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Extending the Metadata System
The Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) metadata system is a group of classes and interfaces that represent metadata required to implement service-based applications. Modify or extend the classes or implement and configure the interfaces to export and import custom metadata such as Web Services Description Language (WSDL) extensions or custom WS-PolicyAttachments assertions.
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Exporting Custom Metadata for a WCF Extension
Describes how to implement and use the System.ServiceModel.Description.IPolicyExportExtension interface to embed custom policy assertions in WSDL documents.
Importing Custom Metadata for a WCF Extension
Describes how to implement and use the System.ServiceModel.Description.IPolicyImportExtension interface to read and respond to custom policy assertions in WSDL documents.
Publishing and Retrieving Metadata Over a Custom Binding
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The Economist's summary email read:
Companies shouldn't worry about their "triple bottom line"—profits, people and the planet—since, ultimately, it's simply by pursuing profits that companies help their community, argues Ann Bernstein. Nebulous goals such as helping humanity and the environment sound worthy but don't add up to much, Bernstein says, so companies should stick to what they do best: making money and spreading prosperity through society as a whole.
With that, how could I pass it up? I pulled some strings and got an advance copy of the book. It has some good points, and it has some very bad points.
The author, Ann Bernstein, presents her book as a response to Naomi Klein's wildly popular No Logo, a popular 2000 book criticizing globalization in the aftermath of the 1999 World Trade Organization popularly known as the "Battle in Seattle." This book has, over the last ten years, become an international best-seller and one of the seminal texts of the anti-globalization movement, particularly in encouraging the public to seek out the sources of what they consume and the circumstances under which it was produced.
Bernstein offers her book (in her own words) "in praise of enterprise and corporations." Her complaint is that businesses, particularly industrial corporations, are unfairly limited by expectations of "corporate social responsibility," which impose on businesses responsibility for social and environmental stewardship. This book is essentially a polemic in favor of business regulated only by itself, as Bernstein argues that business should be given a free hand to do what it exists to do—make money—so that what benefits business can (notionally) ultimately benefit all. This is Atlas Shrugged with a corporation standing in for John Galt.
Bernstein's book is, to put it mildly, poorly researched, poorly organized, and poorly thought out, with a number of gross internal inconsistencies between her evidence and her argument. Without even a pretense at an evenhanded analysis, she lumps environmental activist groups in with terrorists and blackmailers (31), while a glance at the bibliography reveals that a number of her most heavily-cited sources are press releases, interviews, or other documents from corporations such as Texas Instruments, Coca-Cola, and Wal-Mart. Certain of her other sources are themselves controversial opinion pieces, particularly Paul Dreissen's Eco-Imperialism – Green Power Black Death, a racially-tinged 2003 argument against emphasizing sustainable energy in developing African nations.
Ms. Bernstein is the founder and director of the Center for Development and Enterprise, an independent policy "think tank" based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She was formerly head of the Urban Foundation, a business-backed NGO that had lobbied the Apartheid-era government for economic reforms, and a board member of the Development Bank of Southern Africa. Doubtless she was considered a hopeless liberal by the unbending standards of the erstwhile de Klerk government, but to modern eyes her argument reads as a paean to deregulation and wild-hunt capitalism. Granted, her business-as-the-solution stance may be influenced by South Africa's 25% unemployment rate and lackadaisical record of corporations investing in long-term projects without government sponsorship, financial guarantees, and considerable leeway in dealing with both people and the planet.
Ms. Bernstein's central argument is that for-profit corporations should play a greater role in fostering economic development in the developing world, what was once less charitably described as the Third World. That makes a certain amount of sense, given that for-profit corporations tend to be more efficient at generating wealth from a given resource than other organizations. She further argues that in the interest of encouraging more rapid development, corporations should not be required to include environmental or social stewardship elements into their operations, and focus exclusively on the money-making end of things.
Granted, Ms. Bernstein does not voice the desire that the whole of the developing world be carved up among corporate interests, ala King Leopold's domain in the Congo. One of her better arguments was for encouraging development by locally-owned corporations, preferably locally-owned, rather than internationals, NGOs, who would hopefully keep the wealth local and plow it back into the country's economy rather than pumping it off to London or New York (or more likely these days, the Cayman Islands). So far, so good.
That still leaves us with Ms. Bernstein's desire to ditch the other two elements of the 'triple bottom line,' namely people and the planet, the two elements which charge a corporation to embrace some element of social and environmental stewardship—if not making the world a better place, then at least not making it worse. In her case studies of corporate success stories in the developing world, she wholly omits discussing their effects on natural resources, e.g. air and water pollution from foreign-owned plants, and singularly avoids discussing more destructive industries such as oil and gas production, mining, and the like.
"People" and "the planet" are notionally the two principal areas of corporate public responsibility, the two metrics by which we judge whether or not a corporation is behaving as a "good citizen," or when the corporation demonstrates that it cares about something more than itself. From a corporation's point of view, though, these initiatives are usually public relations at best or balance-sheet liabilities at worst, and more likely to be obstacles than assets.
Ms. Bernstein cites the example of a pipeline that global energy giant ExxonMobil built in Chad. Although the project was eventually completed, Ms. Bernstein uses it as an example of the kind of extra costs that "people" and "planet" concerns can impose on a project, including relocation and compensation of villagers, a circuitous route, and avoidance of gorilla habitat.
Her argument in this instance is that the added costs, negative publicity, and other difficulties nearly convinced Exxon to abandon the project altogether, and that such concerns actually make companies reluctant to invest in Third World projects.
What makes these requirements so burdensome that abandoning them would be a good thing? Their purpose is to ensure that the benefit of the development—which invariably comes at a cost in damage to the environment—is not the corporation's alone.
The author also quotes a vitriolic statement from James Shikwati of Kenya (borrowing the passage wholesale from Dreissen):
Why do Europe's developed countries impose their environmental ethics on poor countries that are simply trying to pass through a stage they themselves went through? After taking numerous risks to reach their current economic and technological status, why do they tell poor countries to use no energy, and no agricultural or pest control technologies that might pose some conceivable risk of environmental harm? Why do they tell poor countries to follow sustainable development doctrines that really mean little or no energy or economic development?" (Bernstein 108, Dreissen 30)
Although Ms. Bernstein does not explain who Mr. Shikwati is, he is a prominent Kenyan libertarian economist, founder and Director of the Inter Region Economic Network, and has argued that foreign aid to sub-Saharan Africa does nothing materially to aid the common people, but only abets government corruption and unbalances the national economy.
In response to Ms. Bernstein, and by extension to Mr. Shikwati, it is true that the position of the developing world is different from that of the developed world when it comes to issues such as clean energy and the development of natural resources. The developed world has the comparative luxury of an existing infrastructure, so that introducing clean power, for example is essentially a matter of replacing old fossil fuel plants with cleaner power sources on the same grid. Developing nations often have to build a nation's infrastructure from scratch, grid and plants alike, which understandably results in a measure of frustration when foreign pressures are brought to bear to invest in unfamiliar wind turbines or solar power, rather than simply burning readily-available coal.
The same paradigm is true for many other issues, such as food or water resources—what appear to be 'luxury items' in the developed world, such being able to afford to turn away from effective but toxic pesticides such as DDT, genetically-modified food, infrastructure projects like dams—are simply not options to states such as Kenya. Without DDT there are malaria epidemics, without dams there is no water for irrigating farmland, and without genetically-modified food, there is famine.
The paradoxical result is that the developed world can afford unspoiled land but has only land scarred by two centuries of man's labors, while the developing world has unspoiled land but cannot afford not to spoil it. Ms. Bernstein argues that nations in the developing world should have a free hand to regulate their own environmental practices, free of interference by NGOs or strings attached to loans from the World Bank, and by extension those of the corporations operating under their jurisdiction—in essence, to retain the right to sacrifice the environment in exchange for economic progress.
Although Ms. Bernstein disingenuously ignores it, the fact remains, that the developed world has come to its current state of environmental knowledge through bitter experience—consider the Great Smog of London, the Love Canal toxic waste dump in the US, the Bhopal catastrophe in India, or the Hungarian sludge lagoon disaster of 2010.
The last century and a half of the developed world's experience offer a valuable object lesson on the merits of corporate good citizenship in environmental matters, and are relevant for two reasons. First, the developing world is repeating mistakes the developed world has already made, suffered through, and recovered from. Secondly, many of the corporations engaged in the developing world –for example, Royal Dutch Shell or AngloGold Ashanti--are multinational organizations born in the developed world, which have now extended their reach—sometimes for the express purpose of evading stricter standards in their home base countries. In addition to being closer to the source of production, oil refineries built in Nigeria do not have to have the same expensive pollution control systems as oil refineries built in Texas.
So much for Bernstein.
As it happened, I was reading Mark Kurlansky's Salt today-- it's a layman's history of salt production and consumption. I happily recommend just about everything Kurlansky's written.
What struck me is that Ms. Bernstein's argument—profit above all else, with profit and its trickle-down payoffs supposedly a panacea for a region's problems-- is pretty much exactly the one that Kurlansky describes being advanced by Salt Union Ltd. in Cheshire (part of the northwest coast of England) in the late 19th Century. Most of the geology of Cheshire is rock salt, and people had been pumping brine out of the ground and evaporating it into table salt or packing salt for centuries. Pumping the salt-saturated (25% salt by weight) brine out of the ground drew fresh water into the salt formations, which dissolved the rock salt into new brine, much as water erodes limestone and creates caves.
By the late 1800s, though, the quantities and rates of brine withdrawal were causing severe subsidence problems throughout the county, had created, enormous sinkholes, and had pretty much obliterated most of the area's sources for potable water. Salt Union didn't start the damage, but did exacerbate it, and had bought up most of the other salt producers by 1890, by which time it controlled three-fourths of the British Empire's salt business and was the wealthiest corporation in the UK or any of the colonies.
When the locals in Cheshire focused on Salt Union as the cause of the damage and demanded compensation, the corporation gave them the same line Bernstein did-- the people whose houses have suddenly fallen into holes had been compensated by the profit brought to the area by the salt industry. The legal battles went on for years and eventually wound up in Parliament, and weren't settled until the government established a Compensation Board, funded by a flat tax on all producers (which promptly drove many small producers out of business, to Salt Union's benefit) that handled reimbursements for damage caused by subsidence. Salt Union, Ltd. is still in business to this day.
If Bernstein had her way, her book argues, companies operating in the developing world would be free to act like Salt Union did, and divest themselves of any obligations toward environmental or social responsibility in the name of the almighty dollar. In fact, this is how most oil and gas producers, mining concerns, and other industrial corporations have operated in the developing world since the end of colonialism.
I find it surprising that she would write this, given the environmental problems in the developing nations with which she is presumably most familiar. Multinational corporations such as Shell have left an enormous environmental footprint in southern Nigeria, leaving vast swaths of land ruined with clear-cutting, defoliation, hasty drainage work that fouls rivers and drowns farmland, displaced people, and wholesale pollution of soil, water, and air, while oil revenues account for 90% of the Nigerian government's income. State monopolies such as the Israeli Chemical Company have exploited scare resources (e.g. the Jordan River and the Dead Sea) to the point of ruining them.
In Ms. Bernstein's own South Africa, beginning in the 1930s the government essentially rezoned the district of South Durban by government fiat, evicting thousands of residents and converting the area a vast petrochemical industrial park. As recently as the year 2000, South Africa had no legally-binding pollution regulations. The average concentrations of the air pollutant nitrogen dioxide in another South African city, Cape Town, which is usually considered a comparatively pleasant seaside city-- are significantly higher than those in the slums of Calcutta, India, which has yet to live down allusions to the infamous "black hole." Organochlorine and organophosphate pesticides, banned in most of the rest of the world due to their toxicity, remain in common use on South African farms. The major cleanup provisions of the National Environmental Management: Waste Act are soon to go into effect, requiring property owners to clean up contaminated sites, but the government lacks the ability to enforce the laws.
It's fair to say that nearly all of the world's economy consists of the workings of corporations of one sort or another, to the extent that the term 'corporations' is nearly synonymous with the private sector in general. Corporations are organizations that ultimately exist primarily on paper, and (current US election laws notwithstanding), corporations are emphatically not people. They do not eat, breathe, drink, get cancer, or worry about their children. They are neither intrinsically good nor intrinsically evil. For all their potential size and legal complexity, corporations are ultimately as simple as a liver fluke. Corporations are money-making operations, which take some sort of resource and process it, sell it, or otherwise extract some kind of value from it, expressed as money.
Therefore, since corporations are the part of society that has the most to do with extracting resources and generating wealth, if corporations are not held responsible for environmental impacts of their work, who will be held responsible? Who else is there? The government? The local citizenry, who are already inconvenienced? Or, should polluters be given a free pass, with everyone else told up to shut up, suffer the side-effects of development, and live with the mess, all in the name of a (likely brief) spell of prosperity? Life in the developing world is already hard enough—a multibillion dollar corporation like Shell shouldn't get a free hand to make it worse.
Take the United States as an object lesson in exactly how corporations behave in the absence of regulations to protect the environment.
Prior to the 1970s, industrial corporations in the United States had essentially no legal, popular, or moral expectations to meet regarding environmental stewardship, and the result of this was catastrophic air pollution, destruction of the nation's rivers and lakes (to the point that a large part of Lake Erie, for example, remains essentially biologically dead to this day), abandoned mines pockmark dozens of states, hundreds of thousands of properties polluted by hazardous wastes, and untold millions of people have been sickened or killed by toxic exposure. The sheer scope of the United States' environmental problems, as belatedly realized in the 1970s, was such that the new regulations included requirements to protect public health as well as ecological damage.
Yes, we as a society benefited from the industries that created this pollution. The American way of life from the 1950s onwards was built on it, fueled by cheap plastics, cheap gasoline, and cheap food from farms using chemical fertilizers and pesticides. We would not be where we are now without strip mines, coal-fired power plants or lavish use of asbestos and chlorinated hydrocarbons. That's "better living through chemistry," all right.
The obvious response to such wholesale pollution, is to hold the polluters responsible for the damage the caused. To do anything else is to essentially privatize the profits generated by a polluting operation, while socializing the costs and damages. This does nothing to protect the environment or public health, and in fact essentially subsidizes polluters by relieving them of the financial consequences of their actions. The environment's financial status would revert to the sort of 'tragedy of the commons' scenario that Garret Hardin discussed in his seminal essay in Science in 1968.
A corporation's bottom line is always the first concern—since corporations exist to make money, and if a corporation does not make money it goes out of business, and everything else is moot.
In other words, if environmental stewardship isn't an enforceable requirement, or at the least loaded with very powerful incentives or penalties, the corporation probably won't do it. This is not to damn all corporations as calculatedly indifferent to anything save the almighty dollar (though some doubtless are).
One of the most damning examples of this behavior is Monsanto's behavior concerning polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs. In 1937, the Harvard School of Public Health completed a study that determined PCBs were toxic to humans and most other forms of life. Monsanto and two other industrial giants, Westinghouse, and General Electric, sat on the study for forty years because PCBs just brought in SO much darn money-- $22 million (in 1970 dollars) yearly for Monsanto alone. Monsanto was the sole US manufacturer of PCBs, and both General Electric and Westinghouse manufactured thousands of products containing them, including electrical equipment, paints, hydraulic oil additives, plasticizers, and a million other uses. After several years' worth of investigations into the harmful effects of PCBs the US banned the manufacture of PCBs in 1977.
Of these three, Monsanto became the textbook case for corporate malfeasance and bottom-line rationalization, in large part because numerous lawsuits and government investigations over the past forty years have forced the corporation to disclose reams of confidential documents that recount the corporation's attitude towards the environment, the public, and even its own customers. Monsanto fought the PCB ban for ten years, to the point of conducting fraudulent toxicological studies that 'proved' PCBs were nontoxic. The directors of the laboratory that conducted studies on Monsanto's behalf, Industrial Bio-Test Labs of Northbrook, Illinois, were subsequently convicted of fraud.
As an example of Monsanto's behavior, corporate records show that in 1969 executives decided that although fish died within minutes of wastewater discharges from the corporation's plant in Anniston, Alabama, "there was no reason to go to expensive extremes in limiting discharge form the plant" where PCBs were being manufactured. Much of the town and the nearby waterways are now heavily polluted with PCBs, due in large part to the dumping of vast quantities of PCB waste into the river and into landfills. Thousands of local residents have suffered severe health problems over the ensuing years—in 2003, Anniston lead the state in the number of birth defects found in newborns, and the cancer rate is 25% higher than the state average. Anniston residents first learned of the contamination in 1995, over a quarter century after Monsanto was indisputably aware of gross pollution problems at the Anniston facility.
That industrial corporations—in whatever nation-- have historically regarded environmental stewardship as a cost or liability becomes quite obvious when you look at how difficult it has been to pass regulations requiring stewardship of the planet from those extracting its resources. Monsanto spent over a decade actively arguing that PCBs were safe, and still refuses to acknowledge their danger. Even something as straightforward as the 1969 incarnation of the Safe Drinking Water Act –which did nothing more or less than to ensure the water the nation drinks is safe to consume-- took nearly five years to get through Congress due to the heavy lobbying from the oil, mining, and manufacturing sectors.
Perhaps the root of the problem is that money-focused corporations and actual human beings have different perceptions of what is valuable.
Money is not the only thing of value. Yes, this is 2011. Yes, pretty much every business decision made lately comes down to the pennies column in the financial spreadsheets. Yes, the economy trumped every economic and social issue save President Obama himself for the 2010 midterm elections. Yes, anyone with money is practically fawned over, whether he is a billionaire hedge-fund manager buying a fourth yacht or a restaurant owner able to put a down payment on a suburban house. Yes, it is very difficult to quantify "clean air" in dollars, Euros, or yuan when speaking in front of the stockholders or board of directors.
By contrast, the population of Dimock, Pennsylvania quite understandably values safe drinking water over corporate "money now" profits now that a natural gas hydrofracking project has ruined the town's drinking water supply.
The people of Madhya Pradesh in India certainly valued the lives of people killed when the run-down and undermanned pesticide plant belonging to Union Carbide's Indian subsidiary suffered a catastrophic failure, releasing a cloud of poison gas over the city of Bhopal in 1984.
The residents of the La Toma region in Colombia certainly value their land, which the South African mining concern AngloGold Ashanti would very much like to strip-mine for gold over the heads of the local inhabitants and small private mine owners, citing mining rights granted to it by the Colombian government.
Residents of the Niger River delta in Nigeria are accustomed to oil spills as a routine part of life. The country's first major environmental activist, Ken Saro Wiwa, was murdered by the Sani Abacha regime in 1995 after taking the environmental crisis there to the world stage.
As you can see, money is still not the only thing of value.
Money is fungible, yes, and can be exchanged for goods and services (Homer Simpson's brain said so, so it must be true) but while money is replaceable, most of the other "goods," such as clean water, clean air, critter habitat, whales, passenger pigeons, etc. are far more fragile than Hardin understood them to be, and pretty much irreplaceable. Once land is ruined—for example, by careless open-pit mining, with nothing left behind save slag-heaps, pits, and polluted water—it changes from an asset to a liability. You can't farm it, you can't live on it, you can't sell it, the water is worthless, and you can't get any financial return out of it unless you spend a lot more money and a great deal of time to render it safe.
Sometimes natural resources are immediately necessary to sustain human life, let alone economic viability. In many places in the US, and many more overseas, such as most of Africa, simply having enough water, let alone drinkable water, is vitally important. The eastern United States generally doesn't worry very much about water rights, but they are a very common and very contentious cause of disputes in the west. Nobody raised the issue of drilling in the Catskill Mountains region, from which New York City draws some of the best drinking water in the world without need for treatment or filtering, until the last few years. Meanwhile, concerns over drinking water have been percolating for decades in much of the Midwest, the Rockies, and the agricultural areas of rural California. If the water supply a Texan cattle rancher uses to water his herds dries up or becomes polluted and unusable, he is in dire straits indeed. If the source area for New York City's drinking water is damaged, the economic costs just from the need to construct a treatment plant could run into the tens of billions of dollars. Now ask yourself why New York City's water should be so protected, and Aba, Nigeria's shouldn't be.
A hypothetical upper-middle class businessman's seven-figure salary is going to do him a fat lot of good if his drinking water is loaded with arsenic from mine tailings or fizzing with dissolved methane freed by gas hydrofracking. Granted, he could pay for a super-Brita or a lifetime supply of Dasani bottled water, but that costs money. He could sue the gas producer or the mining company, but that costs time and money, which in turn cuts into his quality of life.
This ruining of the commons is exactly what's going on right now in Ms. Bernstein's metaphorical backyard, in one of the economies for whom she is advocating industrialization and intensified resource extraction as a means to social and economic progress. Consider Nigeria again, where a reported 400 children have died since March 2010. They died of lead poisoning caused by unregulated gold mining.
Even clean air is a fragile resource. It's been over fifty years since the UK passed air-quality legislation in response to the Great Smog of London in 1952—which killed over four thousand people in less than a week—and London air is still nothing pretty. It's still better than Cape Town's, though.
More to the point, the 'commons' - air, water, groundwater, public land, and so on—are not and should never be either open cookie jars or pollution-sinks. They are public resources, and public resources should not be used to subsidize private prosperity. Exactly what moral, legal, or economic arguments can be mustered in favor of allowing a chemical plant to discharge untreated toxic wastes into a publically-owned water body, thus ruining it for everyone else, simply to save the plant's owning corporation the cost of a wastewater treatment plant? Likewise, should they have the right to withdraw so much water from the water body that it leaves too little water for anyone else to use? Since when does, say, Omega Chemical's interest in its bottom line outweigh my right to go swimming without having my skin peeling off in sheets afterwards?
It's a rather morbid and little-known fact, but the Environmental Protection Agency actually puts a dollar value on a single human life, for the purpose of evaluating the cost-effectiveness of hazardous waste cleanup options. It's $7 million. Until the second term of the Bush administration, it was $8 million. The general idea of this grim calculus is that if the cost of a particular cleanup method costs more than $7 million per human life that would be saved, it's not cost-effective and another method should be evaluated.
In conclusion, as much as some wish, we cannot have an economy without corporations, factories, mines, oil wells, and the like. Extracting resources from the earth will almost inevitably cause at least some damage to the environment. At the same time, however, some things are more important than "money now."
People and the natural environment are both resources that exist in and for the long term, and which require careful use and long-term planning to get the best out of them—"money later." If you don't take care of your resources, you might have 'money now' in the short term, but you won't have 'money later' because there won't be anything to sell, or anyone to sell it to.


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1970: we succeed in developing the program of vehicle tyres wax, starting to supply the tire maintenance
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1990: Company succeed in the project of paint maintenance products.
1922: Plant expansion, move to hyogo prefecture in the city
1993: make OEM sales contract with
1994: Yokohama, Toyota(OEM sale)
1995: Sapporo Toyota -Japanese department(OEM)
1996:Suzuki all business office in Japan
1998: Nissan motor(OEM sales)
1999:Toyota Motor(OEM)
2000: CAR BEAUTY PRO Car beauty chain stores(OEM )
2002: Daihatsu Motor (OEM)
2005: developed car glass coating successfully
2006:Mitsubishi Motor, Mitsubishi Fuso Motor(OEM)
2006: Re-found シャルマン company and its organization structures.
2007: developed liquid abrasive materials
2011: developed successfully and pushed out brand, Si-901, Si-701 multi-function coating agent
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At the same time can also be applied to ships, aircraft, trains and other similar automotive paint the top of the material.
Household toilet surface, marble, glass, windows, leather sofa and other parts can be used after the appropriate test.
Additionally, in terms of performance, including gloss, antifouling and durability, the original coating fluid will be submitted to Japan paint Inspection Association for testing. KISHO's products have been reported as the highest standard in the industry.
We, KISHO Corporation began selling to the world from 2012, and as of October 2017 we deal with customers in 100 countries around the world.
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Day 1 | 02nd Sep
Check in at Colombo Airport for departure to Chengdu, China.
Day 2 | 03rd Sep
Arrival in Chengdu in the morning.
After Breakfast, Visit Leshan Giant Buddha and Evening you will visiting the ancient Jinli Street.
Overnight in Chengdu.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 3 | 04th Sep
Chengdu – Lhasa
Leave to Lhasa by flight in the morning and the rest of the day will be free
Overnight in Lhasa.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 4 | 05th Sep
Breakfast at Hotel.
Today, visit the Norbulinka Monastery – the Summer Palace of Dalai Lama and then Visit to Potala Palace, Potala Palace built in the 7th century by the famous Tibetan King-Songtsen Gampo. The present by the 5th Dalai Lama moved in year 1649. Known as the" Winter Palace" 1750's, when 7th Dalai Lama built Norbulingka Park as his summer residence. The Potala is divided into the Red Palace for religious use and the White one for political. Jokhang Temple situated in old section of Lhasa, built 7th century A.D by King Songtsen Gampo. It is the most sacred holy place in Tibet. Pilgrims come here to pay homage from all over Tibet.
In the evening visit Barkhor Street for shopping. Barkhor Street is called "The window of Tibet". It was formed when Jokhang had been built, is also an essential pilgrim route.
Overnight in Lhasa.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 5 | 06th Sep
Lhasa – Shigatse
Breakfast at Hotel.
Drive 265km from Lhasa (3600m) to Gyantse (3950m).
After crossing the Chushur Bridge over the Yarlong Tsangpo River, we begin to climb up the Kambala Pass which is 4800 meters above sea level, from the foot of Kampala, the road winds up the mountain to the top. Once across the pass, the magnificent Yamdrok Yumtso appears before eyes, with a chain of snow clad peaks on the backside in the distance. "Yamdrok Yumtso" means "Tuquoise Lake" in Tibetan. It is one of the three sacred lakes in Tibet; folk tales describe Yamdrok Yumtso as a transformation of a goddess. Take a break at the top enjoy this breathtaking scenery and taking pictures. Driving down the pass and have box lunch at the lake side. From the lake, about 70 kilometers drive would take us to another pass, Karola Pass, where when crossing, the snows of Mt. Nojin Kang Sang (7191m) lie a few feet within our reach, the altitude here is about 5045meters above sea level. Photo stop. It is about 75km from Karola down to Gyantse – still the most authentic Tibetan village. Pelkor Chode Monastery founded in 1418, under the spiritual guidance Tsongkhapa's disciple Kedup Je it is a complex composed of fifteen monasteries of three different sects: 9 craftsman and are among the best preserved examples of that style with the Buddha eyes on the top. It takes about one hour to visit Monastery.
Continue towards Shigaste. Dinner & Overnight in Shigaste.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 6 | 07th Sep
Shigatse – Lhasa
Breakfast at Hotel
Visit Tashilhunpo Monastery. Founded in 1447 by Gendun Drup, a nephew of Tsongkhaba, and the first Dalai Lama. He was entombed in Tashilhunpo, the only Dalai Lama whose remains are not enshrined in Lhasa. It is the biggest Gelugpa monastery in the Tsang region of Tibet, which once housed 3800 monks. Tashilhunpo became the official seat of the Panchen Lama, the chief spiritual and temporal authority of Tsang. In this monastery is in the Chapel of Jampa the statue of giant Maitreya (Future Buddha) erected by the ninth Panchen Lama in 1914 a total of 6700 ounces of gold and things such as pearls, turquoises, corals and ambers were used for its construction. After we visit the Chortens, we go further to visit the tomb of 10th Panchen Lama who died in 1989. The ceiling of the Chapel is painted with a Kalachakra mandala. Visit the 4th Panchen Lama chorten building and Kelsang Temple with a large courtyard, the Assembly hall, Tomb of the Fifth to the Ninth Panchen Lamas built by the 10th Panchen Lama. You can see the rock paintings on the Tashilhunpo Kora way to the Festival Thangka Wall, further to Shigatse Dzong where is now the look like Potala building.
Drive to Lhasa.
Dinner & Overnight in Lhasa.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 7 | 08th Sep
Visit Sera Monastery. It is known as one of the three greatest monasteries of Tibet and the representative temple for Gelugza. There are lots of Buddhist sutras, Buddhist instruments, Cassocks, gold and silver articles in this temple.
Lunch at local restaurant, Visit Jokhang Temple
Overnight in Lhasa
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 8 | 09th Sep
Lhasa – On board the Train
Take the overnight train to Xining at 0830hrs. You will have the opportunity to view beautiful sceneries along the way to Xining
Overnight on board the train.
Meal Plan: Breakfast
Day 9 | 10th Sep
Xining – Chengdu
Arrival in Xining at 0643hrs. Transfer to Xining airport to take your fight to Chengdu.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 10 | 11th Sep
Chengdu – Colombo
Breakfast at Hotel,
In the morning visit Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding. Then back to your hotel to checkout.
Then transfer to International terminal for your flight to Colombo.
Arrival in Colombo
Meal Plan: Breakfast & Lunch
10 Day Tour to Roof Top of the World Tibet
Covering Lhasa & Shigatse
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In February, housing was mixed. Total and single-family starts improved modestly month-over-month. Once again, aggregate housing permits were disappointing – total permits decreased month-over-month; single-family permits eked out a gain, and multifamily permits were decidedly negative. Housing under construction data indicated minimal increases and housing completions were negative. Total private and new single-family construction spending increased somewhat. New house sales exhibited some growth and existing sales were disappointingly negative.
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British rapper Tinie Tempah spoke to Esquire about heritage watches, his favourite season for style and the trends to stay away from.
I'd say my style is pretty much street cool. Saying that, it can be quite formal at times. I have a good balance between formal and high-end streetwear.
You need to know what clothes fit you in the right way. The average person who doesn't care about fashion isn't interested in how it fits on the shoulders, It's fair enough if something looks nice but you can tell when the shape is wrong. It's about creating a silhouette for yourself.
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I never leave home without a watch. Everything is so new. I feel like there's going to be a revival of the old stuff – the heritage, classic family-owned watches. I'd choose them over the Apple Watch any day.
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I understand that fashion is expression. Saying that, there was a time when men's skirts were a trend and I couldn't see myself adopting that. I hasten to add I view this as completely different to a kilt – I think the history behind the kilt is great.
Winter is the best time of year for fashion. All seasons have their benefits, sure, but I love picking apart the layers in winter; you can wear a denim shirt, a cardigan, a big jacket and there are loads of different jeans going on. In the summer, it's just a T-shirt and shorts.
You can be into fashion without necessarily having style. Or, as they say, you can pay for school but you can't buy class. Fashion is more of a business – with brand names, etc. – but with style, you can pave the way for trends; you can wear a bunch of stuff that was made by your mate and it can still look amazing. Fashion is essentially just a shirt, but style is the way a person makes you feel about a shirt through the way they roll the sleeves or do the top button up.
Other than dressing well, I'd say men need to be good at hands-on labour. Changing a tyre, fixing a shelf – that kind of thing.
People shouldn't correlate style with cost. That's my one rule for a stylish life. We're in an age where social media puts a pressure on people to keep up with trends, but you shouldn't worry about the cost – worry about how you feel. Go to a vintage shop and pick up a blazer for a tenner. It could change everything. That's style to me.
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Suzuki has unveiled the Suzuki SX4 Sedan at the 2007 Geneva Motor Show, with it's American debut set to be at the New York Auto Show in April. Based on the Suxuki SX4 hatch which is in turn based on the Swift, perhaps you can say this is one of them cheap and cheerful cars that apparently don't exist.
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Davaineosis is found throughout the world. Davaineas are small cestodes (length, 0.5–10 mm) that develop through an intermediate host—terrestrial mollusks (principally slugs). The fowl are injected by eating the slugs; the mucous membrane of the intestine becomes inflamed and digestion is upset in the affected bird. Kamala is prescribed in treatment. For prevention of the disease, young birds are raised separately from the adults on dry ranges, which are alternated periodically, cleared of litter and shrubs, and replowed.


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UnNews:Tom Cruise narrowly escapes being trapped in amber
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HOLLYWOOD, California -- Tom Cruise had a lucky escape yesterday whilst out enjoying a walk, sources say. It seems that the pocket-sized heart-throb, star of such movies as Cocktail, Top Gun and Minority Report, became entranced by the bright color and sweet smell of sap leaking from a nearby tree. Within minutes, the wee fella became completely trapped in the sticky liquid. His desperate efforts to free himself physically came to nothing, and there was no-one around to hear his plaintive kitten-like mewlings. With no help in sight, he was forced to rely on his faith, Scientology, to save him.
Speaking to reporters after the incident, Cruise explained that the sap was actually "an amorphous blob-like assassin which may or may not have been sent by Lord Xenu, I can't be sure." Since the blob lacked any eyes, Cruise realised that it was somehow sensing the energy of his body thetans, as outlined the works of L. Ron Hubbard. With this in mind, he attempted to use his Operating Thetan powers over matter, energy, time and space to induce the sap to release him. However, the powers failed to work. "I was pretty shocked", the erratic sofa athlete explained, "that something could resist my powers. There were only two explanations: either this assassin was more powerful than me, or it was somehow using my own powers against me."
Cruise, who eats nothing but candy floss soaked in baby milk, found himself hyperventilating at the thought of being entombed for millennia in fossilized sap. Dismissing the idea of Exteriorizing with full Perceptics, he decided to perform a Sunshine Rundown to attain a Clear Mindstate in order to Submissify the Suppressive blob-person. According to Cruise, "It was pretty tough, I had to reverse the polarity of my thetan powers in order to defeat the assassin. By masking my energy levels, the blob could no longer detect me, a cloaking device, if you will." He was then able to summon a nearby raccoon to urinate on the sap, thinning it enough for him to struggle free after six hours.
Cruise later outlined his plan to deal with the threat of tree sap in the future, saying "Humanity has won this round, but Lord Xenu will be back. His motherships are disgorging more assassin-blobs onto the planet even as I speak. We need to cut down or burn as many of these motherships as possible."
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President Dr. Mark Laska is featured in the recent Sustainable City Network's article, Habitat Restoration Projects Abound in Urban Settings. Dr. Laska joins a panel discussing the growing focus and momentum of urban habitat restoration projects within the last 10-15 years and how this trend will continue to define our future cities.
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Bradford College Textile Archive Conference - Wednesday 22nd April 2015
"For thousands of years, the hand of man had directly fashioned the materials of his apparel, but now by a wonderful combination of automatic machines, which obey, like willing slaves, the will of the master mind, a power of production so infinite and various, so prodigious in its operations and results, as to surpass the fabled power of the ancient Genii, or the marvels of Arabian story, has been attained."
John James, History of the Worsted Manufacture in England, 1857, pages 323-33
The prodigious production James observed as the Industrial Revolution was in progress has led to an infinite and various amount of material held within textile archive collections, stimulating, in turn, infinite and various responses by current academic researchers, historians and designers. This conference, held in the Michele Sutton Lecture Theatre at Bradford College on 22nd April 2015, presented an exciting and eclectic collection of these responses. The conference was opened by College Principal Kath Oldale, who welcomed a large number of delegates which included artists, authors, curators, textile designers, teaching professionals and students to 'an interesting and informative day of sharing and engaging with research.'
Dr Susan Kay-Williams, Chief Executive of the Royal School of Needlework gave a fascinating paper entitled Opening the Box – Rediscovering the Work of David Smith, Pre and Post 1856 Watershed Dyer. After explaining that 'textile history is the hardest of the decorative arts to get to know', Dr Kay-Williams brought the work of this important nineteenth century dyer to life and revealed the joys of archival discovery.
Helen Farrar, Curator of Textiles at Bradford College Textile Archive presented a comprehensively researched paper Pride, Precision, Productivity & Prosperity: Bradford's Textile Education in 1900 which disclosed the visionary nature of textile education in 'Worstedopolis'. Pride in the College's history and collections infused this absorbing presentation, where the 'quality and depth of textile education' made Bradford students 'ready for a life of innovation and prosperity.'
Pam Brook, Curriculum Team Leader for Creative Industries at Bradford School of Arts and Media, gave a fascinating paper Material Worth: Innovations in Textile Manufacture in the Aire and Worth Valleys focussing on the textile trade and developments in Keighley and surrounds from the seventeenth century onwards. She spoke of the difficulties and serendipity of textile archives as the survival of records depended on commercial firms, and she eloquently noted the 'shiver that a researcher gets when they make connections' with an unexpected contextual find.
Hannah Lamb, Lecturer in Embroidered Textile Design at Bradford School of Arts and Media gave a presentation on Using Textile Archives Creatively in which she declared that 'learning in museums and archives is experiential & transformative' but stressed the differential needs of artists to historians. She advocated open-ended browsing and curiosity rather than the usual specific searching as a spark to creativity and noted that limits set for preservation, for instance, wearing gloves, became barriers to creatives who benefitted from physically handling and texturally reading objects.
Richard Ashworth, Colour Experience Manager, Society of Dyers & Colourists gave an illuminating scientific presentation, Colour, an Introduction, which explained the visual perception of colour and how the brain processes colour information. It was gratifying that he used carpet designs by our former lecturer and artist Sydney Harry as an example of colour theory and he confounded expectations in a fun audience participation section.
Helen Parrott, artist and author, gave an enthralling presentation A Richness of Archives, which recounted her journey of discovery researching the eighteenth century calico printer Mary Ware and developing her findings to create her piece '9 yards or thereabouts' for the recent Bradford Pick and Mix exhibition. The Wares were uniquely known for their double strike fabric she recalled the 'shivery moment' as she connected them to a renowned American quilt. She advised that 'coherence of the end result does not reflect the circular nature of the research process' as 'a lot happens quite subliminally and you have to trust the process.'
Artist Claire Wellesley-Smith offered a community-based learning perspective in her presentation Fragments of Intimacy: Exploring the Commonplace through a Dyer's Notebook. She described opening archive boxes to take anonymised contents to intimacy as the secret life of the maker was revealed. She explained the work she had done with groups involving communal stitching and storytelling, research and reminiscences, activated by archive objects. The possibilities for sharing collective memory and collective heritage to enhance wellbeing she outlined were most inspiring.
Celebrated costume designer and our former lecturer, Ruth Caswell gave an enthralling presentation, Hind Robinson Collection and Bradford's Key Role in the Development and Manufacture of Rayon. Cross-referencing designs, sample and running cards from different collections which had never been kept together in the mill, plus oral history, she demonstrated that Rayon was manufactured in Bradford more than a decade before accepted authorities claimed. She described how Courtaulds threw down a challenge to weavers and designers to make own experiments with artificial silk, and the innovative skills of trained designers meant that our students and alumni made an important contribution to the fabric's development. Commercial sophistication and technical expertise in Bradford allowed the city to capitalise on opportunities, exporting artificial silk around world. She asserted that Rayon was not a cheap substitute for silk but a glamorous and glitzy choice, declaring, 'With Bradford's help there would be party frocks for everyone!'
Liz McIvor, Curator of Social History and Technology for Bradford Museums, offered fascinating insights into comparatively recent, but forgotten, textile history with her presentation Leopard for the legions: Making fashionable furs available to all - the rise of synthetics and the ethical debate. She explained that the race to salvage material from closing mills when Bradford Industrial Museum opened in the 1970s means that they held a wealth of archive material, including archived synthetic furs used in this research. Although these were not the usual types of samples and collections thought of as 'historic', they provided a context for change in industry and markets as well as a benchmark for what opinion regarding natural versus synthetic fibres. She described how furs were in demand as glamorous and aspirational luxuries during Bradford's textile heyday. Synthetic furs were on trend in the 1960s and 70s and the audience enjoyed the advertising imagery and slogans such as 'Honestly it isn't mink, it's Wink!' Lister's marketed new fur fabrics in 1970, blending natural and synthetic furs and exotic animal prints became very popular. As ethical and sustainability concerns came to the fore, the market declined but the original Lister's fur fabrics popular vintage items.
Dr Brenda King, author and Chair of The Textile Society, gave a masterly presentation, Full Circle:India-England-India, in which she spoke of her seminal research into collections of Indian silks in England and the lasting legacy of master dyer Thomas Wardle, President of the Bradford Society of Dyers and Colourists, and the samples he produced in the 1870s. She acknowledged a debt to Ruth Caswell for saving material which now comprises our magnificent Textile Archive. She recalled her first visit to College in 1995 to use the Forbes Watson Textile Fabrics of India when she found a clear link with student notebooks containing unexpected woven silk samples of a standard found in the silk centre of Macclesfield. Her discoveries took her to India to examine samples in Kolkata that were dyed with India's dyestuffs in England, and back, to recount the fascinating story at home and abroad.
This was our very first Textile Archive conference, and given its success and the huge enthusiasm of speakers and delegates, it will undoubtedly be the first of many.


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The Cavs have drafted Andrew Wiggins with the No. 1 overall pick. The Plain Dealer first reported the pick (Twitter link). Wiggins was reportedly the preference of owner Dan Gilbert, while the front office was said to like Jabari Parker better. Parker will go to the Bucks at No. 2, Milwaukee officials have said, according to Aaron Falk of The Salt Lake Tribune (Twitter link). The Cavs don't intend to trade Wiggins now that they've drafted him, tweets Chad Ford of ESPN.com.
The Kansas small forward entered the college season as the consensus No. 1 pick, but an underwhelming showing allowed doubt to creep in, and Cleveland seemed uncertain about Wiggins and Parker until today. Wiggins joins fellow Canadian and now Cavs teammate Anthony Bennett as the only two from their country to have ever been drafted No. 1 overall.


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Gunfire in East Jerusalem Causes Causality
An Israeli security guard kills a Palestinian man in East Jerusalem on Wednesday, sparking clashes between local residents and Israeli border police. Video courtesy of Reuters.
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Christy Collins is a manufacturer of handbags made from used textiles and an Entrepreneur Training for Success (ETS) graduate. Her business, founded on the principle of nostalgia, re-purposes beloved materials into one-of-a-kind accessories.
Collins says the purpose of her first bags were to "remind me of other women who came before us." Travel is big source of inspiration and influence for Collins, a fifth generation native of California.
For 30 years, she remained outside of the U.S, observing the cultures of people and the customs of women. When she traveled to West and Central Africa with the peace-corp, she reminisced "in areas where I lived there was a strong tradition of dressing very simply but having a lot of culture in your accessories."
Regarding her return to the U.S. she says, "I had traveled so much, I was away for about 30 years of my life since my mid-20s, and coming back to the U.S and going to thrift shops was the only way I had a real sense of connection with my grandparents." She says, "I think I ended up feeling that those memories, or that those parts of me, were important, to me."
At her daughter's encouragement, she made her first handbag in 2010, assembling it from used materials. Collins desired to expand her craft into a business so she turned to the Entrepreneur Training program at Empowered Women International. "I had basically been unemployed, except for a couple stints" she said. "For a long time, I had trouble making ends meet, I might have lost my house and I wasn't sure about what to do next. I was invited to apply and I got in."
In anticipation for retirement she yearned to hone her skills in a rewarding craft that could potentially generate revenue. The advice she received through EWI was vital to gaining new perspectives about her passion. "You may come in here with one business idea and leave with another. The evolution and the reflective process is very important and I don't think that's easy to do on your own" she said.
The ETS class helped her explore new ideas and revise as she went along. The community of women she became a part of supported her and helped her to see that her bags were not only beautiful, but desired. It was in her ETS class that she realized she had a real market for her products.
"By getting more realistic, understanding my market, and by getting feedback from peers and professionals who are all genuinely interested in what I am doing is very empowering," Collins says.
For Collins, life is ephemeral and to waste it is to undermine one's potential. This belief propels her to weave her bags from threads of memory, so one may carry an accessory that transcends time and that creates a sense of pride and connection for the present, the future, and the past.


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So I've been sick. Coughing aching stuffed up sore throat whining sick.
I am not a pretty sight. And they don't sell NyQuil in Ireland.
Josh – as usual – has been stellar about it all. Which means I've gotten to spend a lot of time bonding with my bed, surrounded by glasses of water and mugs of tea and tissues.
The older kids have been good – leaving me alone, taking care of dinner when need be, offering to make me a mug of tea (that one was Miriam.)
Maura has seen this as "Oh great! I've got Mom cornered!" time.
Maura love to snuggle and watch tv. Needless to say, me laying pathetically in my bed, with my tv on, makes me an easy target. She will come in, climb onto the bed – usually elbowing me along the way – and fluff a pillow before stealing half of my blanket as she snuggles up to me.
It's really quite sweet.
It's also really quite good that she has such a great immune system.
So we've gotten lots of quality bonding time, Maura and I. And the good news is, I can nap through many viewings of SpongeBob and Tangled.


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Minimize Taxes on Capital Gains from Stock Investment
Long-term capital gains from stock investments are taxed at a more favorable rate than ordinary income. To qualify for long-term capital gains treatment, you must hold the investment for more than one year (in other words, for at least one year and one day).
A short-term transaction is taxed as ordinary income. If you hold on to the stock for more than a year, you achieve the status of long-term capital gains. How does that change the tax? For anyone in the 28-percent tax bracket or higher, the long-term capital gains rate of 15 percent applies.
Capital gains taxes can be lower than the tax on ordinary income, but they can't be higher. If, for example, you're in the 15 percent tax bracket for ordinary income and you have a long-term capital gain that would normally bump you up to the 28 percent tax bracket, the gain is taxed at your lower rate of 15 percent instead of a higher capital gains rate.
Check with your tax advisor on a regular basis, because this rule could change due to new tax laws.
Don't sell a stock just because it qualifies for long-term capital gains treatment, even if the sale eases your tax burden. If the stock is doing well and meets your investing criteria, hold on to it.


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Monday, December 10, 2012
December Newsletter Now Available at ActiveTravels.com
With the Holiday season upon us, there's no place I'd rather be than Manhattan. Every December, our family heads down to the City to check out the shop windows, drink hot chocolate, catch a play, and visit an art museum with family and friends. Manhattan is just one of the locales we touch on in our December newsletter. Whistler is another cherished winter getaway, so I'm happy to divulge my favorite trails, restaurants, and hotels. Belize has been popular with our clientele all year, so it made perfect sense to discuss five top places to stay in the country. We also talk about a recent get-together we had with the highly reputable outfitter, Thomson Family Adventures, and let you in on some Holiday traveling tips. Have a look!
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Conscious Cook: Pass the gravy and the gratitude
"Gratitude produces deep, abiding joy because we know that God is working in us, even through difficulties." —Dr. Charles Stanley
An entire day devoted to giving thanks — what a deeply delightful concept! The Thanksgiving holiday can be considered a true beacon of hope, reminding us all that no matter what darkness we face, there is always a bit of light somewhere, inviting us to say "thank you."
There is a great need in our world to reconnect with gratitude and recognize our blessings. Gratitude is a powerful thought process that will activate a conscious cycle of contentment.
I like to imagine that the pilgrims were tenacious, joyful and ever so grateful. Despite the numerous and severe challenges they faced adapting to a completely new world, they chose to acknowledge and be thankful for their sustaining gifts of food, shelter, warmth, family and friends.
Thanksgiving is a celebration that embodies all the components of preparing a delicious life. Whether you gather with family for a fine, bountiful meal, welcome new friends into your home, or serve those less fortunate, Thanksgiving is a day of loving life and embracing the goodness of healthy food and happy hearts.
The traditional foods of Thanksgiving are naturally nourishing. Beautifully bronzed turkeys are loaded with heart healthy arginine, which helps relax and open arteries. Tart, tasty cranberries are an antioxidant rich source of vitamin C, while being super low in sodium and fat. These ruby red jewels add bright, vivacious flavor to sauces, chutneys, salsas, stews, cakes, cookies, pies and beverages. Whether mashed, pureed, layer in a gratin or blended into silky soups or delicious desserts, gleaming orange pumpkin, sweet potatoes and squash offer high levels of potassium, vitamins A and C and beta carotene, along with exquisite flavor. The vast array of seasonal vegetables, grains and other ingredients that grace the holiday table are all expressions of love and life.
May your holiday and all your days to come be full of laughter, love and sweet, delicious gratitude.
Conscious Cook Cranberry Sauce
Makes about 4 cups
3 cups fresh cranberries (or frozen is fine, well washed)
1 ½ cups apple cider
¼ cup freshly squeezed orange juice
2 tablespoons grated orange zest
½ cup pure maple syrup
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger (or substitute ground if you have to)
1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Combine all ingredients in a medium saucepan. Cook over medium-low heat, stirring often, until the cranberries have all burst and the sauce has thickened. This will take approximately 15-20 minutes. Let sauce cool, then refrigerate until ready to serve. It can be made one week ahead.
Serve warm or cold with roast turkey, chicken or pork. Use any leftover sauce to make cranberry brie bruschetta. On a crisp cracker, toast or crostini, place a piece of very ripe Brie, or spread with goat cheese or cream cheese and top with a dollop of cranberry sauce.
For more on Robin Glowa, HHC, AADP, "The Conscious Cook," go to www.theconsciouscook.net


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WQL wildcards
Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_NetworkAdapter
will show us a list of network adapters. We can narrow this down to a specific adapter
Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_NetworkAdapter -Filter "DeviceId='11′" | fl *
What if we know that there is a NIC that is labelled as Wireless something or other. We have two options
Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_NetworkAdapter | where {$_.NetConnectionID -like "wireless*"}
use the where-object cmdlet and filter using a like statement or
Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_NetworkAdapter -Filter "NetConnectionID LIKE 'wireless%'"
filter in the get-wmiobject. Note that the wildcard symbol is % NOT * in the filter parameter. This is because we are using WQL which is a subset of SQL.
We could also write this as
Get-WmiObject -Query "SELECT * FROM Win32_NetworkAdapter WHERE NetConnectionID LIKE 'wireless%'"
The WQL equivalent of the single character wildcard "?" is _ so we could write
Get-WmiObject -Query "SELECT * FROM Win32_NetworkAdapter WHERE NetConnectionID LIKE '_ireless%'"
More information on WQL wildcards can be found


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FY2015 Q4 Financial Results
Jul 29, 2015 5:00 PM EDT
Mark J. Barrenechea, OpenText CEO and John Doolittle, OpenText CFO will host a conference call on July 29, 2015 at 5:00 p.m. ET to discuss the company's financial results.
Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Time: 5:00 p.m. EDT/2:00 p.m. PDT
Length: 60 minutes
Where: 1-800-319-4610 (toll-free)
+1-604-638-5340 (international)
Investors should dial in approximately 10 minutes before the teleconference is scheduled to begin. A replay of the call will be available beginning July 29, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. EDT through 11:59 p.m. on August 12, 2015 and can be accessed by dialing 1-855-669-9658 (toll-free) or +1-604-674-8052 (international) and using passcode 1469 followed by the number sign.


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2018 VW California XXL Review
Volkswagen reported that it had assembled its 150 millionth auto after almost 80 years in the business. Huge numbers of those models, similar to the Volkswagen California camper van, are not sold here in the U.S. That implies there's dependably a twinge of envy when Volkswagen uncovers something as marvelous as the California XXL idea. The California depends on Volkswagen is Transporter van, yet the XXL is supersized, in light of the greater Crafter work van, and it's a German-styled one-room loft on wheels.
2018 VW California XXL Review
The Crafter is Volkswagen's response to vehicles like the Ford Transit, Mercedes-Benz Sprinter and Ram ProMaster. Its California is just a camper van adaptation of the Crafter, with a bed, a kitchen and alternative components like a solitary seat for the living range. The California XXL makes it a few strides further, transforming the camper van into something that could be viewed as a practical home in some real urban communities. The fly up rooftop gives huge amounts of additional space, while the warmed floor and all-wheel drive make it decent whenever of the year.
The long rooftop includes a settled all encompassing window. Just underneath that rests a warmed and cooled bed. Moving the dozing zone up top gives space to all the more living space down underneath. There is a retractable wet stay with a collapsing sink, shower and can. High temp water is furnished with a gas warmer. A fly up window gives ventilation. The living range has an extendable work surface with sink, gas stove and a cooler. There's likewise a coffee machine in one of the cupboards. The burners sit flush when not being used. Notwithstanding the space up top, there's another resting range in the California XXL's back.
A sliding entryway opens into the living range. Close to the entryway is a drawer for grimy shoes. There is minimal lighting all through the lodge, and nine 220V outlets (this is European) and six USB ports all through the van. The plug floor and white cupboards help keep the space light and open. Dim insides can feel claustrophobic, particularly in something as stuffed as a camper van. The front seats swivel back. A seat situate includes space for two more. An extendable table has a few size modifications. A projector replaces a TV, anticipating onto the back mass of the wet room.
There's all the more going ahead outside. Two outdoors seats can be put away in the back end. The inside table can be evacuated and connected to the California XXL's outside. Behind the back end is a vast storage room that is additionally open from the van's inside. Hung out back are a 140-liter freshwater tank and a 90-liter wastewater tank.
The California XXL packs a Volkswagen turbodiesel and 4MOTION all-wheel drive. Power is sent through a six-speed manual transmission. The motor makes 175 drive and 302 pound-feet of torque.
It might simply be an idea, however we need it all the same. Possibly we'll get a comparative adaptation of the new I.D. Buzz when it hits showrooms in a couple of years.
THE VOLKSWAGEN CALIFORNIA XXL "transfer[s] the characteristics of the of the California to the following size up". As indicated by VW, its California XXL is everything the Bulli-based California was, just more.
"Presently, the new and greater Crafter with its expansive number of driver help frameworks, open to taking care of and low fuel utilization offers an extraordinary chance to exchange the characteristics of the California to the following size up in Volkswagen RVs and to refine these even more".
The California XXL on account of its size manages a bed of around 2 meters in length, highlights a screened-off living range for security. The seat can be turned 180 degrees. "Regularly intended for the reason and essentially thoroughly considered as in the California are the kitchen with twin-hob cooker and refrigerator, sink and extendable work surface. Because of the substantial measurements of the California XXL, an astutely conceived wet stay with shower and WC encourages included solace," Volkswagen said.
There's no word on whether the California XXL will come to Australia, however it's impossible.
With regards to RVs, there's cash to be made, in light of the fact that got the money for up retirees will spend heaps of cash on a vehicle that permits them opportunity and solace in measure up to dosages. It's nothing unexpected, at that point, that this thing now exists the Volkswagen California XXL RV idea.
This new RV idea vehicle depends on the not-yet-discharged in Australia Volkswagen Crafter huge van, and "gives an investigate the future" for Volkswagen's undeniably differentiating Commercial Vehicles advertising. As indicated by the German organization, Volkswagen Nutzfahrzeuge, this thought gives them a "chance to exchange the characteristics of the California to the following size up in Volkswagen RVs and to refine these even more".
For the uninitiated, the general California campervan depends on the littler Transporter van, and may advance toward Australia to contend with the recently discharged Mercedes-Benz Marco Polo.
The new idea will make a big appearance at the Caravan Salon Düsseldorf later in August, where VW will pitch the idea as "an all the more completely developed variation of the motoring globetrotter" and a significant sizeable one at that.
The California XXL has a running tallness of 2.9 meters, making it extensive unquestionably no underground auto parks for this awful kid however Volkswagen figures the idea model's "complex optimal design (counting unique spaces in the totally overhauled high rooftop) guarantee that the drag coefficient stays inside the good scope of an ordinary Crafter".
2018 VW California XXL Review
It depends on the medium wheelbase Crafter (364omm wheelbase, add up to length of 5986mm).
There's no pop-top, yet that new roofline incorporates and coordinated shade, and appears to offer a lot of space inside. There's a kitchen, wet-stay with latrine, sink and shower, a bed "around two meters in length".
There are no pics to demonstrate it, however the brand figures there's a screened-off living territory, while the front seats can be turned 180 degrees. There's a seat situate, as well.
The kitchenette incorporates a twin-hob cooker and fridge, and a seat that can be broadened in the event that you require more prepare room.
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Call for Papers
Springer will publish an edited volume of selected papers from ICTMA16 as a book in the International Perspectives on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematical Modelling series edited by Gabriele Kaiser and Gloria Stillman. Editors of the book are: Maria Salett Biembengut (Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), Gloria Stillman (Australian Catholic University, Ballarat, Australia), Werner Blum (University of Kassel, Germany).
International experts will referee chapters submitted by conference participants after the conference. These chapters are to be received by 15th September 2013.
Instructions to folllow are linked here.


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Energy & Utilities
The Energy & Utilities sector must implement strict document control processes to support regulatory compliance. Opidis ensures access to reliable and accurate asset information to maintain efficient, safe and profitable operations and plant availability for energy generation, transmission and distribution utilities. Accelerate project completion, improve management of change and decrease maintenance time and cost for efficient and profitable operations.


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Shawn Levy
Hollywood Stars Visit Googleplex to Shoot Scenes for 'The Internship' Movie
Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson and director Shawn Levy dropped by the Google campus in Mountain View this week to shoot scenes for "The Internship." Several Google employees and some technology, such as their driverless car, will appear in the film.
Vince Vaughn & Owen Wilson Star as Google Interns in New Movie
"The Internship", a new R-rated comedy about life as a Google intern, is currently filming at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. Parts of the campus have been transformed to accommodate the movie, written by Vince Vaughn and starring himself and Owen Wilson.


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Includes 1 (one) 18″ Plush-Covered Cat Shelf
These shelves are covered in a super-soft, cuddly, plush fabric that our cats love. The comfortable fabric has a beautiful swirl pattern that will accent any room. This is a larger shelf, which can be used as a way to get up to a larger structure as a quick napping spot.
Our cat Heisenberg is obsessed with licking the corners of these plush shelves and rubbing his face on the same spot. Who needs paws to clean yourself when you have an awesome shelf?
These shelves come with two brackets attached, spaced for 16″ between studs. When screwed into studs, these shelves are very strong, and have been tested to hold 85 lbs. All of our furniture also comes with screws.
Dimensions: Width: 18″ Height (including brackets): 4″ Depth: 9″
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Our professionals are trained podiatrists who diagnose, treat and prevent pathologies of the feet, using different treatments which range from the most simple such as the periodic removal of corns and calluses, the creation of personalised insoles for each type of foot problem, through to surgery in cases which require it, in order to ensure a definitive solution for our patients.
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Eating Out
A real taste of home at Harriet's English Tea Rooms
A delicious new arrival in Los Cristianos. Think of your favourite cake. Perhaps it's a slice of a lovely Victoria sponge or a chocolate brownie or caramel shortbread? Or how about lemon drizzle, carrot cake or a fruit scone with jam and real cream?Full Article
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If you like to eat great food at a reasonable price from the creative hands of a master chef, look no further than Fusion in Amarilla Golf. This new ...Full Article
Bobby's Tandoori: a double treat with two great venue
If you love Indian food and there are very few of us who don't, Bobby's Tandoori gives you the best of both worlds in different parts of Tenerife. The ...Full Article
A taste of traditions and times gone by at Guachinche Bibi
With so many wine and dine options available across Tenerife, it's nice to go back to your roots and have a taste of the island's heritage. "Guachinche" is the ...Full Article
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Many of Tenerife's best restaurants are "hidden gems", usually in not so obvious places and just waiting to be discovered. The new "Route 66" BBQ House on the outskirts ...Full Article
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La Granja Verde – Finca Temática brings to you the traditional agricultural products and livestock of the Canary Islands. With a large extension of land on ...Full Article
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Once the restaurant trade is in your blood, it is there for ever," so the saying goes and how true it is. Born in the Canary Islands, Angel has ...Full Article
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What could be better than a romantic candle-lit dinner for two? How about a fabulous dinner complete with a sunset, gentle waves, palm trees, grassy verge, flowers and exceptional ...Full Article
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A visit to the beautiful Bushido Restaurant in Los Cristianos is not only a hugely pleasurable experience, it's also an education! It starts with revelations about "Bushido", the philosophy ...Full Article


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Our learning ecosystem
Diversity of networksAs a major provider of educational services and teacher training in Finland, we are part of the constant evolution of the educational field. Thus our core features, curiosity and self-organised dynamism, allow us a proactive role in the diverse networks of educational practice, development and research. We believe in structured informality, open access to information and diversity of viewpoints in developing our organisation at every level.
Affordances and agencyThe goal of all our activities is to establish networks of different types of affordances to all members of our organisation, from pre-school pupils to high-end professionals. In addition to various cognitive and perceptual affordances, inspiring physical learning environments, social interaction and warm relationships between members of our community are held in high regard. At its best, our learning ecosystem nurtures agency, enhancing both co-operation and shared expertise.