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By: Jocelyn
When looking for a good quote to upload to this blog, I stumbled across this one which i really enjoy. Sometimes it is hard to understand what your purpose in the world is or even what your own identity truly is. The thing to remember is that your identity is what you believe in, your own values, and visions.
I know that I have had troubles figuring out what my own identity truly consists of. Especially now being in school, at Luther College, I am having troubles figuring out what exactly my faith consists of and who I truly am. College is a tough time for many people; deciding what to study, who to be friends with, and even just make decisions like right from wrong.
At times like these where we are confused on life, it is really nice to be reminded that I am a piece of God's poem, which makes me beautiful. It does not matter if I decide what my identity is now or later because God will love me no matter what I decide. I am my own person and I have my own beliefs, values, and visions of my own life. God understands.


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One of this year's biggest releases was the adidas Yeezy 350 Boost. Many of us weren't able to snag a pair even though they were made more accessible than its 750 predecessor. While most of us are still trying to pay as little resell as possible, one luck fan just received a FREE pair.
This isn't just any free pair either. The sneakers were sent for the fan's birthday from Kim Kardashian herself! Thanking the fan for their loyalty and support, Kim sent over a pair signed by both her and Kanye. The shoes also came with a special thank you on the box. Check out the photos above, and let us know what you would do for this opportunity!
Happy Birthday @MolestMeKardash You have always been such a loyal fan! I have a pair of Yeezy 350 boosts for you!!! DM me your address! Xoxo— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) July 14, 2015
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….towards ADVENTURE!
I write this from my hotel room in San Francisco!! (AKA "Frannie"…. it's a thing, I swear.)
Now, granted, "Frannie" is not a huge leap from my base in Vancouver or even my hometown of Toronto. But, it'll do for my limited budget and 5 free days from work/school.
So, here I am! A different country and by myself (until my mom arrives tomorrow morning that is). Already, it's been a bit of an adventure and I've only been in SF for 6 hours!
To start things off, my mom was supposed to meet me at the airport (she'd be flying in from Toronto and arriving an hour before me) but she missed her flight. It wasn't the most brave thing I've done, but I am proud that I managed to only pay $17 to take a shuttle to my hotel. I didn't get lost. I didn't get ripped off. And I managed to get them to let me into my room even though everything was booked under my mom's name. I didn't have to deal with a foreign language or anything but I've also never navigated a new city entirely alone.
Then, I had a night to myself! It was kind of cool. I explored the area around my hotel: Fisherman's Wharf. It was really cool and I'm definitely seeing the beauty in Frannie but it's definitely tourist-central! There's a wax museum….I felt like I was in Niagara Falls!
But I made the most of it! Well, the most a non-drinking-age, fairly tired, alone person could make of it. I bought really cheap postcards (6 for $1? Hell yes!). And I tried the famous and fresh seafood chowder in a bread bowl. It was delicious, albeit overpriced, and the leftover bread wasn't really my style, but still enjoyable. I walked along the pier and checked out a submarine and wicked cool view of Alcatraz (or, at least I think it was Alcatraz…).
I visited the famed Boudin Bakery. They're famous for being the founders of Sourdough bread. (Note: I didn't actually try the bread, but it looked cool.) There's a conveyor belt-type thing that goes along the ceiling carrying baskets of bread. And, they make bread in all these cool shapes! There were lobsters, turtles, alligators and bears!
From there, I crossed over and visited Walgreens. Lame, I know but pretty cool for a Canadian! I bought toothpaste (I knew I had forgotten something!) and Ghiradelli chocolate. SO delicious and pretty cheap! I'm going to have to stock up!
And then I went to In N' Out Burger! I've been hearing stories of this place forever. Reports of celebrities who blow off award show after parties to instead feast on the goodness that is In N Out. So, I was pretty well ready to bite into the most heavenly version of beef since to filet minon. Wrong. Needless to say, I was not impressed. The only impressive thing was that the cheeseburger only cost me $2.75 (after tax!). Besides that, nothing special. (Note: I've since been told that the Fisherman's Wharf In N Out is not the best one…I'm hesitant to believe it. Also, apparently you have to know what to order, but I only saw 3 things on the menu!)
From there I headed back to my hotel. I chilled out for a bit – ate my burger, watched "Drive" (RyGos = gorgeous, the movie = kind of gruesome/I think I missed some crucial plot points and villain introductions) and polished off most of the chocolates. Thanks to that, and the Cinnabon I had enjoyed at the airport, I decided to hit the gym!
I love when hotels have gyms. And I love them even more when they're empty, and have every machine I love (including free weights!). I took this opportunity to try out the treadmill. Yes, you read that right, I never use the treadmill. At my gym in Vancouver the treadmills are intimidating, used by insanely fit marathon-trainers (or so they seem) and the wait for them is a mile long. But tonight I had 2 treadmills to myself and an empty room free of judgement (save the enormous wall-to-wall mirror). It was a rough start but I found a good rhythm and jogged for a bit. My feet really hurt, and I was a sweaty mess after, but it was cool to say I did it. I may want to do it again!
So, that pretty much concludes my first day of adventure. Tomorrow, I'm planning to try out this breakfast joint recommended to me that's around the corner. And then I want to head down to Pier 39 and see the sea lions! And I want to try one of those trolley cars where you get to stand on the outer ledge – super badass/quaint as it gets. Hopefully, my mom will have made it here by then.
Happy Adventuring!


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Last weekend started out as a busy weekend and turned into a challenging week, but let me show you what I did!
I am still working on my sister's dress – part of my "Sister's Sewing Project". She would like this dress, in this 100% cotton border print and I am using this pattern, Butterick B6089 (sorry for the flash glare).


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Beyond Keystone XL, more pipelines with more problems
Among the new conclusions the Obama administration added to the 1,000-plus pages of its final Keystone XL environmental review, one particular sentence carried a subtle but unmistakable air of portent.
Observing that limited transportation options have depressed the price of heavy Canadian crude in recent years, the administration outlined several projects that America's neighbor to the north has pursued to open up new export markets for its ample oil sands fuel resources. Then, after repeating a warning from its draft KXL review about "significant opposition" to those pipelines, the State Department bureaucratically underlined the thought.
"Nonetheless, all of the proposed pipeline projects within Canada have faced stringent political opposition and substantial regulatory uncertainty," State wrote.
As the federal review of KXL drags through its fifth year, the contours of the lobbying battle over the pipeline are little-changed since a 2011 White House sit-in first pulled it from obscurity to totemic status for a resurgent environmental movement. But even in the growing shadow of their famous cousin, other pipelines proposed to boost oil sands crude are inching along more slowly than first anticipated and facing resistance on multiple fronts.
"What's happening with Keystone is the new normal," Michael Whatley, executive vice president at the industry group Consumer Energy Alliance, said in an interview. "As the opposition groups bring more scrutiny to these projects, it's not surprising that regulators are going to bring more scrutiny."
American Petroleum Institute senior manager Cindy Schild likened the rise of anti-pipeline campaigns to the not-in-my-backyard local push-back against refinery construction that has stalled new domestic crude processing facilities since the 1970s.
But Schild marveled at the nation's heightened awareness of KXL relative to other pending pipelines that, collectively, would carry nearly triple the well-known project's daily volume of heavy crude out of the remote Alberta oil sands.
"We have five other major pipelines being proposed, but everybody knows the name of one?" she said in an interview. "That, to me, is amazing."
New and expanded pipelines are an economic inevitability in a market that sold more oil and gas to the United States in January than the entire Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. But the challenges on tap for six major non-KXL oil sands pipelines suggest that greens are embracing the continentwide game of "Whac-A-Mole" seen by many in their ranks as essential to slowing the development of global fossil fuel resources.
The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers' vice president for oil sands and markets, Greg Stringham, said in an interview that his industry is "looking at a portfolio of transportation options, rather than looking at one specific solution."
Noting that Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government this week revamped its marine spill response framework in preparation for more tanker traffic, Stringham added that "it's not an either-or -- we know we're going to have to continue to expand in all directions."
If activists succeed in defeating or delaying enough of the pipelines proposed to help Canadian producers meet their goals, the State Department pointed to a possible damper on short-term production in its January KXL review. In the long term, however, the administration predicted that rail would rise to meet oil sands crude shipment needs even if all major pipelines were blocked.
Analysts at State projected that a "completely constrained" pipeline scenario would require U.S. and Canadian refineries to take between 1.2 million and 1.5 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude by train in order to meet Energy Information Administration projections for the oil sands. Railways are prepared to ramp up and carry those volumes, the administration said.
Total Canadian oil-by-rail exports reached 146,000 barrels per day on average in the fourth quarter of last year, nearly double the level from the final quarter of 2012, according to that country's National Energy Board (NEB).
One of the six biggest new or expanded oil sands crude pipeline proposals stands to see its fate settled within a month. The other five remain in varying stages of U.S. or Canadian permit applications or, in one case, still in the conceptual phase.
Northern Gateway
Harper's government has vowed to meet a June deadline for ruling on the Northern Gateway, a $7.4 billion bid to run up to 525,000 bpd of oil sands crude west to British Columbia for export by tanker to fuel-thirsty markets in Asia and beyond.
In addition to this week's Canadian marine transportation reforms, including the end of a ban on the use of dispersant chemicals on waterborne oil, Natural Resources Minister Greg Rickford yesterday announced new pipeline safety standards that would apply to any future approval of Gateway. The government vowed to give NEB stronger inspection and audit powers as well as the authority to force repayment from oil companies for spill cleanup costs.
But those conciliatory moves are unlikely to soften the anti-Gateway clamor directed at its sponsor, Enbridge Inc., from conservationists and aboriginal First Nations set against the prospect of more emissions-intensive oil sands running through British Columbia's pristine landscapes.
Some First Nations have filed legal challenges to the thumbs-up from a Harper-designed joint review panel that imposed more than 200 conditions on Enbridge (EnergyWire, Dec. 20, 2013). Offers of a partial ownership stake have failed to sway more than half of the First Nations whose land Gateway would cross on its way to the British Columbia port city of Kitimat, the Canadian Broadcasting Co. reported this month.
The Obama administration noted in its KXL review that Gateway, which could eventually rise to carry 800,000 bpd, "may be operational by '2017+.'"
Trans Mountain expansion
Soon after it finishes work on the controversial Gateway, NEB will begin formally vetting the proposed twinning of Trans Mountain, another oil sands pipeline to Canada's west coast that is operated by Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP.
Trans Mountain would grow in capacity from 300,000 bpd to 890,000 bpd by 2017 under Kinder Morgan's plan, which NEB must pass on to Harper's Cabinet with a recommendation by July 2015. The regulator granted 400 "intervenors" a possible role in public hearings on the project scheduled to start in January -- a major increase in interest since its 2009 hearings on Keystone XL drew 29 intervenors.
Forest Ethics, a Canadian green group that also operates on the U.S. West Coast, this month filed a constitutional challenge to NEB's process that accuses the government of suppressing public participation by establishing new, higher hurdles before Canadians can comment on pipeline applications.
A First Nations group launched a legal challenge against the project this month, though it remains to be seen whether aboriginal objections to Trans Mountain will reach the current pitch of opposition to Gateway.
Energy East
TransCanada Corp. is in the earliest stages of amassing public support for an $11 billion conversion of a natural gas line to ship crude west to Canadian refineries that tend to rely on light or synthetic oil. The export potential of Energy East, however, would increase due to a new marine terminal set for New Brunswick.
Double the length of KXL and also predicated on hundreds of miles of new pipeline, the project is the subject of NEB open houses in eastern provinces this month aimed at informing locals of their roles in the permitting process. During that time, TransCanada CEO Russ Girling told investors recently, the company plans to keep talking up the pipeline's potential to displace Canadian imports of foreign crude, "something that benefits us all from coast to coast to coast."
Energy East's still-nascent process allows TransCanada to apply lessons learned from the public relations hurdles it confronted on KXL and those facing Enbridge, its rival, on Gateway. But climate activists also see the eastern line as an opportunity to mobilize a new group of critics against the heavy crude that is an average of 17 percent more emissions-intensive than conventional oil.
"It's going to be a big battle because it's within Canada," said Oil Change International's campaigns director, David Turnbull, regarding Energy East in an interview. "There is already a lot of work being done to sort of lift that project up into the public's consciousness."
Portland Montreal Pipe Line
NEB's go-ahead to reverse two portions of an Enbridge pipeline that previously ran west through Ontario leaves the twin Portland Montreal Pipe Line as an open thoroughfare for oil sands crude to reach U.S. East Coast ports -- if its operator pursues a reversal that for two years it has steadfastly declined to confirm is under consideration.
Most observers expect PMPL, as it is known, to eventually seek approval to carry an estimated 300,000 bpd from Montreal through New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine, a trio of independent and conservationist states where activists have no intention of accepting heavy fuel without a fight.
Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire already have joined Democratic colleagues in pressing the State Department for a presidential permitting review before PMPL can change directions (Greenwire, April 23). If the issue flares up later this fall, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) could seize on local skepticism to push back against the pro-KXL pressure she is getting from her new GOP challenger, former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown.
Alberta Clipper expansion
Nothing underscores the unpredictable pipeline politics wrought by KXL like the Alberta Clipper, a 1,000-mile oil sands crude link between Alberta and Wisconsin. In 2009, the Clipper coasted to the same presidential permit that TransCanada's famous project is still seeking, but sponsor Enbridge is already working much harder on approval to expand the pipeline from 450,000 bpd to 800,000 bpd.
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission last year unanimously agreed on a 120,000-bpd expansion of the line, achieved solely through building new pump stations, but the second phase of that state-level review is drawing even more heat from conservationists. Some of those same green groups also are fighting Enbridge's permit application at the State Department, where a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) on the expansion is expected within the next several months.
"Even though we had planned for this process to take longer," Enbridge CEO Al Monaco said of the Clipper delays on a conference call with investors this month, "the contingency we have wasn't enough."
The company now aims to see approval for the expanded pipeline next summer as opposed to this summer. But in the meantime, its executives say they have alternate plans to stay on track for the 120,000-bpd oil bump that would have comprised the first phase of the new Clipper.
Enbridge's Line 3
Replacing Line 3, a nearly 50-year-old Alberta-to-Wisconsin pipeline, with new steel capable of shipping oil sands crude at a cost of $7 billion marks the largest single investment by a company that brings more oil to America every day than Saudi Arabia, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration records.
Enbridge's behemoth status among pipeline operators, however, means that national green groups already are vowing to force the State Department to conduct a KXL-style presidential permit review before the company is permitted to install a new 3-foot-wide pipeline to carry 370,000 more bpd through the climate-conscious Midwest.
State is staying mum on whether it plans to require a new application for Line 3, but the project -- originally eyed for a 2017 completion -- is running into some of the same headwinds as the Clipper (EnergyWire, March 5).
Paul Blackburn, an attorney and independent consultant who is currently helping greens contest the Clipper expansion, credited the so-far successful fight to delay KXL with directing more energy toward other anti-pipeline efforts.
"If it wasn't for the Keystone XL campaign, they probably would have steamed right ahead," Blackburn said in an interview. He also observed that the KXL battle could hurt as well as help, predicting that "some industry players are benefiting from counter-messaging about a delay" on TransCanada's ubiquitous marquee project.
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Sports clubs, leisure centres and sports organisations have days left to apply for funding to deliver sports sessions across the county.
The first round of Sportivate funding for this year closes next Friday, and Lincolnshire Sport is looking for applications from groups wanting to target women and girls, aged 11-25 years.
Lucy Blakey, children and young people officer at Lincolnshire Sport, said: "Funding is available for sports projects in Lincolnshire to encourage women and girls to take part in more sport.
"It is a great opportunity to encourage young people to get involved but also provides a huge financial incentive for sports clubs, schools, leisure facilities and others, to deliver more activities across Lincolnshire."
More than 600 projects have received funding through Sportivate since July 2011, with sessions including golf, badminton, kayaking, wheelchair basketball, target shooting and more.
Sports clubs, schools, community groups, NGBs, local authorities, universities, youth clubs, colleges, leisure facilities and workplaces targeting 11–25-year-olds can all apply for funding to deliver between six and 12 weeks of sports sessions.
The deadline to apply for the next round of funding - targeting at projects wanting to run sessions between April to June this year - is January 29. Visit www.lincolnshiresport.com/sportivate to download the application form or contact Lucy Blakey on 01522 730 325 or email@example.com to request a copy.


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To assist visitors to our web site in making an informed choice over the face painter they hire, UK-Facepainting identifies advertisers who are members of FACE, The Face Painting Association.
FACE is a UK based, international association formed to raise the profile of face painting worldwide.
FACE introduced a quality standard to the industry, ensuring that those who employ face painters have a central point from which to choose proficient and insured face painters in their area, in whom they can have complete confidence of both quality and professionalism,. Further information on the aims of FACE can be found on their web site (link at the bottom of this article).
Each member has passed an accreditation test, ensuring their work meets the high standard set by FACE and can produce these fantastic artworks quickly to minimise queuing times at your event.
All FACE members use only materials which have been approved for use on face and bodies.
All FACE members, wherever they operate, are insured (UK members hold a minimum of £2 million for public liability).
Code of Conduct
FACE members operate within the FACE Code of Conduct, employing strict health and safety practices. Here are some of their pledges:
To become a member of FACE, painters are required to pass a time limited accreditation test. This benefits both the painters and those who use them, ensuring that members provide a consistent level of high quality painting and service.
FACE membership requires high quality painting, linked with a level of speed and knowledge of the industry, including best practice health and safety procedures.
Does this mean that face painters who are not FACE members are not as good?
No, not necessarily. We identify FACE members to help you make an informed decision on the face painter you hire. There are many excellent face painters who are not members of FACE, unfortunately, there are also many not-so-good face painters around. We would therefore encourage you to exercise due-diligence when making your selection. Please don't allow price to be your only deciding factor.
Joining FACE
If you're a face painter, becoming a member of FACE can turn your hobby into a profession, enabling you to provide the very highest of standards of painting, and health and safety to your clients.
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Sous Chef - Hospitality - City of London
- Recruiter
- Compass Group UK Ireland
- Location
- London
- Salary
- Up to £32,000
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- 13 Jun 2019
- Closes
- 11 Jul 2019
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- Mr Edward Nesbitt
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- Foodservice Jobs
- Job Function
- Chef
- Contract Type
- Permanent
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- Full Time
Sous Chef - Hospitality
City of London
Monday - Friday only!
Up to £32,000
At Restaurant Associates our vision is simple - 'Bringing people together with brilliant food, brilliant service and brilliant associates'
Our inspirational food is alive with flavour and nutrition, sourced in a socially responsible manner for the well-being of our customers,communities and the environment and we match this with the excellent service of our brilliant associates.
Our values are our DNA - INSPIRATIONAL FOOD - INNOVATIVE SPIRIT - ASSOCIATES WHO EXCEL - STRONGER TOGETHER
We are looking for a talented, enthusiastic and experienced Hospitality Sous Chef to join our dedicated catering team, who produce outstanding food using the finest and freshest ingredients in this highly innovative corporate environment.
If you have fine dining experience as a Sous Chef or Senior CDP and development and progression is important to you - apply now!
Main responsibilities
- Working in a team of seven, producing high end and high quality food
- Developing and supporting team members
- Supporting in the creation of exciting menu concepts
- Adhere to H&S and F&H standards
- Stock taking and ordering of stock
- Deputise in the Head Chefs absence
Ideal candidate
- Innovative and creative individual
- Experience in michelin/rosette environment
- Enthusiastic, motivational, someone who strives for excellence
- Organised, able to make robust judgements and prioritise
- Honest, transparent and consistent
- Gain and hold the respect of others
- Flexible approach with a "can do" attitude
- A good track record of driving world class performance
- Strong commercial experience
- Ability to monitor and challenge the use of processes
- Excellent communication and relationship building skills
- Passionate about food
About the company
Our Company vision is Great People, Great Service, Great Results and we believe your contribution is crucial to the success of the business. To achieve our vision we live by the values of Integrity, Team work, Passion, Can-Do and Responsibility.
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Product launches are a period of particularly high pressure for the brand team for one simple reason: you only get one chance to launch a brand. Timelines are always short, visibility is incredibly high and resources, particularly human resources, are always limited. Careful project planning of the product launch is therefore absolutely critical if you are to hit your deadlines. What is interesting, however, is that very few brand team members ever have any form of project management training.
In this article, we explore some of the basic tenets of project management required of a brand manager within the context of a brand launch. Let's begin our discussion with a basic framework for managing a project.
1. Strategy
Products should only be launched if they are aligned with the broader organisational strategy. If there is no alignment with organisational strategy, you take the risk of diverting limited resources onto a product that does not form a key part of the organisation's future. It is at the strategic alignment stage that the launch / no launch decision should be taken, for the simple reason that cancelling a launch after this stage means wasted time and resources.
In addition, the timing of the launch should be carefully considered – are other launches, either own or competitor, planned for this time period? Are critical internal resources assigned elsewhere during this period? If the product or timing does not fit within the context of organisational strategy, it should be carefully reconsidered.
2. Scope
If you have carefully evaluated the product launch within the context of your corporate strategy and have decided to proceed, the next step is to carefully scope the project. Scoping the project entails clearly stating the project dates, goals, deliverables and budget estimates. The scoping document can also be used as the initial brief to internal stakeholders and should be the document that guides all future project decisions.
It is at the scoping stage where you must gain internal stakeholder agreement and sign-off. Changes in scope at this stage will have far less of an impact on time, cost and quality of the project than if the senior management team, for example, decides to alter the launch parameters at a later date.
Changes after the scoping phase tend to cause frustration, impact project team morale and cause project-creep with all its resultant quality, cost and time implications.
3. The Project Plan
Once the project scope for the launch has been agreed and signed off, it is time to develop the launch project plan.
The rather trite phrase of "plan your work and work your plan" was probably first written for project managers. Planning your work is generally important in the daily life of the brand team but if you wish to deliver a product launch on time, to standard and within budget, planning becomes absolutely vital.
The reason for the importance of project planning stems from the fact that projects, such as product launches, differ from the usual day-to-day business in that they have fixed start and end dates. These fixed dates mean that knowing what you need to do and by when is essential if the project is not going to over-run.
In our consulting roles, we are continually surprised at just how many product launches go ahead without a formal written project plan in place. This was driven home once again when we presented a seminar on product launches were amazed to hear that a number of the marketers attending the meeting claimed that they did not have the time to plan their projects. Given the complexity and budget involved in delivering a product launch, this is sheer folly and really is setting you and your team up to fail.
Detailed project plans ensure that everyone is clear on what needs to happen, by when, and who is responsible for delivering that particular sub-project. Detailed, visible project planning is therefore absolutely critical to the successful delivery of a project. Whether you choose to use Word, Excel or a dedicated project planning tool, such as MS Project, really doesn't make a difference, the critical thing is that you have some form of physical representation of the plan that can be shared, agreed and monitored.
Once you have developed the launch plan and are happy with it, you must review it critically with your project team. This will happen at your first project team meeting but is also an on-going process as the project progresses and ensures that you are able to take into account any changes that could affect the critical path of the project. By updating the project plan, particularly if you are using a dedicated project-planning tool such as MS Project, any impact on delivery dates is immediately apparent.
4. The Project Team
In order to be effective, the core launch team must be multi-disciplinary and include the main parties involved in delivering the project. It must be chaired by the project lead and include both key internal stakeholders and any relevant agencies.
A key point to make here is that the team must be empowered to make decisions. Requiring senior management approval for each decision takes up huge amounts of time and has a distinctly negative impact on team morale.
5. Manage the Project & Stakeholders
We now reach the heart of project management. There are plenty of excellent books out there that will give you an in-depth breakdown of exactly what to do and when to do it, so we'll limit myself to some basic, practical guidelines based on our experience.
5.1 The Kick-Off Meeting
The kick-off meeting is a particularly important milestone in the launch process. It allows the brand manager responsible for delivering the launch to fully brief the project team and, equally importantly, allows the team to meet each other. Critically, it also allows the project lead to set expectations for the team and to start establishing the team culture.
Typically, this will be the longest of the project team meetings, as the discussions should include a detailed review of the scope of the project and the project plan and deadlines. Each project team member must be completely comfortable with their tasks and deadlines by the time that they leave the room to prevent any unwanted complaining after the fact. Once everyone has bought into the plan and it has been updated with any requested changes, you are ready to baseline the project and move from project planning to project delivery.
5.2 Regular Project Team Meetings
Different project managers have different ideas of what "regular" means and it will also depend on the duration of the project. Typically we prefer weekly telecons with the entire project team to allow everyone to be aware of what the others are doing, particularly if one sub-project impacts on that of another team member. These are then supplemented with a monthly or quarterly face-to-face meeting, depending on the project duration and scope.
5.3 Keep Focused on the Project Plan & Update Regularly
The project plan must remain at the core of every launch team meeting. It should form the basis for any meeting agenda and should be updated regularly with any progress (or lack thereof). Timelines and deadlines should also be carefully monitored and the plan updated regularly to reflect any changes and their subsequent impact on the critical path.
It is at this point that we'd like to introduce the Iron Triangle of project planning. The Iron Triangle concept holds that there are three core variables in project management: project cost, delivery time and quality of the finished project.
Within any given project, you can only ever have two and a change of any one of the variables will affect at least one of the other two. For example, if you wish to have a high quality project delivered within a set time, it will result in a higher cost. In addition, once the project baseline has been set, any change to the project scope will have an impact on one of the three variables, affecting quality, deadlines or cost.
A final point to make is that the project lead must trust in the expertise of team members, and this particularly includes agency partners. We have seen a number of brand managers trying to micromanage projects without drawing on the expertise of their agencies. This really does not allow you to get the best from your team.
5.4 Manage your Stakeholders
Product launches are very high profile events in the company and can consume a large proportion of the marketing budget. It is therefore rather unsurprising that everyone wants to be kept updated on progress, particularly in the weeks running up to launch.
Not taking the time to manage your internal stakeholders properly will result in a world of frustration and wasted time for both you and your stakeholders. The key here is to communicate early and often with your stakeholders. Involving those further up the food chain at regular intervals should reduce the amount of emails and phone calls as you approach launch.
What is essential, however, is to ensure that you do not allow the product launch to be disrupted by trying to appease all of your stakeholders. Once you have the project scope signed off and you have established the launch plan baseline, we would strongly urge you to resist all efforts by stakeholders to try to change the project scope. As soon as you start to allow this to happen, you are in danger of project-creep with all its resultant quality, cost and time implications.
6. Evaluate
The best way to ensure that you learn from your experience of delivering a successful launch is to fully debrief the team and ensure that all of the action points are noted so that they can be shared with colleagues and key stakeholders. It is at this stage that you will add your notes to the project file and close it off.
For the debriefing and launch evaluation to be fully effective, however, it needs to be conducted in a safe environment and approached in an open manner, with a minimum of defensive behaviour. Not always easy, particularly if you work in an organisation with a blame culture, rather than a learning one.
Product launches are extremely high profile events within the brand manager's role and they are becoming more and more challenging as the complexity of the business environment increases. Trying to keep a product launch on track is therefore difficult at the best of times and next to impossible without effective project management skills.
Thankfully, these project management skills are easily learned and are an essential training requirement for anyone responsible for delivering a project launch. It is for this reason that Project Management for Brand Managers is one of the subjects that we focus on within our new Launch Excellence training programme.
By teaching our Launch Excellence learners the core skills of project management, we help them to deliver product launches in a way that reduces the risk of wasted resources and missed deadlines, and increases the potential for a profitable and successful product launch.


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Specific polymer materials which have the absorption ability as well as can save the large quantity of water or other solutions of the liquid form are termed as superabsorbent polymers. The composition of the material is made by the polymerization of acrylic acid combined with sodium hydroxide to form polyacrylic acid sodium salt under the supervision of the demonstrator. The manufacturing of the superabsorbent polymers is done in the form of small solid particles to retain the quality. These polymers once brought in contact with water start swelling into a rubber-like formation due to absorption of the water.
Superabsorbent polymers are segmented in two types as sodium polyacrylate and polyacrylamide copolymers. Further, based on the types of methods used to make the superabsorbent polymer, the global market is classified as suspension polymerization, solution polymerization, and gel polymerization. The gel polymerization method is the most popular method for making superabsorbent polymers. Moreover, the end-users of the superabsorbent polymers are segmented as Construction, adult incontinence products, feminine sanitation Products, baby diapers and agricultural applications.
Various awareness programs regarding hygiene are organized by the non-profitable organizations in rural and developing countries which in turn is also rising the demand for the super absorbent polymers. Additionally, growing metropolitan population with simultaneous development in diaper quality is increasing the demand for super absorbent polymers in the global market. Increased spending capacity of the average earning individual focusing towards using hygienic products is boosting the demand for the superabsorbent polymers. Wide application in constructional concrete to avoid shrinkage between the slab and other structural units is also a major factor boosting the superabsorbent polymers market. Utilization of superabsorbent polymers in agriculture due to absorption of water in the soil and released water under suction pressure by plant roots which improves the fertility of the soil resulting in growth of crops in a healthy way is also another major application responsible for increasing demand. However, variation in the supply of raw materials may hinder the growth of the superabsorbent polymers.
North America is the largest market for superabsorbent polymers globally and is also expected to sustain its position in the coming years owing to utilization of the end-products in large numbers. Asia-Pacific is expected to grow rapidly due to rising demand from the end-user industries based in India and China.
Major players contributing in the global superabsorbent polymers market include Nippon Shokubai Co. Ltd., Evonik Industries AG, Sumitomo Chemicals Co., Ltd., LG Chemical Co., BASF SE, Formosa Plastics Corporation, and KAO Corporation.
Superabsorbent Polymers Market: Regional Segment Analysis
- North America
- Europe
- France
- Germany
- Asia Pacific
- China
- Japan
- India
- Latin America
- Brazil
- Middle East and Africa


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Scientists seek a cough remedy that really delivers relief
Each year more than 26 million people in the United States go to a doctor complaining about a cough. Most have colds and will just have to wait it out. Other people cough because they have allergies, asthma, bronchitis, pneumonia or even cancer. In rare instances, there is no known culprit — a person simply starts coughing and can't stop.


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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported yesterday on the expectation that University System of Georgia chancellor Hank Huckaby — himself a Georgia State man — would propose the merger of the massive downtown juggernaut that is Georgia State University with the sleepy, suburban, eastside that is Georgia Perimeter College.
When this news came across my Twitter stream last night while I was half-listening to my 6-year-old read a book before bed, I was rather staggered. See, I went to Georgia State before they drummed me out for being too poor and stupid. Some 10 years on, I've found an educational haven at Georgia Perimeter, where late last year I completed two online courses with two As (and one of them was a college algebra class).
Immediately, I encountered the odd mixture of excitement and trepidation you usually feel only after the first time a girl says she loves you. I was dumbstruck. Might I now find myself falling back-asswards into a degree from Georgia State after all?
Here are some questions — and some hypotheses — that ran through my mind last night:
Will they kick me out?
This was the first thing that crossed my mind. Georgia State was so done with me, I even had a hard time paying them the $300 I still owed them so I could get my transcript to go back to college. Would they weed me out? I'm going to act under the assumption that I'm grandfathered in. Like the dilapidated mobile home next to the house on the lot next door, you buy the property, you get the mess that comes with it.
Georgia Perimeter offers online-only degrees; will that continue?
A number of the nation's finest institutions have answered the call to expand access to education by offering online credits. Many have collaborated through efforts like Coursera and edX. Coursera's enrollment numbers almost 11 million who engage in free online programs offered by institutions as varied as the University of Michigan and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. I, myself, took a class on Coursera as a "proof of concept" before pursuing a degree online, to prove that my schedule would work with an online class. And edX is a product of a partnership between Harvard, MIT and others.
In expanding access online, Georgia State lags far behind. I cannot find a single Georgia State degree that can be completed online only. In merging with Georgia Perimeter — which offers 18 online degrees — Georgia State would immediately acquire the largest online program in the University System of Georgia. So, using the above analogy, Georgia State gets the abandoned mobile home, but they also get the above-ground pool, so that's a win.
Will tuition go up?
Oh, most certainly. There's no question that Georgia State will start nudging up the fees and tuition for Georgia Perimeter's students. Though the budget for Georgia Perimeter is only a fraction of Georgia State's, becoming part of a massive research institution will not come cheap. Currently, Georgia Perimeter charges $125 per semester hour for online classes, regardless of in-state or out-of-state residency.
What will become of Georgia Perimeter's admissions?
Maureen Downey, an education columnist for the AJC, mentioned that Georgia Perimeter has "essentially open admissions." I don't think she meant it as a slight, but it still hurt.
Conversely, Georgia State has rather rigorous admissions requirements. Doug Roberson, who covers Georgia State athletics, offered a pretty good insight into Georgia State's admissions requirements in this Dec. 3 article.
According to Roberson:
To receive consideration for admission, high school students need a minimum 2.8 grade-point average compiled in 17 courses of Math (four courses), English (four units), Science (four units), Social Science (three units) and Foreign Language (two units in same language).
Additionally, applicants need SATs with minimums of at least 430 verbal/critical reading and 400 on the mathematics. Or, students need electronic ACT scores (including the Writing Test) with a minimum composite score of 19 with at least 17 on the English and 17 on the mathematics. If the SAT or ACT score doesn't meet the minimum, the student-athletes are considered special admits and are looked at on a case-by case basis, of which few are allowed admission each year.
Again, those are minimums. Georgia State advises applicants that the average grade-point range in core classes is 3.2-3.7, SAT range for admissible freshmen is 970-1190, and the ACT range is 21-27.
Oh, but that's not all:
These scores, combined with the GPA, are plugged into the Freshman Index, which must meet a minimum score of 2,500 to be admitted.
The two Freshman Index formulas are:
SAT FI = (500 x HSGPA) + SAT verbal + SAT math.
ACT FI = (500 x HSGPA) + (ACT composite x 42) + 88.
In calculating the grade-point average for Freshman Index purposes, the applicant's transcript is calculated using 16 of the academic (college preparatory) courses.
As you can see if you go to the admissions tool on Georgia State's website, a 2.8 high school GPA with a 430 verbal and 400 math will result in ADMISSION DENIED.
On the other hand, Georgia Perimeter let me in even after I crashed and burned at Georgia State. And I applied there after the admissions director of another school told me to because "Georgia Perimeter will take about anyone."
While this means that Georgia Perimeter may become a more academically rigorous institution, that's not all positive. My poor grades were largely due to an extraordinary work schedule I maintained throughout college. I had to make earning money my priority over my education; and I've paid dearly for that predicament. However, I'm not alone in this necessity. Many students throughout Georgia need the safety net, the second chance that Georgia Perimeter offers. And the long hours I logged working on my courses this past semester, as well as the As I earned, indicate that commitment can run deep even in the most beleaguered of students.
Will they consolidate campuses?
Georgia Perimeter currently operates five campuses: Alpharetta, Clarkston, Decatur, Dunwoody and Newton County. Georgia State, aside from its vast downtown campus, also operates a branch in Alpharetta. The institutions have vastly different missions; Georgia State is a major urban research institute, Georgia Perimeter is a two-year college designed to serve a maximum number of students.
Multiple locations increase access, yes, but it also drives cost. There are more roofs to repair, more custodians to pay, more square feet to police, that sort of thing. I'm hesitant to think that Georgia State would care to maintain a campus several miles east of Covington when its focus has been on new downtown construction — including acquiring and redeveloping the current Turner Field property when the Atlanta Braves vacate for Cobb County. If Georgia State is really interested in maximizing that whole "largest online program" thing, that makes it less likely still that it will choose to keep all five Georgia Perimeter campuses open. Raising tuition also will impact enrollment, further justifying a decision to consolidate campuses.
Will this make it easier for students to get a four-year degree?
Yes, sort of. Georgia Perimeter offers a large number of associate's degrees as stepping stones to four-year degrees any beyond. The school also maintains transfer admission guarantees, or TAGs, with a number of institutions. These include out-of-state schools, like the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the University of Kentucky, as well as in-state schools like Georgia Tech, Georgia Southern and, well, Georgia State.
Which means that, were you to meet the minimum 2.7 GPA requirement and complete a set list of required courses, you'd be eligible to enroll at Georgia State, guaranteed.
So, there are my expectations. It may yet take more than a year for the merger to be formalized, though the Board of Regents approved Huckaby's proposal this morning. The merger will make Georgia State the largest college in Georgia, with an enrollment in the neighborhood of 54,000 students.
Not that it will help it finally field a decent football team.


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The full line-up of events at the 2011 Pebble Beach Food and Wine Fest scheduled for April 28 - May 1 has been announced, with two events featuring Guy Fieri.
An Interactive Lunch With Guy Fieri (a first for Pebble Beach)
On Saturday, April 30, 2011, from 11:15 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at The Inn at Spanish Bay, 2700 17 Mile Drive, Pebble Beach, CA.
Tickets: $200
This one is going to get LOUD! We have taken a straightforward cooking demonstration and created a spectacular show. Pebble Beach Food & Wine is pleased to bring you for the first time ever an Interactive Lunch! Follow Celebrity Chef Guy Fieri as he teaches you how to cook up the perfect lunch paired with some incredible wines. Each table of guests will follow along and prepare each course just like Guy with their very own private chef who helps them keep pace. Pair each course with the hand-selected wine and you will be shocked at how well you can cook. Why let the chefs have all the fun? Come make your own lunch and learn from the funny and talented Guy Fieri. - more info
Guy Fieri - Culinary Rockstar
On Sunday, May 1, 2011, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. at The Inn at Spanish Bay, 2700 17 Mile Drive, Pebble Beach, CA.
Tickets: $100
We assume this one is a regular cooking demo ? - more info
Weekend packages are also available from $995 to $4750. Click here for more.
Pebble Beach Food & Wine is the premier epicurean lifestyle event on the West Coast, bringing 6,000 national and international attendees to Del Monte Forest, one of the most picturesque strips of coastline in the world. Hosted primarily at Spanish Bay, the scope of the event encompasses every property in Pebble Beach and uses local and regional staff to create a hedonistic four-day event that matches 250 acclaimed wineries with 75 celebrity chefs, and includes wine and beverage tasting, cooking demonstrations, and some of the most exclusive, unusual dining opportunities available in the world
Learn more at www.pebblebeachfoodandwine.com, get updates from Twitter @PBFW, or like them on Facebook.
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Complex Divorce Cases in Arizona | Complex Divorce Attorneys
Arizona Complex Divorce Cases
Many Arizona divorce attorneys are equipped with the experience to represent clients in simple divorce cases. Fewer divorce attorneys, however, have the necessary experience and knowledge to handle complex divorce cases in Arizona.
Other family law attorneys in Arizona have referred some of their potential clients to Hildebrand Law, PC because of our ability to effectively handle such complex divorce cases.
A divorce is classified as a complex divorce case in Arizona because of the complicated nature of the issues in the case and/or because one of the parties is attempting to use the legal system to abuse and/or control the other party. We want to provide information regarding both causes of a complex divorce case and share tips on what you can do to minimize the emotional and financial cost of a complex divorce case.
There are several issues that exist in almost every divorce case. The parties may have children and need child custody and parenting time orders entered by the Court. The parties also need to address child support and, in some cases, alimony issues. The parties also have to resolve the division of their assets and debts. One or more expert witnesses may be involved in a complex divorce case.
Complex Child Custody Cases in Arizona
A complex child custody case may include allegations of the emotional, physical, sexual abuse or neglect of a child by the other spouse. Sometimes these allegations are true and sometimes they are not true. Sometimes the person asserting the allegation of abuse against a child is doing so for the sole reason of interfering with that parent's relationship with the child and sometimes the person asserting the allegation truly believes the other spouse has abused his or her children.
Complex child custody cases are undoubtedly highly emotional. Many experts may be necessary to unravel the allegations to determine if a child will be placed in danger of harm if the other parent has unrestricted access to his or her children. The children may be placed in therapy with a counselor who has experience counseling children who have allegedly been abused.
There are very few counselors who have the particular skill and experience to properly counsel children in child abuse cases. A qualified child abuse counselor will know not to ask the child leading questions and will also understand how to evaluate the reliability of any disclosures the child may make regarding abuse or neglect during counseling.
The court may also appoint a child custody evaluator to complete an investigation into the allegations, as well as the other child custody factors a court must consider before issuing child custody order, and issue a report containing his or her opinion and recommendations regarding what child custody and parenting time arrangements are in the best interests of the children. The opinions of these experts may carry a lot of weight in the judge's final orders, but they are not controlling.
It is imperative you have an attorney who has the ability, processes, and procedures to educate these experts during their evaluations and to understand how to interpret and, if necessary, challenge the basis of the expert's conclusions and recommendations. We have successfully bolstered the reports of expert witnesses and have successfully had some or substantially all of the findings and recommendations of these experts disregarded by the court.
Complex Child Support and Alimony Issues in Arizona
Complex child support and alimony cases in Arizona typically arise when one of the parties' income is not easily determined because they are either self-employed and do not accurately represent their income on business financial statements or are paid in cash, which is not reported on their business financial statements.
Your attorney should be equipped with the experience and knowledge on how to use various methods to uncover hidden income. There may also be questions pertaining to whether an unemployed spouse has the necessary skills to return to the workforce to earn an income sufficient to pay their living expenses or contribute to the support of the parties' children.
A vocational evaluator may be necessary to evaluate the prior education, training, and experience a spouse may rely upon to obtain employment, as well as to issue a report containing his or her expert opinion regarding the various jobs a particular spouse may be able to secure, the amount of salary and other employment benefits the spouse is eligible to obtain, and the future growth in salary and benefits the spouse should be able to earn in the future.
Child support and alimony cases can also be complicated due to one spouse claiming either a physical or mental disability that impacts their ability to obtain employment. If the court finds the spouse has a condition that affects his or her ability to work, the court could order the other spouse to pay alimony indefinitely.
In such cases, an attorney should obtain all of the spouse's medical records and, at a minimum, have them reviewed by an independent medical professional to evaluate whether the doctor who made the diagnosis followed the correct protocol in reaching his or her conclusion.
You may also retain an expert witness to conduct an Independent Medical Examination of the spouse claiming the disability to refute the spouse's claim of a disability. It may also be appropriate to hire a private investigator and interview various witnesses who may have witnessed the spouse participating in physical or other activities that are inconsistent with the claimed disability.
Complex Community Property Issues in Arizona
Complex community property issues in an Arizona divorce case typically involve the valuation of a business that was either started during the marriage or was the separate business of a spouse but that business has increased in value thereby creating a community property interest in that business.
The Arizona Court of Appeals has ruled the trial judge has broad discretion regarding which valuation methodology should be used and whether the community's interest in the business should or should not be divided in the divorce.
The differing valuation methodologies, as well as the evaluation of the income, expenses, assets, and debts of the business necessarily require you hire an attorney with a financial background to ensure the expert and the court are applying the correct methodologies and have come to the correct conclusions with respect to the value of the business.
It is also important that your attorney understand the interplay between alimony and an award of a community interest in the business since both alimony and the value of the business are both primarily determined based upon the income produced by the business.
Complex Divorce Cases Because of an Abusive and Controlling Spouse
A divorce case may also be classified as complex if one or both of the parties simply wish to use the legal system as a way to harass or control the other party or one or both parties have a personality disorder. These can be the most complex divorce cases because it may take a long time before the unreasonable spouse may engage in obstructionist, litigious, and abusive litigation tactics for a very long time.
If children are involved, most qualified child custody evaluators will require both parties to take various psychological tests for the purpose of obtaining some information regarding the mental health of each party. However, these tests are not likely to result in an actual diagnosis of a personality disorder. You may, therefore, also need to hire an expert to conduct a full psychological and/or psychiatric evaluation to dig deeper into the mental health of one or both of the parties.
If a diagnosis is made and the diagnosis impacts the parent's ability to parent his or her children, the court may order the parent to participate in continued therapy to protect the best interests of the children.
Chris Hildebrand wrote this article about complex divorce cases in Arizona to ensure everyone has access to information about a complex divorce in Arizona. Chris is a family law attorney at Hildebrand Law, PC. He has over 24 years of Arizona family law experience and has received multiple awards, including US News and World Report "Top Arizona Divorce Attorneys", Phoenix Magazine "Top Divorce Law Firms", and Arizona Foothills Magazine "Best of the Valley" award. He believes the policies and procedures he uses to get his clients through a divorce should all be guided by the principles of honesty, integrity, and actually caring about what his clients are going through.


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This last week was good. We are starting to find more people to teach. At the beginning of the week we went to see an inactive member. We have tried by many times but this time she was home she is super nice and a really happy person. She introduced herself and asked if we were missionary's. She did not know that sisters did proselyting missions like the Elders. She thought that sisters just worked at church sites and/or visitor centers. She thought it was nice that we were out serving. Then she asked us if we could come teach her daughters about the gospel! So we set up the time to come back when both of her daughters would be there. We taught them on Wednesday and taught the plan of salvation. Sister White (their mom) asked if we could start with that lesson. Sister White has two daughters Sammy (15) and Maddy (13) they are great girls. Maddy reminds me a little bit of Ashlee. They had so many questions and listened to everything we said. Sister White was even helping us out with some of what she could remember, we also had a young woman that came with us that was a great help. We are going back tonight to teach the restoration. I love these girls and pray that their minds will continue to be open and they can know of the truth. The gospel of Jesus Christ is one of the biggest blessing in this life, to have guidelines that help us make it back home. Love you all so much!
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When to Use JDBC with Java Application Servers
Because of the issues related to multiple mappings of Java objects to tables and vice versa, it is best to use JDBC with Java application servers when the data being mapped is quite simple. For example, JDBC would be an excellent way to look up simple account information based on an account number. There would be little mapping of data needed in this case.
If your data mapping is complex, however, you should look at either JDO or EJB accelerators:
For more information on JDBC issues related to data mapping, see JDBC Data Conversion.
Also, if you are not familiar with the concept of complex data, see complex data.
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The Savvy Manager's Guide
Douglas K Barry is also the author of a book that explains Web Services, service-oriented architecture, and Cloud Computing in an easy-to-understand, non-technical manner.
Web Services, Service-Oriented Architectures, and Cloud Computing: The Savvy Manager's Guide (Second Edition)
This is a guide for the savvy manager who wants to capitalize on the wave of change that is occurring with Web Services, service-oriented architecture, and—more recently—Cloud Computing. The changes wrought by these technologies will require both a basic grasp of the technologies and an effective way to deal with how these changes will affect the people who build and use the systems in our organizations. This book covers both issues. Managers at all levels of all organizations must be aware of both the changes that we are now seeing and ways to deal with issues created by those changes.


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eva vonderwerner held the sparse plate of food just out of the starving prisoners reach. "you will not talk eh? okay, we see if you will not talk." eva relocked the cell and cut the lights. how long could he stand the cold darkness? how long had it been already? his fragile mind was already starting to play tricks on him. the hours past, then the days. a woman had emerged behind him once, running her hand through his thick hair and whispered something in his ear, he turned quickly to find no one there. he couldn't stand this much longer. he clawed at the door, sobbing in quiet agony. at last, he gave up. he lay his broken body down and waited for the end to come. at length he heard the metal click of the lock opening, a shard of light broke the darkness and he turned his head from the pain of his squinting eyes. it was eva. "you will talk." she said in her evil monotone voice. "you will put this on now" she said coldly as she held up the blindfold and advanced towards his cowering body. "ellen! you leave that dog alone and let him out of that closet!" ellen's mother said as she grabbed her husbands underwear off the dogs head. "and do not play with your father's clothes!"
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GERMAN RREMIERE: Max-Ophüse-Preis, Saarbrücken 2001 (Wettbewerb)
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE: VPRO "Tiger Awards" Competition at Int. Filmfestival Rotterdam 2001
FESTIVALS: Internationales Russland Festival Sochi (Competition); Sarajevo-Festival (New Currents);Golden Horse-FilmFestival, Taipeh, Taiwan; New Films, Museum of Modern Art, NY; Hirshhorn-Smithsonian, Washington; SeNef-Festival for Digital Media, Seoul,Korea…
"Planet Alex" can be watched directly NOW HERE as Vod-stream!
planet alex from schueppel-films on Vimeo.
"there is an order –
but we don't know it"
Berlin Alexanderplatz 2000 – within 24 hours, various stories rotate between the heights and depths of the square, between the television tower and the subway shafts, between larger and smaller fates, that slowly but surely become entangled.
There is ASAKI (Marusha) – she knows about the planetary catastrophe, that is approaching and foresees the correlating dramatic events. Her mission is to save the city. Or ANNA (Marie Zielcke), who just wanted to spend a weekend in town to finally find out what it feels like to "take off". But she imagined something totally different. Also KATJA (Nadeshda Brennicke) thought it would be easier to bring her carefully planned coup to an end. But before finally leaving Berlin behind, she needs to find out: How did her boyfriend Franz die? Was it really just an accident?
And not only at this point JO (Baki Davrak) enters the game. He is roaming between the stories, can't or doesn't want to remember how it all happened with Franz. And he doesn't understand, why the security employee WALTER (Ben Becker) and the dubious MILAN (Birol Uenel) are after him… All he wants is to take ANNA on a flight to another dimension. But for that the planets aren't too favourable…
Love, murder, fairytale, drugs, madness, humor and a lot of music – planet alex moves playfully through various genres. A sparkling firework of ideas that come together in a greater story. With its driving rhythm, the film sketches the seeming loss of orientation in Berlins city as a pulsating, shimmering network.
The full fim credits as they appear at the end of the picture can be found HERE
Why was it interesting for you to put the Alexanderplatz in the center of a film?
ums: First of all Döblin's "Alexanderplatz" has always been one of my favourite books and one of the essential reasons for me to move to Berlin in the early 80s. Still today the Alexanderplatz is a place in the center of Berlin, where countless stories take place. At the same time it's one of the "non- places" of the modern city – one doesn't especially go there, one just passes by, crosses it. To stand at the Alex and to watch people is like watching through a peep hole – you see merely fragments and you've got to imagine the rest – the whole story.
You show us some of these stories in "planet alex" – what concept stands behind the film?
ums:: The camera follows – like a person of its own – this or that character, let's itself go with the flow, is being carried away, guided. And if everything works out, the seemingly totally disconnected moments patch together in the course of the film. The main stories crystallize and only the spectator in his distance is away far enough to see that all of them belong together in some way or the other. Like the planets of a solar system and the ball on top of the TV tower is the sun.
Aren't you afraid that this confusing, complicated structure might expect too much from the audience
ums:If you come to the cinema with strictly conventional expectations and permanently desperately search for a red thread, you can get lost. But that's not what's intended. I think, "planet alex" is trying to question the same old ways of reception.
One has to open up to a whole new way of story telling, let the subconscious be part of your reception, immerse in the atmosphere, let yourself be carried away and stop clinging to your logic and the permanent asking "why?" – then, I think, the film becomes a very unusual, thrilling experience, and 100 minutes later you find yourself thinking: "Wow, what was that? Well, I didn't really get all of it – I gotta see it again!"
Sometimes the film seems almost documentary – under which conditions did you shoot it?
ums:Well, at the one hand side, the stories, the characters and the structure are of course extremely fictional and artificial – in no way the approach of creating a picture of the Alexanderplatz very close to reality. On the other side, if you look at the situation we were shooting in, you really could say so.
We had a very small crew working without blocking the set, using close to no extra lighting, camera always hand held, plus it was a small, very unspectacular amateur DV camera… To me this was about creating a kind of "live" situation for the actors and the crew, which at all times let reality shine through. All the places and people that make the Alexanderplatz so characteristic.
Despite these regulations on our minds there was always the intention to make a film for the big screen. I think you can see that in the images.
That's also why in the postproduction we put against the – as you call it – "documentary" approach the unconventional editing, the high-effort music and sound design and most of all the absolutely new technique of digital transfer to film. The look we created for "planet alex" is something between Super 8 and technicolor…
You use the most different devices from documentary, fiction film, music clip and commercial – it is rather uncommon that this kind
of experiment with unknown results gets financed in Germany…
ums:Well, we did have a very low budget from the Kleines Fernsehspiel at ZDF. To german distributers and film funds the project seemed too risky. That had the avantage that no one interferred, we had a lot of freedom to work differently, to search and try things out and with that of course take a risk. That's why I wanted to surround myself with a very young crew, that is not yet stuck in conventions and "rules" of filmmaking. In the very essential positions of screenplay, camera, editing and production design there were young people, none of whom had realized another long feature film before. I think, watching "panet alex" you sense the passion the crew and the actors felt in making the film we had been missing in German Cinema for so long…


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Gurgaon in Haryana is presented as the shining India, a symbol of capitalist success promising a better life for everyone behind the gateway of development. At a first glance the office towers and shopping malls reflect this chimera and even the facades of the garment factories look like three star hotels. Behind the facade, behind the factory walls and in the side streets of the industrial areas thousands of workers keep the rat-race going, producing cars and scooters for the middle-classes which end up in the traffic jam on the new highway between Delhi and Gurgaon. Thousands of young proletarianised middle class people lose time, energy and academic aspirations on night-shifts in call centres, selling loan schemes to working-class people in the US or pre-paid electricity schemes to the poor in the UK. Next door, thousands of rural-migrant workers uprooted by the agrarian crisis stitch and sew for export, competing with their angry brothers and sisters in Bangladesh or Vietnam. And the rat-race will not stop; on the outskirts of Gurgaon, Asia's biggest Special Economic Zone is in the making. The following newsletter documents some of the developments in and around this miserable boom region. [READ THE REST.]
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Key Publishing Installs Kluge Rebuilt
Friday, August 26, 2005
Press release from the issuing companyFey Publishing Company of Wisconsin Rapids, WI recently installed an EHD Series Rebuilt Press. The Kluge press rebuild program is unique in that the used presses pass the same rigorous quality control testing of our new equipment, enabling us to provide the highest rebuilt equipment standards in the industry. Fey Publishing's Kluge foil stamping, embossing & die cutting press includes the optional missed sheet detector. They will use their EHD Series Press to finish swatch books, presentation folders and other specialty products. Learn more about the Kluge rebuild program at www.kluge.biz.
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Handcrafted original piece. Limited edition of 10 only. Signed on back.
Cut up and reassembled to represent the Kraftwerk song "Das Model".
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The reflection is crystal clear close up but comes somewhat warped the further away you get.
57 x 60 x 7 cm. approx: 22,5 x 23.5 inches
Please allow for 4-10 days between ordering and shipping as the mirrors are made to order.


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If you have ever visited the UGA Costa Rica YouTube page, you have likely come across our Virtual Classroom videos. But, do you know what the Virtual Classroom series is or where the idea originated? We have dedicated this week's three-part series to Alex Wright, one of the masterminds behind the Virtual Classroom series, as he shares the initial vision for the series and where he would like to see it go from here.
For Resident Naturalists, living and working in Costa Rica is an incredible life-changing experience, but not everyone is fortunate enough to have that opportunity. We wanted to share our tropical experiences and learning with students from all over the world using our "virtual classroom" platform. Our main goals were not just to promote tropical biology, but also foster a culture of global awareness amongst the students. This goal aligns with UGA Costa Rica's mission to advance understanding―through instruction, research and outreach―of the interconnected nature between human and environmental systems, particularly the concepts of socio-cultural, ecological, and economic sustainability. We identified an opportunity to demonstrate our relationship with our surroundings in Costa Rica to people all over the world who haven't even been to Costa Rica through these videos. The videos were designed to be three separate segments following A Day in the Cloud Forest; with a morning hike, afternoon hike, and night hike. Today, we will look at the Morning Hike video segments.
About Alex Wright: Alex first visited UGA Costa Rica in 2011 as part of the Tropical Watershed Management program. He then returned in November 2012 as a Resident Naturalist at UGACR after completing his B.S. in Ecology at the University of Georgia. Alex worked as a naturalist on campus until December 2013. Currently, Alex is pursuing his Master of Science degree from the Warnell School at UGA as part of a collaborative research effort aiming to develop an adaptive landscape planning and decision framework to be implemented by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources to make better state-wide land management decisions for the conservation of gopher tortoise populations.


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Kontos Cellars
10 N 2nd Avenue
Walla Walla, WA 99362
(509) 386-4471
Thursday through Monday 11:00am - 5:30pm (Closed January)
2nd generation winemakers - Kontos Cellars is owned and operated by two brothers and their families, who share a passion for creating great wines from the heart of the Walla Walla Valley.
We recommend using the Rose St parking lot, but we do offer hotel delivery if you find yourself a walk from your car!
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29 East Sumach Street
Walla Walla, Washington 99362
Phone: (509) 525-0850 | Fax: (509) 522-2038
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Our hours are: Monday-Friday 8:30a.m.-5:00p.m. (Pacific Time)
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Web banners are now available for the Lottie Moon Christmas in August offering. On the website, there are two sizes to choose from. There is a banner sized at 250 x 250 pixels, one with the web address and one without, and another sized at 180 x 150 px. If one so chooses, these banners can be utilized as hyperlinks to direct those who visit your site to the website where all of the Christmas in August resources and information are available.
As with all the other resources that have been developed, it is my hope that churches will utilize these banners on their websites or blogs in order to spread the word about the Lottie Moon Christmas in August Offering.