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Criminal Waivers
Many times individuals assume that since many years have passed since their last serious encounter with the law that they do not need a waiver. This is simply NOT true. In fact, even if it has been a long time since your last conviction, if you require a waiver your greencard could be denied and, even worse, you could be placed in removal proceedings. However, if at least 15 years have passed since the conviction at issue, it is easier to obtain a waiver.
It you are convicted of a crime or crimes which require waiver and you apply before fifteen years have elapsed, we must prove on your behalf that your qualifying U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident relative (spouse, child, or parent) would experience extreme hardship if your case was denied. We have extensive experience handling cases meeting this threshold from both our San Francisco and Sacramento offices. If, however, fifteen years have elapsed since your conviction, we will not need to prove "extreme hardship," instead, we only have to prove that you have been rehabilitated, and that approval will not be contrary to the national welfare, safety, or security of the U.S. It is generally easier to prove rehabilitation instead of extreme hardship.
Remember that although you may have been convicted of a petty crime in the last fifteen years you can still prove just rehabilitation instead of extreme hardship if the crime you are seeking a waiver resulted in a conviction at least fifteen years ago. For example, lets say you were convicted of burglary fifteen years ago and since then you've been convicted of a DUI. You can still seek a waiver proving just rehabilitation instead of extreme hardship because the conviction for which you are seeking a waiver, the burglary, occurred fifteen years ago. This example is taken from the actual case of Miguel (name changed to protect privacy), worked on by a member of Ranchod Law. Miguel came in on a student visa but violated the terms of his visa by working without permission (authorization). His family needed money in his native country. Miguel was arrested for stealing tools from a home and pled "nolo contendere" (no contest) to burglary. He served probation. After many years out of status, he met and married a U.S. Citizen. Even though fifteen years had past since his conviction for the burglary, Miguel needed and successfully obtained a waiver and his greencard. Even though Miguel had been convicted of a DUI in the fifteen years since his conviction for burglary, he was able to prove just rehabilitation and not extreme hardship. Miguel no longer has to live in fear of being illegal. For more information about DUI and other petty crimes please refer to our previous post on that topic.
We can build your case by showing that you have not had any serious trouble with the law recently, that you are contributing to society (by working, educating yourself, or by volunteering or community service), and that you have ties to society, via your family and community (friends, coworkers, neighbors, religious organization, etc.) Because no two cases are exactly alike and because we have extensive experience with a variety of cases, we encourage you to contact our office to discuss your need for a waiver and the possible strengths we could highlight in your case.


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Are you Making at your Library?
The Idaho Library Association Maker Committee is working to create a network of makers and makerspaces in Idaho libraries that will facilitate the sharing of ideas. You can help!
Add your library to the map and get connected
Does your library do a craft with story time? You're making!
Does your library have a robotics group? You're making!
Does your library have a crafting group? You're making!
Does your library offer coloring sheets? You're supporting a culture of making, and we want to hear about it!
Supporting making isn't about a physical space. It's a mentality. If you're building, creating, or tinkering, you're supporting making in your community!
Fill out this FORM to have your library added to the interactive map of Idaho Makers. Doing so will make you a part of a network of active makers in Idaho, who you can connect and share with.
Led by Co Chairs Jeff Stratter of Salmon Public Library and Deana Brown of Boise State University, the Maker Committee is an Ad Hoc committee. It was established with the goal of supporting libraries who are, or are interested in, making by providing opportunities to share, connect, and grow.

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New in the Bangor Public Library
September 21st to September 27th, 2017
Adult Fiction
The lilac bouquet by Carolyn Brown; Don't let go by Harlan Coben; To be where you are by Jan Karon; Family affair; Those Christmas angels by Debbie Macomber.
Adult Non Fiction
Over the edge of the world by Laurence Bergreen.
Junior Fiction
Jokers magic mayhem; The riddle's battleship by J.E. Bright; Ninja Rella by Joey Comeau; Shadows shoes; The girl in the graveyard; The library claw; The night octopus by Michael Dahl; Do not watch; Fade to black by J.A. Darke; Red riding hood, superhero by Otis Frampton; Catwomans purrfect plot; Poison Ivys rainforest revenge by Sarah Hines; My rotten stepbrothers ruined Aladdin; My rotten stepbrother ruined Beauty and the Beast; My rotten stepbrother ruined Cinderella; My rotten stepbrother ruined Snow White by Jerry Mahoney; Snow White and the seven robots by Louise Simonson; Golidlocks and the three vampires by Laurie Sutton; Squishy Taylor and a question of trust; Squishy Taylor and the bonus sisters; Squishy Taylor and the mess makers; Squishy Taylor and the vase that wasn't by Alisa Wild.
Junior Non Fiction
Robots in space; Robots on the job; Tiny Robots by Kathryn Clay; President Donald Trump by Nick Robison; Animal robots by Erika Shores.
Easy Reader Non Fiction
Abuelas special letters; Lights out; Shopping trip trouble; The beach trip by Jacqueline Jules; Cowgirl Kate; Goodbye to goldie; Katies spooky sleepover; Pedro the ninja; Pedros tricky tower; The best club; Too much rain by Fran Manushkin; Gracie LaRoo at pig jubilee; Gracie LaRoo goes to school; Gracie LaRoo on the big screen; Gracie LaRoo sets sail by Marsha Qualey; I stay active; I care for my teeth by Martha Rustad.
Easy Fiction
Be a star Wonder Woman; Goodnight baseball; Goodnight Football; Goodnight hockey by Michal Dahl; Do not take your dragon to dinner by Julie Gassman; Green Lantern; Superman by Matthew Manning; Herbies big adventure by Jennie Poh; Henny, penny lenny denny and mike by Cynthia Rylant; Batman; Wonder Woman by John Sazaklis.
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Tinnitus Specialists in Perth
Are you or a loved one experiencing "ringing in the ears"?
It could be tinnitus, a condition that affects nearly 2 million Australians.
What's tinnitus?
Tinnitus is a symptom, not a disease. It's an underlying health issue that causes the noise perceived in your head or in one or both ears. It can occur suddenly or it gradually build up over time.
The sound is different for different people and also varies in pitch. Some patients describe it as ringing in the ears. Others experience a hiss, whistle, buzz, click, hum, roar, screech or shriek. It can also be a combination of noises.
As you may have noticed in your case, the noise can be steady or pulsating "like the heartbeat," as some patients told us – and it's either continuous or intermittent.
The impact
Your tinnitus can be temporary or ongoing. If you've had symptoms for more than six months, it's likely permanent. Although it hasn't yet hampered your life, eventually it could become a burden.
While it doesn't cause hearing loss, its impact can indeed be that significant. While in most people, it is just a mild distraction, millions of people suffer from severe tinnitus that negatively affects their lives.
Tinnitus can affect your:
- overall health
- quality of life
- ability to operate at home
- social well-being and relationships
- ability to keep working
People with mild to severe tinnitus often complain of pain, depression, anxiety, frustration, distress, mood swings, sleep disturbances and poor concentration.
If you're hearing noises in your head or ears and already noticing these symptoms, please take them seriously. Your next step is simple – just book a consultation with an audiologist to find out what's causing your symptoms.


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Like other recent new construction developments in the neighborhood, One Mission Bay will feature wide panoramic water views of the San Francisco Bay, South Beach Harbor, the Mission Bay creek and greenbelt, and the East Bay. The building's sleek modern design and variety of world-class amenities make it a stand-out addition to the area.
Amenities for the building will include:
- Multiple outdoor entertaining areas
- Large outdoor heated pool with modern design
- Outdoor cabana seating and fire pit
- State-of-the-art fitness center and sauna
- On-site meeting and business center
- Private library
- 13,000 sq. ft. of ground floor retail
Learn more about One Mission Bay's amenities at SF City Condos.
As sales begin in mid-February, more detailed information on the building and its units will become available. For more information on One Mission Bay, other new developments, active listings, or off-market listings, contact Todd Montgomery at email@example.com.
One Mission Bay is exclusively represented by CIM Group.
Climb Real Estate provides this information to the public and our clients and does not guarantee its accuracy. Climb Real Estate does not necessarily represent the seller nor the marketing company in any way. For buyer representation, contact Climb or learn how to buy new developments.


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Inspiring and Spiritual Books and Gifts for Everyone!
Unity of Bellevue has a good selection of spiritual, metaphysical, and inspirational books, CDs, gifts, and cards. Books available include those from Unity in addition to those written by other New Thought teachers. We also carry books on Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam and Mystical Judaism.
CDs and DVDs of the Sunday talk and CDs of meditations are available in the Bookstore.
All proceeds benefit Unity of Bellevue. When you shop our Bookstore, you support our spiritual community.
Feel good about where you spend your money!
Shop at the Unity of Bellevue Bookstore.


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Have you ever wondered why people who adopt yoga into their lives never give it up?
When we hear the word yoga, we usually think of healthy elastic bodies that, with gentle, rhythmic movements, promise to relax from everyday stress.
It is a personal choice to do yoga or not. Maybe you're unsure if you actually want to try it, or perhaps you just don't have enough motivation to get to your first class. Or, even worse, perhaps you've attended a yoga class that was far from enjoyable and made you feel frustrated, leaving you believing that yoga is just not for you.
Generally, there is the idea that yoga is only for those who are already in good physical condition, for those who are already flexible and strong, and many think that yoga cannot deliver the physical results that other disciplines promote. These are some of the many misconceptions that prevent people from going to the mat and enjoying one of the oldest and most complete disciplines in history.
Below is a list of other misconceptions that prevent many people from discovering yoga as it is meant to be, a discipline that integrates the body and mind.
I have to be vegetarian: NO
Yoga is a religion: NO
I have to stop a particular habit or do something specific to practice yoga: NO
I have to learn another language – Sanskrit for example: NO
There is an age limit for starting: NO
Yoga actually gives us the opportunity to recognize our own physical abilities and achieve states of mind that we want to preserve, by working with postures, breathing and concentration that are integrated into a "whole" body, mind and intellect. Yoga is a journey from the outside to the inside, a journey through the senses.
We invite you to experience for yourself that the following are true:
In just 4 weeks, you'll have increased strength, flexibility and endurance.
You'll enjoy the discovery of deep breathing.
Toxins will be released from your body through perspiration.
You'll discover what it is to have a relaxed body with an alert mind.
You posture and alignment will be greatly improved.
What keeps bringing us back again and again to the yoga mat is the experience of an intense workout and the wellness of deep breathing, which translate into an alert and vigorous mind. What we take from the yoga mat and incorporate into our daily lives is that we have discovered harmony within ourselves as well as with the world around us. It's all about being HAPPY!
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Speaker Profile
Jane Edmanson is Gardening Australia's presenter in Victoria. Jane is a qualified teacher, who also has certificates in horticulture and landscape technology.
Jane is author and co-author of several gardening books. These include Ideas from Private Gardens, The Australian Garden, Jane Edmanson's Favourite Plants, Cheap and Easy Propagation, Jane Edmanson's Working Manual for Gardeners. She also contributes to the Gardening Australia magazine.
Not only is Jane a popular presenter on gardening talkback in Melbourne, she is in demand as a speaker at numerous hotrticulture and gardening events.
Until April 1994, Jane was a partner in the Bell Street Garden Centre. She now takes garden tours to many places around the world, including Europe, China, New Zealand, the USA, Canada and also within Australia. Prior to nursery work Jane was a secondary school teacher and then worked for twelve years at the Victorian Schools Nursery at which she became Deputy Principal.
Jane was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for educational and sustainable work in horticulture and the environment.
When not in the garden Jane enjoys bushwalking, windsurfing, walking and reading.
Client Comments for Jane Edmanson
Jane Edmanson travels from Victoria Australia
Client Comments
Client Comments
- Jane Edmanson has the unique ability to be able to relate to people of all ages, all backgrounds and most importantly not those who just understand gardening at the elite level. Jane is a wonderful communicator, has a great personality and is an absolute pleasure to work with. As a speaker to present at your function you will not be disappointed.
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- Jane Edmanson is one of Australia's most popular and accomplished horticulture experts. As honorary ambassador of Cystic Fibrosis Victoria, Jane has given generously of her time and expertise to raise awareness and funds for cystic fibrosis through the creation of the first ever Cystic Fibrosis Rose Collection.
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- Jane Edmanson has delighted the participants and patrons of the Melbourne International Flowers and Garden Show for many years. Her ability to appeal and capture the attention and imagination of people from all different age demographics has meant she is a 'must see' at the show each year.
The Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show has been a major event on Melbourne's calendar over the past 12 years. As a gardening media personality Jane has been involved with the show n many ways, from radio and TV telecast at the event, to live appearance on the main stage during the show.
Whenever Jane is booked to speak to the public at this event, she is always able to enthuse and inspire her audience and gives very generously of her time and knowledge. The success of Jane's appearances at the show are evident by the large number of patrons who attend her presentations.
We are delighted with Jane's ongoing involvement and support of the show and look forward to the shows relationship continuing with her long into the future.
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Coldwell Banker Associate to Helm San Diego East County Chamber of Commerce
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage is pleased to announce that Leah McIvor, Independent Associate with the Mt Helix office will chair the Board of Directors of the San Diego East County Chamber of Commerce for 2016. McIvor will formally take the gavel from current Chair, Steve Hamann, at the East County Honors gala at Barona on February 11.
Coldwell Banker Regional Vice President Martin Conrad applauds McIvor's appointment. "Leah's work with the Chamber is a fine example of the contributions Coldwell Banker Associates make to public service in our community," Conrad says.
McIvor is well-known in the region having chaired the Chamber's high-profile Women in Leadership Luncheon for the past five years. While steady growth and financial stability are perennial imperatives, McIvor plans to make organizational and board development the focus of her term. With over 600 members, the East County Chamber reaches every corner of the region.
Brian Westre, Branch Manager at the Mt. Helix office, fully supports McIvor's commitment to the business community. "Leah's leadership," says Westre, "is a fine example of civic activity that enables our Associates to better serve their clients, especially those moving into the area."
"Giving back through community service is a central part of my life," says McIvor, "but it is wonderful to be able to do that with a Chamber that introduces me to so many sources of ready and reliable assistance for my clients."
McIvor will have a busy year with the Chamber's calendar of professional and social programs, including First Friday Breakfasts/Mixers every month. She is ready for the challenge. But with a long-standing interest in mid-century modern homes, McIvor will take time first for Modernism Week in Palm Springs next month.


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Red Dog (Pilbara)
Red Dog statue.
|Other name(s)
Dog of the Northwest
|kelpie/cattle dog crossbreed dog
|Tally Ho
Paraburdoo, Western Australia
|November 21, 1979 (aged 7–8)
Karratha, Western Australia
|Resting place
|Secret location, Roebourne, Western Australia
|Nation from
|Known for
|traveled throughout Western Australia's Pilbara region
|The Pilbara Wanderer
|Colin Cummings (former)
John Stazzonelli (former)
|red fur
|Named after
|its red fur
Red Dog (c. 1971 – 21 November 1979) was a kelpie/cattle dog cross that was well known for his travels through Western Australia's vast Pilbara region. Red Dog had a series of owners and lengthy periods traveling on his own, essentially becoming a beloved friend and mascot of the greater Pilbara community. A statue was installed in his memory in Dampier, one of the towns to which he often returned.[1][2] He is frequently referred to as a "red kelpie"[3] or a "red cloud kelpie".[4]
Red Dog was believed to have been born in the town of Paraburdoo, Western Australia in 1971.[5]
Red Dog was called by a variety of names by those who knew him, including Bluey, Tally Ho, and Dog of the Northwest.[6] Tally Ho was his first name, given to him by a man called Colin Cummings, who is believed to have been his first owner, and the one who brought him to Dampier. The nickname "Red Dog" has been attributed to the red dirt of the Pilbara Region (although 'red dog' is a common nickname for red kelpies and heelers, much in the same way as 'blue dog' or 'Bluey' is a common nickname for the Australian cattle dog).
His second owner was John Stazzonelli, a bus driver with Hamersley Iron, who took the dog with him in his bus. With John, Red Dog travelled as far as Perth, Broome, Roebourne, Point Samson and Port Hedland.[7]
Following Stazzonelli's death in 1975, Red Dog spent a lot of time traveling on his own. He was also taken in by many members of the community, and a veterinarian who treated him. Each time he visited the vet, it was with a new owner.[6] Red was made a member of the Dampier Salts Sport and Social Club and the Transport Workers' Union, and was also given a bank account with the Bank of New South Wales, which was said to have used him as a mascot, with the slogan "If Red banks at the Wales, then you can too."[6]
Although Red Dog was well liked, it is believed that he was deliberately poisoned in 1979 with strychnine.[8]
Red Dog was buried, by veterinarian Rick Fenny, in a secret unmarked grave around Roebourne, Western Australia.[9]
Soon after Red's death, Australian author Nancy Gillespie wrote and compiled anecdotes and poetry written by several people of the Pilbara region for her 1983 book Red Dog,[10] as did Beverly Duckett in her 1993 book, Red Dog: the Pilbara Wanderer.[5]
Red Dog's story and statue have caught the attention of a number of people passing through Dampier including British author Louis de Bernières. He wrote a book loosely based on Red's legend, called Red Dog.[11] A four-wheel drive club has been named in his honour.[12]
De Berniere's novel was adapted as a critically acclaimed[13] feature film about Red. It was made in Australia and released in August 2011.[14] Based on a screenplay by Daniel Taplitz,[15] it is directed by Kriv Stenders. The title role was played by Koko.[16]
See also[edit]
- Bob the Railway Dog, an Australian precursor
- Dog on the Tuckerbox
- Hachi: A Dog's Tale
- Owney, postal dog
- ^ Ashworth, Susie; Rebecca Turner; Simone Egger (2004). Western Australia. Lonely Planet. pp. 203–204. ISBN 1-74059-459-2.
- ^ "Dampier". The Sydney Morning Herald. 8 February 2004. Retrieved 6 April 2008.
- ^ Mark Sanderson (24 September 2001). "Animal Tragic". The Evening Standard. Retrieved 6 April 2008.[dead link]
- ^ Toby Clements (22 December 2001). "A Modest Proposal". The Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 15 April 2008. Retrieved 6 April 2008.
- ^ a b Beverley Duckett (1993). Red Dog : the Pilbara wanderer.
- ^ a b c Gordon, Ruth (2000). It Takes a Dog to Raise a Village: True Stories of Remarkable Canine Vagabonds. Willow Creek Press. pp. 137–151. ISBN 1-57223-300-1.
- ^ Candice Silverman (23 September 2006). "Life as a Dogged Hobo". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 6 April 2008.
- ^ "The Red Dog Story". reddogwa.com. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
- ^ "Where was Red Dog Buried". reddogwa.com. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
- ^ Nancy Gillespie (1983). Red Dog. Stockwell. ISBN 0722317972.
- ^ De Bernières, Louis (2001). Red Dog. Pantheon Books. ISBN 0-375-42155-6.
- ^ "Red Dog 4WD Club". 5 April 2008. Archived from the original on 2010-04-28. Retrieved 6 April 2008.
- ^ Red Dog at Rotten Tomatoes
- ^ Stephanie Bunbury (29 July 2011). "Tall tails". The Sydney Morning Herald.
- ^ "WA's legendary Red Dog on track for the big screen". Media Newswire. 5 August 2009. Retrieved 10 August 2009.
- ^ Vicky Roach (10 August 2009). "Roll out the red carpet for Koko the movie star". The Herald Sun. Retrieved 10 August 2009.
External links[edit]
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Attention: CVI cameras use coax cable to transmit the video signal but the signal is digital and will NOT work with analog CCTV video recorders. CVI cameras only work with video recorders design to support the CVI technology.
Item #P300ZXW
High Definition - Ultra Long Range Night Vision - Weatherproof - Zoom Lens
- Color HD 1080p Resolution
- Weatherproof housing
- 300ft Night vision
- Wall mount
- Quick connect video & power pigtail
- Motorized Zoom Lens
Viewing Distance
This camera is equipped with an extreme long range zoom lens; 5-50mm. The chart below shows the viewing distance zoomed to 25mm is 43 feet horizontal at 300 feet. Zoomed to 50mm the horizontal viewing distance would be approximately 22 feet. The manual zoom lens allows you to mount the camera and then, using the zoom knob on the camera, adjust or "zoom" the viewing area in or out until you get the perfect view.
Night Vision
This camera is equipped with Infrared LED's. The LED's cast out infrared light the human eye cannot see, but the camera can. During the day the camera produces vivid color video, when the light level drops below a minimum point the camera automatically switches the IR system on. The camera then produces very high quality black and white night vision video.
Power Supply
This camera can be powered with either a one camera Plug-in Power Supply Item #PWR-2Amp or using one of our Multi-Camera Power Units. Power supplies are sold separately.
HD-CVI Resolution
CVI stands for Composite Video Interface and HD stands for High Definition. This is a new technology that provides a low cost method of transmitting quality video signals. CVI breaks the resolution limits of the CCTV technology and allows for HD high definition video to be transmitted over coax cable.
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Update: Hurricane Katia
Hurricane Katia is currently located approximately 540 miles (870 kilometers) south of Bermuda, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC). The storm currently packs sustained winds of around 110 mph (175 kmph), equivalent to a category 2 hurricane. Katia is traveling in a northwest direction and is expected to maintain this general motion for the next 48 hours. The NHC said hurricane force winds extend 60 miles (95 kilometers) from the center of the storm while tropical storm force winds extend 205 miles (335 kilometers).
Katia is expected to continue to move across the Atlantic in a northwesterly direction over the next day or two on a track that brings it to the southeast of Bermuda. The official NHC prediction has Katia strengthening during this time, with forecasters expecting the storm to reach category 3 hurricane status tomorrow before less favorable conditions eventually weaken the system. Forecasts now indicate Katia is less likely to threaten land as the storm is expected to take a turn to the north later this week, remaining offshore midway between Bermuda and the east coast of the United States. The NHC forecast track then has the storm curving away to the northeast during the latter part of the week without affecting Bermuda or the United States. Most other forecast models also expect Katia to veer out to sea on a northeasterly track. However, the NHC stresses it is still too early to say with any certainty where Katia is headed and warned wind from the storm could still affect the United States east coast as it moves north. Large swells generated by Katia are also expected to affect the United States, Bermuda and Greater Antilles. The NHC said these swells are likely to cause life threatening surge and rip current conditions.
Hazard data illustrated in the CAT-i map was taken from i-aXs®, Guy Carpenter's web-based risk management platform. i-aXs users can view impacted areas on any map as well as see how their portfolios were affected. Please contact your broker or GC Analytics (SM) representative for assistance or go to www.i-axs.info for further information.
Guy Carpenter will continue to closely monitor Katia's progress this week.
Sources: National Hurricane Center, WSI, Associated Press, Reuters News, Agence France Presse
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Telangana VAT registration is a mandatory for dealers based in the State of Telangana, who matched to particular conditions as listed in the Telangana Value Added Tax Act, 2005. Let us have a look at Telangana VAT Registration and Telangana VAT returns filing and TS VAT Payment procedures this article.
Telangana VAT Registration
Value Added Tax Registration is the first step towards enforcement of the sales tax provisions in the State. As per the provisions of Telangana VAT Act, every dealer is required to apply for registration under the Act if assessee falls under any of the clauses mentioned in the Act is liable to get registered under the VAT Laws. The biggest benefit of TG VAT registration is that only VAT registered dealer is eligible to get input tax credit. Further, dealer registered for TG VAT only can issue a tax invoice which entitles the purchaser to receive the input tax credit number dealer, who is liable to pay tax under Act, shall carry on business as a dealer unless he has been registered and possesses a certificate of registrations.
Types of Registration under the Telangana VAT Act
According to Chapter IV of Telangana VAT Act (Section 17 to Section 19), individuals following types of registration are envisaged:
- VAT Registration.
- New VAT Registration.
- Migration (from TOT to VAT) Type Registration.
- Compulsory VAT Registration.
- Start up Registration.
- Voluntary VAT Registration.
- TOT Registration.
- Section 17 (1) furnishes that every dealer other than a casual dealer shall be liable to be registered under the provisions of the Act.
Eligibility for VAT Registration
- Any dealer intending to conduct a business or doing business may apply to be registered for Telangana VAT.
- However, all individuals conducting a business must register for TG VAT from the date they commence business if assessee believes their taxable turnover will exceed a threshold of Rs. 50 ,00,000/- in 12 consecutive calendar months.
- All individual dealers must register for VAT if their taxable turnover exceeds Rs. 10,00,000/- for the preceding three consecutive calendar months.
- Regardless of individual dealer taxable turnover, the following dealers must register for Telangana VAT at the commencement of their busing single.
- Every single dealer registered or liable to be registered under the Central Sales Tax Act 1956, or sales in the course of inter-state trade or any dealer making purchases or commerce or dispatches any goods to a place outside the State otherwise than by way of sale.
- Every individual dealer executing any works contract exceeding Rs. 5,00,000/- for the State Government or a local authority and any dealer executing works contracts and opting to pay tax by way of composition.
- Every dealer is importing goods in the course of business from outside the territory of India.
- Every individual residing outside the State but carrying on business within the State.
- Every individual dealer liable to pay tax at Special rates specified in Schedule VI of the Andhra Pradesh VAT Act 2005.
- Every commission agent, del credere agent, auctioneer or any other mercantile agent by whatever name called, who carries on the business of buying, selling, supplying or distributing goods on behalf of his non-resident principal.
- Every Individual availing an industrial incentive in the form of a tax holiday or tax deferment.
Telangana VAT Payment Due Date
Let us have a look at the Telangana VAT Payment due dates. Telangana VAT payment due date is the 20th day of each month. If in a case Assessee is Failure to file VAT return on time could sustain a penalty and interest on any tax due not paid by that date. Also, even in a case of no transaction, persons or entities having Telangana VAT registration must file an NIL return. Failure to file an NIL return by the 20th day of the following month will also incur a penalty.
Telangana VAT/TOT/CST registration
A dealer seeking Registration under the Telangana VAT or CST Act, now has a choice to utilize any of the following facilities to apply for registration.
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This question has been raised on numerous occasions and few convincing arguments have been put forward that ICT makes much difference. There's a bit on ICT effectiveness here in Section 3 of Module 1.1 at the ICT4LT site:
So I thought it was high time I raised this question again. Concrete evidence on the effectiveness of CALL is difficult to obtain. There is plenty of anecdotal evidence about the positive effects of CALL. Teachers often report on their students being "enthusiastic", "engaged", "motivated" and even "excited" in classes in which CALL is used, but are sceptical about measuring its effectiveness. See this summary (in Word format) of a discussion that took place in the MFL Resources forum in 2008:
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Interesting story.
story here
Interesting that they chose to headline the story as 'McDonald's CEO dies of heart attack'. But yeah, I guess he had a few too many Happy Meals.
The jokes would be too easy. No sport.
Jokes WOULD be too easy. But it is ironic that he was on a huge kick to make McDonalds more healthy. Kinda sad, really.
My guess is that he almost never ate there himself. Why eat an EggMcMuffin when you can have Eggs Benedict.
If he is the person who brought us the mcGriddle then this truly is a day to morn
Seriously though 60 is a bit to young to die. Pray for his family.
oh, the delicious irony. kinda like that atkins guy. though in all fairness, this was most likely at least partially stress-induced.
speaking of delicious, though... would any of you lick a mcdonald's employee? i bet they'd be mighty tasty...
would have been funny if the headline read
"Philip Morris family dies from passive smoking"
.. ah slap me for being silly... I am board, hehe.


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German Chancellor Angela Merkel remains sceptical of calls for Iran to be thrown out of this summer's soccer World Cup, which her country will host, her spokesman indicated today.
The idea of expelling Iran from the tournament has been raised over recent weeks by several members of the European parliament.
The calls emerged after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad described the Nazi Holocaust as a "myth" and his country resumed nuclear activities.
Spokesman Ulrich Wilhelm noted that, in a recent newspaper interview, Merkel said that "she personally doesn't think so much of such a measure, of shutting out the Iranian team, because that would punish people, sports fans and sportsmen, for the behaviour of a government".
Merkel also noted that any such decision would in any case be a matter for sports organisations and not for the host country, Wilhelm said.
"Merkel stands by the view that Ahmadinejad's statements are in every way unacceptable," Wilhelm said.
"This evaluation of President Ahmadinejad's comments does not also apply to the Iranian team's participation in the soccer World Cup."


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Robert Baron began carrying out domestic repairs and coffin making around the Deepdale area of Preston in the earliest days of the Company, walking 4 or 5 miles to each job and returning to his workshop for lunch each day! Robert would use a handcart to transport his tools and materials through the cobbled streets to each job.
In 1951 the Company received a telephone call from the manager of a large retailer - the job, repairing a broken rainwater pipe, was small but urgent. The request was attended to quickly and efficiently, and it was to be the start of a close relationship with one of the firm's most valued customers - Marks and Spencer plc. What makes this story all the more memorable is that the plumber who was sent out on this crucial assignment was no less than the soon-to-be-famous footballer Tom Finney!
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I absolutely love having friends who are incredibly talented and doing super cool things- and one of my friends, Tiffany, is part of the amazing four piece band, Blushes. This weekend saw them releasing their debut EP, 'Private Viewing', and I was absolutely thrilled to be asked along to cover the event. Not only did I get to see Blushes perfom live, but I got to see a whole host of other talented musicians too (who will receive their own blog posts in due course...).
Blushes have such a unique sound to them, and from the moment I first heard their music I fell in love with them! More recently, when they released a track from their EP, 'Skin', I was shocked at how much the group had progressed and improved. They were good before, but now I felt like they were amazing! I relayed this feedback to Tiff who told me that if I enjoyed 'Skin' that much (I did), then I'd love the rest of the EP...
Guess what?
I adore it. From start to finish I was absolutely captivated. For a girl who usually listens to the likes of Beyonce, Stormzy and Rihanna, listening to Blushes made a refreshing change, and I actually listened to the EP back to back three times... for real.
Because I love the band and their music so much, I thought I'd use my little corner of the internet to share their talent with you! Not only did I get to attend their EP launch but I also got to interview the band prior to the event too, so you guys can all get a bit more of an insight into the members of the band, the process of writing their brilliant songs and where they get their inspiration from.
How did Blushes begin?
Tiff: Bradley, Jacob and myself all went to the same secondary school and we were all in the same music classes together. When I left school in year 11, I went on to Amersham College to study Fine Art and ended up making friends with George, who was studying music at the college. Bradley had already started off as a solo artist, writing his own material and doing acoustic sets- which is funny, because me and one of my friends at school spent so long persuading him to sing to us in music and he never would because he hated his voice so much...now he's a front man!
Jacob had previously been in bands and I had already been singing for years and had worked on a few different projects with other friends. Bradley approached me about forming a band and asked if I knew a potential guitarist to complete the group, and instantly I thought of George! George actually had to go to university so we were left without a lead guitarist but fortunately we had played with a band called Rawset at the Crauford Arms before and their guitarist, Sonny, wa sa fan. When we needed to fill George's rather large boots, Sonny was the one person we thought had a chance of rising to the challenge with his 'plinky plonky' riffs!
'Skin' has already been pretty popular- can we expect more tracks like this from your EP or are all of the tracks unique?
Tiff: 'Skin' was, to me, one of our strongest tracks, considering we wrote it together further down the line and after gigging and practising often, which meant we could write something stylised to the direction we felt we were actually heading in. There's a nice handful of variety in the EP however.
Jacob: The other songs are a mix of stuff that was already fully written by Brad before the band started, and songs that we've all built. We've all had a hand in tweaking and adding to every song however. We feel that all of the tracks stand on their own, they all have different meanings and styles. The record is very much an indication of what we have come from and where we are going.
Its such a gorgeous song, and I have listened to it over and over and over again since it was released! Where did the inspiration for the song come from?
Jacob: Simply put, lyrically 'Skin' is about sex and everything that surrounds it. More specifically, sex with someone that you love, or you know you will love. But it's not like a pure R&B song (even though a lot of influence comes from that), the bassline or groove isn't really trying to be 'sexy' or have that kind of sound. It's more about telling a definite story and how each instrument can emphasise that. The structure of the song in a way reflect the structure of a night or an evening with someone, and the struggle to make it work, with the nerves and that.
In general, where do you get the inspiration for your songs?
Jacob: I think naturally we have gravitated towards love and romance as big themes. In no way is it an unexplored subject but we are always interested in what it sounds like when we're jamming new songs and how it all mixes together with those themes. We're changing sounds and styles constantly so it's quite fun when Brad and Tiff are singing about a very melancholic experience and there's a very upbeat thing behind it. Stuff like that! Of course, sometimes it can be ncie to just go straigh up and do what the song wants, and try and strengthen that as much as possible, but it really comes down to if its something we all like, and we can imagine playing it all together and laying it out between us, then we'll do it.
Which bands and artists do you source inspiration from?
Tiff: Individually, we have quite a varied taste in music. One genre we all appreciate is R&B. Personally, I love artists like Matt Corby, James Vincent McMorrow and James Arthur, and I adore the tone that Amy Winehouse had in her vocals. Currently, I'm always taking inspiration from Marina and the Diamonds, London Grammar and Half Moon Run when it comes to our sound.
How long does it usually take to put one song together? What comes first, the lyrics or the music?
Jacob: It totally varies; many songs Brad has just come up with the basic guitar and lyrics on the spot, and then we just gradually figure out our parts over the top until they mix nicely. Sometimes it takes one evening, sometimes it takes months. We do demo stuff too, we send eachother everything from 10 second melodies to fully mixed instrumental tracks that we then jam on, so again its sort of an 'anything goes' thing.
Your debut EP 'Private Viewing' was released on the 22nd April. Where can people listen to it?
Jacob: It's available on all online streaming services, and we had some physical copies at our launch show too!
I have already had numerous listens on Spotify (readers, you can listen right here) and I honestly can't get enough of it! How long did it take to put the EP together?
Jacob: It has taken just about six months now, from the start of recording to finishing production and mastering. It has been on and off however, not every single day, just using windows of time where we were all available.
We loved watching you guys at your EP launch- you sounded amazing and all looked like you were having the time of your life! Where can we see your performing next?
Jacob: Our next gig is supporting Shanghai Blues at Luna Lounge on 6th May followed by a show at the Islington O2 Academy on the 8th July- plus many more to be announced soon!
Can you tell that Blushes are crazy talented? Coming up with music and lyrics on the spot, putting together an EP in six months and selling out a gig for 300 people to launch their debut EP. This lot are putting in allllll the work and I am absolutely certain they're going to be reaping the rewards for a long time to come. If you don't do anything else on this quiet Monday evening, make sure you go and listen to 'Private Viewing' right now, and make sure to give the band a follow on social media too. You can find them on Facebook here, on Twitter here and on Instagram as @dontmakemeblushes.
I love Blushes, I have loved finding out more about the band and their music and I absolutely can't wait to see them perform again! Have a listen to their EP and let me know what you think of their music in the comments below!
Love from,
Florence Grace
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Nanopad is a gameboard for Nanodots
Some of you might remember when we covered the Nanodots magnetic sets last summer, and the company has shown off the Nanopad at the Toy Fair in New York City last week.
For those of you who are not familiar with Nanodots, they are small balls that are individually magnetic. It isn't exactly a toy, as a child could swallow it, but it is a construction tool like no other as tiny metal balls stick together for new shapes.
The Nanopad is a mat woven in iron that my Source says is "heavy and dense like one of those aprons you wear for dental X-rays". The Nanodots stick to it like it was made for it, which it was. Think of it as one of those flat one-sided Lego pads that you need to start your building projects.
On one side of the Nanopad is this chess/checkerboard pattern that you can see here, so I suppose that you could shape the Nanodots into the pieces that you want. As for the other side, it has a blank area with a gauge to measure how long your line of Nanodots can go. You'll have to see the picture of it on my Source for more information. Also included on my Source is a shot of a small plastic card designed to split complicated magnet constructions.
When the Nanopad goes on sale, it will be about $20, and Nanodots will sell for about $30 to $40 for a set of 216.


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From: Annie Gleasure, The Square, Listowel
To: Frank Gleasure, 14 Webster Avenue, Allston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
My Dear Brother,
I can find no excuse for not writing to you this long time past, but I suppose you must know by this time that I am a very bad correspondent. I often got my note-paper and pen ready to write to you but I would sit before it for two hours maybe without writing a line and then put it away again. I will try now after this to write more regularly. I hope you are in good health and doing well, we are fairly well here ourselves, but George was rather sick last week, he suffers very much from indigestion, and so he must be rather particular about his food. He got frightful thin lately, he is growing too, that might be the cause. He hasn't been out in the country for any holidays this summer, and it would do him good if he could get out, but you know he has charge of those greyhounds and they take up all his time, they are an awful bother, four dogs and a little of five pups, you may be sure I am heartily sick of them around the place. I suffered a great deal from indigestion myself last winter so I know what it is. I was out for a week at Ballyhenessy at the time my Grandmother died and I can tell you I felt fine after it even though it was at such a sorrowful time, for I wasn't away from home since the time Paddy Connor was getting married. It is something dreadful in this town not a bit of life, I wish I was out of it. Now I am going to ask you if you could send me four pound for I want to get a set of teeth in and the pater won't get them for me and my teeth are very bad much worse than Mai's before she got hers out, so will you try and send it if you can as soon as you get this. I have no more to say this time so I will close.
Remaining yours most affectionately
Annie Gleasure


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Back in the good old days, big software companies did big things. Little companies tiptoed around in the shadow of the platform makers, gaining enough speed to liftoff and attract enough attention to survive long enough to be acquired. Like the old movie studios of the 30's and 40's, the technology studios of the 80's and 90's built stars and played them off until the inevitable decline.
So it went with Microsoft, as the seeming invulnerability of Gates' machine accelerated to the boundaries of global saturation. Though we tend to think of Google as the conqueror, the reality is that Microsoft has struggled most with itself, the victim not of decline but of lack of fuel -- the very customers who created the megalith in the first place.
Everything changed with the Net. The platform wars, the browser wars, the widget wars -- they're all really battles in the grappling with the living, breathing, swarm that is the Web. Even the argument over whether Office is dead is bogus, a joke that became a conference that begat a series of endless reiterations of the first O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer conference known as Web 2.0. The stuff that went over the wire now goes over the air; the stuff that used to persist solely on the client now comes from G@d knows where in the Cloud.
I pick on the conferences because they are an easy target, whether large and self-important like the Web 2.0 Expo this past week in San Francisco or small and private smoke-filled rooms like the ones that may await us in Denver in August. An easy target when the guy who champions dataportability.org is nowhere to be seen on the panels of numerous sessions on dataportability, the legitimacy of standards baked in the dark having the same dubious odor it had when Microsoft and IBM tried the same thing back in the Web Services Wars.
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So we grow to expect little of big companies, entrenched publishers, and the various gatekeepers that fester at the margins of this unruly beast of the Net. Google grew so fast we bought the laughable notion they weren't attacking Microsoft with freeware, but it only seemed like a big company play after the fact, and even today is laughed off by so-called "enterprise" seers as a toy, albeit a collaborative one that can't be duplicated by the incumbent without triggering self-destruction.
Instead, we watch big company plays emerging from virtualized roots, the Amazon services, the social media clouds, the endless "little" company dance of instability, VC stupidity, and media carbonation of the Valley. This is the universe of the little Duchies, the Fenwicks where media storms roll down through the hills and tumble past with names like Twitter and Friendfeed and Twhirl.
I'll call them microbigs, because the media treats them like they're big companies with little to lose and everything to gain. The microbigs can seem transcendent like Facebook or possessing the lifetime of a gnat like a thousand forgotten startups or neverwases, but nowhere are the range of possible outcomes more encapsulated than Twitter.
Twitter is a Rorschach test of a microbig. I see it as the most important enterprise event of the MicroBig era; others see it as SocMedBS. We're both right, of course, but put your head down on the tracks and you'll hear the superliner approaching: Live Mesh. Just when we thought it was safe.... Are the big companies back? Is it time once again to assemble the open source wagons? To whom do we look for authority in fighting this battle?
First, is Microsoft a big company? Sure, but composed of monolithic special interests or a fast-moving collection of microbigs orchestrated by a self-healing mesh. One from Column A, the Office group, secure in revenue via the corporate channel but increasingly undercut by virality -- or one from Column B, Silverlight, secure in cross-platform transparency with a 100 million client gift horse in NBC's Olympic coverage on the horizon.
Both poles are curiously hamstrung, Office by its size and historical association with pre-Web lock-in, Silverlight by its perception as a virtual iPod with nothing to play or project. And there's the media, similarly hamstrung by the notion that the only play here is to stick the two together and move Office to the Web. The problem: that's not a microbig, it's a regular old big company.
Then there's the mesh. Looks bigco in purpose, staffed by the new guard at Microsoft, the best and brightest of Redmond and the seedlings that trace back to Groove and forward to the intersection with telecom and hardware. But try an interesting thought experiment as we did on The Gillmor Gang, and throw Mesh lead David Treadwell a series of microbig scenarios, and the answer comes up yes.
First, the Coke Classic questions: When's the Mac version? Two months. What's the difference between this and FolderShare. Never mind that who cares about FolderShare to begin with. What about Sharepoint? What about Groove? No wonder there's even a little doubtthat Microsoft can get traction with this, what with channel conflict left and right with its own flailing Net-grappling product lines.
Finally, the real questions: Does Silverlight intersect with Mesh to produce the Net OS? Answer: Yes. Treadwell calls it orthogonal and complementary. MicroBig language. Can Mesh support Twitter streams orchestrated by identity mapping via affinities and abstracted to devices across OS, mobile, and corporate divides via Silverlight? Yes, but it can do so much more. Yes, but I didn't ask about WIndows. OK, yes. When?
Big company play at MicroBig velocity. Yes, and rather than yes, but.
"Gillmor: Is this service intended to compete against or enhance, which is a good part of the question, Google and Amazon Web Services?"
Treadwell: This service is a different level than Amazon Web Services. Amazon Web Services does a great job of providing what we sometimes call utility computing resources-- the ability to do mass scale storage, computation, etc. This service doesn't have anything that operates at that level
Gillmor: Well it sits on top of services that operate at that level.
Treadwell: That's exactly correct.
Gillmor: So can you wire the two up? Can you sit on top of Amazon services and use Mesh services to synchronize and orchestrate them?
Treadwell: It would certainly be possible for somebody to create a virtual device of a sort that uses Mesh's open protocols to use S3 as one type of device. We don't have that support today, but again, by virtue of the open protocol, somebody could create such a device.
Gardner: If someone decides they didn't want, for some reason, their content to go out through this platform, wouldn't it be fairly easy for them to block it?
Treadwell: They could simply choose not to map the folder. Is that what you mean?
Gardner: Not the end user necessarily, but perhaps the large organization that's got content.
Treadwell: I see your point. That's one of the things we know we have to do a good job with Mesh; that is, to be IT-friendly, and to give IT control on what kinds of data can and can't be stored on this thing. In addition, one of the things that we expect to do longer-term is to allow IT departments to operate their own cloud storage mechanisms, such that data owned by that enterprise would only be stored on that enterprise's devices and that enterprise's servers. They would never go to Microsoft and they would have complete control of that data. GillmorGang 04.25.08
Yes? Yes. So what you're saying is that Google is a microbig. Yes, did I say that? No, but I didn't ask that either and the answer is still yes. Bottom line: Microsoft can't gain and retain traction with Mesh unless the answers are yes.
Where we take this is even more interesting than whether it will be successful in Microsoft's stated terms, that with a dominant client position on the desktop and a growing one in gaming, mobile, and corporate they will get the lion's share of whatever becomes the coin of the realm (services.) Looking at Mesh as a data synchronization transport ignores its abilities to virtualize identity, permissions, information aggregation, realtime feedback loops, and other SocMedBS attributes that define the substructure of, for example, a Twitter-Mesh-Silverlight gateway to compete with GTalk/Twitter etc.
Imagine (not for long will it be ephemeral) an information bus that orchestrates the signaling of text, rich media, calendar, communications, transaction, and group location status under a social graph umbrella based in part on user-controlled behavior aggregation (gestures). Now imagine what Google needs to do to match this architecture and its overwhelming lead in connectors to existing hardware via Windows.
Google's answer for now is no. There's no need to attack Mesh directly, but rather continue to iterate on Officenomics while retaining its dominant leads in user credibility and advertiser cloud. But Microsoft can efficiently hybridize Google and other microbig services with the Mesh layer added, creating information bus fail-over to multiple streams (virtual devices) to insure enterprise levels of reliability and security.
Those who dismiss this SocMedBS should note that even without Mesh or a Silverlight installed base of sufficient size or a Twitter that can scale at the affinity level, we are already able to orchestrate multiple services at an adhoc level with tangible results. For example, Friday's Gillmor Gang was carried simultaneously by a Ustream feed with live video from my studio in Daly City and graphics intermeshed with the conference call by Jerry Schuman in Los Angeles, a live chat with questions from a global audience, the concurrent Twitterstream, and members of the Gang including Robert Scoble by cell from Ansel Adams' playground deep in Yosemite.
It's another fine mesh we're getting into. But we have to face the facts that choice is the only weapon we have for progress. Whether it's someone trying to force a choice of who we are friends with, or guilt by association with other ideas and experiences, or any gatekeeping that isn't in service of any of us, that is to be rejected and routed around until the obstruction clears. It's time for us to act like the microbigs we can be, and, like Microsoft, just say yes.


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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, is a 2012 memoir by Cheryl Strayed, a girl who had never been hiking. Yet she decides she needs to do something really hard. I like that. Strayed (a name she gave herself) cluelessly tackles one of the hardest hiking trails in America. I enjoyed this honest memoir, though I wonder why so many of us need to find our way in the world by first losing ourselves to drugs, alcohol and meaningless sex. On that happy note, Cheryl does indeed find her purpose – and it all happens on the big and beautiful Pacific Crest Trail. Now I want to go there. What would I discover?
I have a knee-jerk GIVE ME THAT BOOK response whenever I see a new Jodi Picoult novel. I ended up skimming most of this, and I can't explain exactly why. My friend, Lindsey, really liked it. It's well-written and has the classic Picoult twist at the end, but I feel like I've read so many Picoult books that the writing and characters are something I've read before.
This book only fueled my long-held fascination with Charles and Anne Lindbergh. I.Loved.Loved.Loved.this book! It's historical fiction, but felt so true and real, that I wondered if it was actually nonfiction. Written from the perspective of shy Anne, Melanie Benjamin's writing is riveting, making me wonder what she made up and what is actually true. I must now plunge into every Lindbergh book written, including Charles Lindbergh's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, and Anne's beautiful book, Gifts of the Sea.
I love Glennon Melton's writing; she's hilarious and honest and did I say funny? This book felt a little hastily written, and much of it is already on her blog, but I still enjoyed it, especially because I am nosy and wanted to find out what The News actually was. Are you confused? It's a long story.
Quiet. A highlight of my reading life. If you're a quiet, more reserved sort of person, this book will validate you! I learned SO much about myself, our society, and why we think we need to be so darn LOUD all the time.
I actually took notes and made photocopies of pages I liked. Do you wonder if you are an introvert or extrovert?
Extroverts are the people who will add life to your dinner party and laugh generously at your jokes. They tend to be assertive, dominant, and in great need of company. Extroverts think out loud and on their feet; they prefer talking to listening, rarely find themselves at a lost for words, and occasionally blurt out things they never meant to say. They're comfortable with conflict, but not with solitude.
Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas. They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family. They listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation. Thy tend to dislike conflict. Many have a horror of small talk, but enjoy deep discussions.
Yea, that pretty much describes my personality. And about half of the world's population.
What is incredibly fascinating to me, is the history of our need for loud. Let's start with Dale Carnegie. Carnegie was a very quiet, reserved farm boy, but longed to improve his speaking skills. He set up shop teaching a public speaking class and was an overnight sensation, going on to found the Dale Carnegie Institute.
Carnegie is the story of the Extrovert "ideal…changing forever who we are and whom we admire, how we act at job interviews and what we look for in an employed, how we court our mates and raise our children…
America had shifted from what the influential historian Warren Susman called a Culture of Character to a Culture of Personality..."
Our society used to emphasize these ideals: citizenship, duty, work, golden deeds, honor, reputation, morals, manners, integrity.
Now we emphasize: Magnetic, outgoing, charming, popular, likable, success, assertive, loud, bold, celebrities.
Cain's brilliant book emphasizes our need for the quiet, introverted individual, and begins the very first chapter with a little-known woman named Rosa Parks. Perhaps you've heard of her? Parks made a difference by saying one word that was the right word: No. But she only became famous because she stood next to Martin Luther King, Jr. And it was his persuasive speech and her moral stance that made the pair so powerful.
Moses' true personality was humble and meek. In the book of Exodus, he was given Aaron to speak for him. "We don't ask why God chose as his prophet a stutterer with a public speaking phobia. But we should…its stories suggest…the medium is not always the message…people followed Moses because his words were thoughtful, not because he spoke them well."
Cain blows a lot of myths out of the water, siting famous studies and books like THE TALENT CODE. The "best" of anything always, always has serious solitude for long periods of intense concentration.
Hate sitting around a conference table throwing out ideas? Me too. It's not as valuable or productive as we think.
Some introverts: Rosa Parks, Dr. Seuss, Kafka, Gandhi, Stephen Wozniak (the first PC).
Okay, I'll stop there. Read the book. Fascinating!
I picked this book up off the floor when I was babysitting last weekend, and pretty much neglected the kids for the rest of the day 🙂
The pain in her hand was sharper. It throbbed like a wolf with its paw in a trap. She wished she had a wolf's courage and could bite off her hand at the wrist, separating herself from the pain.
A dark, engaging middle grade read.
I did not read THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL, but I watched it on a VHS cassette. It's been years, and still I swoon. They seek him here, they seek him there, they seek him everywhere…is he in heaven or is he in hell? That damned elusive, pimpernel.
Fabulous, romantic, hilarious, suspenseful. You must get the Jane Seymour version. MUST.


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Day 34 Splits
Swim: 1:18:57
Bike: 7:14:53
Run: 6:17:32
Total: 14:51:22
If you are interested in a blog on the Iron Cowboy that is infinitely more interesting than my comments, Tommy Rivers Puzey has been traveling with James since Massachusetts and providing an unbelievable day-to-day commentary. Iron poetry. In his few short posts so far, Tommy provides the best detail on what each day is really like and the challenges James has to overcome.
Olympic medalist Jenny Thompson joins James for the swim today and he pulls of his best (non river) swim time since Day 21. I find this a microcosm of the 505050. We can accomplish more when someone inspires us.
Day 38 will prove to be a challenge. The drive from Pennsylvania to Ohio is long. There has not been a drive that long since Colorado to Kansas a month ago. The driving distances over the last 13 days are as long as the first 10 days.
See how optimistic I am now? I'm just assuming James will make it to Day 38 and already looking ahead. That's not a given, considering that James reported today was the most exhausted he had felt in weeks.


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I much prefer the sublime genius that gave us, amongst many others, Tom Paris the slugman, Quark in drag and that time Kirk teamed up with Abraham Lincoln to take on Ghengis Khan and Kahless in fisticuffs.
What a rich tapestry of Shakespearean wonder they wove; unfortunately only the highest of IQs can truly appreciate them.
As it stands, I have close to zero time available to watch this even if it was as good as TNG.
Comparing trek eras using quality of writing and acting is fairly lol. Trek has always been a bit hammy, that's why people love it. Stop asking for Sopranos in space, it's not going to happen.
Y'all got some real fucking rose tinted glasses going on in this thread. Discovery has great characters, good universe building, and despite the first few episodes being shaky it's currently in a very good place.
'I'm pro life. I'm a non-smoker. I'm a pro-life non-smoker. WOO, Let the party begin!'
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Phoned an old mate tonight. He asked me if I liked STD
'I think so'
'Me too, but it's not really star trek is it?'
Pretty much sums it up for me.
Incidentally I'm watching TNG and Enterprise in parallel whilst waiting for my weekly dose of STD and holy shit Enterprise is miles better than TNG and honestly TNG is only held together by great acting (of a few select characters) and the ocassional good stuff, generally it's p. horrible by today's standards.
Just watched the episode where they were investigating the disappearance of the Fleming and all fucking episode they didn't show the fucking Fleming, not even when they actually found the damn thing. 1-2 minutes after they managed to explodify a warp core so a subspace breach happened so ok now we can't see it cuz it's in the shitty thing. Then the Enterprise "coasts" into the rift to beam out the Fleming crew... And still no Fleming, at least a 5 second shot of the vessels in proximity. Nope. Probably ran out of budget or smth.
Fucking Fleming, I swear.
Guns make the news, science doesn't.
Enterprise grew on me, I initially didn't like it, too much 'Murica in space. But aside from the temporal cold war which was a bit naff, it slowly grew as a show into something pretty decent. Most importantly it tried to fit in with the timeline (eg, the Borg episode), and stuff it took liberties with (the Delphic expanse Xindi season 3) didn't screw up established history, just added to the back lore.
Hell they even managed to explain the Klingons having non pasty heads in TOS.
(STD fucked that one RIIGHT up again)
"I think we could all do with sitting back a bit and detaching ourselves from the situation to really think about how these issues reflect on our future and how we discuss them here and be a bit less aggressive or defensive because everyone has a complicated set of circumstances that has led the to place importance on particular issues and it doesn't meany any of them is less valid, we just need to look at the broader picture"
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Programmers at Niantic Labs have announced a couple of days ago during the 2017 Game Developers Conference the game was downloaded well over 650 million times since its launch in July of 2016.
Thats a huge accomplishment of 150 million downloads in only 5 months. Furthermore, the programmers at Niantic Labs additionally disclosed that all Pokemon GO Tricks players joined have walked up to 8.7 Billion KILOMETERS (5.4 Billion Miles). In hindsight, thats like walking the distance to Pluto.
Nevertheless, compared to its enormous uprise back in July of 2016, it's relatively quite slow. This amount is forecast to slow down as time advances with an increasing number of users dropping out of interest for the match. Niantic Labs, nevertheless, have been attempting to keep users interested with monthly updates.
Lately they released a significant upgrade to the general public by introducing 80 new Pokemon for players to catch. Whatever the downloading speed being slowed down, it's considered that together with how the game is going, it's going to reach the billion downloads team very quickly, and may potentially function as the very first smartphone match to ever get to the landmark.
The match initially broke records when it first came out onto the App Stores by becoming among the greatest programs in use. It even took over Twitter for most active users in certain amount of time. This overly only after a couple weeks of launch.
The game was likewise a landmark and also a milestone in the gambling world by being among the first, & most successful augmented reality game to ever be released online. The technology implemented to the game took the programmers of the sport at Niantic Labs a research of at least 10 years.
The video preview of Pokemon GO alone rated up 42 Million views:
Thus, it's no surprise concerning how well the game did when it first started. Particularly given the singularity of the notion and theory behind it. Bringing Pokemon to actuality. Undeniably, most players of the game have been adoring devotees of the initial Pokemon show and games.


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8.5" Asymmetric Right Kicker Blade
At 8.5", this tree planting blade is the standard length. The Asymmetric Blade is good for planters that like to use their kickers. The asymmetric shape allows for a better kick platform which results in less slipping off, or missing the kicker.
This blade is compatible with any shaft that is <= 1.25" diameter. Hot melt glue can be used on smaller diamter shafts.
Tags: 8.5", asymmetric, 2pc, ss, right


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Welcome to Mms Hotel, Chaung Tha Beach
Chaung-tha Beach is located 40 km to the west of Pathein (Bassein) in Ayeyarwaddy Division. It is a very convenient drive from Yangon via Pathein taking about 5 hours. There are bungalow type hotels along the beach with modern facilities.
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Steven Tyler: Making Up Wasn't Hard To Do
It's taken eighteen years, but Steven Tyler and his ex-wife, former Warhol fixture Cyrinda Foxe, have finally patched things up. The two -- who split in 1983 after five years of marriage -- were reunited early last month shortly after Foxe was diagnosed with brain cancer. Their daughter, plus-size-model Mia, and Tyler's daughter with Bebe Buell, actress Liv, persuaded him to reach out to his former wife. "We had brunch at Balthazar, walked around SoHo, and did the usual Sunday bullshit," Foxe tells us. "It was a lot of fun with a lot of healing." While Medicaid is covering the medical bills, Tyler is picking up the tab for Foxe's room and board at the Gramercy Park Hotel, not far from Beth Israel Medical Center, where she's undergoing radiation and chemotherapy. She has a 50-50 chance of survival after a year of treatment. "All I could say is thank you," says Foxe, whose 1997 memoir, Dream On, trashed Tyler with accusations -- which he has always denied -- of physical abuse and nonstop womanizing. "But I don't recommend that people wait twenty years to make amends. They should do it immediately." Foxe doesn't want to ask Tyler for any more help, so CBGB is hosting a fund-raiser for her on July 11. The night includes a silent auction (bid on lunch with Mia and her A Little Bit of Lipstick costar Soupy Sales!), a designer flea market, and performances by Buell, Church of Betty, the Drakes, and Sea Monster.
The Late, Late Show With Mariah Carey
Like a true diva, Mariah Carey appears to have adopted the motto "Better late than never." Last week, five journalists showed up at the Tribeca Grand Hotel at 11 a.m. to interview the 32-year-old songbird about the soundtrack of Glitter, Carey's big-screen debut, in which she stars as a struggling singer who climbs her way to the top of the charts. Shortly after the scribes arrived at the hotel they were taken uptown to the Pierre instead. At the new suite, food was served, and then they waited . . . and waited . . . and waited. Finally, at about midnight, a tipster tells us, Carey sat down for the first interview. Carey's rep insists the journos would never have been scheduled for such an early time in the day because "she doesn't start until the afternoon or early evening." She claims Carey was no more than an hour late for any of the interviews and that all were completed -- not started -- by midnight.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf's Nose?
Four months ago, the Beverly Hills Institute of Aesthetic & Reconstructive Surgery announced that according to its survey of thousands of women going under the knife, the most popular celebrity nose by far belonged to Nicole Kidman. Well, if those ladies aren't careful, they could end up looking like Virginia Woolf. While playing Woolf in The Hours -- the recently wrapped Stephen Daldry-directed big-screen adaptation of Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, which also stars Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Claire Danes -- Kidman wore a prosthetic nose that resembled the bisexual Bloomsbury writer's somewhat elongated schnoz. But for some reason, filmmakers are trying to keep the fake honker a secret. A source close to the movie tells us that when Daldry (of Billy Elliot fame) was recently asked by a crew member about the nose, he gasped, "How did you know? No one is supposed to know about the nose."
There Goes the Neighborhood . . .
Jeff Koons's sculptures may fetch millions, but even he's not willing to pay SoHo's ridiculous rents any longer. Koons told us at the closing of his exhibition of murals at the Hugo Boss flagship store on June 26 that he has abandoned his downtown digs of ten years at Broadway and Houston for a new studio in North Chelsea. "I had to move because the rent just got raised and now it's too high," Koons says. (It was tripled, according to Koons's studio manager, Gary McCraw.) But Koons will miss the conveniences of a gentrified neighborhood. "If you are in the new studio and want to step out for a cup of coffee," he says, "you may be in trouble."
Steven Spielberg Keeps His Cool
The premiere of Steven Spielberg's highly anticipated A.I. was easily the hottest event in town last week. And not just because it drew the likes of Kate Moss, Ethan Hawke, Lauren Bacall, AOL Time Warner honcho Gerald Levin, Darren Aronofsky, Casey Affleck, Jason Cerbone, and, of course, the film's stars Jude Law, Haley Joel Osment, Frances O'Connor, and Sam Robards. With temperatures soaring, these bold-faced names and about 400 other guests had to shvitz through a prescreening cocktail party at the outdoor atrium adjoining Remi on West 53rd Street. "Whose idea was it to have this outside in the middle of midtown in New York City at the end of June?" moaned Spielberg's wife, Kate Capshaw, standing by a fan. "It's crazy." She might have asked her husband, but he skipped the party and went straight from his air-conditioned car to the air-conditioned Ziegfeld Theater. Meanwhile, Capshaw's daughter, actress Jessica, blotted the sweat from her face with a ticket for the screening, muttering, "I'm soaking wet."
Tara Reid Gets the Message
Tara Reid shouldn't answer her two-way pager when she's working. Reid got a page while she was at a Los Angeles shoot for Rolling Stone's upcoming annual "Hot Issue" with her American Pie II co-stars Shannon Elizabeth and Mena Suvari. After frantically tapping on her pager, Reid bolted for a dressing room and refused to come out for half an hour. "She got very upset," one source says. "She wasn't going to finish, but she did." Suvari was able to persuade Reid to complete the four-hour session and do their R.S. interview later on at the Sunset Marquis. Another source says the drama had to do with an item on "Page Six" about her fiancé, MTV poster boy Carson Daly, hanging with strippers at Flashdancers. "She did shut down for a bit," Reid's rep says, "but it wasn't about the stripper thing." For the record, Daly insists he's never set foot in Flashdancers.
Jill Stuart: Just Looking, Thanks
It seems that Jill Stuart is on a shopping spree -- well, sort of. At the recent Helmut Lang sample sale, we spotted a scruffy young lad purchasing two pairs of pumps, women's pants, and a black vinyl-and-leather belt for $685 using Stuart's gold Amex, signing the receipt with his best Jill Stuart signature. "He was probably one of her design assistants whom she sent because she couldn't make it and didn't want to miss the sale," explains a rep for Stuart. Coincidentally, Stuart also went on a spending binge recently at Bergdorf's, where we hear she laid out $3,000 for frocks by other designers. "Jill is a voracious shopper, she has three kids and a husband, and she shops for them," says the rep. Okay, so why'd she return everything several days later? "It turned out that she didn't like them."
Michael Douglas: Spaced Out
Louis Vuitton graffiti maestro Stephen Sprouse and Hugo Boss model Anouck made the cut, but Michael Douglas got left on the curb at the June 21 party for French electronica duo Air at the Space and Gallery at Eyebeam Atelier in Chelsea. The trouble started about an hour into the bash -- hosted by Dutch magazine and Le Book -- when Space manager Joseph Cady closed the doors and turned away about 50 people waiting to get in, including Douglas and his son, D.J. Cameron, Natalie Portman, Chloë Sevigny, Moby, Perry Farrell, and sisters Nicky and Paris Hilton. He claimed that the Space had become dangerously overcrowded. "Everything was going really well, and he just snapped," reports one onlooker. "He wouldn't even let Air in. He started screaming that he didn't trust anyone, that everyone was lying to him. But there was plenty of room." Not so, insists Cady, who says access was only restricted for 30 minutes. "These people who walk around with their heads in the clouds gulping down free wine will always say that there is plenty of space."
No "Fur Sale" Signs at Chloé
The fur won't be flying at Chloé, the design house that Stella McCartney made animal-free. Despite rumors that Phoebe Philo, McCartney's successor after she bolted for Gucci, would use fur in her frocks, it's not the case. "Chloé is going to remain a fur-free house," Philo recently wrote to the folks at peta. "Unfortunately there were some inaccurate quotes in the press saying that I was pro fur, but . . . it couldn't be further from the truth." However, a source close to Philo says she'll probably bring leather back to the atelier. No tofu pies have been planned -- yet. "We're thrilled about the fur," a peta rep said. "Hopefully, she'll let go of leather someday."
BILLY BEER: Bill Clinton recently made a late-night stop at Whiskey Park to hang with former staffers, including Cheryl Mills, the ex-White House deputy counsel known for her defense of Clinton during his Senate impeachment trial. Bubba's drink of choice while holding court in a booth? An Amstel Light.
SOUNDS PRETTY: Supermodel Alek Wek is a closet musician. "I played the drums, then the piano . . . but now I'm really into my guitar," she told us at a VH1 Save the Music Foundation T-shirt signing at DKNY. "No one knows about it, but I've been taking lessons."
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The reason I love the Release Rewind is because it gives me the opportunity to use some of the new products that I didn't get to use during release week. Today I've used this month's Free with $60 Tag Talk Die-namics. I LOVE this new set. So fun! I made two cards so I'll get right to it.
You can find a complete link list of all of the MFT products I used at the bottom of my post.
Here is my first card. I went with my favorite color combo of Kraft, Pink Lemonade, and Sweet Tooth. The layout is from Blueprints 15.
Detail shot of the tag and plaid flower.
The finished inside.
There are lots of babies being born in our family so I went baby with the second card.
Here you go:
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The finished inside:
Below you will find links to all of the MFT products I used on my cards.
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