sun B salutations. Our first set was just going through them as we normally would, and with basic instruction (calling out pose names). Turns out none of us were really breathing that first time around. During the second set, Rebecca provided that same instruction, but clearly stated which muscles we should be engaging and made us breath deeply. These were fundamental yoga poses, but what a difference (and a workout!) it made when we did this. It's amazing how we can easily forget important aspects of yoga when we habitually go through the poses that we think we know how to do. Most of us had been doing cat and cow wrong (think about that for a second if you practice yoga), and we are all pretty seasoned yogis. Cat and cow are usually seen as easy, relaxing poses, but if done correctly, you should be feeling a lot more core and back engagement.
After lunch we were led through a thigh and hip opening practice. This one was particularly helpful for me, since I have very tight hamstrings. It was great to put into practice how to both contract and relax my hamstrings in certain positions. My hamstrings have psychologically affected my practice for years, so I'm hopeful that finding relaxation there and focusing on other muscles will help me deepen my practice going forward. We ended the day doing some fun handstand work. I have a major fear of face-planting, so any poses involving balancing on my hands usually causes me to freak out a bit, and thus, not be able to do them. But we partnered up to spot each other, and even though I was up against the wall, I was able to use my core to hold myself up for a few seconds! And it felt quite empowering.
We filled our Sunday morning with a fun Instagram activity. Our homework was to select one or two "celebriyogis" and choose one photo of a near-perfect yoga pose and one photo of a pose that needs some adjustments. If anyone is a regular Instagram user, you know that people LOVE posting pictures of themselves practicing yoga. If the post is meant to inspire others, I think it's a great thing. However, there are a fair share of "look at me" posts, and funny enough, those are the ones who usually need adjustments. I chose two different IG accounts, with both doing a version of a headstand. One was a typical forearm headstand that was done quite well. The other was of a headstand being done without arms…so a literal headstand. After all of our talk about protecting our spines, this one seemed controversial to me, and I found out during discussion, that it indeed is. It's a pose done strictly in Ashtanga yoga and only done after a lot of practice. But, the conclusion was that it can still be dangerous, and should never be tried by the average yogi.
Later on that day, we did a few more partner activities to apply all of our anatomy knowledge. The first activity involved sequencing. My partner and I were given a peak posture of side plank with extended leg and instructed to put together a short sequence to lead up to it. The intent of the sequence was to warm up and strengthen the muscles found in the peak posture through additional poses. Because our pose utilized obliques, glutes and triceps most, we chose a sequence that involved child's pose, tabletop, downward dog, high and low plank and then side plank. Through discussion afterwards, we found that we could have also added in dancing dog and alternating standing wrist pulls to engage the obliques even more. Moral of the activity? When putting together any sequence, it's a good idea to figure out your peak posture first and then structure the rest of your class around it so that you're utilizing the appropriate muscle groups.
The second activity involved all of us getting into our white/light colored clothes to draw on each other with markers…I'll explain. The purpose of the activity was to highlight the muscles being used in a certain pose, and then discuss what those muscles are doing in said pose. In our partner groups we were each given a pose, with one person drawing on the other at a time. My pose to draw and explain was upward facing dog. While I successfully highlighted the correct muscles on my partner, I completely confused which muscles were contracting vs. relaxing…so I have some work to do there. Then I got into downward dog while my partner drew on me (picture above). This exercise was definitely a good learning experience, and it's amazing how many muscles you end up using in even the simplest of poses.
We closed out the weekend first with a short shoulder opener and backbend practice. This required us to put our knowledge of the spine into effect. It really makes quite a difference in a pose when you're bending at the appropriate part of your spine and moving into it with intention. It actually made a lot of poses feel better in my body than they usually do, such as camel pose. Plus, it greatly reduces your risk of injury. Following that, we briefly discussed how we can work self-massage into our practice. Rebecca showed us various muscle massages using massage balls, foam rollers, and even a rolling pin. I have a foam roller already, which has been sitting in my closet up high since my cats decided to make it their new scratch toy. But I plan to start using it to loosen up my hamstrings a bit more, since that's always my tightest muscle.
As we packed up to go, I reflected on how much I had learned about the body in just 2 1/2 days. I never realized all that was involved in anatomy, and while it was a heck of a lot to learn, I'm so grateful to Rebecca for teaching us as much as she could in such a short time. I feel confident that I had some very high-level training in this regard and I look forward to taking it with me to future yoga teacher training weekends, and to my mat. I left that weekend with a head full of knowledge…and then eventually a tummy full of gelato.


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Philips' lighting division to get listed on stock market
The announcement made by Dutch lighting giant Philips to separate its lighting division by listing it on the stock market paves way for creating a standalone company likely to be the biggest maker of lights worldwide.
Investors have been in anticipation of supervision given that the plans to follow-on the lighting division which is valued at about 5 billion euros by analysts. The shares of Philips reduced to 5.6% at 1036 GMT, in spite of the company's first-quarter revenue beating the estimates made by the analysts.
Few investors may have favored a private sale of the lighting business to a trade consumer in China, the niche for LEDs, according to analysts, or to a personal equity firm that might help it administer costs in its conventional bulb trade.
Philips might switch to trade sale
The analysts also recognized that the company can still switch to a trade sale if doubt around a likely British exit from the European Union disturb markets, but that seemed improbable. Philips Lighting is the worldwide market head by sales, with a rising LED business, which at the present accounts for half of profits, countering shrinking revenue from conventional lighting.
The first-quarter earnings of Philips prior to interest, taxes and amortisation (EBITA) increased 26% to 326 million beating an standard approximation of 257 million euros in a Reuters census of analysts. Similar sales increased 5% to 5.51 billion euros.
Philips Lighting accounted for around a third of operating and sales revenues in 2015. In the latest quarter it had EBITA of 102 million euros on sales that reduce to 2% to 1.69 billion euros.
Precise comparisons are impracticable owing to contradictory business lines; however Osram's first-quarter EBITA was 152 million euros, with profits of 1.48 billion euros. GE's appliances and lighting division had sales of $2 billion and revenue of $115 million.
Smaller lighting competitors include Durham, North Carolina LED maker Cree, Japan's Nichia and Bridgelux, purchased last year by China Electronics Corp, one of the many producers in the fragmented but big Chinese LED market.
Macro-economic headwinds
The analyst said that Philips outlook for 2016 remained unchanged, since majority of its earnings development would come in the second half of 2016 owing to macro-economic headwinds and rates it is taking in the first half concerning the follow-on
Philips had first announced its plans to separate lighting in 2014 saying that the extensive procedure to disentangle the business was in part owing to issues in separating out lighting's wide patent selection.
About two-thirds of the company's revenue comes from its healthcare business, which for the initial time have been split into manifold divisions with a vision to indulgent the company post lighting split.
The biggest division, personal health consists of consumer goods several still link with the corporation like electric shavers and toothbrushes. Imaging equipment and medical scanners are grouped into a second section, with Philip's connected health services like data-crunching and patient monitoring systems.


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Ikebana is the art of Japanese flower arranging. It can be traced back to the Japanese Shinto worship of nature and the Chinese Buddhist tradition of placing flowers on the altar to Buddha. Gradually, this custom filtered down to the people and, in modern times, has lost much of its religious significance. However, the ancient discipline of rules and forms is still observed today in a traditional ikebana arrangement. An ikebana arrangement will usually form some type of asymmetrical triangle.
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Anderlyn Desk
Customer approached us with a vision to deign and manufacture a low-cost standing desk. Disappointed with vendor in Morgan Hill who made the first prototypes. Couldn't get the center box pins to line up. Using solid ABS material. Too heavy. Used 3/16" material to make them light. Then they were too flimsy.
Frank suggested the use of celtic. Got the pins to line up. Redesigned product for better adjustment resolution (4 instead of 2 positions). Began the order fulfillment.
- Worked with customer to develop product spec
- Designed entire product
- Frabricated prototypes
- Refined product design for production
- Launched first production run
- Complete Order fulfillment
- customer send us orders from his customers.
- We package product for shipment using shipping materials designed by us
- We ship product directly to end customer
Anderlyn Desk:
"Working with Ocean Plastic Products for the past eight years has been great. I always feel we have a good collaborative effort going on. The Anderlyn Standup Desk Ocean Plastic Products produces for us is perfect and complies with all our specifications. OPP has provided efficient shipping service for us, sending our standup desk to every state in the Union and on up to Canada, with perfect follow through on tracking information and paper work. Customer feedback and satisfaction has been excellent, with many repeat orders. We can't say enough good things about Ocean Plastic Products and the service they provide. "
Biometrics Company
The customer approached us with the need for a custom bezel for their hand-scanning time tracking system
- We helped with material selection
- We helped with the industrial design their capacitance sensing touch keypad
- Ran a variety of prototype designs to assist with second-operation back-side printing of keypad graphics
- Worked with customer to select the best second-operation vendor
- Currently in planning stages for first production run
Biometrics Company:
"I found Ocean Plastics on the web and after working with them, its a now permanent bookmark. Bill Turner, the owner, is not just a vendor...he turned out to be a tremendous partner in helping me figure out the best way to create my parts and fabricate them.
Within a day of discussing my prototype project, he came up with multiple ways to get the results I was looking for. Bill then went to work trying out the possibilities and quickly showed me the samples while providing the trade offs of each approach.
My parts required a secondary operation. Bill has a great network of people and immediately got me in touch with other vendors in the area saving me lots of time and energy.
The final parts looked great, even with my constant changes. Much of that was thanks to Bill's attention to detail where he caught several self induced errors. With Ocean Plastics its not about just making the part, its about helping you make the best possible part, all with an eye on cost effectiveness."
Logos Systems
Logos Systems develops and manufactures products 2D and 3D metrology equipment for the Proton and X-Ray imaging industries.
Brett Nelson of Logos Systems approached us with the opportunity to design the enclosure system for their new Model XRV-4000 camera. The scope of the project include scaling up many of the features of their Model XRV-2000 camera as well as implementing new features that were required of the new system.
Our first task was to model the basic enclosure system into a 3D CAD environment. We accomplished this task quickly and moved onto developing prototypes for new methods of supporting the system's Index Positioning Disk components. Previous systems featured the Positioning Disks resting in slots cut into the Base Plate. This approach functioned adequately for their smaller cameras but proved to be unstable for the large XRV-4000 camera.
The final solution for the new camera system incorporated small nylon spacers and stainless steel dowel pins working together to act as roller bearings supporting the Positioning Disks. This new bearing system was designed into the base such that the camera's center of gravity could be lowered and thus, adding even more stability to the system.
Logos Systems was very pleased with the performance of their new enclosure system. The solution was simple and cost effective.
OPP provides complete enclosure systems to Logo Systems.
Steve Clabuesch - UCSC:
"Our relationship with Ocean Plastic Products began around 1996 when we were looking for a better way to secure our data sheets underwater. The standard clipboard with rubber bands did not hold data sheets securely and had a life span of maybe a dozen dives. With the help of OPP we developed a robust underwater slate that could hold multiple data sheets securely and that could be used over and over again without failure. Over the past 20 years OP has helped us modify these slates for different uses and helped us solve other data collection and training challenges. If you can dream it up, they can build it!"


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Ancient Earth Pigments (AEP) was founded 2010 by John and Bjo Trimble. We live in, and operate out of, a small 104-year-old house in the Southern California foothills near Pasadena. We share the house with our middle daughter, her husband, and two very helpful dogs, Kirby and Stitch. AEP started in our garage and moved to one corner of the sewing room. It's far warmer in the house, and the dogs can lick elbows at will.
Our mission is to show everyone of all ages how to make their own historic pigment and ink. Our goal is to develop Ancient Earth Pigments into a going business so we can travel to learn more about the magical, ecological pigments that we sell. John is our entire Fulfillment Department; filling jars, packaging orders, and making trips to our friendly local Post Office. Bjo is tutorial writer, online cataloger, photographer, workshop teacher.
Join us on Facebook to share your colored earth or iron-gallnut ink projects. We enjoy finding out how others work with the same colors that we love so much. — John & Bjo


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Commentary: Women of the Wall pioneering true egalitarianism in Judaism
By Rabbi Dow Marmur
TORONTO–A scandalous aspect of virtually all religions has been their treatment of women. My own has shunned many excesses — stoning for alleged adultery, so-called honour killings or officially putting the ordination of women in the same category as pedophilia — but it nevertheless has a history of embarrassing discrimination.
One of the reasons for the growth of Reform Judaism, which this month marks its birth in Germany 200 years ago, was to bring about gender equality in worship and practice. Nowadays women and men have identical rights and obligations in Reform synagogues. Other Jewish religious streams have followed their example. There are now hundreds of women rabbis ordained by different rabbinic schools; about a dozen of them work in the GTA.
Though not a rabbi herself, Anat Hoffman is one of the leaders of Reform Judaism in Israel. She heads its Religious Action Centre that champions the rights of all citizens. She also chairs an interdenominational Jewish organization called Women of the Wall that conducts worship services at Jerusalem's Western Wall, Judaism's holiest place. The aim is to challenge the misogynist franchise that the Israeli ultra-Orthodox rabbinate has arrogated to itself there and with which political parties in power cynically collude.
At a service at the Wall earlier this month, Hoffman was arrested for carrying a Scroll of the Torah in the women's precinct. The ultra-Orthodox custodians regard this as sacrilege and a provocation. In its effort to keep the peace, the local police tend to placate the fanatics at the expense of the women. Hence the arrest.
A couple of days later, Hoffman was in Toronto. When I suggested to her that normative Judaism celebrates holy events, not holy places, she said that the monthly worship services the women hold at the Wall are indeed holy events. It's the only opportunity anywhere in the world for Jews across the denominational spectrum to pray together. In the 22 years that her group has existed — 21 of them with her as leader — countless women, many of them Orthodox, have participated and been greatly enriched by the experience.
Hoffman insists that the remnant of an outer wall that once surrounded the ancient Temple in Jerusalem isn't an Orthodox synagogue that would entitle its male worshippers to relegate women to the back, or exclude them altogether, preventing them from even touching Torah Scrolls. She argues that the Wall is a national monument that must be accessible to all. To give one group sole rights to the exclusion of all others goes against Israeli democracy.
But, I ventured to suggest, in view of Israel's precarious diplomatic and security situation, its leaders have more urgent matters to deal with than gender equality at the Wall. She disagreed and argued that religious fanatics can be no less dangerous than armed terrorists. Erosion from within may turn out to be an even greater threat than attacks from without. The women are defending the soul of Israel, she told me.
They also reflect an important trend in contemporary Jewry. Gender equality has had a profound effect on all Jewish denominations. There are now even Orthodox congregations in Israel and elsewhere that encourage women to be full and equal participants in worship, including holding the Torah and reading from it. A maverick Orthodox rabbinic school in New York ordains women rabbis.
A seemingly local skirmish in Jerusalem is the tip of an enormous iceberg that stands in the way of dramatic changes in the very fabric of Judaism. Anat Hoffman and her group are pioneers. People of all faiths committed to religious freedom and women's rights have reason to applaud and support them.
Rabbi Marmur is spiritual leader emeritus of Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto. This column appeared in the Star of Toronto.
Israel seeking to substitute personalities for foreign policy initiatives
By Rabbi Dow Marmur
JERUSALEM — Mimouna is a colorful tradition that North African Jews brought to Israel. It celebrates the end of the festival of Passover. Activities include much public jollification and eating of post-Pesach dishes made from recipes from the old country. It has also become an occasion for Israeli right-wing politicians (who traditionally have courted Oriental Jews in contrast to the Socialist founders of the state who tended to ignore them) to make speeches of the kind Mimouna audiences would want to hear.
Early media reports this year had much to say about the celebrations in the fast growing West Bank town of Ma'aleh Adumim, situated close to Jerusalem on the way to Jericho and the Dead Sea. The event was used by several government ministers to assure the local population that Ma'aleh Adumim was there to stay, irrespective of what the United States administration and the rest of the world may say about settlements.
One of the speakers this year was Israeli Ashkenazi chief rabbi Yona Metzger, presumably trying to make nice to the Orientals as a way of compensation for the ill treatment to which the Ashkenazi establishment, including the rabbinate, subjected the arrivals from North Africa in the earlier days of the state.
Metzger isn't known for his talents for political analysis (or for many other talents for that matter). This time he couldn't resist the temptation to support the government position by an original historic observation. He's reported to have said that long before Columbus discovered America, King David discovered/founded Jerusalem. The inference is obvious: in the same way as the United States is to remain the one indivisible super-power in the world, so Jerusalem will remain the one and indivisible capital of Israel – with much greater seniority in making its case and challenging the US president.
All this would be quite irrelevant hadn't these speeches appeared to seek to replace Israeli diplomacy. Instead of trying to find a way of coming to an understanding with President Obama and his administration, Israel's government seems to believe that by rousing the crowds back home at jolly Mimouna celebrations it's really responding to the diplomatic challenges that it's currently facing.
The country's most popular daily, Yediot Achronot, reported another diplomatic initiative of the same ilk. Prime Minister Netanyahu is said to have asked Elie Wiesel, the best known Jew of our time, to use his alleged friendship with President Obama to persuade the latter to be nice to Israel. For many centuries the ghetto used shtadlanim, go-betweens who were highly regarded by the Jews and useful to the local squire, to intervene on behalf of their coreligionists with the authorities.
If the newspaper report is correct, the prime minister of the sovereign Jewish state is resorting to a similar method instead of formulating a policy and showing diplomatic acumen to meet the new challenge. This is a far cry from the way Abba Eban made Israel's case before the community of nations.
Trying to make sense of what seem to be reactions by the government to the demands of the United States to curb settlement expansion and building in Jerusalem, it's difficult not to conclude that they reflect embarrassing ineptitude. Perhaps King Abdullah of Jordan wasn't as wrong as we'd like him to be when he told the Wall Street Journal on the eve of his US visit that Israel is isolating itself in the way of North Korea.
Rabbi Marmur is spiritual leader emeritus of Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto. He now divides his time between Canada and Israel.


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Hi Vincent,
Chris and I connected last Fall. We've spoken a couple of times and I have given him some feedback on the videos he's been posting on YouTube.
If you and Chris Pehura haven't yet spoken or connected, I'd like to encourage you to do so...
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I've decided to dedicate this week's posts to "Dark Patterns".
The term "Dark Patterns" is coined by Harry Brignull and refers to carefully crafted features/tactics that trick users into doing things that they might not want to do, and which benefit the business in question.
Dark Patterns can, of course, have serious implications for people and society. In fact, Flavio Lamenza argues in his article "Stop calling these Dark Design Patterns or Dark UX — these are simply a**hole designs" that "this all -the Dark Patterns that we encounter every day- is not bad user experience design, not psychology, not "dark patterns". This is being dishonest, deceitful, corrupt, and unethical tactics."
Over the next few days, I will share examples of what NOT TO DO if you are a responsible organization which has its customers' best interests at heart.
I would be truly thrilled to see more professionals posting one or more examples using #darkpatterns in an effort to raise awareness about this important issue.
Let's start the week with a video from https://darkpatterns.org, which includes various examples.
#darkpatterns #ux #userexperience #cx #customerexperience
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30. Halves of a Whole
On the last day of the first half of the calendar year, I'm in a Gillian Holloway course, and again, as last time, it's gift after gift after gift. This, I can use! I wonder now – are the ways of dreams not merely the Salvador Dali representations of the things we're telling ourselves and trying to know and needing to have (or to stop having)? Are dreams also a constructed garment we can turn inside out? See the seams? Look at the construction? Find what we are made of? Does the way we've dressed ourselves come fashion our dreams?


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I thought I would start by sharing my favorite chocolate cake recipe with you. This is a really easy classic chocolate cake recipe, the result is a yummy chocolate sponge that's light and chocolately, but not overkill! If you don't fancy using baking a whole cake you can also use it to bake cupcakes! I usually end up with about 20 cupcakes from this recipe.
Simple Chocolate Sponge Cake
Preparation time: 25 minutes. Cooking time: 25 minutes. Serves: 8 slices. I use two 18cm cake tins, approx 4cm deep. You can pick these up in Sainsbury's for about £3 each!
- 170 grams self raising flour
- 170 grams butter or margerine
- 170 grams demerara sugar
- 3 medium eggs
- 1 heaped tablespoon cocoa powder
- 1 heaped teaspoon baking powder
Turn the oven on, setting it to 170 C / 325 F / Gas Mark 3.Next, grease both of the baking trays with margarine or butter.
Mix the flour, cocoa powder and baking powder. Sieve into a separate bowl. Add the butter, sugar and eggs to the flour mixture and mix well using an electric beater or if you don't have one a fork will do! Mix for around 2-3 minutes. The resulting mixture should fall off the spoon but reluctantly. If the mixture is too thick, add a little water and mix it in well.
Put half of the mixture in each tin. Place the tins in the centre of the pre heated oven and cook for 25 minutes. Be sure not to open the oven whilst the cakes are baking or you could cause air bubbles or an uneven surface. Test if the cake is cooked by poking a fork into it. If the fork comes out with mixture on it return the cake to the oven and cook for a further three minutes then repeat the process.
Leave the cakes in the tin for a minute to cool. Turn them out of the tins onto a wire rack. This is to let the air circulate around them as they cool.
To ice the cake I use the godess Nigella's Chocolate Fudge Frosting recipe. Trust me it is divine!
I love to decorate this cake in halved strawberries. It is so easy but it looks lovely and is so yummy! The cupcakes are just iced with melted chocolate, really easy. Enjoy!


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While I love to get on a plane and jet to the next place, a non-negotiable aspect for my family is having a safe and sound car that we can take anywhere. At least a few times a year, we're taking a road trip of at least 600 miles. Last year, we did two big ones. The first was with my father through the South and the second was to Washington, DC. Not to mention, the local travels around the Atlanta area that we're doing. We need to be ready for any adventure as we #LoveLearnTravel!
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The first time I had this feeling of making sure that my car must be safe enough to go anywhere I need was on September 11, 2001. At the time, I lived in Washington, DC and was in grad school. I was single, had just moved from New York and hadn't made those super close friends year who I could wait out the uncertainly of life. I could have driven to New York but that was a little scary to go into the area. My sister lived 12 hours away in Atlanta and I really wanted to drive down. But I was a little concerned about if my car was actually going to safely make it there/back. I vowed that I wouldn't be in the same situation ever again.
It was put to the test during the Atlanta Ice Storm of 2014. During the unexpected snow here in Atlanta, I had both kids in the car as a struggled to navigate our normal 20 minute drive home from school. Lots of cars were stuck on inclines. In fact as we drove up a hill, there were several people who dissuaded me from going up. BUT luckily I was confident in my car and brakes so that I made it up the hills with no problems!
Using Cars.com to Keep My Family Safe
Even though my life now is very different but I feel like I'll always be concerned about making sure that my family has a safe car. I want to be sure that whenever we hit the road, we are comfortable able to go without a problem. Because we often travel with just the kids and myself, I've began making sure that I'm just as versed in taking care of my car. I need to know that our car seats are in right, our tires are safe to drive and there are no funny sounds/smells coming out.
That's totally where I'm using Cars.com to get advice. I love that they have expert video reviews and advice for things like how to drive safely during floods and making sure that car seats are put in correctly. Using Cars.com makes sure that I have professional advice because they're with you through the whole car buying process. From the first look at how to buy a car through maintenance and even selling a car. They're the right place to get started.


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Welcome to A Healthy Billion
I am excited to officially launch A Healthy Billion! A healthy billion is a blog, a cause, a challenge and a community working together to improve health and wellness by the billions.
The purpose of the blog is to share my personal and professional perspective of health from the outside in. What I mean by this is that my focus is on everyday health; health outside of our medical system. My efforts are to highlight, educate and create awareness surrounding the everyday care provided to those with chronic conditions, the everyday decisions we make that contribute to our overall health and the professionals involved in everyday care who contribute in a large way to one's overall health. My goal is to create a better understanding of how we can improve everyday health outside of our healthcare system and how this can and will improve care (and costs) within our healthcare system.
I look forward to sharing my perspectives but most importantly, I look forward to building the healthy billion community and working together to improve health by the billions.
Jen Pleimann
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The philosophy of religion is all about the religious doctrines, scriptures, stories, beliefs, practices, histories, arguments. Anything that supports to learn the life and know the purpose of life is the philosophy of religion. The studies are carried out to learn about every religion, its authenticity and the values of the each religion. The philosophy associated with religion basically tries to gain an understanding of religious beliefs and faith of each religion and the matters it conveys to the people.
The philosophy of religion tries to comprehend God and the concepts behind religious beliefs. It is more theoretical and it does not have any experimental evidence. It helps to understand the God and conveys the matter that the religion wants to deliver to people. It basically analyzes and justifies the authenticity of the religious belief.
Though theology and philosophy deal with the concepts of religious belief, theology speaks about a particular religion, whereas the philosophy deals with the scientific investigation of a religion and also analyzes the merits and demerits of the religion. In religious philosophy, the sacred writing belonging to a religion is considered as source and theme for the research.
The philosophy of religion analyzes the claims that are put forth by the religion and justifies the claim and gives appropriate explanation. It basically helps to answer the questions raised and trying to find out the solution by doing research on the topics considered for the study. The conclusions are derived from the study subject and the explanations are given appropriately in the context of religion.
This philosophy is viewed differently by each and everyone. Each person look at the same concept in a different perspective based on the idea that individual possess in the mind. It is always true that the individual who is open minded can always analyze the concepts in a better way than the individual who considers the study with some opinion before hand. It is something that helps to give justification to the beliefs of a religion.


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Garage fire determined not to be arson
Posted: Jul 14, 2012 8:42 PM EST | Updated: Nov 6, 2014 5:02 AM EST
SOUTH BEND, Ind.-- A South Bend garage caught fire early July 14, Saturday morning causing lots of damage to the wood frame.
It all happened on Prast Street as a neighbor called it in after seeing flames.
Firefighters arrived at the scene finding flames in the upper portion of the garage but they quickly put it out.
There were no injuries reported.
Firefighters do not suspect foul play or arson.
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text: November 07, 2014 Temecula Wine Country Half Marathon November 07, 2014/ Jody Stoops I am so honored to be asked to participate in the New Destination Races Temecula Wine Country Half Marathon Presented by Newton Running on Nov. 15th.This will be an incredible weekend of ideal weather, running past beautiful vineyards & orchards, and finish with a wine and music fest! The best part, I get to include my running buddy, Heather! Nothing like a girls getaway weekend that includes running and wine!When I am not training for a marathon, I really enjoy running half marathons. It is always fun to try out new locations and new challenging courses. Grab a few friends and train together! The nice thing about a half marathon, it is just long enough to be challenging, but doesn't take over your entire life like marathon training can. Search your local area and you may be surprised just how many races there are! If you are in the San Diego area, join us in Temecula! There is still time to register and join me as I run 13.1 miles!http://tiny.cc/44ogox