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Nagasaki Prefecture is positioned in the west part of Kyushu Island.
The coastline is very complex, so this prefecture has many bays, coves
and peninsulas.
And about 970 islands are around this prefecture.
Main islands are Tsushima (about 100 km north), Iki (about 50 km north) and Goto Islands (about 60 km west).
In the middle of the 16th century, Christian missionaries came from
Portugal, and they created many Japanese Christians in this area.
From the early 17th century to the mid-19th century, the government had banned Christianity, but many hidden Christians were in this area.
It is said that Nagasaki Prefecture has the highest percentage of Christians in Japan.
Nagasaki city is the prefecural capital.
Here had been a small village.
But main port was constructed in 1570, so this area became an important place and developed.
During Edo Period (1603-1868), the government had an isolationist policy, but Nagasaki had been the only port for foreign trade. Near the port, Dejima island was constructed, and the merchants of China and the Netherlands had stayed there.
"Madama Butterfly" by Giacomo Puccini is a famous opera set in Nagasaki
in the 1890s.
The historical background makes Nagasaki an exotic city.
At 11:02 a.m., on August 9th, 1945, the U.S. B-29 Superfortress
Bockscar dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki city.
Three days before, Hiroshima city was sacrificed by the first evil bomb.
The A-bomb killed about 74 thousand people and injured about 75 thousand people in a moment.
I hope that the use of A-bomb was the last time in human history, for eternity.
To visit Nagasaki Prefecture, JR limited expresses are convenient.
The limited express "Kamome" comes to Nagasaki, and "Midori" comes to Sasebo.
They reach both city from Hakata for about 2 hours.
Nagasaki Airport is located about 25 km north of Nagasaki city.
It has the flights from Haneda (Tokyo), Chubu (Nagoya), Itami (Osaka), and a few other cities.
And it has the flights to the main islands of this prefecture (Tsushima, Iki, Goto).
And it has the international flights from Seoul.
To tour around Nagasaki city, it is convenient and reasonable to use
It is the flat fare (120 yen), and the one-day ticket is 500 yen.
And route buses are operated frequently, and the regular sightseeing bus visiting main spots runs twice per day from JR Nagasaki station.
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Confucius Shrine /4/
Oura Catholic Church /5/
Glover Garden /6/
Megane Bridge /7/
Sofukuji temple /8/
Memorial to the Martyrdom of the 26 Saints of Japan /9/
San'no Shrine /10/
Hypocenter Park /11/
Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum /12/
Peace Park /13/
Urakami Cathedral /14/
Nyokodo hermitage /15/
Mount Inasa /16/
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Shimabara city /22/
Mount Unzen /23/
Kuju-ku Islands /24/
Hirado city /25/
Fukue Island /26/
It is the annual event for about two weeks from the
Chinese New Year's Day.
Originally, this had been held the New Year Festival for Chinese people living in Chinatown in Nagasaki city.
Since 1994, this has been one of the main festival of Nagasaki city.
Many Chinese lanterns are decorated in the town.
As the events, the parade of former Chinese dynasty, the reenactment to enshrine the statue of Mazu (Chinese goddess of sea) to a temple, and so on are held.
Of course, we can see the vivid dances of dragon and lion.
Bon (Obon) is a Buddhist festival held to welcome back the
spirits of the dead.
In Nagasaki Prefecture, Shoro Nagashi is held.
On the first Bon day of a dead person, the family carry a decoarated float throughout the city.
The float is in the form of a ship, and has the soul of the dead person.
When the parade is done, firecrackers are set off. It has an Chinese influence.
But it is not a festival not a Buddhist ceremony.
It is the annual festival of Suwa Shrine in Nagasaki city.
59 towns in Nagasaki city divide into 7 groups, and each group with 7-11 towns joins this festival in turns.
Each town shows unique performance.
They are dragon dance, Japanese dance, pulling or carrying floats, and parades.
On the whole, they has been influenced by the traditional culture of Portugal, the Netherlands, China.
It is a type of banquet in Nagasaki.
The guests sit around a round table, and eat the various dish on large plates freely. It looks like Chinese dish.
On the plates, Japanese dishes such as sashimi, tempura, boiled dish of various vegitables, and Chinese dishes are served.
It is said that this style had been born from the dinner with citizens and Chinese people in Nagasaki in the 17th century.
It is a noodle dish born in Nagasaki city.
Pork, Sea foods (squid, shrimp), various vegitables are fried. Then thick Chinese noodle and soup are added and boiled.
It is completely different from ramen.
In the early 20th century, a Chinese cook from Fujian in China to Nagasaki invented this as a cheap and nourishing dish for students from China.
"Sara" means "plate", and "udon" is one of popular
Japanese noodles.
But this dish serves no udon. Fried Chinese noodle is used.
On it, fried and boiled pork, sea foods and varoius vegitables are topped.
This dish was also invented by the cook who created Chanpon.
This is the popular dish in Nagasaki, along with Chanpon.
It is a Japanese sponge cake made of sugar,
flour, eggs
and starch syrup.
The cake was brought by way of Portuguese merchants in the 16th century.
The name is derived from Portuguese Pão de Castella, meaning "bread from Castile".
It is a Western cake using no milk, so it became a popular sweets for Japanese people who had been not the custom to use milk and dairy products.
Vidro is a Portuguese word meaning "glass".
In the 16th century, Portuguese brought the Western glass products to Japan.
And Japanese craftsmen learned the process of making glasswares from Dutchman staying in Dejima island in Nagasaki city.
And they created a glass toy.
It looks like a flask. When we blow the pipe, the thin bottom makes a sound "popin!".
The Ukiyoe (Japanese woodblock print) "Lady blowing Vidro" created by Utamaro Kitagawa (1733-1806) is famous.


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Beaumonde Homes have just finished there new display home in Iluka. Best of luck to Chanelle and Troy with the opening.
Just a few shots from a photoshoot down in Lakelands for Focus Builders. The new addition to the kit definitely helped document the size of the project. Here's to many more drone shots!!!
I was fortunate enough to photograph the HIA Home of the year for Tomizzi Builders. This house was designed by architect Paul Hofman and built by Tony Tomizzi both of which are long time clients of mine. Congratulations to both of you.
Di Bucci Builders built this amazing home of which I had the pleasure of photographing and then have it on the front cover of New Homes.
This years annual features three projects I photographed for different clients. The front cover was a photoshoot for Mandurah Homes.
John Lewis Architect and Di Bucci Builders finish this amazing home in Hillary's - Perth.
Architect Mick Rule from Romano Homes built this stunning City Beach residence which showcases an outstanding level of design and build.
Builder Heath Davies of Jumeirah Homes and Paul Hofman of Hofman & Brown Architects built this stunning home in Cottesloe.
Just finished a shoot for Edgar Idle Wade who have completed another great project at Newman College. It will be entered into the Education Facilities Awards along with the Santa Maria College project. They seem happy with the images!!…………. "Thanks Andrew! They look great and capture our design intent! Chloe Kind regards, Chloe Summers | Architect"
Here are a few shots from a joint venture photoshoot involving Broderick Architects and Universal Constructions of this outstanding school in Parkerville.

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Its July now !……Its a monsoon time!!!
I'm posting a picture which was clicked at the start of this week, before the rains resumed!
The picture was clicked near jaipur, in the jungles from a vantage point, just after the sunrise. Clouds covered the Sun, causing diffraction of light. Due to insufficient light in sky, thejungle in this picture appears quite dark.
And yes, Jaipur had a good share of rains in form of intermittent showers this week. Its a desert state and rains are something that makes everyone happy!
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February 2017 Newsletter
I hope this newsletter finds everyone doing very well! Wishing you all the awareness to see the beauty of your days.
Our Programs
This past fall we initiated our Education in the Garden programming in six Austin elementary schools and it was received with great enthusiasm! We are currently providing a highly trained garden educator to work with teachers and their classes providing edible education, science, nutrition, and outdoor arts to over 1400 students at Cunningham, Zilker, Sunset Valley, Menchaca, Brooke, and Perez Elementary throughout the 2016-2017. This spring we have added one additional school day program at Lucy Read Pre-Kindergarten Demonstration School and an after-school program at Barrington Elementary bringing the number of students we are working with to over 1500.
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Gardening education provides learning opportunities in science, math, social studies, language arts, health, PE, Fine Arts, and Music, promotes healthy living through being active outside and learning about healthy eating, teaches respect for the natural world around us and complements social emotional learning by improving self‐esteem, student engagement with the school community, and a sense of empowerment, among other benefits, and fosters creative learning opportunities and utilizes a creative space for learning and mentoring.
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Black and white has many meaning. But when draw I feel something that represent the world that made by God. Be front of light everything shows up. Bad things or good thing.. it doesn't matter. However, when we were in dark, we cannot see anything. There are no goal and meaning. I want express this kind of message on my works.
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The procedure is simple:
- Pick a suitable apartment or a room you like
- Set the move-in and move-out dates. Make a reservation.
- Wait for 24 hours for the landlord to approve the reservation.
Finally, you will sign a contract with the landlord, pay your first rent and arrange the keys exchange. The fee for a successful reservation is just 19 EUR and low service fee. It is a reward for Flatio for arranging your accommodation. You will be also definitely happy to hear that there are no deposits and no high commissions on Flatio. Normally, you would have to pay those to real estate agencies.
Rentals for students in Berlin
If you do not want to live in a dormitory during your stay in Berlin, we have a great solution for you–single rooms, on offer on the website of Flatio. You can get to know your surroundings in the first half a year, make new friends, and then, after a couple of months, you can find an apartment together.
As a student, you will be definitely happy to hear that there are no deposits on Flatio. You can spend the money you save on educational courses, entertainment, or weekend trips.
Fully furnished and equipped rooms and apartments
All the student apartments and rooms on offer on Flatio are fully equipped and furnished. You will not have to worry about buying basic, necessary equipment. As soon as you walk into your new apartment, you will be able to use it to the fullest.
Thanks to that, you will have more time for your learning activities and meeting new friends. And you never know, maybe you will want to live together in one apartment after a couple of months.


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Comfort food. This is our thing.
It's the food you'd rather have than any other food. Naughty but delicious.
It's all about the nurturing and decadent meals that are close to your heart, that put a smile on your face, make you feel happy and remind you of special times.
Inspired by everything from childhood memories to the changing of the seasons, and taking into account the guilty pleasures and sweet indulgences that we enjoy to share with family and friends.
For us, that food is Grilled Cheese sandwiches... And homemade soups... And yummy cakes.
And so the idea of the first Grilled Cheese bar in Paris was born and "La Parenthèse" opened its doors and welcomed their first customers in September 2012.
Organisez un évènement et privatisez notre établissement:
La Parenthèse Grilled Cheese
Rue Richer 20
75009 Paris
+33 1 75 57 19 47
Lundi 09:00 — 17:00
Mardi 09:00 — 17:00
Mercredi 09:00 — 17:00
Jeudi 09:00 — 17:00
Vendredi 09:00 — 17:00
Samedi 11:00 — 17:00
Dimanche Fermé
Nous n'acceptons pas les réservations.


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We are one of the UK's leading landscaping companies and as a 6 times BALI Grand Award winning commercial landscaping contractor which was founded in 1983, we pride ourselves in providing best in class hard and soft landscape contracting services. With over 36 years of successful high profile projects under our belt, we continue to expand on our services to provide enterprising landscaping solutions and innovations for our clients.
Over the years we have been responsible for an award winning innovative security planter design which have been tested and received an anti ram barrier PAS 68:2007 accreditation. We have worked with RHS Gold Award winning landscape designers and Landscape Institute Award winning architects. Our expertise also extends to installing bio-diversity gardens,roof gardens and walled gardens for blue chip FTSE 100 companies along with installations of high end private residential gardens.
Featured Projects
Willerby News
Every day you will find our maintenance operatives working on one of the 60 plus contracts we have in the south east of England. Additionally, our hard & soft landscape operatives will be busy fulfilling contractual works on over 20 installations within London and the south east. Catch up on the Willerby company news where further insights to some of the projects we are working can be found.
360 Degree Images
We have introduced to our site 360 degree images of our works, both past and present. This is an exciting way to showcase the projects we are working on, not only giving you sharper insight to our installations, but also within the 360 image, written detail's on the design concept and planting palette. Click through to see an example of this exciting enhancement to our website.
International Quarter London
The International Quarter London S9 development involved the planting of over 15,000 herbaceous shrubs and plants, 25,000 bulbs and 50 semi mature trees and an irrigation system. This area of the development included the service road and the installation of nine Acer platanoides (Norway maple) which presented their own challenges to us.
Teddington Development
Just 12 miles from London, Teddington Riverside is the only development overlooking Teddington Lock. Our works involved hard and soft landscaping and fulfilling the requirement of an Ecological Mitigation and Enhancement Scheme report conducted by The Ecology Consultancy
Our specialist experience in installing semi-mature containerised trees, the design and installation of water features, irrigation systems and grounds maintenance, supported by a skilled and motivated team, has enable us to provide an unrivalled range of services, thus ensuring projects are completed swiftly and efficiently.
For the last 10 years we have had regular project work at the Olympic Park in Stratford London culminating in winning two prestigious Awards, the BALI 40th Anniversary Award for Landscaping Excellence and a BALI Grand Award in 2014 for the QEOP South Park Plaza transformation works. Our most recent project at the Olympic site has been within the International Quarter London planting avenues of Limes and Oaks along with over 8,000 shrubs! Our Project Archives details all our works at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
We continue to work a number of high-end private residency installations in and around London and The Kings Cross Development project where we secured our 6th BALI Grand Award in 2016 keeps us busy having installed over 15 roof gardens to date along with five Parks.


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A Brief History
In 1955, Dartmouth graduate Bob Sieburg purchased property at 50 Newtown Road, Danbury, Connecticut (presently BRT's headquarters) and founded Sieburg Industries, an industrial metal testing company. Bob's industrial business thrived and he soon began to invest in real estate.
In the early 1960s, Bob created Sieburg Custom Homes Corporation to construct single family homes, and started to build a team to manage real estate development projects. In 1968, he hired Bert Bertram, an engineer and former Marine Corps fighter pilot, to help manage the growing business. By 1971, Bert was responsible for all real estate operations, and the first BRT companies were officially formed.
Under Bert's leadership, BRT companies developed or acquired thousands of multifamily units in the northeastern United States. During that time, BRT diversified by developing other types of real estate and investing in businesses outside of real estate. Bert's son, Dan Bertram, a graduate of Princeton University and a Columbia University MBA, took over operation of the companies in 2000.
Our Development Approach
In real estate development, projects are typically approached in one of two ways, 'a site looking for a use' or 'a use looking for a site.' At BRT, we pride ourselves on tailoring solutions for each site we develop. We never try to implement a concept on a project just because it worked somewhere else. The right solution has to fit each project's unique characteristics.
Our approach requires flexibility, vision and expert knowledge of the communities in which we operate. If a project requires partner participation, then we seek and engage quality business partners to ensure the best outcome.
Our Approach to Operations
One of BRT's core strengths is providing value for our customers. Whether the customer is a student looking for off-campus housing, a young professional looking to buy or lease their first apartment, a senior wanting a community tailored to active adult life, or anyone in between, BRT is dedicated to understanding a wide range of housing needs and providing compelling, well-priced products.
Our Approach to You
We want you to be our customer. More than that, we want you to be our happy customer. Since you are reading our company overview, chances are you have found a product or service that has piqued your interest, and we appreciate the opportunity that represents to serve you.
If there is something that we can do to win your business, or to make your experience with a BRT company better, please let us know.


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The Metropolitan, Archbishop and the congregation were all in Carmel for Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church's door opening ceremony (See previous post for more background). As the architect for this unique temple and support spaces, I was in attendance for the ceremonies. The whole experience was really gratifying to see this dedicated parish enjoy this special day.
Despite the many economic realities we are all faced with, Holy Trinity has been an example of trusting in the faithfulness of their people and of God.
Although the future will hold more progress and developments, it is alway important to celebrate sucesses along the way. Kudos to the Parish.
More lessons and observations will come in the future, stay tuned…


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For the price of a decent netbook PC, early adopters can get a step ahead of the pack if they want to splash out and pick up the world's first USB 3.0 Blu-ray burner.
The device in question is the, wait for it... BR-X1216U3 from Buffalo and it also happens to be the first USB BD drive to write at 12x speed as well.
In time for Christmas
Alas for those early adopters, the ¥39,100 (£275) external drive is available only in Japan, where it will hit the shops at the beginning of December.
Anyone without a USB 3.0 card in their computer – and that's everyone, basically – can still use it on a 2.0 connection, although only at 7x writing speed.
Not that it matters a great deal, as there still is no such thing as a Blu-ray disk that can be written to at 12x anyway. The fastest generally available now is typically 8x.


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After years of gaining vast skills and experience, Cindy Drainer felt it was the time to invest those skills and experience at Jersey Community Hospital. Cindy is excited to be close to home and working in a facility that she feels is an important asset to the community where she has lived for 30 years. Cindy is responsible for managing the staff and overseeing the day-to day function of various surgeries performed at JCH.
For the last 25 years, Cindy was employed at St. Anthony's Health Center in Alton, Illinois. Cindy began her career at St. Anthony's in Day Surgery and transferred to the OR where she spent 15 years scrubbing, circulating and assisting in surgical procedures. Cindy was the preceptor for new nurses for 9 years and charge nurse for 2 years before becoming the Director of Perioperative Services. Her responsibilities included 6 departments; OR, RR, Day Surgery, Preadmission Testing, Sterile Processing and the GI Center all of which included 50 team members. Early in her career, Cindy spent 4 years in critical care including 3 years Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit at Memorial Medical Center in Springfield, Illinois. Cindy attended Lewis and Clark Community College where she received her degree as an RN.
Cindy resides in Jerseyville and is the proud mother of 4 and grandmother of 5. Cindy wrote, "I am excited to be a part of a management team whose goal is to provide excellence in healthcare to Jerseyville and the many surrounding communities."


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RotorMaster Boss Takes The Championship!
The Sydney Dragway Track Championship Trophy Presentations were held on Sunday the 19th June in the Sydney Dragway Event Centre. A huge congratulations goes out to RotorMaster Director Joe Signorelli for his mighty consistent effort throughout the 18month Series. The win is testiment to the quality of work conducted by Signorelli himself in both build houses RotorMaster & GAS Motorsport.
Over 250 guests attended the presentations which started at 11:30am with a Meet and Greet Barbeque followed by some awesome video highlights from Madman Productions before the actual Trophy Presentations took place.
After all the Trophies and Goodies were distributed - it was time for a few cold drinks and a bit of bench racing to finish off a nice relaxing day. Signorelli hopes to start the new season with a cracker performance on the 17th July – when round 1 kicks off. No doubt the RotorMaster RX7 will be part of the 2011/2012 season Championship with its debut nearing closer! Congrats Joe!


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I am here to share the newest Taylored Expressions Share Joy Challenge! I used the fun color combo, along with some fun stamps and dies!
I started by taking the Joe To Go stamp and die set, and white heat embossed the coffee cup stamp randomly on a panel of watercolor paper. I then added washes of yellow, green, and blue paints, allowing them to blend, before allowing it to dry. Once it was, I die cut the cup image, and inserted it into a cup that had been die cut in the panel.
I added the sleeve, as well as a coffee bean, along with the sentiment, which was white heat embossed onto brown card stock.
I stamped the coffee bean image in brown, onto my white card base, and ink blended a bit around the edges, before adhering the panel with foam tape.
We would love to see you join us this week! The details are below!
Challenge Format:
Each week we will be bring you two types of challenges that you can use separately or together to inspire your creativity. One of the challenges will always be a sketch. The other challenge will vary each week. It's up to you if you want to use just one of the challenge components or both together. New challenges will be posted each Thursday.
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- Create a new card or project using either or both components of the challenge posted above. Use of Taylored Expressions products is optional.
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- Each month, we will award a Grand Prize to a TE Share Joy Challenge participant. The more you play throughout the month, the better your chance to win!
- Weekly winners will be announced at the time of the new challenge launch each Thursday.


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The holiday season brings out the lover in me. It's something about those festive activities that become beautiful stolen moments and end up being wonderful impromptu dates. Not just with your significant other, but friends and family too.
These moments happen all year round too, of course, and are just as wonderful, but I cannot deny loving dates set against a backdrop of twinkling fairy lights, Christmas music, seasonal food and the hope of snow. So here are some of my favourite places and ways to spend time with the special people in my life.
The Christmas Market
Toronto's Christmas Market is in the beautiful Distillery District, which just oozes with romantic nostalgia of the past and brings so much flavour to the tradition of these German markets. In the UK, my sister and I would always do them together, it was our thing, depending on which city we were in at the time, we would always eat way too much free stollen and pretzels.
I think they are gorgeous places to go on dates because they engage all your senses. There is much to see and do, with divine smells wafting from cute little wooden shacks, you can try different foods together while cozying up to each other and making your way along cobbled paths. Toronto's Christmas Market has lots going on during the week and at the weekend. Peruse the stalls, get some hot drinks and find a warm spot in front of their outdoor bonfires.
Love & Pizza
If there are two things that go hand in hand, it is pizza and my love of it. When I was living on the Isle of Man, Isola was and still is one of my favourite restaurants in the world. It is small but the food is really good. My favourite floor is their cellar, which is part of the restaurant and is decorated with barrels, lovely artwork, soft light and candles. I took Ahmed there last year while we were visiting the Isle of Man, sharing a pizza (or two) is my favourite way to celebrate loved ones.
The first time I went to Lil' Baci in Leslieville, I got that homely feeling. You are greeted with the smell of pizza and a warm glow. The restaurant and patio have a lovely ambience, and it is always a great evening with your significant other or friends. Their pizzas are really good especially with the chillies they serve on the side. While we mostly go in the summer because we enjoy walking to Leslieville, it's stunning there right now with all the pretty lights. Lil' Baci is the perfect chilled out or dressed up dinner date spot.
All day, everyday
I walk past 7 West a lot on the way to ballet school. The other day they were putting up their decorations and it looked even prettier than usual through the windows. I love this coffee shop, it's my favourite place to make time stand still while I sip on something warm. The best part is you can go whenever you want because it is always open.


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text: Technology bridges the fields of science and economy, entertainment, and education. If technologists are not ethically sensitive, they will put pressure on ethical boundaries that will be too subtle to detect. Moral Boundaries Technology is a field that is marked by a constant state of growth and expansion. It has brought us from podunk simplicity to an elaborate and sophisticated communicating society. But it has limits in God's creation, when man approach the moral boundaries for which man cannot empirically understand. Technology has the tendency to allure people into making updates for capacity and theoretical sake, rather than a practical one. Fruit of science's Labor Technology categorically sits smack dab between science and the rest of society, where theoretical things can be used and understood more tangibly. Technology is the fruit of science's labor. But if those fruits prove to have no beneficial vitamins or minerals, then the fruit source has to be suspect. Much of the technology of today is advancing due to the push from the entertainment industry. Video games, Movies, and general computing efficiency are charting theoretical new paths that technology can help to improve, but is entertainment really a reason to advance more depreciated methods? While entertainment is a crucial element for society, it is only a peripheral element of the more crucial relational factor absolutely necessary of people. Economic Extension In addition to entertainment, business and economics are cashing in on more efficient methods of productivity. Newer and faster equipment are usually a prudent investment, but how much of this equipment upgrading is based on an aesthetic desire that the consumer are subconsciously looking for, rather than an actually practical necessity? Educational Dimensions In the educational field, new equipment is likewise an obviously wise investment, because the paying student base will appreciate technological advancement and upkeep of their tuition investment. But other factors are involved in the technological evolution in the classroom. As technology changes in our learning environments, our learning styles acclimate to the new technology and equipment, so we begin to learn differently. Now initially, there is nothing wrong with this, as the end is the learning is taking place. But when it is analyzed deeper, the method of learning is itself a skill that is taken from school, and it is carried into life for further learning. Education is a lot more than just learning facts – it's about learning to think critically, to analyze information sources, and to strategize. If those methods leading up to how facts are delivered to students are removed, people are launched into the world without all of their limbs. It is imperative people are taught to question. So while I love the innovation being presented in the present technology industry, it needs to be more than just technology pushing it. It has to be premised by a more fundamental society-based infrastructure. In fact, technology's advancement should be directed by more than just a external society infrastructure(s), it should be based on absolute, and unchanging moral principles that hold us together as a race, and define us as sentient, will-based creatures.


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Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON), the nation's sole government approved collective management organization for musical works and sound recordings, has requested the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos to order communication giant, MTN to render accounts of revenue that has accrued to the company from the download of ringtones under agreements between MTN Nigeria Communications Limited and several Third Party Service Providers.
Among the agreements named in the application filed on behalf of COSON by renowned Intellectual property lawyer, Mr. Justin Ige of Creative Legal are those between MTN and Ultima Limited, MTN and Mcomm Solutions & Services Limited and MTN and Mobilexcetera Limited. The application has been brought under the historic 16 Billion Naira copyright infringement law suit filed against MTN by COSON.
In the application, COSON states that it is a clear beneficiary at law from the revenues accruing as a result of each of the agreements and that in the absence of any proof of any remittance to COSON, the accounts taken should be delivered by MTN within 7 days to both the court and COSON with the relevant books of account.
In another development, Mr. Ige on behalf of COSON has issued interrogatories to MTN requesting answers to several questions on the actions which MTN took or failed to take to ensure that it met its copyright obligations to COSON, its members and affiliates.
Speaking on a similar subject recently at a COSON Stakeholders Forum in Ibadan, COSON Chairman, Chief Tony Okoroji, said that there will be no hiding place for telecommunication companies operating in Nigeria who do not respect the intellectual property rights of creative people whose works the companies exploit for profit.
Said Chief Okoroji, ''If the 'telcos' think we will allow them have a copyright safe haven in Nigeria, they are wrong; if the telcos think we will get tired of pressuring them to do the right thing, they are very wrong; If the 'telcos' believe that we will ever stop asking them to give to Peter what belongs to Peter, they are absolutely wrong''
According to the former president of PMAN, in the digital age, the telecommunication companies have become first line players in the distribution of music insisting that it will be suicidal for the music industry not to insist that these companies play within the rules and in accordance with the law.
The 16 Billion Naira suit brought by COSON against MTN is the biggest copyright law suit ever in the continent of Africa with 18 separate claims endorsed on the writ supported by a 43 paragraph Statement of Claim. In the suit No. FHC/L/CS/619/2016, COSON has asked the court for six different declarations of copyright infringement perpetrated by MTN in the MTN Friendship', 'Connect' or 'Walk In' Centres across Nigeria; the MTN 'Road Shows' in Nigeria; the various MTN Music Concerts, Festivals, Award Shows, Product Activation and Corporate events; the MTN Callertunez platform; the MTN Music Plus Platform and the MTN Mobile Radio.
Trial in the suit is scheduled to begin at the Federal High Court, Lagos on November 2, 2016.
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American Suzuki spokesman Jeff Holland said the company is "disappointed" by the verdict and intends to appeal."Disappointed" might be in the running for an award for understatement of the year.
The OFT today issued a call for evidence to establish the background to recent reports of rising UK private motor insurance premiums, and consider whether further work may be necessary to improve the way the market works.There's certainly a problem there - but is it something the OFT can do anything about? One factor they mention is the provision of credit hire vehicles - and in the light of the Veolia case I blogged about the other day, it's easy enough to see how that might be part of the problem.


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one from a couple of weeks ago when it was decking the halls time in house of wan. it was especially exciting as it was cole-bear's first hall-decking experience and we were excited to show him what it was all about.
he was immediately drawn to all the boxes and got very excited about opening them up to reveal their contents. he wasn't much of a fan of the texture of our fakey christmas tree so he left that well alone after the initial feel. the decorations and lights were a different story though and those he wouldn't put those down and just kept trying to eat them.
|this photo makes my back end look a mile wide, but i love that cole is there with me "helping" to unravel the lights.


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Will try to see a physio tomorrow to get my back looked at .. there's a strange lump on the side I fell, possibly a popped muscle connector. That might explain why I feel I'm veering off to the left whilst running! Hopefully it can be easily fixed .. and without surgery! If not, I'm sure I'll live.
Now I know I can run again, it's time to hit the trails … woohoo! Looking forward to a nice loop around the reservoir, even better with some new kit to try out. The Salomon Advanced Skin 5 S-Lab hydration pack (courtesy of the Desert King :)) looks super sexy and has had rave reviews so far!


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As a society we've been taught to follow an external path towards love, success and happiness. Everyone is being guided to chase something. People are led to automatically follow the protocols dictated by mass society without even understanding them, while also secretly longing for an internal experience of peace and satisfaction that also few have true understanding of. There is a dichotomy between what people truly wish for, and the reality of their actions and life.
Today, there is a shift in consciousness leading people to ask more questions and delve deeper in to understanding the true meaning of their lives and purpose therein.
As a co-owner of a dating site, I read hundreds of profiles from singles all over the world who come to our site in search of love and hope. Their hope is that this time, this site, which is a site based on yoga and creativity, will lead them towards a more hopeful reality of blissful success in the context of love. I feel a huge responsibility to help make this possible.
The first step is by providing an opportunity for greater clarity and self-discovery which helps to reveal an inner truth. Questions are featured that ask singles to disclose their true intention in dating. Questions are also featured that guide people in to creating and expressing new approaches to love and dating. And questions are featured that allow people the opportunity to share a new vision for the world if they had the opportunity to do so.
The responses to these questions provide deep and valuable insight into what people truly aspire towards. The unfortunate part is seeing first hand the gap in between. The gap between what people, and singles, in today's culture really hope for, and the reality that is.
For one thing, everyone wants to "find love" yet everyone remains single. Singles who are seeking relationship are prevalent everywhere, more than ever. The desire to "form love" is also right there. As I read through these expressive and honest questionnaires daily, I feel disheartened that most people express the same goals, desires and 'wants' but can't seem to connect the dots.
There is a fundamental block occurring on a global level that disconnects people from living their ultimate truth and destiny even while it is seemingly in front of them.
I have been consulting with many "wise" teachers and authors who have been studying the culture of relationship for decades and they reveal to me that a big part of today's relationship reality is one of "harm attracting harm." Hurt people are attracting other hurt people and hoping to feel "unhurt."
Another wise individual stated that our society of relationship is a widespread pool of seemingly the "blind leading the blind." People have little understanding as to who they are on a fundamental level as well as what is truly realistic to expect from another human being in the context of relationship, life, love and happiness. Yet, everyone wants to jump in to the hope of placing two people, who are seemingly strangers in terms of deep cultural understanding, in each others presence and dialogue daily, which can be potentially feeding fuel to a huge fire. Especially at a time when there is a lack of fundamental knowledge as to the origin of human behavior, instinct and sexuality.
The future of love must lie in knowledge. Knowledge and greater understanding as to what we are actually dealing with and talking about when we speak of a hope for love and relationship. We all need to take the blinders off and go deeper in to the philosophy of understanding the nature of man, and woman, according to traditions past.
Cultivating a process of nurturing each others fundamental characteristics and not hoping to change, or get, according to today's misguided frame of reference. To want something from a partner that is incapable of providing that wish or desire is a widespread huge misunderstanding.
I recently wrote an article called Return to Love, based on an 'Enigma' song entitled Return to Innocence. The video of this song was actually shot in reverse. The message is one of return. Return to who we were before. A return to a place of innocence; of true unpretentious understanding. A place where the origins of another can more readily be taken in to consideration.
Who are we to think we know what our partner is to give to us? Who are we to think we know what we want when we are all operating from a place of limited knowledge. The love of the future to me feels like it should become a silent, more quiet and un-selfish manifestation of organic evolution. Where expectations are completely revisited if not eradicated and true acceptance of what is, dominates.
It takes true emotional health and a capacity for surrender and trust in the universe to guide the process of confusion in the world of relationship today. It also takes a loose rope around our potential partners to allow them to be who they are at this point in evolution, and who they need they think they have to be, while quietly knowing inside that what is true will always come around.
The future of love involves less chatter, less chase, less action on the outside. And an amazing growth process inside. The voice of truth is always within. Do we hear it? Do we want to? Are we ready to?
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Gene Giacumbo goes through the looking-glass
By Philip F. Kelly Jr.
Last fall, Bill Hamilton was convicted of fraud for laundering hundreds of thousands of dollars for the 1996 reelection campaign of then-Teamsters' president Ron Carey. Hamilton was the Teamsters' political director. Since then, many have been waiting to see whom else U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White will indict.
Testimony in the Hamilton trial implicated high-ranking labor officials, including AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumpka, Gerald McEntee, president of the Association of Federal, State, County and Municiple Employees (AFSCME), Andrew Stern, John Sweeney's successor at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) as well as officials at the Democratic National Committee and Clinton fundraiser Terry McAuliffe. President Clinton's former deputy chief of staff Harold Ickies was also implicated in testimony.
Not surprisingly, the Justice Department did not appoint an independent counsel to investigate White House involvement in the illegal scheme. Minor figures have pleaded guilty, but the other shoe stubbornly refuses to drop. Now, Teamsters' President James P. Hoffa has filed a $3 million civil racketeering suit against Carey that also leaves out Trumpka, McEntee and the others. What's going on between the Clinton White House and labor unions? Has federal oversight of corrupt unions degenerated into arm-twisting for campaign cash? Have prosecutors been pressured into treading lightly? No indictments have been handed down against Carey, Trumpka, McEntee et al, while Arthur Coia of the Laborers' Union (LIUNA) and the late Edward Hanley of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees (HERE) ---both big Democratic contributors--- avoided takeovers of their unions in sweetheart deals with the Justice Department. After hearing Gene Giacumbo's story, one begins to understand how government oversight of unions might facilitate the convergence of powerful special interests.
Oversight introduces another potent and largely unaccountable interest into the rank-and-file's business---politicians. Cash-rich unions that don't want oversight and money-hungry politicians are a combustible mix.
In 1989, the Bush Administration settles a RICO suit against the Teamsters by entering into a consent decree that established federal oversight of the union. Former judge Frederick Lacey was appointed Independent Administrator, and supervision of the decree was assigned to Federal District Judge David Edelstein. The agreement provided for the first democratic election of a Teamsters president by its members, which resulted in the 1991 election of Carey on a reform ticket.
In December 1991, the teamsters annual financial report filed with the Department of labor listed a net worth of $156.3 million. On February 1, 1992, Carey was sworn in as Teamsters president. Giacumbo, who was president of Local 843, was elected an International Vice President on the Carey slate. By the end of 1992, the Teamsters' annual report listed a net worth of $114.8 million, a $41.5 million loss from the previous year. In June 1993, Teamsters International Trustees audited the union's finances and discovered "accounting discrepancies and improper expenditures". Three trustees called for an immediate review. Carey refused their request. By the end of the year, the Teamsters' annual report listed a net worth of $64 million, a further decline of 49.2 million.
Meanwhile Carey was becoming politically active. In summer 1992, he met with labor lawyer Harold Ickies, who led the 1992 Clinton-Gore campaign in New York. What happened next is hotly disputed. Carey says only that he pledged to help the Clinton campaign, F.C. Duke Zeller, director of communications at the Teamsters for 14 years, claims that union leaders set up a multimillion-dollar slush fund for Clinton. In his book, Devil's Pact, Inside the World of the Teamsters Union, Zeller wrote that union officials--including Carey--played "fast and loose" with Teamsters' funds, and that Ickies "repeatedly appealed" for more money during the campaign.
Around the same time, Teamsters International V.P. Giacumbo discovered irregularities in Carey's personal finances. Since the 1980's Carey had purchased real estate in Florida and Arizona well beyond his modest means. Before the election, the reformer" Carey was widely reported to be making about $40,000 a year. Giacumbo offered Lacey documents exposing Carey's financial dealings. Lacey demurred, but soon after an article in Time magazine which quoted Giacumbo and detailed Carey's extensive real estate holdings. Lacey subsequently spoke with Charles Ruff, White House counsel during the Clinton impeachment. Ruff was then working for Carey and the Teamsters, and he had briefed the review board on the allegations against Carey. In a letter to Thomas Puccio, a government trustee overseeing Teamsters Local 295, who had raised to Lacey and Ruff allegations linking Carey to organized crime, Lacey made plain his sympathy for Carey and reminded Puccio to consider "what would happen if you brought Carey down.. so that the clock would be turned back to what it was when first I came on the scene as independent administrator".
Lacey, the lone Independent Administrator, has since morphed into an Independent Review Board (IRB) comprised of Lacey and two others: Judge William Webster, former FBI and CIA director and Grant Crandell, general counsel for Trumpka's ideological United Mine Workers. (Many believe Trumpka is the real power at the AFL-CIO.) The Teamsters' trustees frozen out by Carey for trying to examine the union's books sent to the IRB a copy of a letter they had sent to Carey noting that the Teamsters' constitution requires an audit every six months. In May 1994, Carey rebuffed the trustees and passed an emergency dues assessment because the union's net assets had dropped below $20 million. The AFL-CIO also lent the Teamsters $15 million.
Despite all the allegations, the IRB cleared Carey on July 11, 1994. Soon questions about Lacey's impartiality were raised in a new Time article that cited Lacey's letter to Puccio. Lacey was furious at the disclosure and sent an angry letter to the magazine. Giacumbo was widely assumed to be the source of the leaked letter. Shortly thereafter, the Teamsters brought Giacumbo before the IRB on charges he misused union funds by accepting four payments of $400 on duplicate car reimbursements from the Local and the International.
Gene Giacumbo now discovered just how dangerously unaccountable quasi-governmental agencies like IRB can be. Webster recused himself from IRB hearing because he had a relationship with Giacumbo's employer Anheuser-Busch. Giacumbo had by then publicly admitted that he had passed the Lacey letter to Time, and he requested that Lacey likewise recuse himself from the hearing. Lacey refused. Giacumbo then filed a restraining order, but it was denied by Edelstein. In October 1995, the IRB found against Giacumbo, suspended him from the union for six months and fining him the $1600. This decision was sent to Edelstein for approval per the consent decree. Unbelievably, Edelstein sent the decision back to the IRB for reconsideration because he deemed it too lenient.
At a supplemental hearing in March 1995, the IRB decided Giacumbo had violated his suspension by attending a Local meeting nominating delegates to the 1996 Teamsters' International Convention. This time the IRB imposed a three-year suspension on Giacumbo-- in part because he had shown disrespect for the sanctions-- and sent the decision back to Edelstein. On January 9, 1997 the court again sent the sanctions back for reconsideration. This time Edelstein added, "this Court deems it proper for the IRB to contemplate the wisdom of ever permitting Giacumbo to hold a position of influence within the IBT (Teamsters) or any IBT-affiliated entity". A few months earlier, Giacumbo had appeared at the National Press Club with Duke Zeller and questioned the IRB's handling of Carey.
Not surprisingly, the IRB---following Edelstein's second remand--- issued a May 1997 decision that imposed a lifetime ban, stripping Giacumbo of all Teamsters benefits and pensions. Giacumbo appealed to the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals. In March 1999, the 2nd Circuit held that the inference that Giacumbo violated his suspension by appearing at Teamsters' gatherings was "arbitrary and "capricious". It blamed the lifetime ban on the district court's repeated remands for more punishment. The Circuit Court vacated the second and third sanctions and told Edelstein to have IRB reconsider whether the first sanction should stand.
The IRB then declared that time served was "sufficient" ---even though it was three years longer than the origional sanction--- and demanded payment of the $1600 fine with interest. On August 2, 1999, Edelstein affirmed this decision over the explicit instructions of the 2nd Circuit Court, whereupon Giacumbo appealed again to the circuit court. Both sides are currently preparing oral arguments.
Did IRB act improperly to protect Ron Carey? Is the Justice Department involved? Guardian angels are abroad in America today, but whom are they protecting? Not whistleblowers like Giacumbo. The public has a right to a full investigation of every facet of the Carey money swaps, including allegations against White House officials and powerful union leaders. And citizens like Gene Giacumbo have a right to be protected from what has bordered on a government-sanctioned witch-hunt.
Thankfully, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has intervened. Giacumbo is still fighting for Lacey's recusal. Of course, the charges against him wouldn't hold much water outside the IRB funhouse. The U. S. Attorney hasn't brought any embezzlement charges, and it's unlikely she will. But meanwhile, Giacumbo hasn't been able to work. The Teamsters fought his unemployment benefits to the New Jersey Supreme Court and send reams of IRB reports to every employer looking for a reference. But, with any luck, he'll soon get his life back.
Federal oversight of the Teamsters (and other unions) appears too eager to overlook misdeeds. Vigorous prosecution is the only way to stem union corruption.
Philip F. Kelly Jr. is editor of Labor Watch which is a publication of the Capitol Research Center.
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This was the most difficult page for me to write because the journey to self love for me has been such a long and difficult one. In my years of practicing natural acne treatment, I have found a similarity in 99% of my clients – typically those of us with acne in our adult years are very sensitive beings. And with this sensitivity often comes a lack of self love and a feeling of discomfort in our own skin. Please don't feel that being "sensitive" is a bad thing, it means you are a highly intuitive being too (which is awesome!), but it can also mean that you feel so much and take on so much which can often manifest over years and years as a lack of self love and a feeling of discomfort in your own skin. Two emotions that are so closely related to chronic acne.
So let's break this concept down and gain an understanding as to how and why these negative emotions can cause acne.
We are energetic beings, we have much more than just a physical body. In my teenage years I was an atheist and didn't believe in things like auras. It was only after a life changing experience that I was opened up to the knowledge that we are far greater than just a physical body. One of the activities I did during that time of transformation was to draw my aura. I encourage you to sit down and to that too because it's a beautiful exercise. It doesn't matter if you can't see it or feel it, just draw how you feel it looks. And then make a second picture of how your aura will look once you are full of self love, self confidence and acne free. This is a sweet activity of manifestation and intention to do. Keep the second drawing somewhere special where you can see it, and know that even by drawing it you've already set the transformation in place to begin the steps to achieving that desirable outcome of an abundance of self love and self confidence.
How our aura, our physical body and acne is related
Our emotional and energetic health is so closely related to our physical health. If we are harbouring any negative emotions or energies, then these negative "feelings" can sit in our auric field creating imbalances. If you have ever experienced a broken heart then you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. That heavy and painful feeling in your chest right over your heart chakra when you're feeling broken hearted is real. It's a pocket of dense energy that is sitting in your aura, there is nothing physically wrong with you but you can really feel it. As we emotionally begin to heal, then the pain goes away.
It's not uncommon when we begin to do work on our heart and self love that a pain like this turns up. When I first begun work on my heart, I felt this pain during heart meditations for weeks until it began to lighten up and then dissolve. When we begin to awaken and then shift energetic blockages, sometimes we can begin to feel them as they're on their way out. So if this happens to you, please know that it's normal and that you're working towards breaking apart that energy in order to release it.
Over long periods of time, left untreated these negative emotions that sit in our auric field can begin to create physical illness. Think about it, if you have a dense pocket of negative energy that you're carrying around with you, how can it not eventually adversely affect your physical body. It is therefore so, so important for the healing of our skin to work towards having more love and joy in our lives (and who wouldn't want more of that??).
When we don't love ourselves so much then we are often uncomfortable about "being seen", and what we show to the world. We can hide our personality but we cannot hide our physical body. Sometimes we create acne as an excuse to hide our physical body from the world, or sometimes it just manifests after long periods of the negative emotion of lack of self love is sitting in our auric field.
How to love yourself
Please know that there is no expected time that it will take you to get to the point where you are fully and completely loving yourself. Energetically it can happen in a heart beat, so it is entirely possible for you to begin to turn things around very quickly. However for some of us it can take much longer, as we work towards dissolving old beliefs and patterns that we've picked up over our life time, and even over multiple life times.
I'm going to give you an outline of some medical intuitives techniques for clearing your acne, along with some of what I've personally found success with in gaining self love. Please do whatever resonates with you, and really do it. What I can tell you is that this is the most rewarding healing work that you will ever do. As you do the work each day, little by little you'll begin to feel more love and joy in your heart. It is a truly rewarding and wonderful journey.
Louise Hay
Louise Hay is one of the most well known medical intuitives. I'm including here in here because she does a lot of amazing work with helping people to feel more self love. If you haven't read any of her books then I encourage you to seek her out. I recommend the Love Yourself, Heal Your Life Workbook (Insight Guide)
Louise Hay believes that acne is related to feelings of Not Accepting or disliking self. She suggests to use the following affirmation for healing – "The love and acceptance I have for myself is reflected in my outer appearance".
Natalie Kent
Natalie is new to me but the information on her website resonated so perfectly that I wanted to share her with you. I believe in synchronicity and there is a reason why Google took me straight to her website. This is what Natalie says about acne:
You feel as though whatever you do is not good enough so you see yourself as imperfect or not as you would prefer to be. This causes you to be hard on yourself and everything that you do which creates tension and frustration. This frustration is simply repressed energy that could be better used to focus on your good qualities rather than your shortfalls. You need to learn to love and accept yourself, knowing that everything that you are and do is as it is meant to be. This will alleviate your frustration and allow you to use your energy to create with the freedom of self-expression.
You can check out Natalie's website here.
The Love List
I created this activity after doing exactly this to work on my own self love years ago. The love list is a list of everything that makes you feel loved and happy. It's important to take the time to write down as many things that you can think of. Then make a promise with yourself to do at least one of those things on the list every single day. I actually did this activity for close to three years!!! It was a beautiful way to retrain myself to begin to enjoy life more, to do things that bring love and happiness into my life, and to acknowledge that I was worthy enough to treat myself every single day.
My list included things like – take a bubble bath, watch a funny DVD, go to your favourite cafe, get a pedicure, etc. I enjoyed a lot of bubble baths during that time. Your list will be unique to you 🙂
Most of us are really good at putting ourselves down. Even subconsciously sometimes we can hold a belief system that can make us feel even worse about our acne. Thoughts such as "My acne makes me look ugly", "Everybody will see my acne and think less of me" and "I'm never going to be able clear my acne" are just a few examples.
Affirmations help to turn those thought patterns around. And you can use affirmations to help to bring in more self love, or whatever other emotion or quality that you want to bring more of into your life. Write out your affirmation and keep it somewhere that you will see it everyday like on your bathroom mirror. I had a friend that would laminate an affirmation and stick it to the wall of her shower.
Here are some examples of affirmations:
- "I am a Divine expression of life. I love and accept myself where I am right now."
- "I am naturally beautiful when I am myself."
- "This is a new and wonderful day for me; there will never be another day like this one."
- "I will look for the beauty in every problem I have to solve."
- "To be upset over what I don't have is to waste what I do have."
- "I love myself."
- "I am more than my skin."
- "I accept myself completely."
- "The power within me is greater than what I see in the mirror."
A Little Prayer
I learned this powerful technique from a friend of mine here in Peru. This is a little prayer that you say every day for a period of 30 days to help to intensively bring in more self love. Just be careful, it's a very powerful technique! Transformation brings change, even when that transformation in positive. Say this prayer three times to yourself each day for 30 days while looking in the mirror.
By Divine Grace, I cut, transmute, release and let go of in my being, the pattern of a lack of love for the woman who inhabits me, and for a lack of confidence to myself. By Divine Grace, it is done here and now. Thank you, thank you, thank you, because it is already done.
Help From Facilitators of Healing
I'm a big fan of using "tools" for healing work. Over the years I have been lucky enough to come across some amazing energy and body workers and plant medicines. Trust your intuition, open up the intention and keep yourself open to whoever crosses your path. There are so many different types of healing modalities that I cannot even begin to recommend one or the other to you or even list how many things I have tried. But what I can tell you is that each and every healer that I have worked with has brought me closer to the woman that I am today. I have had some incredibly deep and life changing moments just from working with "healers" and plant medicines.
Ask your friends for recommendations, check the noticeboards in your area and even jump online to see what you find. And then be open to whatever turns up.
The journey to self love will be the most rewarding and beautiful journey that you'll ever take yourself on.
We can work together on Email or Skype from anywhere in the world. In our appointment I'll let you know what the root cause of your acne is, and then the best treatment plan for it. The idea is to get you clear as quickly as possible!
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Research among almost 800 self-employed professionals and managers by Clydesdale Bank showed that one in five believed the economic downturn had made them feel more stressed at work.
Almost one in four complained they were working up to 11 hours more a week than they did before the recession hit.
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1974 M.F.A. from University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL
1971 B.F.A. from University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL
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2016 Bentley Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2015 Galerie 103, Kauai, HI
2014 Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2014 J Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY
2013 JF Chen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010 Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009 Galerie103, Kauai, HI
Craig Krull Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Craig Krull Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA (also '03)
2002 Friesen Gallery, Seattle, WA (also '97, '94)
2001 Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID (also '94, '93)
2000 N. E. Galerie, Darmstadt, Germany (also '97)
1999 Flanders Contemporary, Minneapolis, MN
1998 Galerie Edeling, Copenhagen, Denmark (also '93, '90)
LewAllen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA (also '84–'93)
Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefled, Germany
S. E. Galerie, Darmstadt, Germany
1995 Margulies Taplin Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
Horwitch LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1994 Margulies Taplin Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
1990 Margulies Taplin Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, FL
Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York, NY (also '98)
1989 Persons-Lindell Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
Eve Mannes Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1988 Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (also '86)
1986 Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara, (also '84, '83)
Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, NY
1982 Grayson Gallery, Chicago, IL
Kirk DeGooyer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (also '81)
1980 Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago, IL (also '78, '77)
William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA (also '76, '77)
1975 Michael Wyman Gallery, Chicago, IL (also '74)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2005 Abstraction: The Poetic Visual Image, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
2003 Biennial of Hawaii Artists, Honolulu Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
2002 Modern Abstractions from the Permanent Collection, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Vermont Studio Center Press Collection, Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2001 LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM (also '99)
2000 On Island: A Century of Continuity and Changes, Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME
1997 Second Annual Collaboration, Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID and John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 A Gift of Vision: William A. and Susan S. Small Collection, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Celebrating Ten Years, Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
1995 Arizona Collects, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
1994 Vinalhaven Artists (Curated by Robert Indiana)
1993 Monotypes from the Permanent Collection, Tate Gallery, London, England
1992 Director's Choice: Old Friends and New, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
On the Edge: 40 Years of Maine Painting, 1952 to 1992, Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME (traveled to Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME)
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Mount Holyoke College Museum of Art, South Hadley, MA
1991 20th Century Art from the Collection, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
1990 Alcove Show: New in New Mexico, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
1989 Monotypes, Persons-Lindell Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
The Old/New Landscape, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Confluence, Contrast, Conflict: 20th Century Art at Bowdoin College, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
1988 The 1980s: A New Generation, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Maine Museums Collect, Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME
1987 Emerging Art, 1978–1986: Selections from the Exxon Series, Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York, NY
Monotypes, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY
Three Painters, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Allusion, Oscarsson Siegeltuch Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Garner Tullis Workshops: Monotypes, Galerie Au Poisson Rouge, Praz, Switzerland
Symbols & Narratives, Visual Arts Center of Alaska, Anchorage, AK
Monotypes: Garner Tullis Workshop, Pace Editions, New York, NY
Dealer's Choice, Rancho Santiago College Art Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
1985 The Art of Collaboration: Monotypes from the Studios of Carner Tullis, California State University, San Bernadino, CA
Contemporary American Monotypes, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
New Direction California Painting, Visual Arts Center of Alaska, Anchorage, AK
1984 Selected Monotypes, Smith-Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
San Francisco Bay Area Paintings, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Highlights: Selections from the Bank of America Corporation Art Collection, Plaza Gallery, Bank of America, San Francisco, CA
Large Scale Monotypes from the Garner Tullis Workshop, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1983 Delahunty Gallery, New York, NY
New Perspectives in American Art: 1983 Exxon National Exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York, NY
Five Artists, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1982 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Fresh Paint Art Gallery, California State University, Northridge, CA
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
1981 This Is Paint, Security Pacific Bank, Los Angeles, CA
The Controlled Gesture, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
1980 Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
1979 Three California Painters, Louisville School of Art, Louisville, KY
The Aesthetic of Graffiti, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1976 Bloomington Bicentennial, Bloomington Art Museum, Bloomington, IL
Davidson National Print and Drawing Show, Davidson, NC
Center for the Visual Arts Gallery, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
1974 Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK
1973 Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
27th Annual Wabash Valley Art Exhibition, Swope Gallery, Terre Haute, IN
Allan Priebe Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, WI
1972 Mid-America IV, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Midstate Art Exhibition, Evanston Art Museum, Evanston, IL
Selected Publications
2010 "Tom Lieber – abstractionist's art looks alive," San Francisco Chronicle, Kenneth Baker, Nov 4.
2009 "Review: Tom Lieber at Craig Krull Gallery," LA Times, Christopher Knight, Mar 19.
2008 "Paintings By Tom Lieber," Folly, FollyMag.com, May.
1975 National Endowment for the Arts Recipient
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York, NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Tate Gallery, London, England
Bowdoin College Museum, Brunswick, ME
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Stanford University Museum of Art, Palo Alto, CA
Mount Holyoke College Museum of Art, South Hadley, MA
The Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
David Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Washington University Gallery of Fine Arts, St. Louis, MO
Krannert Art Museum at University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
Huntington Gallery at University of Texas, Austin, TX
Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL
Newport Museum of Art, Newport, RI
Santa Fe Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Cedar Sinai Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
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Strength Capabilities and Subjective Limits for Repetitive Manual Insertion Tasks
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The traditional method of psychophysical data collection requires participants to extrapolate sensations from a relativity short session to judge if the task could be done for a much longer period. Maximum acceptable limits (MALs) are typically derived from having participants adjust a weight, resistance, or frequency to an acceptable level. The present study evaluated a relatively new method of collecting MAL data for simple, single-digit exertions where participants were asked to determine an MAL by self-adjusting and then regulating to maintain the exertion level. Results showed that MAL values obtained from a series of self-regulated exertions were independent of both analysis method and duration (5 minutes vs. 25 minutes) used for evaluation, and that the method was repeatable both within and between sessions.
Ergonomic guidelines are often obtained from the strength capacity for a certain task, as it is important to ensure that workers possess sufficient strength to accomplish a task. As task demands increase, however, a larger percentage of a worker's strength capability in required, and other factors, such as performance and worker comfort, tend to be compromised. In this work, both strength capacity and subjective limits were obtained for a variety of simulated tasks to facilitate development of guidelines for the specific tasks. The relationship between these two measures (maximum force, acceptable force) was determined, and acceptable limits were found to be approximately 55% of population strength capacity, with correlations (R2) ranging from 0.40 to 0.60 depending on the task, suggesting the subjective limits and strength capacity are related in these tasks. Hand dominance was found to have a small (5%), but significant (p = 0.006) effect on strength capability, and no significant effect on subjective limit.
Biomechanical strength prediction models can be used to assess loads placed on the human performing various tasks. One of the more popular models, Three-Dimensional Static Strength Prediction Program, is often used for heavy material handling tasks, such as lifting or pushing. The tasks studied presently, however, are manual insertions, requiring localized force application rather than whole body exertion. The prediction capabilities of this strength prediction model were compared with strength values obtained from the simulated assembly tasks. Results indicated that the model was not successful when predicting localized force, accounting for only 40% of the observed variance in strength (R2 = 0.4)
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- Toyota
- General Motors
- Volkswagen
- Hyundai
- Ford
- Nissan
- Fiat Chrysler Automobiles
- Honda
- Suzuki
- PSA Peugeot Citroen
The automotive industry is one of the world's most important economic sectors by income and has a wide range of companies and organizations implicated in the design, growth, fabrication, endorsement, and selling of motor vehicles.
The vehicles manufactured by the companies are classified as:
- Passenger cars
- Light commercial vehicles
- Heavy trucks
- Buses and coaches
History of Automotive Industry
If we see the history of automotive industry then we came to know that it began in the 1890s with hundreds of manufacturers that start the horseless carriage. Then for many decades United States was key player in this industry. U.s became dominated till 1980 then there is a shift in the industry.
U.S. was overtaken by Japan and became world's leader again in 1994. In 2006, Japan fixedly passed the U.S. in manufacturing and held this position until 2009, when China took the top mark with 13.8 million units. With 19.3 million units manufactured in 2012, China approximately doubled the U.S. production, with 10.3 million units, while Japan was in third position with 9.9 million units.
Figures about Automotive industry in 2015
China and the United States are counted among the main key players of automobile markets internationally in terms of manufacturing and sales. Worldwide sales of passenger cars are forecast 73.9 million vehicles in 2015. The United States became a key automotive market when Ford introduced assembly line car production in the early 1900s to mass-manufacture its Model T. Today.
The Ford Motor Company positions among the leading manufacturers of passenger cars. If we observe in terms of profits and returns, Toyota, Volkswagen and General Motors top the list of major automobile makers, while the automotive supplier industry is dominated by Bosch, Continental, Denso and Magna. 7.7 million Passenger cars were sold to U.S. customers in 2014, and around 4.25 million cars were formed in the same year.
Due to rising demands, the automotive industry is thriving very vastly and now contributing more in country's economy.


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Altar Servers have the opportunity to serve at different liturgical celebrations in the Parish. They contribute to the fruitful participation of the whole community in giving praise and worship to God by assisting priests and deacons during the Church's liturgy. They serve by taking on different roles such as cross-bearer (carries the processional cross), thurifer (when incensed is used during Mass), candle-bearers, and book-holder. They are also responsible for preparing and clearing the Altar for the consecration of bread and wine. This ministry aims to encourage them to understand more about the Catholic Faith and to increase their reverence and prayerfulness, not only, during liturgical celebrations but also in their personal life.
If you are in the fourth grade or up and feel the Holy Spirit is calling you to take advantage of this opportunity, please send us an email at email@example.com or talk to Deacon John Tomasicchio and Fr. Reynor. There will be a meeting for altar servers and those who are interested to be part of this ministry on October 6th after the 10:30am Mass at the Hospitality Room.


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The European Report on Development (ERD) is a multiannual process, which is the main outcome of the Mobilizing European Research for Development Policies initiative promoted and financed by the European Commission and seven EU Member States (Germany, Finland, France, Luxembourg, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom). This year ERD focuses on the issues of poverty, inequality and social protection, with an emphasis on Sub-Saharan African countries. The participation of African researchers is crucial to its success. To enhance the participation of young researchers from African countries, the ERD organizes a poster session during its regional Conference in Africa (Dakar, Senegal, 27-30 June, date to be confirmed). Selected African PhD students and young researchers will be presenting their work, bringing to the forefront fresh and new views. Participants to the poster session have the opportunity to discuss their own research projects with leading scholars attending the ERD Conference, and to take part to the process leading to ERD 2010.
African PhD students and young researchers are encouraged to submit a detailed abstract describing the research they intend to present, related to one of the following topics:
- Recent trends in Poverty and Inequality in Sub-Saharan African countries;
- Social protection mechanisms (formal and informal) in Sub-Saharan Africa;
- The impact of external shocks (climate change, global financial crisis) on social security;
- The impact of social protection schemes on poverty reduction and inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa;
- The role of international actors in fostering social protection in Sub-Saharan Africa;
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New Potatoes with Caviar
- 1 1/2 lb. small new red potatoes, 12 to 16,
unpeeled and well scrubbed
- 2 Tbs. vegetable oil
- 3/4 cup sour cream or crème fraîche
- 2 tsp. finely chopped fresh chives
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- Pinch of freshly ground white pepper
- 2 oz. any variety of caviar or fish roe
- Fresh flat-leaf parsley sprigs or watercress for
Preheat an oven to 475°F.
Place the potatoes on an ungreased baking sheet. Bake until cooked through and slightly crispy, 45 to 50 minutes; prick with a knife or skewer to test for doneness. Remove from the oven and let cool. Cut each potato in half crosswise. If the ends of any potatoes are uneven, cut off a thin slice from them so they will stand upright once they are filled. Carefully scoop out all the pulp from each half, leaving only a thin shell. Place the pulp in a bowl. Return the potato shells to the baking sheet, hollow sides down, and brush the skins with the oil.
Return to the oven and bake until crisp, 10 to 15 minutes. Remove from the oven and reduce the temperature to 425°F.
Add 1/2 cup of the sour cream, the chives, salt and white pepper to the potato pulp and mix well. Pack the potato mixture into a pastry bag fitted with a medium star tip and pipe the mixture into the shells. Alternatively, using a small teaspoon, spoon the mixture into the shells.
Place the filled potatoes on an ungreased baking sheet. Bake until heated through, 10 to 15 minutes. Arrange the potatoes on a serving platter. Garnish each with a dollop of the remaining sour cream, then of caviar. Garnish the platter with parsley sprigs and serve immediately.


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I've posted a summary of my 2007 over on my personal blog, but just to be thorough, I'm updating here, too.
2007 was definitely a year of ups and downs for the family. The ups were the cruise, faire, and the parties thrown at the stupid big house. We won't go into the downs, because they're over and dealt with.
If you were at the New Year's Eve party, you know what I mean when I say, "You just had to be there". Our family is truly fortunate in the friends we have managed to gather. I wish them all a Wonderful 2008.


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2016 Olympic Games Logo Design
"Pulsating with joy, union, celebration and friendship"
Tátil Design Agency descibing their logo design for the 2016 Olympic Games
The logo design has been revealed for the Olympic Games in Rio De Janeiro 2016.
The design was selected from numerous submitted ideas across Brazil.
Rio design firm Tátil were successful and won this selection process.
The logo design takes the form of three people in loose shape holding hands.
Are they dancing or playing? Or maybe they are just holding hands?
Union, celebration and friendship
Design ageny Tátil remind us what they were attempting to achieve with the design fusing "Together, different countries, athletes and peoples embrace in an individual and collective motion that reveals one of our city's landmarks — a vibrant Sugarloaf, pulsating with joy, union, celebration and friendship."
The logo supersedes the now famous London 2012 Olympic Logo and it has been compared to a number of logos and paintings already.
One such work by artist Henri Matisse, is "The Dance," a wonderful energetic painting created in 1909.
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