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While most of social media requires spontaneity and quick responsiveness, we can also plan out and allow you to preview most of the content that will be going out on your accounts. We write content in a spreadsheet for you to preview two weeks out, and we have a system for approval and edit requests that make it simple to work with and yet allow for that spontaneous reply to tweets or posts.
You may want posts going out several times a day or you may want them going out a few times a week. We will write or craft the content to be scheduled on your social media profiles. Whether it is LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook or others.
We won't just post content and leave. Your community manager will monitor the social web for questions and comments that people post, and reply to further the discussion. This is how relationships are built on your social media accounts.
While you will have a team of individuals behind you, you will be assigned a single point of contact at SocialKNX. This community manager will work with you to set goals, grow your community, write social media content, and respond to comments and questions left on your profiles.
You want to know what is working and what isn't. At SocialKNX, we analyze it all. Your community manager will provide you with monthly reports and go over post performance and web traffic. We can tie into your Google Analytics to provide you with a look at what content is driving traffic to which pages on your site. We measure not just how many likes and fans you gained in a month, but what content is resonating with your audience and what needs to be tweaked.
What are people saying about you and your brand on or off of your social media accounts. We create a listening dashboard to pull in blog content, tweets, posts and more that have your name, your brand or hot keywords that we are monitoring. We'll keep our ears to the social grapevine and keep you informed.
While we know that being active on social media will automatically draw more fans and followers to your pages and profiles, we also know that if we strategically spend time finding, following, and engaging the right people in conversations on social media, you will grow your social communities much faster. Our goal is to find and follow 200 new contact for your account to net at least 100 new fans and followers each week.
Getting you in front of the media and letting them see your expertise is one of our goals. We want the world to know more about you and what you are doing. When we learn about media opportunities, we either pitch you to them, or bring the opportunity to you for a quick response. We also use social media to connect with the media outlets to build the kind of relationship that shows them what you are an expert in. When they have a need in your area of expertise, we want them thinking of you first.
Most social media platforms allow us to use geo-targeting to find and connect with your ideal audience. We can see who is talking about your industry in a specific radius (example: who is talking about buying a home within 25 miles of the 80125 zip code?). This allows us to jump in on conversations to offer solutions, expertise or just connect with them for future needs. It's pretty amazing!
While using a Klout score to determine someone's influence level is somewhat debatable, we know that many will look at your Klout score on social media to determine whether you are indeed the expert you say you are. Klout scores are a cumulative score that takes into account the size of your networks, the number of people who share your content and the number who engage with you. We work daily to connect you to those who are influencers and those who will engage with you to increase your influence or Klout!
On any social media platform, the key is not how much you broadcast your content, but how much you walk about on other people's accounts and comment or engage in what they are talking about. The more you pay attention to what your community is saying, the more they will care about what you are saying and the more they will be inclined to build that desired relationship that translates into business. We spend time daily, walking about to build those important relationships and invite more people to come and learn more about you!
When someone becomes a super fan, sharing your content, talking about how much they love working with you, or giving you a compliment, you want to reach out and thank them. This can be a simple message of thanks or we can buy them a virtual cup of coffee on your behalf as an example of how we encourage fan engagement and appreciation.
SocialKNX maintains a very large database of photos that we purchase monthly. There is no need for you to purchase photos for your social media posts, we will do that for you.
Do you want to know how your business is stacking up against your competitors on social media? We watch what they are doing and keep you informed. We also let that spur us on to keep you out in front!
Making sure you and your business profiles are findable is very important on the social web. We help optimize each of your profiles to ensure they have keywords and search terms people are looking for. We will add rich media where allowed to make your profiles stand out and get the attention they deserve.


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6 Dumb Things the Internet Thinks Your Boss Should Know About Millennials
My fellow millennials, no one in the world of business knows what to do with us.
When a millennial enters an office, how does one respond?
Do they say hello, but, like, Snap it? Do they need to fold our cubicle walls into a makeshift ping-pong table? Should they have prepared a welcome basket of kale and burritos, a cleverly worded card assuring us they're on the house?
The confusion over just how to welcome our generation into the workplace has inspired a market for consultants and a slew of blog posts on the topic.
One consultant, 52-year old Lisa McLeod, even charges $25,000 for a keynote address sharing her expertise on our confounding generation. If she brings along her bonafide millennial daughter, 23-year-old Elizabeth, they command a cool $30,000.
What are these people saying about how to manage us?
I scoured the internet for tips from those who claim to know our generation best. Here's what they want our bosses to know:
1. We like to work in groups… but also by ourselves.
"Millennials have a reputation for 'crowdsourcing,' and they often do tend to want to work in groups," advises Chad Holverson at When I Work. "But don't let that make you think that they are unable to make decisions on their own."
In fact, "millennials are at their creative best when relaxed and left alone to experiment," suggests Tom Kaneshige at CIO.
OK, good. Glad to clear that up.
2. We know how to use technology, but we don't always want to.
Basically, when it comes to tech, we're smart and old people are dumb, so listen to us. We know the app that will do the thing better and faster and cheaper… oh no, there goes my job.
Of course, "millennials crave in-person collaboration and abhor the faceless vacuum that technology has brought," says Holverson.
That's true. As most of our friends are just robots and memes, the workplace is a good opportunity for face time and human touch.
3. Near-constant praise our whole lives makes us crave feedback at work.
"Today's young worker requires a kind of care that flies in the face of generations past," explains Kaneshige.
But we're not looking for never-ending praise, per se.
Rather we "want to 'keep score' on how [we're] doing in all aspects of [our] career," according to Business Insider. "[We] never want to have a surprise," startup CEO Jeff Lawson told BI.
Surprises are scary, after all.
4. If you convince us we're making a difference, you can pay us less.
"Looking to hire millennials? Well, offering a bigger paycheck may not be the best way to go," CNBC reports in a convenient interpretation of data.
"Millennials are motivated by a sense of progress, the opportunity to be creative and a sense that what they are doing matters," writes Holverson.
We don't get into jobs just for the money, like those greedy baby boomers might have done.
"Millennials want to own a project, run with it and make a real, measurable difference," explains HR professional Emily Disston on The Muse.
What do we need money for, anyway? Baby boomers are still paying our rent.
5. If you'll say, "Jump," we'll ask, "But, why?"
"Pivotal events like Woodstock and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Vietnam War, Civil Rights Movement, Sexual Revolution and the Cold War had profound effects on millennials' parents and fostered inquisitive children who were often asked for their opinion," says Disston.
Also, have you seen how boring offices are? We need to entertain ourselves somehow.
6. WE NEED A PING PONG TABLE. Er, no, money. We need money.
No, but seriously, please pay us.
"All my friends have been wowed by foosball tables and all these benefits," Elizabeth McLeod, the $5,000 millennial, told the Wall Street Journal, "but when it comes down to the nitty-gritty and everyone hates their job, no one cares about foosball tables."
You know what? On second thought, never mind. Don't manage us at all. We prefer to be led.
Your Turn: Are you a millennial? What do you really look for in a workplace?
Dana Sitar (@danasitar) is a staff writer at The Penny Hoarder. She's written for Huffington Post, Entrepreneur.com, Writer's Digest and more, attempting humor wherever it's allowed (and sometimes where it's not).
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Part 1: The Future of the American Dream
Part 2: Social Security, Medicare, and the American Dream
Part 3: Does Globalization Help or Hinder the American Dream?
Part 4: Making the World Safe for Democracy
For millions of American families today, getting ahead can feel an awful lot like falling behind.
The great achievement of the United States has been to forge a middle-class nation based on a growing economy and government policies deliberately aimed at strengthening and sustaining the middle class.
Now many experts are asking whether the middle-class American Dream is beginning to slip away. Over the past two decades, the American economy has enjoyed healthy growth--much faster than the economies of most other developed countries. Yet the benefits of this growth have been distributed unequally across the population. The wealthiest American households have been absorbing an ever-larger share of the nations yearly income, while the middle class and ordinary wage-earners have generally been gaining fewer economic benefits. Growth has been slow to translate into higher wages and new jobs. As income inequality has grown and labor markets have become tougher for workers at nearly all levels, the question arises whether a middle-class standard of living will fall out of reach for many Americans.
The shift has implications for our democratic way of life. The belief that hard work will enable wage earners and their families to achieve and maintain a middle-class standard of living has been the essence of the American Dream. And political observers since Alexis de Tocqueville have understood that a strong middle class was one key to the strength and stability of American democracy.
Several forces seem to be chipping away at the American Dream today, including transformations in technology and the nature of work, fierce global competition threatening jobs and wages, and a philosophy of government that places less emphasis on the governments role as referee of the economy and more emphasis on unfettered free markets. The issue is complicated by the coming age wave, the imminent retirement of the Baby Boom generation, which will place enormous new strains on the federal budget through new demands on programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid--and indeed create pressure on the economy as a whole.
Is America in danger of losing its middle-class character? If not, then why have so many commentators worried over this supposed trend? If so, what, if anything, can be done about it? This project will provide a balanced look at the future of the American Dream and assess the economic health of Americas middle class. It will review possible answers to some of the new challenges facing our economy and provide an honest estimate of each proposals benefits and costs.
The notion that democracies tend to be most stable when they have a sizeable middle class dates back to Aristotle. In modern times, the key to creating and sustaining middle-class-based democracies has been a continuously growing economy. Over the past decade, the American economy has grown faster than the economies of most other developed countries. Yet income inequality has grown, raising the question of whether a middle-class lifestyle is falling out of reach for many Americans. One reason is that wages for ordinary workers have largely stagnated, even as the overall economy has grown. A bigger and bigger share of income is going to the richest households. Today households with the top 20 percent of incomes take in nearly 50 percent of all income in the country. The disparity has grown steadily over the past forty years. Part 1 will report on the growth of income inequality. Is income inequality something we should be worrying about? In a democracy, is economic opportunity a right? How as a democracy have we dealt with this issue in the past? On the one hand, by almost any measure--size of houses, numbers of cars, consumer goods--most Americans are clearly enjoying a higher standard of living than forty years ago. On the other hand, families at or below the median income in the nation feel hard-pressed. What does it really mean to be poor in America today? Does the government have the responsibility--or the right--to intervene in economic life to sustain an American middle-class way of life?
The hardest thing in the world to understand, Albert Einstein once said, is the income tax. It is perhaps consoling to think that Einstein was no less frustrated than the rest of us when April 15 rolled around each year. Americans have never liked taxes--the American Revolution itself started as a tax revolt. And our failure to protect our nation and its capital in the War of 1812 was largely due to the absence of a tax structure to support our troops. But as our democracy has progressed, we have come to understand that taxes are necessary to support such common goals as providing for the common defense and ensuring that our retirees have at least a minimum to live on in their old age. Taxes have been at the center of American political debate for the past twenty-five years. Yet perhaps in no area of public policy are there more misconceptions. How much in taxes do Americans really pay? Who pays what? How do taxes Americans pay compare with those in other countries? What are American taxpayers getting for their money? How much pork is in the federal budget? Do lower taxes lead to greater economic growth, as some argue? Are deficits a drag on the economy? Part 1 will attempt to clear up the confusion about taxation and clarify the choices Americans face in financing government in the coming decades. It will ask to what degree taxation policy is an issue with repercussions for democracy itself. What is the democratic root of the idea of progressive taxation? Can taxes be too high or too low to be compatible with a viable democracy? How does one define fairness in taxation?
Without question one of the most profound internal challenges confronting American democracy in the coming decades is the aging of the U.S. population. Since the New Deal, we have relied on a government managed retirement system economically based on funds provided by younger workers who vastly outnumbered retirees. Beginning in 2011, when the first members of the Baby Boom reach age 65, the ratio of young workers to retirees will rapidly begin to shrink. The age wave raises issues of intergenerational fairness that are important for a democracy--since supporting our growing population of retirees will necessarily impose greater burdens on younger workers and their families. How will we find a fair way to distribute this burden? Politicians and pundits have begun to discuss the major problems facing Social Security and Medicare as the Baby Boom reaches retirement age. But few Americans fully understand the implications of the challenge, or the options that we have for meeting it. Is our present approach, which relies heavily on regressive payroll taxes to finance Social Security and Medicare, appropriate, or do we need to rethink our philosophy of taxation to find a more democratic solution to this demographic shift? Or should our taxation policy shift to a less progressive system based on the theory that flat tax policies will increase overall economic growth? Part 2 will explain the major policy choices to be made, and the costs and benefits associated with each.
A democracy needs a strong middle class. Yet a middle class can only be sustained if there is a plentiful supply of jobs paying middle-class wages. The post-World War II U.S. industrial economy was able to provide relatively high-wage jobs to millions of workers who had little in the way of advanced education or special skills. Growing U.S. industrial productivity led to rising wages for manufacturing workers--wages that effectively turned much factory work into middle-class employment. Yet over the past two decades, and especially in the last few years, tens of thousands of American industrial jobs have disappeared as U.S. multinational firms shut down American manufacturing facilities and moved production abroad, first to Mexico and later to China. Once upon a time America was the worlds manufacturing powerhouse. Today many if not most durable goods that Americans buy--everything from computers, printers, and refrigerators to automobiles and iPods--are manufactured in whole or in part abroad. Americas trade deficit has risen to historic highs, and continues on the upswing. In addition, American firms are increasingly replacing American workers--from call center customer service reps to computer programmers and radiologists--with workers based in India and other foreign nations. The decline of the manufacturing sector, and the rise in outsourcing or off-shoring, has gone hand in hand with a new segmentation of the economy into a smaller pool of high-paying knowledge jobs and a much larger pool of low-paying service jobs that require little in the way of skill. Will the shift from a manufacturing-based to a service-based economy change the face of American democracy? Many economists see benefits to this new global division of labor--primarily in the form of cheaper consumer goods and healthy global economic growth. Others have begun to argue that the loss of productive capacity and jobs is undermining the U.S. economy, worker well-being, and the U.S. national interest. Part 3 will provide a balanced look at the issues raised by globalization, with a particular emphasis on its effect on the American middle class. It will attempt to assess how continued globalization will affect the lives of Americans and Americas economic and democratic future.
When Woodrow Wilson spoke of making the world safe for democracy, he was describing a role that America tends to play almost by its very nature. Does the fact that the most powerful nation on earth--whether measured in economic or military power--is a democracy help ensure the survival of democracy on the planet? And what if this were to change? What if America were to slip from superpower status and a non-democratic state suddenly dominated the global scene? The United States inhabits a globe undergoing almost unimaginably rapid transformation. America remains the most powerful nation on earth. But other non-democratic nations and groups of nations are gaining on the United States. Chinas economy is now the second largest in the world. Russia can eventually be expected to regain some of the strength it lost in the aftermath of the Cold War. Moreover, the United States faces a growing threat in the form of the proliferation of deadly nuclear, biological, and chemical technologies and still confronts terrorist networks eager to commit a major attack against the American homeland. At the moment, the United States is widely hated throughout the Arab and Muslim world and disliked in most other countries. How well positioned is the United States to manage these new challenges? Are the principles that guide our present foreign policy likely to sustain our position and diminish these threats, or have our recent policies undercut our long-term position? Given the demands of problems at home--particularly the growing costs of an aging population--will we have the financial resources to support our military forces and sustain the kind of global presence we have maintained for the past half-century? Can we build an idealistic foreign policy implemented by realistic means? Or are we willy-nilly committed to pursue an idealistic policy at a high cost in blood and treasure or a realistic policy that rejects a commitment to supporting the growth of democracy both in the United States and in the rest of the World? Does the survival of our democracy demand a forward-based strategy? Or will the time come when America retreats from the world? Part 4 will help citizens identify the major camps in todays foreign policy debate. Is America destined to remain a superpower, or must Americans prepare themselves for a new world in which American influence is a wasting asset? Part 4 will discuss the ways in which we can muster the will and the resources to ensure the survival and strength of American democracy in the 21st century?


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Stop Here, My Friend was originally published in 1963 and is a wonderful short story collection that I have had the pleasure of reading to proof read the eBook that Dzanc Books is putting out in our rEprint collection--this title should be available this forthcoming week.
Reading one of the later stories again very early this morning, I hit the line:
"The wound of my Aunt Beth's grave isnot yet healed, and beside it a new one is open."
This thought by the protagonist, Janet, at the funeral of her Uncle Ben. Her Aunt Beth had been dead less than a year; there was still not even a tombstone at the site of her grave.
For whatever reason that image jumped into my head and I realized just how many times Merrill Joan Gerber had done that in this collection--taken a pretty common moment and created a unique image or thought about that moment. With maybe the most amazing thing about that to me is that this collection is being re-released 50 years afterit first appeared and yet the stories and writing are still extremely relevant. In the early 60's, Merrill Joan Gerber was writing things in a way that I'm still not seeing today on a regular basis.
The above line comes from the story "We Know That Your Hearts Are Heavy," which was published by The New Yorker as was one other. Other stories inthe collection were published by Mademoiselle, Redbook and The Sewanee Review.
The more I read from Gerber's work the more excited I get to have found a writer with a shelf plus full of books to fall into whenever I want, not having to wait 2 or 3 years for her next book to come out (side note--not SSM related, but Gerber related--her newest work, the novel The Hysterectomy Waltz, has just printed and will be available online and in stores extremely soon!). Pick up one of her eBooks now and see if you don't get hooked too. (one other side note--Gerber also does water paintings and the artwork from the cover is from her as well).


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Here lies
My husband and our beloved father
Tzvi son of Aizik Dov
Died 10 Kislev 5691
May his soul be bound in the bonds of the living
Harry was born in Labun, Volhynia Gubernia, Russian Empire (also called Lubin in Yiddish and today, Yurovshchina, Ukraine) in about 1865. His parents (as reported on his death certificate) were Isaac Dansker and Sophie Goldberg.[1]
Ethel was born in Radzivilov, Volhynia Gubernia, Russian Empire to Yale Bresner and Pessie Gittleman.[2]
Our beloved elderly mother
Etel daughter of Yoel
Died 15 Sivan 5707
May her soul be bound in the bonds of the living
Ethel traveled to the United States with her children Mottel (age 19), Malke (17) and Rachel (8) following their father Harry. They landed in New York on 16 June 1905.[3] While I have a candidate record, I am not yet certain that I have found Harry's manifest.
I have located the family in the 1910 census living at 274-6 Henry Street, New York, New York.[4] Harry was reportedly an operator at a skirt factory. The family consisted of Harry, Zeitl, Mollie and Rachel. Son Mottel is not with the family. The census record reports that Zeitl had had 7 children, only two of whom were still living. I have not found any other records regarding son Mottel.
Daughter Rachel married Reuben Minkowitz on 6 June 1922.[5] She reported that she, like her father, was born in Lubin. I have not located a marriage record for her sister Mollie.
Harry's death certificate indicates that he had become a glazier. He is among many Lubin immigrants who took that profession in New York City.
Ethel's death certificate indicates that she died at the age of 89. The tombstone says 90. But, the manifest for her arrival in New York indicated that she was 40 years old in June 1905. That would calculate to a birth year of about 1865. The 1910 U.S. Census provides information that agrees: she was listed as 46 years old in 1910. Based on this, she was probably about 82 years old at death.
There is inconsistency regarding the Dansker surname in Ethel's death records. Ethel's death certificate lists her surname as Dansky and Montefiore Cemetery has her identified in their index using that surname. However, both her and her husband's tombstones indicate that the surname was Dansker. That name is in agreement with the 1910 U.S. Census record for the family, Ethel's manifest and Rachel's marriage certificate. "Dansky" is a mistake on the Ethel's death certificate - a mistake carried forward by the cemetery.
The Danskers are buried next to each other in one of the First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association plots in Montefiore Cemetery, Queens, NY: block 89, gate 156N, line 4R, graves 5 and 6.
1. Queens County, New York, certificate of death no. 7008 (30 November 1930), Harry Dansker, New York City Municipal Archives, New York.
2. "New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed 18 December 2010), manifest, S.S. Patricia, Hamburg to New York, arriving 16 June 1905, p. 40, line 3, Zwettel Danzker; citing National Archives Microfilm Serial T715, Roll 589.
Queens County, New York, certificate of death no. 11895 (7 June 1947), Ethel Dansky, New York City Municipal Archives, New York.
3. "New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957," digital images, Ancestry.com, manifest, S.S. Patricia, Hamburg to New York, arriving 16 June 1905, p. 40, Zwettel Danzker.
4. New York County, New York, 1910 U.S. Census, population schedule, Manhattan, enumeration district 91, sheet 1A, dwelling 1, family 5, Harry and Zeitl Donsker; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 17 May 2015); citing NARA microfilm publication T624, roll 1008.
5. Kings County, New York, marriage certificate no. 6221 (6 June 1922), Reuben Minkowitz and Rachel E. Donsker, New York City Municipal Archives, New York.


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Official Selection 5th Darbhanga International Film Festival, 2018 in India
The short film has been officially selected to play in India at the 5th Darbhanga International Film Festival, 2018 and I might just go to this one… Never been to Asia.
the dark room with the flickering lights unfolding a story
Got sick again this week. Not fun. Got well enough to attend the Columbus International Film and Animation Festival where my short film TOUCHING KIDS played. Pretty good sized crowd and I was most pleased with the audience response. After the Colony Film Fest, I got a good sense of Read more…


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I cannot even believe that March is over halfway over. After finishing up conferences last week I feel like the rest of the year will be over in the blink of an eye and my chitlens will be off to first grade before I know it!! Cra-zy!!!
But that's not what I came here to talk about tonight. No indeedy. I have something much heavier on my heart tonight.
Let's talk about regrets, shall we?
This year I have a BIG regret . . . signing up to be my school's Yearbook Coordinator!! (insert dramatic music, ominous music here . . .)
I have a defininate, undeniable problem with saying no. Which is how I got into this situation to begin with . . . It's not that I have anything against the yearbook process or HELPING with the yearbook. I just didn't necessarily need to sign up to do it. The whole thing. Single-handedly.
Sigh. Its not easy being
And the Yearbook Coordinator debacle has gotten me thinking about other life regrets as well. . .
Like the time I SHOULD have plucked my wickedly ginormous unibrow in Junior High and I didn't.
Like the time I tried to cook a delicious home-cooked meal for (my at-the-time boyfriend) Mr. Messyhair and I thought 8-10 whole peeled garlic cloves that the recipe called for meant 8-10 whole peeled garlic BULBS. (Holy garlic breath!!!)
And like that time I thought that a perm would be REALLY, REALLY great hair choice for me.
Sigh. Lots of regrets.
Have I learned my lesson? Yes. Just say no people! Say no to perms, bad cooking, unibrows and all forms of yearbook participation and/or coordination.
I'm so glad I got that off my chest. :)
Just one more thing to share tonight . . . I made a little My Kite reader FREEBIE that I posted to TPT, so just click the shamrock below to check it out! My kidlets had SO much fun coming up with lots of juicy describing words for their little stories!
Well, that's it for now! I'm off to work on Yearbook pages! Wish me luck!


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I'm ridiculously behind my travel eats.
So we were in South Australia late last year, stocking up on a 6-month supply of vino, and eating up a storm. (then again, when am I not stuffing my face, amiright?)
I've found that sticking to the restaurants that are most lauded with Chef Hat Awards by the Australia Good Food & Travel Guide is a failsafe. We tend to have the best meals when following said guide's recommendations. In contrast, we ate at this other Italian joint that the concierge of the Mayfair Hotel suggested was extremely popular with locals, and it was abysmal.
Chianti, one of Adelaide's top Italian trattorias, was where we had the most sublime Italian food. It was soulful and hearty, but polished, and inventive without being contrived. Every dish we had was a hit, and every dish, a must-try.
Service at the white linen-ed but still casual restaurant was also top-notch, efficient and gracious with that typical easy-going Aussie-warmth.
The Insalata d'Antra (A$23.90), a salad of lightly cured and smoked free-range duck breast, pickled fleurieu cherries, bitter & sweet leaves, red wine jelly, and roasted walnuts was absolutely smashing, in no small part due to the fact that the duck breast was outstanding.
The Flori di Zucchini (A$24.50), lightly battered zucchini flowers stuffed with ricotta & smoked mozzarella, served with a spicy black olive sauce, was incredibly balanced and nuanced. So so good.
A seasonal off-menu special, the Insalata di Pomodoro (A$16.90) was simplicity at its finest. They just picked the fattest and juiciest heirloom tomatoes, drizzled a little local evoo and threw on a few arugula leaves for a peppery kick, and voilà, magic!!
The Frutti di Mare ai Soffocato (A$43.90), a towering melange of South Australian blue swimmer crab, pipi clams, mussels, king prawns, and oysters, suffocated in white wine, was seasoned with shallots, olive oil, garlic & fresh herbs. The seafood was sparkling fresh, and so wonderfully sweet the juices imbued the broth with an amazing flavour. Scrumptious to the last drop.
The fish-of-the-day, or Pesce del Giorno (A$39.90) was a luscious pan-seared coorong mulloway with the crispiest skin ever, set on a bed of fregola pasta cooked with roasted tomato sugo and vongole.
A complimentary refresher was served to cleanse our palates before dessert, and the Scropino, an icy pear & raspberry granita was tart and bracing.
The Tiramisu (A$17.50) a mess of savoiardi sponge fingers, espresso, marsala wine, mascarpone, and bitter chocolate may not look pretty, but wow was it sumptuous. It was rich, potent, and balanced all at once.
Part of the reason why the tiramisu looked so ugly, was coz it was dished out from a communal pot.
Complimentary crusty bread, baked in-house, and locally sourced evoo.
The complimentary amuse bouche, Stuzzichin, a crostini topped with ocean trout salsa with fresh tomatoes, wild fennel, and white balsamic, was so yummy I was tempted to ask for more.
The restaurant facade for reference.
160 Hutt Street
South Australia SA 5000
Tel: +61 8 8232 7955
Open weekdays from 7.30am to 12midnight;
weekends from 8pm to 12midnight
Website: chianti.net.au
Chianti, Adelaide
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Hi Brooke, there are quite a lot of these things - from W3C and from many other places (and in many other languages). The document that started WCAG was a collection of these things, and it is useful to go back and collect / compare every so often. There are also things that are particular to each organisation, so there is value in adding that kind of information to the stuff that we already have, for local distribution. (I started to do it for the Amaya editing tool, and in a few local examples that aren't available to be published). cheers Charles On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Brooke Dine wrote: Hi all: I feel that I'm hitting a new level of learning with Section 508. My knowledge seems to be many of the workshops that are offered by the agency where I work. I know how to make a site accessible on my own. However, now I need to create a requirements document for the programmers who manage our site. Almost like the W3C/508 checklists, indicating exactly what must be overhauled and where (proper tagging, etc.). I have never created such a document. Has anyone done this? Are there examples on the web I might download? As always, your suggestions are always appreciated and insightful! Thanks. Brooke Dine Information Specialist National Center for Biotechnology Information NLM/NIH Bethesda, MD 20894 -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles phone: +61 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI fax: +1 617 258 5999 Location: 21 Mitchell street FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia (or W3C INRIA, Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France)Received on Tuesday, 10 July 2001 23:47:48 UTC
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Hello friends today I am sharing a card made for Mothers' Day! In this card I have used Emboss resist technique to make the background of the card. I have used this technique for the first time and I am just loving it. For this I have used a white CS, entomologist cling urban stamp, superfine clear embossing powder, picked raspberry and spiced marmalade DI. The white dots are made using gesso.
The flowers are hand- drawn and colored using watercolor pencils and copic markers. I have used a black pen to draw the outlines and dots. Here I have used MS doily lace punch and a twine (made a bow of it and put a button over it). The sentiment is handwritten.
Embossing is visible in this pic (shine on the butterfly)
Linking this card to : Lulupu Challenge # 30- Feminine Cards!:1. I have used feminine color, pink
2. used MS doily lace punch
3. used flowers (handmade)
Color conceptions: Challenge #11-Dry / Wet Embossing: I have used wet embossing
hope u like it!!:)
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Arsenal football club (The Gunners) is located in Holloway, London and was founded in 1886. With an enriched history of 129 years, this club has won many prestigious titles and awards. The chairman of the club is Mr. Chips Keswick. With a value of 1.3 billion dollars this club was ranked seventh most valuable association.
Emirates Stadium:
Arsenal football club plays at Emirates Stadium located in Hornsey Road, London in England. It has a capacity of more than 60,000 audiences. This club has been proved lucky for the arsenals. In 2009, a process of "Arsenalization" took place to store the legacy and heritage of the club.
Arsenal Football Club Badge:
The badge of Arsenal Football Club is very famous. Many changes and modifications has been done since the formation of the club. It consists of two basic colors that are red and blue. Arsenal is written in the centre with bold letter. A dull-gold colored shooter is also placed at the centre. Since, 2002 this crest is being used.
Arsenal Nicknames:
Arsenals are famous for:
• The Gunners
• The Gooners
They are usually famous for gunners because in the past the Arsenal factory used to produce guns and ammunition.
Arsenal Football Club Kit:
Arsenal's home colors have always been white and red. The kit consists of a red shirt with white sleeves, and white shorts and socks are used by the players. Many sponsors have been the part of the kit from time to time. The crest is also the part of the kit.
Partners and sponsors:
Many reputable and famous organizations work as partners and sponsors with Arsenal Football Club. Lead Partners of Arsenals are:
• Emirates
• Puma
Official partners of Arsenal football club consist of:
• Citroen
• Huawei
• Cooper the Europe
• Europcar
• Gatorade
• Indesit
• Jeanrichard
• Markets.com
• Vitality
The regional partners of Arsenal football club are as follows:
• Betfair
• Bodog
• BT sport
• Capital Bank Kazakhstan
• Dashen brewery
• DJI Holdings
• Hansa Pilsener
• Paddy power
• Sterling Bank
Shopping from Arsenal:
Arsenal football club has provided a facility for their fans to buy arsenal products and accessories. Customers can purchase online on online store of Arsenal or can buy directly from their shopping stores. Different products like clothes, sports wears, accessories etc are available for the Arsenal lovers.
Other Facilities:
• Arsenal football club provides many good facilitates for its players and fan clubs. They have initiated the Arsenal foundation for the welfare purposes.
• Arsenal Academy is there to train the fresh players.
• Concerts are organized under this club for the entertainment of fans.
• Tour to Emirate stadium is itself a lifetime event.
• Packages and discounts are provided to the members of the Arsenal football club.
• Special packages are there for the disabled persons for their ease.
• Different job vacancies are formed for the employment.
• Soccer school is run by Arsenal to incorporate the real basics of soccer into the students.
• Online shopping opportunity and shopping stores are formed for the fans so that they can easily buy their favorite products related to Arsenal football club.
• Arsenal publishes its handbook and monthly magazine so that Arsenal lovers can know all the updates and latest stories of the club and its players
• For little kids, Junior Gunners is run by Arsenal Football Club to maintain their love for Arsenal.
Honors and Achievements:
Arsenal football club has won many honors and achievements throughout its golden and rich history of 129 years. It has won:
• 5 League Champions
• 2 FA Cups
• 1 FA Cup Double
• 1 Cup Double


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On this date in 1968, my brother Edward was born in Long Branch, NJ. His presence in my life has been filled with nothing more than awe, as the man who is capable of solving major problems with his engineering-type energy…I mean, the man took an ordinary school bus and turned it into an RV (his home on wheels) with his own two hands!!!
He is one of many people whose skills I wished I possessed, as I figuratively have two left thumbs when it comes to things like that…Happy birthday, Ed…and many happy more!!!!
Also celebrating today are; late bandleader Duke Ellington (1899-1974), late actress Celeste Holm (1917-2012), the everlasting pothead himself, Willie Nelson (1933), late actor Lane Smith (1936-2005), modern pariah Bernie Madoff (1938), singer Tommy James (1947), and late racing master Dale Earnhardt (1951-2001).
Among the other twins for my brother are; comedian Jerry Seinfeld (1954), Star…
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Pokémon GO's First Screenshots and Details Surface on Official Site
I wanna be the very best!
Official screenshots and gameplay details have surfaced on the Pokémon GO webpage that give us a better idea of how the game looks and plays.
The images, found on the official page for Pokémon GO, show off a number of different screens from within the game. Included in this post, two of the screenshots show Squirtle both in what looks like a real-life garden and in an artistically drawn field. There's a CP number located up by Squirtle's head, and a strange button to the right of the Pokéball that we can't quite work out yet.
The other two images, show off a large map-like area with details such as the user's level, name, and nearby Pokémon at the bottom of the screen. The map overview of the area looks pretty detailed, and judging by the difference in the two screenshots, allows users to zoom in to get a more detailed view of the area. Check out all four of the images in our gallery below.
The official site also shares some important details with regards to the gameplay. According to the description below the image slider, Pokémon GO will have PokéStops. "Also look for PokéStops located at interesting places, such as public art installations, historical markers, and monuments, where you can collect more Poké Balls and other items."
If you were hoping you'd be able to grab yourself a nice legendary Pokémon or Charizard from the start, think again. The description also details the trainer level system and how this will affect the Pokémon you'll be able to catch.
"In Pokémon GO, you will gain levels as a Trainer, and at higher levels you will be able to catch more powerful Pokémon to complete your Pokédex. You'll also have access to more powerful items, such as Great Balls, to give you a better shot at catching Pokémon. Keep exploring and encountering Pokémon to raise your level!"
Some wild Pokémon are also confirmed to only appear in certain places near where you live or around the world. The page gives Water-type Pokémon as an example and states that some may only appear near lakes and oceans. Finally, the page details the inclusion of Gyms. Just like PokéStops, Gyms can only be found at real locations in the world.
When you reach a certain point in the game you will be asked to join one of three teams. Once you have joined one of these, you'll be able to assign Pokémon that you've caught to empty Gym locations or to a location where another team member has placed one of their own Pokémon. You must then defend the gym from other teams from taking control. No information was given on whether there would be rewards for successfully capturing or defending gyms.
Pokémon fans in Japan were recently able to sign up to the closed beta for Pokémon GO, with selected users being chosen through a lottery system. We're still waiting for any news of a similar beta coming to Western territories.
What do you make of these screenshots? Are you looking forward to playing Pokémon GO? Let us know in the comments below.


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Practice Areas
Minnesota Foreign-Trade Zone Seeks to Reorganize under Alternative Site Framework
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board is accepting through July 1 comments on an application from the Koochiching Economic Development Authority, grantee of FTZ 259, requesting authority to reorganize this zone under the alternative site framework. The proposed service area would be Koochiching County, Minn., within and adjacent to the International Falls U.S. Customs and Border Protection port of entry. This application would have no impact on FTZ 259's previously authorized subzone.


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Tour Wellness Tourmalet
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Projects like this one remind us why we chose this profession… We just wanted to tell you how grateful we are towards Alberto Contador and his crew after working together in Flex´s campaign "Tour Wellness". The values of overcoming any trouble, effort and dedication for what one love are shared by this video and Contador himself and it have been actually a real inspiration for us...
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Hello. :)
I've been studying henna for hair for a while now, and I'm working up the nerve to use it. Currently, I'm dying my hair reddish with chemical dyes, but I'm really just tired of the damage. I'm going to show you my dream color(s) here along with what my natural color looks like (not an actual photo of me, but just like my natural color.)
Here is what I'm shooting for:
http://img.listal.com/image/548265/500full-barbara-meier.jpg <3<3<3!!!
I would also settle for these:
This is what I am terrified of, though I realize that with blonde hair I may have to go through these stages?:
So I basically don't want anything fluorescent orange looking.
Here is my natual color: exactly like this, right down to the roots appearing darker and ashy.
So, my question is this. Is this a realistic expectation with henna alone (and possible multiple applications) or am I way off?
By the way, I'm less concerned with what it will do to my chemically dyed hair, and more interested in new incoming hair since I'm waitin to henna until most of my dye (which is over bleached hair!!!) fades to a nice ugly muddy dark blonde color like I just know it will. lol Plus I'm not put off by a minor tonal difference between chemically treated hair and virgin.
Thanks for any advice! Also, let me know if I've left anything out. lol


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My papers are a mix of Echo Park and October Afternoon. The midway ephemera were from an older OA collection and were perfect for this theme.
I cut my title from a piece of patterned paper - love the brush stroke look. I kept the embellishments to a minimum as the page was quite busy anyway.
Hope that you can join us this week over at 'Stuck? sketches and we would love to see you take on this cool sketch. Have a great week :)


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Types of Water Treatment for Backpacking
Types of Water Treatment for Backpacking
The following article examines water treatment methods for backpacking. There are generally five ways to treat your water while on the trail: through water filters, water purifiers, UV light, chemical treatments, and of course, you can also boil your water.
With filters and purifiers there are a couple of different options. In the video above, our Gear Specialist features a model with a synthetic cartridge. Filters of this style usually pump water very quickly, so you get a lot of water output for not as much work time. The down side is they are not field-maintainable and they tend to clog faster because the synthetic material is not able to be cleaned; it must be replaced.
Also shown is a ceramic style filter, which is basically made from a piece of clay. These filters pump a lot slower than synthetics, though they are field-maintainable. Using a scouring pad, you can scrub the outside and clean off any dirt that's built up before putting it back in the case and starting to pump water again. They are reusable in the way that synthetic cartridges are not, though they are a little bit more brittle and delicate than a synthetic. As is the nature of ceramic material, it can break if dropped or become damaged if frozen.
Among water filters and purifiers, there is a third option that offers the best of both worlds in combining ceramic and synthetic components. In the model shown, there is a ceramic filter in the top, as well as, a synthetic filter underneath. There are also models that allow you to back-flush them. What that means is you can rearrange how the system works so the water is going the opposite direction and forces water back through that filter system and cleans up some of the built-up contaminates in it, which extends the life of the filters.
UV light is another form of water treatment, and this is a technology that is frequently used in urban municipalities to treat large quantities of water, so it's not just an application that's being used for backpacking. The model shown consists of a lamp that the UV light comes through, which can be very delicate. Most models come with a protective covering to keep the lamp safe from breakage. The upside to these models is that they are extremely small, compact and lightweight. They also treat your water for different forms of bacteria, protozoa and viruses. The downside to UV lights is that they run on batteries that are going to need to be charged or replaced after multiple uses. UV lights also don't give you an option with just the unit by itself for cleaning particulate matter out of water, which would be things like leaves, mosquito larvae and other "chunky stuff" that may be in your water. Before UV treatment, you want to strain your water or run it through a pre-filter of some sort.
Chemical water treatment options have some benefits and drawbacks just like other methods. The main benefit is that they are very affordable. They're also very lightweight and barely take up any space in a pack or emergency kit. The down side is that you typically need a lot of any given chemical to treat significant volumes of water, especially over an extended backpacking trip. Additionally, a prolonged period of time is needed for chemical water treatments to break down viruses and other bacteria and contaminates in the water.
Chemicals used in treating water include iodine, which is extremely common and has been used frequently by backpackers in the past. Iodine does have a bad taste, and there are studies that show long-term side effects to using it over extended periods. Quite a few people are also allergic to iodine. Another good chemical option would be something like Katadyn MicroPur tablets. These products are based on a chlorine treatment that's really similar to what you might find in your tap water that's been treated by a municipal water authority. This chemical treatment has very little taste and is also affordable and lightweight.
The final water treatment option is plain old boiling of water, which will remove almost all of the harmful things from your water and can be used in conjunction with all of the other methods discussed. Boiling water isn't always practical, but it is the most "low tech" way to treat water.


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Chañi Chico, Siete Dolores. This 5,571m mountain in Salta is a minor summit in the Chañi massif (5,896m), Argentina. Its incredible south wall has been a dream for many generations of Argentine climbers. Argentines Humberto Vázquez, Fernando Gutiérrez, and Facundo Juárez opened the remarkable Siete Dolores (Seven Pains; 960m, 16 60m pitches, 6c (minimum 5+)) on September 9. They began at 8:15 a.m. and finished 12 hours later. The rock was rotten, with much rockfall and many cracks filled with hard ice. On the shoulder, near the summit, they bivouacked before rappelling the route the next day and reaching the base at 4 p.m.
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Kali turned two and Logan turned five!
We had a pirate birthday party for both of them at the new community centre. Lot's of Pintrest ideas put into action....
Love the white picture frames; I used these at Logan's dance party and Kali's garden gnome party.
We came up with cute names for all the food:
Cannon Balls (grapes),
Captain Sandwiches,
Catch of the Day (goldfish-idea from Cake Pop Galore), Gold nuggets (cheese squares),
Polly's Crackers (crackers! -idea from party shown here)...
The cupcake stand got another remodel with some pirate wrapping paper. The DYI project is here---made from the little wooden crates you get tangerines in!
The biggest hit was the blue jello --Shark Infested Water!
(Idea and tutorial at Happy Brown House)
Instead of centre pieces we placed pirate themed toys or books at the centre of each table. At the back of the room we set up "Coloring Cove" for the kids to play.
"What be your name Pirate?"
Having the kids wear name tags was very helpful since Logan had some friends from school who we weren't too familiar with--it was especially helpful when it came time to play games
The tattoo station!
We started the party off with a swim in the new pool at the community centre!
After some pizza and snack it was time to play some games. The biggest hit was walking the plank (idea from party on TomKat). We just painted the words on the wood with some silver paint I had and used some blue fabric on the floor. My dad suggested I make a shark---so I painted one on cardboard, put a big googly eye on it and hot glued it to a large paint stir stick. HUGE hit!
Grandpa before he fell and got eaten by the shark!
Once the kids crossed over they could get a tattoo and a pirate head scarf; red and white scarf for the boys and pink for the girls. My mom had the idea of cutting up a sheet to make them which was much cheaper than buying the fabric by the yard.
Happy 5th birthday, Loagn!
Happy 2nd birthday, Kalia!
Guarding the treat bags and presents!
Handing out treat bags and thanking people for coming. It's always important for us to have the kids do this....Kali doing this reminded of when Logan did this his Yo Gabba Gabba 2nd birthday party...
We were luck to have Zia Sarah, Grandma and Grandpa help us out! Thank you!


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The Igbo ethnic group, which occupied the eastern region of Nigeria, are well known for their multi-branched culture, traditions and religious beliefs which they believe to be very essential in their way of life. Among the countless traditions of the Igbo people is the Osu caste system in which a set of people were separated from the normal Igbo society because they were believed to be sacrifices to the gods of Igboland, these people are called Osu.
According to Igbo history, the forefathers of the Osu people pledged themselves and their descendants to forever remain a sacrifice to the gods due to their aura of consecration, therefore, they were treated by the normal Igbo society (Nwadiala) as outcasts and slaves. The Osu people were denied so many rights in Igboland, like the right to freedom, political activities, fair hearing, marriage and sometimes, life. The Osu Caste system in Igboland has been in practice since the early days of the Igbo people, and it is still being practiced in some places in the modern Nigeria of today like Abia, Imo, Delta and Edo.
This belief emanated from the superstitions fabricated by the ancestors of the Igbos. Such superstitions were also woven around albinos that they were evil and bearer of bad luck in the community.
Western education and Christianity brought by the white missionaries to Igboland lifted up the hopes of the Osu, but still, no matter how educated, rich or holy an osu could be, the Igbos believe an osu is still an osu and the discrimination continues. Civilization and democracy has made the tradition to dwindle or cease in some parts of Igboland. Several accounts have highlighted the marital life of the Osu people in Nigeria. It is a taboo for an osu to marry a Nwadiala (non-osu) man or woman, and if this should happen, the Nwadiala man or woman instantly becomes an osu. As a result of this, the Nwadiala, also called 'son of the soil', stay away from the osu to avoid any kind of contact that can lead to their status transformation into an Osu, even a slight touch. Another way to become an osu is by inheritance through birth. If a child is born into an Osu family, the child automatically becomes an osu like his/her parents, and the child is most times not allowed to mingle or play with Nwadiala children. Several people believe that this system of discrimination will soon cease to exist in a democratic Nigeria, while some struck unto its eternal existence.
However, in 1956, the Eastern government passed a law stating the abolishment of the osu caste system in Igboland, thus setting the osu people free from lifetime oppression, discrimination and modern slavery.The law declared anyone who violated the law a criminal and liable to punishment. But since that 1956, no one has ever been prosecuted or convicted for breaking the law. So many accounts have testified to how the caste system is implored in many schools, religious institutions and some organizations. Recently, a woman was reported to have committed suicide due to the cancellation of her marriage because of her osu lineage. Many other cases have been reported concerning the suicide of an osu.
Blacks, Africans, Nigerians including the Igbos, strive hard in fighting against the racial segregation of the blacks by the whites who believed that blacks are born with an inferior status and are also meant to be slaves or render manual labour throughout their life. Should this same sense of discrimination evolve around the blacks?
Today, many Nigerians including human-rights activists and humanitarians are requesting for the eradication of the osu caste system in Igboland, because they believe that all human beings are of equal status and should be treated equally


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Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza has reportedly reshuffled his cabinet without giving an explanation why. Analysts say the president's move is aimed at re-establishing his control over the government, which has been rocked by controversies since a court found former president Dometiene Ndayeziye not guilty of plotting to overthrow President Nkurunziza. It is also believed that the president is trying to get rid of supporters of Hussein Rajabu, former leader of the ruling party. Information minister Karenga Ramadan was one of those affected by the cabinet reshuffle losing his position to Hafsa Mossi who is also a former journalist.
Former information minister Karenga Ramadan was affected by the cabinet reshuffle losing his position to Hafsa Mossi who is also a former journalist. Ramadan confirmed he has lost his cabinet position in the reshuffle.
"Yes in fact there was a cabinet reshuffle which happened in the afternoon of Monday and the minister of communication and government spokesman as I was, has been replaced by a lady who is also a professional journalist, Hafsa Mossi. And another minister who has been dismissed is the minister of planning and reconstruction and who has been replaced by somebody who was the director general of budget, Abdallah Tarbo," he said.
Ramadan said though he has lost his cabinet position, he is still a member of the ruling party.
"So the cabinet reshuffle happened and it is within this prospect that I'm no longer the government spokesman. But I'm still a member of the ruling party which is the CNDD-FDD (National Council for the Defence of Democracy–Forces for the Defence of Democracy) anyway," Ramadan noted.
He said the president is yet to give reasons behind the reshuffle.
"I think the reason behind it has not been officially announced in the decree which was signed by the president. But as far as I know, I think it's normal in a democratic system that a minister can be picked to play that role and that he can even be made to step down," Ramadan said.
He said news of the cabinet reshuffle has been met with mixed reactions in the country.
"I think the cabinet reshuffle has been positively welcomed by certain people and negatively by others, and this is normal in a democracy. So what I say is that my sacking from the government, I do respect the decision of the president of the republic because he is the one who has got the constitutional powers to do so," he said.
Ramadan traced his working relationship with the president when he was then a rebel leader.
"I have been working with him for the whole time that we were in the bush and later on during the peace negotiations and then to the transitional government. And even at the inauguration and then as a minister of communication and government spokesman," he said.
Ramadan explained the rationale behind the release Sunday of captured rebels fighting the government.
"The reason behind the release was to make this process of finalizing the process of implementing the ceasefire agreement which was signed in September between the government and the rebel Palepehutu FNL. It was a kind of stumbling block that was preventing the Palepehutu members from not coming to join what we call the mechanism of verification and the follow up of the peace agreement," he said.
Ramadan said with his experience in government, he could be in a capacity to advice people who aspire to be in politics.
"First of all, you have to know that I'm a journalist by profession and I'm not worried at all about what I can do tomorrow. I'm still a member of the ruling CNDD-FDD and I will continue to extend my services within the ruling party, and probably, for those who want to get maybe some political advices from my small experience," he said.


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Uploading and linking PDFs to your content can be a quick and easy way to share resources like studies, pricing documents, and whitepapers with your prospects and customers.
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I remember my summer holidays of early school-life when my parents had to purchase a lot of magazine for me like Balhans, Nanhe Samrat, Nandan, Champak etc. I was a die-hard lover of children's magazines that time especially I was fond of Stories and got the opportunity of listening mythological stories from my Grandmother.
Today I don't know much about the world of Kids. I find them busy in computer and mobile games, cartoons and internet. But I am sure that mostly child's are still very curious about books and magazine other than their school textbooks. I think these kinda stuff is very necessary for the development of growing Kids and should be available in school library and home too.
'Abhinav Balmann' is the magazine for Kids and the most special thing is that it publishes the story, poems, paintings written and made by children. This is a unique effort to provide such a good hindi magazine for kids where they can get published their own writings and other stuff. Now this quarterly magazine is also available in web version. You can read it by visiting Here.


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Around 200 miles of coastline. Big beaches. Tiny coves. Slipways, harbours and marinas. Outstandingly beautiful estuaries. Seas, lakes and rivers. We have the locations and leisure facilities for all kinds of watersports – hardcore surfers, sailors with saltwater in their veins or those who simply want a pleasant paddle on the lake. The most fun – allegedly – you can have in a wetsuit is on a wakeboarding or surfing break on the Llŷn Peninsula (wakeboarding at Abersoch is a local speciality, along with surfing at nearby Porth Neigwl). Sailors can choose between the sheltered Menai Strait and the open waters of Cardigan Bay and the Irish Sea. Inland, there are lakes like Llyn Brenig, home to the UK's highest sailing club, with wind that's perfect for learning the ropes or competitive sailing
Is there a prettier little port than Aberdyfi on the mountain-backed mouth of the Dyfi Estuary? It's just perfect, one of a string of sailing havens. Others include Barmouth/Abermaw, Porthmadog, Caernarfon and Y Felinheli. Biggest of all is Hafan Pwllheli, a world-class modern marina and gateway to some of the best sailing waters in the UK, with over 400 berths and excellent onshore facilities.
Want to learn to sail or brush up on your watersports skills? Plas Menai National Watersports Centre near Caernarfon runs a variety of courses and activity holidays. It's in a just-about-perfect location on the Menai Strait, where the sheltered waters are ideal for sailing, windsurfing, canoeing and powerboating but also have easy access to open sea.
'The scenery goes by, but there's no chance to take notice,' says breathless outdoor writer Jon Sparks as he's riding a bucking inflatable raft at the National White Water Centre near Bala. 'There are three possible runs. The Upper River Tryweryn is used for regular runs and taster sessions. An enticing alternative is the Tryweryn Safari, a four-mile trip down the Lower Tryweryn. If this isn't enough, the Tryweryn Special combines the upper and lower rivers in one mammoth run. None of these sessions demands any previous experience, just a willingness to have a go and an acceptance that you can expect to get very wet.'
Bala's Llyn Tegid is the largest natural lake in Wales. Its watersports potential is pretty big too, with local companies offering sailing, canoeing and windsurfing. Other watersports lakes include beautiful Llyn Gwynant near Beddgelert, Llyn Padarn at Llanberis, Llyn Geirionydd hidden away in the Gwydyr Forest, Llynnau Mymbyr near Capel Curig, Llyn Trawsfynydd and Llyn Brenig.
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Hi - thanks for stopping by to read.
I'll start off with an apology - I feel like the last couple of (on topic) posts have had little variation of substance and it's unfair of me to expect you to keep reading if I'm not going to try to keep to a standard. I'll be making a more concerted effort going forward.
This week has been a 3-run week and I've managed 7.5 miles since last Wednesday. I was feeling somewhat under the weather last week so I did a smaller, 1.5 mile route just to keep some momentum. Fortunately my man-flu had mostly subsided by Saturday morning and so I went for my longest distance to date and did 3 miles - something I repeated this evening.
Saturday morning was OK as things go. I'd forgotten my inhaler before I left (I have mild asthma on top of everything else) and it was incredibly icy. I managed the route in 40 minutes which felt OK considering the circumstances. I wanted another crack at it without the ice slowing me down and did the same route in 37 minutes tonight - roughly on track for 12 minute miles.
The problem is that I feel like I'm my own worst enemy sometimes. I got about a mile into my run tonight before I started with stitch again. I'd been round Leeds Christmas market after work tonight and naively thought that a German sausage then wouldn't hurt before I came home to go running. What I neglected to tell myself is that it was still only a couple of hours before and that being in a different city doesn't actually make a difference. I need to be a lot stricter and more disciplined with myself because silly things like that don't help.
The good news is that I'm starting to believe that I can actually make it round 26 miles if I continue to be sensible. I'm not usually low on self belief, but I'm wary of jinxing myself a bit with this. When I'm out running, I feel like I can actually do it and that sort of belief is pushing me on.
I'm taking a lot of care when I run and I'm getting better at measuring my stride so I'm not coming down off a curb onto my bad foot and I'm not pushing off with it going back up a curb either. I'm also starting to feel like I can open up my stride a bit and push myself a bit more.
I've had a bit of a roller-coaster week diabetes wise. I had a work Christmas do on Friday and I had a decent reading before bed (6 ish if I remember correctly) but it was 20.5 when I woke up Saturday morning! In trying to correct that I ended up going low three times that day and I've felt like I've hit peaks and troughs since then rather than any real stability. I mentioned a few weeks ago that I was sort of anticipating this with Christmas coming up. I just need to work extra hard to keep it in check over the next few weeks now. If I was consistently getting high readings I'd be concerned but it's just a product of the time of year I think. Hopefully I can keep it relatively under control.
I've also finalised my fund raising page on Virgin Money Giving today - you can see it here: AndyRunsTheMarathon2012 I also gave myself the first donation to kick start it. I've talked about the charities a fair bit over the last week or two so please feel free to skip back a few posts and read up about the work they do. I wanted to just briefly talk about my fundraising goal before I sign off.
My aim is to raise what I'd like to think is a relatively modest amount of money for each charity - namely £500 each. It's not a lot in the scheme of things as far as the charities themselves are concerned (for examples, it's only about 12% of the funds The Children's Hospital need just to run their diabetes camp for kids for one summer - let alone the rest of their projects) but it's a target I think I can achieve.
I worked out that if every one of my Twitter followers gave £2 (less than the price of a pint as I understand it) then I'd reach my goal with money to spare. I'm not for a single second suggesting that I'd expect or even ask that they would, but it's just an illustration of why I think it's achievable. I've put £50 in myself to start and hopefully that'll grow and grow over the coming months. I'm committing that my company will make up any shortfall to the £1000 total but I'll also put in £500 extra if I can raise more than £1000 in total. I know Christmas isn't the best time to discuss these things, especially given the current financial climate, but I wanted to just talk about my goals for fundraising and given you my honest viewpoint on what I'm trying to do.
This has been a bit of a longer post than I'd anticipated so I'll leave it there. I need to rest my foot a bit as the aches, whilst not crippling, are worse after a run and I could do with my feet up for half an hour before bed.
Thanks again for reading (if you made it this far) and don't forget you can always find me for a chat on Twitter (@BroomOwl) or drop me an e-mail (firstname.lastname@example.com).
Take care and I'll update you in my last blog before Christmas next week
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Tuesday, 13 December 2011
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Two games illustrate this problem. The first was played against some version of Crafty embedded in the Chessimo training app for iPad more than a year ago. The second was played on the Game of King's iPad app and finished yesterday. In both cases, Black was much worse a few moves into the game as a consequence of moving a bishop several times.
Stripes,James -- Crafty (Chessimo) [A46]
Rating Estimation, 01.02.2013
1.d4 e6 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.e3 Bb4+
A silly check.
4.c3 Bd6?
4...Be7 was sensible.
5.Bd3 0–0 6.0–0 Be7 7.Nbd2 d5 8.Re1 Nc6 9.Qc2 Bd6?!
Another time wasting move that makes White's plan even better than it would have been. The bishop is now vulnerable to attack.
10.e4 dxe4 11.Nxe4 Nxe4 12.Bxe4
Black to move
I suspect that Crafty fell prey to a limited search horizon, believing that it could trap the bishop if White played as he did.
13.Bxh7 g6
White's bishop is trapped.
White should have played 14...Ng5.
Black recovers from early errors with another bishop move: 14...Be7. Instead, Black has moved into a forced checkmate.
15.Bf6+ Kxh7 16.Qe4 Bf4 17.Qxf4 Qd7 18.Qh4+ Kg8 19.Qh8# 1–0
Stripes,J (1974) -- Nomen Nescio (1929) [D24]
Rated Match Game of Kings - Online Chess, 16.09.2014
1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Bf5
Not a terrible move, but not best either. 2...e6, 2...c6, 2...Nf6 are all better.
3.c4 Nf6 4.Nc3 dxc4 5.e3 Be6?
Black moves the bishop a second time.
6.e4 Bg4?
And a third.
7.Bxc4 Bxf3 8.gxf3 e6
White to move
White already has a clear advantage. The rest of the game demonstrates White getting an easy win despite playing less than optimal moves.
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I'm getting a cancerous melanoma removed next week, but I want to know more about what this means for my future. How high is the risk that (because I have had one melanoma already) I will develop another one? I have some prominent moles that I don't want to spend the rest of my life worrying about.
The answer to this question is complicated and depends a lot on how far along is the existing melanoma you have. Has it already spread, or is it still in the same spot? The best way to tell this is to have the suspicious lesion removed (which it sounds like you will) and have the margins of the removed specimen examined to make sure there are no cancer cells there. If the margins are "clean" (meaning there are no cancer cells seen at the edges), then your chances of recurrence of this melanoma is much lower (but not zero). The possibility of developing a second melanoma not related to the first depends on if you have any risk factors such as a family history. The fact that your have some other moles would make me nervous if I was your doctor. You will certainly have a followup appointment after the removal of your first lesion. Have the physician who performed this procedure do a complete skin exam and look at each of your moles. Since you already had one mole become suspicious, your doctor will likely have a lower threshold to remove the additional moles you have. This way you will not have to spend the rest of your life worrying about it. Good luck.
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Sacramento Kings center DeMarcus Cousins said on Saturday that he doesn't respect Charles Barkley and doesn't care what he thinks.
Sacramento Kings center DeMarcus Cousins said on Saturday that he doesn't respect Charles Barkley and doesn't care what he thinks.
"It ain't personal," Cousins said when asked about Barkley, according to ESPN.com. "I mean, I don't really respect the guy, but at the same time, I don't really care what he thinks either.
"I don't respect him and I don't care what he thinks."
Cousins' comments come less than two days after Barkley, a TNT commentator and former NBA star, spoke critically about the idea that Cousins had influence over the Kings' coaching changes.
Earlier this month a report surfaced questioning how hiring George Karl would affect Cousins, who who was believed to favor former coach Mike Malone.
Tyrone Corbin had been serving as Sacramento's interim coach since they fired Malone in December. The Kings later decided to remove the interim tag from Corbin's title.
Before the Karl hiring was announced, Cousins released a statement to Yahoo Sports saying he "wasn't consulted when the decision was made to fire Mike Malone and I'm not being consulted now."
In the statement, Cousins also said that he hopes the Kings "make a decision soon and stick with it. George Karl is an experienced, proven coach and if that is who they chose to coach this team, I will support it.
Barkley apparently took issue with the notion that Cousins had any control over who coaches the Kings.
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This is not the first time Cousins has spoken out about Barkley.
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The following took place in the ladies' room line after a preview screening of "Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story."
Two little ladies, roughly 7 years old, sheepishly asked a woman 30 years their senior what movie she went to.
"I think I saw the movie you just saw," she replied.
"Did you like it?" Their stifled giggles were laced with a hint of hope.
"I didn't like it," she told them. "I loved it."
Peals of movie joy bounced off the tiles.
Little wonder.
"Dreamer" does all one wishes a movie about a thoroughbred and an optimistic wise child might. It canters. It gallops. It clears fences of familiarity with grace. It stands two hands above most flicks bred for families, stirring pleasure at its fine-muscled gait.
Hitched to the palpable rapport of Dakota Fanning and Kurt Russell as daughter and dad (and the uncanny resemblance of Russell and Kris Kristofferson as son and father), "Dreamer" tells the tale of the Crane family and a broken horse named Soñador (Spanish for dreamer) that helps mend the humans who put their hopes in her.
Horse folk, the Cranes once owned 200 acres of bluegrass and a stable full of fillies and colts. As the film opens, that farm has been whittled down to a couple of fields and the home Cale (Fanning) shares with parents Ben and Lilly (Russell and Elisabeth Shue) and her grandfather. There's no horse in the paddock – and hasn't been for much of Cale's life.
How this dwindling occurred makes for muted tension between horse trainer Ben and his formidable father, Pop Crane, a legend among the wealthy owners who populate the rolling terrain.
Palmer (David Morse) is one of those owners.
After all, horse racing, we learn, is the sport of kings. And monarchs need their minions, especially talented ones. Ben trains thoroughbreds for Palmer, who in turn races them for even wealthier men like Prince Tariq. The sport of sultans is more like it: The prince likes to pit his horses against those of his brother, Prince Sadir (Oded Fehr).
When Ben relents and takes his daughter to work, disaster strikes. The thunder of horses headed into the stretch gives way to a scarier sound, Sonya's spiral fracture.
A clash between Ben and Palmer exposes the jagged edges of class in the race world (and some racism in its class hiearchies) and ends with Ben, exercise jockey Manolin (Freddy Rodriguez of "Six Feet Under") and groom Balon (Luiz Guzmán) without jobs but in possession of a severely hobbled horse.
One of Fanning's gifts is her ability to show a character observing. This act of witness comes in handy, especially when Cale watches her father get a dressing down by Palmer. Anyone who has seen a father chastised by some bigger fish knows how psychologically precarious a moment this can be.
In "Dreamer," the thing about catastrophes is they often follow fast on the hoofs of high hopes. And maybe, just maybe, vice versa.
Adults well versed in the maneuvers of classic movies will be hip to being led toward a tense Breeder's Cup finale. Credit writer-director John Gatins in a confident directorial debut. Being reined so gently and confidently gives actors freedom to emote.
While there are a couple of scenes in which her character exhibits too much psychoanalytic wisdom, Fanning's performance suspends most qualms.
With her big, alert eyes, Fanning seems more young Bette Davis than wee Liz Taylor. Hers is a face that registers deep awareness, but also unbridled glee. When Cale hops off the bus and runs to the stable to visit Sonya, her expression feels like a candid-camera discovery of euphoria.
A moment arrives in "Dreamer" when Cale watches Sonya and Manolin fight for position on the oval. She's rapt and wild. It's an exuberant image. But the real beauty of the scene is located elsewhere and reveals Gatins' understanding of family values.
Pop Crane's hand rests on Ben's shoulder. Ben's eyes are glued to his own beautiful little dreamer.
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