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FC: Paper Towns and the Monomyth by Ashlyn Julian
1: 1. Lock The Club on Jase's car steering wheel. 2. Tell Becca's parents that she is with her boyfriend alone in their basement. 3. Take a picture of Jase running naked from Becca's basement window. 4. Get Jase's clothes from Becca's room in case he tries to come back. 5. Leave fish for Becca. 6. Leave flowers and an apologetic note for Karin. 7. Leave a fish for Jase. 8. Leave a fish in Lacey's car. 9. Break into the Suntrust building and get on the roof. 10. Get payback for Chuck being mean to Quentin. 11. Break into SeaWorld. | Margo's List of Things To Do Today
3: The Call to Adventure | The Call to Adventure happens when the main character, Quentin, was called upon by his friend, Margo. She blatantly stated, "so like I said, I need a car" (Green 26). She also adds " I have to do eleven things tonight, and at least five of them involve a getaway man" (Green 26). They have known each other since they were both little. She showed up to his window late at night asking him for his help. Margo wanted Quentin to come with her on a journey of revenge to all of the people who have hurt her.There were eleven steps in the plan. She needed someone's help and she thought that he would be the perfect choice.
5: Refusal of the Call | Quentin tried to tell Margo many times that he didn't want to get in trouble. Although Quentin pleads, "I really don't want to get in any trouble" (Green 32), Margo keeps assuring him that everything was fine and adding, " that's how you know you're having fun"(Green 44). Quentin wanted to stop in the middle of the acts of revenge many times. He was afraid that his parents would find out or maybe that they might get in trouble with the police. At first, Quentin felt bad for the people that Margo pulled these pranks on, but then he adjusted to it.
6: Supernatural Aid | Margo disappears shortly after they finish their revenge plan.One of the steps of revenge was to break into the Suntrust building and get on the roof. While on the roof,looking down on the city, Margo tells Quentin how she could "see how fake it all is" (Green 57) and that she "has never once come across anyone who cares"(Green 58). Before Quentin spent time with Margo that night, he was very quiet and simple minded. She got him out of his comfort zone by doing something that would change his perspective on things. Margo showed Quentin how Orlando was "just a paper town" (Green 57). When Margo went missing, she gave him a reason to go out of his way to find her. Margo knew that he "loved" her and that he wouldn't give up without finding her.
8: Crossing the Threshold | After Margo disappears , Ben, Radar, and Quentin are talking about what may of happened to her when Quentin remembers: "Margo's parents just said this morning that she sometimes leaves clues" (Green 108).The crossing of the threshold occurs after Margo leaves a poster of a band on the the back of her window shade because she knew that Quentin would see it and realize that it was a clue. Quentin put the pieces of the puzzle together and went to her house and found the record of that band. Then from there, she left more clues which she hoped would lead to her discovery. She left a poem called "Song of Myself" for Quentin. In the poem were highlighted lines in
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10: Belly of the Whale | Quentin is determined to find out what happened to Margo. He desperately tries to find clues leading to where she may be. The only clues that he has is the lines of "Song of Myself." He has certain lines highlighted such as I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love" (Green 117). Since Quentin is only weeks away from high school graduation, he is torn between spending time with his friends or looking for the girl that he has always loved. All of his friends want to cherish the last few weeks that they have left in high school, but Quentin just wants to find Margo. He is alone in his searching while his friends are busy partying, getting ready for prom, and spending time with their girlfriends.
12: Road of Trials | Quentin is desperately searching for Margo. He has found some minor clues, but they just seem to be leading him nowhere. He got a big break when Margo left him an address. The address led him to an abandoned Minimall. While at the Minimall, Quentin finds that Margo left him a note on the wall demanding, "you will go to the paper towns and you will never come back" (Green 149). Quentin then starts to search for many pseudovisions, or abandoned towns, hoping that it will begin to find Margo. After the pseudovisons don't work out, Quentin really begins to study a poem that Margo left for him. He doesn't know what this poem is trying to say to him, but he knows that the answer is hidden in it.
14: Meeting With the Godess | While at school, Quentin's best friend, Ben, introduces Quentin to his girlfriend, Lacey. Lacey used to be best friends with Margo, but that friendship was terminated when Lacey didn't tell Margo that her boyfriend, Jase, was cheating on her. While chatting, Lacey tells Quentin some very needed information stating, "New York was the only place where a person could actually live a halfway livable life" (Green 120). He uses this newly learned knowledge to try and track down Margo.
16: Temptation Away From True Path | Quentin still is alone in his search for Margo. His friends Ben and Radar are too busy to help him. They are more worried about the last few weeks of high school rather than looking for somebody that never really wanted to be found anyway. Ben is really wanting to live for every moment that he can, even if this means underage drinking. Quentin is busy concentrating on Margo while Ben calls him and drunkenly says, "everybody's drunk. Ben drunk. Lacey drunk. Radar drunk. Nobody drive" (Green 177) then Quentin agreed to help his friend out by giving him a ride home. Ben responded happily, "yay, designated driver" (Green 177). This shows how Quentin was tempted to party with his friends, but he didn't do it.
18: Atonement With the Father | While all visiting the Minimall one day, Ben, Radar, Lacey, and Quentin run into Gus and a group of his friends. Gus was the security guard at the Suntrust building that Quentin and Margo broke into. Gus was there with some of his friends exploring the Minimall. Everybody begins to talk and Gus says how Margo used to come with them to this same building when he would come and observe it. Gus was shocked how Margo "just wanted to go inside and, like sit" then he added "she had that black notebook. She would just sit in the corner and write" (Green 205).
21: Apotheosis | After skipping graduation, Quentin, Ben, Lacey, and Radar all go to Algoe, New York. They are positive that Margo is there. When they finally get there, they find Margo all alone in an empty building writing things in her journal. She is very suprised to see everybody because she really didn't expect anybody to come looking for her. Margo also didn't expect somebody to be able to track her from Orlando, Florida all the way to Algoe, New York. After talking to Margo, Quentin realizes that she never wanted to be found. She just wanted to get away from everybody and be free of the "paper towns." Margo gave Quentin hope to search for her. He wanted to believe that she was ok. Quentin recalls that he " had to do all kinds of crap that I would never do" (Green 284) just to be able to be standing in front of Margo.
22: Refusal of the Return | After having a long talk with Margo, Quentin expects her to come back to Florida with him. Quentin is really suprised when Margo states "I'm leaving for New York City today" (Green 288). She doesn't want to go back to the old life that she used to live in. Even though things have changed, she is afraid that they will return to how it used to be. Quentin shortly leaves and returns home without Margo.
24: Master of Two Worlds | Q | ed | Quentin returns back to Florida while Margo goes on to New York City and travels around to different places. Even though Margo doesn't come back home, she promises to keep in touch with her family and Quentin. She tells Quentin that she left because she began to think, and after all, "I didn't think how everything was made of paper. I thought about how I was made of paper" (Green 293). She just had to get out of there and running away was the only choice she had.
26: Works Cited | Admin. Pinpoint on Map. 2009. The Power of the Map. BootCamp mobile.com. Web. 8 April 2011. Barber, Patrick. Drinking. 2009. Guilt or Grace. Patrick Barber's Blog. Web. 7 April 2011. Denied. 2011. Michigan Auto Law. Michigan's Auto Lawyers Blog. Web. 3 April 2011.
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Monday, October 28, 2013
Breaking News: "A Woman's Right to Choose"
My identical twin brother and occasional lover, Alexander Geist, announced a new single release today. "A Woman's Right to Choose" comes out on Nov 25 on New Pangea Records (Berlin) and will be accompanied by a video shot by Imogen Heath of nowmomentnow, which will premiere on the day of the release. The single will be celebrated on Dec 5 with a live concert at Monarch in Berlin.
Says Herr Geist; "I wanted to write a song which explored gender identity in a much more expansive way than it is usually allowed in pop music, but I wanted to do so in my usual sardonic manner. I wanted to satirize the paranoid fears people have of transpeople, and likewise make a case for a transfeminist political alliance. The idea of releasing the single as a poster is part of an ongoing exploration of the remnants of pop culture – what is my identity as a recording artist in the digital age?"
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It is hoped that minor differences can be resolved without recourse to the process provided in the link below. However, there may be situations where a more formal process may be necessary. This process is intended to settle disputes through mediation and reasoned discussion. Students who intend to file a formal complaint or an academic or nonacademic grievance may do so with Will Perkins, Dean of Students.
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The Federal Trade Commission publishes all kinds of materials to inform and protect consumers. That information is available at this link: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov
You can find information about identity theft, reverse mortgages, scams, financial literacy, and more.
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Today, I went to the beachfront with my kids. I found a sea shell and gave it to my 4 year old daughter and said "You can hear the ocean if you put this to your ear." She placed the shell to her ear and screamed. There was a hermit crab inside and it pinched her ear. She never wants to go back! LoL I know this is entirely off topic but I had to tell someone!


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Cornbread is truly American, in both origin and in tradition. Thanks to the widespread availability and convenience of corn, Native Americans depended on a diet of baked cornmeal concoctions long before Europeans stepped ashore. Today, cornbread serves the noble purpose of reviving rivalry between the North and South (though we think it's fairly good-natured).
Standard cornbread, which follows a quick bread formula, is great for a traditional Thanksgiving meal. But while Northerners are generally content with a simple version from a cake pan (or in muffin form, for the sake of convenience), such complacency earns scorn south of the Mason-Dixon. Southerners are known to get particularly feisty, according to food author Regina Charboneau: "Cornbread in the South is as controversial as gumbo. Everyone has a recipe and everyone has an opinion."
The first debate: sweet or savory? Sweet cornbread, flavored with sugar, molasses or maple, is best topped with honey butter. Savory bread can get as hot as you like it. Try onions or jalapeno peppers for a kick, or grease the pan with bacon drippings for a smoky flavor.
Then, the cook must decide: cake or bread? For a cakelike texture, create a batter and use a cake pan. Often, though, cornbread connoisseurs will insist on serving straight from a cast iron skillet, the contents of which can be baked, steamed or fried.
Assuming it's not Turkey Day, cornbread can be served alone, topped with butter, or alongside a hearty bowl of chili. It can be crumbled into a stuffing for a poultry or seafood entree, or you can just grab a handful and go.


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Beijing Choking on 'Hazardous' Air
Beijing's air pollution index has been over 300 for the past five days and its air quality continues to deteriorate. The WSJ's Deborah Kan speaks with WSJ Reporter Wayne Ma about why Beijing is seeing longer-lasting hazardous air.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... the the ... an index in over three hundred for the past five days and air quality continues to deteriorate ... I'm Deborah con joining me now is Wall Street Journal reporter Wayne Ma in Beijing ... a wave of demand is there two weeks ago choking on inflation and the chain ... things have even gotten worse since I've been there when Ian currently experiencing ... well I guess ... BP over three hundred this is of little less hazardous that's ... equivalent to what the US would ... say it was the level of force by it ... their mom did the sign you're ... on a two point five ... it is that when high ... on Thursdays of each initiative yellow ... it has worked over with the alert system that it was over ... in the dollar's Wilson Island warned citizens across its entire ... surface ... of instruction ... and on Friday day of trade that Orange is the first time they've ever done that since October ... where they were they try to shut down some factories ... that use emissions and others ... on the city government said that they shut down thirty six enterprises in the use of WeChat ... so to me but other ... well ... okay well I guess that the snowman outside Beijing will re enter this any we really feel on the journey Aaron seems like you know friends I talk to in Beijing ... don't think it's not that I'd certainly they say not like this all the time ... they ... after many man I mean are you feeling like the air is actually getting worse are there more polluted days ... I think the intensity is getting worse ... overseen ... by both the movements of what was in two point five ... that that the two thousand and seven points to growth here in on whether ... to pull ... back remains so for ... I think God ... each of the aging planes that are more blue sky days which may be true ... that there could be a ... decline in on the five days are over ... the one good ... example ... of that intensity is that ... KSM This Sakura and to agn and find Denee on a higher API and stand ... do we know ... what's causing it I mean isn't it the fact that this is no we knew were on these areas is their particular reason bought behind on this state and nation ... I studied weather patterns are definitely a factor ... the results when he was ... on the face of the weather that's when ... the meters with her ... rather than allow you to ... so the way of who wins the spill ... the greenback from the Chinese New Year ... factors are revving up again in the phone ... at higher rates to make up for ... lost time in the hall ... can it's kind of hard to imagine living in its Intel us Wayne ... what do you do when people do to protect themselves from dirty air and in and it's quite hard gambling isn't it ... I've never been the opposite with maps and hopefully ... during the peace that period that's sell out ... by air filters sell out that's her thing ... with the orange alert and waste ... all construction as of the city if we don't know how ... I was as ... wide where ... schools are having the opportunity to know that the facts ... and to know to to dispel the other ... one affordable state ... okay thanks Fran much


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In my experience, the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) was a safe space where ideas and information were freely shared – the hallmark of an effective community. It felt like conversations were trailed by floating Creative Commons licenses as people happily contributed perspectives while testing their own ideas and creating their own variations. This exchange of ideas and sense of connection is key to developing any project, where we're all working together as one community, striving for the greater good.
Tracking conversion from these informational exchanges is never instant; it may take years before the results manifest, perhaps even after we've moved on to a different role at a different organization. The value is in that precious spark, sense of possibility, and support from a network of peers, and of someone else saying, "have you tried this?" or "this worked for me."
Technological experimentation is often costly, and most nonprofits simply don't have wiggle room in their budget. Yet, at the NTC I experienced a happy hum of percolating possibilities and developing designs, the fruits of collaborations and conversations that made new technologies feel eminently affordable. I suspect this was because this was essentially a commons that we stewarded together: an open source society whose ad hoc members shared a sensibility.
Open source is both an approach to hardware/software development, and also a philosophy close to the heart of many nonprofit missions. As the Open Source Initiative puts it:
"The promise of open source is better quality, higher reliability, more flexibility, lower cost, and an end to predatory vendor lock-in."
These ends are achieved by working together and collaborating for the common good, each person using one's own skills as part of a team. I see this as a powerful way for nonprofits to work collectively to promote both positive technological development and productive community collaborations.
I work in community media where we are tasked with helping people realize their dreams in an audiovisual medium, and then broadcasting those dreams on multiple media platforms. We are facilitators who provide the most appropriate, affordable, and accessible tools.
Different media centers have vastly different ideas about what those tools should be and how they are deployed, taught, accessed and cared for, but there is also much commonality because of shared experience and shared knowledge across the community of centers.
Working in collaboration with other passionate stakeholders, centers have helped create bespoke webtools, expanding on existing open source initiatives (CiviCRM and Drupal), an open source edit server, and an online tool for giving local registered voters a voice. Each project has lead to innumerable, positive new community connections, and each has cost a fraction of the amount that developing these ideas would have incurred in isolation as individual endeavors.
Each of these projects started as "what if" conversations that bridged geographic and suppositional boundaries. We tried to find new ways to work and looked for new places to resolve these situations. If you have a floundering project, I suggest searching for a peer community or perhaps starting up a local tech meetup. Some of these are based around particular technologies, while others are more open venues for experimentation, such as these:
- CoderDojo: "The open source, volunteer led, global movement of free coding clubs for young people."
- Hackathon: "Each hackathon begins with short presentations by educators and non-profit representatives, then participants break up into teams to plan, design and build a website or application in less than eight hours."
- Makerspace: "Makerspaces are community centers with tools… All are united in the purpose of providing access to equipment, community, and education, and all are unique in exactly how they are arranged to fit the purposes of the community they serve."
We might ask experts, or even keen amateurs, to donate their time to help our missions at these events, rather than donate money. It may well be that no singular thing is generated, no game changing new device is created, but groups of people are energized, motivated, and left excited by the possibilities of what's to come.
Collaborating with other nonprofits is tricky, but when it works it's a remarkable experience, because it means creating and sharing with a new community, which is in itself a technological adventure.


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How to stop spiders coming indoors
Spiders are anything but endearing. Except, of course, for the loveable Charlotte from E.B. White's classic Charlotte's Web — and we don't think she'll be coming over any time soon. Big or small, house or garden variety, the sight of an eight-legged creature can cause anything from mild concern to major panic.
While the majority of house spiders are generally harmless to humans, they play an important role in trapping flies, mosquitoes and other flying insects. However, it's best to err on the side of caution and keep your home spider-free.
You may (or may not) be happy to hear that simply cleaning regularly is the most effective method of spider control. Clear all existing webs and spiders from inside and around your home, and make sure doors and window screens are shut tight so they can't crawl inside. De-cluttering the backyard and trimming back overgrown gardens near the house will also give them fewer places to hide.
Spiders are attracted to dark, quiet places, so keeping your home clean and clutter-free is essential. Outside areas needing attention are porches, garages and sheds. Underneath the house and inside the pool filter box are other favoured habitats for spiders, so make sure they're cleaned regularly. Spiders also love piles of wood, so avoid stacking timber close to the house.
Regularly spraying these spider-prone areas is another great way to keep spiders at bay. Good-quality surface sprays such as Mortein Spider Outdoor will kill on contact and control webs around the home for up to six months. Spray around doorways and windows to keep spiders from crawling inside.
Handy hints:
- Shake out boots, shoes, clothing and laundry before handling.
- Always check inside shoes that have been left outside before putting them on.
- Take care when working in the garden and teach children not to poke around among rocks or under the house.
- Never strike a venomous spider. Click here to find out the most dangerous spiders. Doing so may simply knock it to the floor, where it can easily escape. The spider may also fall onto your hand or another part of your body.


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Music Director Erika Tyler's student concert
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An event not to be missed! Tickets go on sale mid-January.
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Meetings are held in the LTS Library.
*The October meeting was moved from Thursday to Wednesday.
If you are unable to attend, you may call in. Dial (605) 313-5336. When prompted, enter the access code 238135#. Sometimes you have to enter the access code twice in order for it to connect. The system will ask for you to announce yourself. There is a slight delay so please be patient for a response.
Stay tuned for more information.
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There will be an all-day rehearsal the Friday before the festival.


text: Given the frequently bombastic rhetoric that has come from the new President of the United States in his first two weeks in office, it is not surprising that many observers are reading the statement from the White House about Israeli settlements as being much sterner than it is. Expectations (and fears) have been raised in some quarters that President Donald Trump would be even more supportive of settlements than Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and the statement has been read by many in that context. Read more at Facts On the Ground


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Is Evernote Premium Worth It?
Is it worth paying for a notes app?
I think it is.
I have tried every other notes app and I keep coming back to evernote.
The main benefit (for me) is that any post I write with Marxico automagically gets synced to evernote. This means that I can have all my writing in one spot and not have to worry about it finding that write
I coughed up the dough for the premimum plan
I have paid for evernote premium because due to the fact that a few months ago they changed their policy and would allow 2 devices to use the evernote app. For most of us, that means a mobile device and a computer. For my use that's not enough.
When the switch was made to this new policy they offered a half price offer on the premimum plan and I thought 'what the heck' - it's only $35.00 a year for the first year. I'll try it and see how I like it.
So far, so good.
I'm not an evernote power user. I just want to be able to quickly add a note, save my writing and add other sundry items I collect like dry cleaning stubs and business cards.
I don't use most features. I don't use reminders. I prefer to use todoist for that (another $28.00 a year) or even good old google.
I don't add handwriting or record audio notes.
I have 2 notebooks: one for this site, and one for everything else. I don't tag much (every word is a tag) and I don't share notes or use any of the advanced features.
The gateway drug to getting organized
The main reason I use the premium plan is the fact that it was pretty cheap the first year and it's a great way to get organized.
My purchase of evernote was definitely in impulse buy and had I researched a bit more it turns out you can use the web app for free:
> > > > Many people have asked whether Evernote Web, accessed from a desktop browser, counts as a "device" for Evernote Basic. It does not. You can access Evernote via the web browser from as many computers as you like, even on a Basic account. > > > >
perhaps this purchase wasn't the best idea after all as I do most of my work on a Chromebook, and as there is no native app for evernote anway on either linux or ChromeOS this might have not been my most frugal buy.
I could have used a free notes app
Google Keep
Google Keep is a free app so why would I not use keep vs evernote? I find that google keep is good and offers the ability to add images and notes and with an extension for chrome allows you to add pages from Chrome to keep too but I find the interface not as well designed as I would like. In some views the font size is all over the map and to me it's hard to use for every day notes. I have tried in the past and yet I find that there's just too much friction to using this app.
I really like simplenote as it's the only way to really write in markdown when it comes to a note taking app. All others are rich text.
The advantages of simplenote are many:
It's simple. there's not much to it. You have a list of your notes on the left and you write your notes on the right.
It's available for almost every OS or device. If you have an electronic device, then chances are very good you can run the simplenote app.
It's free as in beer.
You can share notes, collaborate on notes and even edit revisions, but you can't add an image easily.
In some ways simplenote is very similar to my favorite writing app on the Mac: Ulysses. Simplenote is of course, simpler and costs less but you could easily do all your writing with simplenote.
Microsoft OneNote
I really haven't tried OneNote by microsoft execpt for a small amount of time, but the vote is still out on this one. I quickly opened the app and could not for the life of me figure out how to add jut plain text so I quit this note app quickly and moved on.
Perhaps I will look at in further in a new post and explore this app in more detail
It's all about the Web Clipper
One of evernote's best features is the web clipper. Evernote calls it the save button for the web and I have to agree.
This liitle browser extension allows you to save entire websites, just the article itself, a full page, a screenshot and more.
Once you clip the page you want, you can annotate, highlight, crop and more. I find this app very useful and worth the price of admission alone compared to the others listed above. Google keep comes close with their extension but the web clipper for evernote is better I feel.
Other Features
I will write another article to explore the other features later but I think evernote premium might just be worth it even if I don't use all the features.
I have used the option to scan a business card and then add it to my contacts, I have added images and then emailed those images as needed
Of course evernote premium offers a few more features like google drive integration (something I like as I rely on google drive for all my offline storage), loads of storage and the ability to search text in images (this is huge)
Mobile apps get a passcode so that if I lose my mobile device my life in evernote isn't lost for good.
One of my favorite features is the ability to email your evernote account. If I get emails like passwords or purchase receipts then all I have to do is forward the email to my evernote account's email address so when the time comes I can find the info I am looking for.
Finding your stuff
If you can't find your stuff a notes app is useless and I think this is where evernote premimum really shines. almost all content is searchable and because I am not the type to be over-organized when it comes to note organization.
I want an app that allows me to quickly enter stuff so I can find it later and evernote's search function allows me to do that. I don't bother much with notebooks or tags but because all text is searchable I've always been able to find what I am looking for.
Integration with other apps
This is another area where evernote shines. Almost every app that allows bookmarking of some kind will allow me to send to evernote. My favorites are drafts for iOS and feedly that allow me to find or create something and then save it to evernote.
My favorite app for evernote integration has to be Marxico. it cost $15.99 a year, (I just renewed today) but it is the best markdown editor for all devices I have tried, and the evernote integration works for me every time. I write, and when I save the entire note - text and images goes to evernote.
This allows me to later search quikly for articles I have written in the past, and if I need to I can modify my note quickly and then sync it again with evernote.
Evernote and Marxico are at the center of my current workflow and I could not work witout them.
Is evernote worth the price?
We all work hard for our money and our computing need are different but as time goes along using computers have provided us with so much data it's hard to keep track of it all and this is where evernote comes in.
This app allows you to share, create and organize and find your stuff.
I paid $35.00 for the first year thanks to the promo a few months back and at that price it's a no-brainer.
But at $69.90 it is double the price and I work pretty hard for that money. It's not much money, but I guess the question is - could you do with a cheaper option like the plus or even the free versions of evernote?
For light users it's hard to beat free and when you add the other free options I have listed above it might be worth it save the money on evernote and use the free options.
But for yours truly who spends a a lot of time online and likes to find the stuff he has to remember or created I think the $70.00 annual fee is pretty reasonable to stay organized.
They say that time is money and for me the time I save knowing that with a few clicks I can find what I am looking for easily then yes, I feel it's worth it to be organized when using my computer and mobile device.
Another plus is there are no limits to devices you can use with evernote premium. I can switch between linux, chromeOS, iOS and android and I can access evernote with all of them. Combined with Marxico I can start writing on one device and then finish on another without missing a beat.
When the time comes I will be renewing my evernote premimum subscription. I think it's worth it.
@(ramseeker)[evernote, deal, price, simplenote, microsoft onenote, google keep]


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Tuesday, December 16, 2008
A collective effort against the flesh trade
IFPEC has been organised by the Indian Community Welfare Organisation (ICWO), an NGO based in Vallalar Nagar, Anna Nagar West, Chennai. The collective primarily educates FSWs on safe sex and AIDS prevention. It also works as an advocacy group for FSWs, cares for their children, encourages savings schemes among them and even spreads awareness and rescues girls lured into the flesh trade. Pheroze L. Vincent reports…
(Pheroze L. Vincent ) PV: When did you become an FSW?
(B. Baby) BB: When I was 20 years old. I had a love marriage at 13. My husband was a drunkard. I had a friend whom, I didn't know, was an FSW. One night my friend took me to her house when my husband had beaten me up very badly. She initiated me to the profession.
PV: What problems have you faced as an FSW?
BB: Customers have taken me to unknown locations and have not paid after the night was over. Some have left me off at unknown places. The decent ones give the bus fare for going home. Some get drunk and threaten us with knives. They hold us for more than a night and make us have sex with groups of 5 or 6.
PV: Have you ever been arrested?
BB: I was in a remand home in Bangalore for 6 months. In the home, we were taught Kannada, basket weaving and incense-stick making. The food was bad. We would get kanji (rice soup) and sometimes get eggs. I was bailed out by the owner of the lodge I worked in. Even after my released I faced many raids.
PV: Was there any torture?
BB: Police used to beat up repeated offenders in lock ups. We would pay the fine and get released. After they have been sensitized the torture has stopped for the past two years.
PV: Did you try any other profession after being released?
BB: I remained an FSW. I didn't know about HIV. Once an FSW, we are stigmatized and we can't find rented accommodation or jobs. Wherever we went we ended up in the same profession.
PV: When did you leave the profession?
BB: I got in touch with ICWO 12 years ago. We FSWs understand the plight of other FSWs. Another FSW talked me into joining. It has been 5 years since I left the profession.
PV: How do you recruit?
(Kalaivani) K: Our field volunteers distribute condoms to FSWs, free of charge, at soliciting sites, daily. We spread awareness about HIV and even demonstrated how condoms are used. Initially members are enrolled in a thrift society. We even conduct street plays.
BB: We have divided the city into 10 zones for operation. Volunteers and zone leaders need to submit regular reports and are even subject to audits. (She shows this writer, folders of audits and hand written reports.)
PV: What employment is available to former FSWs?
K: We train them in tailoring, driving, flower vending, candle making, running Idli shopsand so on. They also find jobs as domestic helps and security guards.
PV: How many FSWs are there in Chennai?
K: A survey in 2004 listed 6500 FSWs. They are centred mainly around the film production areas of Kodambakkam. When leaders of these zones get information of a procurer bringing girls into the trade, we go rescue them. They victims come here for jobs, especially in the cine field.
PV: Don't you face opposition from those who run the business?
K: We counsel procurers and pimps too and sensitise them against this trade. We attend public hearings regarding sex workers so we are known to the authorities. We also bail out peer educators, who inevitably get arrested in raids.
PV: Do you face harassment of any sort?
BB: No, we do not operate in the areas we used to practice. The police know we belong to IFPEC. Some of us haven't revealed our involvement in the trade to even our own children. We tell the landlords that we work for an NGO.
PV: Do you know of any FSW's children born in prison?
K: No, we do not practice when we are pregnant. But, the atmosphere at home isn't always good. Most of us, who are in the trade, are there because of irresponsible husbands. When FSWs are arrested we have cluster mothers who take care of them. We also have mentors who see that they get an education. The children often educate their parents.
BB: My daughter is in Class 12 now. She will go to college next year.
PV: What goals have you set for IFPEC?
K: We are now active in Chennai, Tiruvallur, Kanchipuram, Villupuram and Madurai districts. We want to spread our mission all over Tamil Nadu.
ICWO and IFPEC partner with the Tamil Nadu Aids Initiative- Voluntary Health Service (TAI-VHS) and Chennai Corporation AIDS Prevention and Control Society (CAPACS) and have even conducted workshops for the Tamil Nadu Police. The organization is headed by Mr. Hariharan. Information about their activities can be accessed at www.icwoindia.org.
(With inputs and translation from Devasitham, who is doing a Masters in Social Work- Community Development student at Madras Christian College and interning at ICWO.)
Prabhakaran Praises Karuna as TN MPs defer resignation
This recent interview of Prabhakaran takes the steam out of protests led by parties like the Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK), whose leader V. Gopalaswamy alias Vaiko, is now in jail for making speeches in support of the LTTE, and the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK).
Prabhakaran, in his interview, has chosen to praise Karunanidhi, whom pro-LTTE groups, like the MDMK, VCK and the Tamil National Movement, have condemned for allegedly paying lip-service to the Eelam cause while continuing to be a part of the United Progressive Alliance at the Centre. Karunanidhi has also withdrawn his threat to pull out of the Union Government after External Affairs Minster Pranab Mukherjee recently called on him, in Chennai.
When asked how the MDMK felt on losing the glory of supporting Eelam, to the DMK, party spokesperson Mr. Nanmaran said, "We are not a narrow-minded party. Karunanidhi is talking about the plight of Sri Lankan Tamils only now, whereas we have been constantly supporting the (Eelam) cause for a long time. It is with generosity, that Prabhakaran has given this statement praising Karunanidhi for his relief efforts."
The current wave of protests, in Tamil Nadu, against the alleged atrocities on Sri Lankan Tamils was started off on October 2, with the Communist Party of India (CPI) holding a public fast. The DMK, later, took up the issue with the Centre, and convened an all-party meeting that called for the resignation of Tamil MPs from parliament. The Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) leader Vijaykanth has accused the DMK of hijacking the issue from the CPI.
Com. Mahendran, Assistant Secretary of the CPI, Tamil Nadu, speaking to this reporter, said that after the October 2 fast, the whole state recognizes that the CPI is completely committed to the well-being of Sri Lankan Tamils. "Our All India Party Congress, in Hyderabad, had decided that there has to only be a political solution for the self-determination of Sri Lankan Tamils within a united Sri Lanka. Instead of an Indian federal setup, we support the Quebec model for Lanka."
On being asked about whether the CPI's decisions were coordinated with the Communist Party of Sri Lanka, which is a part of the ruling coalition there, Com. Mahendran said that they too want an end to atrocities on Tamils." Being the Tamil Nadu branch of the CPI, we have to consider the sentiments of the Tamil people first. Every communist party acts according to how it assesses the national condition." This year's May Day rallies in Sri Lanka echoed a strong anti-war sentiment.
The bulk of the LTTE's support in India comes Dalit youth, who, rightly or wrongly, look upon the LTTE as an ideal movement for Dalit emancipation. Dalit parties like the VCK are the militant in their support for Eelam. Bala, a young Bahujan Samaj Party worker in Nungambakkam, who was formerly a supporter of the VCK, spoke to this reporter. "Our CM has fulfilled his responsibility by organizing aid for Sri Lankan Tamils. The MDMK and VCK have taken money from the LTTE, hence they are doing this propaganda."
The credibility of Tamil nationalist groups is in doubt as political exigencies have caused them to swing between the ADMK and DMK, threatening to erode their core base of Tamil nationalists and Dalits.
Stir in support of Dalit law students
Chennai, Dec 3: A Class 8 schoolboy named Mani from Chromepet demonstrated today in support of Dalits involved in the violence at Dr. Ambedkar Law College on Novemeber 12.
"We have to defend ourselves from upper caste thugs from outside (of Chennai) if we have to study in college," he said as he joined around 70 supporters of the Revolutionary Students' Youth Front (RSYF) held in front of Memorial Hall at Park Town here today.
The speakers at the event accused the media of sensationalism and not investigating the root cause of the violence which, they claimed, was discrimination against Dalits.
Veeraswami of the Peoples Art & Literary Association (PALA) said upper caste students would not eat with Dalits and mocked them when they received the SC/ST scholarships.
"They pass comments like, 'You coolies who live off gruel we give you in villages don't wear slippers there, yet you show off with shoes here.' Dalits were attacked during exams. Finally when the three main sub-castes of Dalits jointly resolved to hit back, this violence broke out," said Veeraswami.
D. Ganesan, joint secretary, RSYF Chennai, said that with the closure of the hostel and canteen, the Rs.1000 SC/ST scholarship is too little to survive. Ganesan suspects a conspiracy by politicians, police and the media, to project a bad image of students, so that students lose the sympathy of the public.
"By tainting students as rowdies, police action to crush student struggles becomes easier and the government can continue to neglect reform in education," he said.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
The Mess with no name
George Town is a Mecca for die-hard shoppers, weary migrant labourers and all those interested in experiencing old Chennai. It is also home to a number of lodges, mansions, hostels, shipping corporations and trade unions, law firms and financial institutions. The buildings of George Town never fail to enchant those who choose to explore the narrow streets and their hidden treasures.
In the labyrinth of these crumbling towers of history, this writer discovered an excellent Malayalee restaurant, which has no name or signboard. Its patrons attract new customers by telling their friends about it. It is located in a sinister looking, soot-caked, old colonial building on Armenian Street and one has to figure out a maze of staircase to locate it. The hallucinating aroma of frying curry leaves, guides the hungry through this maze. GPRS mobile phone maps will not work here. It is the smell of coconut oil and the sound of ladle striking wok, which serves as a beacon. It is popularly known as 'Mallu Mess.' The proprietors are reluctant to talk to reporters as their eatery is not properly registered. The eatery is a hit with the residents of the hostels and lodges. Hostel residents of Madras Medical College (MMC ) and the Catholic Centre are its loyal clientele.
The walls are painted with a very bright shade of blue enamel. It is coated with a jagged finish of soot, dust and grease. There is a large exhaust fan, which looks as if it has been salvaged from an oil slick. Cardboards squares decorate the edges of the fan. It is very relaxing to have long conversations in the constant whirr of this fan. The mess is managed by a trio who are known to everyone as Dinesh, Master and Cashier. The old patriarch, Master has a terrific sense of humour. His sarcastic humour is a balm that soothes our fatigue. The mess serves Puttu- Kadala on Sunday mornings. This attracts a large number of Malayalees who live, work or study in the area. The mess' speciality is the Parotta-Beef, which this writer found to be the best he had come across. Dishes are very reasonably priced and an enormous quantity of rice is served for a meal, available for Rs. 20/-. This eatery works from 8 AM to 10 PM, everyday of the week. It has a seating capacity of eight.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
'International' football in Tambaram
There's a usually a fight during the finals of the annual Mini International Football Tournament in Madras Christian College (MCC), Tambaram- especially when the teams are neck-to-neck. This year, however, was different.
The tournament is believed to have begun in the latter half of the 1990s. This year it was held from 10–29 Novemeber. The name is a misnomer as most teams are domestic. Yet, nationalist sentiments were visible. At this year's tournament from November 10-29, Tibetan supporters proudly displayed their national colours of red and dark blue. Mizo supporters sang the Zotlang Ram Nuam (the Mizo national anthem) to cheer their teams.
The tournament was started by Thai and Tibetan youth of Chennai, and they gave the 'international' name. Later, other teams, like the Chennai Mizo Welfare Association (CMWA) and the Naga Students Union-Chennai (NSUC), were invited. "The tournament today, is largely a forum for interaction for youth of Mongoloid races, in Chennai," says Asun, Sports Secretary, NSUC. Northeastern and Tibetan youth, living in Chennai come out in full strength to cheer their teams. Most of them come here to study or work in the IT sector.
The tournament is a jamboree for these people for whom football is an important part of life. This year too, the spirit of the players and the 150 spectators was in no way dampened by the rain. A kind soul passed around whisky in an army liquor flask to warm up the drenched fans. Tibetan fan Dorje said, that the previous day trains only ran from Kodambakkam. Trains usually start from Beach, but could not as the tracks were flooded by the rain. Teams and fans spent at least Rs.100 per auto to get to the railway station. Asked why they chose to play in Tamabaram, on the outskirts of Chennai, Mizo player Samuel said that the MCC grounds are one of the best in Chennai. "It is also convenient as most players are resident students in MCC," said Samuel. NSUC's Asung added that the MCC grounds are free of cost and it is a lot easier to book them than other grounds like Loyola College.
Ten teams participated this year. They were: Tibetan Students Association-Madras (TSAM)- 2 teams; CMWA- 2 teams; NSUC; Manipur; Andaman & Nicobar Islands; Arunachal Pradesh; Stars of Africa and United Tribes (a mixed bag of players from different states and countries). No Thai team has appeared for a couple of years due to a lack of players. This year, CMWA- Team 'A' and NSUC made it to the finals, while CMWA- Team 'B' and TSAM- Team 'A' battled for the third place on Saturday, 29 November on the MCC Football Grounds. The third place match saw some wonderful football. The players fought it out in the slush, seemingly tireless even as the game progressed to the second half. Tibetan captain Dorje Tsering led the team to a 2-1 victory against the Mizos.
The final match between CMWA and NSUC saw tensions run high, as the CMWA aimed to win the tournament for the third consecutive time. The previous champions were the NSUC in early 2006. This year the Mizos fielded former Indian Bank forward Lalchhauchhuah. NSUC's Asung described the 2006 win as his most memorable moment as the match was a tough contest and his team scored the wining at the last moment. He has been playing since 2003. This year the teams were equally good and were equal at 2-2, when the match ended.
There were tense moments of the field and scuffles were averted by timely pacification by Mizo captain Michael, an MCC student. The referees and linesmen worked hard to keep spectators off the field during the match. The Mizos won in the penalty shootout 3-0 and with it the Mini International.
Mizo supporters cried and leaped in ecstasy when the winning goal was scored. Fireworks were lit and players huddled around on the ground for a thanksgiving prayer. A crestfallen Asung said that they are hope to break the Mizo jinx next year. A lot of good youngsters are expected next year, he said. On why female support for the Mizos was more than the other teams, captain Michael said it was because of "girl-magnet goalkeeper Lalhmangaizuala." The female fans were not willing to comment.
Recession hits Indian workers
T. Narendra Rao, General Secretary of the Water Transport Workers' Federation of India and member of the Communist Party of India- Marxist (CPM), says that his party is taking this issue to voters in their campaign through street corner meetings and public meetings.
According to Rao, the Left's constant opposition to Foreign Direct Investment has partially insulated India from the full impact of recession. "Only the Left had foreseen this. No other party can take credit for it," says Rao.
According to L. F. Vincent, General Manager, Carborundum Universal, the recession has reduced the bargaining power of workers. Increments to blue-collar workers are largely made according to their bargaining power rather than their performance on the company's profits. "Workers are groomed to follow might-is-right tactics. But with the recession, even their strikes against sacking are ineffective because factories don't need their services as production has been cut." says Vincent.
Vincent adds that the worst hit, are workers who were due for wage negotiation. They have lost their jobs instead of getting increments. Industries like Steel, which enjoyed a boom in the last three years are now passing off the entire burden of the recession on to their workers. Public Sector Undertakings and companies with strong trade unions are not laying off though.
This worries union leaders like Rao. Only 7% of workers are in the organised sector, says Rao. "Strikes are useless as temporary replacements are easily found. We are now trying our best to organise in the IT and the unorganized sector."
Advocate V. Krishna Ananth says the law in this matter clear. "For instance, where the management decides to layoff a section of its workmen for a particular period of time, such workmen are entitled for a layoff compensation amounting to half the sum of the Basic Salary and Dearness Allowance and this will be applicable for a period of 45 days," Ananth explains.
Prof. D. A. O. Abel Rajan, an Economist in Madras Christian College, says that companies are known to make unofficial payments to authorities to find a way around the law. Ananth and Vincent agree. Rajan believes that we need a right balance of economics and spirituality. "Here MNCs dictate terms to the State. This problem is of our own doing. What we need is self sufficiency. We need to re-plan our economy to avoid importing," says Rajan.
He says that IT professionals are over paid and must be willing to suffer wage cuts. Their conspicuous consumption has contributed to inflation. "The Government needs to control the boom in real estate and regulate the IT sector."
M. V. Krishna Prakasam, an employee of Cognizant, an IT giant says that there were fears of lay offs after Satyam Computers pink-slipped 4500 employees. Cognizant has assured job security, he says. "We recently won an outsourced contract of Pepsi, which took away 1500 American jobs. We have to contact these sacked employees to ask them about the project. It is very sad talking to them."
Golden opportunity for dropouts
"My teacher used to beat me up in my old school, so I stopped going to school," says Atiya before she and her classmate Ammu act out how her teacher used to beat her. 8-year-old Atiya of Foreshore Estate, now studies at the Transit School in the Government Primary School building, Patinapakkam. She is one of many children that have been brought back to school by the Montfort Community Development Society (MCDS), Shastri Nagar. MCDS, which runs seven such schools with 74 students this academic year, is one among 14 NGOs in the city that work in partnership with the Corporation of Chennai (CC), in running these Transit Schools.
Transit Schools are one-year schooling programmes for school dropouts and child labourers, before they are admitted to regular schools. They are unable to join regular schools for the lack of a Transfer Certificate. Most of their parents are illiterate and do not collect a Transfer Certificate before migrating. On completing the course the students write entrance exams for regular schools and are admitted in the class that suits their ability. The Transfer Certificates, which are universally valid, are issued by the Corporation
"We admit children of ages 6 to 16. For each academic year we work in collaboration with either the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) or the National Child Labour Project (NCLP)," says Mr. Arul, Senior Coordinator of the MCDS. The Cardinal Leger Foundation of Canada also supports this project. This academic year is funded by the SSA. An academic year runs from August to May. In the months of June and July prospective students are identified by surveying the slums of Chennai.
Surveys are a dangerous job. "Sometimes sundry missiles have been thrown at the surveyors. We have to face abusive parents and employers, but we are able to counsel them into agreeing to let the children learn," says Mr. Bosco, Coordinator of MCDS' Transit School programme. Head teachers of neighbourhood schools help MCDS locate these children by giving them a list of dropouts. They are also involved in readmitting children in regular schools.
"We even get help from local political leaders. We have also been inviting police officials to our Child Rights Awareness programmes," says an enthusiastic Mr. Bosco, who despite ill health, braved the rain to organize the Child Rights and Sports Day for the Government Primary School, Patinapakkam. The MCDS keeps in touch with its alumni by inviting them once a year for a get-together. Apart from sponsoring books, bags and uniforms for the children, the organisation also guides them to community colleges.
In the last 12 years MCDS has put 1860 children through these schools. "42 of these children are now toppers in regular schools," says Bro. Patrick, Director- MCDS. MCDS also runs a programme for women from slums.
Bro. Patrick explains that when women get involved in Self Help Groups, they come in contact with other women who have children in schools and colleges. This motivates them to sacrifice the income derived from their working children, to send them to school. However, he says, it is next to impossible to convince drunken fathers to send their children to school. "We can use legal remedies but practically we can do nothing if the father of the child doesn't want to send him to school," woes Bro. Patrick, who has been with the MCDS for eight years.
Last year the MCDS ran a program for children of migrant cane craftsmen from Gujarat. With the Transfer Certificates obtained, they can now join schools anywhere they migrate to. In Transit Schools on Avvai Shanmugam Salai and Thousand Lights, many of the children were addicts and involved in petty crime. Yet, they are now in school, thanks to the lure of noon meals and a regular school life. The children are taught using the "activity based learning" method. The government specially trains the teachers for this purpose.
Each school is run by one teacher. They are assisted by Social Work students and helpers. The MCDS gives incentives of Rs 500 to teachers and Rs 1000 to helpers over above their salaries of Rs 1500 and Rs 800, respectively, which is paid by the government. Says Rachana, a volunteer from St. Joseph's College, Kovur, "Though I have a language problem (she is Telugu and is not fluent in Tamil), I am able to take English classes. I am happy with the work I do here." Those interested in volunteering or making monetary contributions to the MCDS can visit their website www.mcdschennai.org.
The children of Transit Schools
1. Besant Nagar- Gram vendors of Elliots Beach
2. N. S. Garden- Cane workers
3. Patinapakkam- Domestic helpers
4. Avvai Shanmugam Salai- Addicts/ anti-socials from the Cemetry nearby
5. Varadharajapuram- Waste electric wire workers
6. Thousand Lights- Addicts from slums along the Kuvam
7. Teynampet- Utensil tinkers
CAG finds irregularities in Chennai Port
The Comptroller & Auditor General (CAG) has accused Dubai Ports World's Chennai subsidiary of fudging its books, in his Compliance Audit Report no. 2 of 2008. The report has reprimanded the Chennai Port Trust (ChPT) and the Chennai Container Terminal Pvt. Ltd. (CCTL)- DP World's subsidiary, for "Improper compliance of agreement for privatization of the container terminal operations." The CAG found "no proper system to ensure the veracity of the royalty paid by the operator as well of the achievement of "non-transshipment" traffic reported by the operator."
Though clauses 3.08(A)(i)(g) and 3.08(A)(vii) of the agreement provide for the auditing of CCTL's books by ChPT, the auditors were blocked by CCTL from doing so. The auditors had to rely on the Terminal Despatch Reports which did not contain complete data on various types of containers handled.
As per the agreement between CCTL and ChPT in August 2001, CCTL had agreed to develop Chennai as a hub port and increase non-transshipment traffic to at least 30 percent of total traffic in four years. Non-transshipment refers to direct traffic to Chennai as different from the use of Chennai Port as an intermediate destination for shipment of goods. The CAG found "a large variation" between the number of containers reported by CCTL and the number actually recorded by the Chennai Customs based on the Bills of Entry (BE). The difference between the percentage of non-transshipment containers of total traffic, as reported by CCTL and as worked out based on BE is 22.74 percent for Dec 2003-Nov 2004 and 35.19 percent for Dec 2004-Nov 2005. The net revenue earned by Ch PT from container operation in the terminal during 2002-03 to 2005-06 worked out to Rs. 322.52 crore including the royalty and land lease charges of Rs. 265.88 crore received from CCTL.
The agreement had specified that non-transshipment meant containers not shipped from Colombo, Singapore, Port Klang, Dubai and Salalah. Yet, the CCTL has included containers shipped from these ports too. In this regard the CAG summarises that "ChPT failed to ensure the fulfillment of the agreement conditions regarding non-transshipment traffic resulting in loss of compensation equivalent to the amount of royalty payable on shortfall in non-transshipment traffic."
Labour union Leaders like T. Narendra Rao, General Secretary of Water Transport Workers' Federation of India (WTWFI) have been highlighting these financial irregularities. "MNCs must follow Indian Laws. Even the P&O-DPW merger was not communicated to the government. Now, these people are not even allowing government auditors in."
The CCTL is now wholly owned by Dubai Ports World (DPW), a State run port services company of the United Arab Emirates. It is the third largest global port operator. DPW bought P&O in March 2006 but did not take the permission of the various port authorities in India, which had agreements with P&O, before taking over the assets of the latter. ChPT and the Gujarat Maritime Board had objected to this violation but the Union Minister for Commerce and Industry, Kamal Nath had then assured the UAE of smooth transfer, during his Dubai visit. WTWFI had then demanded the Monopolies & Restrictive Trade Practices (MRTP) Act be invoked as the merger foreboded the emergence of monopoly in container port service.
The CAG has also found that CCTL violated Article 3.08(A)(v) of the agreement by not informing ChPT of the life of all new equipment purchase. No clarifications have been received from DPWorld or ChPT, at the time this report was filed.
In the CAG's Report no. 4 of 2004 (Civil): Autonomous bodies, it was revealed that the ChPT had lost Rs. 3.2 crore due to negligence in its Split coal dredging operations and had wasted Rs. 1.87 crore by availing an Asian Development Bank loan, despite the availability of adequate resources internally. The privatization of Chennai Container Terminal has cost 752 jobs. Despite the fact that the amount of Cargo handled by Indian ports has increased by 128% in the last 12 years, more than 30,000 jobs have been lost since.


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When You Have a New Favorite Author
If that makes any sense, lol.
Basically, I read Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford in February. For context, it's a historical fiction taking place in Seattle during World War II. In 1986, Henry Lee sees a crowd outside the Panama Hotel and comes to find that the hotel's new owner has discovered the belongings of several Japanese families in the basement--families who lived in Seattle's old Japantown and had to stow their things quickly before they were taken from their homes and interned during WWII.
In 1941, after Pearl Harbor, Henry was 12 years old, wearing an "I Am Chinese" button so white kids won't mistake him for being Japanese. Henry attends an all-white private school, where he meets Keiko Okabe, a Japanese-American girl. The two become close friends, going on adventures, sharing secrets, and falling in love in an innocent way. And then Keiko and her family are forced into internment.
I bawled reading Hotel. I put Jamie Ford's second novel, Songs of Willow Frost, on my to-read list and went on my merry reading/writing way. I started reading Songs of Willow Frost recently--I bought it during the We Need Diverse Books Campaign buy day--and then before I knew it, I was googling Jamie Ford, reading interviews and looking up YouTube videos of the talks he's given.
I think that's how you know you have a new favorite author to add to your list of favorite authors.
But here's the thing: Both Hotel and Songs are historical fiction; I haven't finished Songs yet, but the history there is history I didn't know about. They are about diverse, multicultural, fictional characters. The writing itself is gorgeous, but it doesn't make want to quit reading the book out of total jealousy (I did that to Cold Mountain--the prose was so poetic it made me sick because I don't think my natural writing style is that literary). And though the writing and plotting have space to roam a little and breathe in that way that literary fiction has, the books zip along and are, I think, pretty tightly written.
It made me think about my story--namely in that I think there are a few too many characters just hanging around. When I finish part two, I'll go back and tighten what needs to be tightened. In the outline, I think I tied up loose ends and actually tried to plot, because those were things that I knew--and my beta picked up on--in the last draft.
I'm not comparing my book to either of Jamie Ford's, but I guess at the same time I'm reading them and enjoying them, I'm also studying them a little. Why does that work? How can I economize my story like that? How can I build up to something like that?


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A recent article in "Quick Printing," a magazine for small printers suggested that small commercial shops like Reno Type don't really have much to fear from printers in other communities who use direct mail and the internet to solicit business.
This postcard, received at our shop a couple days ago kinda hammers the point home. Imagine the conversation:
CEO: "Bob, Reno Type charges too much. Let's give this company a try."
BOB: "Hey! Free shipping what a deal! I'll call em right away, sir."
— a few moments pass —
BOB: "Sir? There's no phone number on this card."
CEO: "Go to their web site then."
BOB: "uhhhh…."
CEO: "So they forgot some contact information. You're a smart print buyer. Google em. Call information. Write em a letter and snail-mail it. I don't care… JUST GET IT DONE!"
BOB: "Umm… Sir? I don't know the company name."
CEO: "What? Can't you read?"
BOB: " I mean it isn't on the piece. Nothing. There is no way to contact this company."
CEO: "Well Bob… I guess you're Not the stupidist human being in the world after all. Someone should call those guys and tell em how dumb they are!"
BOB: "Sir?"
CEO: " Oh. Never mind."


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text: In January of 2003, the City of Louisville and Jefferson County merged into one government body known now as Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government, Louisville Metro is the short name. Residents in the urban service area are protected by the Louisville Division of Fire, a Kentucky Revised Statute (KRS) Chapter 95 Municipal Fire Department, while the Suburban Service area is protected by 14, Kentucky Revised Statute (KRS) Chapter 75 Fire Districts. The Suburban area of Jefferson County, Kentucky spans more than 300 square miles, serviced by over 1,100 fire fighters; both volunteer and career members serve proudly. You may find more information about a specific fire district by clicking on the DISTRICTS tab above.


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Enjoy a fun and relaxing Lake Norman lifestyle as active as you can imagine, or as peaceful as you can dream. With several public boat launches nearby, boating, fishing, sailing, kayaking and water skiing are just a few of the water sports you can enjoy on Lake Norman.
Full-service shopping centers are also located nearby, including Winslow Bay Commons on Hwy. 150 in Mooresville; Birkdale Village off of Hwy. 73 in Huntersville; Northlake Mall just off of I-77 in North Charlotte; and Concord Mills just off of I-85 in North Charlotte. These centers provide a variety of shopping and dining options, and combined with the entertainment venues, cultural opportunities and professional sporting events of Charlotte, provide an endless array of activities for the entire family.
Travel I-77 North to exit 33. Turn left onto Williamson. Continue on Williamson then turn left onto Brawley School Rd. There will be a church on one corner and a shell gas station across from that. Continue on Brawley School road for approx. 4-5 miles. You will enter "The Point" neighborhood. Go through the traffic circle to continue on Brawley School Rd. Take Brawley to almost the end and the lot will be on your right.


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I'll be signing off for about a week. I'm hoping to get some R and R whilst simultaneously eating my body weight in stuffing and Yorkshire puds!
Thank you for reading my blog, continually supporting us and being such an awesome community – dare I say, extended family? What a brill 2017 it's been.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from our family to yours. Have fun, spread the love and stay safe.
Love, K x


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Bud Light SBTix 4 Life Sweepstakes
- This a must enter sweepstakes for all you NFL Fan boys out there
- B is sponsored by Anheuser-Busch, Bud Light Beer, St. Louis, MO
- The "Super Bowl Tickets for Life" prize package will include four (4) tickets to each Super Bowl to be delivered to the winner annually beginning with Super Bowl LIl in 2018 (please note these tickets are not actually for life as they max out after 30 years)
How to enter without the code found in specially-marked packages of Bud Light beer?
All you have to do is visit budlight.com/sbtix4life/free and follow the online instructions to complete and submit the entry form. You must be 21 years of age or older and a legal resident of the US in order to win. Employees of Anheuser-Busch, Bud Light Beer, St. Louis, MO are NOT allowed to enter.
BudLight.com/SBTix4Life Promotional Notes
- Entires can also be obtained via text message by texting SBTIX4LIFE to shortcode 50563
- Besides the grand prize the sweepstakes will also feature a first place prize which will be awarded in the form of a Bud Light/Super Bowl LII hat (kinda lame)
- the value of the hat is $20 and around 2000 of these will be given away
- Please allow up to 6 weeks for the Bud Light/Super Bowl LII hat to arrive
- You are not required to wear this hat when attending the Superbowl
- Total value of all prizes via the Bud Light SBTix 4 Life Sweepstakes = $243,400.00
- The first Super Bowl will take place in Minneapolis MN from June 2, 2019 to June 5, 2019
You can obtain a list of winners by writing to: Bud Light "Super Bowl Tickets For Life" Sweepstakes Winner's List Request, 10 South 5th Street, 7th Floor, Dept. 688-70070, Minneapolis, MN 55402. Please make the request before 3/23/18 and include a 3 x 5 index card with your name, address, and proper postage.


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World's wealthiest stymied as swooning markets erase 2015 gains
[LONDON] The richest people on Earth became a bit poorer this year.
The world's 400 wealthiest individuals shed US$19 billion in 2015, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Falling commodities prices and signs of a slower-growing China spooked investors around the world leading to the first annual decline for the daily wealth index since its 2012 debut.
"After three great years, 2015 stock markets worry-wiggled sideways," said billionaire Ken Fisher, the founder of Fisher Investments that manages more than US$65 billion. "Fears over an oil glut, soft consumer spending and China breaking like a plate and taking commodities with it saw investors take fright."
Mexican telecommunications mogul Carlos Slim was the biggest decliner on the index at the close of trading in New York on Dec 28, as his America Movil SAB dropped 25 per cent in 2015. The world's richest person in May 2013, Mr Slim fell to No 5 this year after losing almost US$20 billion as regulators ratcheted up efforts to break apart the business that controls the majority of Mexico's landlines and mobile phones.
US investor Warren Buffett, the world's third-richest person, lost US$11.3 billion as Berkshire Hathaway had its first negative annual return since 2011. Microsoft Corp co- founder Bill Gates, the world's richest person since May 2013, fell by US$3 billion during the year.
Mr Gates's losses and the continued rise of Inditex SA, the world's largest fashion retailer, lifted Spain's Amancio Ortega within about US$10 billion of the top slot. Ortega, Europe's richest person since June 2012, leapfrogged Mr Slim and Mr Buffett as he rose US$12.1 billion to US$73.2 billion.
His 20 per cent rise was still US$19 billion short of the increase for the year's top-gainer, Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos. The New Mexico-born billionaire more than doubled his fortune to US$59 billion as investors cheered profits at the world's largest online retailer. Mr Bezos added US$31 billion in 2015, undoing the US$7.4 billion decline he had in 2014 and propelling him up 16 positions to No 4 on the index.
The shifts at the top came as global stock markets swung from early-year increases to sharp declines in the later months, with the MSCI ACWI Index falling 3.8 per cent by the end of trading on Dec 28.
The world's 400 richest people control a combined US$3.9 trillion, according to the index, more than the GDP of every country on Earth except for the US, China and Japan. At their peak on May 18, the billionaires had almost US$4.3 trillion, a US$267 billion increase from Jan 1. In August they lost those gains and more when a global sell off claimed as much as US$182 billion in a week.
Mr Bezos and Mr Ortega dominated the upside of the year's gyrations, adding $43 billion between them. The performance of the two billionaires contrasted with the family that owns about half of Wal-Mart Stores, the world's largest retailer. The five members of the Walton family lost a combined US$35 billion in 2015.
The market declines knocked 49 billionaires off the daily ranking this year, including Glencore chief executive Ivan Glasenberg and Wang Jing, a Chinese telecom entrepreneur who personally invested US$500 million to help Nicaragua build an alternative to the Panama Canal. Glasenberg lost two-thirds of his fortune as he raced to slash debt at the Swiss commodities company and Wang fell by about 86 per cent this year.
Brazilian banking billionaire Andre Esteves, former head of Latin America's largest independent investment bank who was last ranked by the index in 2014, fell even further this year when his fortune declined by US$1.5 billion. Esteves was hauled off to jail by police in November for allegedly trying to interfere in a corruption investigation.
After his arrest, he stepped down as Banco BTG Pactual SA's chairman and CEO and the stock plunged by almost half. His fortune, which peaked at US$4.9 billion in September 2014, ended the year at US$1.8 billion. His lawyers said in December that the billionaire was arrested solely because he's rich. He was released after the country's supreme court ended the imprisonment after three weeks and remains under house arrest.
Esteves is the latest to fall in the biggest corruption investigation in Brazil's history as the government cracks down on graft among the country's economic elite. The probe, along with a political crisis, a currency rout and a recession took its toll, leaving only four of the 11 Brazil-based fortunes on the index with gains in 2015.
Jorge Paulo Lemann, the co-founder of New York-based buyout firm 3G Capital and Brazil's richest person, led the gains with a US$2.2 billion jump. His partners Marcel Telles and Carlos Sicupira increased their fortunes by about US$1.7 billion combined, as 3G joined forces with Warren Buffett to merge Kraft Foods Group with HJ Heinz. The three billionaires are also key shareholders in Anheuser-Busch InBev NV, the beer giant that agreed to buy to acquire SABMiller in a US$110 billion deal.
China's billionaires had the wildest ride in 2015. On Jan 1, there were 23 Chinese billionaires on the index with a combined net worth of US$205 billion. At their May 27 peak there were 31 with a combined US$348 billion. On Dec 28 there were 28 billionaires with US$256 billion.
As markets there surged, China became a veritable billionaire factory, with more than 50 new billionaires minted in the first half of the year. By July, the bubble had burst. Out of the 50 billionaires created in the first half of the year, only 19 remained billionaires in August.
Russia's wealthiest continued to experience their own tumult. The country's richest people lost US$55 billion in 2014 after the West imposed sanctions in the wake of President Vladimir Putin's annexation of eastern Ukraine.
This year, plunging oil prices and the enduring chill of sanctions contributed to the country's first economic contraction in six years. There were 19 Russians on the 400 on Dec 28 who lost US$8 billion during the year. The group was on track to claw back their 2014 losses until June, when the price of oil - Russia's biggest export - began to dive.
Technology was the best-performing industry for billionaires in 2015. The 44 technology billionaires added US$81 billion to their total net worth, led by Mr Bezos's US$31 billion rise. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg became US$12 billion wealthier as the social network embarked on a renewed mobile advertising push and its vast audience grew even bigger. Strong ad sales also boosted the fortunes of Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the co-founders of Google parent, Alphabet Inc. They gained a combined US$20 billion.
The 31 metals, mining and energy billionaires on the index were hit hard as a collapse in prices for oil copper, iron ore and other natural resources shaved US$32 billion from their fortunes. Australia's richest person, Gina Rinehart, lost more than a quarter of her wealth as iron ore plunged by almost half. Rinehart started shipping iron ore from her US$10 billion Roy Hill mine this month, boosting global supply which some analysts say could contribute to a further slide in price. She's the world's 10th-richest woman with almost US$10 billion.
In Nigeria, where tumbling oil prices caused slower growth and the Nigerian Stock Exchange All Share Index dropped 22 per cent, Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote, suffered his second-straight year of losses. The owner of the continent's biggest cement producer, Mr Dangote now has US$14 billion, about half what he had at his peak in January 2014.
The billionaires cited either declined to comment or didn't respond to calls and e-mails requesting comment.


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We are very happy to announce our first expansion pack, Darkness & Light.
After our successful March Kickstarter, we have COMPLETED work on the expansion and it is now being manufactured.
Follow our band of adventurers into the lands of the Elves. Can you rescue captured prisoners and discover who's really behind the plot, before the Dark Elves and Light Elves go to war?
We're very happy that Xin Ye, the artist for the popular Erfworld web comic, agreed to illustrate our game. Her clean, bright style is perfect for a game that could become a hit family title.
Heroes & Treasure™ is a family-friendly RPG board game for kids as young as 4 and their parents. If you've ever wished you could interest your kids in fantasy roleplaying, this is the game for you.
One person, a parent, acts as the Quest Master, who controls the action, and the others take on the roles of characters in the world.
You choose the characters you play and move your pieces through the tiles that form the game map. On the way you'll encounter monsters, locked doors, special items, magic weapons, and much more. You'll wince as your party's fighter takes a powerful hit from an animated skeleton, and you'll cheer as your wizard freezes a goblin in its tracks.
As you meet your goals on map after map of the campaign, your characters will gain new abilities, magic items, and more. But as you grow stronger, the challenges you face become ever more dangerous.
Can your group survive long enough to save the kingdom?
There was a printing error on the last page of the Mystic Rubies campaign, which does NOT affect the gameplay at all. There is a picture of what all of the dice look like, and some of the dice images in that picture are wrong. The dice themselves are correct; you just need to ignore the reference image. If you'd like to see the proper page, it is available in the Downloads section, below.
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The Kojie San Skin Lightening Soap
Hi Friends,
After a long time I'm posting my second article to Wise she blog, first of all i would like to ask an apology for my long absence since my first post. I met my friend after a long time and i noticed her skin was very clear and bright,when i asked her the secret she told me she started using Kojic acid soap for past 2 years,and so she is able to maintain her skin color inspite of heavy tanning in summer. At first i was very skeptical to use Kojic Acid soap because the term "acid†scared the hell out of me and i have never heard of kojic acid at all. I researched a lot online and found that this soap really works. So I thought of sharing my friend's secret tip with all of you fellow readers.
This is a product of "Kojie Sanâ€and according to their website product claims that
Kojie San Skin Lightening Soap contains all-natural kojic acid formula that helps lightens dark spots due to acne, age spots, freckles, sun-damaged skin, and other skin pigmentations.
Safety Warning: Kojic acid has a drying effect on skin. Skin irritation is the most common kojic acid side effect. Many people have noticed an increase in skin sensitivity after using kojic acid regularly. As kojic acid reduces the amount of melanin in your skin, it weakens your skin's natural defense. It is therefore important to remember to wear sunscreen with a high SPF value.
My Experience with Kojie San Skin Lightening Soap :
About Kojic Acid:
1.It was discovered in 1989 in Japan. Kojic acid is used in cosmetic industry to lighten skin, and is a natural by-product during the fermentation process of malting rice  by several species of fungi.
2.It has antibacterial and anti fungal properties,and also cures skin diseases like melasma.
3.When you start using Kojic acid soap it reduces the production of melanin in your skin and hence within few weeks your skin will have lighter appearance . Remember Melanin which is the main cause for Age spots, sun spots and spots related to melasma gives your skin its pigment, and the more you have, the darker your skin will be.
4.Kojic acid is also used in foods as a preservative and increases shelf life of a given product.
It produces slight stinging sensation on face when used for first time and my skin was brighter after 2 weeks .I used the soap on dark areas on my knees and elbows, and after a month i started seeing some difference. Dark areas around my knee and elbows started to fade so quickly, which never happened before. I would recommend this soap to anyone with dark skin around their knees and elbows. They also sell Kojie San Whitening Lotion and Face Lightening Cream.
Ingredients: Pure Kojic Acid, Sweet Orange, VCO, Glycerine, Vegetable Extracts, Vitamin C
Warning: The soap melts very quickly,so keep it in a dry place.
Shelf Life:Longer shelf life because kojic acid prevents oxidation and spoilage.
Directions: Use daily as a regular soap for the face.
Availability : Amazon (USA) . I'm not sure if it's available in India.
What I like about Kojie San Skin Lightening Soap:-
- Lightens skin tone.
- Prevents acne and age spots.
- Skin feels soft .
What I don't like about Kojie San Skin Lightening Soap:-
- The soap melts very quickly,so keep it in a dry place.
- The soap dries out your skin,and so please use Moisturizer after usage.
Will I recommend to buy Kojie San Skin Lightening Soap:Highly recommend.
Have you tried Kojie San Skin Lightening Soap ?
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Open Range R.V. Company is recalling 1,956 model year 2012-2014 Mesa Ridge and Roamer trailers, and 2013-2014 Light trailers manufactured March 23, 2011, to March 20, 2014.
The Gross Vehicle Weight Rating calculation on the label may be incorrect, which may result in the overloading of the vehicles.
If the trailers are loaded based on the incorrect labels, they may be overloaded, resulting in tire failure, increasing the risk of a crash.
What to do
Open Range will notify owners and provide a label with the corrected weight information, free of charge. The manufacturer has not yet provided a notification schedule.
Owners may contact Highland customer service at 1-260-768-7771. Open Range's number for this recall is 9905283.
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SaaS cost savings impress CIOs
A new survey says midmarket organizations tend to be more satisified than larger organizations with the SaaS method of delivery.
Midmarket companies are taking to the Software as a Service (SaaS) method of delivery more aggressively than their larger and smaller brethren, a symptom of their desire to grow quickly through inexpensive means, a new survey has found.
"SaaS is a means to increase the capabilities of the company at a faster pace and at lower costs, and that is where midsized companies [are]," said Bruce Guptill, managing director at Saugatuck Technology Inc., the Westport, Conn.-based consulting firm that conducted the survey.
"They want to put money into growing," Guptill said. "What can we get out of it now? What can we get out of it this year?"
Midmarket IT shops are in a unique position to employ a SaaS program across a business with the hopes of cutting costs and simplifying work operations.
In fact, CIOs and other business and IT executives at midmarket companies "indicate greater familiarity with SaaS than executives at other sizes of firms," according to Saugatuck's May survey results.
Eighty-six percent of those surveyed at companies with fewer than 500 employees said they were "familiar," "very familiar" or "extremely familiar" with SaaS. That's as much as 20% more than IT executives at companies of other sizes.
Thomas Lockwood, CIO at Car Toys Inc. in Seattle, would probably fall under "extremely familiar." He's been running a SaaS business intelligence program from Bellevue, Wash.-based PivotLink Inc. for five years.
"It's not our core business, and they just take care of everything for us and make it really easy," Lockwood said. "To the users, they can't tell the difference so it just takes one more thing off my team's plate that they don't have to deal with." Lockwood runs a 20-member IT department at the 1,200-plus employee mobile entertainment and cell phone retailer.
Car Toys also uses a SaaS version of Oracle Financials, hosted through a third party. Lockwood said he'll look at other SaaS applications when, and if, he decides to make changes in applications used by the company. He said he's happy with the two he's using.
"On the PivotLink side, it's the ease of use," he said. "And on the Oracle side, it's the cost savings."
In addition, 95% of IT executives at companies with 500 employees said they were satisfied with the SaaS programs they are using, up from the already high 84% at companies of all sizes.
"We're not trying to say, for example, that SaaS is a midmarket phenomenon," Guptill said. "But it is in that midmarket where we see the most aggressive SaaS adoption."
And across all company sizes, 40% of survey respondents said they use at least one SaaS application. Saugatuck expects that to move to 70% by 2012 for companies with more than 100 employees.
Guptill said the survey found IT managers primarily taking to customer relationship management and workplace collaboration software SaaS programs.
His guess for the reason behind the success: "That's pretty much where most of the SaaS activity is on the vendor side, isn't it?"
Not faring so well in the SaaS arena right now are ERP, supply chain management, compliance and risk management programs, results Guptill called "puzzling."
"That's an area outside of what you want to do as a company, but you have to get it done," he said. "Why not outsource?"
Guptill said Saugatuck will conduct a new survey to determine why CIOs are spurning SaaS programs in those sectors.
Let us know what you think about the story; email: Zach Church, News Writer


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Phone: 651-271-2547
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|Steve and Monica Kinny are professional REALTORS® with Keller Williams Premier Realty in the Twin Cities. We live and work in St. Paul, Mahtomedi, White Bear Lake, Stillwater, Shoreview, Vadnais Heights, Hugo, Forest Lake, Chisago Lakes area, and the surrounding suburbs.
Different by design.The Kinny Team takes a different approach to real estate, one that is built on relationships, win-win deals, and positive results while providing full service real estate sales and consulting services. A home is not a home because of its room dimensions or the color of the walls. It's about how you feel when you walk through the front door, and the way you can instantly envision your life unfolding there. This is about more than real estate. It's about moving you forward!
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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Recording quality low
From: Johan Vromans (jvromans_at_squirrel.nl)
Date: 2003-03-08
[Quoting Chris Holt, on March 7 2003, 07:10, in "Re: Recording qualit"]
Sure. The CD player handles the D-A conversion. If the audio signal is
However, when the audio signal is fed to AJBR (line in) the recorder
CD-Player --> arbitrary amplifier --> good quality
-- Johan
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