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text: Peter Forbes, co-founder and co-director of the Center for Whole Communities in Fayston, Vermont delivered a dynamic keynote address at the NEEEA conference for environmental educators last October. As soon as he finished speaking, he attended a screening of Mother Nature's Child. Here is his response to the film: " Mother Nature's Child is among the most hopeful films I've seen in years. Many are making the case that we and our kids need more time in nature, but if that were easy or validated by today's American culture we all would have done it. To reconnect with the land and with one another might be medicine for what most ails our culture, but it's also one of the hardest things to do today. Mother Nature's Child is a beautiful, well-crafted act of storytelling that quietly and compellingly reveals exactly what's possible when we and our kids find the ways to reconnect with nature, with one another, with the big ideas about what it means to be human. Watch this film; every parent and grandparent will be inspired; every kid will rethink their summer plans. I got ideas for how to help my own children engage more deeply in this world. I'm grateful to the creators of Mother Nature's Child for challenging and guiding us and our kids toward deeper relationships with all that's around us, and with each other." -Peter Forbes, co founder and co director, Center for Whole Communities

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TopicHow to Solve QuickBooks Error 15270
The leading cause behind this QuickBooks Error 15720 is indeed the interruption in the update process. You are likely to get the following error message:
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Monday, March 14, 2011 | 2 a.m.
Sun Archives
- School District donors still giving, but will they outlast need? (5-10-2010)
- School of haves bonds with one of have-nots (2-19-2009)
- Sharp rise in homeless students (9-15-2008)
- School goes all out to help poor kids learn (6-3-2008)
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For information about helping homeless students in the Clark County School District, call the outreach office at 855-6682. Whitney Elementary School can be reached at 799-7790.
Map of Whitney
5005 Keenan Ave., Las Vegas
Since the day Principal Sherrie Gahn first set foot in Whitney Elementary nearly a decade ago, she has slowly transformed the struggling school.
After witnessing neighborhood hardships, Gahn turned the eastern valley school into a full social service organization, providing food, clothing, health care and job opportunities for students and their families.
Her efforts have paid off. Whitney still has a long way to go, but its academic performance and transiency rate have improved, Clark County School District officials say. In 2009, CNN featured Gahn and Whitney Elementary, sparking a flurry of media attention on the turnaround school.
But after seeing her students drop out of middle and high school once they graduate from Whitney, Gahn became concerned her efforts weren't enough.
Now, to keep her children off the streets and in the classroom, Gahn wants to open an after-school program, one of the first of its kind in Las Vegas, according to school officials. The program would be modeled after Children's Cabinet in Reno, where Nevada first lady Kathleen Sandoval is the nonprofit group's program director.
"I'm going to do my darnedest to help these children," Gahn said. "We're going to do whatever it takes."
Whitney is located on the proverbial wrong side of town.
Of its 610 students, 85 percent are on the free or reduced-price lunch program, and many are classified by the state as being homeless.
Students know more than they should about drugs, prostitution and violence. Four gangs roam the streets surrounding Whitney, and officials blame them for killing three parents last year.
Gahn knows firsthand about the life of poverty her students face at home. She grew up in the projects in Buffalo, N.Y., and credits her mother for pushing her to go to school and toward a better life.
But that's not the case with many of her students, Gahn said. Once they move on to Cortney Middle School, Whitney students often fall prey to the temptations of gang life or the welfare check.
"People will gravitate toward gangs to get acceptance," Gahn said. "These children also live in a culture where they see welfare and ways to get around the system. We need to give them a different value."
Children's Cabinet helps more than 60,000 disadvantaged youths in Washoe County. As its program director, Sandoval, wife of Gov. Brian Sandoval, oversees a $4.5 million budget for the group's 27 programs providing anti-truancy, gang prevention and family violence prevention services for 1,500 families a year.
From 3 to 8 p.m., middle and high school students who visit Children's Cabinet create T-shirts and art projects, and are mentored by one of 78 staff members. A local art company sells the students' work and proceeds go back into the program.
"Most of the children had nothing to do after school, so we wanted to give them something to do," Sandoval said. "Through these art projects, children can take ownership of their work."
Gahn thinks the concept is a perfect fit for Whitney.
"This gives them someplace to go where they feel they are productive, where they can actually produce something and do something useful," she said. "Hopefully, that will lead them to a job or staying in school."
Whitney's program is still in the planning stages, but Gahn hopes it will serve students from third grade through high school when it opens in the fall. Instead of T-shirts, Gahn is looking at having her students create candies, cards and photographs to sell.
To get Whitney's program started, Gahn solicited help from Kathleen Sandoval. During the governor's visit to Whitney last year, Gahn mentioned her plans for an after-school program, and Sandoval put Gahn in touch with his wife.
After months of e-mails and phone calls, Gahn arranged a tour of Whitney with Kathleen Sandoval. Clark County Schools Superintendent Dwight Jones and then-School Board President Terri Janison were present.
As Gahn led Sandoval around campus, she talked excitedly about the myriad services Whitney offers students, from free haircuts and glasses to school supplies and clothing – socks, underwear and shoes.
"I think this has a huge potential here … and Sherrie has a great central base to build off," Sandoval said. "What Sherrie is talking about is following the children. That's important because if we do everything here and they go to another (school) and they don't have that same kind of support, we're not doing them service."
After the tour, Sandoval and Gahn discussed how to fund the program.
"I wouldn't count on any state dollars at this point," Sandoval said. "As a nonprofit, (Children's Cabinet) never relied on state funds because you want to make sure you can sustain it. You have to be really creative."
Gahn agreed.
"I've never looked to the state," she said. "I've shied away from that because I need to sustain (the program) in the long haul. With budgets the way they are, I didn't know if they would."
Sandoval urged Gahn to partner with nonprofit groups and apply for grants to purchase a modular building for the program. Sandoval, who has helped secure 93 grants for Children's Cabinet, offered to help Gahn write initial applications.
Janison, now part of the Sandoval administration, said she sees potential for nonprofit groups to work with schools "to help, especially during these hard times."
"We don't seem to have as many nonprofit service providers in the south as they do in the north," Janison said, adding that Gov. Sandoval said he would like to see nonprofit groups step up. "We see a need for the state to pull in nonprofits and see how we can work closely together."
Children's Cabinet is considering opening a branch office in Las Vegas, Sandoval added, hinting the two programs could work together.
"I would be happy to work on a Children's Cabinet," Gahn said. "I already do so many of the services (Sandoval) provides, so to start out with a smaller Children's Cabinet here would be awesome."


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The following is just a preview of some of my upcoming projects on ff.net and deviantArt.
Category: arthur discussion
Reader-Driven Project on ff.net
So I want to do a reader-driven, soap-opera style project over on ff.net to drum up participation in the fandom. I've posted these questions elsewhere but I decided to do a poll-style series with buttons, so here I am. If you're interested, please answer the questions below, and feel free to comment with any questions, suggestions, etc.
It Felt Like A Breakup
When I left the Arthur fandom earlier this year, it felt like I was breaking up with my best friend. Now that I've gotten over it, I want to reflect on that time and where I'm going from here.
Retaliation Pieces: A Discussion
While the Arthur fandom used to be one of those quiet places where kittens and rainbows roamed without care, it's lately become a minefield of child-porn-esque pieces and Drama. Call-out pieces and retaliation pieces are becoming more common as the war gets dirtier, so I figured I should discuss my thoughts on the pieces. In summary: I like them, but you have to know what you're doing.
[Written April 22]
I have work to do today, thankfully, but in order to ration the pages of said work, I'm going to work on a little entry for you guys here on this semi-lovely Friday (weather is sketchy and Prince is dead. What a lovely day). So, I want to give a little preview of what I plan to do on ff.net now that I've returned. I'm also adding a preview for my upcoming WordPress articles.
Pairing Discussion 2
Well my last pairing discussion had hits and misses for some of you, but I expected that when I decided to write about some of the fandom's most-used pairings (and pairings I should use more for various reasons). This time around I want to discuss the oddballs, longshots, and just HUH? pairings to see what you all think.
Pairings Discussed:
- Arthur x Marina (with some Buster x Marina insights)
- Francine x Muffy
- Sue Ellen x Fern
- Binky x Boy
- Arthur x Buster
- Bitzi x Teacher
- Pal x Killer
- DW x Tibble/ Emily x Tibble
- Ladonna x Arthur
- Brain x Lydia
Warnings: Some language and sexual talk; PG-13/T rated discussion. Note that some pairings are slash/femslash.
Preview: Not Done Yet
My comeback project for ff.net is called "Not Done Yet," and it showcases the powerful women of Elwood City as they deal with various issues. In this discussion, I'm going to lay out the piece so you all will know what to expect. Expected post date: Soon.


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Make sure your business is properly classified
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For example, if you're a sole proprietor or single-member LLC with no employees and you earn over a certain amount, you could see a significant savings on self-employment tax by electing S-Corp status instead. This is just one example of many that might apply to you depending on your business type and your financial situation.
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You'll want to work with an account who's in the know about upcoming tax legislation that could affect your company. For example, a tax break that's good this year might expire by next year, so you'll want to maximize its impact accordingly for your business.
It's also a great idea to talk with your accountant about any big purchases you're considering, like equipment or new inventory; in some cases you can benefit by springing for those big ticket items before the year is up.
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5 / Cosmology and Belief
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Unknown architect(s) (possibly Syrian), Andalucía (Islamic Spain)
Region: Europe
Umayyad Dynasty, begun ca. 784–86; enlarged in the 9th and 10th centuries
Period: 500 CE - 1000 CE
Stone, brick, marble, porphyry, jasper, and other materials
Medium: Architecture and Planning
|(Columns) H: approx. 13 ft. (3.96 m.) (each)
|Córdoba, Spain
|© Pawel Wysocki/Hemis/CORBIS
expert perspective
|Kishwar RizviAssistant Professor of Islamic Art, Yale University
Additional Resources
Anderson, Glaire D., and Marian Rosser-Owen, eds. Revisiting al-Andalus: Perspectives on the Material Culture of Islamic Iberia and Beyond. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007.
Dodds, Jerrilynn D., ed. Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1982.
Ettinghausen, Richard, and Oleg Grabar. The Art and Architecture of Islam: 650–1250. London and New York: Penguin, 1987.
Khoury, Nuha. "The Meaning of the Great Mosque of Cordoba in the Tenth Century." Muqarnas 13 (1996): 80–98.
Kostof, Spiro. A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals, 2nd ed. Edited by Gregory Castillo. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
In 711, a Berber army led by Arab commanders conquered the Spanish in the Iberian Peninsula, laying the foundations of Islamic Spain.
Although its boundaries shifted over time, the territory controlled by the Spanish Muslims, called al-Andalus or Andalucia, maintained significant political power and cultural influence for several centuries.
The Great Mosque of Córdoba was begun between 784 and 786 by order of Abd al-Rahman. He had established the Umayyad Dynasty in Spain in 756, having fled the massacre of his family by the Abbasids in Syria several years earlier. Under his aegis, Córdoba became a great capital rivaling Baghdad, the center of Abbasid power in the East. The structure was built on the site of San Vicente, the oldest church in Córdoba, which had been constructed over the remains of a pagan temple. The Great Mosque was a testament not only to the continuance of Umayyad dominion, but also to the triumph of Islam in the westernmost reaches of the Christian world.
Called La Mezquita in Spanish, The Great Mosque began as a nearly square construction comprised of an outer-courtyard and a covered prayer hall. Its distinguishing feature was its collection of over 500 columns, scavenged from the ruins of Roman and Visigoth structures, and connected by two tiers of arches, horseshoe-shaped on the bottom tier and semi-round on the top. The long, thin columns of varying materials, color, and texture capped by Corinthian capitals had an elegance that complemented the light and airy atmosphere produced by the stacked, alternating red and white striped arches. They also created another effect. Rows upon rows of columns seemed to stretch out indefinitely, creating a space that, in sharp contrast to the medieval cathedral, was distinctly non-hierarchal in nature. No aspect of the architecture demanded greater attention than any other, not even the mihrab, the embellished area that marks the direction of Mecca to which Muslims turn while praying.
In its original form, the Great Mosque was built to hold the entire Muslim community of the city. As that community grew, so did the mosque. In the ninth and tenth centuries, the structure underwent two major expansions. Despite these extensions, the building maintained a remarkably coherent plan and aesthetic. The harmony of the space was disrupted only in the sixteenth century when an enclosed choir area was built within the mosque, which had been converted into a church when Christians reconquered Córdoba in the thirteenth century.


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Google updated its Search Quality Rater Guidelines, and added new metrics to AdWords Shopping product insights. Meanwhile, video consumption continues to rise sharply, and last week Facebook made it clear how much of a priority it is by going all out with Live Video. Add to this the updated Branded Content Policy, and it's clear that Facebook is making an aggressive play on multiple fronts. All these and more of the big news from last week!
An update to Google's Search Quality Rater Guidelines was spotted last week, and there are substantial changes webmasters and site owners should take note of.
In general the changes to the guidelines focused on:
- Placing a stronger emphasis on Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness ("E-A-T") as page quality rating factors. While quality has always been important, Google is placing even higher emphasis on "E-A-T" in the guidelines. This is especially true for pages that can affect a searcher's happiness, health, or wealth (what Google calls "Your Money Your Life" pages). The other two changes reflect changing user expectations due to mobile search.
- Lessening emphasis on Supplemental Content. Supplementary Content has a large impact on desktop user experience, but not as much on mobile.
- Renaming "Local" searches to "Visit-in-Person." "Near me" searches have also risen because of mobile devices, and renaming "Local" to "Visit-in-Person" clarifies that it refers to a user's intent to visit a physical location as opposed to a generic local search.
The Search Quality Rater Guidelines reflect what Google thinks its users want, and are given to "raters" to evaluate how helpful Google's search results are for a particular language and location. Google publicly releases the document to help webmasters understand what Google looks for in web pages, but the evaluations do not directly influence Google's ranking algorithm.
- Google Search Quality Rater Guidelines
- Updated Google Quality Rater Guidelines: No More Supplementary Content, Emphasis on E-A-T
Google added new Shopping product insights to AdWords last week, starting with two new columns in the Products tab: Product Status and Effective Max CPC.
The Product Status column indicates items that have stopped attracting traffic and conversions because they are disapproved, excluded, or out of stock. The Effective Max CPC column allows advertisers to make bid adjustments directly from the products tab on individual products in a product group.
The Product Groups now displays insights into your inventory. Columns that provide information on products linked to your merchant center account, products active with a bid, and several others give you a snapshot of your inventory status.
Lastly, Google has added more Shopping information in the Report Editor. Attributes like brand or product type are now shown for Shopping campaigns. This data can then be compiled into charts and tables for reports.
With one month left until Google boosts the mobile-friendly ranking signal, Google is giving out friendly reminders to site owners whose websites still haven't been adapted for mobile devices. Site owners who search for their website on Google will see a "Your page is not mobile-friendly" message below the URL and above the site's meta-description. The message is only shown to site owners (provided Google knows the searcher is the site owner).
Continuing its push into Live Video, Facebook announced several big updates last week.
- Live Videos can now be broadcast in Facebook Groups and Event Pages. These videos will only be visible to Group members or Event invitees.
- Users can now respond to Live Videos in real time with Live Reactions. Viewers watching the recording afterwards can also opt to re-play comments as they happened during the broadcast.
- Users can share Live Videos without leaving the broadcast with the invite button. A push notification will be sent linking them to the video.
- Searching for a trending topic will now also include Live Video results labeled accordingly.
- Facebook Live Map for desktop–a visual display of live broadcasts happening around the world.
But out of all the updates to Live Video, the biggest so far is that it will soon have its own tab in the Facebook mobile app. The Live Video Tab will be at the center, replacing the messages icon, and in between friend requests and notifications. This Live Video Destination will also have its own dedicated search experience to help users find more videos across Facebook.
Facebook is also adding new metrics for Live Video. Now, broadcasters can know the total number of people who watched the video while it was live, and a visual representation of the number of viewers at each moment of the broadcast. The new metrics are available through Page Insights and the Video Library.
- Introducing New Ways to Create, Share, and Discover Live Video on Facebook
- Search FYI: More Ways to Discover Live Video
- Introducing New Metrics for Live Video
Facebook has announced updates to its Branded Content Policy. Verified Pages are now able to share Branded Content on Facebook, but all Branded Content must tag marketers using the new Branded Content Tool.
The Branded Content Tool enables publishers and influencers to tag marketers in a branded content post. Tagged marketers will then be notified, given post-level insights, and are given the option to share and boost the post.
Branded Content is defined as any post that specifically mentions or features a third party product, brand, or sponsor.
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The Infection Begins… Cum try to survive the night, if you can…
ZOMBIFIED HARES: Trunk Monkee, Naughty Girl, Fourgasm, Beheaded, Grab My Handlebars, Cousin Fucker & Ultra Twatathon (and all the seven deadly sins we'll represent…)
WHEN: 10/23/13, Meet up @ 6:30pm, Pack Survivors off @ 7:15pm, Zombie Hares in hot pursuit 15 minutes later…
BRING: $5 hash cash, headlamps, vessels, new lightening fast shoes in which to run for your life!, sacrificial virgins to pass off to the zombies & your Best Survival Gear
START: The Soccer Field down the hill from the Elephant House Picnic Shelter within Washington Park (with all the ghosts of the Zoo's initial location, back in 1887…).
TRAIL: The trail will be laid by the living dead, so expect a dead A-A' trail; one which will not be stroller, bike or pooch friendly – remember you'll be running for your lives!!
EXTRA DETAILS & RULES FOR THIS UNIQUE HASH: A virus that was spawned at the Jolly Roger H3 of Tampa FL has made its way to the West coast. A virus that now threatens to infect the hounds of the PH4!
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As Jose Mourinho stormed out of his post-match press conference on Monday night, muttering repeatedly about 'respect' after nearly two decades spent dishing out insults, it was hard not to feel as though he is entering the final chapter of his reign at Manchester United.
Despite two trophies – three if you include the Community Shield, as Mourinho himself rather bizarrely does – and a best league placing since Sir Alex Ferguson stepped aside, United have rarely looked like genuine title challengers and their style of football fluctuates somewhere between prosaic and just plain painful.
Away from the pitch, Mourinho's relationship with the board is strained after a frustrating summer transfer window and there are regular reports of bust-ups with his players. But if this is the end, who could replace him?…
Three-time Champions League winner Zinedine Zidane is the obvious candidate to replace Mourinho. Alongside the vast haul of trophies and accolades collected during his time in charge of Real Madrid, the Frenchman comes with the added bonus of being available to take over immediately if, or when, United pull the trigger.
There are some question marks over quite how suitable he is to managing a side that isn't rammed full of Galacticos though. Zidane's great strength at the Bernabeu was managing a dressing room loaded with egos – and which became utterly toxic while Mourinho was in charge – and finding a way of playing that got the best out of his superstars. He also had one of the greatest goalscorers in history, Cristiano Ronaldo, to rely upon.
United do not possess such quality or trophy-winning experience, while many of the concerns fans have about Mourinho's lack of trust in youngsters like Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial could be echoed in Madrid over how little game time Zidane afforded Marco Asensio and others.
It is also hard to pinpoint a particular style to Zidane's football other than that it got results, even if not always on merit. If Mourinho is the Special One, many in Spain – and Catalonia in particular – would say Zidane is the Lucky One. Still, he is a great man manager, a classy figurehead and his CV more than rivals any of his peers.
Not only was Mauricio Pochettino – appropriately dressed in all black – the architect of Mourinho's misery on Monday night, inflicting his heaviest home defeat, he also struck a huge and lasting blow to the Portuguese's psyche when Tottenham eviscerated Chelsea three-and-a-half years ago.
Mourinho's title winners conceded five times at White Hart Lane, just the second time that has happened in his 888-game career, and after starting to play a more expansive brand of football with the Blues he abruptly put the handbrake back on… for good. It eventually cost him his job at Chelsea, his penchant for pragmatism turning into outright negativity, and the shackles remained when he moved to Old Trafford.
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Pochettino is almost the polar opposite. The Argentine sets his side up to dominate matches, regardless of the opposition, pressing relentlessly and attacking with ferocity – if he has a weakness, it is that he is often too adventurous in big matches.
Off the pitch, he is more of a diplomat too; while Mourinho publicly bemoaned a lack of signings (despite bringing in three players for around £70m), Pochettino allayed fears as Spurs became the first Premier League side not to make a single summer signing.
Sir Alex Ferguson is a huge fan, even dining with Pochettino and his coaching staff, and his sleek, affable image feels like a much better fit for United than the sullen and irritable Mourinho. There is just one problem: Daniel Levy. After signing a new five-year contract in May, Pochettino won't come cheap – and that's assuming he would even be willing to leave at all.
If there was an ideal moment to part ways with Mourinho, it has probably already passed. Although United finished second in the Premier League last season – their best finish since Sir Alex left the club – the deeper-lying issues, both on and off the pitch, were already plain to see. Moreover, rarely have so many high-calibre managers been available at the same time.
Maurizio Sarri moved to Chelsea, Carlo Ancelotti joined Napoli as his replacement, Thomas Tuchel took charge of Paris Saint-Germain and highly rated Hoffenheim boss Julian Nagelsmann even signed an agreement to take over at RB Leipzig next year.
Were he still available, a manager in the Nagelsmann mould might have appealed to Ed Woodward – a bright, young coach to install a philosophy and rebuild United. But that's not what they need right now.
For all Mourinho's many shortcomings, he has rescued the club from the mediocrity of previous managers. Fourth place represented United's best finish in the post-Ferguson wilderness, but under Mourinho they secured a points total (81) that would have won the Premier League in four of the Scot's 13 title-winning seasons.
Antonio Conte's record vs Mourinho
United just needed evolution, not revolution. A few tweaks, a couple of new signings. If Mourinho is not the man to make the necessary changes, perhaps Antonio Conte is.
The Italian is a fiery character himself: he routinely clashed with Chelsea's board over transfer strategy before his departure this summer – though was never backed to the extent Mourinho has been – while successor Sarri has quickly done away with a number of draconian rules that inhibited the squad.
Conte also prefers a more cautious style of play, with his approach against City in March – in which Chelsea had just 29% possession and no shots on target – widely derided.
But he is a serial winner, taking the Premier League by storm just a year ago and racking up 85 goals to United's 54, even changing the Premier League's attitude towards tactics and formations in the process. He also knows how to get the best out of Paul Pogba, with the Frenchman utterly electrifying when they were together at Juventus. Conte is the best of Mourinho without many of his less desirable qualities.


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ASEAN intellectual property offices advance regional trademark systemIssued: February 18 2019
Delegates from all 10 ASEAN Member States at the ARISE+ IPR consultation meeting in Bangkok
Prospects for a regional trademark registration system were top of the agenda at a meeting of national intellectual property offices of the ASEAN Member States held in Bangkok, Thailand.
Delegates discussed the scope of a feasibility study to be conducted by the EU-funded ARISE+ IPR programme, which will consider aspects such as legal infrastructure, operational set-up, fee structures, stakeholder interests, and the impact on national trademark systems.
IP-intensive industry is now increasingly at the heart of Southeast Asia's economic growth. Protecting IP rights means protecting innovation and ideas and the commercial value of a business.
ASEAN Secretariat Senior IP Officer Maslina Binte Malik speaks with DIP Thailand Deputy Direct or General Nusara Kanjanakul
ASEAN-wide policies and systems to enforce IP rights protection help both local and international businesses across the region.
A regional trademark system would potentially reduce the time for businesses to register their trademarks across all ten ASEAN Member States and create greater certainty on registration procedures, ultimately improving the ease for businesses to operate in the region and fostering new investment.
Currently, businesses are required to file a separate trademark application in each ASEAN Member State, or consider an international filing through the Madrid system for participating countries. Regional trademark systems already operate in the European Union and in the French-speaking African states (OAPI).
Delegates from all ten ASEAN Member States discuss a regional trademark sys
tem at the ARISE+ IPR
meeting in Bangkok
Delegates from all 10 ASEAN Member States discuss a regional trademark sys tem at the ARISE+ IPR meeting in Bangkok
"The discussions today represent a significant step forward on the path of regional integration and the convergence of IP systems in ASEAN, and towards the economic benefits that result," noted ARISE+ IPR Project Leader Ignacio de Medrano Caballero during opening proceedings.
Other regional initiatives discussed included updates to the ASEAN trademark examination guidelines and the establishment of an ASEAN IP academy.
The feasibility study on a regional trademark system is one of a series of activities being conducted by the five-year, EU-funded ARISE+ IPR programme to promote regional integration of intellectual property regulation in ASEAN Member States.
(Left - Right) ARISE+ IP R Deputy Project Leader, Tiago da Trindade Geurreiro; DIP Thailand Deputy Director General Nusara Kanjanakul; EU Delegation to Thailand Trade Counsellor, Isabelle de Stobbeleir; and ARISE+ IPR Project Leader, Ignacio de Medrano Caballero
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A matter of money
In tough times, it's worthwhile to approach the question of raises or salary negotiation with a pocketful of research.
There's no doubt that money is one of the most sensitive subjects in the working world -- and when the job market gets tough, the sensitivity meter goes especially haywire. These days, IT folks are happy to have a job. For some, asking for a raise seems out of the question. And those out hunting for a new position are equally wary of playing hardball when it comes to salary negotiation. After all, many times the cupboard is bare.
"Technology budgets have really gotten whacked in the past couple years," says Andy Zaleta, managing director for executive recruiter Korn/Ferry's advanced technology practice in New England. But getting more money is possible, according to recently interviewed experts. They offered their advice on several strategies.
Asking for a raise
This situation is more unusual than you might think, says Nikolas Doty, the editorial director of techies.com, a technology career Web site based in Minneapolis. In readership surveys, he says, "Only about 20 percent of respondents have even asked for raises. And only about half that ask get the raises."
Those requesting a raise can improve their chances for success by taking these tips to heart:
- Pick your time wisely. Never on Friday, when the boss is thinking of the weekend, and never just before or after a business meeting, says Doty. He recommends a midweek meeting.
- Do your homework. Do not assume that longevity and loyalty at your company entitle you to a raise. "You have to be able to prove that not only have you done your job, you've excelled at it," says Zaleta. He suggests that employees go through their job description and list ways they've exceeded their career goals for every objective. Smart workers make notes on their performance on a monthly basis, he says, and can draw on that history as needed.
- Quantify your worth. Whenever possible, assign a number to your contributions, and if possible, tie your contributions to the company's bottom line, says Doty. For example, for positions like system or network administrators, "There are a bunch of metrics associated with those jobs that are easily quantifiable, such as network uptime," according to Doty.
- Don't demand. "Nobody wants a direct report that issues ultimatums," says Zaleta. "Don't even ask for a specific number. Just put it out there that you think you've excelled at your job and back it up with facts and figures." Keep away from emotions, and don't expect an immediate response. Compensation issues have to work their way through a startling number of corporate layers before they get the green light.
Negotiating salary at a new job
No doubt about it, times are tough for technology job hunters, says Myrna Hoover, associate director at The Career Center of Florida State University in Tallahassee, Fla. She says that her office has run across numerous alumni who've had to downgrade their salary expectations dramatically. Nonetheless, once an offer has been made, it may be worthwhile to try to negotiate the salary. "This is the time when you have the most power to negotiate salary until your next job offer comes along," Hoover says. Successful negotiators should take heed of these ideas:
- Don't talk money too early. Interviewers frequently want to know your salary requirements, but it's a loaded question. You don't want to price yourself out of the running with a number that's too high or sell yourself short with a low number. For when the question comes up, Zaleta suggests a riposte along the following lines: "While money matters to me, it's not the most important thing. I'd like to first find out more about this opportunity and whether it's a good fit before we discuss salary."
- Research, research, research. If you know more about typical salary ranges for the position you are being offered, you will be better able to respond to an offer. So, do the research as the interviewing progresses. "You want to look at peers in the industry and get an idea of what the pay mixes are," Doty says. He suggests that job seekers compare salary levels at similarly sized companies in the same industry and geographical location to get the closest comparison.
- Be creative about compensation. Although the holy grail of negotiation is an increase in base pay, this isn't always possible, and smart negotiators will have other ideas to put on the table. Perhaps an extra week of vacation, or a signing bonus would get the thumbs up instead.
Of course, discussing pay with the boss isn't fun, but that doesn't mean you should avoid it. As Zaleta puts it, "If you never ask, you'll never get the answer. You just have to know how to read the tea leaves first."
Show me the money
Need to find out more about money? The following Web sites can help:
JobStar Salary Surveys
One of the largest collections of salary surveys online.
Salary guides as well as useful money-related articles.
A rundown of salaries by industry, job position and geography. Basic information is free; a salary report customized to local market, industry and career level will cost you.
www.techies.com, www.dice.com
Links and salary resources with the techie in mind.
For More Information:
>> Which IT jobs pay the most? Find out in SearchSecurity.com's salary survey
>> Which job titles demand the most money? Find out in SearchNetworking.com's salary survey


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Gingerbread Pumpkin Bars
I forgot I hadn't posted about these yet so I apologize for the fact that they're kind of out of season now, with the the pumpkin and gingerbread. But I'd happily eat these bars any time of year because they're so incredibly tasty. Gingerbread crust with a cream cheese pumpkin filling. I omitted the drizzle that's supposed to be on top which I'm sure is good but I wouldn't say it's necessary. I used old fashioned rolled oats instead of quick oats and while it was fine, I definitely think the quick oats are better otherwise in the crumble part on top you have big oats flakes. The only bad thing about these bars, which is hardly a bad thing at all, is that I found the crust only stayed firm/hard for the first two days and then became quite soft.
If this sounds good, you might also like:
Ginger Spice Cookies
Snickerdoodle Blondies
Pumpkin Loaf
Chocolate Fudge Souffle Bars
Gingerbread Pumpkin Bars
Adapted from Culinary Concoctions by Peabody who adapted from Culinary in the Desert from Land O Lakes
I halved the recipe and made it in a 9x9 pan. What I've posted below is the full recipe though.
For the bars
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon fresh grated nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
16 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1/4 cup molasses
1/3 cup rolled quick oats
For the filling
6 ounces cream cheese, softened
1 3/4 cups mashed pumpkin
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon fresh grated nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
2 large eggs
Preheat oven to 350F
To make the bars
In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and cloves.
In a large mixing bowl, beat together butter, sugar and molasses until creamy. Add dry ingredients and mix just until combined. Reserve 3/4 cup of this mixture and place in a small bowl. Scoop the remaining mixture into a 10″ x 15″ baking pan lightly coated with nonstick spray.
Add the oats to the reserved mixture and mix until combined – set aside.
To make the filling
In a large mixing bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth. Add pumpkin, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and cloves – mix until well combined. Add the eggs, one at a time, mixing just until combined. Scoop the mixture over the uncooked base and use an off-set spatula to evenly spread the mixture over the top. Crumble reserved oat mixture over filling.
Bake until the topping is a golden brown, about 25-30 minutes. Remove and place on a wire rack to cool completely.


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Saturday, September 1, 2012
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Finally, time for the last character appearing in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (it took less time that I expected): near the beginning of the movie, a scientific expedition financed by LexCorp collects items from one of the Kryptonian spaceships, sunk in the Indian Ocean, and retrieves also a big chunk of lethal Kryptonite. The scientist overwatching the entire process is Emmett Vale, portrayed by Ralph Lister, who disappears as soon as he gives the Kryptonite to his boss. The evil scientist already appeared in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, albeit he was split in two brothers, Emmett and Rollie Vale, portrayed respectively by John Rubinstein and Christian Clemenson. The Vale brothers were robotic engineers who created the android Metallo, and the latter even enhanced himself with cybernetic prosthetic. Now, time to see who this umpteenth mad scientist from the DC Universe is.
On Earth-1, Professor Vale's past was pretty much a mystery. He was a renowned physicist and engineer, and somehow got all the resources he needed to perform futuristic experiments using human guinea pigs. He lived in Metropolis, where his cooperators brought him subjects far too wounded to be properly treated in hospital, and who he could experiment on without any friend or relative looking for them. One day, his men brought Vale an infamous, unscrupulous reporter who had had a terrible car accident, John Corben. Corben's heart had been terribly damaged in the accident, and the man would have surely died in a matter of minutes. Vale, however, had some ace up his sleeve, and he used some experimental cybernetic prosthetic to replace the reporter's missing limbs, and he even replaced the man's heart with an artificial one made of Uranium, then covering everything up with artificial human skin. John Corben regained consciousness, and became the android known as Metallo: his Uranium heart had to be replaced from time to time since the energy was quickly consumed, so the former reporter stole it from several power plants, entering into conflict with Superman for that. Vale, in the meanwhile, suffered from a minor stroke, but he managed to recover nevertheless, ready to help his creature in his new life. When it became clear that the Uranium heart was far too unstable, Vale found another possible source for its empowerment in Kryptonite, the alien mineral that was also a lethal poison to Superman. Professor Vale proceeded to replace Metallo's heart with a Kryptonite rock the cyborg had stolen from an exhibition, and created a more powerful version of him… or, at least, so he thought, as Superman had tricked them both and replaced the Kryptonite with a normal rock painted green in advance. Without a power source, John Corben died of a heart attack, while Professor Vale was arrested for his crimes, thus ending both his scientific and his criminal careers.
After Crisis on Infinite Earth, a new Professor Vale appeared, this time an astronomer and a physicist. The only aim of his research was monitoring the skies in search of alien activity, a task that with years brought him to paranoia: Emmett Vale was sure that somewhere in space, unspecified "aliens" were plotting to invade Earth, and that sooner or later he would have been the one to see the threat coming and to save the world. A night, he witnessed a space vessel entering the planet's orbit: it was the Kryptonian Birthing Martix, carrying aboard infant Kal-El, the last son of dying planet Krypton. Sure he had seen the vanguard of the foreseen invasion, Vale dedicated the next twenty-eight years of his life on searching for the alien, but eventually he only found his spaceship, and stole it. Studying the ship, Vale found a recorded message from the alien's father, Jor-El, that revealed the ultimate fate of Krypton, but he mistranslated it, and believed it contained the instructions for an invasion; he also found the remnants of an unknown mineral, which he called "Kryptonite" after the destroyed planet. His studies on the Birthing Matrix also brought Vale to the conclusion (this time a right one) that the alien Kal-El and the superhero Superman were one and the same, and he dedicated his life to find a way to kill the Man of Steel and save his planet from an invasion it didn't even know was happening. Vale studied Superman thoroughly, and discovered that Kryptonite was able to damage his otherwise indestructible body. He looked for a way to weaponize the mineral, and he found it in John Corben, a soldier who had been badly injured in a car accident. Vale stole his body, and replaced the missing limbs with cybernetic implants; he then gave the man a heart made of Kryptonite, making him a living anti-Superman weapon. When Corben woke up, Vale instructed him on his mission: to kill Superman, the alien invader, a task that Corben willingly accepted… but not before murdering his creator: he wanted no masters. Superman later found Vale's body and lab, and he erased all trace of his work: the information the man had gathered on him were far too dangerous if entrusted to the wrong hands.
Emmett Vale is a brilliant man, but not exactly a balanced individual: driven either by his ego or by a crippling paranoia, he uses his remarkable intellect always for the wrong purposes. Convinced without the slightest evidence that Earth is threatened by an alien invasion which Superman is allegedly the vanguard of, he uses his knowledge in physics, chemistry, robotics and engineering to collect data on the alien and to build an arsenal of anti-Kryptonian weapons, the masterpiece of which is the cyborg Metallo, unfortunately just as psychotic as his inventor. One of the most gifted minds on the planet, Emmett Vale is the living proof that sanity doesn't come with intelligence.


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What Does "Fee-Only Financial Planner" Really Mean?
There are so many different words floating around out there to convey someone who helps you with your money. Here are some – by no means all – that you may be familiar with: financial planner, financial advisor, investment advisor, money coach, fund representative, portfolio manager, stockbroker, and on and on…
That alone is confusing enough to the layperson (who exactly are you supposed to tap for help with your particular financial situation?) – but now on top of the various words used, an extra layer of complexity is added! This layer has to do with how that person is compensated for helping you with your money.
Here's another list, by no means exhaustive: commission-based, transaction-based, fee-based, fee-only, advice-only, fee-for-service. One might start to wonder if there is a raison d'etre for the proliferation of so many descriptors.
And hey, what about accreditation? You should probably use someone who is accredited so they know whereof they speak and there is a whole list of designations for this, which will not be produced here.
Let's just go with the fact that it's a better bet to use someone who has a designation. Here's an acronym for you: FPSC or Financial Planning Standards Council. This is a body that oversees approximately 17,000 Certified Financial Planners (CFPs). Out of these, the stats are that fewer than 1,000 are true "fee-only" planners.
That's an interesting thing. Why would that be? Some say that there just isn't that much demand for fee-only planners. I suggest that education comes before demand. If people knew the difference, would the demand grow?
So what is a fee-only financial planner? It is someone who receives a fee from you for delivering unbiased financial planning and advice to you for your benefit. They sell you nothing but their own expertise applied to your particular situation. This fee could be set at an hourly rate or it could be a flat fee established ahead of time for a certain service that you are seeking, e.g. retirement planning or entrepreneurial planning.
Compare that to commission-based financial planners who get paid not by you but by companies who make the financial products that they sell to you. Who would you rather get your advice from: someone you are paying or someone another entity is paying? That's a rhetorical question.
Compare that to fee-based financial planners who get paid a percentage of assets under management. This feels better, doesn't it? Definitely there is more transparency here. At least you are playing on the same team in that if your assets increase in value, the fee-based financial planner stands to make more money. But let's look at it from the other side. If your assets decrease in value, you lose money but they continue to make money as they always get paid whether your assets grow or shrink. Yes, to be sure, they make less if your assets shrink but they still make something whereas you lose. Also, fee-based does not negate commissions being paid to the advisor and you know only if commissions are paid to them if they are forthcoming with this information and I'm sure some of them are.
It is your money and definitely your choice.
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Community Bonds – Ethical Investments
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Community bonds offer a new asset class for investors, but what are the pros and cons of this social investment option?
A Play
A nonprofit/social enterprise walks into the bank.
Nonprofit/Social Enterprise
We'd like to borrow $80,000 of capital to fund our social enterprise.
No. This is new and scary.
Banker flees the scene. Social enterprise gets creative and reaches out to the community.
Nonprofit/Social Enterprise (to the community)
How would you all like to help fund our social enterprise by purchasing community bonds?
The Investment Community
What are those?
Nonprofit/Social Enterprise
Well, each of you could purchase a small bond, let's say $1,000, which we will use over the next five years. In five years, we will return your investment plus 5% interest.
The Investment Community
Wow! I've always wanted to invest locally and socially beyond socially responsible mutual funds. Where do I sign up?
Eighty community members purchase community bonds. The nonprofit/social enterprise is a complete success. Everyone rejoices.
Want to invest socially and locally? It's time for investors to start thinking about community bonds as a new asset class.
Community bonds are a new addition to the growing movement called social finance. Many times, we only hear about the benefit of community bonds from the social enterprise/nonprofit perspective, but we rarely hear about the pros and cons of investing in community bonds as a new asset class for investors.
So, what are the risks and rewards of investing in your local community?
Investment Pros:
1. Further diversification for private investors. Community bonds are not correlated to financial markets like publically traded bonds. Therefore, they offer an amazing opportunity for investors to invest in fixed income products whose prices and yields are not impacted by market interest rates.
Jargon-free translation: If you purchased a community bond offering 5% over five years, you'd earn 5% in five years regardless of whether market interest rates dropped.
2. Offers greater yield than most GICs.
Community Bonds are structured like a non-redeemable GIC, a guaranteed investment certificate. While there are several types of GICs, for the purposes of this article, we will stay with the most popular type of GIC, which is a non-redeemable GIC. With a non-redeemable GIC, you lend the bank $100 when you buy a $100 GIC and they promise you a 2.5% return if you don't sell that GIC for however much time, let's say five years. So, in five years, you'll get back $102.50 back – guaranteed.
Right now, most five-year non-redeemable GICs at the major banks are offering interest rates of 2-3%. Most community bonds offer 5% over five years, which is much higher.
3. Low-Risk – Most community bonds add your investment to a pool of money that is designed to fund a portfolio of social projects, not just one. A great example of this is SolarShare. Solarshare Community Bonds help to fund The SunField Projects– 17 solar installation projects in Ontario and the WaterView Projects.
By investing your money into many different projects, the default risk is lowered. If one project fails, there are 17 other projects providing cash flow. Additionally, many of the social projects have existing government contracts, so the future cash flow for the projects are guaranteed.
Community bonds are not risk-free like a GIC. Do your research. Find out what projects you're investing in and what the company plans to do about it if they don't meet their targeted goals.
4. Many community bonds are sold in small increments, from $500 up to $10,000 bonds, to make it accessible for everyday investors.
Investment Cons:
1. Not a lot of options. Community bonds are an up and coming asset class. Right now, there are only a limited number of social enterprises that are starting to raise money this way, and community bonds can sell out very quickly.
2. Only a few are RRSP eligible. Mostly, community bonds end up being a non-registered investment. This means you will pay tax on any interest earned. Some community bonds, such as Toronto's Centre for Social Innovation, were RRSP eligible, however, your bank may not be equipped for you to hold them in your RRSP, so returns remain taxable.
3. Little to no liquidity. Like a non-redeemable GIC, once you've purchased your community bond, the money stays there. There is no secondary market to buy and sell your bonds, so if you need that money within the investment period, you won't be able to cash out. Over time, I foresee community bonds as the next emerging asset class for private investors looking for a low-risk social investment.
Some examples of community bonds in Ontario
1. SolarShare
Series of Solar Powered Projects, renewable energy
$1,000 bonds + $40 co-op membership fee = 5%/year over 5 years.
2. ZooShare
Developing a 500KW bio gas plant in Toronto
$500 – $5,000 community bonds
7% over 7 years
3. Options for Green Energy
Series of green initiative projects
$100 for co-op membership + loan amount = 5% guaranteed on the amount you invested over 5 years.
4. West End Food Co-op
Sustainable food in Toronto's West End supporting new community Food Hub at Queen and Dufferin, including a community kitchen, local food workshops and events, and a retail space featuring local farmers and producers. (closed)
$500 bond + $5 co-op membership = 2.5% over 2 years
New To Investing? Don't Get Ripped Off
Most first-time investors purchasing mutual funds know that the price tag of a fund is the MER – the Manager Expense Ratio – but time and time again I hear horror stories from clients who had no idea their mutual funds also came with Deferred Sales Charges attached, and are shocked to learn they owe money when they want to transfer their money out.
Deferred Sales Charges are "back-end" sales fees that essentially locks in your money for a certain period of time, often 7 years, regardless of the fund's performance. If the fund is losing money and you wish to transfer your investments elsewhere during the lock-in period, the Deferred Sales Charge kicks in and there is a penalty, sometimes as high as 5.5% of the amount you want to transfer out. On a $50,000 investment, you'd have to pay $2,750 just to transfer your money.
Watch out!
Many times, these expensive sales charges are difficult to find and may not even be listed on the investment company's website and buried in a large prospectus that the average first-time investor is not going to read. Back-end sales charges combined with excessive fees and MER's well over 2% hurt many first time investors who are locked in, overpaying and can't get out.
This happens all too often leaving a bitter taste in many investor's mouths and it's a shame. It doesn't have to be this way.
Mutual funds can offer efficient diversification and can be a great place to put your hard earned money. Fortunately, there are plenty of investment options that won't lock you in or overcharge.
Get educated. Make sure you know what you're paying, how you're paying it and when it's owed before you sign on the dotted line.
Avoid Mutual Fund Rip Offs
- Do not pay over 2% MER for mutual funds of any type
- Avoid any back-end sales charges (DSC)
- Avoid front-load sales charges
- No locking in – unless it's a GIC


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October 29, 2010
Old and Older: At the L.A. County Fair
What's that? You say you can't stand old musicals --- they're cheesy, corny and unrealistic, and in real life, people don't ever just break into song and start tap dancing on tables? I would banish you from my world -- except that, as it turns out, the love of my life, my soul mate, my dear husband, feels the same as you.
Ah well. Such is life, such is love. The ying and yang of it, and all that. I'm a night owl, and he's up before the sun. I like looking back to the dusty, forgotten past, and he gets all tingly imagining the future.
Old and older: that's us. Quite a team!
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October 12, 2010
It took me me a few days to get into Pride and Prejudice, but once I fully committed, I was hooked. I think what I enjoyed most was the (re) discovery that human nature hasn't really changed all that terribly much in the 200 years since the book was published. Kind of the same delight that I felt when reading Shakespeare. (At least I DID do that as a good English major.)
A favorite passage, spoken by Miss Elizabeth Bennett:
"There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of either merit or sense."Amen, sister.
Next up, perhaps Emma, or Sense and Sensibility. I would like to read Henry James, also. However, a few months ago I checked out The Wings of the Dove (I liked the movie, with kooky dear Helena Bonham-Carter), and felt completely illiterate trying to plow through the dense prose.
I highly recommend it, if you're troubled and can't seem to fall asleep. Works like a charm!
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It's a Brave New World
So I told you guys a few days ago about how I recently decided to take control of my dating life…or my non-dating life, which feels like a more accurate description of how things were going…by signing up for the dating app, Bumble. And the past month and a half of my life has been one wild ride! As I mentioned in my last post, I have never tried any form of online dating or … » Read More


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TIBURON, Calif. , Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- VarsityPix, the only web site that provides a single location for amateur photographers to share their high school action sports photos online, . Since 2007, over 130,000 photos of more than 2,200 games from schools throughout California have been uploaded and shared on VarsityPix, which also provides important revenue to these schools' athletics programs.
"When we started 18 months ago, we knew we were offering something unique," said Bill Schneider , president and co-founder of the company with his wife, Karen. "We're excited that VarsityPix has caught on as fast as it has, confirming our belief that parents, students, teachers, coaches, and fans need a place to share their unique memories of high school sports."
Amateur photographers upload their photos to VarsityPix, which are reviewed and placed on the site. VarsityPix gives each school a share of the profits from photo sales. The photographers can also receive a share of the profits from photo sales or direct that it be given to the participating school's athletics program. "The majority of our photographers choose to give their share to their school which means everyone wins," Schneider added.
VarsityPix grew out of Karen and Bill Schneider's own experience as parents of student athletes. A dedicated amateur sports photographer, Bill chronicled his son's sports, sharing teammates' photos with their parents. As digital photography took off and demand for photosharing grew, Bill and Karen saw the opportunity to create a centralized hub for sharing game photos while providing much needed financial support for the participating schools' athletics programs.
"We know that without VarsityPix, most parents wouldn't have a single picture of their athletes in action," Schneider added. "Our goal is to continue to provide those memories by adding schools throughout California and eventually nationwide."
About VarsityPix
Based in Tiburon, California , VarsityPix LLC is the first photosharing web site dedicated exclusively to high school action sports photography provided by amateur photographers. Since 2007, photos of over 2,200 games from schools throughout California have been uploaded and shared with family members, players, coaches, and fans. A percent of the profits from the sale of VarsityPix photos is returned to the participating schools to help fund their athletics programs. More information is available at http://www.VarsityPix.com.
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oh wonderful he's "great". now let's see how the rest of us will be after this deal from hell
re"gre-t", in America, the wealthiest are the one who run the Country. They tell the President what to do. If the President doesn't listen to them, it will be the end.
He better not have sold us out.
Boehner feels great to be under the control of the Tea Party Cult ? Nice
I do not understand how Boehner can feel great when the party philosophy is a disaster for so many and benefits only a few. If voting results would mirror what good his hijack party does for people, it would be by 2%. Will be interesting to see how many people are still voting against their very own interest again in 2012 –
Wall Street has spoken so the teabaggers can go to hell.
Of course he feels great. He saved his corrupt corporatist cult leaders from having to share in the sacrifices the rest of us are making. He was paid to care for the greedy and not the needy and he delivered. A sad day for America, though he's undoubtedly happy about all the big checks he'll be cashing soon.