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Hall Place B & B, Glasgow, KY
1852 Hall Place is located near historic downtown Glasgow. Take a step back in time; this pre-civil war home was visited by Abraham Lincoln who studied under Judge Tompkins who built the home for Theodosia Tompkins Hall and Dr. James Hall. The home was built by slaves who handcrafted each brick on site creating 16 inch walls, 6 fireplaces, and high ceilings.
The Underground Railroad used a cave under the library room to move out of Glasgow to freedom. Hall Place is on the National Registry of Historic Places. Relax in the parlor, library, or billiards/game room. There are four themed rooms and each has a private bath, A/C and heat, cable tv, DVD, wireless internet, and full breakfast in the morning. We are near Mammoth Cave National Park, National Corvette Museum, Barren River Lake State Park, Lincoln's birthplace, and other caves with tours.


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Chief executive of the Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) Damien Frawley said the company, whose major clients include defined benefit superannuation scheme for Queensland public servants, was keen to explore infrastructure opportunities around the state.
Even though the company has not been approached for investment in the Adani's Carmichael coal mine project, QIC has said it would not be interested in the mine itself.
"But the infrastructure pieces of Adani would be interesting for us to explore. If it fitted within the return rates we are seeking," Frawley was quoted as saying by 'The Courier Mail' here.
The indicated area of investment could include the construction of a 500-kilometre rail corridor from Galilee Basin to the coast and expansion of coal export terminals at Abbot Point near Bowen, it said.
Frawley said the company was also looking at another 5.4 billion dollar Cross River Rail initiative for the country.
"It's a piece of infrastructure we would be very keen to explore," he said, adding that "the funding is the area that Government is trying to solve at the moment."
"I think there's an opportunity for private capital to participate if the economics of that investment are favourable," he said.
QIC, which was founded in 1991 with 7 billion dollars under management, has built up a 79 billion dollar portfolio of assets and investments in Australia and overseas.
Despite being targetted by several political and environmental groups from time to time, Adani has reaffirmed its commitment to the project and promised to create economic prosperity, including creating thousands of jobs for the people of regional Queensland.
"Our mining project will create economic prosperity and will also create thousands of jobs for the people of regional Queensland," said Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani during a recent meeting with Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk.
"The Carmichael mine will help bring energy security to millions of Indians who do not have access to electricity. The Adani group is committed to nation building projects in the energy and infrastructure space which will create economic and social benefits for people of India and Australia," he had said.
Carmichael coal mine project, one of the world's largest, will start construction this year after being given the green light by the federal and Queensland state governments.
The project involves dredging 1.1 million cubic metres of spoil near the iconic Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, which will then be disposed of on land.
Cricket legends Ian and Greg Chappell and other prominent Australians in an unusual move recently wrote to Adani to abandon the project, warning it could damage bilateral ties and even hit sporting links.

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Social welfare institution for children "Lootus"
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Why do children end up at shelters? The staff of Estonian shelters tell the children's stories.
is 20 years old, he is repeating his last year in basic school and lives in the shelter. When Andres finished the 9th year for the first time, he was given the so-called "white report", despite having done quite well in school. Andres had nothing to do in his small hometown with a report like this, so he decided to go back to school and complete the proper basic school curriculum. He also works, holding down two jobs in addition to his studies! Andres was brought to the children's home with his five brothers and sisters when he was 5 or 6 years old. At the age of 13 the boy and his elder brother were expelled from the children's home due to behavioural problems. Now his brother lives on his own, but Andres has stayed in the shelter – he goes to school and pursues is hobby, cooking, for which he has a real talent.
15-year old
and 14-year old
are sisters. Erika's school report has "5", the highest mark, for most subjects, with just an occasional "4". In her first school her report even contained a "1" and she was shamed for missing lessons without good reason. Now Erika attends a smaller form at a smaller school and she has not missed a single lesson without good reason. Erika loves writing and she diligently keeps a diary. One of her favourite pastime activities is reading, she reads really thick volumes and can do it all night and day! Erika likes Harry Potter and dreams of having a boyfriend. Imbi's school certificate has "5", "4" and some "3" marks, but they keep improving in time. Imbi likes to try different hairstyles and use makeup. Earlier on, when she didn't have a makeup kit of her own, she used to paint her eyes with a pink marker pen – it was pretty enough and lasted long! Now Imbi has several makeup kits. She likes chatting to people in the Rate portal and says she's had a boyfriend for ages. Erika and Imbi were brought to the shelter after their mother's death, as the father could not cope with them on his own. But the girls knew the shelter since their nursery school days – sometimes, when their parents didn't collect them in the evening, they were brought to the shelter for the night. When the girls started school, they were taken into a foster family, where lived for more than four years. However, the foster mother began paying more attention to one of the sisters and the other girl felt uncomfortable. So they moved to the already familiar shelter. The girls are doing well now.
One morning 10-year old
packed all his toys into one plastic bag and his textbooks into another, found his way to the shelter and announced: "I won't live with my dad anymore!" As it turned out, his father was taking drugs and would often hit the boy. Vladislav's mother gave up on the task of raising him years ago. The boy will stay in the shelter until the court decides on his custody. Vladislav has lived here for five months now.
4-year old
was brought to the shelter from a social welfare home. Her father and mother had been drinking for several days, the girl was hungry and uncared for. Now Mari lives at the safe house.
15-year old
came to the safe house himself. His mother found a new partner and kicked her teenage son out, because she didn't think there was enough room for him in her house...
13-year old
walked into the safe house with her mother one day. The mother announced that she was depressed and no longer able to cope with her daughter. Stella gladly stayed at the safe house.
5-year old
was brought to the safe house by his grandmother and aunt. Martin's mother had gone missing and none of the relatives wanted to look after him...
16-year old
spends three days in the safe house every month, because she has to visit a psychologist and a psychiatrist at the local psychiatric clinic. Signe's home life is so hard that she has lost the will to live...
The mother of 3-year old
is a drug addict and currently detained for the duration of a preliminary investigation.
9-year old
, 7-year old
, 5-year old
, 3.5-year old
and 1.5-year old
have lived in the safe house with their mother for four months because their home burned down.
9-year old
, 7-year old
and 3-year old
have lived in the safe house with their mother for five months now. Their mother lost her job. She is now looking for a new one and attending training courses at the same time. The family has several instant loans that need repaying.
4-year old
came to the safe house with his parents and sister. Kunnar's father and mother said that they no longer wanted to be his parents...
5-year old
has lived in the safe house for six months. The little girl says she is scared of her mother when she turns into a zombie. Mari's mother drinks and takes drugs. Despite that, little Mari stands by the window every day waiting for her mother to come and she really misses her home.
16-year old
, 2-year old
and their mother rushed into the safe house – it was obvious they were very frightened. The mother's partner had threatened to shoot them. The family will stay in the safe house until they find a new home and they hope that the court will issue a restraining order against the man who has now been detained.
12-year old
came to the safe house accompanied by a social worker. The frightened girl kept her back close to the wall – her stepfather had sexually abused her.
9-year old
and 5-year old
came to the safe house with their mother who had a black eye. The woman also showed her bruised stomach. Her partner had beaten her in front of the children. The woman reported him to the police.
The mother of 5-year old
died from a drug overdose year ago. His alcoholic stepfather had no interest in the boy and has only visited him once in the year. Mikk is a good, obedient boy who is helpful and kind-hearted despite his violent past. A great foster family was found for Mikk during his stay in the shelter and the boy gets along with them really well.
The mother of 2.5-year old
keeps disappearing for 2-3 weeks at a time. His father does try to take care of the boy, but he lost their home due to debts and, unable to find a job, had to bring the child to the shelter. The fate of this nice little boy who cries for his father is still undecided, as the social welfare department is only beginning to work on his case.
15-year old
's parents divorced when she was 7. Both parents have retained their parental rights but neither wants to raise this problematic, 'overgrown' teenager and so the girl keeps toing and froing between the two of them. Diana hasn't made it to school once this year and she often spends the night out on town, never going home to sleep. Diana's relationship with her father and mother is very tense and even when officials turn up, the parents fail to keep their cool with accusations and insults flying in both directions…
The 19-year old mother of 3.5-year old
is a student who moved to Tallinn. She works but cannot find a place in a nursery school for the boy, and her shift ends at 10 o'clock in the evening. On several occasions, she has left the child at home alone and unattended. The last time it happened the neighbours called the police to help the hysterically crying child who was also suffering from thirst, and the police brought him to the shelter. The young mother blames the city's social welfare system but has only visited her child once, saying that she is too busy studying and working...
The mother of 9-year old
has been on the wanted list of the police for six months and the boy hasn't made it to school yet this year. The police brought the child to the shelter from a drunk neighbour's place and it is the fourth time that Daniil is staying in the safe house. Child protection went to court to limit the parent's rights to raise the child.
1.8-year old
's mother is an alcoholic and she often leaves the boy alone. He has ended up in the shelter several times. His mother will most likely lose her parental rights.
2-year old
and his mother went to visit friends, his mother went to get her coat and disappeared... For a while Kolya lived with family friends, but his mother never took an interest in him again. Soon the boy will move to a substitute home.
15-year old
came to the shelter herself. Her mother and stepfather were members of a Jehovah's Witnesses congregation. Nelli's mother forbade her to have any contact with other children or participate in school events, and Nelli had to change schools several times. Nelli doesn't attend the religious gatherings any more, as she has been expelled from the congregation. She is satisfied with her life in the shelter.
11-year old
lived with her mother in Russia. The girl's father brought her to Estonia after her mother died. For four months, Veronika lived with her father and grandmother, both of whom are heavy drinkers. The child had some horrible things to tell about her life, like her grandmother threatening her with an axe. The girl was brought to the shelter by neighbours.
The police brought 5-year old
and 3-year old
to the shelter, as their mother had often left them in their flat unattended. Dmitri had just turned two when he fell out of a fourth floor window... Miraculously, he survived and only suffered minor injuries.
5-year old
and 2-year old
are sisters. One of them has lived in the safe house since her birth and the other has spent most of her life there. They were brought to the children's home in an ambulance after their mother overdosed on drugs. The mother never visited them, although Lenne kept asking about her... Now the sisters are in the safe house for the second time. A foster family was found for them but, unfortunately, those people decided to return the children a week later, as they were too much hard work...
3-year old
has lived in the safe house for over a year. He is a great and kind-hearted boy, who often notices more than adults. His biggest wish is to have a real mother, not someone called "mother" simply because she gave birth to him. Marko's biological mother visits him about once every three months. She has nonetheless appealed against the court judgment that deprived her of her parental rights. So there is no way Marko could find a new family at the moment. And the boy keeps waiting, growing and hoping that one day his real mother will walk through the door and take him home.
3-year old
came to the safe house while her mother was getting treatment in the psychiatric clinic. Liisu is tired of constantly being bounced between her father and mother. Yes, she has a family, but it is broken. Liisu used to see her mother beaten by her father every day. The little girl doesn't know if she can trust either of her parents. Now she is eagerly waiting for doctors to "mend mum's heart".
The mother of 2-year old
is a drug addict. When he was brought to the children's home, the boy just stood in the middle of the room and stared at the shelf full of toys. It turned out that he had never played with toys before. Janek doesn't remember his mother, because he couldn't even speak yet when he was brought to the children's home. As some children here are visited by their parents, Janek always keeps waiting for someone to come and visit him... Yet his mother has never visited him in the children's home...
Pille, Andres, Tanel
came to the children's home carrying nothing but the care essentials, which included...a cat! Their mother had moved in with a new partner, leaving the children with their violent alcoholic father. They were very frightened of him. Their mother kept promising to return and the children believed her. But she never did. The children did not want to stay at home without her. At first, after moving out, she visited her children quite often. But then her visits became less and less frequent... The children were afraid to stay home alone with their father. They never did their homework and nobody looked after them...
4-year old
and 6-year old
were brought to the children's home in hospital clothes, malnourished, neglected and frightened. The child protection service were tipped off and the officials went to check on the family. They knocked on the door, but nobody answered it. When they finally got in, they found the parents high on drugs and not reacting to anything..
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I was describing the data sources for each field in my colleague's report, when I saw her expression transform from interest to upset. "Is something the matter?" I asked. "You did ask why the report is showing the wrong information. Right?"
She replied, obviously annoyed, "You know that's not what I meant. Please don't be so literal."
After a moment of confusion, I realized that she really wanted to know what we needed to do to fix her report, not a detailed explanation of the failure mode.
At some point, everyone in IT has this sort of conversation. We geeks find this complaint, that we are annoyingly literal, both confusing and unfair. What's wrong with being literal, especially at work? In our work, precision is a virtue. Isn't it disrespectful to presume that you know what someone else is thinking? Wouldn't answering a question other than the one they asked make them think that we don't listen to them? They'd complain about that too.
The fact that this sort of problem is so common should tell us that there's something we're missing, but instead of learning from these episodes, we write off the nongeeks as illogical and difficult. We stick to our self-righteous perspective and refuse to consider what their annoyance tells us. The message we're missing is that we need to master more than one way of listening and recognize which mode is best in a particular situation.
In literal listening mode, we assume that our job is to absorb information. We pay close attention to words, ask clarifying questions to ensure that we understand questions and respond to them exactly as they are posed. We assume that the content of communication is complete, unambiguous, well understood and transparent -- that language is like code.
I think it's safe to say that we as geeks default to literal mode.
Others usually prefer to operate in a more flexible, connected listening mode. Connected listeners pay attention differently, listening to both literal and intended meaning. Connected listeners interpret information with assumptions about context as well and the subjective experience of the person they're listening to, about their emotions, ambitions and constraints. Connected listeners seek to understand what the other person intends to communicate, what's important to them rather than precisely what it was they said.
When our colleagues expect the more adaptable connected mode but instead get literal listening from us, they become frustrated. In those moments, they feel that we're like machines, incapable of relating to them as humans. Sometimes they even feel that we are being condescending, belittling them for their lack of specificity.
So how can you tell which mode you should be in? The simplest cue is to ask yourself, "Are we discussing what technology will accomplish, or how it will work?"
Literal mode is appropriate when discussing how things work, but connected mode is essential for deciding what it will accomplish. When our business colleagues are excitedly imagining a possible future, focusing on mechanics feels like we're crushing their dreams.
The first step to becoming a more flexible listener is to analyze the nature of every conversation and recognize which mode fits best for that moment. When you've mastered this, you'll find that you get invited to be part of more conversations where important decisions are made.
Paul Glen, CEO of Leading Geeks, is devoted to clarifying the murky world of human emotion for people who gravitate toward concrete thinking. His newest book is 8 Steps to Restoring Client Trust: A Professional's Guide to Managing Client Conflict. You can contact him at email@example.com.
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text: Quesnel's Best Western Tower Inn is located in the heart of the town, within walking distance of the shops, restaurants and an excellent riverfront walking trail. The in-house restaurant and lounge, Begbie's Bar and Bistro, is named after a famous local judge who presided over the city's gold rush days. There is also a fitness centre. Room facilities include a television, safe, minibar, and hairdryer.


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Too Faced Shadow Brushes Essential 3 Piece Set Review
Here's a tasty little treat from Too Faced for fans of there "teddy bear hair" brushes. The Too Faced Shadow Brushes Essential 3 Piece Set ($39) is an introduction of sorts to Too Faced's ultra soft, plush teddy bear hair brushes. You get three essential eye brushes in a portable tin barrel.
Take a peek!
What exactly is teddy bear hair? No worries, no bears were harmed in the making of these super soft, cruelty free brushes. Teddy Bear Hair is Too Faced's exclusive cruelty free, vegan friendly synthetic fiber. It's one of the softest synthetic brush fibers I've come across in my travels. Seriously…like super soft!
The brush bristles are well made with soft yet dense bristles. I find they are almost fiber-like in texture due to the lightness of the synthetics used to create them. They have strong wooden handles, in pink no less, without absolute no issues with shedding.
This is a great makeup beginners kit with essential eye brushes and a small instruction guide telling you how to use each brush.
You get the following brushes:
- Liner/Smudger
- Lid/Smoker
- Crease/Blender
Never tried Too Faced's popular Teddy Brush Collection? Here's your chance to check out three of those brushes in a single set!
Too cute!
Loves this.
Too Faced should really consider doing an entire collection of there brushes for Holiday 2012. I'd indulge!
Available now at www.toofaced.com
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Member for Chaffey Tim Whetstone has welcomed the ACCC's draft determination on SACOME's joint electricity purchasing application on behalf of many South Australian businesses, including in the Riverland.
Mr Whetstone wrote to the ACCC to support SACOME's application, which included Riverland based Central Irrigation Trust as part of the proposed buyer group.
"The progress of this application is good news for the consumers involved who have been hit hard by skyrocketing electricity costs and have put up with the least reliable supply," Mr Whetstone said.
"The Central Irrigation Trust is a member of the prospective buying group and has seen a staggering increase in electricity costs of more than 80 per cent over the last seven years.
"Any move to drive down high electricity costs will help businesses to succeed, expand their operations and increase job opportunities"
In a letter of support to the ACCC in February, Mr Whetstone wrote:
"Electricity pricing has been one key factors driving investment interstate. If electricity buyer groups enable prices to be driven down for businesses involved, effects on local investment and jobs growth will flow right throughout the entire economy"
Mr Whetstone goes on:
"Operating under some of the highest electricity prices in the country, South Australian businesses are under immense pressure to maintain competitiveness in their respective markets with increasingly squeezed profit margins".
The State Liberals would support other SA companies going down this path in an effort to drive down business electricity costs.


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For years now I've ranted and raved about mortgage rates. One of the reoccurring themes is that mortgage rates are strongly influenced by household behaviour - "fear." This is most evident when households believe that rates are about to rise and so rush out and fix. We saw this in 2009 and we are likely to see it again now, or soon. In my opinion the only driver of increasing wholesale swap rates has been some borrowers starting to take advantage of very low long term fixed mortgage rates. Swap rates are the rates that banks fund at. They are a leading indicator of what will happen to mortgage rates. At Squirrel we've been fixing more and more clients over the past 2-3 months at 2 year rates as low as 5.39% and 4 year rates as low as 5.95%. This trickle across the market has started to nudge wholesale rates up. Recent commentary in the media and from Westpac is likely to see more households trying to fix and pushing the wholesale rates up higher still. The trickle is becoming a stream. To date only the wholesale rates have been increasing. We have not seen the advertised mortgage rates change yet, because bank margins are so fat they have been able to absorb it. However, margins are contracting and it wont be long before we see an increase in carded fixed rates. If advertised rates start to increase the stream may become a river.
It follows that if you scare people into fixing, then fixed rates will increase. For every fixed mortgage there needs to be a depositor/investor on the other side of that. At the low rates currently on offer there are simply not enough depositors prepared to fix at low rates for long-terms. With this lack of supply, if everyone tries to fix, then rates go up. The best example of this was in early 2009 when mortgage rates jumped about 1.00% in the space of a month.
First thing - take a chill pill. As a country we are too preoccupied with mortgage rates, almost neurotic. I've always advocated splitting the mortgage and fixing half, floating half. Have a bet both ways and then go do something more exciting and forget about the mortgage. My view of the world hasn't changed. We're in a slow long recovery. The US keeps looking for good news (its election year) and Europe is still a mess. Closer to home Aussie isn't looking sharp and China is an enigma. This GFC hasn't felt too bad in NZ because we're a slow growth economy. Look at the fundamentals. As much as we'd like to, the world cannot conveniently bury its problems. The big de-leverage from borrowing too much will take a decade to unwind and we've got our baby boomers going into some sort of semi-retirement which will dampen retail spending. To me this all means 5-10 years of historically low interest rates. We all eventually expect to see the OCR (and therefore floating rates) increase by 0.50% but that looks someway off. I guess what I'm saying is that the story hasn't changed, so whatever your mortgage strategy is, stick with it. For all of the housing activity, I don't think it has a strong backbone and won't take much to ease off. If you are contemplating selling your house, then I'd be on to it pronto whilst it is still a seller's market. I'm not sure the underlying demand is there to cope with a surge in listings. If you're on a Floating Rate of 5.25% or lower then there is no rush to jump into a fixed rate. You'll likely perform better with what you've got. If you are on a Floating Rate of 5.75% then I'd say a 2 year fixed at 5.50% or 3 year fixed rate at 5.90% looks very attractive. We had been getting 4 year rates at 5.95% but I think that's gone now.


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Guna is a new brand that encompasses all organic products, including dry fruits, oils, squashes, and face and body scrubs.
Organic Nuts And Squash By Guna To Keep You Going All Day
We're Nuts About The PMS Pack
Guna has their nuts sorted by purpose. These combos comprise an assortment of almonds, pine nuts, cashews, walnuts and raisins. There's a small kids pack with apricot seeds which makes for a nifty quick snack on the go, and a Goodbye PMS pack which consists of almonds, cashews and black raisins, and promises to enhance your mood and suppress your pain.
We're definitely bookmarking this for that time of the month.
Apart from these, you can also score organic cold-pressed coconut oil, organic castor oil and organic apricot oil for all your hair, skin or salad needs.
Talking Body
Guna has managed to bottle one of the best sources of antioxidants – the sea buckthorn. It comes in a one-litre bottle in squash form, containing the essence of the little berries and is said to contain anti-ageing properties. It is on the sour side however and may require some getting used to. But hey, for something which supposedly keeps you fit, it's something we're willing to put up with.
For your daily dose of beauty, they've got an almond clove face scrub and a walnut pine body scrub.
Where: Order online here
Price: Starting at INR 500 for a pack of nuts
Find out more about Guna and their workshops here, and follow them on Facebook here.


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I started working as a communications coordinator for Women in Film & Television Vancouver and as an e-news editor at Reel West Magazine in the summer of 2014. You will find most of my new blogs, profiles and articles on the websites wiftv.wordpress.com and reelwest.com/news.
In the May/June 2014 issue, I preview the 35th Banff World Media Festival and look back at Canada's inaugural web series festival, Vancouver's VanWebFest.
In the March/April 2014 issue, I speak with Vancouver filmmaker Karen Lam about her suspense thriller Evangeline, which opened the Women in Film Festival in March. Evangeline is a reflection on the tragedy of B.C.'s missing women – using genre elements of horror.
In the January/February 2014 issue, I speak with the makers of the verité doc series Emergency Room: Life and Death at VGH (p. 14ff), and with the creators of MediAm, a new online distribution platform made-in-BC (p.5).
I also had the opportunity to visit the set of Badge of Honor and speak with veteran actor Martin Sheen why he was so happy to return to BC for this movie (p.19).
In the November/December 2013 issue of Reel West Magazine, it's all about the Whistler Film Festival, as I discuss two premiering films with the makers and actors. TV comedy and stand-up star Brent Butt teams up with indie filmmaker Carl Bessai for the crime comedy No Clue (p.16ff). Vancouver's Sociable Films launch their first feature, Afterparty, at Whistler. The film was made cooperatively, with cast and crew sharing in the ownership of the production. Starring Bomb Girls Ali Liebert and Jodi Balfour (p. 18ff).
In the September/October issue of Reel West Magazine, I preview the VIFF Forum (p. 21), speak with the filmmakers of The Dick Knost Show (p. 24-25) and with Vancouver's post-production and VFX specialists who worked on Elysium (p. 26-27).
In the July/August 2013 issue of Reel West magazine, I interviewed several independent movie theatre owners in Western Canada. See pages 20-21.
In the June 2013 issue of Reel West Magazine, the film industry magazine for Western Canada, I wrote an article about the situation of BC film industry workers after the May elections. The answer: There is "Nowhere but up from here." See page 17.


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Who was Damilola Taylor and how did he die? 10-year old schoolboy stabbed by Danny and Ricky Preddie in 2000
The schoolboy had only recently moved to Britain for a better life when he was killed making his way home from a library in South London
THE BRUTAL killing of a ten-year-old boy in South London shocked the nation and continues to be a painful memory for the UK 17 years later.
Damilola Taylor was walking home from a library in Peckham when he was stabbed by two brothers, Danny and Ricky Preddie. We reveal all...
Who was Damilola Taylor?
The schoolboy was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and attended Wisdom Montessori School.
He travelled to the UK with his family to allow his sister Gbemi to get treatment for her epilepsy.
The family had barely moved to Britain for a better life when Damilola was cruelly killed on November 27, 2000.
Despite two unsuccessful trials, Richard and Gloria Taylor never gave up on the police or the British justice system.
How did Damilola Taylor die?
Harrowing CCTV footage from the night the ten-year-old died shows him leaving Peckham Library at 4.51pm.
Damilola looked happy as he skipped home with a smile on his face - just 15 minutes later he was bleeding to death in a filthy stairwell.
The schoolboy was approaching the North Peckham Estate when he was stabbed in the leg with a piece of broken glass.
He ran to a concrete stairwell where he collapsed and was dead within 30 minutes.
Damilola was just ten days away from celebrating his 11th birthday.
Star Wars actor John Boyega and his sister Grace were some of the last people to be spotted on the CCTV footage with Damilola , while escorting him part of the way home.
The three were friends and the Boyegas helped babysit him.
Who killed Damilola Taylor?
After Damilola's death, it took six years and three trials to identify and convict his killers.
In 2002, four boys went on trial at the Old Bailey charged with Damilola's murder.
But two of the boys were found not guilty and the other two were acquitted when it was ruled that a 14-year-old girl, who was the prosecution's key witness, was unreliable.
Speaking outside the Old Bailey after the case, Richard and Gloria Taylor vowed to continue fighting for justice.
Ricky Preddie, 13 at the time of the killing, was charged with his younger brother Danny in 2005 when forensic evidence, missed at the time, revealed tiny blood spots and fibres.
They were eventually convicted of manslaughter in 2006 and sentenced to eight years in youth custody - but released in 2011 and 2010.
Who are Danny and Ricky Preddie?
The brothers were members of a gang known as the Young Peckham Boys and by aged 12 and 13, were terrorising the streets of south London.
Danny was rarely out of supervision or detention and at the time of Damilola's killing, should have been subject to a 24-hour curfew in a social services home.
Four weeks after the killing, Danny Preddie was placed under a supervision order for an assault with intent to rob and two cases of racially aggravated assault. He breached the order.
Ricky Preddie, 13 at the time of the killing, also had a history of violence and theft. He was also supposed to have been under supervision when the schoolboy was killed.
What's it Damilola, Our Beloved Boy about?
Damilola, Our Beloved Boy, tells the story of Damilola Taylor who was just ten years old when he died in a stairwell on a housing estate in Peckham, south London after he was fatally stabbed with a broken bottle.
The drama will show what happened on that tragic day and his family's long fight for justice after his killers, teenage brothers Danny and Ricky Preddie, were finally jailed after a third trail.
It was written by Levi David Addai who said: ""I always remember Richard and Gloria (Damilola's on the steps of the court and their pictures being taken and then them disappearing into a cab, and I was wondering, what happened next?
"What was discussed in that cab? What happened when they got home? What I thought would be interesting would be to go behind the headlines of the family."


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Trying to Float: Coming of Age in New York's Legendary Chelsea HotelUnity Wellington Stock : 0ISBN: 9781471156885
Title: Trying to Float: Coming of Age in New York's Legendary Chelsea Hotel
Author: RIPS NICOLAIA
"Hysterically droll, touching, elegant, and wise--a coming-of-age story from someone who possibly came of age before her parents" (Patricia Marx, New Yorker writer and bestselling author), Trying to Float is a seventeen-year-old's darkly funny, big-hearted memoir about growing up in New York City's legendary Chelsea Hotel. New York's Chelsea Hotel may no longer be home to its most famous denizens--Andy Warhol, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, to name a few--but the eccentric spirit of the Chelsea is alive and well. Meet the family Rips: father Michael, a lawyer turned writer with a penchant for fine tailoring; mother Sheila, a former model and renowned artist who matches her welding outfits with couture; and daughter Nicolaia, a precocious high school junior at work on a record of her peculiar seventeen years. Nicolaia is a perpetual outsider who has struggled to find her place in public schools populated by cliquish girls and loudmouthed boys. But at the Chelsea, Nicolaia need not look far to find her tribe. There's her neighbor Storme, a tall woman who keeps a pink handgun strapped to her ankle; her babysitter, Jade, who may or may not have a second career as an escort; her friend Artie, former proprietor of New York's most famous nightclubs. The kids at school might never understand her, but as Nicolaia endeavors to fit in she begins to understand that the Chelsea's motley crew could hold the key to surviving the perils of a Manhattan childhood. Not since Holden Caulfield has there been such a fabulously compelling teen guide to New York City: Nicolaia Rips's debut is a disarming, humble, heartfelt, and wise tale of coming-of-age amid the contradictions, complexities, and shifting identities of life in New York City. A bohemian Eloise for our times, Trying to Float is a triumphant parable for the power of embracing difference in all its forms.
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Expansive life of the masterful yet mercurial artist.
Even though he apprenticed and served in several studios, Caravaggio (1571–1610) painted according to his own rules, updating Bible stories with his own vision of violence. He was an autodidact unencumbered by current artistic customs, and he painted what he saw in the pious realism fostered by Carlo Borromeo, reviving the empathic visualization of Francis of Assisi and the Sacro Monte of the Piedmont region. Regressing to the art that preceded the High Renaissance, Caravaggio established an entirely new genre of stark realism and visceral detail. He never did preliminary sketches and painted only from carefully set up models; he was unable to paint from imagination or memory. His virtuosity, mastery of chiaroscuro and ability to make the sacred profane established him as the ideal for painters as varied as Rubens, Velasquez, David and even Picasso, who invoked his use of realism as he painted Guernica. British art critic Graham-Dixon (Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel, 2009, etc.) brilliantly points out how Caravaggio's paintings reflected a violent man in violent times, and self-portrait insertions in many of his paintings reflect the progression of the artist's agonies. As the artistic capital of the world, Rome quickly recognized his talent, providing many patrons to bail him out after his frequent violent encounters. His capacity for trouble mirrored his art, "a series of lightning flashes in the darkest of nights." Because he wrenched so much from the depths of his soul into his paintings, it's no wonder he lived such a short life.
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The importance of liquid fuels in the present day world cannot be overemphasized. Liquid fuels are popular due to their high energy density and ease of use. The transportation sector, depending almost entirely on the use of liquid fuels either directly or indirectly, represents a large fraction of the entire energy consumption spectrum. To date, the major liquid fuels in use are hydrocarbons derived from oil extracted from deep below the earth, preferred due to their easy access with the aid of established technologies and relatively low cost. The recent volatility in petroleum price is yet another signal pointing to the finiteness of this source of energy. By varying accounts, conventional oil production is predicted to peak in next 10 to 50 years.
A large number of developed, as well as developing, nations import oil for the transportation sector to support their economic activities. The looming possibility of the decline in the availability of oil is forcing the nations to consider alternate energy sources such as biomass and coal to supply liquid hydrocarbons for transportation.
Additionally, the usage of fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide to the atmosphere and industrialization has raised the earth's atmospheric CO2 concentration from the pre-industrial level of 280 ppm to the current value of 383 ppm. Climate models available in literature predict equilibrium sensitivity to doubled CO2 concentration in the atmosphere to be around 2-3 o C, which based on one conservative estimate, can cause sea level to rise by 25m. A number of other unprecedented harmful consequences have been outlined in the recently published Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. According to data available in literature, stabilization of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration at twice the pre-industrial concentration level will require 10 TW(1TW = 1012 watts) of additional carbon-emission-free power by 2050. Worldwide primary energy consumption in 2001 was 13.5 TW which is expected to increase to 27.6 TW by 2050. Thus, there is a serious need to decouple the energy usage and the release of CO2 to the atmosphere by using carbon-neutral sources.
Our vision of sustainable energy for the future revolves around being able to harness energy from the sun, directly or indirectly while minimizing the emissions affecting the environment. Thus, our group works towards developing sustainable processes which integrate different energy sources like biomass and hydrogen, producing high density liquid fuels capable of directly replacing petroleum derived fuels.


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Since it's very difficult to live independently when our hands are impaired, Back Bay Rehabilitation employs skilled occupational therapists that specialize in conditions affecting the hands and arms.
These special therapists, known as "hand therapists", have advanced training in the delicate anatomy of the upper extremities. Regardless of whether you're recovering from surgery, dealing with swelling or pain, or need to increase your range of motion, dexterity, or strength, a hand therapist can fabricate a customized splint or implement a treatment plan that restores your ability to lead an active life once more.
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Errico (2010) shared the following story about the Great Hill:
Before time was time, there was a Great Hill.
And on the Great Hill there lived the Yolks.
The Yolks spent their entire lives climbing the Great Hill, trying to reach the top.
Some Yolks climbed fast.
Some Yolks climbed slowly.
One Yolk in particular was a very slow climber. He was different than the rest of the Yolks.
When he climbed, all the other Yolks passed him.
It was hard for him to watch them pass by.
He felt like the worst climber in the world.
Some Yolks made fun of him as they passed.
Others didn't.
Some Yolks wanted to help him climb but he didn't let them.
It was hard for him to climb. It was even harder when it rained because the ground got slippery. Sometimes it seemed like it was only raining on him.
But it wasn't.
There were times when he felt like he wasn't moving at all.
But he was.
Then one day he met another Yolk who climbed even slower than he did.
He helped the slower Yolk climb.
"Thank You," said the slower Yolk.
"You're Welcome," said the slow Yolk, "I can't be of much help to anyone else since I climb so slowly."
"Slowly?" asked the slower Yolk.
"Well yes. I watch other Yolks pass me all the time."
"I do not know if you are slow or fast, but I do know that you helped me, and that you are still climbing."
The slow Yolk said goodbye to the slower Yolk, and kept climbing.
"Still climbing," he thought to himself.
"That is true."
And he smiled.
So the Yolk kept climbing. He climbed when it was nice out, he climbed when it rained, and he even climbed when it snowed.
As he kept climbing he got better and better.
Sometimes he would pass other Yolks and sometimes they would pass him.
He had stopped paying attention.
He also noticed that some Yolks were no longer climbing.
When a yolk stops climbing it stays where it is.
Some Yolks stop climbing because they are happy with how far they have gone.
Others stop climbing because they don't want to climb anymore.
The Yolks that had stopped climbing did not like to be passed, and they made it harder to get by.
But the Yolk kept climbing, right over them!
There were still times when the Yolk thought he was climbing an impossible hill, but he kept climbing.
Always, always, climbing.
Do you think he made the top ?
The Great Hill story highlights the entrepreneurial journey. Often entrepreneurs climb slowly to get to the top of the hill, but must persist to reach the top. Entrepreneurship is about persistence and keeping focused on the end goal (to reach the top of the hill). Some entrepreneurs climb more slowly than others, but the challenge is in the journey to the top.
Entrepreneurs recognize others want to trounce them and say, "I told you so," but filter out the negativity and keep moving on the journey despite the odds against them. Few entrepreneurs are on the fast track, but advance at their own pace. Successful entrepreneurs preserve their passion by settling at a comfortable pace instead of racing to the top of the hill.
Most important, successful entrepreneurs do not let the competition intimidate them. Successful entrepreneurs want to help others succeed in their journey. The key is to keep moving toward the top of the hill no matter what position the entrepreneur is in at a given time.
As the entrepreneur approaches the top of the hill he or she notices other entrepreneurs quitting or conceding on their journey. The successful entrepreneur just keeps going no matter what the pace. The successful entrepreneur knows his or her limits and works within them.
Think about the Great Hill story! How do you describe your entrepreneurial journey? Are you working within your limits at a comfortable pace or are you trying to race to the top of the hill? If you want to get to the top of the hill and avoid stalling before getting there, let us help you find a comfortable pace and help you work within your limits. Learn more.
Errico, D. (2010, December 7). The great hill. Free Children Stories. Retrieved from http://www.freechildrenstories.com/story_details.php?st_id=156


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Chatham Rectangular Extending Dining Table, Honey
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Dining alfresco is a quintessential summer pleasure, and our Chatham Collection makes it better than ever. This handsome dining table is built from FSC® mahogany, fine-grained hardwoods with exceptional strength and durability, making it ideal for outdoor use.
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- Distance between legs: 63" (at sides), 30" (front to back)
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What a shock, when we arm, train, and support acceptable rebels, we attract more acceptable rebels!
In northeast Syria American trainers working with Syrian Kurds reported a growing number of Arabs are volunteering to join the Kurdish dominated (and U.S. supported) SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces). For over a year about 80 percent of the SDF strength (currently about 25,000) was Kurdish with the rest being Christian and Moslem Arabs. But with the weakening of ISIL because of battlefield defeats and growing desertions (and fewer new recruits) more Syrian Arabs are willing to fight and prefer to do that with the SDF, who are the most successful Syrian rebels. Many of the new volunteers have no military experience at all and the U.S. is hustling to expand its training program, which takes longer for men with no military experience. [emphasis added]
This recruiting success years into the civil war is why I was furious over all the excuses for not arming rebels because of how tough it was to find acceptable rebels.
I wanted to find whatever acceptable rebels we could identify and start arming them to begin a cycle of generating more acceptable rebels:
Since the appeal of the more Islamist (and jihadi) groups has been their effectiveness in battle (which has meant they attract foreign arms or seize them more often from the government), arming the secular and nationalist groups can be expected to reverse the appeal of the Islamists. So this 25% of the rebels could grow with new recruits and at the expense of the groups we aren't arming.
Then look for some of the groups with Islamic character to move away from that outlook in exchange for arms, training, and assistance. If they are losing people to the secular and nationalist groups we help, they will have incentive to move away from an Islamic character.
And once the non-Islamists and non-jihadis are more effective, it will be easier to pressure our Arab allies into reducing support for these Islamist elements.
It isn't too shocking that the Islamists are the most important element right now. They fight the hardest and so get more results and attract recruits and arms. In World War II, the most effective resistance fighters against the Nazis were communists. Is it any wonder that communists were so strong in post-World War II Western Europe?
We found some acceptable rebels and have given them real support, and now find more want to join the acceptable rebels.
Pity we didn't do this 3 or 4 years (and 400,000 dead) ago.


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We have been trying to collect Starbucks mugs from each state we go to. There are no mugs made for Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho because they do not have enough Starbucks.
It seems like the entire west is a national forest. We have spent two weeks driving into, around, and through Yellowstone National Park, which has about a dozen or so other parks attached to it. There is nothing but land out here, with a few small communities sprinkled in-between.
To say the scene is eye-popping is getting a little redundant. There is a temptation to ho-hum what you're seeing because around every bend is a new vista that is amazing.
Today we made the trek from Powell, through Cody (the former home of Buffalo Bill Cody, and why the town was named), through the eastern gate of Yellowstone, to the Teton National Forest to see the Teton Mountains, to Jackson Hole, WY, to Idaho Falls, ID.
Jackson Hole was bumper to bumper for miles and miles. It took a long time to get through there. I'd love to go back just to hang. Too much to see.
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This program offers interns hands-on animal training experience with the Mammals & Birds team. Interns are exposed to animal care and training activities primarily with birds (African penguins, horned puffins, tufted puffins, pigeon guillemots, and common murres) with some possible exposure to belugas, harbor seals, southern sea otters, and Asian small-clawed otters. Interns work directly with trainers to support the daily care of the collection and learn the basics of operant conditioning. Interns will be paired with a mentor and guided through several training seminars and workshops to gain insight into operant conditioning techniques and how they are used in Georgia Aquarium's Mammals & Birds program. Interns' daily responsibilities are to work alongside the trainers assisting with animal diet preparation, behavioral observations, environmental enrichment, animal care area clean up, and disinfections. Interns may also play support roles in assisting with animal training and husbandry sessions. Some of the skills interns will acquire during their internship are: diet preparation and feeding; water sampling; commissary clean-up; exhibit and husbandry area maintenance; behavioral observations; environmental enrichment; data recording and data entry; assisting team with animal training, handling and medical procedures; and other duties as assigned.
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Zoological Operations: Animal Training (Birds) Internship
Internship Focused on Animal Training with Mammals and Bird Team
Full availability required (including weekends) 7 a.m. – 4 p.m. or 6:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
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- Major in animal science, biology, marine biology, psychology or related field.
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One of the leading Christian radio stations in the UK is Premier Radio. In May, I was invited to take part in a discussion program, which was broadcast on Saturday, May 12, 2007. The program is called Unbelievable and is hosted by Justin Brierley.1 Taking part was a "skeptical Christian" named John Thomas—it turned out that he was skeptical about evolution, but had not fully taken the plunge to become creationist. A theistic evolutionist named Michael Weekes also took part.
Most of the debate was fairly straightforward. The host did a good job of remaining neutral and allowing the speakers time to present their cases. Weekes' tortuous and illogical theology was exposed at every turn, as much by Thomas as by me. Two unfortunate incidents rather soured the event, however.
The whole experience begs the question as to why theistic evolutionists feel that they can describe their fellow Christians by such insulting language.
As the recording closed, Brierley allowed Weekes to have the last word. He used this opportunity to call for the removal of creationist theology from churches. He said, "If we want to win our society for Christ, then we've got to get rid of the Nazi idea of creationism." My objection in the studio was very loud, but does not come across so loud in the editing. Several emailers to the program also voiced their objection to the Nazi comment, as well as to the weakness of Weekes' theology.
Weekes insisted that the sin referred to in Genesis can only be spiritual and that it is important to separate the spiritual from the secular. This erroneous idea is based not on biblical teaching, but on the ideas of Thomas Aquinas.2 Weekes' failure to follow even theistic evolutionary theologians like John Stott, who believes in a literal Adam, meant that his view of what Jesus' death and resurrection were for was very insubstantial.
This leads to the point that not only is the theology of theistic evolutionists lacking, their science is also lacking. One question that I asked Weekes was edited out of the broadcast. At the end of the third segment, I concluded my remarks by asking Weekes to give an example of a mutation which causes a spontaneous increase in genetic information. As the music for the adverts began, he complained that he was not qualified to answer the question, in view of the fact that he is an engineer not a biologist. He said the question was unfair. In the interests of harmony, I gave permission for the question to be removed but would have liked it put back in after the concluding "Nazi" jibe.
The whole experience begs the question as to why theistic evolutionists feel that they can describe their fellow Christians by such insulting language. Weekes' theology was clearly lacking, as was his knowledge of science relevant to the issue. Yet despite these two obvious shortcomings, he felt justified in referring to a fellow believer as a "Nazi" and his ideas as "nuts." I'll trust the listeners to judge for themselves who is most believable.


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According to the latest reports, it appears the Miami Dolphins no longer want any part of defensive end Jason Taylor's suggestive dance moves or his football abilities ever again.
This is what Dolphins' coach Tony Sparano had to say about Taylor's prolonged absenteeism and palpable indiference toward the team:
"I'm glad we know this. We've gotten the information, and that's important. I know that Jason is not going to be in any minicamps, and I know that right now Jason is not going to be at training camp. So that's what we know. Jason's a player under contract with the Miami Dolphins. He knows that. Both parties are well aware of the information. That's all I'm going to say about it. ... We need to discuss the current players on our team right now that have been busting their butt for nine weeks here."
Honestly, has Sparano seen those behind-the-scenes workouts the celebrity dancers have to go through? Granted, it aint no blocking sled, but it's not like you can imply that Taylor's been sitting around his house drinking pancake batter and smoking cigarettes. He's been learning how to do handstand-into-horizontal flops.
Dolphins: Jason Taylor Not Coming To Mini-Camp [Sports By Brooks]
Ties Between Dolphins, Jason Taylor All But Severed [AP]


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That's right. No catch. No enrolment for any course. I am willing to share all that I have learnt over the years with anyone interested.
Let me introduce myself: I am Vaidy, a copywriter based in Chennai, India. I have worked in several Advertising Agencies, occupying positions that demanded increasing responsibility as I went along gathering experience – this was between 1982 and 1994. I then turned a Freelance Creative Consultant and took on retainer arrangements with very small ad agencies and creative shops that could benefit from an association with me. While I wrote copy, I also helped them with getting exposure by making effective presentations focussed on their strengths and formulating strategies to win new business. In recent years, I have handled more of content development for web sites, brochures and other corporate communications as well as script-writing for corporate videos and little of ad-agency kind of work.
While I wait to answer questions from young copywriters aspiring to succeed and make their mark, I shall stress the importance of a few factors as one strives to become better and better as a professional copywriter.
1. Build an Excellent Command of the English language
Flawless knowledge of grammar and a large vocabulary are indispensable weapons in a copywriter's armoury. The ability to explain correct grammar and to spot erroneous sentences and constructions will greatly add to your presentation skills and also win you the respect of your customers. If you are also insatiably hungry for words, you will enlarge your vocabulary constantly, which is in itself an exhilarating exercise. A word of caution: Use words and expressions judiciously, in accordance with the context and the type of audience. The ultimate goal of communication is to succeed in getting the message across to your audience, interestingly and credibly.
Read as much fiction and non-fiction as you can. But, choose authors who write well. Apart from reading, I also teach English whenever I get the opportunity, which is a wonderful way of becoming better in the language and discovering subtleties and nuances of grammar.
2. Discover the Artist in You
A great copywriter is one who can write well and visualize well. We know that great novelists, apart from writing fine prose, can bring pictures in front of you, even smells and sounds, making your reading experience rich and enjoyable. It is the same with creating a powerful communication.
Watch movies and documentaries with a sharp eye and mind, and not just for entertainment. Study and read about paintings and music and any art form that captivates you. All this learning empowers you to becoming a copywriter who can write with imagination and vigour, and especially helps you develop tight and gripping scripts for videos and multimedia presentations.
I would also strongly recommend, if you can manage it, to spend time with art directors and photographers and learn how they approach themes and translate ideas into unforgettable images. I have had great fun interacting with these professionals while learning a lot that helps me in my writing. Early on in my career, I developed an interest in typography, which continues to be my passion. I remember how excited we felt trying to identify a typeface in a press advertisement, a billboard or a brochure and discovering gorgeous faces such as Bembo, Goudy, Optima, Cheltenham, Bodoni and many more. An acute copywriter's eye can never miss a slip-up in word-spacing, or a wrong font, and the oft-employed justified alignment of text, which is so inelegant with gaping spaces between words.
3. Develop an Avid Interest in People, Happenings and Things
Well, that includes nearly everything that there is to know. You are in the business of fashioning and crafting a wide variety of communications. You are trying to make people get interested in things and happenings and make a move, which could be an enquiry, an expression of a desire to try something and even the decision to purchase a product or service.
That you are not the outgoing sort can't be your excuse. You must cultivate the habit of watching and talking to people as they are considering or on the verge of trying a product, to find out the thinking process that leads them to a decision. You could easily do this with your own family, friends and acquaintances in an absolutely informal chat, right? Of course, if you regularly read surveys on consumer behaviour from newspapers, magazines and online sources, you will accumulate a vast store of knowledge that you can profitably use in your presentations and in your actual copywriting assignments.
4. Follow Keenly what Businesses Do and Say
If you are nearly all the time writing for business corporations, which I would imagine is the case, it pays to read about big businesses and find out what they are up to. Visit their web sites. You will learn trends, the way businesses are run and the principles and philosophy they adopt. This knowledge will help you enrich your copy with telling points and insights, making the communication effective and memorable. By going beyond the brief, you will deliver real value addition to your customer, increasing your chances of gaining further business and also enabling you to bill better.
5. Be True to Your word in every respect
'Honesty is the best policy' says the proverb. In business, it means a lot.
Insist on a good brief
Listen keenly to what your customer has to say about his product or service
Ask questions and understand the requirements of the job thoroughly
Study all information that you have gathered and do some honest research to know more
Prepare and make a good, honest presentation
Recommend measures boldly and with conviction
Consider suggestions from customer seriously
Quote your fee confidently
Consider accommodating reasonable fee-reductions
Present a clear, realistic work-plan and delivery
Initiate and insist on a clear agreement on delivery and payment terms
Deliver outstanding work on time
This has worked for me and, in the long run, don't we all want good and honest customers who treat us well and pay us well and on time, too?
Well, that would do for a start. Shoot your questions on any aspect relevant to being and succeeding as a copywriter.
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If you like typography and haven't done so, you need to see Helvetica - great documentary!
- vaidy said...
Thanks for the information.
I might add that I have always considered every typeface as a Raaga - a type of scale in Indian Classical Music, with a defined set of notes. There are innumerable Raagas, and all lyrics are composed into songs by the use of Raagas. Each Raaga has unique characteristics, which lend the required emotional quality to the song composed in that Raaga, just the way a typeface lends colour and character to words. And it is such a thrill to identify a typeface or a Raaga, by looking at a passage or listening to a composition.
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- MR said...
very useful... Thank you Vaidy
I just started copywriting for an RMG Connect company in Singapore. I am marrying my fiance and moving to New York...So I'll have to look for a job- or at least get some assignments there. With the banking crash, this is going to be realllly tough...
Any advise about how I can land a job or some assignments?
hello mr.Vaidy
I am a student of visual communication from srm college chennai who has just finished his degree in visual communication.
I have a strong grasp on the english languague and would like to know how to get started as a copywriter.
Please do reply


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"Atlanticview Cape Town Boutique Hotel is perfectly positioned high atop fashionable Camps Bay, South Africa's corniche with magnificent 180 degree views of majestic mountains that disappear into the sea. This stunning boutique Cape Town hotel accommodation is situated along side a greenbelt/nature reserve in very quiet surroundings. Far enough from the noisy crowds of the promenade but close enough to enjoy the beaches, bars and restaurants with spectacular views in all directions. Camps Bay is Cape Town's only Atlantic Seaboard suburb with a beautiful promenade and beach packed with world class restaurants.
Atlanticview Cape Town Boutique Hotel is the ultimate accommodation in Cape Town. No children are permitted into the property at any time which ensures all our guests all enjoy a peaceful and relaxing holiday in a child free environment. Stylish air-conditioned, non-smoking rooms and suites have quality finishes, seductive lighting and attention to detail.
This unique "Chic" Camps Bay hotel accommodation has a team of 16 hotel professionals to 18 guests who will look after your every need. There is an in-house fleet of new air-conditioned Mercedes Benz and a Range Rover for airport transfers, shuttles to the beach, restaurants or private day tours to the Winelands, Cape Point, the Penguin Colony or anywhere you wish to go! The team are standing by all day and evening. You simply just have to walk up to reception and tell your driver where you would like to. You will be swept away in both comfort and style with a friendly face from this Cape Town Hotel behind the wheel. For a Cape Town Hotel of this size, this luxury service is unheard of!
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This delicious curry is relatively easy to make and is greatest made recent – there's nothing quite like freshly fried katsu chicken. Place flour, eggs, and panko in separate bowls. Add the honey, soy sauce and bay leaf and convey to the boil, then cut back the heat and simmer for 20 minutes, so the sauce thickens however continues to be of pouring consistency. Warmth a pan of salted water to the boil and dump the rice into the boiling water, stir and simmer for 10 minutes till cooked.
Once I make it once more I am going to make the sauce extra spicy and I will add extra stuff to the rice to make it a bit more attention-grabbing. Fry the chicken breasts for three-four minutes on each side in a generous glug of oil in a pan over a delicate warmth till golden brown and cooked proper by way of.
Slice the hen and serve with the cooked sticky rice, spring onions and a generous quantity of curry sauce. This rooster katsu recipe has an incredibly crispy outer layer of breadcrumbs, with the moist and juicy chicken breast meat inside. Whisk together the egg and soy sauce in a large bowl and put the breadcrumbs in a separate bowl.
It really has fairly a little bit of history behind it. There was a rice shortage in Japan for a while and the British had been actually still the colonizers of India, so the British truly brought curry sauce to Japan, so clearly Japan took it, like with all the things, and made it a lot, a lot better in my humble opinion.
You should master a couple of primary methods to get the right golden brown, crispy, not too oily, tender and juicy chicken katsu. Serve over rice with reserved sauce alongside for dipping. Dip the hen meat into flour. This is generally known as hen Ñ'enders, or panko hen (although any variation of katsu rooster will be called this).


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Calabar consumers protest against high power tariff
Electricity consumers in Calabar have protested against the high tariff charged by Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHEDC), and berated it for not heeding the Senate's directive to suspend the new tariff.
The protest, which was followed by a walkout, took place over the weekend during a stakeholders' forum organised by the PHEDC to educate them about the new tariff regime.
Among customers who attended the seminar were hotel owners, small-scale industrialists and owners of residential houses.
Among the protesters were one Mrs. Ify Uzor, who said she occupies a one bedroom flat, but the bill she has been receiving since December was too much to handle.
The aggrieved consumers protested against a situation where, the company simply estimates bills without ascertaining the number of units consumed by them.
They called on the distribution company to visit the houses or companies being charged, to do physical counting and readings of the meters before sending their bills.
"We understand that there are no meters, but if we sympathise with them, they too should bear with us, they complained.
Another consumer, Asikong Egbe urged the electricity distribution companies to accept honour the senate directive and ruling of the court, ordering it to suspend the new tariff regime.to halt implementation of the tariff.
According to him, "the senate said they should stay action. Why didn't they stay action? Why have they not maintained the status quo until we resolve the issues on ground," he asked.
He expressed worry that the firm did not choose to use an interactive forum before implementing the new tariff. "We have not agreed to pay the bills, they have to stay action because there is a court injunction restraining them from increasing tariff," he said.
They consumers vowed to continue to protest against the hike until there is redress. "We are going to protest this new tariff. It is not going to be a labour affair; it will be a mass protest against this new tariff regime, especially since February."
Manager Corporate Communications of the firm, Jonah Iboma, explained that, "it is only the national electricity regulatory commission that has the power to issue an order on tariff implementation and not any court or senate order halting the process.
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