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I just finished reading a piece by Goldman Sachs urging investors to charge into the housing market.
Here is what they said back in March of 2012:
Headline reads: The housing recovery will have to wait a little bit longer. Goldman Sachs just pushed back its estimated date of the bottom.
In December 2011 G-Sax published a new house price model for 147 metro areas that pointed to a decline of around 3% from mid-2011 through mid-2012 before stabilizing in the year thereafter. Since publication of the model–which was based on Case-Shiller house price data up to 2011Q2–the decline in house prices has reaccelerated slightly. In today's (February 29) comment they updated their forecast in light of this and also used the opportunity to make a couple of technical changes to the model.
They now project that house prices will decline by around 3% from 2011Q3 until 2012Q3, and by an additional 1% in the year thereafter. As a result, the expected bottom in house prices is pushed out from end-2012 to mid-2013. Although the house price outlook has weakened very slightly, they go on to say that they believe that the house price bottom remains in sight.
That was in March, after predicting that we would hit the "bottom" in 3Q12. Here is what they said on Monday of this week. Headline: Goldman Sachs predicting 'strong' U.S. housing recovery. Construction up, existing home sale supply down.
Article goes on to say that U.S. home builders are an attractive investment as the housing market starts a "strong" recovery that may drive a surge in new-home sales, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said in a report Monday.
Housing has a "long list of positives," including rising prices, job growth, supportive government policies and a decline in the so-called shadow inventory of homes, Goldman Sachs analysts Joshua Pollard and Anto Savarirajan wrote in a note to clients. They raised their rating on the homebuilding industry to attractive from neutral.
As a gentle reminder, these are the same people (different suits) who urged investors to buy Collateral Default Obligations and Credit Default Swaps back in 2007. Anything sound familiar here?
For those not punch-drunk on Wall Street's propaganda, here is what is actually going to happen:
Housing will not hit bottom until somewhere north of 2015. Why? Banks are holding a ton of shadow inventory that they dare not release to the market for fear of creating insane downward pressure on pricing. In addition, there are still tons (millions) of homes crawling their way through the foreclosure process. Are there pockets of good news? Of course. Just like the fact that not everybody lost their asses in the real estate or stock markets since 2008, there are real estate markets like Pebble Beach and San Francisco and Long Island that are still holding prices up. But, the real real estate market is in the crapper and will stay that way or get worse in the coming months.
Until the November U.S. presidential elections of this year, there will be a deceptive calm before the storm, as every major economy plagued with severe fiscal problems continues to kick the can down the road. Come 2013, there will be a convergence of several major negative metrics.
These include the worsening Eurozone debt crisis, leading to the exit of Greece from the monetary union. China will face a hard economic landing, and the United States — its economic growth and job creation performance already anemic — will face a very high probability of a renewed economic recession, particularly in a political environment favoring austerity.
In addition to those economic factors, there is one other element in the turbulent brew that comprises my prediction of a perfect economic storm in 2013: Iran. If the Iranian nuclear issue is not resolved peacefully, which at present seems highly doubtful, there is a high probability of a military conflict occurring in the region, which will add further strains upon the global economy, particularly if oil prices spike to highly elevated levels.
I am not alone in this view. A guy who got it right the last time has the exact same predictions for 2013. Nouriel Roubini, or Dr. Doom, has issued a characteristically gloom-laden warning about likely economic trends for 2013. Unlike the pontificators among the politicians, Wall Street glad-handlers and central bankers, Roubini's analysis of future economic trends does have the virtue of reasoned logic as opposed to overly-optimistic rhetoric. Nouriel Roubini's record in predicting future trends impacting the global economy and financial system has been inherently more reliable than the forecasts offered by the U.S. Federal Reserve, as well as by the policymakers in America and Europe.
He emerged in the months prior to the global financial and economic crisis that erupted in the fall of 2008, warning of a deadly convergence of troubling economic and financial dangers.
Roubini's prediction that the contraction in housing prices in the U.S. housing market would metastasize into a devastating financial hurricane seemed so incomprehensively dire, the pundits and eternal optimists on Wall Street wrote him off. Was it because they insist on driving markets in spite of the realities before them? Do they care, as long as they are betting on the right side of the dice? Don't forget, those traders who touted CDOs and CDSs were making a killing on insuring against their performance.
Will you listen to Goldman Sachs or Nouriel Roubini?


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[Identification of item], Mary Elliott Flanery Photographic Collection, PA72M22,Special Collections, University of Kentucky.
Mary Elliott Flanery was born in 1867 in what is now Elliott County. She graduated from the University of Kentucky, and began a teaching career in Elliott and Carter Counties. From 1903 to 1926 she worked as a journalist for the
In 1920 the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment gave women the right to vote. Flanery ran as a Democratic candidate in Boyd County in 1921, and managed to unseat the incumbent Republican, becoming the first Kentucky state legislator. Concerned with Kentucky's marriage and divorce laws and educational reform, she sponsored the Shepard-Towner Maternity Act and introduced the bill that created Morehead State Teachers College. In 1924 she was elected to be a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, and there became the first person to read a roll call over the radio.
In addition to work toward women's rights and service as a state legislator, she raised a large family, four daughters and a son. Her son Elliott even served as a State House page for his mother. After Flanery's death in 1933, a bronze marker was permanently affixed to her seat as a memorial.
The collection consists of 40 black and white silver print photographs by or about Mary Elliott Flanery and her immediate family.

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Bible in a Year for HanDBase - This is a yearly Bible Reading plan, however it divides each day into two separate sessions, an Old Testament Reading Session, and a New Testament Reading Session. It is also broken down by month, allowing you to filter out which month you're in, making it really convenient to keep on your Palm. I hope you're blessed by it.


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Programming note: Kings-Wizards coverage tips off at 4 p.m. today on Comcast SportsNet California
(AP) -- Sparked by the return of their starting point guard, the Washington Wizards have played like a different team following their forgettable start.
The Sacramento Kings, however, can't seem to find an answer for their season-long struggles.
The Wizards will try for their first six-game home winning streak in six years on Monday night when they host the Kings, losers of four straight.
After a 4-28 start, Washington (11-31) no longer has the NBA's worst record after moving a half game ahead of Charlotte with a 114-101 victory over Minnesota on Friday.
The Wizards have shown they can get it done in different ways during their surge.
After shooting a season-high 57.8 percent against the Timberwolves, they won a defensive battle, 86-73, over Central Division-leading Chicago on Saturday.
With a victory over the sliding Kings, Washington will have its longest home winning streak since a 10-game run during the 2006-07 season.
"We are the team we thought we were supposed to be," center Emeka Okafor said.
While their run began just before John Wall returned from a left knee injury, the Wizards certainly have built some momentum while playing with a healthy lineup for the first time.
Wall has averaged 14.1 points and 6.7 assists, helping Washington win six of his nine games.
"It's not just me, man. It's never just me. I wanted to come in and be a spark for the team," said Wall, who moved back into the starting lineup against Minnesota. "I'm just doing a great job of getting easy shots for my teammates."
After averaging 89.2 points on 40.9 percent shooting in their first 34 games, the Wizards have put up 99.9 while shooting 47.2 percent from the field in their last eight.
Washington should be able to keep it going against the Kings, who haven't been able to stop anybody recently. Sacramento (16-29) has allowed 111.5 points on 49.4 percent shooting over their four-game skid.
The Kings couldn't stop Bradley Beal in their first look at the Wizards on Jan. 16 - the rookie scored a season-high 26 points and hit 6 of 7 from 3-point range - but managed to contain everyone else. Tyreke Evans made one of two free throws with 11.4 seconds left and finished with 21 points, eight rebounds and eight assists in a 95-94 win.
John Salmons and DeMarcus Cousins also scored 21 apiece to help the Kings finish with a season-best 62 points in the paint.
Cousins, however, will be looking to bounce back after finishing with a season-low three points in a 121-93 loss at Denver on Saturday. It was the first time in his past 17 games he failed to score in double figures.
Sacramento will also need to take better care of the basketball. It's averaged 21.0 turnovers in its last three games after giving it up 20 times against the Nuggets.
"(We) have to play a controlled basketball game," coach Keith Smart said. "I thought our passes were shaky that led to 25 points on 20 turnovers."
It may be a difficult task against a Washington team that has forced 34 turnovers in its last two games.
Sacramento has won three of four against the Wizards, including a 115-107 victory last February that snapped a six-game losing streak in Washington.


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theScore launches its leading sports app on BlackBerry 10 Platform
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TORONTO, Feb. 5, 2013 /CNW/ - theScore, Inc. (TSX Venture: SCR) today announced the launch of its flagship BlackBerry app, which has been completely re-engineered and redesigned for specifically for the BlackBerry 10 platform.
theScore for BlackBerry 10 has the clean look and brand consistency that users of theScore's applications have come to expect, built using BlackBerry 10 development best practices and design patterns. This new experience will keep you in the action like never before. Key features include:
- Up-to-the-second box scores, player stats, league leaders, betting odds, game previews, recaps, top stories, schedules and league standings.
- Live coverage of Football (NFL), Basketball (NBA, NCAA Mens), Hockey (NHL), and Soccer (English Premier League, UEFA Champions League), with live coverage of theScore's full slate of professional and collegiate leagues coming soon.
- Enhanced "My Score" functionality to enable users to customize the app to their needs - follow any team, or player throughout the season to view their performances as they happen, and use Player Grouping to follow your fantasy teams' players in real-time.
- New "Player Card Profiles", allowing users to do in-depth research with player photos, recent performances, season stats, bios and fantasy news via RotoWire.
"theScore worked closely with BlackBerry to ensure the app took advantage of all the great new features available on BB10," said Jonathan Savage, VP, Products at theScore Inc. "The Best in Class UI and clean look and feel are something we're particularly proud of."
theScore is one of the most popular free sports apps in the world and is used by more than three million people each month. Also available on iPhone, iPad, Android, & Windows Phone, theScore app for BlackBerry 10 can be downloaded for free from BlackBerry World.
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Zucchini Obsession: 14 Zucchini Recipes that Make Amazing Summer Meals
When I bring up my seasonal obsession with zucchini – which, incidentally, is in full effect at the moment – I always marvel at how many people describe the delicious summer squash as either tasteless, or perhaps even more astonishingly, as boring and difficult to work with. Tasteless? Boring? Difficult to work with? Hearing those kinds of comments, I instantly know that the people making them are woefully uninitiated in the many sublime pleasures of the deceptively simple vegetable.
Growing up the grandson of a Neapolitan grandmother, I was introduced to zucchini as an ingredient in a multitude of meals at a very early age. When properly prepared, zucchini serves as the basis for an enormous number of mouthwatering dishes. In fact, if anything, the difficulty of working with zucchini is often having too many meal directions to choose from. Read the rest of this entry »


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My Boys Need to Know about Trayvon
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I can't stop thinking about Trayvon Martin (see above link if you are not familiar with this story). When I was the mother of only two white girls, this story would have upset me. Because my two youngest children are black boys, this story not only upsets me, it scares me. It also reminds me that I have failed in my job as their mother.
I have made sure we have books and art that feature African Americans. We attend Ethiopian Culture Camp and other Ethiopian events throughout the year. We watch movies that tell the stories and struggles that African Americans have gone through over the years. We have discussed slavery and the civil rights movement. The boys know about Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks. They are knowledgeable about the Negro Baseball League. They know that people with skin the same color as theirs were not treated well. I have made it sound like this kind of mistreatment was in the past.
It's not that I didn't know that racism exists in the present. I knew that there were conversations we needed to have. Right now our boys are sheltered under the umbrella of our white privilege. Before too long they will be seen and judged outside of the context of our family. They will become teenagers and then men. Black teenage boys and black men. Based on that fact alone they will scare some people, they will cause suspicion, they will be watched more closely when they are in stores, they will cause some women to hold their purses tighter. In all likelihood they will be pulled over while driving more often than their white counterparts. They may be questioned by police because they 'fit the description' of someone they are looking for. They need to be prepared.
They need to know that some people will not just fear them, but hate them because of the color of their skin. They need to know about hate crimes, like the murder this past summer of James Craig Anderson. http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/22/justice/mississippi-hate-crime/index.html?hpt=hp_c2 . They need to understand that this level of hatred is not just something of the past.
I thought that these difficult conversations could wait. I was wrong. Along with Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks they need to know about Trayvon Martin and James Craig Anderson. They need to know that people like George Zimmerman exist. These are conversations that I wish I didn't have to have with Mikias and Jemberu, but it is dangerous to be a black teenage boy or black man in our country. To avoid having these conversations would make it even more dangerous.
Telling Trayvon's story seems to be a good place to start.


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90 Chateau Ste. Michelle 2009 Chardonnay, Canoe Ridge Estate, Horse Heaven Hills ($22)
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Orange blossom nose; smooth, fresh and spicy with crisp, sweet, juicy peach fruit and aromatic notes; bright, clean and charming. TWISTY
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Bright and juicy with depth, flesh and tangy cherry fruit; earth, spice and lovely acidity; long and balanced.
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92 Chateau Ste. Michelle 2008 Ethos Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve, Columbia Valley ($40)
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90EOS Estate 2009 French Connection, Paso Robles ($25)
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90 Fidélitas 2009 Malbec, Columbia Valley ($35)
Dark, dense and smooth with toasty oak and ripe plum, blackberry and spice; supple and rich with balance, depth and a long finish.
90 Frank Family Vineyards 2009 Petite Sirah, Reserve, SJ Vineyard, Napa Valley ($65)
Dark and dense with juicy blackberry, blueberry and spice with lovely notes of sweet vanilla oak; rich, intense and powerful with depth and good balance.
89 Goldschmidt 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon, Katherine Goldschmidt, Crazy Creek Vineyard, Alexander Valley ($19)
Lush and rich with depth and smooth texture; dense, dark and showing plum, cassis and spice; ripe and balanced with depth and finesse.
95 Lamborn Family Vineyards 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon, Howell Mountain; Vintage V, Napa Valley ($120)
Dark and rich with lush aromas, velvety texture and concentration; plum, blackberry and cassis with balance and excellent acid structure; creamy, toasted oak is subordinate to stunningly generous fruit.
90 Lava Cap Winery 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon, Lava Cap Vineyard, El Dorado ($22)
Smooth and velvety with ripe plum and raspberry fruit; clean, balanced and lush with good acid structure and a long finish.
88 Peter Lehmann 2009 Shiraz, Barossa Valley, Australia ($17)
Fragrant, smooth and juicy with lovely blackberry, blueberry and spice; meaty, spiced and complex; long and lush.
89 Matanzas Creek 2007 Estate Merlot, Bennett Valley ($26)
Rich plum and chocolate nose; juicy and smooth with bright plum and blackberry fruit; firm and nicely structured with good length and nice acidity; long and balanced. 14% Knights Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
90 Newton Vineyard 2008 The Puzzle, Spring Mountain District, Napa Valley ($80)
Smooth and supple with juicy plum and raspberry; soft tannins, earth and spice with complexity, balance and depth; long and stylish. 42% Merlot, 36% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14% Cabernet Franc, 6% Petit Verdot, 2% Malbec.
90 Sebastiani Vineyards 2008 Secolo, Sonoma County ($35)
Smooth, spicy and fresh with plum, black raspberry and vanilla; lush, juicy and harmonious; tangy, rich and long. 76% Cabernet Sauvignon, 12% Petit Verdot, 8% Merlot, 3% Malbec, 1% Syrah
Stag's Leap Wine Cellars 2008 Cabernet Sauvignon, S.L.V., Napa Valley ($125)
Dense and earthy with plum, cassis and profound spiciness; layered and complex with exciting depth that will only expand with age; a lovely effort.
92 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars 2008 Cabernet Sauvignon, Fay, Napa Valley ($95)
Rich and classic with ripe plum, cassis, black cherry and spice; notes of licorice, mocha and elegance; long and concentrated.
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91 Wahaka Organic Mezcal Joven Espadin, Mexico ($30)Smoky, fleshy nose; smooth, smoky and showing hints of vanilla, spice and pepper; dense, rich and have a nice flash of heat on the finish. Organic.
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Joint JD/Tax LLM Degree
The Master of Laws (LLM) in Taxation program at Washington University offers a rigorous course of study in tax law. Combining top tax professors with extraordinary tax practitioners, the LLM program offers students an intellectually stimulating, yet also practical hands-on, education in tax law. This teaching approach along with the small class sizes in the advanced practical-skills tax courses allow for both a thorough and personal educational experience.
Students earn both a JD and an LLM in Tax in either the six-semester program or the seven-semester option. The innovative and unique six-semester program allows you to earn both degrees without sacrificing summer employment opportunities, thereby giving students a competitive advantage in the employment market at graduation. Under the seven-semester option, up to nine hours of tax credits (not including Federal Income Tax) are earned during the JD program which can be applied towards the LLM degree. An advantage of the seven-semester option is that it does not require the student to earn any additional credits for the JD degree. Students can still consider the traditional one-year program. Click here for more information about that program.
Degree Requirements
Six-Semester JD/Tax LLM
- Earn 8 credits beyond those required for the JD or a total of 94 credits.
- Take Federal Income Tax and 24 additional qualifying tax credits, which must include Corporate Tax and Federal Partnership Tax or Pass-Through Business Taxation.
- Earn a grade of 79 or better (or C or better) in the classes whose credits will apply to the Tax LLM degree. [If a student earns a grade of 74 through 78 (or a D), the credits will apply toward the JD degree, but will not count toward the LLM degree. Students will receive number grades for tax courses that are part of the JD curriculum, and will receive letter grades for advanced tax courses that are not part of the JD program (since these courses are not graded under the mandatory mean requirement)].
- Cost: one semester LLM tuition, payable in the student's final semester, typically the Spring semester of the student's third year.
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- Take Federal Income Tax and 9 additional qualifying tax credits while in the JD program.
- Upon obtaining your JD degree, take 15 additional tax credits in one full-time semester in the LLM program. Required courses (which may be part of the 9 credits earned while a JD student or 15 credits earned in the LLM program) are Corporate Taxation and Federal Partnership Taxation or Pass-Through Business Taxation.
- Earn a grade of 79 or better (or C or better) in the tax classes, whether taken during the JD program or in the LLM program, for credits to count toward the LLM degree. While still in the JD program, students will receive number grades for tax courses that are part of the JD curriculum, and will receive letter grades for advanced tax courses that are not part of the JD program (since these courses are not graded under the mandatory mean requirement).
- Cost: one semester of LLM tuition, payable during the full-time semester in the LLM program.
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President Barack Obama's announcement that he would place tighter restrictions on the use of drones against suspected terrorists was welcomed by the bishop who sent a letter May 17 to the White House and congressional leaders seeking a wide-scale public discussion on the use of the emerging technology.
In an interview with Catholic News Service, Bishop Richard E. Pates of Des Moines, Iowa, who chairs the U.S Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on International Justice and Peace, urged the administration to fully consider the moral questions surrounding the use of drones as it refines its policy.
"The (White House) policy has raised a lot of serious moral questions and concerns," Bishop Pates said May 28. "I don't think it's been widely discussed with the American public. It's a relatively new revelation for the broader public. The letter itself and what we are addressing is the questions of civilians and those who are killed as 'collateral damage.' So we have to be very open about what is involved in the utilization of this (technology)."
Obama offered a strong defense of drone use to protect American security in an address at the National Defense University May 23, but also said it was time to review how they are being used. The U.S. showed it was not about to back off of their use, however, if today's attack in Pakistan is any indication. Pakistani intelligence officials said a suspected drone strike killed four people including Waliur Rehman, who is considered the No. 2 leader in the Pakistan Taliban.
The Taliban denied he was dead.
The bishop suggested that Obama would do well if he took the discussion of drone use to the world on the path to developing international protocols.
"We think it is very important that it undergo international discussion and scrutiny," said the bishop, who chairs the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on International Justice and Peace. "We feel that is very important because the technology soon will be widespread."
The letter was about a year in development, first broached by Bishop Robert J. Cunningham of Syracuse, N.Y., who was looking for help in understanding the moral issues surrounding drone use. The diocese is home to the Hancock Field Air National Guard Base, one of several U.S. centers where drone operators pilot the unmanned aircraft in their search for suspected Muslim militants halfway around the world. The base also has been the scene of regular nonviolent vigils and protests.
As questions were raised, the committee reached out to Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, who urged the USCCB to move forward with the letter because of the U.S. role as the world's leading user of drones.
The council itself is planning to examine the use of drones during a session at a conference it is putting together this fall.


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2014 GMC Sierra Regular Cab Unveiled
- 2014 GMC Sierra regular cab unveiled
- Boasts largely similar styling to other models
- Goes on sale this summer from around $25,000
GMC has unveiled a new version of its all-new Sierra pickup. While the fully redesigned 2014 Sierra was first shown as a 4-door crew cab, the latest variant is a short-bed, regular cab model.
Although the regular cab Sierra's styling wasn't in much doubt, the latest photos will still appeal to those interested in the smallest version yet of GM's newly redesigned pickups. The regular cab Sierra retains the crew cab's large wheel arches, chrome grille and brawny, muscular lines.
GMC revealed the regular cab Sierra online while touting the vehicle's aerodynamics. Despite the truck's blocky shape, GMC says the all-new Sierra spent more development time in a wind tunnel than any General Motors pickup before it. The result is improved airflow for better wind resistance. That leads to reduced cabin noise and, more importantly, better gas mileage.
Regular cab versions of the all-new Sierra will be the model's least expensive body style. The regular-cab 2014 Sierra is available with two bed lengths: 6.6 feet and 8 feet. In the newly released photos, the truck sports its smaller bed.
While Chevrolet has not shown photos of its regular cab Silverado, the truck will likely share many lines with the Sierra. Both are due out this summer. GM says crew cab trucks will come first, though regular cab and extended models -- dubbed Extended Cab by GM -- won't be far behind.
According to GMC, the all-new Sierra regular cab will start $500 above last year's base price. That means the base-level 2014 Sierra will likely come in just under $25,000 with shipping. The Chevrolet Silverado's base pricing was unchanged for the new model year. As a result, the 2014 Silverado starts closer to $24,000.
General Motors says both the Sierra and Silverado will offer three engines. A 4.3-liter V6 will be standard. Drivers who want more power can upgrade to a 5.3-liter V8, while a 6.2-liter V8 tops the range. All three engines are completely new and boost the trucks' gas mileage while reducing emissions.
What it means to you: If you're in the market for a new pickup this summer, the 2014 GMC Sierra should definitely be on your test drive list.


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A whole new world has opened up to me and that is the world of freelance writing.
A whole new world has opened up to me and that is the world of freelance writing. Freelance writing is a creative occupation. You basically obtain writing assignments via the Website for various venues. The topics are limitless as well as the corporations that hire you. There is a freelance writing job out there on any and all topics and that is half the fun.
Some industries want fitness writers. This may consist of writing about your workouts or workout equipment. You may "blog" what you eat and do, to maintain a fit lifestyle. Or you may actually write what is known as a "hard copy" article. I prefer writing actual articles to writing blogs, just simply because you are allotted more words to use.
Fashion and jewelry corporations hire writers to create product descriptions. I recently applied for such a job. The assignment was to take 25 pictures of antique jewelry and write six descriptive sentences about each piece. I was the proverbial "kid in a candy store"! Show me an Art Deco diamond ring and watch me go gaga over it! It just happened to be a "four carat, emerald cut diamond, with a four prong setting. The platinum band was unique and exquisite in appeal. Cascading diamonds surrounding the main stone offered an illusory effect." See, it's not so hard.
It occurred to me while reading all of these job posts that someone has to do all of these writing assignments. Everything from writing technical manuals, to writing about pedicures, appliance descriptions, Website reviews, you name it there is a job for it.
Wouldn't it be fun to think up the names of nail polish or ice cream flavors?? One of my favorite nail polish colors was a pale baby pink by O.P.I called "Aphrodite's Pink Nightie". Seriously? That person deserved some big bucks for selling the product through their words.


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Paul Herron is a Back End Developer at SHOWstudio, building web applications to power its online activities. Whilst studying on the BA Multimedia course at Nottingham Trent University, Herron was involved in the creation of a range of digital media, including web development, video production and 3-D animation. He graduated a valedictorian, gaining a First Class Honours degree.
He then worked in London for a year, both freelance and as a PHP Developer for Abraxor, with whom he was able to build applications for organisations such as the World Gold Council. Herron went onto study at the University of Edinburgh, gaining a scholarship for the MSc Design and Digital Media course. There, he focused on web development once again, building for his final project a large social networking website with the PHP development framework, CakePHP. He graduated with a distinction and was awarded the Aart Bijl Student Prize for outstanding leadership in the learning and welfare of the student body. Having since returned to London, Paul has worked for Moonrocket Interactive, helping to produce software for companies like Turner Commercial Productions, LG and Pret A Manger.
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Clouded Leopard
(Neofelis nebulosa (including Neofelis diardi))
Facts about this animal
The clouded leopard, named for the cloud-like spots of its coat that provide camouflage in its forest habitat, is the most arboreal of all large cat species and among the best climbers in the cat family. Clouded leopards are able to climb upside down underneath tree branches and hang from branches with their hind feet. Several adaptations allow them to achieve these arboreal skills. The short and stout legs provide excellent leverage and a low centre of gravity while climbing. Large paws with sharp claws allow to gain a good grip on tree branches. The very long tail is extremely important as a balancing aid. The hind feet possess flexible ankle joints that allow the foot to rotate greatly. This adaptation allows clouded leopards to descend, squirrel-like, head first from a tree.
Did you know?
That the clouded leopard has the largest canine teeth in proportion to its body size of any of the cat family? A clouded leopard's jaws can open wider than any other cat's, and its tooth development is most like that of the extinct saber-toothed tiger with the canine teeth being 5 cm long.
|Name (Scientific)
|Neofelis nebulosa (including Neofelis diardi)
|Name (English)
|Clouded Leopard
|Name (French)
|Panthère nébuleuse, Panthère longibande
|Name (German)
|Name (Spanish)
|Pantera longibanda, Pantera nebulosa
|Local names
|Bahasa: Macan dahan
Malay: Rimaudahan
|CITES Status
|Appendix I
|CMS Status
|Not listed
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|Southeast Asia. Most recently, the clouded leopard has been split into two monotypic species: Neofelis nebulosa of Bhutan, China, India, Lao PDR, peninsular Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Taiwan, Thailand and Viet Nam, possibly also still Bangladesh and Cambodia, and Neofelis diardi of Sumatra and Borneo (Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia). More recently, splitting of diardi into two subspecies, sumatrensis and borneensis has been suggested.
|Dense evergreen forest in the lowlands and hills, including swamps and high grass areas
|Wild population
|Approx. < 10'000 (1996)
|Zoo population
|255 (114.140.1) registered by the International Studbook (31 Dec. 2008) in 72 Institutions. 159 reported to ISIS (April 2009)
In the Zoo
How this animal should be transported
Transport crates should be sufficiently large to meet legal requirements, sufficiently strong to prevent escape or damage to the crate and animal, and have an adequate number of handles. Basic design should allow free flow of air through multiple sides of the container. A double door design on each end of the crate should be used. The "inner" door on each end should have bars to contain the animal, and the "outer" door should consist of a thin panel of expanded metal that provides safety for the handlers. The doors on each end of the crate should travel vertically to facilitate animal transfer and contain a secure locking system. The crate should drain well, and absorbent bedding should be used to prevent the animal from being exposed to or lying in urine or excreta. The crate should be of a size that allows easy lifting, transport and movement through doorways.
The shipment should be organised in a way to minimise stress. The animal should have access to its transport crate for 2 weeks before shipment, preferably being fed within it. If an extended trip is anticipated, water and eventually food should be provided while the animal is in transit. Ideally one of the animal's keepers should accompany it during transport, providing for its care and helping it adjust to the new environment.
For air transport, Container Note 72 of the IATA Live Animals Regulations should be followed.
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Why do zoos keep this animal
The clouded leopard is a vulnerable species with a relatively small total population. In 1973, when the species was heavily traded for its fur, an International Studbook was established under the WAZA umbrella, and zoos maintain now a largely self-sustained reserve population managed under several regional conservation breeding programmes. The clouded leopard, being a highly specialized cat species is also an interesting subject for environmental education. If well presented it is a good ambassador for its threatened forest ecosystem.


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Suppose $X$ and $Y$ are spectra (or homotopy classes thereof) such that $X$ is p-local and $Y$ is q-local, for primes $p\neq q$. Is it indeed true then, and if so how would one show that $[X,Y]_\ast=0$?
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Suppose $X$ and $Y$ are spectra (or homotopy classes thereof) such that $X$ is p-local and $Y$ is q-local, for primes $p\neq q$. Is it indeed true then, and if so how would one show that $[X,Y]_\ast=0$?
The rational Eilenberg-Mac Lane spectrum $H\mathbb{Q}$ is $p$-local for every prime $p$, but certainly $[H\mathbb{Q}, H\mathbb{Q}]_*\neq 0$.
If you replace "$p$-local" and "$q$-local" with "$p$-complete" and "$q$-complete", then your conclusion does hold.
Responding to your comment on Charles's answer:
[I wish I could delete my comment to Charles's answer. My comment seems to have exploded and taken your comment down with it.]
Both localization of a spectrum at a prime and completion of spectra at a prime are examples of Bousfield localization. The one is (a little circularly) localization with respect to $p$-localized homotopy theory, while the other is localization with respect to mod $p$ homotopy theory.
Localizing a spectrum at a prime $p$ (or at a set of primes) is the kind of Bousfield localization that is most like localization in algebra. In this case $\pi_n$ of the localization of $X$ is the algebraic localization of $\pi_nX$, i.e. the result of inverting all the primes other than $p$. The local spectra are the spectra $X$ such that for every $n$ the abelian group $\pi_nX$ is one on which every prime other than $p$ acts invertibly, and the acyclic objects are the ones which become trivial upon localizing, i.e. the spectra $X$ such that for every $n$ the group $\pi_nX$ is a torsion group without $p$-torsion. Localization of $X$ is the same as smash product of $X$ with the localization of the sphere spectrum. If you want to describe the acyclic objects as the $E_*$-acyclic objects for some $E$, you can of course let $E$ be the localization of the sphere. Note that we are not starting with an $E$ and using the general machine of Bousfield to make the localization functor, although of course we could.
Completing at a prime is again not too far from being a purely algebraic matter. Here we can choose $E$ to be the mod $p$ Moore spectrum, i.e. the homotopy cofiber of the map $p:S\to S$ from the sphere spectrum to itself. The acyclic objects are the spectra for which each homotopy group has $p$ acting invertibly. The localization $LX$ (which is called the $p$-completion) can be described as the holim, over natural numbers $k$, of the smash product of $X$ with the mod $p^k$ Moore spectrum. If each homotopy group of $X$ is finitely generated, then $\pi_nLX$ can be described as the tensor product of $\pi_nX$ with the group $\mathbb Z_p$ of $p$-adic integers, and also in this case $LX$ is the smash product $X\wedge LS$. But neither of these statements is true for general $X$: for example, the $p$-completion of $H\mathbb Q$ is trivial while $\mathbb Q\otimes \mathbb Z_p$ is the field of $p$-adic numbers and $X\wedge LS=H(\mathbb Q\otimes \mathbb Z_p)$. And (therefore) $LH(\mathbb Q/\mathbb Z)=\Omega H\mathbb Z_p$.
Note that a spectrum which is local at a prime $q$ different from $p$ is trivial mod $p$. In general maps from $E$-acyclic objects to $E$-local objects are trivial, so we see that maps from a $q$-local spectrum to a $p$-complete spectrum are trivial. In particular, as Charles says, maps from a $q$-complete spectrum to a $p$-complete spectrum are trivial.


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But as individual targets ratchet upward in benchmarked increments over the next 10 to 15 years and renewable energy megawatt totals climb regardless of economic realities, a variety of related issues will cause widespread concern.
These range from politically motivated tinkering and uncertainty over federal government support, to inadequate transmission and lower prices for natural gas.
So while states with renewable energy standards (RES) are likely to continue to grow their wind power capacity, there are no guarantees in this unsettled US market.
Nevertheless, whether called RES or renewable portfolio standards (RPSs), state-run policies serve as a safety net for much of the US wind industry.
Recent statistics from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) research group suggest that full compliance with cumulative RES policies will require 104GW of new renewable energy by 2035 — more than 91% of that compliance was met with wind power through 2010.
Wind exceeds targets
"States have done pretty well in meeting their standards," says Ryan Wiser, staff scientist at LBNL. "In fact, the amount of growth in wind over the last number of years has well exceeded that which is strictly required under the state RPS obligations."
In other words, many states have moved past current targets and are already on their way to satisfying future goals.
Extrapolating LBNL's numbers, Wiser says the total amount of renewables needed annually to fulfill all 30 RES goals across the US is roughly 4GW.
"It wasn't too many years ago that we added 10GW of wind in the US," Wiser says. So RES policies in many states may become irrelevant, he adds.
Meanwhile, recent momentum towards a federal RES requiring all 50 states to participate has faded, largely due to political crosswinds and shifting national priorities.
And a handful of states, namely Washington, Colorado, Montana and Missouri, have even waged unsuccessful efforts to water down their renewables standards.
"RESs are working, they're critical, they're important — especially in a time of lower power demand and an uncertain federal policy horizon," says Jesse Broehl, a former US editor of Windpower Monthly and an advisor with Make Consulting.
"But I think the thing to look at, now that they actually start to matter, is whether politicians are able to keep their hands off them."
New figures from research body Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) reveal that RESs were created with broad cross-party support.
Of the 29 states plus Washington DC, along with a half-dozen states pursuing voluntary RES targets, all but nine had either a right-wing Republican governor, a Republican-controlled house of representatives or a Republican upper house when they were adopted.
"The RES is not some left-wing policy supporting renewable energy technology," says UCS energy analyst Jeff Deyette.
"It's something that, across the country, has been a bipartisan effort. People need to step back and look at it — not just have a knee-jerk reaction against something people on the other side of the aisle are for."
Stronger standards
Efforts to strengthen RES requirements, however, are enjoying some success. California's new requirement of 33% by 2020 is a formidable challenge, especially as the state failed to meet its old target of 20% by last year.
But as one of the world's largest economies, California's quest for renewables will keep itself and surrounding states busy for the rest of the decade even if it falls short.
Other states have worked to strengthen their standards as well, adding provisions like offshore requirements and solar stipulations. But not everyone sees raising or lowering RES quotas as a solution.
Minnesota-based utility Xcel has been successfully navigating RES policies in all eight states comprising its service territory. In its home state and in Colorado, the company is ahead of requirements to reach 30% renewables by 2020.
Its six other states maintain quotas that are less stringent but, by the end of 2012, Xcel expects to include 4.5GW of wind across its footprint — roughly 15% of its system-wide load.
"We try to develop our wind acquisition plans so that it gives investment opportunities and still meets a reasonable cost threshold," says Kurt Haeger, Xcel's managing director of resource planning.
"That can be difficult sometimes, just depending on which states the wind projects are in, because they're all fighting for investment in their own state."
Haeger believes a key issue is the fall in natural gas prices, now around $40/MWh, while wind projects can reach $65/MWh or more.
That price disparity, combined with the prospect that federal government tax credits and cash grants worth roughly 30% of wind project costs will lapse at the end of 2012 without an extension, may spell trouble for RES targets.
"For projects to come online by the end of 2012, they pretty much have to be moving through the process now," he says. "As for 2013 and 2014, everybody's got to wait to see what happens with the subsidies."
Little effect
Ironically, the two leading states in wind power installation, Texas and Iowa, maintain obsolete RES policies. Texas has achieved more than 10GW and enjoys forward-thinking policy that includes abundant new transmission lines and streamlined approvals.
Iowa, on the other hand, has grown to 3.6GW mainly by selling its wind power, in the form of renewable credits, to help neighbours reach their RES targets.
"Iowa's resource is phenomenal but it's driven by the state standards around it," says Deyette. "It would be good to have a stronger policy in Iowa so they could use up more of their in-state generation to meet that target, which would require even more generation from the other states to catch up."
Regardless of all else, debate over the virtues of policies for renewable energy targets is likely to continue. Will they cause electricity prices to rise?
Will they foster wind and other renewables projects that otherwise would not have been built?
Will they continue to keep the industry afloat in times of low demand for electricity and an uncertain economy?
"It's really a question of what is meant by success," says Warren Leon, senior advisor to Clean Energy States Alliance.
"Do you mean meeting a target, or do you mean the biggest difference in terms of bringing the most renewables online that wouldn't have otherwise come online? Those are two different things."
As for the question of RESs raising electricity prices, Leon is equally measured. "The increase in prices, where it has occurred, has been quite modest," he says.
"But there are some electricity consumers who view any increase — even 30 cents a month — as significant."
The two acronyms used to describe renewable energy targets have become synonymous in US nomenclature, serving up alphabet soup along with a light side dish for experts to chew on.
Each term describes the specific goals set by individual states to achieve a required percentage of energy sold by the utilities from renewable sources.
RES, or renewable electricity (or energy) standard, is increasingly seen as the more descriptive moniker in most quarters. But RPS (renewable portfolio standard) remains far more popular.
"For the most part, the people I work with and talk to call it an RPS," says Karlynn Cory, senior energy analyst with the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). "Renewable portfolio standard is a lot more common."
Cory's NREL colleague, senior staff scientist Lori Bird, concurs. "I think a lot of the industry tried to move to renewable electricity standard because it's easier to understand," Bird says. "But we're used to saying RPS."
The state-level programmes, which began in the 1990s, were first called RPSs. But several organisations, including the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), tried to change 'portfolio' to 'electricity' to be clearer for a broad audience — including US Congress during debates that failed to establish a federal version in 2003.
"It's a tough sell trying to communicate a complex policy by calling it something that people don't really understand," says UCS energy analyst Jeff Deyette.
"Not that RES or renewable electricity standard is some great name. But it's a bit more self-explanatory than RPS."
Warren Leon, a senior advisor to Clean States Energy Alliance, agrees with Deyette in theory. "But the term RPS is now a historical artefact.
Once it gets set up that way, a state is not going to go to the legislature and say, 'Could you pass legislation to change the name from RPS to RES?'," he says.
Ryan Wiser, staff scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, believes the terms are synonymous but appreciates UCS's argument.
"Basically, UCS tried to focus attention on electricity," he says.
"They realised normal people don't seem to like 'portfolio' — it makes them think about stocks and nasty financial people."
Deyette seems resigned to compromise. "I think we've been successful in changing it at the federal level," he says, "but not as much from state to state."
Massachusetts survived early struggles and got its renewable energy standards (RES) on track after passing legislation in 2002.
Now, with offshore prospects including the 468MW Cape Wind, the populous New England state is primed to blow past its goal of 15% renewable energy by 2020.
The Massachusetts renewables requirement climbs by 1% each year, reaching 6% for 2011, with well over a third coming from wind.
This proportion is growing despite the fact that the 15MW Berkshire wind project on Brodie Mountain is its only utility-scale wind project.
The state largely complies by purchasing renewable energy credits (RECs) from wind projects in New York, Canada and the rest of New England.
"In 2009, wind became the largest contributor to our programme for the first time," says Dwayne Breger, director of renewable and alternative energy development at the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources.
"But as much as we're trying to build out wind generation, it's a relatively small state and we have limited onshore resources."
Penalty v purchase
Massachusetts utilities experienced problems at the programme's outset because out-of-state RECs were scarce and expensive, easily reaching $50/MWh during the early compliance years of 2004–06.
But the state's non-compliance penalty fee — $50/MWh — put a cap on RECs. "Yes, Massachusetts was not meeting its targets," says Warren Leon, senior advisor to Clean Energy States Alliance.
"But those compliance payments were used to fund initial renewable energy development."
Prospects for onshore wind in Massachusetts still remain limited. Good resources on the coast are negated by dense population.
And the windy Berkshire Mountains are riddled with community scrutiny.
"We're working on some wind-siting reform legislation," Breger says.
"We need a bit more of a straightforward process that developers go through to get permits."
Offshore, meanwhile, is clearly the future for Massachusetts.
When Governor Deval Patrick declared a voluntary goal of reaching 2GW of wind power by 2020, no one thought he meant the Berkshires. "We are very keen on meeting that goal," Breger says.
"We've taken steps to establish zoning within our state waters to attract wind development."
Nowadays Massachusetts is totally in control of its RES programme.
RECs trade at around $15–20, and the stage is set for an offshore boom.
"We anticipated it would be a while before projects got out of the pipeline," Breger says. "But we've been quite impressed with how the market reacts to these incentives."


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Check out this great challenge on the blog! My cutie #3 son at age 4 dressed up for a preschool Mardi Gras parade. We lived in Baton Rouge, La, and each class was a "crewe" with their own theme. They would parade around throwing beads and having quite a time.
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Gakne: is caused by smoking crystal meth and is not the result of picking. Gakne vulgaris (or cystic gakne) is a common human skin disease among gak smokers, characterized by areas of skin with seborrhea (scaly red skin), comedones (blackheads and whiteheads), papules (pinheads), pustules (pimples), Nodules (large papules) and possibly scarring. Gakne affects mostly skin with the densest population of sebaceous follicles; these areas include the face, the upper part of the chest, and the back. Severe gakne is inflammatory, but gakne can also manifest in noninflammatory forms. The lesions are caused by changes in pilosebaceous units, skin structures consisting of a hair follicle and its associated sebaceous gland, changes that require androgen stimulation.
Wow that dope simple gak smoker needs to have a bath and go to bed or that tweeker is gonna be looking like a gak-ho with that bad case of gakne.
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#tagcoding for Togo ?
Consider Principles of Innovation (Principles for Digital Development) #pi9 - Be collaborative. By suitably #tagcoding genuine content, stakeholders and donors can contribute it to an open domestic and global conversation on governance, knowledge sharing and innovation for sustainable development, the economic activities and functions of government in Togo, its cities and municipalities. By providing low-hurdle access to open data that matters to a particular context or trade, stakeholders are empowered to add data-driven elements to the discourse and their learning.
In a #tag2wiki step, the #tagcoded content can be curated, analysed, and shared and conflicting viewpoints can be covered in wiki sector maps and maps of the functions of government, as part of Togo's planning for inclusive and sustainable development1.
This reference page for Togo is not intended for being read in a linear way. Rather, it must be used as a "4 dimensional topic map" for a knowledge and data driven development discourse in Togo. The reader with an interest in a particular topic can quickly find open data and other content on that "topic in its context and dimension". Before contributing new content, we recommend the reader to minimally check the content that is (referenced) on this page, and to keep in mind Principles of Innovation (Principles for Digital Development) #pi7 - Reuse and improve. For what concerns the reuse, improving or addition of new content, we recommend the use of the suitable hashtag with awareness of its dimension (lgu, sdg, isic or cofog).
Table of Contents
#TGlgu tags for administrative units, with curated open data.
Learn about Togo's administrative units, the région, via the Republic of Togo, and the Direction Générale de la Statistique et de la Comptabilité Nationale website.
|city (capital of région)
|Development data ( Knoema )
|Sokodé (Centrale)
|Data atlas
|Kara (Kara)
|Data atlas
|Lomé (Maritime)
|Data atlas
|Atakpamé (Plateaux)
|Data atlas
|Dapaong (Savanes)
|Data atlas
|national #tags
|this page
|#TGlgu tags
|combine the ISO country code TG with the numerical part of the ADM1 Code for the région
Note: As there is no domestically defined geocode for each dzongkhag, we use the numerical part of the ADM1 code2. Obtain that code from the ADM1 Code Search module by entering Togo's GEC country code: TG3.
|#tagcoding for Togo : #TGlgu 4local #sdgTG 4goals #isicTG 4economy #cofogTG 4gov
#sdgTG tags for sustainable development goals
Sustainable Development Global Goals (SDGs)4 in Togo - use #sdgTG on Twitter or G+.
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#SDG1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
#SDG2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture
#SDG3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
#SDG4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote life-long learning opportunities for all
#SDG5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
#SDG6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
#SDG7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all
#SDG8: Promote sustained, inclusive & sustainable economic growth, full & productive employment & decent work for all
#SDG9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
#SDG10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
#SDG11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
#SDG12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
#SDG13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
#SDG14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
#SDG15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, …
#SDG16: Promote peaceful & inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all, .. institutions
#SDG17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
#isicTG tags for economic activities
|Sector in Togo
|#isicTG #tag
|A - Agriculture, forestry and fishing
|B - Mining and quarrying
|C - Manufacturing
|D - Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply
|E - Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities
|F - Construction
|G - Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles
|H - Transportation and storage
|I - Accommodation and food service activities
|J - Information and communication
|K - Financial and insurance activities
|L - Real estate activities
|M - Professional, scientific and technical activities
|N - Administrative and support service activities
|O - Public administration and defence; compulsory social security
|P - Education
|Q - Human health and social work activities
|R - Arts, entertainment and recreation
|S - Other service activities
|T - Activities of households
|U - Activities of extraterritorial organizations and bodies
#cofogTG tags for functions of government
+ Government and the People
Check out Togo's profile in the Human Development Report - 2014 to understand the country's challenges in below areas.
09 - Education - #TG09fg
|- COFOG 09.7: Education For All - Global Monitoring Report: Education Inequalities Indicators
- TESSA: education resources
- Fast Track Initiative Education For All country page
- COPNI 04.7: Fon Online Encyclopedia, Mossi/Moore Online Encyclopedia
|09 with detailed structure and explanatory notes at COFOG Division 09 - Education
The related category of industry (ISIC) is P - Education
|World Bank Education Strategy 2020
09.1 - Pre-primary and primary education (also COPNI 04.1): Education For All, Primary Education, Early childhood education at Development Strategies that work
09.2 - Secundary education(also COPNI 04.2): Secundary Education at Development Strategies that work
09.3 - Post-secundary non-tertiary education (also COPNI 04.3):
09.4 - Tertiary education(also COPNI 04.4):
09.5 - Education not-definable by level (also COPNI 04.5): Special education for persons with intellectual or psycho-social disabilities at Development Strategies that work
09.6 - Subsidiary services to education: Access to Schools, Preventive health care and improved nutrition for children at Development Strategies that work
09.7 - R&D Education(also COPNI 04.6):
09.8 - Education n.e.c.: World Bank Education Strategy 2020
COPNI 04.7 - Other educational services:
+ Government and the Economy, Environment and Community
+ Government and Society's Foundations
01 General Public Services - #TG01fg
COFOG 01.1: HIPC Initiative (Debt relief)
COFOG 0132: Togo's profile in the Human Development Report - 2014
|01 with detailed structure and explanatory notes at COFOG Division 01 - General public services
The related categories of industry (ISIC) are:
- O - Public administration and defence; compulsory social security
- 01.1: U - Activities of extraterritorial organizations and bodies
|01.1 - Executive and legislative organs, financial and fiscal affairs, external affairs: Public administration reform
01.2 - Foreign economic aid:
01.3 - General services: System of National Accounts 2008, at Development Strategies that work by UN Economic and Social Council, Johannesburg Plan of Implementation (JPOI), London Declaration for Transparency, the Free Flow of Information and Development (2010)
01.4 - Basic research:
01.5 - R&D General public services:
01.6 - General public services n.e.c.:
01.7 - Public debt transactions:
01.8 - Transfers of general character between different levels of government:
COPNI 09.1 - Services n.e.c.:
COPNI 09.2 - R&D Services:
COPNI 07.1 - Services of political parties: Universal Periodic Review5
In the media
|#2030Agenda au #Togo - #tags de partage: #TGlgu pour locale, #sdgTG pour objectifs, #isicTG pour économie, #cofogTG pour gouvernance
Togo's #tags in other languages:
توجو (Arabic)
多哥 (Chinese, simplified)
Togo (German)
Togo (Spanish)
Togo (French)
トーゴ (Japanese)
Того (Russian)
#Tag guide & other resources:
|Also on Togo:
|Actor Map, Statute Book, Local Development Books
Open Data and Content
Various sources
- Human Development Report 2014: Check it here (at UNDP website): Togo's profile in the Human Development Report - 2014
- Mapping for Results: The World Bank's Mapping for Results Platform provides detailed information about work to reduce poverty and promote sustainable development around the world. Here the data on projects in Togo.
- Akvoopenaid: Check Open Akvoopenaid for a list of development aid projects in Togo.
The Sector field of listed projects are indicative for the function of government and the industrial sector under which the project should be classified.
Curated open data in the World Data Atlas (by Knoema)
Social Progress Index
Check Togo's Social Progress Index (Social Progress Imperative).
The Fringes
Are initiatives transparent, effective & with synergy?
Give your comments or provide links to resources that are instrumental to improving transparency and effectiveness of the public sector and/or aid in Togo.
For the initiatives listed per Function of Government (COFOG class) and/or category of economic activity (ISIC class), comments may be given at an initiative's wiki page. If such a wiki page is missing, make a request to create it in your comment.


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'It is not so much a house as a phenomenon' Quentin Bell once said of Charleston. It was in 1916 that the phenomenon came into being, as Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell and David Garnett made the move from Suffolk to Charleston, where Clive Bell and Maynard Keynes were also to be regular visitors. As conscientious objectors Grant and Garnett were exempted from military service providing they continued to work on the land and both found employment on a nearby farm. It was Virginia and Leonard Woolf, who lived locally, who had originally spotted the late 17th century Sussex farmhouse situated at the foot of the South Downs and encouraged Vanessa to make the move. Over the next 60 years the house was decorated by Bell and Grant, they painted walls, doors and furniture and produced decorated ceramics and needlepoint designs for their home.
After the death of Duncan Grant The Charleston Trust was formed to preserve the house and its remarkable collection, it has been described as 'One of the most difficult and imaginative feats of restoration current in Britain'.
Charleston now hosts an active range of other associated events . Amongst these are a summer school, an annual festival, the Charleston Gallery, the quarterly Canvas publication, the Crafts Council listed shop and the continuing activities of the Friends of Charleston (who are now 1,400 strong).
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Wed-Sun & Bank holidays
Wed - Sat 1300 - 1800 (1200 – 1800 July & August)
Sun & Bank holidays 1400-1800
Last entry 1700
Closed: Mon Tues
Adults £11.00
Children (6-16) £6.00
Accessible (Ground Floor only) £6.00
Family £31.00
Students/Green Traveller/Unemployed £10.00
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Charleston is the only surviving complete example of the decorative work of Bell and Grant, with walls, doors and furniture painted in their exuberant style. The house shows an evolution in decorative style throughout its different rooms. Initially only Vanessa's bedroom (now the library), Clive Bell's study door and window and Duncan's bedroom were decorated. Later the designs spread throughout the house, including the spare room in 1936 and the garden room in 1945.
Charleston not only houses an impressive collection of art by its inhabitants but also a varied collection of other artist's work including sculpture by Renoir and Gimond and paintings by Fry, Picasso, Sickert and Derain.
The collection is continually developing - recent acquisitions include Duncan Grant's 'Self-Portrait in a Turban' 1909 purchased with support from The National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund, The National Art Collections Fund and The Pilgrim Trust and Duncan Grant's copy of Piero della Francesca's 'Portrait of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino' 1904/5 (this purchase was the first project to be supported by the Quentin Bell Commemoration Fund founded in 1997). Amongst recent loans are 'Flowers against Chintz' by Duncan Grant, 1956, from the Arts Council Collection and a bronze bust of Lytton Strachey by Stephen Tomlin, circa 1930, on loan from the Keatley Trust. The Tate Gallery have lent two pictures to the collection each season since 1993.
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Charleston's intensely decorated interiors and overflowing gardens provide a truly individual experience. With the museum, cafe and shop also on site we recommend you allow half a day to enjoy all that Charleston has to offer.
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Bravo, the cable reality heavyweight, is inch by inch expanding its program offerings in the scripted arena. The network announced Tuesday its forthcoming slate of original programming, which includes 15 new series -- two of which are scripted, one of which is a "real-time" reality series -- and 16 returning series.
The additions come as the NBCUniversal-owned cable network posted bests in key demographics in the first quarter. The network is averaging 1.1 million total viewers and 629,000 adults 18-49 year-to-date, up slightly from the same quarter in 2013.
As Bravo initiates a new incoming class, some of its returning reality students will enroll in summer school. Boat-set "Below Deck" will return for a second season. "Real Housewives of Atlanta" offshoot "Don't Be Tardy," chronicling Kim Zolciak's bountiful brood, will get a third season. Real estate-skewed "Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles" returns for a seventh season while across the country, the "Real Housewives of New Jersey" ladies will get dramatic for a sixth season.
PHOTOS: TV shows and their spinoffs
And later this fall Bravo will keep up the pace with returns from "Top Chef," "The Millionaire Matchmaker," "The Real Housewives of Atlanta," "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills," "Shahs of Sunset," "Vanderpump Rules," "Thicker Than Water," "Blood, Sweat & Heels," "Newlyweds" (which will also get a third season in 2015), and more "Watch What Happens Live" and "Fashion Queens."
The network also announced three unscripted projects in development. One comes from filmmaker Morgan Spurlock: "Gen XYZ" (working title) centers on six women from four different generations, each on the brink of taking their careers in the fashion and beauty industries to the next level. The other series in development look at the luxury travel world, "Tour Group" (working title), and the third would be a live televised estate sale, "Going Going Gone" (working title).
But onto the new series that will roll out on the network in the coming months. Here's an overview of the slate.
Scripted Series
"Odd Mom Out": an original comedy series starring author/fashionista Jill Kargman. In the half-hour comedy, Kargman plays a version of herself living in New York's Upper East Side.
"Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce": previously announced as the network's first foray into the scripted space, the series is based on the bestselling "Girlfriends' Guide" book series by Vicki Iovine. The series will follow Abby (Lisa Edelstein), a fortysomething self-help author with a messy personal life.
Unscripted Series
"Top Chef Duels": previously announced as "Top Chef Extreme," the offshoot, hosted by celebrity chef Curtis Stone, brings back 18 contestants from past seasons of "Top Chef" and "Top Chef Masters" for, you guessed it, an extreme version of the two. Stone will head the judges table with Gail Simmons, while chefs Wolfgang Puck and Hugh Acheson and special guests will round out the panel throughout its season.
"Best New Restaurant: "Top Chef" everyman Tom Colicchio hosts the series, which pits 16 new restaurants around the nation against one another, with challenges aimed at uncovering who provides the best all-around experience. The series is modeled after Gordon Ramsay's UK hit "Ramsay's Best Restaurant."
"100 Dates" (working title) Still trying to grasp the single life, Bravo offers this series that follows a group of young (and single) New Yorkers as they search for a mate. It's a real-time production, with each episode shot and aired within the same week. Fans will be able to interact with the cast and affect the story through social media.
"Friends to Lovers?": A look at when the "friend zone" is crossed. The show follows multiple sets of friends who have taken the leap of taking their relationships to the next level.
"Manzo'd with Children": What would a Bravo upfront announcement be without some "Real Housewives" spinoff? The series centers on "Real Housewives of New Jersey" mama bear Caroline Manzo and her "crazy Italian family" -- for those who haven't had their fill of the Ham Game.
"Euros of Hollywood": A look at six European jet-setters transplanted in Los Angeles and trying to make it in America. The cast includes an Albanian pop princess trying to get her break in the U.S. And someone who calls himself an Italian Renaissance man.
"Ladies of London" (premiering in June): Maybe better titled "Real Housewives of London"? Set across the pond, the series follows a group of elite British socialites: Annabelle Neilson and Caroline Stanbury, along with American expats Juliet Angus, Caprice Bourret, Marissa Hermer and Noelle Reno.
"Game of Crowns" (premiering in July): The series follows six pageant mom/wives as they compete in the pageant circuit.
"Million Dollar Listing Miami" (premiering in June): The series extends Bravo's real estate franchise to Miami.
"Jersey Belle": In the fish-out-of-water series, New Jersey native and Hollywood publicist Jaime Primak Sullivan navigates the challenges of being a Southern belle after getting hitched to a man from Mountain Brook, Ala.
"The Real Housewives of Atlanta: Kandi's Wedding" (working title): The wedding "Atlanta" viewers never thought would happen finally did (last weekend), and Bravo is taking viewers inside it. Watch as Kandi Burruss weds Todd Tucker -- and how mama Joyce reacts to it all.
"Untying the Knot" (premiering in June): Each episode features a different divorcing couple who seek the counseling of Vikki Ziegler, as well as expert appraisers Michael and Mark Millea, in the task of dividing assets out of court.
"Extreme Guide to Parenting" (premiering in July): Each episode looks at two different households with very unique styles of raising their children.
Queen Latifah, Centric revive 'Single Ladies'
Conan O'Brien to host shows from Comic-Con in 2015
PHOTOS: TV shows and their spinoffs
Overrated/Underrated 2014
PHOTOS: 101 best-written TV shows of all time


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NetBeans: Ruby Developer's New Best Friend
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NetBeans is well-known as a popular and feature-rich Java IDE that was open-sourced by Sun Microsystems in 2000. And with a continuously growing user community, it is considered today to be one of the major IDEs in the field. In 2007, NetBeans began an expansion of its feature set to support many non-Java languages, including Ruby.
In this series of articles, you will discover various ways that NetBeans can make a Ruby developer's life easier and some of the features that are not available in other IDEs. We'll also cover the background of the Ruby tooling project and provide necessary information about how to get the bits, configure the IDE, and the possible ways of contributing to the project.
Why is Sun investing in Ruby?
It may come as a surprise that Sun Microsystems is investing so heavily in Ruby tools, after all, Ruby is a competitor to Java as a language. To understand Sun's motivation, we need to look at Java as a platform. Java is not only a programming language but also a Virtual Machine and a set of APIs. Today, the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) supports many different languages, unlike in the past. That JVM is no longer only about Java is emphasized by the fact that Sun bundles the Rhino JavaScript interpreter in JDK 6.
Sun recognized the value of dynamic languages - Java language is still the best for large scale enterprise applications, but dynamic languages such as Ruby can be very productive in specific areas, such as prototyping, web development or for gluing various applications together. In 2006, Sun hired the main developers of the JRuby project: Thomas Enebo and Charles Oliver Nutter, to further explore ways of integrating Ruby into the Java platform. (JRuby is a Ruby implementation written purely in Java.) The JRuby project reached an important milestone when version 1.0 was released in June 2007.
By using JRuby, developers gain many advantages of the Java platform, such as access to Java APIs and ease of deployment. The Java platform currently provides a large amount of libraries (most of them are open source) so Ruby developers can benefit from accessing these libraries directly from Ruby code if run on top of JRuby. JRuby can bring the Ruby language into places where Ruby could not be used before. Ever thought of running Ruby on a mainframe? JRuby can make it possible. The Java platform has many solutions for solving scalability, security, maintenance, deployment, and other issues of enterprise applications, and again Ruby developers can benefit from these thanks to JRuby.
Sun always provides tooling for its technologies via NetBeans and JRuby is no exception. However, if you are a Ruby or Rails developer and not interested in JRuby at all, you can still use NetBeans. NetBeans Ruby IDE ships with JRuby as the default runtime, but you can change JRuby to native Ruby in the Options dialog - you just need to point NetBeans to your Ruby installation. So NetBeans is interesting both for Java developers who are exploring the dynamic language area and for Ruby/Rails developers who are not interested in Java at all.
Three feature highlights of Ruby support in NetBeans
Let's look at three features that I consider extremely useful when developing with Ruby in NetBeans.
1. Code completion everywhere
Code completion is a context sensitive pop-up that provides users with a selection of the best possible methods, classes or modules. It can be invoked by pressing Ctrl-Space in the editor. Code completion is well-known and loved by Java developers - every modern Java IDE provides it. However, in Ruby creating good completion is a very difficult task because types are not declared in Ruby language. Thus the IDE resorts to heuristics to guess what the types are and provides options in code completion based on its guess.
Code completion shrinks the possible number of options as you type, and you can simply hit Enter to fill in the selected option:
You can see the module for each of the methods and what parameters are accepted by the method. Providing a fast way to fill in the method/class/module name and parameters is only one of many ways that code completion helps. Also extremely useful is the way that code completion shows documentation (RubyDoc) for each of the classes, methods, modules, keywords, etc.
Easy access to documentation is especially useful for beginners or developers who are migrating to Ruby from different languages - you can use code completion to learn the API as you develop. This is a friendlier way to learn a language and its APIs than to study all the details upfront. Plus, many developers prefer to experiment when learning and Ruby's clean language and API can make it easy and fun.
Code completion can also help when you type Require statements:
One of the useful features of code completion in NetBeans is support for regular expressions. Unless you are one of the few who can remember all syntactical options for regular expressions, you will find this very handy:
Similarly, if you can't remember the names or meanings of dollar variables, or what the escape codes that follow a percent sign are, NetBeans will help you:
I have only touched on some of the basic features, but there are many other ways that code completion can make your life easier. When using NetBeans for Ruby development you will definitely discover why Ctrl-Space is guaranteed to become your favorite shortcut!
2. Graphical Ruby debugger
Most Java developers can't imagine their lives without a good debugger. However, debugging in Ruby has been quite a challenge until recently. NetBeans provides a graphical debugger for Ruby, one that is very similar to Java's. You can add breakpoints into your code and run the application in debug mode and it will stop on the first breakpoint as expected. Then you can see useful views such as local and global variables; you can add watches; see the call stack, switch threads, etc. If you hover your mouse cursor over any element in your code, the expression's current value is evaluated and you can see the result instantly.
As you can see in the above screenshot, RHTML debugging is supported as well, and you can easily step through RHTML pages.
3. Ruby refactoring & quick fixes
Refactoring Ruby code until now has tended to painful: if you changed a method name you had to rename all its occurrences. With NetBeans, this process is automated so you can do things such as search for all usages of any method/class/variable in your code or invoke the rename refactoring to change the name of the element. Here's an example of the output of the find usages command:
The rename refactoring lets you change all the references in a different view:
In future versions of NetBeans's Ruby support, there will also be other refactoring available, including features such as extract method, extract local variable and others.
The IDE can sometimes detect variable collisions in code and in cases where the code may not do what the user intended. The IDE can provide a "quick fix", an easy way to correct the code:
In the screenshot above, the block variable name is the same as the local variable name, which will lead to a side effect in the code; the IDE gives you the option of renaming the variable to solve the problem.
Again, these are just some examples of how NetBeans makes the Ruby developer's life easier. I will focus on additional editing features in upcoming articles in this series.
Where to get NetBeans Ruby IDE?
There are several ways to get Ruby support for NetBeans. One way is to visit the NetBeans 6.0 download page and get the full installer, which includes Ruby support: http://dlc.sun.com/netbeans/download/6.0/milestones/latest.
However, if you prefer to install a minimal version of the Ruby IDE, you can get a daily build from here: http://deadlock.netbeans.org/hudson/job/ruby.
Another option for obtaining Ruby modules is to install the basic Java IDE and then go to the Plugin Manager in the IDE (Tools | Plugin Manager) and let NetBeans download the modules over the network and install them.
Currently, NetBeans's Ruby support is available as a preview. Although we know of many developers who already use it on commercial applications, there are bugs that will be fixed in the final version. If you encounter any bugs, please file them in NetBeans's Issuezilla: http://www.netbeans.org/kb/articles/issuezilla.html.
More information
You can find additional information about Ruby support in NetBeans on its wiki page.
We have also recorded several screencasts that highlight various new features: http://www.netbeans.org/download/flash/jruby_on_rails/jruby_on_rails.html and http://www.netbeans.org/download/flash/jruby_editing/jruby_editing.html.
Other demos and tutorials are available from the main Ruby documentation page.
In following articles in this series, we will discuss additional features of Ruby support and other topics, such as how to get involved in the project and its future plans. In the meantime, make sure to try out Ruby support in NetBeans. If you develop in Ruby a lot, you may find that NetBeans is the IDE you have been looking for!
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The code completion is so dirty.I like Eclipse's code completion style much more.
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Dynamic Languages - yes, but why Ruby?
Zeev B
Although very different from Java I find Python is in tune with the Java culture :
1. Readability and explicitness - both Java and Python endorse clean readable code that explicitly states what is being done. Ruby reminds me of Perl - a "write only" language
2. Matureness- Python and Java are of almost the same age. They are mature languages that proved themselves again and again in production systems.
3. Vibrant community - both platforms have a devoted community and community process.
4. Open source libraries - both platforms have a lot of libraries and frameworks available (a result of points 2 and 3).
As a Java developer using a lot of Python/Jython nowadays, I am dissapointed that Sun chose not to invest in supporting this popular and productive programming language. I think that NetBeans is loosing an opportiunity to hook up with this wonderful community which is missing a high quality IDE such as NetBeans.
Re: Dynamic Languages - yes, but why Ruby?
Evgeny Zislis
Why would Sun want to invest their efforts into Ruby instead of Python?
You just write That Python is so similar to Java.
Well, Ruby is somewhat different from Java ... that may be their reason to choose it.
Re: Dynamic Languages - yes, but why Ruby?
Zeev B
I'm not sure if you are joking or not... I'll assume you are not.
Python and Java are very different programming languages, just as Ruby and Java. Moreover, Python is much closer to Ruby since they are both dynamic languages.
I was referring to the Python and Java culture and communities.
I think that Sun went the Ruby way because of the hype surrounding Ruby-on-Rails and the fact that many "high-profile" Java developers were stating that they are moving to the Ruby camp.
I know that there are even Sun employees that are working with Python that expressed their interest in seeing support for it in NetBeans.
I hope that the Ruby support was developed in a way that will allow easy porting to support other popular dynamic languages such as Python.
Re: Dynamic Languages - yes, but why Ruby?
Paul D
Re: Dynamic Languages - yes, but why Ruby?
Dinko Srkoč
1. Readability and explicitness - I am sure one can write unreadable Python or Java code, just as one can write unreadable code in Ruby. Perl did influence Ruby, but the use of Perl style is actually discouraged.
2. Matureness - Python pre-dates Java by 4 years, first public release of Ruby coincided with the first public release of Java (1995).
3. Vibrant community - I would say Ruby's community is just as much devoted to the platform as the Java or Python communities are, and it is growing by day.
4. Open source libraries - the Ruby platform has a lot of libraries (admittedly, less than Java or Python). Moreover, JRuby can easily use Java's extensive set of libraries.
Even though Ruby may not have the body count behind it as Java or Python, it does have hype. Eventually, that hype will grow into community perhaps just as large as Python's. I would even argue that Jython was recently revived largely in response to/because of Ruby/JRuby success (and call to arms by no other than JRuby's Charles Nutter).
Finally, there are companies, besides Google, that do use or support Ruby in one way or the other (Sun, Amazon, Yahoo, Twitter).
To conclude, I don't think Sun chose to support Ruby only because of the big RoR hype, and the suitability of a language is actually in the eye of the beholder.
Re: Dynamic Languages - yes, but why Ruby?
Zeev B
You say "..I don't think Sun chose to support Ruby only because of the big RoR hype..." - so why did Sun chose Ruby?
It doesn't make sense since they had to invest in developing proper support for it in order to run on the JVM when they could have used Jython which already does this for Python.
I don't see any technical reason to prefer Ruby over Python or Groovy - it's sounds to me like the hype played a major rule in this decision.
Re: Dynamic Languages - yes, but why Ruby?
Roman Strobl
Sun chose Ruby over Groovy because at the time the decision was made Groovy wasn't mature yet + there were some other strategical reasons (e.g. size of Ruby community and Solaris developer stack that supports Ruby). Groovy is now ready for mainstream usage and we plan to support it in the next version.
We are also looking into Python support in the future. PHP support is also coming.
John Griffiths


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Balsamic Glazed Salmon on Lentils
Roasted salmon cooks up moist and tender. Served on a bed of lentils with a balsamic glaze over all the dish, it is aromatic and tantalizing.
1⁄2 cup soy sauce
1⁄2 cup balsamic vinegar
1 tbsp. sesame oil
1 tbsp. grated, peeled ginger
1 tbsp. grated daikon
Salt and pepper, to taste
4 salmon steaks (1-in. thick)
3 cups cooked green or multi-colored lentils
Vegetable oil
Julienned carrots and scallions, for garnish
1. Combine soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, sesame oil, ginger, and daikon in a jar. Shake to blend well.
2. Pour balsamic mixture into saucepan and bring to a boil. Boil 5 min., until reduced and syrupy.
3. Coat the bottom of a roasting pan with oil. Add salmon steaks in one layer and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Roast in 425° F oven 8 min. Coat top of salmon with some of balsamic mixture. Roast 2-3 min. longer.
4. Meanwhile, sauté scallions in 2 tbsp. oil until tender; toss with hot lentils. Arrange lentils in center of plate; top with salmon and garnish with carrots and scallions. Drizzle extra balsamic glaze on plate.


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Christian counseling is unique in that it provides psychological principles and modalities within the context of a Biblical foundation. Psychotherapy treatment is implemented in alignment with scriptural truth. Believing that all truth is designed and created by God, the understanding of the human mind and how it functions is based on truth. In working with individuals and families, a sound understanding of the Word of God is pertinent to identifying the problematic issues and providing the help that will equip them toward a journey of wholeness.
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Licensed Professional Counselor
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I am a Christian. And I do counseling. That does not mean that I will use my religion to judge the thoughts or actions of anyone. Now does it mean that I want to make all people have the same beliefs as I do. But everyone has some type of spirituality and motivates them...convicts their thoughts and behaviors...gives them hope for change and a positive future. I like to explore an individual's spirituality with them and help integrate that into their therapy.
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Isaiah proclaimed and reminds us: "I have loved you with an everlasting love." Faith based counseling underscores the reality that fully alive people discover meaning in their lives and suggests a specific mission which is defined by one's relationship with Jesus Christ. This truth of God is based on the reality that God loves unconditionally. As we journey through life, with all its complexities, we can lose sight of God's love and gifts to us. Our Christian counselors can help you regain that vision and a healthy direction for your behaviors and lifestyle.
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