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First Solar: Impressive Growth Makes It a BuyFSLR) recently announced its second-quarter results that turned out to be fantastic. The company's net sales were $896.2 million, up 65% from $544.4 million during the same period last year. Moving ahead, the company has provided net sales guidance for complete fiscal year 2015 to be in $3.5 billion to $3.6 billion range.
First Solar's net income last quarter was $94.5 million as compared to $4.5 million in the second quarter of 2014. For the complete fiscal year 2015, First Solar estimates its operating income to be in $330 million to $370 million range.
What's driving growth?
First Solar is witnessing significant growth in both its top and bottom lines primarily due to improved revenue generation from the Silver State South project and significant proceeds from the sale of key interests in the Lost Hills-Blackwell and North Star projects. First Solar has also benefited from greater systems project revenue, notable enhancements in project costs, and a distinct tax gain of about $42 million.
More importantly, First Solar will be able to sustain its growth as it has strong booking opportunities in different stages of development and geographies. The company is looking to tap the end market opportunity with its efficient products. For example, it has recorded a new module conversion efficiency of 18.6% last quarter. This will help it tap the 16.7 GW DC of potential booking opportunities that exist for the company in terms of both stages of development and by geography.
First Solar also recorded 537MWdc of new bookings last quarter and year-to-date bookings of approximately 1.4GWdc. This indicates that First Solar is well-positioned to grow its business further in the long run on the back of the strong opportunity present in the end market.
First Solar's performance on the stock market has not been outstanding this year as the stock has appreciated just 7% so far. But, the good thing is that First Solar is still cheap, which is why investors can buy the stock at current levels and look for long-term gains. First Solar has a trailing P/E ratio of less than 16, while the forward P/E ratio is below 13. This indicates that First Solar's earnings will continue growing in the long run.
At the same time, First Solar's robust cash position will allow it to pursue growth by investing in module efficiency. This is because First Solar has a cash position of $1.78 billion as against a debt of $315.89 million. Thus, First Solar looks well-placed from different angles and I think that it is a good long-term investment due to the points discussed above.
Published on Sep 19, 2015By Harsh Singh Chauhan
Posted in ...Market Commentary Investing Stocks


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A little bit of Spring to add to your blog.
Have a great weekend.
Don't forget to look for me at the Bachelor Finale on Monday!!
OH my gosh...dare I say best grandma ever? I need to step up my game....or maybe just my mom and mother in law do? Anyway, sounds like such a sweet weekend for the boys! I hope you enjoy a little time away!ReplyDelete
i am looking forward to the finale and seeing your debut!!!! have fun this weekend :)ReplyDelete
Oh my gosh, you are too funny with Beckam marking his territory. He is so adorable in his big boy undies.
The Bachelor! Yes! This is the first season I've ever watched and I wonder how I have lived without this Monday comic relief.
#3!! How fun for the boys! That sounds like something I want to do! Haha. Hope you have an amazing weekend travelling.ReplyDelete
Hooray for time with your bestie this week, and the Bachelor finale at the start of next week! Have FUN!!! xoReplyDelete
Ok, she gets the best grandma award! How cute is that?? Hope you have a great trip and a wonderful time at the Bachelor finale!ReplyDelete
Grandma sounds amazing....can I send Ellie to her? What a totally fun experience for them...I am hoping that SHE took pictures so that you can share with me!ReplyDelete
Grandma's house seems like the best time!!
Enjoy your time away - especially your time AT the bachelor finale!!
Umm I kind of wanna go hang out at grandma's! Your double date sounds like so much fun. Can't beat steak & hockey! Have a great time in Cali.ReplyDelete
Looks like you guys had a great week!!ReplyDelete
Your mother in law sounds awesome! How cool is she??ReplyDelete

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I've been thinking a lot about money lately. What I have, what I don't have, what I'd like to have. Why I choose to spend money on certain things when I don't know that I really want them. How to prioritize better. How I want to make money. Why I can't just have money. I can't quite figure it out- all I really want out of life are food, travel, and books. This shouldn't really be that hard do and yet I have all these cravings I can't satisfy. Maybe when I say that I've been thinking about money, what I really mean is that I've been thinking about food, and books, and travel. I do that a lot.
Eventually in Supernatural, Sam and Dean will reach the nexus of good and evil, when the best thing they can do for the world is hang up their bloody demon-killing knives and their holy oil, and live that apple pie life that they keep trying and failing at. They just play at too high a level. When Death is on your speed dial, when both Heaven and Hell have turned you out, when Lucifer seems a paltry villain compared to your current adversaries, your fight is probably going to do more harm than good.
When all that's true, and you're still willing to bring the world to its knees to save your brother, when his beating heart and breathing lungs are still your top priority, well then you know your battles are going to do more harm than good.
"The sea!" the note said. "The sea!"
It was not signed, and said nothing of where he was going or when he would be back or why he must leave. Still, Ned's father knew all the same.
The sea meant I love you.
The sea meant I will one day return.
The sea meant I must find the world and hold the world and live in the world. And I must love the world. And love it and love it and love it. As much as I love you.
In his mind's eye he could see his son – the boy, the youth, the man – standing in the midst of limitless space. Water, wind, sky. The core of the earth. The slice of the mountains. The roof of the stars. The pulse and rhythm of the ocean's ceaseless waves.
Ned's father pressed the note to his heart. He closed his eyes. Tasted his own saltwater tears.
The sea!
–The Witch's Boy by Kelly Barnhill
Music was the offering you gave to the empty places you created. I wonder if it still is. I wonder if the price is still too high.
We play a lot of Disney music in the store I work in. And I always find myself feeling weirdly guilty when "Do You Wanna Build a Snowman?" or "For the First Time in Forever" from Frozen come on. I over identify with Elsa, closed off and too cautious and too protective. Kelly is Anna, my red headed, messy, determined sister. The parallels aren't perfect, for reasons both subtle and obvious, but still when Anna starts singing about missing Elsa, who is hiding from her, or about her loneliness, I get a little secondhand twitch.
When I told Kelly that she said, "Well that's cause you're Dean."
There will be peace when we are done, but we aren't done yet.


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TN Lawmakers on Antioch Theater Attack: Fewer Gun Restrictions Needed
In the months preceding two highly public shootings in Tennessee, state lawmakers pushed to ease restrictions on when and where people may carry or purchase guns.
They need to continue that push so Tennesseans are able to protect themselves, argued state Rep. Tilman Goins, R-Morristown, on Wednesday afternoon.
"I honestly think evil is in a person's heart. I don't think gun legislation is necessarily going to alter or help or hurt," said Goins, who has sponsored several gun-related measures in the past.
"I do think people being allowed to defend themselves without restrictive gun legislation does help keep the body count down in some situations."
A gunman died Wednesday after bringing weapons into an Antioch movie theater. The man is believed to have attacked three people with pepper spray, including one person also injured by a hatchet, according to Metro police. Law enforcement shot and killed the man, who has not yet been identified.
Earlier this summer a gunman in Chattanooga shot five members of the military before he was shot and killed by local law enforcement.
Goins argued the man in Wednesday's incident had the intent to harm people, and that would not have changed if there had been more gun restrictions in place at the theater or in the state.
"That theater probably had a no-hatchet policy as well," Goins said. "The best thing lawmakers can do is free people up to defend themselves in the state."
By Dave Boucher, The Tennessean
Despite Obama's Efforts for Gun Control, US Firearms Production Jumped 140% in Five Years
"In 2010, more than 5.4 million firearms were manufactured. That number climbed to more than 10.8 million in 2013," stated the ATF.
In effect 2013 was a boom year for the firearms industry. Immediately following the 2012 mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, lawmakers called for new gun control laws across the country—spearheaded by a push from the Obama administration for national reform. The result was a massive surge in demand for firearms. Retailers found themselves stripped bare of guns, ammunition, and firearm-related accessories, and many manufacturers struggled to keep up with demand, often resulting in large back orders.
According to Erich Pratt, spokesperson for Gun Owners of America, the Obama administration's attempt to restrict gun ownership only served to increase sales.
"The ATF report confirms what we already know, that Barack Obama deserves the 'Gun Salesman of the Decade' award," Pratt told The Hill. "People have been rushing to buy firearms because they're afraid that Obama will take away their Second Amendment rights."
While individual states managed to pass new gun laws, the national gun control movement faltered. Instead, the Obama administration oversaw one of the largest gun booms in US history.
In 2008, when Obama took office, only about 4.5 million firearms were manufactured. Production rates had been more or less stable under former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush at around four to five million guns being made each year. It was not until 2011 that the number of guns made in the United States exceeded six million for the first time.
"Pistols make up the bulk of the firearms manufactured, with 4.4 million produced in 2013," stated the ATF. "That is an increase of more than one million pistols produced compared to the previous year."
Since President Obama took office, the sale of pistols has nearly tripled and the number rifles—among the most popular the iconic AR-15—doubled. Many of these guns were bought for self defense or home defense, and it seems that increased firearm sales may have even curtailed crime in early 2013. The FBI reported that in the first six months of 2013, all of the offenses in the violent crime category—including murder, forcible rape, assault, and robbery—showed a significant decrease in early 2013 from the same period in 2012.


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The Kapha Diet for Weight Loss
Hearing the word "kapha" may leave you shaking your head in confusion, or twisting your face in bewilderment. Unless you are familiar with ancient practices from the Eastern world, or are a yogi, kapha may not mean much to you. With an open mind, however, this one word may balance your life, bring you peace and aid in weight loss.
The Origin of Kapha
Kapha stems from the ancient practice of Ayurveda, one of oldest healing sciences. Proponents of this holistic practice believe that it helps you live a longer, healthier, more balanced life by eating the right foods, drinking the right beverages and living the right lifestyle. The preventative goal of Ayurveda is purifying your mind, body and soul; it's specific target is your digestive system, as Ayurveda ascertains that diseases begin with improper digestion, explains John Douillard, DC, Ph.D., author of "The Yoga Body Diet. 3"
Understanding Kapha
Ayurveda believes everyone has a specific dosha, or source of energy. This healing science has three doshas: vata, pitta and kapha. Each has specific mental, emotional and physical characteristics, and although you have a combination of all, one dosha is more dominant than the rest. Kaphas, in balance, prefer routine rather than flying by the seat of their pants. They prefer heat to cold, and often complain of congestion. Methodical kaphas remain calm when chaos strikes. They are loyal to friends and loved ones, generous with their love and emotions. When out of balance because of poor nutrition and digestive problems, kaphas become withdrawn and lethargic. They are more prone to respiratory problems, such as allergies and asthma. Weight gain is a problem for all doshas when out of balance, but kaphas find it more difficult to lose. This is why there is no "one-size-fits-all" diet for each dosha.
Weight and Balance
Before you can begin the kapha diet, you must understand the connection between losing weight and being in balance. When a kapha eats the food that complements her dosha, her body begins to balance itself again. Douillard explains that being in balance allows your body to easily find its "happy place." This is the weight you can maintain with little effort; the weight that enables you to look and feel your best. Along with balance and weight loss, kaphas will also express the greatest aspects of their personalities.
Kapha Food
To balance a kapha and induce weight loss, you must consume foods that are the opposite of your balanced personality. For example, kapha is cold by nature, preferring heat. Therefore, you need to eat foods that are light, dry and warm, explains the Chopra Center. In balance, a kapha is sweet and loving; to restore this balance and increase your metabolism, you need honey in your diet. Spices, such as hot peppers and turmeric, stoke your digestive fire and increase fat burning. Favor vegetables such as alfalfa sprouts, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, collard greens and baked potatoes. Consume all types of dried fruit, along with apples, lemons, pears and all berries. All spices are acceptable, but limit your meat to chicken and freshwater fish. Choose dairy carefully; soy and rice milk are healthy substitutions for regular milk, as is low-fat goat milk. Herbal tea such as chicory, cinnamon, ginger and strawberry leaf make nice after dinner cocktails. You can add raw honey or molasses for flavor if you like.
The kapha diet isn't as much about the amount you consume as it is when you consume it. Douillard recommends mindful eating. This entails the removal of distractions, such as television or cell phones. Sit quietly and eat quietly. You will gain greater satisfaction from your food and eat less of it. Eat three meals a day, no snacking. Your body will burn fat between meals and while you sleep. Douillard states that feeding your body every three hours doesn't give your digestive system time to break food down. Make lunch your biggest meal, and eat dinner by 5 p.m. A typical dinner includes soup or salad, fruit, sandwich and small dessert with herbal tea. Through the day, sip warm water. It keeps you hydrated and naturally detoxifies your digestive system.
In balance, a kapha is sweet and loving; to restore this balance and increase your metabolism, you need honey in your diet. Therefore, you need to eat foods that are light, dry and warm, explains the Chopra Center. The preventative goal of Ayurveda is purifying your mind, body and soul; it's specific target is your digestive system, as Ayurveda ascertains that diseases begin with improper digestion, explains John Douillard, DC, Ph.D., author of "The Yoga Body Diet."
- The Chopra Center; Qualities of Kapha; 2009
- University of Maryland Medical Center; Ayurveda; September 2009
- "The Yoga Body Diet";John Douillard, DC, PhD, et al.; 2010
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Town centre move for Furniture Market...
The owners of a furniture and antiques business who had to move from Station Hill to make way for developers are preparing to open in a new Bury St Edmunds town centre location. Lindsay Foreman and Dominic Everitt are opening Furniture Market in the former Mill House Fabrics building in Brentgovel Street on Saturday January 28.
The shop will offer opportunities for other small businesses to rent stalls and cabinets selling furniture, antiques and collectibles.
Lindsay said: "We want to offer a mix of all types of furniture and collectibles from modern to vintage or retro and our stallholders will also cater for the current trends of shabby chic and painted furniture. There'll also be items such as glassware, china and curios. We're very much looking forward to being in the town centre and our customers are eagerly awaiting the opening."
Stalls and cabinets are still available for other business people to hire. Those taking a stall will share some of the shop work, at the moment expected to be two days a month.
Mark Cordell, Chief Executive of the Business Improvement District organisation Ourburystedmunds, commented: "We've had a great start to the new year in the town centre with premises that had been vacant opening up with a new look and offering something different for the town centre. I wish Furniture Market every success."
Furniture Market is at 8 Brentgovel Street and will be officially opened at 10am on Saturday January 28 by the Borough Mayor Councillor Julia Wakelam. Trading hours will then be 10am to 6pm Monday to Saturday and 10am to 6pm on Sundays.
Telephone 01284 489805
Email Click here to email
Website click here to visit
8 Brentgrovel Street, Bury St Edmunds
Opening Hours Mon - Sat: 10am - 6pm Sun: 10am - 4pm


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I've always been fascinated by sculpture, from ancient times to today. There's room for abstract in this medium but I find it's at its best when it is representational, and when it sends a message. I stumbled on 33 Weird Statues and Sculptures Around the World from toroller.com.
What strikes me is the difference in, shall I say, boldness between European and American sculptures, in topic and in content. No way would a fifteen foot vulva be displayed in a prominent park in Canada or the United States, although I could see it in some South America States.
What does that say about us? That we are more prudish? That we have better taste? That we are more limited in our art appreciation? That our governments have less courage?
On the other hand, maybe Europe is more broad-minded only when it comes to the secular. Terence Koh's sculpture of an erect Jesus has created an uproar ("Christ is risen!" said the Sun). Hmmm. Although he was supposedly fashioned as man's image, that part of the plumbing wasn't supposed to work. He obviously wasn't a perfect god.
Sarcasm aside, and religion aside, it is still interesting to think that our city's sculpture may be a reflection of who we are as a people, or, more likely, who our government is. In Ottawa, our sculptures are mostly of dead, important political people. Perhaps fitting, since we are the capital of Canada, but oh, so boring.
Not surprising for a city that stows its sidewalks (metaphorically, of course) at 10pm on a Saturday night.


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Thank you all the beautiful folk who were there for the Live Launch of the new album.
It was wonderful to have some friendly supporters in the audience.
Thank you for for being so receptive and for laughing in just the right spots.
Such a delight to play with the honking "wildgoose orchestra", my friends from Diddly Squat, and
Michael Fix who joined us for one exquisite rendition of "Will I Remember".
and heck yeah - I will long remember it!
One of the biggest thrills was seeing the introductory video projected up on the wall behind the stage.
After spending many hours giggling to myself whilst putting this video together,
it was a hoot to finally unleash and share it.
Here's the video teaser for the album which includes the intro we played at the live launch,
and features additional exclusive candid "behind the scenes" footage from the recording studio.
Look out for the shower cubicle which doubles as a vocal recording booth!!!
Still looking for last minute Christmas gifts?
Why not "stuff a goose in your stocking"!
CDBaby are offering 1C shipping on all orders until December 24.
That's great value for shipping outside of Oz
Buy Now at CDbaby
If you want shipping in Australia, still best value to purchase from here.
Click link at top right
I'll even gift wrap for you - just let me know in the special instructions.
Thank you for your support throughout the year
Happy festive season to you all.


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You're in the process of configuring a new HP t410 Smart Zero Client with a
XenDesktop 7.x infrastructure. You proceed to configure the zero client to
connect to StoreFront 3.0.1 but quickly notice the following error message:
Certificate error
CA certificate required to connect to this server is not installed or
found. Please use Certificate Manager to add the CA certificate or contact your
system administrator.
The reason why this error is thrown is because the certificate presented by
the StoreFront to secure the traffic between itself and the zero client is
issued by an internal Microsoft CA which the zero client does not trust. To
correct this issue, simply export the root certificate as Base-64
encoded X.509 (.CER) format:
Then navigate into the Certificate Manager of the zero client
and import it into the Local Root Certification
You should now be able to log into the site without receiving the certificate
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Tibetan Section
The Tibetan Section is one of the richest repositories of printed documents and xylographs in Tibetan language. The Section has rich collection of major editions of Kagyur and Tangyur namely .
- Burmese Tripitaka etc.
- Narthang Kagyur and Tangyur
- Peking Kagyur and Tangyur
- Lhasa Kagyur
- Tog Palace Kagyur
- Urga Kagyur
- Lithang Kagyur
- Tawang Kagyur
- the Cone Tangyur
- Ser bris Tangyur
- Bonpo Kagyur and Tangyur
- Chinese Tripitaka
- Dege Kagyur and Tangyur
Section also has a good collection of collected works. Kagyur or Buddha's teachings, consists of 108 volumes containing 115 texts. Tangyur or the treatises and commentaries of later Indian masters on Buddha's teachings (Kagyur) consist of 224 volumes containing 3387 texts. These texts of the Kagyur and the Tangyur were translated mainly from Sanskrit Buddhist texts and Pali over the several centuries by a number of Indian Pandits and the Tibetan lo tsa bas.
In addition to the above listed major editions of Kagyur & Tangyur, the holdings of the section includes xylographs and handwritten canonical documents, books, illustrated manuscripts, Arts and thangka paintings, journals and Sung bums or collected works of the teachers of four Buddhist traditions of Tibet, viz. the Nyingma, the Kagyud, the Sakya and the Gelug, as well as those belonging to the indigenous Bon tradition.
There are approximately 70,000 texts in the section. Section also manages some manuscripts, which are more than a century old and have archival value. Most of these valuable materials are reproduced in microfilms and other contemporary electronic formats so as to preserve them for future generations. A list of some important collected works (gsung bums) of four traditional Schools as well as the Bon tradition is as follows:
- Rinchen gter mdzod Chen mo 56vol.
- rgyud 'bum 45vol.
- bka' rgya ma 40vol
- klong chen mdzod bdun 7vol
- bdud 'dzoms gsung 'bum 20 vol.
- Bu Ton gsung 'bum 28vol.
- Dags po bsod rnams rin chen gyi gsung 'bum
- Pad ma dkar po'i gsung 'bum 20vol.
- gdams ngag mzdod 15vol.
- Ta ra na tha'i gsung 'bum 16vol.
- Sa sky'i bka' 'bum 17
- Sa sky'i lam 'bras 46vol.
- sgrub thabs kun bstus
- Grags chen bco brgyad
- Go ram pa bsod rnams seng ge'i gsung 'bum
- rje yab sras gsum gyi gsung 'bum
- Pan chen sku phreng gi 'gsung 'bum
- Gung thang gi gsung 'bum
- 'jam dbyangs bzhad pa'i gsung 'bum
- Pan chen bsod rnams grags pa'i gsung 'bum
- Bon po'i gsum 332vol.
Functions and services offered by the section
This traditionally designed section having stack cum reading area spread in four adjoining rooms. The section provides help to consult the collection, documents and also compiles topical bibliographies on demand.
Staff Members
- Shri Tenzin Ghege
- Shri Choenga Tsering
- Ms. Tsewang Dolkar
- Shri Anil Kumar Yadav


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In the run-up to the launch of the first iPhone, Apple's share price rose from $93 to a peak of $140. As Research in Motion girds itself for the launch of BB10, it's risen from $6.22 to $17.54. Few figures could be more indicative of the huge anticipation surrounding BlackBerry's new Z10 device, or how low RIM's stock has fallen.
That rise – 281 per cent compared to 50 per cent – already reflects the careful management of BlackBerry's launch and the enthusiasm of networks for another operating system to challenge iOS and Android, as well as how low BlackBerry has sunk. No wonder Forrester's Charles Golvin calls the challenge "gargantuan". It seems hard to imagine RIM taking the place of the iPhone five years from now.
Still, the devices themselves have both been widely leaked and widely praised. RIM has shown off so many features that everything seems to be coming together neatly, from the personalised typing patterns on the screen's keyboard to the combined inbox. Even BlackBerry's plan to spend millions on making and showing a SuperBowl ad seems to have struck many observers as a reasonable marketing tactic rather than an act of desperation.
But a clear-headed analysis of BlackBerry shows two things: its core user base remains the corporate IT department, which for decades inflicted devices on poor employees yet now increasingly provides people with devices they genuinely want to own. And BlackBerry sustained its user base for as long as it did on the back of young people buying cheap, low-grade devices. Tales from professionals are all too often of poor build quality and multiple replacements.
Both those audiences have changed hugely: even security-conscious accountancy firms such as Deloitte are more than happy to provider employees with Android and iOS devices. Few actively choose BlackBerry when offered. Stopping the haemorrhage means turning around a battleship.
And increasingly, while young people do remain committed to the BBM instant messenger service, cheaper more capable devices are easy to come by, almost all of them running Android.
"RIM has clearly demonstrated that the company retains considerable skill and expertise in hardware and software design; the Z10 is beautiful and BB10 is a giant leap forward from RIM's previous platform," says Golvin. "But to prove its continued viability and potential for renewal, the company must convince multiple constituents to invest in BB10: its current and former users, application developers, mobile operators, and content providers. The highly competitive smartphone market will only offer them a short window to do this."
So RIM must rapidly become cool among its affluent core, which so quickly ran for the iPhone and now accepts Samsung enthusiastically too. And it must also quickly make even its premium devices affordable to a fickle younger user base. In that sense, the quality of the phone is at best equally important to the perception of the brand. At worst, BB10 is simply too little too late for BlackBerry thanks to a lethal combination of being consistently decent but not outstanding when it comes to cool factor, hardware, software and app availability.
At launch BB10 may have 70,000 apps or more thanks to the rapid conversion of Android software. But that will make it nearly as good as Android, which is still in many ways chasing iOS. RIM will be fighting it out for third with Microsoft if it's lucky. "They'll need to prove themselves in the face of a simultaneous onslaught of marketing from Microsoft, not to mention the continued push from Apple plus Google and its Android partners," says Golvin. "This is a gargantuan challenge for a company of RIM's size." Nokia hasn't managed it, Microsoft hasn't managed it, HTC hasn't managed it – for my money RIM's got a fighting chance, but it's a true gambler who bets on BlackBerry's long-term success.


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It's all about supporting women through scholarships.
The South Bay Women's Conference is an annual inspirational event that centers on awarding scholarships to deserving South Bay women to pursue business degrees.
Our main focus is to raise money for the purpose of awarding educational scholarships to deserving women pursuing degrees in order to better their lives.
- 100% of conference profits go to scholarships for women returning to school & high school senior girls majoring in a business degree.
- We consistently meet or exceed scholarship fundraising goals every year – our goal is to offer seven (7) scholarship awards up to $2,000 each based on sponsorship support.
- Over the past 5 conferences, we've awarded $76,500 – and counting – in scholarships thanks to sponsor support.
Please visit www.sbbwa.com for scholarship information & application
The availability of scholarship funds is highly predicated upon the success of our annual Women's Conference and scholarship donations. We ask that you or your company continue to support us in this great cause!
Make an impact on a woman's life forever by being a Sponsor.
In the words of our recipients…
Linda Lee
Scholarship Recipient, 2017
"Firstly, I cannot thank you enough for the generous scholarship you have willingly provided. Your thoughtful investment means the world to my future and me – thank you so much. Receiving this significant, encouraging gift, I see my college and career future…" Read more
Jennifer Phan
Scholarship Recipient, 2014
At the time when I accepted the South Bay Women's scholarship, I was in my last year of college at CSULB and working full time six days per week to support myself. Now four years later, my life has completely transformed…"Read more
Paloma Williams
Scholarship Recipient, 2017
Thank you again for your generous scholarship towards my education. It means a lot to me and my family. Thank you for choosing me to be one of your recipients. As I previously wrote to you, I enjoyed your annual event very much, but attending your scholarship dinner was even more enjoyable…"Read more
The South Bay Women's Conference is the culmination of the South Bay Business Women's Association mission and we're proud of this work we do. Don't miss this opportunity to be inspired by a number of amazing young women who will be our future leaders, business owners and world-changers. We invite you to be a part of this memorable day.
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For the past few weeks I have been in cahoots with Bevy to prepare for her becoming co-author of Seasons of a Homemaker. As the preparing went underway, there was a lot of outlining that needed to happen, what subjects will she post, making new categories, refreshing old categories and coming up with a new welcome image. Little did I know that as I made these plans God would be working some great stuff up!
While pondering long and hard about the direction the blog will now take and goals for the blog I realized it's not MY blog anymore, and I love that! I have amazing readers and followers and I'm so excited to share with you the new and improved:
Seasons of Homemakers
We're also a domain now, we're .com!!
Now let me introduce Bevy Cook to you.
Beverly is an amazing inspiration to me as a Christian. She's so true and just shines God's light through her in her amazing compassion for others! She's married her husband, Brent, in August 2008 and in 2012 on October 6th they welcomed the beautiful Alexa Grace to their family!! Her beautiful little family is completed by Cody!
Her heart for the Lord is amazing and recently they shared something with Joshua and I that just blessed us beyond our imaginations! We're so very thankful for Brent and Bevy in our lives!
Bevy plans to blog about faith, marriage and mommyhood as well as whatever whims of topics come to here.
She's looking forward to getting to know you all and blogging her heart out!!
So stay tuned for many many exciting things to be posted here at Seasons of Homemakers!!


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Chandigarh, Jul 14: Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij said a project report of 84 civil hospitals in the state will soon be prepared to provide advanced medical facilities to the people.
"Haryana will be the first state to have such kind of medical facilities," he claimed.
The minister was presiding over a meeting with senior officers of National Health Systems Resource Centre (NHSRC), New Delhi, and state health department here.In the meeting, Vij asked the officers of NHSRC to differentiate the norms of infrastructure in hospitals, prepare the estimates of expenditure to be incurred on the same and also prepare drawing of the project so that work can soon be started.


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DLSoft Bar Code 2D Tools for Crystal Reports XI
Businesses that utilize computer generated reports using the Crystal Report XI application can now have the reports bar coded using dLSoft Bar Code 2D Tools. This new software places a 2D bar code in the finished report which enables anyone who needs to access the reports by scanning the bar code with a smart phone and referencing it at a later time. This is especially practical if a report or series of reports are used at a business meeting and need to be used again by an employee. Crystal Reports XI generates reports from other data sources such as Oracle, MySQL, and Microsoft Access and the dLSoft Bar Code Tools. The dLSoft Bar Code Tools captures the data in a report which converts the information into a 2D code which is then embedded at the bottom of the report.
Several types of 2D bar codes can be created with dLSoft Bar Code Tools and can be used in any type of report or file created in Crystal Reports XI. These bar codes can appear as graphic images similar to QR codes, or as font-based codes with a few limitations. The font-based bar codes that are supported in dLSoft Bar Code Tools include Aztec, PDF417, and Datamatrix. These bar codes can also be used in previous versions of Crystal Reports.
DLSoft Bar Code Tools include a local machine server for Windows systems 2000/XP/Vista plus newer systems. The server also has servlets for IIS and Java coding which can be used on a remote or company server. A library of fonts are included for creating font-based bar codes in Crystal Reports XI as well as versions 8, 9, and X. For businesses that have these earlier versions of Crystal Reports, dLSoft also provide sample bar codes for reports so that users can see what they look like.
One of the benefits of using dLSoft Bar Code Tools with Crystal Reports XI is that the 2D bar code is located in the actual report, instead of being located on a remote server which would require the use of the software tools to access the bar code for viewing. With the elimination of this step, no other bar code tool in dLSoft is necessary for opening up reports on a Windows system.
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External linking: How are we doing?
Last year we at the News website were tasked with doubling the number of click-throughs to external sites by 2013, as part of the BBC's Strategy Review.
This was something I discussed at a panel session I was taking part in at yesterday's News:Rewired conference, organised by Journalism.co.uk, and I wanted to write briefly here about our ongoing efforts to improve the ways in which we link externally from our news articles.
Having asked for the figures from our research team for my presentation, it was great to hear that we appear to be well on track to achieve the goal set for us.
Looking back at the third quarter of 2010, we had an average of around 2.9m external click-throughs per month from UK users. That period - last year's July, August & September - was around the time of the redesign of the News website. That meant, among other changes, that the 'From other news sites' and 'Related internet links' sections moved from the right-hand side to the bottom of news stories. And we have also been doing more linking to external sources from within the text of story pages.
The figures for the third quarter of this year show that all this has had an effect, and it looks as though we've been getting something right. The monthly average is now around 6.1m click-throughs i.e. more than double what it was last year. One caveat is that there have been some big news stories over this period, including the August riots, Norway shootings and Amy Winehouse's death. Another caveat is that we are using a different method to measure the figures now, so whilst the comparison should be pretty accurate, there's a small margin for error.
It's interesting too when looking at the figures, to see where the traffic goes - who are we linking to? Around one-third goes to other news sites via 'Moreover' - the technology behind the 'From Other News Sites' box which is included on many BBC News stories. The top destinations for external click-throughs in any month depends largely on what the top stories are for that period, for example in February this year there was news of the street-level crime maps being published (www.police.uk) , ITV footage of an elderly lady confronting armed robbers (www.itv.com) and stories about tickets for the Olympics in 2012 (www.london2012.com). Those sites all showed up high in our list of onward referrals.
And just to be clear, it's not that we don't want you to stay with us - we do, of course . There's lots of great content around the BBC site, we're proud of it and want you to explore it, but helping you to find relevant and useful information , whether on other news sites or from non-news sources, is also a key part of what we should be doing as a news provider. From this latest snapshot of where we are with external linking it does look as though we are getting better at doing that, but there's always room to do more, so if you have ideas on this, let us know.
Update, 10:49: Tuesday 11 October: Thanks for all the comments on this post, I wanted to reply to a few of them briefly:
Kit Green: No reciprocal agreements, we are assuming that by and large if we provide a good link, people will come back – at some stage.
Josh: You are quite right: The link should be www.police.uk to get the postcode search for local crime maps and data. Sorry about that.
Christina, Whitefall: Yes, point taken. We are acutely aware of the benefit and value of linking to source reports, and will continue to aim to do this whenever we can. There are sometimes practical issues which make this difficult such as when the report is under embargo at time of writing, or there is a paywall. But in principle I quite agree it is the right thing to do.
Horsenanny: Very glad you have found the site useful and informative.
Bluesberry: I don't have a reply to hand on your South America query, but if you get in touch I can seek one.
Maddyn10, Shakygorilla1: We have been covering the US protests – for example here and on the related links to our other coverage from this story.
Eddy from Waring: Yes – quantity is a crude measure, but it is a start. Relevance and quality are clearly key. We measure clickthroughs, so the fact that someone has followed a link does at least imply some value.
Pratish: I have passed your correction on to WHYS.
David: On the reasons for the linking targets – there's more here and in the link from that post to the Mark Thompson Strategy Review document.
Steve Herrmann is editor of the BBC News website.
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Comment number 1.At 13:10 7th Oct 2011, ShaGGy_UK wrote:
Comment number 2.At 13:22 7th Oct 2011, Kit Green wrote:
Are there reciprocal agreements with other news providers? While I understand and support the need for users to obtain diverse views on various subjects I am concerned that the BBC gets the short straw here.
Comment number 3.At 21:03 7th Oct 2011, gedguy2 wrote:
The new web site looks good. The only complaint that I have is the little amount of words that we are allowed to write in response to BBC blogs.
Sometimes the blog needs an answer [especially with complicated articles] greater than what you allow us. Please review this again.
Comment number 4.At 21:25 7th Oct 2011, Tesseraltyme wrote:
I was very disappointed with two external links yesterday on the Business News which used deceptive advertising. https://www.moneyandmarkets.com and https://www.weissinc.com/
Comment number 5.At 21:49 7th Oct 2011, purple wrote:
Hot linking can be a problem, like any else it can be abused - that's the way of things. This being a quiet spot - consider this. Economic activity SHOULD by quantifiable variations = and follow the oil price. That is a fundemental and historically, a truth. Where deviation occurs, there is room for serious study of the variance. The ONS now have corrected for the last 10 years.
Changing from the retail price index measure of inflation to the consumer price index, which is usually lower, was a major cause of the revisions. In 2003, this change cut the GDP deflator used by 0.8 percentage points.
Comparing the new stats, certainly GDP growth, against the chart of oil price, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business/market_data/commodities/143908/twelve_month.stm offers interesting and realistic insight to what should be as easy to work out as falling off logs. Economic activity is entirely reflected in the oil price chart.
This is something anyone can assess rather quickly and ....... go on, have a go.
Get fundemental.
Comment number 6.At 22:45 7th Oct 2011, Josh wrote:
Steve, there's a little problem with your Police link; it's www.police.uk, not .gov.uk.
Comment number 7.At 02:42 8th Oct 2011, christina wrote:
I think linking to your articles' sources (e.g. the relevant scientific publication, the relevant paragraph of a new law) is much more helpful than sending your readers around the internet looking for fancy news.
Personally, I have more respect for news providers that look like their doing their research and verifying their sources than those who link to some partner site (which I've already browsed, most probably).
If I wanted to see what others say on a topic I'd go to twitter.
Comment number 8.At 07:57 8th Oct 2011, horsenanny wrote:
I live in the US. I began reading the BBC's news version concerning my country and found it to be much more informative. I recommended it to some friends and they agree. Our news agencies are all so slanted in one direction that it's virtually impossible to get even a hint of the real story. That's when I found that often, you will cover something on it. Thank you. It is sad to feel one is only being fed propaganda instead of news, especially with the important issues of the day over here. Thank you for showing an interest in our country. We need ally's such as you.
Comment number 9.At 09:03 8th Oct 2011, JunkkMale wrote:
'1. At 13:10 7th Oct 2011, ShaGGy_UK wrote:
This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules.
For more irony, it could have course have been...
'[Unsuitable/Broken URL removed by Moderator]'
Though this will serve pretty well, too..
'6. At 22:45 7th Oct 2011, Josh wrote:
Steve, there's a little problem with your Police link; it's www.police.uk, not .gov.uk.
Still uncorrected.
Blame the cuts.
Comment number 10.At 12:57 8th Oct 2011, andrew wrote:
The policy is wrong. It makes the BBC website which we the license fee payer already own more of a target for every scum bag out there who wants to game Google's search results by gaining a link. Who came up with this policy about our website?
Comment number 11.At 14:07 8th Oct 2011, BluesBerry wrote:
Never use them. Don't want to use them.
When I go to BBC - my most trusted source for news/info - that's what I want BBC (pure & simple).
I've often wondered though why you do not have a specific editor/journalist assigned to South America. Why is this?
Comment number 12.At 19:07 8th Oct 2011, LoveYAHWEH wrote:
I like it that they link externally, why not link to more like Zombie Apocalypse, more to satisfy our interests?
Comment number 13.At 19:11 8th Oct 2011, Whitefall wrote:
I find it highly frustrating that when there's a story about "a report released today by X", we're lucky if we get a link to X's main site with no hint of where to find the report. Please link the actual report itself! If it's interesting enough to write a story on, there's going to be people want to read the source material.
I understand that direct links to other sites become invalid with time, but when it's a fresh story this isn't an excuse.
Comment number 14.At 19:35 8th Oct 2011, maninjapan wrote:
Why isn't the BBC News covering the fact that serious translation errors are taking place in the trial of Lynsey Anne-Hawkers trial?
Comment number 15.At 20:18 8th Oct 2011, GeoffWard wrote:
I see little evidence of Click-Thorough links to the world's major environmental sites on the Richard Black on Environment site.
Now the BBC has stopped contributors from making argued comment and engaging in profound debate, where are the BBC/Black links to sites where the concerned can meet and discuss?
Readers of Wikinomics will recognise the BBC constraints as a Canute attempt to arrest the tide of progress.
Comment number 16.At 20:40 8th Oct 2011, GeoffWard wrote:
"I've often wondered though why you do not have a specific editor/journalist assigned to South America.
Why is this?"
(BluesBerry #11)
Though there is no salaried editor/journalist/correspondent, and little evidence of use of consistent stringers, I did, until the restructuring of BBC Online, post regularly on the South American condition.
And, to be honest, the accumulation of the many points of view expressed on the South Atlantic/South American new agency Mercopress, provides me with a comprehensive and 'balanced' understanding, with which I can (and do) furnish comment on BBC online.
Perhaps the days of relying on the salaried professional journalist, coralled and reporting from the Press Hotel far away from the action, are numbered.
You should accept that the likes of Globo News, reporting on the military/military police/police retaking of the Brazilian favelas, present a much better report of the news than the BBC, culling second-hand from half a world away. Though the 'storming of the Favelas' makes prize-winning newscasts, the knock-on effect is the really interesting part, and this rarely is collated into articles and news items; this is where the likes of me show their worth.
Pity it's compacted into so few words, though.
Makes it hardly worthwhile.
Comment number 17.At 23:48 8th Oct 2011, LoveYAHWEH wrote:
Comment number 18.At 06:07 9th Oct 2011, Andrew John Gallacher wrote:
The goal of doubling the number of click-throughs to external sites is worthwhile. Even though this can sometimes lead to spam or commercial linking (and safeguards must be implemented to keep these to a minimum) it's a small price to pay for having immediate access to information related to the item or article we're interested in. The BBC must be aware that the future of news is on the internet. This strategy ensures that the BBC is the first point of call because the reader knows there is real value in the links within or surrounding the news.
Comment number 19.At 11:56 9th Oct 2011, ghymer wrote:
Could you please keep at least one blog OPEN on the Scottish political site.
just as interesting discussions start things get cut off in mid-stream and
then who knows when another one opens up. Surely there are a few deputy
political editors around who can pick up the slack.
Comment number 20.At 14:35 9th Oct 2011, maddyn10 wrote:
As BBC editor I find it almost unbeleivable that you have not fully covered the wall street occupation and the other demonstrations taking place in the US - you give more space to the michael jackson tribute!
Comment number 21.At 16:11 9th Oct 2011, This is a colleague announcement wrote:
This assumes that a click-through is a Good Thing, and so twice as many are perhaps twice as good, it seems to me.
It's not at all clear though, what would be the ideal number, or how that would be decided.
I'd have thought it would be the relevance and quality of the target sites that ought to be the subjects of consideration.
Comment number 22.At 17:28 9th Oct 2011, BluesBerry wrote:
Perhaps the biggest non-elite movement occurring right now in the United States of America is the movement to express intense, passionate dissatisfaction with financial institutions and the over-all elitist greed of the 1% of society. For the sake of the 99%, or whatever segment of these that which to join the protest, these are the most relevant external links:
■Occupy Wall Street – the official and original website of the movement.
■Occupy Together – an offshoot of OZ, serving as a hub for protests that are springing up around the US & internationally.
■We Are the 99% – a Tumblr blog where people can send in photos of themselves holding signs that declare how they are affected by the current financial situation.
■#occupy wall street – the Twitter feed with real-time updates.
■Occupy Wall St. – the Facebook page.
■occupy – the movement's YouTube channel where you can find coverage you won't see in the MSM.
Also it is recognized that the numbers can be boosted when organized groups like
- US Military Veterans groups and
- Labour Union groups show their support.
Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100 has committed; they alone have a member base of @ 40,000.
Comment number 23.At 07:18 10th Oct 2011, Pratish wrote:
Steve, I think things have improved tremendously since the site redesign although like a couple of the comments above I think the new layout for the news blogs is awful and if anything stifles online interaction rather than promotes it (referring to the very limited number of comment posts per page and the incredibly short length allowed for comments).
In terms of external linking, I think it's a critical part of the web - there is no way BBC can cover all perspectives on the topic and the 'related links' section is very useful to provide alternative viewpoints and info on complementary subjects. One gripe I do have however is that the South African news blog I write for was recently invited to form part of an expert panel on BBC's WHYS on foreign intervention in Libya in early September - the presenter had got the name of the blog incorrect in his introduction and even contacting the producer to rectify the error via the BBC blog post has yielded no results... disappointing.
My only suggestion on general blog/ news posts on BBC is that the external 'related links' be grouped together at the end of the post rather than only scattered throughout the articles - this just makes it easier for readers to read the entire BBC article before deciding which areas they'd like to expand on.
Comment number 24.At 11:05 10th Oct 2011, shakygorilla wrote:
How about some links to sites reporting the civil protests in the US? The BBC seems incapable of covering it.
Comment number 25.At 12:33 10th Oct 2011, GracefulCovenant wrote:
All of the things wrong with this forum/site/news broadcast have to do with larger problems at large. According to the Law of Attraction as dictated by the People of Mohammad's Prophet is this: Those who know war will be the first to see; communism will reign. Just as Alexander lived his life and died nobly, so too did Marx and the Russians instigate the Cold War. They sacrificed more than we know...this is what is wrong with this website.
Comment number 26.At 12:48 10th Oct 2011, david wrote:
Last year you were tasked and today I've been opportunitied, to use more than 400 characters to write about external linking.
First, though, your blog.
Why must you be so insistently, almost aggressively, certainly pathetically chummy?
Wanted to write, great to hear, getting something right - soppy stuff. I no more want to like you than you want to like me. Professionalism, please, not 'man of the people'.
And second, external linking. Fine - though there's a whiff of condescension about your efforts and it isn't self-evident that 6.1m. click-throughs (yuk) is better than 2.9m. It's just more. Why were you tasked (yuk again) with doubling? As a measure of facilitation? Trust us with reasons.
Comment number 27.At 12:57 10th Oct 2011, GracefulCovenant wrote:
Apparently, this graceful site is--without a doubt--perfection at its peak. Where does one lie and begin to state such a travesty as that this is that which brings about ignorance and unlawfulness? This is the epitome of law and order: harmony. Chaotically, I might add, thank you very much for your consideration.
-Alexander Paul Styles
Comment number 28.At 16:14 10th Oct 2011, patrick_i wrote:
Every hour we hear the same thing about Dr Liam Fox and it is becoming a very boring. Surely there is more news out there in the world to broadcast.
Comment number 29.At 17:26 10th Oct 2011, ghymer wrote:
Has the Scottish political site
been closed due to the cuts ?
Comment number 30.At 17:58 10th Oct 2011, cping500 wrote:
Actually I would like a link to a report that is quoted in a news article. Quite often the report uses the PR and the report turns out to be different.
Comment number 31.At 21:34 10th Oct 2011, nilihist wrote:
Comment number 32.At 05:07 11th Oct 2011, artesian wrote:
I am afraid you get a zero on carbon dioxide science reporting and minus 100% for environmental bias. I'm happy not to rely upon the BBC for accuracy in climate science and hope your bias does not extend to politics. Alas!
Comment number 33.At 11:44 12th Oct 2011, JunkkMale wrote:
Comment number 34.At 18:41 12th Oct 2011, Erik wrote:
Comment number 35.At 21:41 12th Oct 2011, Gabriel wrote:
with reference to the news about the Braille touch pad.
I am blind, and there are many items out there for people like me.
Inventing a new one that uses braille, is moving backwards with technology.
There are many voice activated devices available, as well as talking ones.
Mobile phones are the device which I find difficult to use, and the devices for blind people are so demoralisingly simple, they seem to be like a 'fisher price toy'.
Being blind has enough of a stigma attached to it with reference to the cane 'we' carry, without designers belittling our inteligence and abilityies.
I finished my Degree this year and managed very well with the technology available.
If I/we need anything it would be a device that can encapsulate all elements in one.
Yours sincerely,
G. Albrecht BA(hon)
Comment number 36.At 21:06 13th Oct 2011, BluesBerry wrote:
Bluesberry: I don't have a reply to hand on your South America query, but if you get in touch I can seek one.
In response: I was thinking along the line Mark Mardell in US; Mark Easton's UK; Andrew Harding on Africa; Gavin Hewitt's Europe; Soutik Biswas' India, etc. Who does South America?
Comment number 37.At 15:03 14th Oct 2011, Khrystalar wrote:
Mr Herman,
With regards to Kit Green's comment at #2 and your subsequent response; may I remind you that the BBC is a Public Service broadcaster funded by public money. The sites you are linking to are generally comercially-driven, profit-oriented enterprises who will be making money from the increased click-throughs you're handing them.
If no reciprocal agreement exists, as you say, then you are not only missing a prime opportunity to recoup some public money by charging companies for the increased revenue which you are, in effect, handing them on a plate; you are, in fact, using public money (albeit only a small amount) to increase the profits of a small handful of other media companies.
I've just spotted a quite simply massive irony - but a handy one, from the point of view of somebody trying to make the point I'm outlining, here - at the time of writing, all but one of the external links on your "Editor's Blog" page is pointing to a story on some other news organisation's site about how the BBC is having to make sweeping cuts due to lack of money!
If I wanted to contribute to the Mail's or the Telegraph's profit-margins, without getting anything useful back in return, I'd buy their damn papers! Don't make me do it through my licence fee, please.
Comment number 38.At 11:22 15th Oct 2011, ghymer wrote:
Will you please tell your people NOT to close an item
until they have replaced it with a new item !!!
Comment number 39.At 12:02 15th Oct 2011, HermitTalker wrote:
Please corrrect on radio and TV BBC news the part of the story concrerning the RC bishop in Missouri. Neither he nor his staff gave the Reverend's laptop back to his family. The police were given it in May 2011, The bishop's statement is provided in full on THE KANSAS CITY KEY Blog and shows the thorough way he and the diocese handled this. Today's NEW YORK TIMES carried the story and your information re the laptop was not included. Thank you. Professor P O'B
Comment number 40.At 14:55 16th Oct 2011, ghymer wrote:
Still no activity on the Scottish news website.
Has this site closed ? Has your Scottish political
corrospondant been let go due to the cuts or is he
only working on a part time basis now ?
Please do something about keeping this site open !!!
Comment number 41.At 18:58 16th Oct 2011, dickonbear wrote:
As someone who spends about 3 months of the year in the UK and 9 months abroad, I regard the BBC News (+ sport + weather) website as the main thing that my licence fee buys. I spend much more time per annum on your website than I do listening to World Service radio (when abroad) or watching BBC TV channels (when in London).
To date, the only links I have used much are the ones that take me closer to the source of a story. But, if it will help keep the politicians off the Beeb's back and preserve a service I value, I am happy to click the Guardian or Mail links a couple of times a day - provided I don't have to read what I find at the other end!
Comment number 42.At 09:42 17th Oct 2011, JunkkMale wrote:
I'm interested by the BBC's staff and external linking, for sure.
Now twitter is deemed by the BBC and its finest as the one source that trumps all, I get a mite concerned when I read this from a senior BBC editor, whose bon mots can seemingly immediately inspire so many...
'@paulmasonnews Paul Mason
Can ppl let me know if they get wierd tweets or DMs. I have unvirused my account bt let me know. I hope they were funny and within BBC rules'
Rules were made to be broken, one guesses. Well, unless it's well, by mere BBC customers and around these blogs.
So it's hard to judge whether this post is genuine, a spoof, or just the normal BBC recommended linked reporting one might expect:
@paulmasonnews Paul Mason
RT @PennyRed: Report for @NewStatesman - Inside Madrid's Puerta del Sol protest bit.ly/qRhT6G #15O #ows #occupyeverywhere
Rallying the troops via the notions of an avowed activist seems an odd function to be promoting.
In particular as there only seem to be about 10 involved in that blog, and many not as onside as the organisers, and their PR RT'ing boosters, may have hoped for. Hardly 'speaking for the nation'.
Quite where Mr. Mason fits in, along with his favoured links, I am not sure, especially as the BBC's sourced output now seems to be in the hands of odd bods with nefarious IT skills in Romania.
But one is sure it is faster, easier, cheaper and... 'better'.
If actually totally useless.
Comment number 43.At 10:14 17th Oct 2011, watriler wrote:
Are we not to be allowed to comment on Paul Mason's latest blog?
Comment number 44.At 10:47 17th Oct 2011, JunkkMale wrote:
'43. At 10:14 17th Oct 2011, watriler wrote:
Are we not to be allowed to comment on Paul Mason's latest blog?
The presence, or not, of comments on interactive blogs is indeed interesting.
The techniques to deal with those that don't suit are spreading.
Infinite referalls.
All-purpose House Rules, that even if yoiu get an advice deliberately don't specify what exactly the problem is, ranging from an 'ism to scaring the horses.
Closed for comments.
Broadcast only blogs.
Watertight oversight (where a sudden commitment to integrity means stuff cannot be mentioned until proven)
And now a raft of 'accidents', where existing threads get wiped, or stalled or vanish or 401.
There is of course twitter, whose reliability is under question, and in any case seems easy to block if the author doesn't fancy engaging, which is novel for any with BBC branding, as it smacks of discrimination.
It's like some are trying to get back to a point we are talked at, as opposed to with, and being listened to may not mean hearing anything that is not wanted.
Comment number 45.At 11:27 17th Oct 2011, ghymer wrote:
Can anyone tell me if we still have
a news blog on the Scottish political
section or has it been closed down ?
Comment number 46.At 15:02 17th Oct 2011, Maria Ashot wrote:
Editors, you are doing well in my eyes (at least). But there is no other means to contact you now, so I am sending you this comment to let you know that I am very grateful for your investigation and report on child abuse and neglect in America.
It is a shameful fact that so many children in America suffer dreadfully.
However, there is a problem with the formulation used in the report, as we happen to know for a fact that the list of "industrialised nations" includes Russia and Ukraine, and also India.
And the fact is the rate of child neglect and abuse in all those countries exceeds the rate of child neglect and abuse in the USA. Now it may be that your investigator relied on official data, and therefore got more accurate numbers from the USA -- less accurate numbers from Russia, Ukraine and India.
Pakistan is a nuclear power, so I am not sure it is accurate not to include Pakistan in the list of "industrialised nations." In Pakistan, as we all know, there is a high rate of child bondage and slavery -- another component of abuse and neglect.
Since you have not provided a discussion page for this extremely important subject, I am sending this note to your Editors' Blog.
I emphasise the validity & virtue of calling attention to the plight of infants and children around the world, and to the tragic circumstances of so many of America's young. However, I suggest someone takes a very close look at the turns of phrase being employed, because they contribute to a slanted and ultimately inaccurate report.
There has been much publicity recently of the abuse and neglect of girl children in India, in particular. And the figures for Russia and Ukraine -- if you consult with any law enforcement or psychiatric expert from those countries -- are far worse than those for America. Never mind that the plight of children in Russia/Ukraine (not to mention other formerly Soviet constituents) is seriously under-investigated...
Comment number 47.At 23:16 17th Oct 2011, ghymer wrote:
Still no Scottish political blog site open
What is happening ?
Comment number 48.At 16:35 18th Oct 2011, ghymer wrote:
Another day gone by and still nothing on the
Scottish political site - what is going on ?
Comment number 49.At 00:21 19th Oct 2011, Trendy wrote:
I'm sorry to have to voice an opinion in this way. The BBC led me to believe I could voice my opinion on the prisoner swap in Israel. They failed to make the possiblity available.
Maybe because it is a hot subject and they only let us comment on soft, unimportant subjects. Subjects that don't matter two hoots and no-one is really interested in.
They are gagging the voice of the people because they know that a majority of the people do not agree with what is going on and the government wants us kept quiet.
Shame on you BBC, I really expected better of you. Where is the freedom I was fighting for as a young man ?
Comment number 50.At 11:12 19th Oct 2011, JP wrote:
Could you please explain the inability to debate any issue regarding Dale farm and the traveller community on the BBC website?
What is the problem?
Comment number 51.At 16:54 19th Oct 2011, JunkkMale wrote:
'50. At 11:12 19th Oct 2011, pitchforksout wrote:
Could you please explain the inability to debate any issue regarding Dale farm and the traveller community on the BBC website?
What is the problem?
Getting the impression that our media which, we are told, 'speak for us', are having trouble getting 'the message' across.
'"Opinion on today's eviction is incredibly divided"
Really? Your poll suggests nearly 90% support eviction.
So you can either try and brazen it, as above, or pull down the shutters until things blow over enough for 'analysis' to shape the narrative, untroubled by pesky public preference intruding.
Comment number 52.At 15:40 20th Oct 2011, ghymer wrote:
OK enough is enough.
The SNP conference started today and the Scottish political site is still closed.
No reports, no coverage of the majority (and governing party) in Scotland.
What is going on ? Are the labour, tory and libdem conferences the only ones
that the BBC will allow the Scottish public to see ?
Comment number 53.At 20:59 20th Oct 2011, ghymer wrote:
Since the governing party in Scotland is the SNP
and since you have decided that their conference
is not worth televising (like the tory, libdem and
labour minority parties in Scotland) can we (the
Scottish public) please get our licence fees refunded.
I believe the 'B' in BBC stands for British and for a
few years yet that includes Scotland.
Comment number 54.At 12:08 21st Oct 2011, ghymer wrote:
Can we have the name of the person who decided that the
SNP conference would not be broadcast on the BBC
and what was the reason given not to broadcast ?
Comment number 55.At 15:34 21st Oct 2011, jn wrote:
Comment number 56.At 09:01 22nd Oct 2011, U15012012 wrote:
Comment number 57.At 09:58 22nd Oct 2011, jn wrote:
Comment number 58.At 20:47 22nd Oct 2011, leowhuat wrote:
Gaddafi manage Libya better than many country in the world which the west still always think they are the best but finally the reality speak by itself.
God bless the whole Gaddfi family and may Obama and the team received their karma soon. Sad to say I wish Obama,Cameron,Sacozy and their team have the same fate as Gaddafi.
Gaddafi still a hero compare with all the west mad dog who discriminate the weak. The whole world is talking about human right and justice. Where is Gaddafi and Muttassim right? As the whole world wants him to die he will die either way whether he been sent to ICC or not. He kill many people so do the NATO and their leaders. Obama, Cameron, Sacozy and the whole team they do kill but ICC still think they do the right thing. Who the hell are they to intervene Libya affaire .Whether bad thing Gaddafi did he do did the good to equalize what has been done but what did the Obama team did bring the whole to rescission.
Comment number 59.At 16:48 25th Oct 2011, jn wrote:
has all investigation by your journalists into israeli control of senior politicians in this country been stopped or dropped?
Comment number 60.At 14:49 26th Oct 2011, JunkkMale wrote:
Credit where due.
No link to the service being advertised here.
If near all else has been.
Comment number 61.At 03:12 31st Oct 2011, thefrogstar wrote:
I've found that the magazine Scientific American uses a promising technology on its website for external linking. By simply using the mouse to highlight ANY piece of text in the article, it brings up external sites, links and explanations deemed relevant to the highlighted text. It does it in the same window, and without the need for the hypertext links that can ruin the readability of an article when used excessively. I can't yet speak to the editorial issue of what, and which, external sites it provides, but presumably it would have settings that can be changed by the implementing site. (It's good to broaden the horizons beyond Wikipedia!)
Personally, I would click-through more often on BBC links (such as daily & international newspapers) if I thought they actually had anything to add to the articles concerned. But too often they are only near-verbatim reproductions of a story that has originated from one of the major news agencies. I would guess that this is due to the sites/stories being selected by poor software algorithms, not humans.
Other external links, such as Greenpeace, are rarely original and don't need visiting because I already know exactly what they are going to say in most instances. Unfortunately, as already noted by others, original external sources are often behind a paywall (or advertising), especially when scientific research is the subject of the article. Alas, scientific publishing is a highly profitable industry, even though the research has often been done with public monies. However, there do exist good, free sources of science publications for external-linking and searching. I recall Steve Jones opined that the BBC made inadequate use of such resources in his recent report to the BBC trust. The new science editor should be able to fix that.
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Every February, Zanzibar hosts Sauti za Busara, nicknamed the "The Friendliest Festival on Planet Earth".
I can understand how Sauti za Busara earned that name.
Hanging out in Stone Town, Zanzibar on any random day would make you feel loose and irie, ready to open up to strangers, so how much more so then when the island's everyday activities come to a grinding halt to host the biggest music festival in East Africa, featuring not only Swahili music but also music from the rest of Africa and beyond?
I lived in Dar es Salaam for five years before I attended my first Sauti za Busara.
Each of those years, friends and family encouraged me to attend with them, but somehow, the logistics were never quite right.
Finally, in February last year, having only been back in Dar es Salaam from Kampala for 10 days, and having just started a new job, I bought a ferry ticket to Zanzibar and decided to go to Sauti za Busara on my own.
I could do that because I knew half of Dar e Salaam would be at the festival.
Not literally, but half of the Dar es Salaam I live in, i.e., folks in the arts and culture scene and (young) adult Tanzanians whose primary language is English (quite a small group in Dar) would all be in Stone Town for the weekend.
Arriving in Stone Town, Zanzibar
So this is how I found myself arriving on the shores of Stone Town at 3 p.m. on a Friday afternoon.
If you've never taken the ferry from Dar es Salaam to Zanzibar, approaching Stone Town feels like stepping into a storybook.
The colorful facade of 19th century buildings and the dhows milling about are all it takes to make you feel like you're entering another world.
First things first, I met up with a friend who I knew was working on Sauti za Busara's technical crew, sorted out accommodation, and then freshened up.
I was back at the Old Fort a little after nightfall and as I lined up to get in, as expected, I bumped into people I knew from Dar es Salaam.
A 3-day festival pass for Tanzanian citizens costs only Tsh. 10,000, and with that paid for, I was all set to discover and enjoy the festival.
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I'd been to the Old Fort many times before, mostly during the day, and had even attended the Zanzibar International Film Festival there the previous year.
Although the amphitheater was set up a lot like it had been at the Zanzibar International Film Festival, with movies showing on a large screen, the hive of activity just before the amphitheater as well as the crowd gathered in the grassy courtyard of the Fort made it look like I'd never seen it before.
After greeting a few people I knew—as I said, half of Dar es Salaam moved to Stone Town for the weekend—I dove right into the crowd.
A Swahili music (music that developed along the Swahili Coast merging African, Arabic, and Indian influences) performance was in progress.
On stage, a mystical looking woman with white facial painting played a lute while her beautiful, graceful backup singers sat on the floor in a line swaying back and forth.
It sounded to me like they were singing in Swahili but my ear couldn't quite make out what they were saying.
I could have sworn they were Zanzibari.
Consulting my program, I realized I had walked in on a performance by Nawal & les Femmes de la Lune, from Comoros, an island-nation not far from Zanzibar.
I was amazed at how much they sounded like Zanzibari taarab (the most popular style of Swahili music) singers!
In the excitement of getting to Sauti za Busara, I had completely forgotten to eat.
My body let me know it was time to grab a bite.
Although, I would normally have crossed the street and bought some delicious Zanzibari street food from Forodhani Gardens, across the Old Fort, I didn't want to deal with the crowd of people at the Fort's entrance.
Since there were similar food vendors right there at the venue, I thought I'd give that a try.
They served the same delicious fare I would normally expect, but the prices were quite a bit higher.
I settled on some seafood and headed back to the Fort's courtyard just in time to catch part of Guinean N'Faly Kouyaté's performance.
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Nicknamed the Jimi Hendrix of the kora for his dexterity on it, N'Faly Kouyaté played haunting tunes and got the whole crowd at Sauti za Busara to sing along with him…in French.
Next up was Nathalie Natiembe, from Réunion Island, with rock-sounding music.
Although people I talked to after the show said she was one of their favorite performers from the festival, her punk rock sound was not for me, especially after the rich distinctly-African sounds I'd heard from the last two acts.
Her set passed quickly enough and it was back to more fascinating-for-me music.
The next performance was from a group that seemed like an eclectic mix even at first sight.
In the middle of the stage sat a man in traditional Luo attire, nyatiti in hand.
All but one of the band members around him (who played the African drums) were white Londoners.
The man and his band couldn't have been more different from each other than night from day, and this continued to be true even as they played.
They played in different styles, they moved differently, and their vocals were representative of the different worlds they came from.
And yet, there was something groovy when the two came together.
I couldn't stop bobbing my head or tapping my feet.
The group's name? Owiny Sigoma Band.
That's something I've come to love about Sauti za Busara.
To see groups billed as coming from Kenya/U.K., e.g., the Owiny Sigoma Band; or Austria/Burkina Faso like the fast-paced energetic Burkina Electric; or from Senegal/Sweden like my favorite act from the festival, Sousou & Maher Cissoko, is the norm.
When I first noticed this in the program, I was upset.
Couldn't the festival simply feature African music, unadorned and unadulterated? Did African musicians need to collaborate with European or American musicians to be palatable to festival goers?
After 3 days of such cross-culture collabos, I had to take back these sentiments. It was delightfully refreshing to see how musicians from starkly different cultures and musical heritages could collaborate to create entirely new sounds while respecting their various backgrounds and with no musical style dominating the other.
In fact, it is this cross-cultural aspect of Sauti za Busara that I am most looking forward to experiencing again the next time I attend.
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Local Acts: Swahili Music & More
The music at Sauti za Busara was far from all foreign.
There were local acts from Zanzibar playing various styles of Swahili music, such as the 56-year-old legendary taarab orchestra, Culture Musical Club, and the centenarian queen of taarab and unyago, the now-deceased Bi Kidude (Bi Kidude died two months after this performance).
There were also many performances from Tanzanian mainland performers, who although most used the Swahili language performed genres that would generally not fall under the umbrella of Swahili music.
These included the stellar Wakwetu Jazz Vibes, traditional musician Msafiri Zawose, and the erotic underground music and dance of Super Maya Baikoko.
By the third day of the 10th edition of Sauti za Busara, I was reveling in my 3-day immersion in not only Swahili music, as I'd expect from a music festival held in Zanzibar, but also in world music.
I began to wonder when my taste in music had become so myopic.
I made a pact with myself to expand my musical horizons and so far, so good.
Before getting to the festival, I was familiar with only four of the twenty-three artists or groups on the program.
At Sauti za Busara I was exposed to amazing musicians from across Africa and the world, that I can firmly say I would probably never have encountered elsewhere in life.
I feel so much richer for the experience.
Sauti za Busara takes place every February in Stone Town, Zanzibar. For more information, visit www.busaramusic.org.
Until the next time,
Photo Credits: Sousou & Maher Cissoko (Link Reuben); Sauti za Busara Crowd (Peter Stanley); Owiny Sigoma Band (Masoud Khamis)


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A stirring backs-to-the-wall performance helped Market Rasen and Louth RFC to a comeback victory at Bugbrooke on Saturday.
The Red and Greens had narrowly defeated Bugbrooke in the home fixture earlier in the season, but had yet to taste a league victory at the Badgers.
The hosts opted to play with the slope, while Rasen had a slight breeze behind them in an eve first half with both sides sparring with the other without seriously threatening their opponents' line.
Bugbrooke had an early opportunity, but knocked on close to Rasen's line, while at the other end the visitors tried the usually reliable catch and drive from a penalty, but this went awry.
Chris Mills' miraculous tap tackle felled Bugbrooke's dangerous winger Aaron Pepper as the defence appeared to open up in front of him.
With no further threats at either end the two sides were deadlocked at the end of a scoreless first half.
After a Rasen break out early in the second period, Bugbrooke started the brighter with Ben Mann's long counter-attacking run taking the Badgers deep into the visitors' territory.
Rasen were forced into a rearguard action as Bugbrooke continued to recycle possession, but they were up to the task.
The defence appeared to have been breached when Tom Wood broke for the line, but the gap was plugged and the scrum-half knocked on over the line.
But the hosts appeared to be gaining the upper hand and from a set scrum on the edge of Rasen's 22, Tom Davies clung on to an indifferent pass before releasing his backline where Mann steamed up on the end of the line to score on the overlap in the corner.
The deadlock was broken in the 55th minute, but eight minutes later Rasen were back on level terms.
The Bugbrooke score had lifted the siege and Rasen began to spend more time in their opponents' territory until they eked out a penalty.
Dan Robinson drilled this into touch and this time Rasen made no mistake with the catch and drive as they powered their way to the line for skipper Chris Starling to cross.
The Red and Greens were on top in the set piece and earned another penalty after turning over Bugbrooke's creaking scrum.
The scene was set for another catch and drive, but this time Rasen opted for a long throw and the ball was turned over and cleared.
Another Rasen attack was thwarted illegally to present another penalty which Robinson converted to put the hosts in front for the first time with 10 minutes left.
But four minutes later the Red and Greens conceded a penalty which Adrian Flynn thumped from long range between the uprights to level.
The tension grew with no-one wanting to make the error that would swing the game while still striving for the all-important score.
With Rasen driving on through the forwards down the far touchline, Bugbrooke cracked in their attempt to halt the momentum.
Robinson was again entrusted with the kick, close to the touchline, and with ice-cool composure the fly-half struck the ball perfectly through the uprights with three minutes left.
The visitors kept Bugbrooke out of harm's way until the Badgers conceded another penalty, allowing Rasen to clear the ball off the park and end an enthralling game.
There is a break in the league programme this weekend, but Rasen return on Saturday, March 4 with a home game against Dronfield (2.15pm kick-off).
Rasen: C. Starling, Alldridge, Southwell (Haig), Mills, Inman (Grant), Pryer, D. Starling, Chamberlin, C. Everton, Robinson, Stephens, White, Gutteridge (Holvey), Harvey, Goodwin.


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Saturday, December 18, 2010
Weekend outfit: A snowy Saturday
24 comments:
Wow! You look so tall in these pictures!! Lovely outfit and great boots ;)ReplyDelete
Oh you're so pretty! I love the outfit..you look so tall :D I always complain about it snowing, but truthfully, I just hate the cold. :(ReplyDelete
xx The Little Dust Princess
You look amazing! Ummm...I can't believe you braved going out there without being all bundled up! I think I'm like Jessy - I hate the cold - I cover up as much skin as possible when I'm out LOL!ReplyDelete
You have such great proportions and look easily model tall in pictures. I love this outfit, I am so in love with those boots (they look terrific on you!). They really look great with jeans. Be safe driving to outlets tomorrow!ReplyDelete
The new boots look so nice in the snow! Stay safe and warm and I hope you find new goodies at the outlet!ReplyDelete
are you warm with just the cardigan? lol I always over-bundle when I see snow. You look great as usual, I can't wait to see reviews/posting of new finds at the outlets!ReplyDelete
Cute outfit and I am super envious that you always look so tall in your photos! Kudos to you for taking photos outdoors in wintry cold :)ReplyDelete
Oooh it looks so pretty out over where you are! Sometimes I wish I lived in a snowy area... Loving the boots--they were totally worth your Black Friday shopping-ness. I really love the color of them!ReplyDelete
P.S. This is totally random, but I have been meaning to comment that your skin always looks flawless. Jealous!
You look adorable!!! And aren't you freezing? LOL I remember the winters in the midwest..OMG! Burrr!!!ReplyDelete
You really do look super tall in these pics! Love love love the boots!
LIke everyone else said, you don't look petite at all! :) I do think snow is pretty to look at, but having lived a few years in Toronto, I'm pretty much over it haha. I actually didn't mind when it snowed, but I remember disliking the early spring when the snow melted and everything was just wet and dirty. We're having a ton of rain recently in LA, and I'm thoroughly sick of that too :PReplyDelete
Awww you look so pretty! Love the outfit! Stay warm!ReplyDelete
Sidney, you look outright gorgeous! I assume it's not so cold since it's snowing? Otherwise how are you able to take pictures outside without a coat? :) The AE skinnies look amazing. What size do you wear? Their "short" is 30.5 inches long, which to me is not short at all. :) Happy shopping at outlet mall. Be safe. It's crowded and crazy out there.ReplyDelete
I am still loving those boots! You look great!ReplyDelete
I cannot imagine having to drive in the snow! There was an intense fog on Friday night. Not fun to drive in...but I imagine snow would be a lot scarier!
these boots look so good on you and make your legs look super long! your pictures are gorgeous too and it looks like you guys are going to have a white christmas! stay warm out there! :)ReplyDelete
i agree with everyone! your legs look so long in those jeans and boots. such a cute and simple outfit too. i love how the snow looks, but i can't stand the cold.ReplyDelete
Like your outfit, so cute and pretty!!ReplyDelete
I love what you're wearing! The boots look great on you and you're very pretty :)ReplyDelete
Thanks ladies for your comments! I quickly snapped those photos outside and ran back in. It was 20 degrees outside when these photos are taken :)ReplyDelete
@mich LA Thanks Mich. I think my skin looks a little better during winter. I don't wear a lot of make up on regular basis. That helps my skin too
@Vicky Hi Vicky, I am wearing 00S which is a perfect length for me (I am 5ft3). They do shrink a bit after washed. We went to the outlet mall today but didn't get anything for myself. I am determined to get Christmas shopping done first :)
I love the addition of the belt - Weren't you freezing though?ReplyDelete
I LOVE your outfit--esp your necklace!!!ReplyDelete
Cute~ Love those boots!ReplyDelete
Gotta love outlets!ReplyDelete
Rocking that outfit by the way! Following ya lovely ;)
You look lovely! Your outfit really makes you look very tall *jealous*! I love the snowy background! :DReplyDelete
Love those boots!ReplyDelete