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Prohibitions against Pregnancy Discrimination
It is a discriminatory practice for an employer to terminate a woman's employment because of her pregnancy, to refuse to grant to her a reasonable leave of absence for disability resulting from her pregnancy, to fail or refuse to reinstate the employee to her original job or to an equivalent position with equivalent pay upon return.
In addition, it is a discriminatory practice for an employer to request information about an individual's child-bearing age or plans, pregnancy, function of the individual's reproductive system, use of birth control methods, or the individual's familial responsibilities. An employer may request such information if directly related to workplace exposure to substances which may cause birth defects or constitute a hazard to an individual's reproductive system or to a fetus, if the employer first informs the employee of the hazards involved.[1]
For the text of the statute, click here.
Pregnancy Accommodation
Employers with three or more employees must make a reasonable effort to transfer a pregnant employee to a temporary position if her current position could cause injury to her or to her fetus.[2]
For the text of the statute, click here.
Pregnancy-related Disability Accommodation
Connecticut does not specifically accommodate pregnancy or its attendant medical conditions as a disability.
Breastfeeding Rights
Any employee may express breast milk or breastfeed at her workplace during her meal or break period. Any employer with one or more employees must make reasonable efforts to provide a room, other than a toilet stall, close to the work area, for an employee to express breast milk in private. An employer shall not discriminate against an employee for exercising her rights.[3]
For the text of the statute, click here.
Family and Childcare Leave Laws
Private Employers with 75 or more Employees - Leave for Pregnancy, or Adoption or Foster Care Placement[4]
An eligible employee shall be entitled to a total of sixteen workweeks of unpaid leave during any twenty-four-month period, upon the birth or placement of a son or daughter for adoption or foster care, or to care for a son or daughter with a serious health condition. An eligible employee may elect, or an employer may require, to substitute the employee's accrued vacation leave or other time off or any other paid or unpaid time off negotiated with the employer.
In any case in which the necessity for leave is foreseeable, the employee shall provide the employer with not less than thirty days' notice. In any case in which a husband and wife are employed by the same employer, the aggregate number of workweeks of leave to which both may be entitled may be limited to sixteen workweeks during any twenty-four-month period.[5]
For the text of the statute, click here.
For the federal Pregnancy Discrimination Act, click here.
For the federal Family and Medical Leave Act, click here.
For further information on your pregnancy rights, contact Legal Momentum.
Copyright 2013 Legal Momentum
[1] Conn. Gen. Stat. § 46a-60
[2] Id.
[3] Conn. Gen. Stat. § 31-40w
[4] Covered Employers include: Any person who acts, directly or indirectly, in the interest of an employer and any successor in interest of an employer. Not included: the state, a municipality, a local or regional board of education, or a private or parochial elementary or secondary school.
[5] Conn. Gen. Stat. § 31-51


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adam kokesh dance party part two: happening tomorrow and why you should care
Thanks, Steph!
5 comments:
- Jere said...
"It's really just the bad apples that give the other 5% [of cops] a bad name."
95% are bad apples? Sounds about right.
- Friday, June 03, 2011 1:44:00 PM
- laura k said...
Yeah, I liked that line!
A friend of mine likes to remind people that the expression "one bad apple" is now taken to mean there's only one bad [cop, whatever] in the whole group. But the expression was meant to convey the opposite: one bad apple spoils the barrel - as in, corruption spreads like a contagion. Written record of the saying dates back to Chaucer.
- Friday, June 03, 2011 1:57:00 PM
- Stephanie said...
Yesterday's follow-up action
- Sunday, June 05, 2011 11:16:00 AM
- laura k said...
Thanks, Steph! Code Pink is circulating it, too. Strange bedfellows, Adam Kokesh and Code Pink... but good to see people who believe in freedom of expression team up, regardless.
- Monday, June 06, 2011 4:55:00 AM
- laura k said...
...or not. I decided not to post it, for various reasons. So thanks for posting it in comments.
- Monday, June 06, 2011 5:04:00 AM

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By Kim Robson: We love to discuss self-sustainability here at Green-Mom. Interest in raising backyard chickens and beekeeping has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years. Some folks are upscaling to fully self-contained, closed-loop backyard ecosystems. Fresh eggs and honey are wonderful, but how about goat milk and cheese? … Read More »


text: Cibo Wine Bar Coral Gables This restaurant and wine bar brings authentic rustic Italian flare blended with a vibrant nightlife and has become the new hot spot on the Miracle Mile. This Italian eatery and wine bar, created by the Liberty Entertainment Group, offers traditional Italian fare in a relaxed and inviting atmosphere. With Liberty Group at the helm, the attention to detail is flawless and the food delicious.


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Cambridge-Africa PhD Scholarship Scheme
Cambridge-Africa Scholarships
The University of Cambridge and the Cambridge Trust are generously providing funding to enable 35 (five per year for seven years) outstanding applicants from sub-Saharan African countries to study for PhDs at the University of Cambridge. There are no restrictions on subject areas, for these PhDs. However, preference will be given to applicants proposing to work on projects that focus on African priorities, and those who have links to African institutions. Applications for scholarships open in September each year, and close during the first week of December (exact date for each year will be announced when the call opens).
The first five scholars arrived in Cambridge in October 2015, for the 2015-16 academic year, and the Cambridge Trust at the University of Cambridge organised a reception for new African students on 14th January 2016 (photographs from the event are available at at https://www.flickr.com/photos/cctcot/sets/72157661406979514).
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Facebook Fan Pages need to be conversation spaces not destinations.
There are a lot of posts flying around the blogs on Facebook's new Fan Page system, covering privacy, just outright outrage, and even a couple kudos on tapping into the influencer hierarchy.
However, very few are addressing the core issue: How to implement a successful execution and how it fits into the mix.
First of all, DON'T create a destination, no one needs another "branded space".
People don't need another location where they can download Mountain Dew wallpapers. The approach that is being pitched is basically just an extension of the groups feature with some extra bells and whistles attached, wrapped up in the 'products' category. Now let's be honest, groups are just badges to show off to other people, in essence, cool by association. There is very little running interaction on most groups and most of the content is lackluster. Some of you may disagree, but you probably run in new media circles and thus are more inclined to interact. You're not the status quo.
This is a group roll ripped off an average female college student's profile and it is more kosher than most:
She is trying to express that she is liberal and somewhat politically inclined by being in the Stephen Colbert group, environmentally motivated with the Climate Change group, of course she wants us all to know that people think she is good looking by being a part of 5 or so groups themed around "Smoking Hot Beautiful Stunning Girls". Think she ever interacts with any of these groups?
Empower your core base and win over your enemies.
The first couple product pages will most likely operate like every other branded group. Attract people with some discounts or "hot news", a couple thousand sign up, spam them, spam them, spam them some more, people start to leave, and finally the marketer gets bored. The end.
Sounds bleak; however, there is a huge amount of potential in amplifying the voice of your advocates. If done right.
So here's what I propose: Build the fan pages into conversation hubs.
Online influencer outreach programs typically are comprised of identifying various online communities and influencers – usually in the form of bloggers -, and trying to chat with them without pissing them off. These types of programs take time, can be expensive, and are difficult to manage and track. So instead of scouring the net, piecing together a patch work of comments and posts, why not have them come to you.
Build areas that become conduits between your evangelists, your nay sayers, and your company. Build a space where people can voice their opinions, good or bad (I know this can be scary for some), and be heard. Having a corporate blog is nice, but let's face it blogs are still 90% one-way. With Fan Pages you are built into a social ecosystem where people want to connect and express themselves, take advantage. What you get in return is an IV thrust deep into the pulse of sentiments surrounding your product. What people love, where you got it right. What people hate, things you need to work on. What people just don't get, areas you need to clarify. This information is invaluable, and just by listening you can convert your loudest nay sayers into friends. Trust me, I've seen it happen countless times.
That's my 2 cents. I'm gonna wrap up this post with a challenge to marketing and companies:
Be the first company to use Fan Pages to collaboratively build or improve a product with your consumers.
Want people to use the network to amplify and pitch your product? Give them a stake in it, and allow them to spread a personal message.
Turn, "Hey, a bought cool pair of Nike high-tops", into "Hey man, check out my new shoes that I helped design, I know you'll dig 'em"
Now the shoes have transcended mere mortal shoes, and have become conversation pieces, perhaps even mythical. You bet that everyone of your 'designers' will be telling everyone they know, and the Facebook platform will make that voice infinitely louder through the 'products' feed.
Check out this article on Marketing Vox discussing the rising trend in people wanting to work with companies to build better products.
Video post on AdAge of a presentation given by Facebook COO, Owen Van Natta. He says, "Our users love the [SocialAds] system". Since when do people like being accosted by brands in their private communities. Wake up.


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Smart HTTPS is an extension that helps you to use the HTTPS protocol only if it is supported by the server. It automatically changes HTTP protocol to HTTPS, and if loading encounters an error, reverts it back to the HTTP protocol.
In short, for any HTTP address, it loads the page in HTTPS and watches for any sort of ERROR (such as cert-error, blank-page, not-found-page, etc.). If an error is found, it reverts the page back to the original HTTP protocol.
Some key features:
a. Seamlessly changes all HTTP requests to the HTTPS, and if an error occurs, reverts it back to the HTTP address (and remembers this choice).
b. All websites (addresses) that do not support HTTPS, are saved to memory in order to speed up the protocol-check process. Note that you can see and delete these items from the extension's Options page.
c. Toolbar popup has ON|OFF switch to activate or deactivate the addon. Blue toolbar icon indicates the "ON" state and the grey color is for the "OFF" state.
d. You can add desired websites to the whitelist manually (see addon's Options page).
Note: SMART HTTPS extension only monitors HTTP websites and does not have any effect on HTTPS addresses at all.


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Howdy, friends!
If you read my blog at all, you probably know by now that I love movies. But I love trailers more. A movie is usually anywhere from 1.5 hours to 3 hours long. A trailer, on the other hand, rarely ever exceeds three minutes. And yet it leaves a lasting impression.
A trailer is supposed to get your attention, so it contains all the best spoiler-free moments from the movie (and some spoilery moments taken out of context!). What could be better?
So today, I'm going to talk about my top five most favourite trailers that I like to watch at least once every week, simply because they're awesome! :D
5) Queen (Hindi)
I loved Queen. It was a heart-warming, hilarious movie with an extremely talented actress and really good songs. This trailer has all those things, and it's only 2.5 minutes long!
Plus, you gotta love the way it begins and ends. Hilarious!
Favourite dialogue:
Rani: "Haha! Mera sense of humour bohot achcha hai. Aapko dheere-dheere pata chalega, haha!"
Oleksander: "Haha...?"
Favourite scene: The ending!
4) The Fault In Our Stars (English)
I still feel the book is overrated (it's good, but not as divine as everyone claims it to be) and I'm still unsure about how the movie will turn out (because Shailene and Ansel's acting was pathetic in Divergent), but I admit that I love this trailer. There's great music - What You Wanted, which plays around the end of the trailer, is one of my favourite songs now - and some of the better scenes from the book are included, too.
Favourite dialogue:
Augustus: "You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, but you do have a say in who hurts you."
Favourite scene:
The beginning and the ending.
3) The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (English)
You know what it is I hate about not being a superhero?
There are too many trailers for this movie, but this final trailer is the best of the lot! The music gives me goosebumps each time. If only I could get my hands on the Goblin fight scene music from this trailer!
I loved the movie, but I do wish these deleted scenes had been included.
Favourite dialogues:
Harry: "It's been ten years... what have you been up to?"
Peter: "I do some web design..."
(and also...)
Harry: "Isn't that the question of the day?"
Favourite scene:
The fight with Goblin, of course! But I especially love everything after 1:20!
2) The Amazing Spider-Man (English)
Again, out of the three trailers, the final one is my favourite. I like this one better than TASM2's trailer, maybe because I've seen this movie about a hundred times and the sequel only once.
I know I said in my review of the sequel that I liked it more that the first one, but... now that I think about it, I think TASM was better.
Favourite dialogue:
Peter: "This life is not an easy one. I've made enemies... powerful enemies. I've put those I love in danger. But the one thing that has haunted me, my entire life, is finding the truth about my parents."
Favourite scene:
Everything 1:25 onwards.
1) The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (English)
Catching Fire, how I love you! Not only were you a million times better than the first movie (thank you for existing, Francis Lawrence), but you also gave us three amazing trailers, the best being the second. The first trailer has too much of Gale in it, and the third trailer, though epic, is only about a minute long, so I present to you... my favourite trailer of all time!
Favourite dialogue:
Prim: Since the last games, something's different. I can see it.
Katniss: What can you see?
Prim: Hope.
Favourite scene:
1:03, because Gale gets whipped.
Just kidding. Everything 1:13 onwards is the epitome of awesomeness.
Well, these are my top five most favourite trailers (and excluding TFIOS, they all make it into my list of favourite movies, too). Which trailers can you never get enough of? Let me know in the comments below!
Until next time! ^_^
Sunday, 29 June 2014
My All-Time Favourite Trailers!
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Queens trailer was amazing!!! So was 'HIGHWAY'ReplyDelete
I haven't seen 'Queen', but I'll take your word that it's good! My friends and I were going to watch 'The Fault in Our Stars' on Friday, but lots of people cancelled so I'm not sure if that will still work out. I loved 'Maleficent', though!ReplyDelete
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About a year after we got married, I gave birth to twins- a boy and a girl. BJ was ecstatic and in his excitement gave me so many gifts, including another car, besides the one he gave me for my birthday earlier.
My mother and sister, Betty came to stay with me during this period to help out with the babies who were quite a handful. They cried a lot especially the boy who slept mostly during the day and kept us awake at night with his crying and fretting.
The twins' first birthday was coming up and BJ and I planned to mark it in a big way with a party.
A few days before the anniversary, the boy whom we named Favour fell ill. It started with a slight fever and I gave him some syrup so he could sleep.
Some hours later, he began convulsing like an epileptic patient. We rushed him to the hospital where he was admitted. Not long after we arrived, he died. I lost my sweet little boy. The shock nearly made me pass out.
I was simply inconsolable; I could not get over the loss of my baby who just a days before was a healthy, bubbly boy, full of life. How could this have happened, I kept thinking...
"At least, you still have the girl. So, take heart, my daughter," said my mother as I sat on the floor of my small, private sitting room, tears rolling down my face, mourning my dead son.
It was the same with BJ.
"We are still young, we'll have more children. Stop crying or you will make yourself ill. I can't afford to lose you too," he said as he hugged me close.
With time, I recovered sufficiently enough to move on with life. There was a good reason as shortly after, I found out I was pregnant so I had to be strong for the new life growing inside me.
Some months later, I gave birth to another boy. I wept with joy as I held the baby in my arms. He looked so much like Favour that I felt my dead son had come back to me.
"I'll make sure nothing happens to you, my sweet angel," I crooned to him as he slept in my arms. "You will grow up strong, healthy and handsome like your father."
They say things never work out the way we planned and this was especially true in my case. One day, I had gone to the nursery which the baby, who was about six months old then, shared with my daughter, Stephanie. He had been sleeping for some hours and I wanted to wake him as it was his breast feeding time.
I went to pick him up and I froze with fear when I touched him...
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Considering the key task for my final assignment for Online Public Relations and Communication was to create a blog, I felt that it was only fitting to present my reflective journal about the process as a blog post. My high school years as a drama student saw me writing my fair share of reflective journals, something that I allows found helping in solidifying my learnings on a particular practical activity. However, a fair amount of time has past since then and my reflective skills have become a little rusty, so bear with me as I ponder my two and a bit month experience of create my very first blog.
I was quite excited by the opportunity to create my own blog as it was something that I had considered in the past, but as I mentioned in my first blog post, I had never put the wheels into motion for fear of my content being judge as boring and irrelevant. Having a set topic – online public relations – allowed me to get part these concerns and just write. As a prolific user of facebook, you wouldn't think I'd be worried about having nothing to say. I regularly update my status, as well as comment of 'friends' photos and walls, but I think when the privacy barriers (however flimsy they are) of facebook-style social networking were removed, it made me more self conscious about what I what I was about to post.
I started this assignment by setting up an Edublog account, as had been instructed by my lecturer. However, I couldn't curb my interest to add photos and embed youtube videos and after seeing a post on our unit's online blackboard system that we could use any blogging platform we liked, I quickly moved my first post over to a wordpress blog. I chose to use WordPress over the likes of Bloggers for the simple fact that I was familiar with this platform from reading travel blogs of various friends and I knew I like the visual layout.
Although I am technologically savvy, it did take me about an hour to completely get my head around the majority of functions on offer through WordPress. I probably spent far too much time trawling through the available skin options to theme my blog, but considering this would be a public work I wanted to pick something that I vaguely liked. I also spent a bit of time messing around with widgets, but in the end decided to keep it simple and just add a few. There were also a lot of little small decisions to make that needed to be made, such as, whether or not a link should open in a new window. As a user I hate having multiple windows open on my desktop, but as a blogger I felt that it was a better option to set links to open in new windows, so that readers weren't steered away from my blog.
I played around with my writing style and decided to use a more relaxed conversational style. Although I was writing about online public relations I still wanted it to have a personal feel and I felt that a friendlier and less serious style would reflect this. I chose to add a few anecdotes and analogies to try and make it not so dry. Whether this worked or not I am unsure, so I would be interested in hearing feedback on this.
For my first blog I typed it up in word first, but I soon realised that it was easier to type directly into the template management system of the blog as it offered most of the same functions as word such as spell check and saving capabilities. I liked that I could also go back and edit things after I had posted, however it did make me think about the fact that blogs can be retrospectively altered so easily. For someone whose blog had a reasonably large following and attracted a lot of comments how would their ability to make retrospective changes impact on a reader who was trying to decipher comments about a part of a post that had been altered or removed?
I would have like to have received comments on my blog so that I could have learnt more about this function and had the experience of interacting with people, but I felt too shy to post a link to it on facebook. As a result I haven't received any views, which I guess can be the case for many blogs out there. I guess I see blogs to be a tool to facilitate interactivity, so for me my blog hasn't seen completely alive as it has been missing this communication component.
Although I didn't have to moderate any comments, I did consider the ethics of removing what could be considered offensive. On the one hand blogs are about citizen journalism. A medium to have the freedom to express ones thoughts and as such it would be unethical to remove posts that I didn't like or that offended me. However I think that if a comment was inciting hate through racism for example, it would be unethical not to remove it. I guess this is a conundrum that active bloggers come across everyday and for company bloggers they are faced with an even harder question if someone makes negative comments about their company on their blog. If they were to remove the comment it would diminish the open and transparent communication channel that they are trying to build with publics, but if they leave the comment it is there for the world to see. I think the best strategy would be to respond to the comment in a constructive way that appeases the commentor, but also highlights why they are wrong or what you are doing to fix this problem.
A good example of how this strategy has been utilised, although it is about addressing comments on an external website/blog, is how many hotels have started to actively monitor comments about their company on tripadvisor.com and respond to them. This really takes the sting out of negative comments that could be off putting for a potential customer.
All in all I quite enjoyed the experience of setting up a blog. I think as someone who in interested public relations it is important to continuing developing online skills. Employers now expect employees to be multi-skilled in traditional and new pr technologies. At the beginning of this assignment I wasn't sure whether I would continue blogging, but I have the feeling that I won't be able to stop myself, especially now I have found an interesting topic to post about.


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There are a total of four CFA courses offered in Singapore.
The purpose of a CFA prep course is to ensure you are comfortable with all the content to help you pass the exams.
There are a total of 3 levels in the CFA:
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The most common role for a CFA qualified individual is a financial analyst where salaries would range within $37,105-$118,498(Payscale, 2016), depending on your level of experience.


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1 Thessalonians 4 Disciples' Literal New Testament (DLNT)
Brothers, We Ask You To Abound Even More In Holiness, For This Is God's Will
4 Finally then, brothers, we ask you, and exhort in the Lord Jesus that just as you received from us how you ought-to be walking and pleasing God (just as you also are walking), that you be abounding more. 2 For you know what commands we gave to you through the Lord Jesus. 3 For this is the will of God: your holiness[a]— that you be abstaining[b] from sexual-immorality; 4 that each of you know-how to acquire[c] control of his own vessel[d] in holiness and honor, 5 not in the passion of [e] desire[f] as indeed the Gentiles not knowing God; 6 that[g] no one overstep[h] and exploit[i] his brother[j] in the matter[k]. Because the Lord is the avenger concerning all these things, just as we also told you before and solemnly-warned. 7 For God did not call us for[l] impurity, but in[m] holiness. 8 So-therefore[n] the one rejecting is not rejecting a human, but God, the One also giving His Holy Spirit to you.
But You Know From God To Love One Another. We Exhort You To Abound Even More
9 But concerning brotherly-love, you have no need that anyone should be writing to you. For you yourselves are God-taught so-that you might be loving one another. 10 For indeed you are doing it toward all the brothers in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, to be abounding more, 11 and to be ambitious[o] to be quiet[p], and to be doing[q] your own things and working with your own hands just as we commanded you, 12 in order that you may walk properly toward the ones outside and may have need of nothing[r].
Do Not Grieve Over The Dead In Christ. We Will Rise Together To Be With Him Forever
13 And we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, concerning the ones falling-asleep[s], in-order-that you may not grieve as indeed the others— the ones not having a hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose-up, so also[t] God will bring with Him the ones having fallen asleep through[u] Jesus. 15 For we say this to you by the word of the Lord, that we— the ones living, the ones remaining[v] until the coming of the Lord— will in-no-way precede the ones having fallen asleep. 16 Because[w] the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shouted-command[x], with a voice of an archangel[y], and with a trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise-up first. 17 Then we— the ones living, the ones remaining— will be snatched-up[z] together[aa] with them in the clouds[ab] to meet the Lord in the air. And so we shall always be with the Lord. 18 So then, be encouraging[ac] one another with these words.
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"The clearance of the Real Estate Bill in the Rajya Sabha is a momentous decision for the real estate sector. This Bill is bound to bring about the much needed relief for the home buyers in India who are still struggling to put a roof above their heads. The Bill aims to bring in transparency in the real estate sector, thereby, encouraging investments from foreign and domestic financial institutions and protecting the interest of the home buyers.
The Real Estate Bill will place the Indian real estate market, which currently is fragmented and unorganized, at par with that of other developed countries with clear accountability of developers through the establishment of the Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA). Mandatory disclosure of projects, including details of the promoter, project, land status, clearances, approvals, etc. would increase the credibility of developers and would protect consumer rights as well.
Another significant ruling is in the form of definition of "carpet area". Buyers will now be paying only for the carpet area and not the super built-up area which was fraught with confusion earlier. Also, the developers will now have to take consent of 66% of the home buyers in case they have to increase the number of floors or change the building plans. This will protect the buyers from any ad-hoc changes that are a norm presently. Additionally, buyers and developers will now finally be on a level playing field with respect to penalties on delays. Both parties will now pay the same rate of interest in case the buyer delays payment or the developer delays giving possession. Earlier, the Buyer-Seller Agreements were heavily tilted towards the developers who used to pay very little penalty in case of delay in giving possession.
Furthermore, developers would need to deposit 70% of the project cost in a separate bank account to cover the construction cost of the project for timely completion of the project. This would go a long way in ensuring timely construction of projects and act as a safeguard in the event of any inordinate delays of the project as it would limit diversion of developers' funds for other projects. Scenarios where buyers who are saddled with the burden of paying rent and also paying the EMI of a home loan which is delayed because of the builders should be a thing of the past. While this stipulation of having 70% of the funds in an escrow account will be a welcome relief for home buyers, it is likely to result in the builders losing fungibility of money, thereby, resulting in a hike in prices."


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It's that time of year again.
Time again to vote on the best books of 2013.
Goodreads now has the opening round of their choice awards.
Head on over to http://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-books-2013 to vote for your favorite, or 'write in' a favorite if it's not listed.
I'll let you know when the next round opens. Sometime this week I'll do another gift-giving-idea post to help all you shoppers out there .


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Hope you are having a fantastic day!
I want to share my list of the resources I have used during my deep study and exploration on diastasis recti,
in addition to resources that share invaluable information on the core, and exercise during pregnancy.
With your intelligence as an instructor, and your ability to understand conditions such as DR from a movement perspective,
…you will be able to read and watch information with a unique point-of-view,
…gathering your own conclusions and coming up with your own ability to understand the condition
…so that it becomes ingrained in your being.
The more often you read and take in information related to pregnancy and postnatal health, the more confident you will be working with this population.
Here is a summary of the resources listed below:
- Groups
- Books
- Websites and Links
- Research
- Videos
- Exercises
Here we go! Enjoy!
For Pilates Instructors Who Want to Learn How to Help Their Clients Who Have Diastasis Recti-Click to Join!
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Diastasis Recti: The Whole Body Solution to Abdominal Weakness and Separation
by Katie Bowman 2016
The most up-to-date, comprehensive book explaining in finite detail what DR is anatomically, how it develops, what to do and what not to do to "fix" it.
The Pilates Pregnancy
by Mari Winsor with Mark Laska 2001
The first 2 chapters, Tools for Life and The Joy of Movement are invaluable relating to the core, importance of proper breathing, hormones – all the benefits of Pilates during pregnancy and after. All concepts that contribute to a healthy linea alba (connective tissue that stretches beyond normal, resulting in a DR)
The Pregnant Body Book
DK Publishing 2011
The go-to resource for THE Most AMAZING images!!
Website Links:
NutritiousMovement.com Katie Bowman
Diastasis Recti – Under Pressure
MuTu System Website:
An in-depth description of diastasis recti. I encourage you to browse this site under the 'resources' tab. It is full of information on pre and postnatal health, including great downloadable pictographs.
Our Diastasis Series here at YourPregnantCore.com
Diastasis Recti-Should Pregnant Women Do Sit-Ups? – Part 1 of 3
Diastasis Recti Prevention – Does Exercise Before and During Pregnancy Prevent DR? -Part 2 0f 3
Can you "fix" Diastasis Recti? 2 Concepts to Restore the Core-Part 3 of 3
Ready Set MAMAS!
Pre and Postnatal Fitness Training in NJ- Jaymie Gerard – kindly released the right for me to use her custom info graph. Check out her site, and definately visit her if you are in the NJ area
Effects of Abdominal Exercises versus Abdominal Supporting Belt on Post-Partum Abdominal Efficiency and Rectus Separation [Diastasis Recti]
Prevalence Of Diastasis Of The Rectus Abdominis Muscles Immediately Postpartum: Comparison Between Primiparae [One Pregnancy] And Multiparae [Two Or More Pregnancies]
Treatments For Preventing And Treating Low‐Back And Pelvic Pain During Pregnancy
(Click Here for my Full List of Research based articles on pre and postnatal health)
Pelvic Floor Demystified – Katie Bowman
Should Pregnant Do Sit-Ups? Collaborating with Medical Professionals – YourPregnantCore.com (that's us!)
Podcast Episodes:
A New Perspective on Diastasis Recti
That concludes our list of diastasis recti resources.
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This sales business is filled with data so high and cluttered, Marie Kondo (of Tidying Up fame) would not only be unable to spark joy, she would lose the will to live.
Data sheets. PDF brochures, forecast sheets, spec sheets, CRM systems, blue, green and other pretty coloured account planning sheets, internal negotiation planners, sales planners, territory maps, prospect lists, LinkedIn connection lists, email lists, call planners, proposal templates, tender response templates….are you still breathing?
Something, or actually, someone gets lost in all of this. The living, breathing, flawed human being who ultimately makes the decision on buying your pride and joy or not.
Sure, many of those 'sheets' are supposed to inexorably lead you to convince your client with a magical fireworks display of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) , Return on Investment (ROI) , and Cost/Benefit analysis.
Well, they do and they don't.
They provide a good case to be considered.
They don't really focus on the individual.
Here are some examples of the flawed individuals who say yes or no.
The incompetent, over budget manager trying to look vaguely competent to his peers because this is his third job in three years and he's just had twins.
The technocrat who has the commercial business acumen of a first year pre-school teacher.
The procurement genius negotiator on the autism spectrum.
The power junkie with more political nous than a posse of Canberra journalists.
The little boy who wasn't reprimanded for lying when he was little, which he then continued into his corporate career.
The female executive who learned to survive and thrive despite misogyny in her industry.
The frightened, meek, risk averse and fearful middle manager who's just watched 30 of his colleagues hand in their security passes on the way to spend more time with their families.
I don't often see this information when coaching sales strategies, sales planners, pitch presentations amidst all the myriad data sheets
Sometimes the person you need to address is staring right in front of you …and you're blocked from seeing them by the blinding blizzard of data.
They are flawed, like us, but interesting, and if you help them achieve their purpose, achieving yours will simply be a formality.
Elliot Epstein is a leading Pitch Consultant, Keynote Speaker, Corporate Sales, Negotiation and Presentation trainer who gets sales results rapidly. He has coached and trained high profile corporates globally in presenting, selling, negotiating and pitching. He has spoken at over 1500 conferences and workshops for leading companies such as HP, SEEK, Avaya, Hitachi , Asciano, Samsung and Lend Lease
He is the author of # 1 International Best Seller ' Confessions of a Pitch Consultant' and Sales Vs Procurement – The Secrets Unveiled at the Negotiation Table and is internationally renowned for ensuring sessions are engaging, interactive and relevant to winning business in competitive markets.
Elliot is based in Melbourne where he lives with his wife and two negotiators.


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Archive for October 2010
Combination Guns for American Hunters
In Europe gun licensing and ownership is so expensive that having the capability of doing more than one type of hunt with a single firearm is very advantageous. As much of the country is forested and shots are often from either fixed ground or elevated stands, guns capable of making rapid shots at close range are used. On some hunts, pheasants, hairs, boars and various deer might present shooting opportunities.
The option of having a shotgun, rifle and maybe even a .22 L.R. barrel on the same gun gave rise to over/under and side-by-side patterns of rifle-shotgun, drillings with either two rifle or two shotgun barrels on top and a single rifle or shotgun barrel under those or vierlings with a .22 L.R. or small bore barrel in the barrel cluster. The more barrels the more the guns weighed, but this weight made the guns comfortable to shoot.
In the U.S. the most commonly encounted guns of this type are the Savage or Stevens .22s/.410s two-barreled over/unders which were first introduced in 1939 along with the 3-inch .410 shotgun shell. Later models were made which used .20-gauge barrels with various rifle-caliber options. Although there were some historic three-barreled American drillings, such as Colt's 12-gauge/ .45-70 from the 1800s, the first real influx of these guns came after the end of World War II, when GIs brought these home in their duffel bags.
Many drillings had 16-gauge shotgun barrels and rimmed versions of European cartridges. Mine happened to be an 8X57 JR Sauer&Sohn which took the older .318 diameter 8mm bullet rather than the 8X57 JRS which takes a .323 bullet. It is dangerous to use the wrong ammo in these guns. This fact is very well known to European shooters, but not in the U.S. Ammunition in both calibers was, and is, loaded by RWS in Germany and Norma.
Over the years my drilling has accounted for squirrels, rabbits, game birds, wild turkey, ducks, geese, deer and even a mountain lion. I had mine restocked to American dimensions with a beavertail forearm and recoil pad on it. It has been on many hunts and spent several field seasons in Alaska as a camp gun.
The more firing options there are, the greater the problem of making sure that you shoot the barrel you really want to discharge at the game. If this is your only gun, you will learn how to shoot it, but if it is something that is only picked up once every few years, it is easy to fire a rifle round when you really wanted to use the shotgun. The way to avoid this is to load the rifle barrel only when big game is in sight. You can do this silently with break-open guns. Do this, and you will not waste your hard-to-get rifle cartridges on inappropriate game or potentially endanger someone by unintentionally shooting your rifle.
When walking in the woods whcn you do not know if deer or small game might appear, a good approach is to load the left barrel with a shotgun shell and leave the right shotgun barrel (which uses the same trigger as the rifle) empty. This way you can activate the rifle barrel and have it or one shotgun tube instantly available. When only shooting birds, you keep the rifle rounds in your pocket unless you need it to kill an occasional mountain lion, as I once did.
I had one shotgun barrel of my drilling bored out to improved cylinder and left the other one extra full. This allows me maximum flexibility at close or more distant targets. Rifled slugs fired from my gun shoot two feet high when the rifle sight is raised. (Activating a sliding button on the top of the wrist arms the rifle lock and raises the rear sight on the barrel.) However, rifled slugs shot closer to the point of aim by sighting over the rib and front sight. Target different slugs and you may find one that will shoot at about the point of aim at 30-yards. With factory loads my rifle barrel shoots 3-inches high at 30 yards and is dead on at 100. I suspect that this was exactly how the gun was sighted.
Although my gun was not equipped with scope sights, this option is also available on drillings either using custom claw mounts or more modern mounting systems. A scope does allow more precise shooting at longer distances from a fixed stand, but gets in the way of making rapid shots at moving game.
The Rule of Thirds in Buying Hunting Lands
Owning a hunting property were you, your family and friends can go to hunt is a lifelong dream of many sportsmen. Some save for decades to purchase a much-wanted property from other family members, while a few lucky individuals manage to come into more money than they have ever seen in their lives and decide that they can take some of their new-found millions and buy a ranch or farm to hunt on.
It is sad to say, but a million dollars does not go as far as it use to. If you are a young guy, it is entirely possible to blow a million on a weekend in Las Vegas, and there are many very interesting guys and gals who will help you do that. Great fun, but nothing to show for it when the money runs out, except often trouble of one sort of another. I was infected with a very bad case of young once, but survived it.
At least when buying land you are investing in something tangible. After all, they aren't making any more of it. The price is always going to go up, right? Not so. You can lose your shirt at this too if you are careless and forced to sell when the market is down. Land investments for hunting are going to be money sinks into which much is put, but there will be little or no return for decades. There will be continuous drains for taxes, improvements, repairs, fencing, feed for stock and so on.
If you have a pot of money that you want to invest in hunting lands here is the way to go about it. The value of your property is not how much of it that you have, it is how much of it you can bring to a higher degree of productivity and keep that way.
First, decide how much money that you can reasonably afford to invest in the property. Put that in a separate account. Then take one-third of that to actually buy acreage. One third of it for immediate improvements and the final third is held in reserve for unexpected and continuous operating expenses.
It is a serious error to put all of your money in your initial property investment, although this will purchase more land. With increasing and rising expenses you also need to have a hefty pot of cash to improve and operate it. Don't get caught up with competition with your peers in trying to see who can accumulate the largest property or properties. If you do this, you are very likely going to be forced to sell at a loss, should you have any financial reverses.
Remember, one-third property, one-third improvements and one-third reserves. That simple rule will get you off to a good start. Salesmen work on commissions. They are eager to close on the most expensive properties that they manage to make a nice paycheck from the sale. They have their, NOT YOUR, best interest at heart. However attractive the properties are, do not under-estimate the considerable costs of maintaining these properties over the short and long-term.
Shooting 9mm Handguns from World War II
The world was a different place when I graduated from college in 1963. When I was stationed at Ft. Belvoir, Virginia, I had the chance to purchase, and shoot almost all of the 9mm Parabellum (Luger) handguns that were used by both sides during World War II. During this period the European powers were modernizing their armies in the midst of the Cold War, and these old guns were being shipped by the boatload to willing buyers in the U.S. All I had to do was to go down the cobblestone street to the Interarmsco store at the waterfront in nearby Alexandra, Virginia, and pick out the pistol that I wanted to try.
Even at that time, the U.S. was the prime market for such guns. Only a few years before had the laws been changed making it illegal to order firearms by mail. As a young Second Lt. of Engineers, I had no problem purchasing as many handguns as I liked, having them on base, shooting them; and when I figured that I had learned what I could from one, trading it in on another.
This was the .308 M14 – .45 ACP Model 1911 Army; although I had done my pre-commission training at Ft. Benning with exactly the same guns used during World War II. Active duty units had the M 14, but the adoption of the 9mm Beretta by the U.S. Army was still some years in the future.
One book that I had that was of value then was W.H.B. Smith's (no relation) Book of Pistols and Revolvers (Stackpole, 1968) which was later supplemented with Pistols of the World (Hogg and Weeks, Presido Press 1978) and DBI Books' various editions of the Pistol and Revolver Digest, such as the third edition published in 1982.
9mm Broom-handle Mauser Conversion
As is well known by most people, the 9mm Parabellum was developed from the older .30 Luger cartridge in the early 1900s in order to provide a more powerful round. Various high-velocity, but low bullet weight, .30 caliber cartridges had preceded it, most notably the .30-caliber Mauser, used in that company's semi-automatic pistols. Some of these pistols were converted to 9mm Parabellum, and this was one that I was most anxious to use.
Ultimately a wooden barrel (really) of these arrived at the importer, and I was able to get a 9mm Parabellum-chambered Mauser pistol. As was customary for these conversions, a "9" had been burned into the grip and filled with red ink to make it obvious that this was a 9mm. Winston Churchill wrote about using one of the .30-caliber Mausers in South Africa during the Boar War. He found it difficult to shoot well and stressed the desirability of touching the person before pulling the trigger.
The Mauser, with its box magazine in front of the trigger guard, felt like no other handgun that I had ever shot. It also had a side safety that was long and best activated by the off-hand. It had relatively mild recoil, but the rounded grip made it difficult to shoot well without it squirming in the palm. I concurred with Churchill. It was a functional and reliable semi-automatic pistol, but difficult to shoot with accuracy. I also found the sights somewhat less than optimum.
9 mm Luger
I had owned a short-barreled 9mm Luger with Nazi markings, and jumped at a chance to trade it in on an Artillery Model with an 8-inch barrel that had been issued during World War I. This gun originally came with a wooden holster-shoulder stock and a snail magazine so that it could be quickly converted into a semi-auto carbine. Mine had a bulged barrel, a ground-off stock lug and did not have its holster or large-capacity magazine.
The Luger was, and will remain, my favorite handgun in regards to looks and its marvelous expertise in machining and fitting the toggle action. I can easily see how collectors are enamored of it. It is a wonderful-looking handgun, but I did not find that I could shoot it particularly well. One reason is the trigger is connected by levers that makes it difficult to tune. Another is that when the grip when was held naturally in my palm the barrel pointed to the left – rather than being a straight-line extension of the wrist, like with the Colt Model 1911. Lugers can give reliability issues, although I had no problem with mine using U.S. factory loads.
I enjoy looking at Lugers today at gun shows, but would not own one today, except as an example of mechanical artistry.
Walther P-38
The option of having either a double-action first shot or a more deliberately aimed second shot was a valuable attribute for this pistol. Not so desirable was its very thin, light-weight barrel which made it difficult to shoot well at distances beyond a few yards. With a myriad of small springs and screws it was very easy to lose parts when the gun was disassembled. (Keep this in mind if you ever do it.) As a combat handgun it certainly had desirable attributes, but as a shooting handgun I could not find too much to recommend it.
9mm Browning Hi-Power
Designed from the outset as a 9mm pistol, the Hi-Power incorporated a higher capacity 13-shot magazine in a wider grip, but remained a single-action pistol during the World War II period. When Belgium was over run by Nazi armies, production of this pistol was continued with the addition of Nazi acceptance stamps. It was one of these war-production pistols that I shot.
As a shooting pistol, I liked the grip of the pistol better than the Luger, but found its wide grip uncomfortable for my relatively small hand. It pointed better than the Luger, felt more natural and the 13-shot magazine was a decided improvement over the 8-round magazine in the Model 1911 Colt semi-auto. The Hi-Power's shape, feel and shootability was better than the P-38, despite the Browning's only being a single-action semiauto.
This particular gun had a long adjustable rear sight, a smaller version of the Mauser rifle sight, and was cut for a combination shoulder-stock holster that was unavailable to me.
The Swedish Lahti was among the last of the European 9mms that I had an opportunity to purchase, and the very last that I sold. Although designed in Finland, the Swedish version was made during the 1940s and continued as that country's service pistol after World War II.
As I recall, this Luger look-alike felt heavier than Luger's with similar barrel lengths, but shot no better. The light barrel-heavy frame combination made the gun difficult to point well and it offered the same problems as the Luger in not lining up naturally in the hand. I found myself grasping the pistol and then having to twist it into place with my other hand to regrip the gun for target shooting. My pistol had apparently never been issued. I kept it as long as I did as a curiosity, rather than because I was impressed by its shooting characteristics.
Polish Random
My example of this pistol had received hard war-time use and arrived with rust pits and a not-so-hot barrel. Of all the European pistols, this one felt best in the hand, had adequate combat sights, and I found myself longing for a better-preserved example. Even so, the gun handled well and shot well for a combat pistol. I heard that the pre-war production pistols were very nice, but I have never seen or shot one. Between the German and Russian occupation of Poland, these guns really went through the mill, and mine looked it.
If you have noticed a trend in my remarks that the more the pistols looked like the Model 1911 Colt semi-auto the better I liked them, this is correct. The added forward weight of the long slide is helpful and the grip, particularly with the swelled magazine housing, felt and feels better to me. Although Colt never commercialized the concept, long slide versions of the 1911 were produced in small numbers by custom makers, and some more powerful semi-auto rounds with soft-nosed bullets were produced that would work in this platform.
I followed and read about these concepts with interest, but never used them. I purchased and shot what was more easily available in the .44 Remington Magnum in revolvers and the Thompson/Center single-shots with their longer (10-15 inch) barrels as hunting guns.
Unceta Astra Models 400 and 600
Astra produced two models of these rather strange-looking blow-backed pistols. The 400s were able to shoot the 9mm Luger, Largo, Styer and 38-Colt Super, and the Model 600 was almost exclusively chambered for the 9mm Luger. The Model 400 that I owned liked the .38 Colt Super best, but would digest round-nosed 9mm Luger cartridges. This gun was touchy in what it liked to be fed in the way of Luger cartridges, preferring round-nosed jacketed bullets and not tolerating target-level loads.
The heavy springs use to retain these powerful pistol cartridges make this gun particularly hard to operate. Once the operational characteristics were mastered and if used with ammo that it liked, it was a reliable gun. The gun has tiny sights that I found difficult to use for target work and plinking.
Colt 1911
Colt likely produced some 9mm Luger chambered Model 1911s while developing their semi-rimmed .38-Super cartridge, but apparently never made any in 9mm for anyone during World War II. They did offered this chambering in later designs like the Colt Commander.
Because of the supply of free military ammo for the Colt .45 and my having to purchase factory stuff for the 9mms, I switched to the .45s and larger caliber handguns and hardly ever looked back. Never again was I to own a 9mm of any type because I was becoming more interested in handgun hunting. The 9mms – .38 Supers, Largos etc. did not then offer either soft-point bullets, sufficient power (arguable in case of the Super), or were illegal for taking deer-sized game animals in states where I lived.
Both Italy and Spain made large numbers of 9mm Parabellum handguns post World War II and many were sold in the U.S. However, these countries did not use this cartridge in the nations' wartime handguns as first-line pistols.
In order of power the various 9mm started with what is known in this country with the .380 ACP. Hungary had an about worthless double-action only semi-auto in this caliber that was issued. Italy produced large numbers of .380 Berettas for holster carry for police and other units, although the 9mm Glisenti was their official military pistol cartridge during World War II.
The 9mm Bayard Long is the Spanish 9 mm Largo and is also quite similar to the 9mm Steyr. There was also a 9mm Browning long, but this one was never imported into the U.S. and is only found in a few European civilian pistols. I looked at the Austrian Steyr pistol, but because of the stripper clips needed to load it and the special ammo (all of which was corrosive at the time), I never purchased one. The semi-rimmed 38 ACP and the 38 Super fill out the 9mms (both non-military cartridges) that were available during the World War II years. The Russian 9mm Makarov was adopted after the war.
Shooting all of these guns was an interesting experience. My only regrets was that I did not bother to take any photos of the guns while I had them. As I have the opportunity to shoot some new digital images of the guns, I will change-out these photos.
Getting Lost in Small Areas
When a person goes on a hunt in a Wilderness Area it is logical to assume that they will go with maps, compass, GPS units, satellite communication equipment and an emergency beacon. However, most people get lost in smaller areas closer to home where they did not think it necessary to take the forgoing or even simple survival gear.
This point was recently brought home to me when I spent a cold night out in the woods as a result of getting disoriented on a squirrel hunting trip on a peninsula and being caught when darkness fell. What happened here is that I took my boat and paddled it over from a public launch to the peninsula which was accessible only by water because it had been cut off by a canal located at its neck on the eastern side. So the once peninsula, now island, extended from east to west as it projected out into the lake.
The map that I had been provided was a very poor map, and I did not have an adequate idea of its scale. My hunt plan was to go out, bag a few squirrels and then return to my boat to do some bowfishing in the lake before dark.
No one can get lost on a peninsula. Right? All I had to do was to walk along any shore line and ultimately get back to my starting point.
Wrong. First off the peninsula was much larger than I expected and covered about five square miles. Secondly, it was not possible to walk along the shore because of deep drop offs and thick jungley vegetation next to the shore line. Even had I intended to do so, walking around the island in the water was unwise because the weather was near freezing, and the last thing that I wanted to do was to risk hyperthermia by getting my relatively few clothes wet. Although it had been cool the night before, by the time I started my hunt I was only wearing trousers and a T-shirt.
As I was just going to step out of the boat and quickly return, I left matches in my truck, took no food with me, did not take my GPS or compass, left even the poor map I had in my shirt pocket in the boat and just grabbed the gun, a few shells and a bag for the squirrels. As I followed barking squirrels from clump of trees to clump of trees I walked in a random pattern and when darkness approached I started back walking east.
Ultimately I found myself approaching full dark in a thick tangle of vines and second growth and water on all sides of me, except for the way I had come. I was on a prong of the peninsula, getting cold and increasingly disoriented. I had already circled back on myself twice. It was time to sit down, take stock and wait until daylight until I could see what I was doing and use the rising sun as a directional beacon.
Thrashing around in thick stuff in the dark was only inviting personal injury and exhaustion. It was better that I stayed the night where I was. It was going to be a cold night, but nothing life thretning, just uncomfortable – so long as I stayed dry. As I was by the shore, I had the chance of attracting a passing fisherman and getting a lift back to my boat.
Where is a fisherman when you need one? None came. After a cold night partly covered up by rushes that I had cut and insulated by a carpet of them on the ground, I found my way to the highest point on the peninsula and quickly returned to my boat with clear directional guidance provided by the rising sun.
Knight and Hale now makes a directional Beacon that you may hang over your deer stand, boat or other location and activate by using a remote switch. This can help you find your way back to your boat after duck hunting in a salt marsh (one of the easiest places to get very badly turned around), swamp or other location. (Product provided by manufacturer.)
The lesson in all of this is, take basic location and survival stuff with you even if you are only going out for a short woods walk in a unfamilure area. I have hunted, lived and worked for months at the time in Alaska and elsewhere. Spending an uncomfortable night in the woods came as an inexpensive reminder to me not to forget my basic location and survival equipment.
Sponsors, Ads and Book Sales Needed to Keep Radio Shows on the Air
Like any business venture, radio shows cost money to produce and this must be forthcoming from sponsorship, ads, sales of books, guifts and grants. My previous show on VoiceAmerica Sports, "The Backyard Sportsman," is a solid, high-information-content show; but failed in 10 weeks to produce sufficient sponsorships or product sales to continue broadcasting.
I think that this is disappointing because I believe that I was, and am through iTune on-demand re-broadcast, reaching a younger market that needs solid information on hunting and outdoor topics. This market will continue to expand and after only a month, I was reaching over 10,000 listeners. If after hearing a few shows you think likewise, consider sponsoring a revitalization of this show or purchase some of my books and other products.
My new show "Hovey's Outdoor Adventures," faces exactly the same challenges and will have the same fate if sponsorships, ads or book sales are not forthcoming. The message is simple, "If you want my show, then buy my stuff and/or help me find sponsors for it." Although the new show will be adventure and storytelling based which would appeal to a larger audience, it has exactly the same requirements to be a money-producing business.
For those who were following my Outdoor Business Modules on The "Backyard Sportsman," these will be continued through the new show until all 21 are covered. For a review, go to http://www.thebackyardsportsman.wordpress.com to see a list of the Modules that were covered in past shows. If there is interest, I will publish a whitepaper with an outline of the Modules. Watch for that on my website, www.hoveysmith.com.
A YouTube video was recorded to make these points. To view it, click on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbW4R3SGrXc&layer_token=a728edcaca126e66 or watch below.
What's Going to Be in Hovey's New Radio Show
"Hovey's Outdoor Adventures" broadcast over Internet Radio through WebTalkRadio.Net will be an hour-long weekly show that will feature storytelling to relate interesting hunts that the author and his guests have done around the world with a variety of hunting tools. There will be a lady who hunts hogs with spears, a man who has taken all of North America's big game with a bow with no sighting equipment, another who takes much of his game with handguns while other guests utilize muzzleloaders, crossbows and antique-pattern guns.
No stranger to all of this, Hovey will conclude the show with one of his own hunts featuring a variety of muzzleloaders, crossbows and guns to take game that ranges from squirrels, to swan, to wild boars, Cape buffalo and so on. Look for the unusual in these stories in regards to the game being taken and the tools being used. You will seldom be disappointed.
A brief video about Hovey's show is available on YouTube that you can view at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbW4R3SGrXc&layer_token=a728edcaca126e66. I had another one posted here, but liked this one better.
Hovey's Outdoor Adventures Radio starts in Nov.
Hovey will start a new Internet radio program "Hovey's Outdoor Adventures" on WebTalkRadio.Net in November, 2010. This will be an hour-long entertainment-based show as compared to the content-based "The Backyard Sportsman" now appearing on VoiceAmerica Sports radio. Story telling from both Hovey and his guests will dominate the new show which will also contain segments on wild-game cooking and starting an outdoor business.
Click on the video below for a personal announcement. If you have problems viewing this version, this video is also on available on YouTube by activating the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNvqdiUwE3w&layer_token=00e2247dba1f83cd.


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Our multi-bike discount works in two ways; firstly all your bikes are covered under one policy, making the management of insuring your bikes far more simple.
It goes deeper than that though; secondly, we can offer up to a 50% discount for any bikes you leave at home. We know that you can't ride all your bikes at once, so why should you pay your insurance as if you could?
You can only ride one bike at a time, so your insurance premium is based on your maximum value at any one time. For example, if you have 3 bikes valued at £3000, £2000 and £1000, your maximum value when out riding at any one time is £3000, and not the £6000 value of all 3 bikes.
This allows us to offer significant discounts up to 50% on the other bikes added to your policy.
With a total sum insured of £6,000, you also get 10% or £600 cover for each bike boxes, bike accessories and bike clothing. For more information on what extras are included, see our Accessories & Clothing Definitions.
Bianca has several bikes; one for competitions, one for training, a single speed bike for commuting, and a hardtail mountain bike for weekend forest runs. Previously, she had only insured her racing bike used for competitions as it is the most valuable and the one she really can't afford to replace.
However, Bianca discovered that through Bikmo she could cover all her bikes under one policy without it costing the Earth. By doing this, she was able to get a nice discount on the total cost of her insurance policy, and all her bikes and kit were covered.
What is the maximum number of bikes I can have on my policy?
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Add up the value of your most expensive bike or bikes, including race wheels you may have with you away from home at any one time. For example, £3000 plus £1450 wheels = £4450 maximum value.


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Info2072 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 75 designs submitted by 18 freelance designers.
Aqua Group of Companies
Aqua Group of Companies is an independent company run by two ambitious brothers. We are entrepreneurs at heart; we do a bit of everything. We have a real estate division, developing properties for private sale and investing in commercial and residential properties (including but not limited to retail plazas, commercial warehouses, and commercial land). We also own and operate retail pharmacies as well as a pharmaceutical distribution company. Our company is small with consistent growth, but is forecasting our biggest growth in the upcoming few years with larger acquisitions, and are looking to rebrand our company in order to be more professional and to stand out from the crowd. We believe that gaining the credibility we want starts with a unique and modern logo and we hope you can help us accomplish this. Our name, "Aqua" Group of Companies stands for honesty (pure, clean), and transparency, as is our business practice. We believe that integrity is a vital part of business.
As mentioned, we have multiple projects that have multiple target audiences ranging from a family looking to purchase a home to a business looking for a partnership.
Our requirements are minimal. We want ourselves to be seen as a professional organisation with great potential. Our logo does not need to incorporate a water theme. The logo will used to create general business cards, letterheads, e-mail signatures, etc for our group of companies. Feel free to be creative, we have very open minds! GOOD LUCK
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Even Fox News Knows:
Sheriff Joe in Hot Water Over Misspending Allegations
Voter-approved jail fund mismanaged?
Updated: Friday, 24 Sep 2010, 10:20 PM MDT
Published : Friday, 24 Sep 2010, 6:17 PM MDT
Published : Friday, 24 Sep 2010, 6:17 PM MDT
PHOENIX - With his department under fire, accused of wasting taxpayer money, Sheriff Joe Arpaio still refuses to talk about the controversy publicly. County auditors say he misused as much as $80 million.
The sheriff wouldn't talk on camera about the budget allegations, but on the phone, he told us he has an explanation for everything -- but we'll have to wait for it.
Some say the sheriff is in a tough spot. Facing a firestorm of criticism over the budget, the normally camera-happy sheriff has gone underground. For a man who spends so much time in the spotlight, critics say the silence is telling.
"The fact that he's not willing to answer the tough questions, dodging interviews... He's the elected sheriff of this county, he should have the doors open," says outspoken Sheriff Joe opponent Dan Saban.
Maricopa County Auditor David Smith clearly stated there is no doubt that monies have been misspent. The money was to be spent on improving the jails, which never happened. Instead it was spent on lavish trips and Immigration sweeps.
He's just like his toady, NH U.S. Senate hopeful Kelly Ayotte, who has flip-flopped on Unconstitutional Immigration policies, as noted by Debbie Schlussel and Yours Truly. She screwed over the New Hampshire budget to the tune of $110M on the Tuttle/JUA cases, affirmed on appeal read it all right here, along with the FRM Ponzi scam she failed to catch as AG, and her coverup of the Franconia shooting tragedy, soon to be a Hollywood movie. BTW, Wisconsin cited the Tuttle/JUA case, in Wisconsin Medical v. Morgan, what a legal legacy for Kelly Ayotte to leave, ahem.
She also lied to the public about "winning" the Planned Parenthood case, when in fact she cut two $150,000.00 checks to Planned Parenthood Attorneys because the NH law was poorly drafted and didn't pass Constitutional muster. I have a copy of the checks right here.
For more on Joe Arpaio, Kelly Ayotte and the lecherous GOP carefully read this post and Stephen Lemons' columns in the Phoenix New Times, including this onewith my video coverage of the NH GOP Joe Arpaio love-fest.


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Every night, my wife and I read books to our son. She always picks out a variety of books for our nightly tradition. Our son will pick out a few of his favorites too. The other night she was reading poems written by Shel Silverstein and this poem inspired me...
If we meet and I say, "Hi,"
That's a salutation.
If you ask me how I feel,
That's consideration.
If we stop and talk awhile,
That's a conversation.
If we understand each other,
That's communication.
If we argue, scream and fight,
That's an altercation.
If later we apologize,
That's reconciliation.
If we help each other home,
That's cooperation.
And all these ations added up
Make civilization.
(And if I say this is a wonderful poem,
Is that exaggeration?)
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what is real life of every human being of the world Dear one and all ,
We are human beings . Every human being is gods gifted person.
the human blood cells and thoughts are made of SLA – sacrifice , love and affection.But people live based on SLA – Service level agreements with god , family, society ,power, greediness, egoism and struggle for existence. etc.
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Running a donation drive for The Exodus Foundation will help us feed Sydney's homeless and needy. We encourage you to collect as many tins of food as you can, or alternatively, you may choose to run a fundraising drive of your own.
Supermarket and store gift cards are also needed as they are used to help supplement our daily food requirements.
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I got the movie watching bug in me.
Paul W.S. Anderson, the dude who is going to bring you fine people yet another video game movie in 2007 (Castlevania), had TNT network love last night with the showing of Mortal Kombat.
Every time I watch Mortal Kombat, it gets worse. Yet, I can't help but watch it when they play it on TV. This is due to the many hours of my life spent watching my friends play this game. I was no good at it, but hey, I can't get "flawless victory" out of my head, much like I can't get the mental image of my friend Matt running around with a makeshift Rayden hat on his head.
W.S. Anderson also did Resident Evil, which runs neck and neck with my other favorite of his, Alien vs. Predator.
Clearly, W.S. Anderson pines to be the best video game movie director, ever.
John "Stinking Badges" Huston's film Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison played on AMC. That one was Mitchumtastic. It's a neat WW2-era film. Marine and a nun, stranded on an island in the Pacific . . . seriously, I'm not kidding.
I really enjoyed Huston's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. It's been a while since I've watched Sierra Madre. I watched that over six years ago, along with another gem, Herzog's Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes.
It's been a while now that I think about it, since I watched these two with my friend Brad. He hadn't started film school. As of today, Brad's got his masters in film, and he's escaped.
I started thinking, sometime around the conclusion of Mortal Kombat, well, of the number of truly horrible films I've watched.
Some of them were fantastic rancid whoppers. Batman & Robin comes to mind. I also had a friend show me Catwoman. That one, well, whew. Halle Berry had a jag of shitty films, and the other one I remember was Gothika.
Then, I stumbled upon the Wiki-link for films considered the worst ever, and man, apparently that Larry the Cable Guy already has a place on the page.
Then, I noticed the listing for Anus Magillicutty.
Well-well-well, snakes on a plane.
I think I'll pass on Anus.
Mitchum, Kombat, Berry, Anus.
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Mary Hamilton - Future Leader 2017
I am thrilled to join 15 other talented and driven professionals from the Australian grape and wine community to be the Future Leaders in 2017.
Future Leaders is coordinated by Wine Australia in partnership with the Winemakers' Federation of Australia (WFA) and Australian Vignerons (formerly Wine Grape Growers Australia). The Future Leaders program is designed to develop participants' leadership capabilities and encourage innovation and thoughtful debate on the future of the sector.
The Future Leaders of 2017 are:
- Mary Hamilton - Hugh Hamilton Wines
- Alexia Roberts - Galvanized Wine Group (Penny's Hill)
- Anthony Robinson - Treasury Wine Estates
- Chris Dent - Gorton Drive Estates
- Chris Morrison - Sommelier/Wine Consultant
- Claire Doughty - Yalumba
- Gwyneth Olsen - Pepper Tree Wines
- Marc Soccio - Wine Advisor
- Natalie Pizzini - Pizzini Wines
- Paula Edwards - Winegrapes Australia
- Richard Angove - Angove Family Winemakers
- Richard Leask - Leask Agri
- Sarah Collingwood - Four Winds Vineyard
- Shirley Fraser - De Zolt Byrne Vineyards
- Simon Killeen - Simão & Co. Wines
- Wes Pearson - Australian Wine Research Institute
"It is an honour to be included as part of the Future Leaders program, this year is an important year at Hugh Hamilton Wines, it is 180 years since we planted some of the first vineyards in South Australia. I am 6th generation in the business, making our family one of the longest continual presences in the Australian wine industry today; I feel a strong duty to give back the industry that we were part of from day dot, so that it thrives into the future"
Wine Australia CEO Andreas Clark said the calibre of applicants again reflected the impressive talent working in the Australian grape and wine sector.
'The Future Leaders program is an opportunity to bring together emerging leaders from all parts of our sector and help them develop the skills to work collaboratively and creatively toward a common goal for long-term prosperity. It's a unique leadership program that's been specifically designed for the needs of the Australian grape and wine sector.
'The future success of our sector is dependent on the strength and capabilities of our people. We want the best and brightest leading the Australian grape and wine community and it's vital we support them by investing in their professional development so they can confidently lead the sector in the years to come.'
Andrew Weeks and Tony Battaglene, the Chief Executive Officers from AV and WFA, said they were proud to once again support the Future Leaders program.
'The expression of interest from such a large and highly competent field of applicants suggest that the future of the grape and wine sector is in good hands. We look forward to meeting the participants and working with them during the progress of the course', Andrew and Tony said.
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In a dynamic and evolving sector, this year's program will explore new avenues in business, marketing and governance, and will also look at how global economics will shape the future.
Participants will look at new technology, how they can amplify the innovative thinking that already exists in our sector, and they will learn contemporary approaches to people development and commercial success.
They'll hear from some of Australia's best speakers on topics such as innovation, leadership and culture, and they'll connect with people from across the grape and wine community, including Future Leaders alumni.
For more information on this fantastic program click here: https://www.winefutureleaders.com/


text: The Special Educational Needs Tribunal Wales (SENTW) The Special Educational Needs Tribunal for Wales (SENTW) is a legal forum which hears certain disputes that parents and/or children and young people have with their Local Authority (LA). Here, we give information about the decisions you can appeal against and the appeal process. We also talk about children and teenagers making their own appeal. Please note this doesn't cover disability discrimination claims, which are also heard by SENTW. What decisions can I appeal? An appeal to the tribunal can be made by a parent/carer of a child with special educational needs (SEN). Children and young people with SEN who disagree with a decision made about their education are also able to appeal. You can appeal against the local authority if they: Will not carry out a statutory assessment of a child or young person's SEN (as long as no assessment has taken place in the previous six months). Refuse to issue a statement of SEN, following a statutory assessment. Refuse to reassess a child or young person's SEN. Decides to cancel a child or young person's statement. Refuse to change the name of the school in the statement, if the statement is a least one year old and a previous request has not been made in the previous 12 months (this is limited to the type of school that is already named in the statement and information in part 2 or 3 of the statement can't be changed). Decide not amend the statement after a child or young person's SEN have been reassessed. An appeal can also be made if the statement has been made and the parent/carer, child/young person disagrees with one or more of the following: Part 2, which describes a child or young person's SEN. Part 3, which sets out the SEN provision that the LA thinks should be put in place. Part 4, either that the LA has not named a school placement in this section or that you disagree with it. What decisions can't I appeal? You can't appeal to the tribunal if you: Have a complaint about the school named in the statement, or provision detailed is not being given. The LA decide not to maintain a statement following an annual review. The length of time the LA took to carry out the assessment or the way they did it. How the LA or school is delivering the help set out in a statement. The way the school is meeting a child or young persons' needs at school action or school action plus. Part 5 and 6, the description of your child's non-educational needs and how the LA plan to meet them. If you have a complaint about the school named in the statement then contact Estyn and the Public Service Ombudsman for Wales respectively. You can also speak with the LA's independent Disagreement Resolution Service (DRS). How the Tribunal operates Your appeal will be heard by a panel of three people, a legally qualified chairperson and up to two other members who will each have some knowledge and expertise in SEN. The tribunal panel will look at evidence from the person appealing and the LA before making a lawful decision on the best way for the dispute to be resolved. The tribunal is independent from local and national government and should be accessible to parents and children without legal representation. Appeals to the tribunal How to appeal You need to complete the SEN Appeal Application form and follow guidance provided by SENTW in their How to make an appeal – A guide for parents. This explains: Making an appeal, including time limits and deadlines. What information or documents you need to submit. The procedure once they have your appeal. Case statements. The appeal hearing. The Tribunal's decision and timescales Deadline for appealing Your appeal has to be lodged within two months from the date you received the decision letter. If you have missed the deadline contact SENTW for advice. Case statements A case statement is an opportunity for the person who submitted the appeal to expand on their reasons for appeal and provide the tribunal with further or new evidence in support. It is important that, when a parent is appealing, their child's views are also recorded in the case statement. Similarly, an appeal made by a child/young person or their case friend must state the views of their parent or carer. The LA's case statement must contain details of why they are opposing your appeal and evidence they have in support. They provide a summary of facts, what steps they have taken to resolve the disagreement and what your child thinks about the issues. Further information on the tribunal process including witnesses and the hearing itself can be found in SENTW's guide for parents. Arrangements for appeals by children and young people with SEN Children and young people in Wales can make their own appeal if they disagree with a decision about their education. Alternatively, they can appoint a 'case friend' to make the appeal for them and accompany them to tribunal. To do this they must complete the Tell us if you have a case friend form. The case friend has to complete a declaration of suitability form and submit it to the tribunal. If the case friend is not a close family member, then an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check needs to be obtained and sent to the tribunal showing that there is nothing that disqualifies that person from working with children and young people. What to do if you don't agree with tribunal's decision You can't challenge the decision on the grounds that you disagree with it. However, you can ask the panel to review the decision if you feel there was a technical problem with the decision and how it was made. An appeal to the Administrative Appeals Chamber of the Upper Tribunal can be made, but you must apply to the tribunal for permission to appeal before doing so. You have 28 days from the date the decision was issued to ask for a review or permission to appeal to the Upper Tribunal. Overturning a tribunal decision is rare and difficult, we advise that you seek legal advice from a solicitor specialising in education law if you decide to do this. What to do if the LA has not implemented the tribunal's decision The tribunal's decision is legally binding and the LA must follow it. If they don't, you should contact the Public Service Ombudsman for Wales and make a formal complaint or you contact our Education Rights Service general advice or tribunal support lines on 0808 800 4102. Further help from our charity The National Autistic Society's Education Rights Service has a Tribunal Support Line that can help you consider your options if you have a right of appeal and can offer ongoing support. Useful contacts SNAP Cymru can provide support and advice to families with a child with SEN. Tel: 0845 120 3730 The Special Educational Needs Tribunal for Wales (SENTW) Tel: 01597 829800 Civil Legal Advice (CLA) Tel: 0345 345 4 345 Douglas Silas Solicitors Tel: 020 8349 7700 Simpson Miller Tel: 0808 129 3320 You can also visit our Autism Services Directory to search for other solicitors who specialise in education law. Last reviewed: 10 November 2016.


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Education Steps to Become an Anesthesiologist.
What would it take to become an anesthesiologist? Well, the road to pursuing this career is really long and challenging! Moreover, only hard-working and persistent people can benefit from it in the end. Are you ready to face all the difficulties? Then find out how to become an anesthesiologist right now! Here is step-by-step guide on anesthesiologist education.