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Fall is officially here and I believe there's always a sense of a new beginning in the cool air.
If you've been curious about cruelty-free cosmetics, now is the perfect time to try new beauty products and discover your next must-haves. With the increased awareness that Canada still allows the practice of cosmetic animal testing which results in pointless suffering by innocent animals, the following Canadian companies prove that beauty products can be colourful, effective, and cruelty-free.
I provide brief summaries of each company below along with my personal beauty favourites.
Happy cruelty-free beauty shopping!
Lippy Girl Makeup
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia and created by Darcey Diehl, Lippy Girl offers natural and organic makeup products ranging from lipsticks, blushes, powder foundations, and eyeshadows.
The majority of Lippy Girl products are vegan, with the exception of a couple of items that contain beeswax. Lippy Girl recently added a new line of organic and vegan lipsticks called Vego-Maniac which includes five new gorgeous shades in recyclable aluminum packaging.
Not only is this Canadian company certified cruelty-free by Logical Harmony and PETA, Lippy Girl supports the Humane Society International's Be Cruelty-Free Campaign which works towards ending cosmetic animal testing.
My personal favourites from Lippy Girl are the Extra Virgin Lip Gloss for a non-sticky shine, Vegocentric Lipsticks in Surf Betty and Ski Bunny for pretty nudes, and recently the new Vego-Maniac Organic Lipstick in Totes for a pop of bright coral-pink, even in cooler temperatures.
Trust Fund Beauty
Located in Montreal, Quebec and created by Samara Granofsy, Trust Fund Beauty offers nail and makeup products ranging from beautiful nail polishes with creative and snarky names, nail polish removers, liquid lipsticks, and lip glosses.
Their acetone-free nail polish removers are effective and have a pleasant scent because of the mint and orange essential oil blends. Trust Fund Beauty recently added several new shades of their liquid lipsticks, including two ultra dark and rich shades called Man Hunt and Rude Dude.
Also available is a really adorable Puppy Pack that will surely please dog lovers. It includes four dog toys in the shapes of a martini glass, ice cream cone, and two nail polishes, plus it includes the matching nail polishes in the shades Do You Know Who My Father Is? and Rich Bitch. If you would like to try smaller versions of their nail polishes, the different mini sets with six nail polishes is a great option.
Not only does Trust Fund Beauty offer 100% vegan products, but they are certified cruelty-free by Logical Harmony and Leaping Bunny.
It is important to note that although Trust Fund Beauty is a Canadian company, prices on the website are displayed in U.S. dollars and products are shipped from the U.S. My personal favourites are the mint-scented nail polish remover and the nail polishes Do You Know Who My Father Is?, a pretty light pink and Dirty Rich, a medium mocha shade.
Pelle Beauty
Located in Toronto, Ontario and created by Marnie Cipriani, Pelle Beauty offers natural, luxurious, and artisanal skincare products ranging from facial serums and balms, blemish and aroma oils, cleansers and mists, lip balms, and perfumes.
Known for highly concentrated and waterless formulas, Pelle Beauty products are created in small batches which ensures the use of the finest natural ingredients. Pelle Beauty has recently added new products to their skincare line; a Face+Body Balm, Beauty Mask, and a Cleansing Oil+Makeup Remover. Also available is a Cleanse+Hydrate Kit which includes all three of the recently launched products and the extremely soft Shoo-Foo washcloths.
All of Pelle Beauty products are 100% vegan and certified cruelty-free by Logical Harmony. My personal favourites are the Vegan Lip Balm, Luxe Beauty Oil, and Luxe Beauty Balm. Both Luxe products keep your complexion glowing and are effective in adding moisture and eliminating dryness.
Located in Calgary, Alberta and created by sisters, Neige and Pippa Blair, Routine offers natural cream deodorants in three formulas and various scents. Routine prides itself on creating effective deodorants that don't cause harm to the body by only using natural and clean ingredients.
Routine recently launched The Curator, a new deodorant formula made without baking soda for extra-sensitive skin. They also made available a sample kit of all their deodorants, which is really great way to try Routine products and to find your favourite formula and scent. Routine is certified cruelty-free by Logical Harmony and offers three scents in their vegan formula; Sexy Sadie, Johnny's Cash, and Lucy In The Sky.
My personal favourite is Sexy Sadie, not only because there's a bird on it, but for its effectiveness and ylang ylang scent.
I would love to hear if you've tried any of the products mentioned and which products you're curious about -- Let's talk cruelty-free beauty below!
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Life is fun for our four legged friends at Riverbend on the Charles. Whether it's a place to take that daily walk or somewhere to enjoy some downtime together, all kinds of great amenities are provided onsite and are easily accessible throughout Watertown to make sure your pet feels at home.
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What I'm Consuming: Heard 'Em Say
I listen to A LOT of podcasts. In the car, at work, before I go to bed – podcasts are honestly my love language. For me, there's no easier to way to hear others' stories and learn from their experiences. One of the podcasts I look forward to listening to every week is Heard 'Em Say from James Ross & Carter Murphy.
On iTunes, Heard 'Em Say is described as a "poppin' podcast about pop culture," but I feel like it's so much more than that. Before I listened to Heard 'Em Say, Carter and I were mostly social media friends. We hung out a few times, spending way more time than we needed to in Starbucks, but I really got to know Carter from following him on Twitter and hearing his hilarious, and very real, perspectives on trying to get a pair of Yeezy Boosts, Mary J. Blige's "Family Affair," and race in America.
While texting Carter one day, he told me him and his friend James were interested in starting a podcast. All the time, I hear people say how they want to do things but never end up doing them (me, all the time), so I was supportive but didn't want to get too hype.
And, listening to the first episode, all I could think about were Aaron Burr's words in Hamilton: "I wanna be in the room where it happens." It sounded exactly like the kind of room I wanted to be in having the kind of conversations I wanted to have with people my age. Although I listen to a number of podcasts, there aren't many that do what Heard 'Em Say does – it provides a space for kids to talk like kids about things kids like me want to hear about.
The last two episodes of Heard 'Em Say are definitely my favorite. In Episode 8, the Charlotte natives discuss the protests that took place there, as well as the first presidential debate. Then, in Episode 9, James and Carter talk about Kid Cudi checking himself into rehab and Solange's new album, A Seat at the Table.
Listen + subscribe to Heard 'Em Say here!
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Konny + Irwin Engaged
Engagement shoots are some of my most favorite times with a couple because I get to see the dynamics of the couple and how they get along with each other. Their personalities, true personalities, really come out and being able to see that and work within that to get natural, beautiful, timeless images is always really fun for me. Konny and Irwin, really do seem perfect for each other. Their humor, mannerisms, expression all compliment or resemble the other person.
They met in Columbia, and like many of those that went to Columbia, the campus has a lot of memories for them and so we went back to all of their favorite spots to take engagement photos.


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All The Best Hostess Gifts Of The Season (Yes, it's time)
Hello people! It is November. The holidays are approaching like a runaway freight train and I, for one, don't want to get run over like I do almost. every. year.
So to start with, I plan on building up a small arsenal of the chicest host/hostess gifts I can find. I usually realize 10 minuted before I have to be at a gathering that I should probably have a gift or some token offering to say "Thanks for having us! I plan on drinking a lot of your booze!". Of course, a bottle of wine or some treats are always an easy last minute grab but what if those treats came in a gorgeous little bowl that you can leave as a gift? Or your bottle of wine was accompanied by clever wine pens?
I like to think I am an incredibly thoughtful person that is relatively unorganized and often forgetful so these things slip through the cracks a lot of the time. But not this year, folks! I am starting my gift stockpile this week and here are some of the items I have found and love:
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Joyce Middle School PTO
Meeting Minutes
April 7, 2010 at 7:00 p.m.
Officers In attendance: Penny Nichols Cordero, Carolyn LeBlanc, and Marybeth Dixon
Attendees: 3 parents
School Principal: Mr. Qualey
Principal's Report: Mr. Qualey provided an update on the following topics:
ELA MCAS: Wrapping up.
School Clean Up: Held last Friday, April 2nd – 16 students assisted
Amazing Hero Art: Coming April 16th.
Green and Blue: May 6th & 7th – 7 p.m.
Springfest Concert: May 26th at the Joyce, 7 p.m.
Joyce Night at Uno's: Wednesday, April 14th – support the band and chorus.
Pancake Breakfast: Saturday, April 17th.
Field Day Calendar Raffle: Students in 6th and 7th grades will get the calendar raffles starting next week (April 12th) to begin selling. The cost per calendar is $5.00 and prizes will be announced throughout May.
8th Grade Fundraising: Wrapping up the Scrub-A-Dub car wash tickets fundraiser. This isn't generating as much as it has in previous years..
School Improvement Plan: Is still with the School Council for approval. The school committee has been focusing their efforts on the budget.
School Budget: The middle schools have been spared for the most part, no program cuts as of yet. However, the late buses have been eliminated. There have also been minimal cuts to the educational supply lines. Each middle school will be receiving new Math books next year, the teachers and administration are currently meeting with vendors to choose the books.
PTO needs: As of now, do not anticipate any specific needs from the PTO other than the grade level enrichment.
Yearbook Deadline: Has been extended to April 28th.
Communications Report: Marybeth reported that we currently have 105 Facebook fans on our Facebook Fan page. There has also been a surprising amount of traffic to the fan page. The number of people signed up to receive email newsletter has remained steady at about 260 for the last several months. Parent Mary Hebert who is on the Shamrock PTO mentioned that they are having a meeting on Thursday. We asked her to promote the 5th grade orientation that will occur in June. We also asked her to collect email addresses for the 5th grade parents so we can add them to our list for next year.
Presidents Update:
Cyber Bullying Parent Seminar: Went very well – over 200 people attended. The PTO teamed up with the Kennedy PTO and the SRO office to sponsor this. We hope to continue working together to bring programs to Woburn. A 50/50 raffle was run during the presentation; the Kennedy and Joyce PTO s will be splitting proceeds and we will receive $51.
District Committees: On the Woburn School System Website is an announcement about creating a district committee to look into developing a city-wide program for Parent Workshops. The first meeting is in May – more information can be found on the Woburn site; www.woburnps.com/home.
Upcoming Activities: We will need volunteers for the Green & Blue (to sell water, candy and 50/50 raffle tickets) and for the National Junior Honor Society (to set up tables for refreshments and to clean up afterwards).
Treasurer's Report: Vicki was unable to attend, but provided a Treasurer's Report to Marybeth Dixon for the Meeting
Yankee Candle Fundraiser – generated approximately $3,300 in profit for the PTO.
Carolyn (fundraiser chair) recommends considering the fundraiser for the fall, Christmas time or for the 8th graders (with a % going to towards 8th grade Activity Week (C anobie Lake, Cedardale, etc). This is separate from the PTO Budget Line Item for 8th Grade Celebration. Currently the 8th Grade Celebration line item represents the 'Sons of Italy Dance" and the PTO Gift.
Cyber Bullying: We received $51 from the 50/50 run at the Cyber Bullying program.
Funding Requests:
Funding Request for $100 towards the Woburn Academic Award Program. This was approved.
Funding Request for the 2010 8th grade celebration budget line item (Sons of Italy Party and PTO Gift) to increase the increase the 8th grade celebration allocation from $1,000 to $1,300. The increase is due to 2 factors: larger class size than in previous years and the increased price of t-shirts. The increase of $300 was approved.
Funding Request received from 8th grade class for an additional allocation of $1,000 to offset the cost of the actual field trips scheduled for the 8th grade activity week . The 8th grade conducts own fundraising to off set the cost. Even with fundraising the 'parent' cost for the field trips have ranged from $25 to $40. The actual 'parent' cost is dependent on the success of the 8th grade fundraising activity. It was decided that we would wait to see the outcome of the Scrub-A-Dub fundraiser, which has been extended. The PTO will make an effort to promote the fundraiser as well in the hopes that it will increase funds.
A discussion revolved around setting a precedent for future years. Based on historical numbers, the average is $1,000 but it has ranged from a high of $1786 in 2004 to a low of $899 in 2007. It was determined that the class allocations will need to be assessed as we decide on next year's budget and perhaps a formula by # students per class to determine the funding per class.
Currently the Enrichment line item allocates $1000 to each grade. These $ are used by each grade towards Field Trip Buses. The 8th graders typically use this allocation for the Field Trip Buses for 8th Grade Activity Week (in June). Recommendation to change the line item from enrichment to 'field trip buses' as that is that the $ are used for. In School Enrichment Programs are financed by the magazine drive.
Our balance is currently over $7,000. With current anticipated expenses will likely end the year with over $5,000. Typically the PTO carries over approximately $3,000 to fund the initial activities. Treasurer Vicki Drougas recommends increasing that by 3% giving us the flexibility to meet school needs. Mr. Qualey stated he wouldn't know the impact of the school budget and any particular needs until June


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Bytemark will be attending SITCE presented by the International Association of Public Transport (UITP) October 7-10 in Singapore. "The inaugural SITCE 2013 is a platform for urban land transport professionals worldwide to meet and discuss ways to shift the transport focus to people. The biennial SITCE is one of the first initiatives by the UITP […] More


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Below is a list of loan products the Arts Loan Fund offers. If you don't find what you need or have a question about one of the products, contact the ALF consultant to discuss your organization's needs or learn more about
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Arts Education Loan
Used to pay artists and cover program-related expenses for art education programs, before receiving payment from a school, government agency or funder.
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Used to help with cash flow needs or cover program related expenses before a related grant or contract is received.
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Used for upfront capital to plan and hold a fundraising event or produce a performance.
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Same as a bridge loan, except loans are up to $10,000 and the application has fewer requirements.
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Used for any cash flow need(s) as identified by the applicant, including implementing a cost-savings plan and capital purchases.


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Remote controls that come packaged with a television, cable box or other device typically don't need to be programmed, but universal remote controls generally do. The process of programming a remote control varies by manufacturer.
Televisions and devices that control them use unique infrared flashing frequencies to work properly; programming a remote control involves setting up the remote to use the correct frequencies. Many universal remote controls have an automatic setup feature; users engage this mode and press a button until the television or device responds. They then program the remote to use that setting. Many models also allow users to manually enter codes specific to different manufacturers, though this may require several attempts before finding the correct code.


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One of the PhysioVal team of Chartered Physiotherapists with French Registeration will hand deliver their expertise to the comfort of your chalet or hotel room. We will listen to you, diagnose your problem, resolve the best management plan and deliver hands on physiotherapy, taping, bracing and rehab exercises to get you to "Ski more and hurt less"
Acute injury
Just fallen, slipped or woken up and struggling to get out of bed? If you have a fall on the mountain or a slip on the ice, please call us. PhysioVal has expert clinicians at the ready to offer you some over the phone triage. You may need to take a days rest, see one of the resort doctors, have some physiotherapy treatment or see a specialist when you return home. You can trust our opinion, and our network of doctors and surgeons.
Chronic treatment
Sometimes our clients arrive in resort just not quite at their best, perhaps recovering from a tennis injury in the summer, or having had surgery on their knee. We pride ourselves in having a fantastic reputation in communicating clearly with your doctors and physiotherapists back home to seamlessly provide the in resort care and support you may need. Please contact us before your visit and we can plan your resort treatment
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You may have a long term injury or movement restriction to your back, hips or knees. Perhaps a chronic shoulder pain or a tight calf. That's when you should select one of PhysioVal's expert team of Physiotherapists who can use massage techniques directly relating to your compromised anatomy and physiology to restore the equilibrium you need, so you "ski more, hurt less"
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Worldclass Athletes need to perform at the top of their game every day. Even if you have diligently prepared for your holiday with ski fitness exercises and spent the whole summer on your bike, by day 3 you will be struggling down the stairs to breakfast. All sports put functional specific loading through the body that is difficult to replicate specifics. So why not do what savy elite athletes do ?
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Sunrise pi-ga*
We can start as early as you want, so that you can maximise your time on the mountain. We would recommend this to help your muscles prepare and warm up so that you can be agile and responcive on the mountain.
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Sunset pi-ga*
As soon as you get off the mountain we can be waiting, this is best done before the muscles have had a chance to cool down. We would recommend a hot tub or a 30 min massage after to maximise the benefit.
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pi-ga is a fusion of pilates and yoga, think core and stretch and movement…
We have found tried and tested some great clips on the web for you to help with your pre ski training.
Short and sweet, 5 top exercises from a US pro skier - do it now
If you have more time try this 30 min video for ski specific cardio and fitness - I am up for it
This has a few tips for dry land training and conditioning - check it out
All of these videos give different tips which you can pick and mix. The most important element as any good physio will tell you though biomechanics and alignment is key! If you have any niggles with your back or your knee which are the typical places then get in touch with your physio or if you don't have one pop me an email and I will recommend one if possible near you.


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Hubble's Hope
Building communities is not only our business, but one of our core values here at Hubble Homes. Hubble's Hope is born out of that same commitment to community and helping others, and has been a labor of love, as well as an opportunity to collaborate likeminded organizations. While this was our first home, we plan to continue partnering with other local organizations who share our passion and vision for the community.
Once finished, the proceeds from the sale of this Hubble's Hope home in our Amberwave Community in Meridian, will be donated to CATCH to help end homelessness in Idaho, because we know how important it is to have a place to call home.
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During the first two months of the semester, you will write 1-2 page responses to the week's readings. At least 250 words, or one page, of each reading response should be focused on the texts (summary, comparison of ideas in two or more texts); each response should include some reflection/personal connection to the ideas in the text(s).
A reading response is not freewriting nor is it a polished essay. It will not be vague or impressionistic nor will it require an overall thesis with profound interpretation. Reading responses are a semi-formal space in which to engage the ideas in the reading. Ideally, some of the reading responses will make their way into your more formal writing for the class.
- help you keep up with readings
- help you read actively
- help you make connections between readings
- help you engage with readings at personal level
You won't answer every question in a reading response prompt - just the ones that are interesting to you. You also don't have to limit yourself to the prompt questions.
January 21: Choose one of the prompts below and respond in 1-2 pages.
Respond to Sommers' two articles. Briefly summarize her argument in each article. Then discuss how Sommers' understanding of revision has changed in the 12 years between articles ("Revision Strategies" is 1980, "Between the Drafts" 1992). Cite and paraphrase from the texts to support your discussion. Reflect on your own revision strategies –are your revision practices more like those of an experienced or inexperienced writer? Or reflect on the degree that your own academic writing is authoritative (and where that authority originates).
Respond to Perl and Murray. Briefly summarize the argument in each article. Then discuss what Perl's article, written 8 years later, adds to Murray's description of the writing process; what is new about her understanding of the writing process? Cite and paraphrase from the texts to support your discussion. Reflect on the role "felt sense" plays (or doesn't play) in your own writing. Reflect on whether you rely on "retrospective structuring" or "projective structuring."
January 28: Respond to the below prompt in 1-2 pages.
Briefly summarizing the argument in Sommers or Straub or Elbow. Then discuss how the comments on four seasons essay fit (or don't fit) with the author's prescriptions. Finally, look at your own comments on the street gangs essay; what would your chosen author say about your comments?
February 4: Choose one of the prompts below and respond in 1-2 pages.
Briefly summarize the arguments of Ede/Lunsford (about audience). Which vision of audience best describes your own experience writing the draft of the composition paper?
Briefly summarize the arguments of Brufees and Reither (about purpose in writing). When during your academic career have you experienced either (or both) visions of a learning community?
February 18: Respond to BOTH of the prompts below in 1-2 pages each.
Lu, Bartholomae, and Bizzell all debate the value of teaching students academic discourse. It is a debate we will continue next week when we read about the gendered dimensions of academic argument. Choose the article that resonates the most with you and briefly summarize it. Talk about what the article's ideas could look like in a class you are taking this semester or in a class you are shadowing this semester.
Read and summarize Lamb and Tompkins (they agree). Talk back to them (support, disagree, equivocate) using essays you've written in college and grad school.
February 25: Respond to the prompt below in 1-2 pages.
What do the essays suggest about power and teaching? Support your answer with at least two texts. Then think back to one of your favorite teachers and discuss how that teacher wielded (or didn't wield) power.
March 11: In-class reading responses to prompts written by students


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Foosball trick shots can actually come from any sort of foosball shot as long as it comes from an surprising or unconventional shot. The performance of trick photographs intable soccer might be aided by cheesy, padded, foosball wraps which assist in gripping the handles of the table. Jordan played with George Gervin (18 video games as a result of Jordan was harm that season), Robert Parrish (Parrish was way past his prime and solely began 3 video games), and Scottie Pippen. The 17-12 months-outdated shared his first video on YouTube two years ago and since then has posted 87 videos which have amassed 14 million views.
Making that candy trick shot is superior, but having the ability to share it with your pals is even better! Fascinating how hat-trick groups do not or cannot play too defensively in these games. So she was criticized by the fans of the Ronaldo who did not need her to be his girlfriend so they relationship broke on account of that truth. Unsure if you are acquainted with the sport of soccer but neither rain, sleet, nor darkish of night time, nor thunderstorms, nor snow….will keep soccer gamers from their appointed video games.
The purpose of laying these viral movies was particularly to, in a coordinated and structured approach(that of choosing relevant 'cultural ' videos with as much 'authentic' dances and dwell movies as reminiscent of possible), to assist us beginning to study much more better and in a 20/20 manner the breadth and depth of our cultural matrix and mosaic as it has manifested itself in our daily realities.
Every person wants physique like Ronaldo who has a selected defined muscled athletic physique. Not just because I am a soccer guy at heart, but as a result of I couldn't think about how wonderful it will be to actually get to play on the pitch at the Etihad or the Emirates. The Football and Basketball Dudes are distinctive in that they each have a small put up in the heart of their hands designed to maintain the ball in place when you get able to make your trick shot.
Nonetheless I have discovered the perfect Soccer Magazine ever, and guess what IT IS FREE, sure free, I couldnt consider it… and even higher IT'S ONLINE !!!!!! Training various shots may also make you acquainted with completely different variations of assaults, within the actual game you're confident sufficient and the things you may have achieved within the apply comes out naturally. Read More


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My name is Jacy King and I will be teaching your child either:
5th Grade: United States History from 1565-present -- Historical content includes the colonial period, the American Revolution, the establishment of the U.S. Constitution and American identity, westward expansion, the Civil War and Reconstruction, immigration and industrialization, and the 20th and 21st centuries.
6th Grade: World Cultures and Geography--students will study people, places, and societies of the contemporary world.
About myself:
I was raised in Center, Texas and received my degree from SFASU. I worked one year in Louisiana with 7th graders before coming to Chireno in 1999. Since then, I have taught every subject offered at the secondary level (grades 8-12) in Social Studies including Genealogy and Local History. Middle School has been my home for the last few years. Chireno is where I met another history teacher, Brian King, and we married in 2003 and have two Owls: Trevin (7th grade) and Samuel (2nd). I am currently working on my Master's Degree in History from SFASU. So this begins my 20th year at this district, I cannot wait to get started!
My Experience:
For World Geography: I have traveled solo to the counties of Spain, England, France, Portugal and Costa Rica. I have also led three different student tours to Europe including the countries of: Italy, Monaco, Greece, Switzerland, (and again to England and France). If you add in my own brief stops to Mexico, Canada, Haiti, Saint Martin, Germany, and Puerto Rico then that would make for a wide variety of cultures and experiences that I am able to present to your child.
For U.S. History: I have led student tours to Washington D.C., Boston, Colonial Williamsburg and Jamestown, and New York City. I have personally been to Philadelphia as well. All of these stops are included in your child's TEKS and are the cornerstones for early American History so I am proud to be able to share these with my students.
In 2015, I was awarded Outstanding Teacher of the Humanities by Texas Humanities in Austin.
Thank you for sharing your child with me for this upcoming school year! If you have any questions or concerns, do not hesitate to ask. The best (and fastest) way to reach me is through my school
e-mail: email@example.com. My cell/home number is 936-560-2760.


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This aerobic digester is the perfect compliment to a backyard composting system! The Green Cone reduces food waste to its natural components of water, carbon dioxide, and a small residue. The solar-heated garden unit safely eliminates all cooked and uncooked food waste, including things your backyard compost pile can't handle – like meat, fish, bones, dairy products!
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Making the right choices about your skin care starts with knowing your skin type.Different skin types are genetically determined but choosing the best skin care for your face and body is essential to care for your skin's health, slow the ageing process and look after yourself!It can change over time. For example, younger people are more likely than older folks to have a normal skin type.
There are five common skin types: normal, oily, dry, combination and sensitive.
Your type depends on things such as:
How much water is in your skin, which affects its comfort and elasticity
How oily it is, which affects its softness
How sensitive it is
A normal skin type has good circulation and there will not be any trace of sebum (or oil) on the tissue. Normal skin is soft, with a smooth, even skin tone.Not too dry and not too oily, normal skin has:no or few imperfections,no severe sensitivity, barely visible pores,a radiant complexion.
An oily skin type will leave blots of facial oil on the tissue, particularly from the cheeks, nose and forehead. This type of skin has overactive sebaceous glands, producing more oil than necessary. Oily skin can be caused by hereditary factors, diet, hormone levels, pregnancy, unsuitable cosmetics and stress, leading to acne flare ups and enlarged pores. It is vital to thoroughly clean the skin regularly with gentle, soap-free cleansers.combination skin can have:pores that look larger than normal, because they're more open, blackheads,shiny skin.
A dry skin type has a low level of sebum and does not maintain oil easily. Dry skin is often flaky and feels tight after being wiped. Gentle cleansing and a rich protective moisturizer for dry skin is essential to control that tight, uncomfortable feeling. It may be necessary to adjust your dry skin moisturizer for the changing seasons. You may have:almost invisible pores, dull, rough complexion, red patches,your skin is less elastic, more visible lines.
If you have this kind of skin, you will provide better skin care if you take quick baths or showers once a day, use only gently soaps, it's better if you avoid products who contains perfume, use rich moisturizer. There are other lifestyle changes that can help relieve and prevent dry skin – like wearing soft fabrics like 100 percent cotton instead of rough fabrics that could irritate the skin further, or eating foods high in omega-3, such as cold-water fish, flax, and walnuts. The essential fatty acids in these foods can help boost the skin's natural barriers that retain oil.
With a combination skin type oil is produced around the 'T-zone' of the nose and forehead but not on the cheeks, mouth and eye areas. The best skin care for combination skin will involve treating each region differently.You may have:enlarged pores,dull or shiny, thick complexion,blackheads, pimples, or other blemish. Oiliness can change depending upon the time of year or the weather.
Having a sensitive skin type can mean different things to different people. It can be caused by skin conditions such as rosacea, eczema or allergies. Sensitive skin can become inflamed and irritated easily. It is important to choose the right skin care for sensitive skin because many cleansers and moisturizers contain ingredients that can cause an adverse reaction. It's best to avoid using skin care and cosmetic products that have alcohol, harsh exfoliants, sodium lauryl sulfate, petrochemicals, acids, coloring agents, or synthetic fragrances as these can irritate the skin.
Instead, choose products that have powerful antioxidants as well as anti-inflammatory ingredients like white tea, green tea, aloe vera, chamomile, marine plants, calendula and oats. Moreover, the fewer ingredients in a skin care product, the better it is for your sensitive skin.


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OSWEGO, NY – Every day life brings potential threats to the safety of our children.
Children have a right to know what potential threats lurk about and what to do if they feel threatened.
It's difficult and painful to acknowledge that there are people around who want to harm children.
"Talking to children about certain dangers to their personal safety makes many adults uneasy," said Sheriff Reuel A. Todd of Oswego County. "However, as adults, it is our obligation to talk to our children to teach them how to protect themselves."
"Teach children how to operate the telephone to call for emergency assistance," added Sheriff Todd. They should know how to dial "0," "911," or other emergency numbers used in your area. Have them memorize their area code and phone number, and maybe a friend's number as well."
While it is important for a child to know how to recognize and avoid danger, it is also critical for a child to know how to respond quickly and wisely when confronted with trouble, Sheriff Todd said.
Children should understand that there are many people they can depend on and should turn to when they feel unsafe.
"It's important to teach children that the police are friends whose job it is to protect them," said the sheriff.
It's also important to let children know that they should seek out a trusted teacher, a neighbor, or a friend's parent if a police officer can't easily be located.
Here are a few things your children should know to boost their confidence in recognizing potential danger and to build self-assurance to know how to protect themselves:
· Do not go out alone. Always take a friend with you. There is safety in numbers. If someone you don't know tries to take you somewhere, quickly get away from them and yell out that this person is not your parent and that they're trying to hurt you. If someone tries to grab you, make a scene and make every effort to get away by kicking, screaming, and resisting.
· You should never get into a vehicle or go anywhere with any person unless your parents or guardians have told you it is okay to do so on that day.
· Teach your children that no one should approach or touch them in a way that makes them feel scared, confused, or uncomfortable. If someone does, teach your child that it's okay to tell you and encourage them to do so immediately.
· You should not get close to any vehicle, unless your parent, guardian, or a trusted adult accompanies you. Do not get close to a car if someone calls out to you for directions or anything else. It is easy to be pulled into a vehicle. If someone follows you in a vehicle, stay away from them and go in the opposite direction.
· If someone is following you on foot, run away as fast as you can and tell a trusted adult what happened.
· If someone wants to take your picture, tell them no and then tell your parents, guardians, or other trusted adults about what just happened.
· If you are in a public place, and you get separated from your parents or guardians, don't wander around looking for them. Go to a uniformed police or security officer, store salesperson or person in the information booth with a nametag, or a mother with children, and quickly tell the person you have lost your family and need help finding them.
· Never accept rides, candy, gifts, money, or medicine from someone you don't know and trust.
· Protect yourself by never giving your name, address or what school you attend to someone you don't know.
· Never open the door to anyone you don't know or let callers know you are home alone. Instead, say mom or dad can't come to the phone and you will have one of them call back.
· Teach your children to trust their own feelings, and assure them they have the right to say no to what they sense is wrong.
"No one likes to think about all possible threats to a child's personal safety and well-being," the sheriff said. "But, a safe child is one who knows what to do when trouble happens, and you'll feel better knowing they know how to cope when you're not around."


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Eight Negative Forces To Boost Your Productivity
It depends exclusively on you whether you are driven by your circumstances or take command of your circumstances. We all encounter negative forces around us from various persons, situations, circumstances, and failures. Do we get bogged down by these negativities surrounding us or we tend to mould them in our favour, all depends on us. Negativities are unwelcome though but can not be avoided. Best way is to learn a lesson from each negative force to overcome it and change it into a positive factor for you.
A project manager has to face lot of hurdles during a project. A single person in the centre point has to face many fronts in terms of teams, management, peers, customer, project board, and stakeholders. Despite all hurdles he is supposed to keep his tempo up and maintain the momentum of the project progress.
It is not easy, though, to cheer up all around without first keeping yourself with high spirit. There are certain negative forces around the project manager which need to be mastered to play with and win over. Some of those could be:
1. Criticism: Criticism arises out of two situations – one could be due to a fall back in a task or achieving a milestone. Other could be the situational, intentional and irrelevant. Both can not be avoided. Some people have a tendency of raising unnecessary criticism just to stay on top of others by using their power. Learn about the situations, people, circumstances and failures that tend to invite criticism. A proper analysis of each such instance will definitely improve your learning curve towards handling such situations and give you knowledge and strength to handle such in future.
2. Self Assessment: Keep assessing your process, procedures, methodology and your crisis management techniques to understand if you are managing the show properly or it needs an improvement. Ignoring these will definitely cause more troubles at a later stage.
3. Arguments: Arguments with management, customer, peers, team members etc. do happen during the project. It could be on any matter related to the project. Avoid giving negative statements and mould arguments to some constructive direction where results can be drawn out. A long argument without any fruitful results is a waste of energy.
4. Conflicts: Although a project manager tries to keep everyone in line while driving a project but conflicts are unavoidable. Let conflicts happen but not for the sake of conflicts. Resolve conflicts while taking an in-depth dive into the situation to understand the purpose of the conflict and a way to handle it smartly.
5. Discussions: Discussions and meetings are for the purpose of monitoring of the project. An unexpected situation needs an immediate discussion for resolution. Know the best people to discuss with for your project issues. Unnecessarily discussion of an issue with irrelevant people will not fetch appropriate result.
6. Stress and Strain: Stress and strain need to be managed properly. If you don't shelve out your stress if will pile up to an extent to reach to breakeven point.
7. Feedback: Seek feedback from appropriate persons concerned to understand your way of managing situations from their angle. It is a good way of building trust among peers, team members and management.
8. Mistakes: Mistakes do happen, risks do occur during projects. Don't get bogged down. Rather learn from your mistakes and best way is never repeat a mistake. A repeated mistake will point towards your incapability of handling situations. Otherwise you will be quoted as a good risk mitigator.


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A Garden of the Gods couples session in Colorado Springs | September 2016
Sarah and Jeff were so cute together. They were smiling constantly throughout the session. And for claiming to not like pictures, Jeff did a pretty wonderful job of looking natural- I guess it's pretty easy when you're in love. This adorable adventure-loving couple was a joy to work with. They certainly made my job easy! This session took place at Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs. All of my sessions that I've done in Colorado so far have been taken here. Usually I love to switch things up and not continuously shoot in the same location, but Garden of the Gods is absolutely gorgeous and has a HUGE variety of locations within it to be able to switch up the background. I'm still amazed at how cool and naturally beautiful this park is. I'm so thankful it's here because it's a wonderful location for photo sessions.
I hope you enjoy Sarah & Jeff's session as much as I do! Their love for each other is perfectly displayed in these photos!


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Joseph & Mary
About ten months after my father died the most remarkable thing occurred. I received an email from his accountant in Norfolk, Virginia, where Dad had lived. The accountant was forwarding me another email he had received that linked to a popular "Mom's Blog" called Lucky Orange Pants, which had just posted an entry entitled "Be The InnKeeper Who Opens the Door"… Read More
Remembering Clayton
Wild On The Fly travel director Clayton Bruce Sparks took his own life on December 15, 2008 shortly after returning from an exploratory fly fishing adventure on a jungle river in northern Argentina. Wild On The Fly founder Joseph Daniel delivered the following eulogy five days later to a packed house at the Shove Chapel in Colorado Springs… Read More
A Fly in the Eye
Ten years ago the worst thing that ever happened to me... happened. I took a 1/0 saltwater hook in through the side of my eyeball and back out directly through the middle of my iris. Actually I didn't do it; the guy I was photographing fishing did. My eyeball collapsed in an electric flare of light, then dark. As if this wasn't bad enough, we were alone on a deserted beach… Read More
Joe's American Dream
Joe's American Dream celebrates the most ordinary name in America and the eponymous businesses under that moniker. As "blue-collar entrepreneurs" these Joes represent a revealing and inspiring cross-section of small business in America. What can we learn from them as our country struggles with an identity crisis? Is the American Dream still alive?… Read More
James Balog Pushes the Limits
At first I am wary of Jim Balog. He's slick and smooth – way too smooth. He has the quietly arrogant, black-jeans-and-dark-sunglasses smoothness of a successful New York fashion photographer, not the disheveled, wild persona you'd expect from a "nature" guy. He's cultured. He's well read and he speaks eloquently. He writes even better. Women seem attracted to him. A lot of women…Read More
On The River of No Return
Six people are lying on a beach along the edge of a river, deep in the recesses of a gorge known as Impassable Canyon. It is late at night and the glow of a dying campfire separates their bodies from the inky black water flowing a few feet away. Except for the river's hypnotic gurgle and the low voices of the six, the scene in quiet… Read More
Wild Ways
The two young Masai girls sat outside their mud hut in the hot equatorial sun dressed in faded black Shúkà sheets. Each wore a ceremonial headdress of beads and shells and no other adornment. They were both trembling and sweating profusely, not from the sun but from the pain of having just been through the ritual of Emuratare – female circumcision… Read More
Fire & Ice – Yellowstone in Winter
Every summer nearly 2.7 million tourists visit Yellowstone National Park high in the northwest corner of Wyoming. Convoys of state0of0the0art RVs clog the four main arteries entering the park, each vehicle bristling with TV antennas, satellite dishes, miniature motorcycles, air conditioners, lawn chairs and barbecue grills. All the comforts of home… Read More
Canyon Grand
The Grand Canyon is an awesomely big place and its sculptor, the Colorado River, is an equally amazing stretch of water. Placed in most places, it can instantly become boiling and angry as it squeezes its way through narrow chutes and over boulders the size of houses. It has been called "the longest, wildest, grandest whitewater route in the world"… Read More


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I love gaming magazines. From The Dragon to White Wolf Magazine to White Dwarf Magazine to Pyramid Magazine, the lure of a regular stream of new ideas from game designers I admired and respected was one I always answered.
Wicked Words is my own "house organ" mag that delivers essays, articles, adventures, short stories and just about anything else that hits my fancy. Every issue of Wicked Words is guaranteed to have at least three articles and always includes a new episode of my (in)famous gaming advice column, Play Dirty.
If you want to get a subscription (and pay only $2.99 instead of $3.99), you can click here!
This time around, Wicked Words includes:
- Our newest Play Dirty offers GMs a bit of character creation advice that I've been doing for years but never quite made any of my games. That's going to change, trust me.
- We've also got a little morsel from the world of Houses of the Blooded. A little bit about illegitimate children as well as some new Aspects to play with.
- And then there's the second of our Savage Worlds mini- campaigns. Atlas is a game world I've had in mind for a while and it seemed to fit the high-speed, high-action system that Savage Worlds provides.
- After that, we take a look at The Temple of the Sacred Harlot, a little game first written a few years ago by a woman who goes by the pseudonym, "Virginia Dare." She was inspired by HotB and wrote the game after reading it. Just a month ago, she contacted me again and offered me this revised edition.
- I was so inspired by her game, I wrote a short story to go along with it. Just after Temple, you'll find "Black Rose Wagers." Like most ven stories, it does not have a happy ending.
- Finally, we've got the next chapter of Not Dead Yet, our regular comic. Check in to see what our boys are up to, still locked in their 10'x10' room.
Wicked Words #6


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The Capital Regional Development Council, CRDC, is your creative source for non-traditional financing for small business working capital, real estate acquisition, and equipment needs. We also work with regional developers to assist with impactful development and redevelopment projects. Let us work with your financial institution to make your project happen. From SBA 504 commercial real estate loans to direct small business loans and Brownfield loans, CRDC has the expertise and experience to get your project financed! We provide gap financing for between 10 and 50% of total project costs at competitive rates.
CRDC is actively seeking impactful real estate development projects and small business borrowers in Claremont, Newport, Franklin, Concord, Bedford and Manchester and throughout Sullivan, Merrimack and Hillsborough Counties for potential participation.
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The rates are set monthly by SBA's investment bank, Wells Fargo, after review of market rates.
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Just a quick tease into one of this week's boudoir shoots. Oh man. I can't even express to you how amazing all of them are! Eek! This woman told me that her legs were her favorite feature...so we kind of worked it ;)
It was right around the time that this image was taken that my client said "HOW DO YOU PICK WHO GOES ON YOUR BLOG!?!" I said, I blog every one of my clients who asks me to! Her response: "Can you please put me on your BLOG!?!?!!!" So you can bet this beauty will be getting quite a feature after she has her photo viewing! Ooh la la!
P.S. Do you see that shiny new logo in the lower left hand corner of that image!? When I re-launched as exclusively boudoir, I wanted to throw my new website up as fast as humanly possible. I found a cute text and a' posting I a-went. My darling friend Callie who is a stellar graphic designer said in the kindest of ways... "I noticed your typeface...." It was eating away at her, I could tell. I couldn't think of ANYONE better to create the official watermark for Click Chick Boudoir. BAM!


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Seeking Happiness In Vain
'Seeking happiness outside ourselves is like waiting for sunshine in a cave facing north.'
--Tibetan saying
A weblog devoted to spurring a conversation among those who use words to varying degrees in their daily work. Hosted by John Ettorre, a Cleveland-based writer and editor. Please email me at: email@example.com. "There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real." --James Salter
Seeking Happiness In Vain


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Last weekend, we took Char Siew for a baptism. We are not being religious – but having him get washed during the Dog Wash Weekend for a cause did seem divine. For those who don't know, this event is sponsored by the Animal Kingdom Foundation and all proceeds of the event will go to trying to put a stop to the dog meat trade. This is a worthy cause that the House of Queens supports.
Part of the activity – apart from giving the dogs a good bath is to have the dogs' picture taken with their humans. I am sharing our "family" photo with y'all. For me, the picture displays the distinct personalities of the two dogs. Midori the Beagle is the jester. Always making sure that we have something to laugh about in the House. Char Siew – the Shar Pei – is the serious dog. He may not have Midori's sense of humor – but just one look at him will make your heart melt.


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The Irular, a Tribal Caste in Tamilnadu, noted for their traditional skill in catching snakes and extensive knowledge of medicinal herbs, have had a very difficult time obtaining basic required identity and property documents from local government officials. Without these documents they are unable to obtain subsidized government commodities like rice and oil, gain admission to colleges, qualify for special reserved seats in colleges or highly desirable Government jobs, permanent employment or subsidized rural employment schemes. Qualifying for basic Government Identity documents is a human right; a person does not fully "exist" without "papers". South Asian Village Empowerment has a long term commitment to supporting Irular efforts to acquire these identity documents. On Monday, September 28 2015 we accompanied Jagatha, a leader of the Irular Women's Rights movement, along with over 70 Irular women, men and children, to the capital of Kanchipuram District to submit to the Collector 265 documented demands for Community Certificates, Land Registration deeds, and Ration Cards. Following this they took the Collector's receipt for these petitions and went to the local block office and resubmitted the demands to the office actually responsible to issue these documents. In the past these submissions have been subject to inordinate delays, claims the documents have been lost or misplaced, repeated demands for extralegal fees, and other technical obstructions. We will be following up on the official's actions and will support Jagatha and the many families she represents to make sure the demands are addressed in a timely and correct manner. The demands were noted in articles that appeared in at least three Tamil language newspapers. We have attached separately copies of these articles as well as photos of the day.
South Asian Village Empowerment In The News
SAVE-Intl welcomes a new long-term volunteer
We want to introduce our newest long-term volunteer, Valeria Pavlova from Moscow. Valeria's educational background is in journalism with four years of experience as a news editor back in Russia. Some time ago she decided to take a different career path in community development and women empowerment. Before arriving to India, Valeria had spent one year in Kenya volunteering as a co-director in a children's home for children from one of the most deprived and marginalized tribe in the country – the Pokot. Valeria hopes to stay here in Mamallapuram, Tamilnadu until February helping with our spoken English language program for primary school children, our women's hand embroidery project and anything that strikes her fancy! Welcome Valeria!
Wilson Manoharan Appointed Director Of Education
We are pleased to announce that Mr. Wilson Manoharan has been appointed Director of Education of Tamilnadu Village Outreach, South Asian Village Empowerment's immediate partner in Tamilnadu, South India. Mr. Manoharan has spent 14 years working in education in the U.S.A. and earned his Ph.D. in Education from the University of Virginia. Originally from a small village in Northern Tamilnadu, he returned to his native country a few years ago and is focusing his skills and talents to improve the educational levels of rural village students.
We are please to announce that Walter Thinfen has accepted our invitation to serve as Vice President of SAVE-INTL following the resignation of Christine Whitman. Curt Degler and Walt have known each other since the 80's and both now call Livermore CA home. Walt possesses a special understanding of the problems facing poor rural third world people as he grew up in Yap, an island in Micronesia. Currently Walt works in an executive capacity for a technology company in Pleasanton CA. It is hoped that Walt will find an opportunity in the near future to visit Northern Tamilnadu India to become better acquainted with the grass-level community development programs sponsored and directed by SAVE-INTL for the benefit of the socially disadvantaged rural poor. Welcome!
Presentation October 4th 2013 in MillBrae California
All are invited on October 4, 2013, a Friday, to see and hear a presentation by me in Millbrae California (on the Peninsula South of San Francisco) with images from my career as a professional underwater photographer combined with photos and discussion of my charitable community development work for the last 8 years in village South India. There will also be portions of the presentation that deal with scuba diving opportunities in India and also plenty of unusual images of traditional life in South India (firewalking and more). Refreshments will be offered and it should be a great get together for many of my past and present friends in the Bay Area.
Here are the details:
PLACE:New Vision United Methodist Church (Gymnasium)at 450 Chadbourne Avenue, Millbrae
TIME: October 4th, Friday starts at 7:30PM (refreshments) with formalities scheduled for 8:00Pm and ending at 9:30PM with a break in between.
Curt John Degler
Report On Dalit Atrocities in Tamilnadu in 2012
Study conducted by Madurai-based NGO reveal Villupuram, Virudhunagar, Dharmapuri and Theni among districts topping the list
April 10, 2013
In the last 15 years, atrocities against Dalits touched their peak in 2012 across Tamil Nadu, with Villupuram, Virudhunagar, Dharmapuri and Theni among districts topping the list.
A comprehensive study conducted by Madurai-based NGO 'Evidence' recently reveals that except in the Dharmapuri incident, compensation and rehabilitation had not reached the victims across the State till date as per the laws.
The study team, which had taken up 370 cases registered under the SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act of 1989, last year alone, 106 figured on physical assaults and clash against the Dalits in different parts of Tamil Nadu. This apart, crimes grievous in nature and heinous ones accounted for 28 cases. Torching of dwellings stood at 36, executive director A. Kathir said.
Though Villupuram district accounted for the highest number of Dalit population in Tamil Nadu, towns such as Tirunelveli (which ranked seventh in Dalit population), Virudhunagar (14) and Madurai (28) witnessed several crimes.
As per official data, 2,048 cases registered under the SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act were pending investigation at various stages in the police stations in Tamil Nadu, with Virudhunagar topping the list (176), Tirunelveli (141), Madurai and Villupuram (with 136 cases each). While 318 cases (out of 2048) were disposed at the station level, in 885 cases charge sheets had been framed and in 75 cases final reports had been prepared for filing in courts.
The findings showed that across the State, of 94 murder cases which were pending in trial courts, only in three cases conviction had been achieved. Moreover, it was all the more shocking that though 62 cases of sexual abuse against Dalit women had been reported from different towns/districts, not even a single accused had been convicted. When such was the real status of the Dalit victims, some political parties and outfits conveniently blamed the Dalits for causing confusion and even charged that baseless complaints were foisted against their community youth. This was nothing but a false campaign, Mr. Kathir said in a press release.
The only silver-lining in the study was that after 24 long years of enacting the SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act of 1989, the compensation for victims had been enhanced from a meagre Rs 2 lakh to Rs 5 lakh.
The Centre had listed as many as 22 types of atrocities as punishable, which include murder of a Dalit, sexual abuse of a Dalit woman, and so on. However, the team members found that the government had not rehabilitated the families of the Dalit victims in any manner, when there were options of providing jobs in government offices to one in the family, or offer a consolidated monthly pension of Rs 3000 or given them agricultural land with which they could survive and meet out their needs. Probably, less than one per cent of the victims' families may have benefited from this rehabilitation.
The Evidence team has suggested as many as 17 recommendations to the government for implementation, which include stringent punishment to officials who failed to act in a fair and transparent manner in the event of a Dalit being victimised, to circulate the copies of Supreme Court directive on action against District Collectors/Superintendents of Police who failed to protect the Dalits, and to form core committees at taluk levels and identify villages which were prone for anti-Dalit attacks.
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Indian sanitary practices and its affect on stature and health – a report
Theories of Oppression and another Dialogue of Cultures: Ashis Nandy
Where are 25% of children under age six severely malnourished?
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Kids Help Phone. We love this organization. They have great staff and a wonderful website. When we can't be there because it's the middle of the night, or there's a crisis and the last three appointment slots of the day are already booked, kids help phone is there 24 hours, 7 days a week.
Crisis Line. Another help line available 24 hours. This one is dedicated to mental health (which includes suicide, depression and anxiety).
Lesbian Gay Bi Trans Youthline. The Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans Youth Line is a toll-free Ontario-wide peer-support phone line for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, 2-spirited, queer and questioning young people.
SOS Kids Online is the new online version of Kids Safety Magazine. It's great and has solid articles and advice on teen dating, pregnancy, drugs, alcohol, peer pressure, bullying, violence, suicide, etc.
Toronto District School Board's safety line. Call line and website to anonymously report personal or school safety concerns. Welcomes submissions by students, parents and TDSB staff.
Jessica Zeyl Psychotherapy. Jessica is the owner and one of the therapists at Toronto Counselling Centre for Teens. She also has a private practice. So if your experience of her as a therapist was positive and you want to refer a non-teenage friend to her, this is a good way to do it.
June Starkey is a learning specialist. She was a teacher and now trains future teachers at teacher's college. She also has a private practice in the west end of Toronto where she works with students who are struggling to help them active optimal success with their studies. She accepts clients that either have or haven't been psychologically tested. I refer students to her if I suspect they may have a processing disorder, ADHD/ADD or any sort of learning disorder.
Dr. Kim Callaghan is a Naturopath that specializes in women and children. Jessica and her kids see her and we regularly refer teens with mental health concerns. Seeing her is a great alternative and/or complement to taking meds.
The Hincks-Dellcrest Centre. A children's mental health treatment, research and teaching centre.


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Wish I were here.
This a photo taken from Bud's Beach on the last day of Blogfest '10.
I was only able to attend the infamous Beach Day, and was very sorry I missed all of the Fun, Frivolity and Hijinx with the rest of my "Blisters" throughout the rest of the weekend.
But there is always next year!
Thanks CBW, BHE and NoeNoe!


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Holiday horror is here and Artsploitation usually never lets us down with it's yuletide terror gems. This time around it's Adolfo Kolmerer's SNOWFLAKE. This intense looking thriller has been compared to the classic Grimm's Fairy Tales and hits DVD and VOD next month. Check out all the full details and look for SNOWFLAKE on December 4th.
Following an acclaimed run on the international film festival circuit, Artsploitation has announced the U.S. release of Adolfo Kolmerer's Snowflake. Snowflake world premiered at the Lund International Fantastic Film Festival, where Kolmerer took home the Méliès d'Argent Award for Best Film. The film continued to screen around the globe, picking up Best Director and Best Film awards at Negative Fest and Horrible Imaginings, as well as Best Achievement in Directing and an Audience Award at Cinepocalypse. Cryptic Rock hailed Kolmerer's debut feature as "an extraordinary genre mix", comparing the surreal crime action film to Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs.
Snowflake will be available nationwide December 4th on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD, including iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, Google Play, Vudu and more.
Hunting down the murderer of their families in an anarchic near-future Berlin, two outlaws find themselves trapped in the wicked fairy tale of a mysterious screenplay that entangles them in a vicious circle of revenge – apparently all written by a clueless dentist. In their quest for vengeance, they must contend with a myriad of wicked fairy tale assassins, madmen, a blood-covered angel, and an electric-powered superhero.
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text: Everything Under One Roof Mix business with pleasure. When the work is done, it's time for play. Why not extend your meeting trip and turn it into a much-needed vacation? We have all the goods to ensure a pleasurable stay for you and your family if they were lucky enough to tag along. To put it simply, everything is here under one roof. Take advantage of it all. WaterparksWith 220,000 square feet of wet & wild indoor fun, no matter what the weather is like outside, you can splish splash all day long in America's Largest Indoor Waterpark at Kalahari Resorts & Conventions. The ArcadeThe Arcade features loads of video games and contests, as well as Mini-Bowling where you can enjoy all the fun and fast paced excitement of a real bowling alley, a must for any expedition. Conquer your favorite games of skill and collect redemption tickets for exciting prizes! The ArenaOne of the only free-roaming, open air, Virtual Reality experiences to challenge perception as you know it. The digital and real world meshed seamlessly together, to transport you inside the virtual world like never before. When you move, the game moves with you. Pure immersive mayhem with the freedom to get up and go.Spa Kalahari and SalonBeyond Relaxation. A family vacation should have something special for every member of your family. Spa Kalahari & Salon allows you to relax and rejuvenate your mind, body and spirit with amazing body treatments, luxurious massage, skin care, nail care and more.Shopping Our unique and diverse retail shops feature the finest in Kalahari logo-wear and casual apparel, an amazing selection of toys and children's clothing, everything you need to hit the waterparks in style and a wide array of products for your convenience.Fitness CenterGuests at our resort enjoy complimentary access to two complete fitness center, containing treadmills, elliptical trainers, recumbent bikes, presses, trainers and more.


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Wonderful news from Vital Wonders, Molten Ice and Blast Glass Jewelry!
Monday February 1st, 2009 -
The official opening date for Fire & Ice Boutique
in Grand Junction, Colorado at White Hall.
Kim DiJulio has opened a store in the historic White Hall Building, an old converted church with loads of character with various spaces for eclectic stores, an alternative book store and library, non-profit foundations offering many types of classes and community help, sound-proofed rehearsal rooms; a lovely performance stage, with a restaurant coming soon. It's a small alternative concept mall to roam around, socialize and network.
The Grand Opening of my new store Fire and Ice Boutique will be on February 1st with a Grand Opening Party soon afterwards. Fire & Ice Boutique will be selling Kim's designer jewelry, Vital Wonders Magnetic Jewelry, Kim's Molten Ice Dichroic and Blast Glass Jewelry and Silver Shrine Gold Mine sterling jewelry; along with consignment pieces from other artists, deluxe sea sponges, hand-made soaps and many other fine green-orientated merchandise.
With the horrid economy upon us, it seems nuts to start up a store. But this is a Community Hall with civic minded politically active people with lots of community events and business and social networking constantly going on.
We are glad to join this active community at White Hall and invite everyone to come!
I'll keep everyone posted as to what is happening at Fire & Ice Boutique and White Hall!


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Getting the most out of outsourcing
August 2013 | 10QUESTIONS | BOARDROOM INSIGHT
FW speaks with Andrew Dunlop, a partner at Burges Salmon LLP, about outsourcing business activities.
FW: Could you provide a brief overview of recent trends in outsourcing business activities to third parties? In your experience, are more companies exploring this strategy for their business?
Dunlop: Vanilla off-shorings and consortium deals both seem out of favour. The former because price differentials through labour arbitrage are reducing and the latter due more to a perceived 'muddying of the waters' with associated lack of accountability; global deals with prime contractors as a single point of responsibility are more in fashion albeit more often evidenced through multi-country arrangements between customer group and vendor group under an over-arching 'grandfather' master contract. Increasingly, outsourcings are being tendered competitively in contrast to the single source arrangements seen in previous years but to a limited shortlist of perhaps only two or three separate vendors. Cost, although relevant, is not as much of a driving factor as the push towards ever greater efficiencies through outsourcing involves increasingly complex solutions in contrast to vanilla outsourcings of previous years that focused solely on labour arbitrage.
FW: What are the key reasons for outsourcing business activities? What advantages does the process offer?
Dunlop: It may be cheaper to have a third party provide the outsourced business activities and the move from capital expenditure to revenue expenditure can be attractive to the corporate balance sheet. New management often brings a new perspective or is prepared to embrace relatively new management tools such as outsourcing; senior executives that have been through the outsourcing process before commonly wish to revisit the benefits and continue to outsource in the future – for example, to achieve improved performance, reduced or shared risk, enhanced flexibility or access to new skills and training. A project may be too complex to be undertaken by the customer in-house in the midst of every day operations without outsourcing. Growth also acts as a natural driver to outsourcing as a means to ensure customers can invest in opportunities to grow without simultaneously needing to invest in developing expertise in ancillary non-core processes.
FW: In your opinion, do particular industries or sectors lend themselves more readily to outsourcing business activities? What kinds of processes are inadvisable to leave in the hands of third parties?
Dunlop: Subject to compliance with limited restrictions on access to strategically important governmental information, outsourcing can be applied to almost any activity. There is no one-size-fits-all. Process mapping can help; organisational activities can be deconstructed into their constituent business processes and analysed function by function to determine whether external experts in that process can do it faster, cheaper or better. While organisations tend to start their outsourcing programmes with clearly non-core ancillary processes such as cleaning and IT helpdesks, the trend in recent years has been to increase return on investment through 'moving up the food-chain' and looking to outsource combinations of all types of activity other than the strategic direction and management or 'brain' of the organisation. More usual outsourcing examples include financial and accounting processes, HR, payroll, invoicing, recruitment, knowledge management, facilities management, data centres, infrastructure, desktop, business transformation, manufacturing, supply chain, delivery and collections.
FW: Companies may use outsourcing as a mean of plugging 'talent gaps' within their own organisation. What advantages does outsourcing bring over employing such talent in-house?
Dunlop: Employees are protected by labour laws and cannot readily be dismissed or made redundant in Europe without following due, and potentially costly, process and with associated, and potentially hefty, termination payments. So, hiring an employee becomes in itself a complicated exercise designed to minimise the risk of hiring a candidate who later proves unsuitable. In contrast, outsourced talent can be 'picked up and put down' instantly, replaced or substituted as desired merely because of changing requirements or because the talent is thought unsuitable or a preferred alternative presents itself. Similarly, the talent can be 'let go' once the 'job is done' and the organisation does not pay for holidays, sickness, 'no shows', variable performance or for employee or personnel tax associated with the talent – although VAT if chargeable erodes this particular differential.
FW: What risks are commonly associated with outsourcing and what steps can firms take to mitigate these risks?
Dunlop: Institutional resistance can be an issue, if parts of the organisation feel adversely affected or a loss of control of strategic operations. These fears do not generally survive detailed analysis of the benefits comprised in the business case for the outsourcing. Documenting the customer's business objectives scope, service levels and pricing mechanisms is vital. Failure to align the arrangements with the customer's objectives may mean that it believes it is buying a particular service when the vendor is delivering a different service altogether. Similarly, the customer needs to understand the vendor's aims for the proposed outsourcing relationship. Is the vendor's biggest concern to meet or improve operating margins, increase even at the cost of buying market share, acquire valuable skills or technology, or gain follow-on work or a strategic relationship? Contracting within these aims increases the probability of a 'win-win' relationship as well as reducing the risk of subsequent interpretative disagreement.
FW: What are some of the main regulatory and legislative concerns that might surround an outsourcing agreement?
Dunlop: Outsourcings are impacted by key regulatory and legislative concerns wherever they involve assets, contracts, information, software, real estate or people. People or 'human resources' may transfer automatically under the EU Acquired Rights Directive irrespective of the wishes of vendor or customer. Land transfers or leases may require landlord consents, registration or formal documentation under national laws. Cross-border consents may be needed to enable both parties and their respective groups to use patents, copyright, databases and trade secrets or other confidential information in software, databases and other information belonging to third parties. Information flows have a regime all to themselves; namely the EU data protection regime, which imposes structural constraints and process requirements on any outsourcing that, broadly speaking, involves access to or the export of data relating to living individuals on behalf of a customer established in the EU – or using computer systems based in the EU.
FW: What steps should firms take when drafting an outsourcing contract with service providers? Are any key considerations often overlooked?
Dunlop: Precedent contract clauses are readily available if not necessarily tailored to any particular outsourcing. The real key to drafting an outsourcing contract, however, is to develop inter-related descriptions of the scope, service levels and pricing. Each of the service offerings or towers must be clearly described including all of the specific activities that fall within each of those areas where outsourced. If a service is not described, the vendor is not obliged to provide it. Service levels need to cover all key aspects of performance including targets, commitments and reporting mechanisms based on end-user expectations rather than historical statistics that are adjusted periodically and continuously improved. Pricing and payment can then be linked to these service levels or other success features such as achievement of measurable objectives making use of techniques such as gain-sharing, payment milestones, bonus incentives and payment decay for delayed fulfilment.
FW: Briefly, could you explain competitive benchmarking clauses? Why are these important, and how should such clauses be structured?
Dunlop: Technology requirements cannot be forecast with accuracy far into the future, and the customer's position may change with new service lines, products, markets and demands. Early termination for default or by operation of a break-clause is necessarily disruptive in comparison to a scheduled expiry date. In contrast, a benchmarking mechanism can reset pricing and quality without fuss, allowing for external experts agreed by the parties to benchmark against pre-set criteria that determine what can be disclosed and measured – and against what – over what timescales, and the date from which the reset pricing and services apply. Working examples are usually accompanied by a control mechanism to override disagreement between the parties as to the identity of the bench-marker, what can be benchmarked, by reference to what, what happens if the benchmark results are disputed and the effect of the benchmark results on the period to which they relate and the future.
FW: What measures can parties take as a contingency to disputes arising down the line? Do firms place enough emphasis on dispute resolution clauses within the original outsourcing agreement?
Dunlop: Commercial position should not be used as a weapon by either side. For the customer, this would mean an unwarranted withholding or threatened withholding of price. For the supplier, this would mean an unwarranted withholding or threatened withholding of performance. In the event of a dispute, service continuity is essential while the process for resolving disagreements is in train. Often the process allows for the customer's position to be automatically preferred in the interim because of the greater relative impact of non-service on the customer in contrast to non-payment on the vendor. The process itself is commonly part of relationship governance, allowing for the parties to escalate discussions to higher but equivalent management reporting lines within customer and vendor within set timelines before ultimately directing unresolved disputes to an appropriate third party. This is often arbitration at a recognised neutral arbitration venue while domestic outsourcings may prefer recourse to the domestic courts.
FW: What options are available to parties if they are unhappy with the outsourcing service received?
Dunlop: Ideally the parties would seek to reduce the risk of discrepancy between the expected relationship and the outsourcing service received by documenting service commitments in a full scope of work before service commencement, and with success 'measured' through performance criteria linked to that scope. The parties may build in 'coming up for air' provisions along the term of the relationship that permit exit on notice if the parties cannot refine a more acceptable alternative without the need to show breach and avoid termination fees, and the potentially unpleasant apportionment of blame. Contracts commonly also include yellow card and red card warning systems such as service improvement plans or corrective action notices that ultimately empower unhappy customers to price adjust, restructure, self-help, de-scope or exit an outsourcing arrangement. Technical differences can be diverted to independent technical experts with a mandate of finding a mutually acceptable solution with costs shared between the parties.
Andrew Dunlop is a partner and head of Burges Salmon's Technology and Outsourcing practice. He acts for clients in both the private and public sectors specialising in the development of integrated business, legal and technical solutions. He was the sole lawyer on the City Financial, Insurance and Assurance Working Group dealing with outsourcing issues for City of London financial institutions between 2005 and 2007, and the international director of the National Outsourcing Association between 1998 and 2012. Mr Dunlop speaks regularly on outsourcing transactions at conferences. He can be contacted at +44 117 902 2786 or at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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A court in the Belgian capital Brussels, on Friday, found the social media company Facebook guilty of breaching Belgian privacy laws. Belgium's Privacy Commission had taken Facebook to court and the judge agreed with the Commission's view that Facebook had flouted the country's privacy legislation. The company has been ordered to correct its practice right away of face fines. Facebook has lodged an appeal.
Facebook follows its users activities by means of so-called social plug-ins, cookies, and pixels. These digital technologies enable Facebook to follow users' behavior when online. Cookies, for example, are small files that are attached to your internet browser when you go online and visit a particular site. They are used to collect information about the kind of things you like to read or look at while surfing the web. Facebook uses the data both for its own ends, but also to help advertisers send tailor made advertising. In so doing Facebook also uses certain cookies to follow people that don't even have a Facebook profile. The court ruled that it is "unclear what information Facebook is collecting about us" and "what it uses the information for". Moreover, Facebook has not been given permission to keep tabs on internet-users by a court of law.
he court has ordered Facebook to stop the practice straight away and to delete any data that it has obtained by means contrary to Belgian privacy legislation. If Facebook fails to comply it will face a penalty payment of 250,000 euro/day.
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IMPLANTgames Podcast - Ep 93: Is YouTube Unsubbing You?/
This is the IMPLANTgames podcast. The show where I talk about old school games, collecting, YouTube and more. This is Episode 93: Is YouTube Unsubbing You? In this episode I talk about:
- Nintendo Artbook Takedown
- Wreck-it Ralph 2
- Retro-bit Generations
- YouTube Subscriber Conspiracy
- 1993 In Review
- Cheap Games
Background music: "Pinball Spring" by Kevin MacLeod
Questions or suggestions? Leave a comment below and I will talk about it on a future episode!


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The iPad mini UK release date has been confirmed by Apple with the 7-inch iOS 6 tablet to be made available for purchase next week.
With iPad mini pre-orders set to kick off this Friday, October 26th, Apple has revealed that the iPad mini UK release date will be held on November 2nd; just ten days after iPad mini rumours were brought to a close and the new 7.9-inch tablet entered the realms of reality.
One of Apple's biggest day one product launches, the iPad mini will launch in 34 countries on November 2nd with usual launch territories UK and the US joined by more low-key launch nations such as Slovenia, Puerto Rico and Iceland.
"iPad mini is every inch an iPad. With its gorgeous 7.9-inch display, iPad mini features the same number of pixels as the original iPad and iPad 2, so you can run more than 275,000 apps designed specifically for iPad," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. "iPad mini is as thin as a pencil and as light as a pad of paper, yet packs a fast A5 chip, FaceTime HD and 5 megapixel iSight cameras and ultrafast wireless―all while delivering up to 10 hours of battery life."
Playing host to a 7.9-inch display with the same 1024 x 768p picture resolution as the iPad 2, the iPad mini lines up at just 7.2mm thick and 308g in weight. With a 5-megapixel iSight camera bringing 1080p Full HD video recording capabilities to the iPad mini, Apple's first sub sized tablet also features a second FaceTime HD camera on the front.
In a bid to eat into the Google Nexus 7's dominance of the 7-inch tablet market and in an effort to capitalise on the lucrative Christmas shopping period, Apple has revealed that the iPad mini UK price will see the Lightning port powered tablet line up considerably cheaper than its 9.7-inch iPad 3 sibling.
Set to launch as a Wi-Fi only device the iPad mini, which will be available in both black and white forms, will offer wannabe owners the option of 16GB, 32GB and 64GB storage capacities. With the 16GB iPad mini priced at £269, the 32GB and 64GB models will cost £349 and £429 respectively.
What do you make of the newly unveiled iPad mini? Will you be snapping one up following the November 2nd iPad mini UK release date? Let us know via the Trusted Reviews Twitter and Facebook feeds or though the comments boxes below.


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Our Building Process
When Providence Construction Group started, there was never a question of how we would work with our clients...we wanted to partner with them. It's important to us that we take the time to know our clients, answer all their questions along the way, and build a home they will never want to leave. Basically, we take a vested interest in your interests; it's all about your agenda and dreams, not ours. That means offering expertise and guidance from the ground up...literally.
From Start...
Once we understand your dream for the home, we do a thorough analysis of your home site. As a professional engineer, David can assess your chosen building site for any challenges that could make construction more costly or inefficient. Often, tens of thousands of dollars can be saved during this crucial step in our building process.
PCG reviews your chosen home plan and offers advice and education on costs associated with every detail. To ensure a smooth process, we help establish a budget and guide you through specific selections such as cabinets, flooring, and exteriors. We want our clients to know from the beginning what costs to expect...it saves them time and headaches! After all, building your own home should be fun.
From there, it's all a partnership! The PCH team stays in regular, weekly contact with you, whether on site, by phone or by email, to offer updates and answer questions. And that's not just the owners, David and Brook, it's also Andy in customer service, it's Jimmy, site superintendent...the whole team. It's a proactive approach that leads to efficiency.
To Finish...
Throughout the process and to the very end, careful attention to detail is essential. As the building process draws to a close, we begin a series of careful walkthroughs involving different members of our team. By using several sets of eyes, we can catch the smallest issues that need resolution prior to our closing date. At PCG, we also strive to complete every home in the most timely manner. With that in mind, we develop a realistic, detailed timeframe that is appropriate so that in the end, we exceed your expectations. Efficiency and meticulous attention to detail leads to a home you can truly call your own because you helped the team at Providence build it...from the ground up.