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Noun : An efficient, reliable & versatile female worker
Meet Chantal
Bonjour, my name is Chantal Désilets and I am the founder of Girl Friday International, a personal service company created with the singular purpose of making your life easier and less stressful.
Over the years, I have served in various capacities as an executive assistant, project manager, conference services and event manager, catering manager, as well as a number of positions. Among the many skills I have developed are a keen sense of organization, an exceptional attention to detail, and a desire to help others.
As your Girl Friday, I can help make your life easier by running personal errands; take care of your cherished pet while you are away on business or holidays; de-clutter your existing living space; or help you organize your personal and professional life.
I provide seniors living on their own, or in a retirement community, with transportation to their favourite store, a visit to the doctor, or a drive in the country. The list of ways I can be of service in making your life easier and less stressful is endless. E-mail or call me at your convenience to see how I can help.
What We Do
Personal Virtual Assistant
When you have too much to do and not enough time, personal needs and relaxation are often pushed to the bottom of your list. Let Girl Friday International make your life easier by relieving your stress and granting you the freedom to focus on the activities you enjoy. This is just a partial list of the things that we can help with.
- Run errands
- Schedule appointments
- Transportation
- Personal shopper
- Special events
Event Planning
With more than 25 years experience in planning and organization, everything from wedding receptions to the G8 Summit, Chantal is the perfect point person to organize and manage your next event. Her natural leadership skills combined with her meticulous attention to detail and her creativity will help make your next event a massive success.
- Conferences
- Media events
- Weddings
- Anniversary parties
- Seminars
- Fundraising events
- Hospitality services (Smart Serve certified bartenders, servers, and event captains)
Other Services
Girl Friday International can help our clients in a number of different ways that might not immediately come to mind. If you already have an event planned and would like to hire someone to take care of the photography, Girl Friday International can help by providing you with a professional photographer. If you need help organizing your possessions, cleaning out the garage or downsizing before an important move G.F.I. can help!
If you need someone to assist you in finding the perfect retirement community for a loved one, Girl Friday International, with its many contacts among senior living residences in Ottawa, can help.
If you operate an AirBNB, Girl Friday International can prepare your residence for the next visitor, or clean up after they've left. We can also provide transportation services for your visitors.
Find out more about the many services Girl Friday International.
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Recurring days and times are available — whatever you need, we are here to help.
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npl necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 180 diseños de 39 diseñadores freelance.
We provide online continuing education for health professionals - from doctors to massage therapists. The business is international.
Our business has multiple business units. We want to use a logo that incorporates a single abstract image for all business units on the left, sitting next to a word mark of the business unit name, examples of which include - healthprofessionalcpd.com or acupuncturCPDonline.com or massagetherapyCPD.com
For this content, please use HealthProfessionalCPD.com
The abstract image will be consistent across all business units. The wordmark font or design for the business unit name will be consistent across all business units. All that will change is the actual business unit name.
We therefore require the design to take this into account. The font chosen for the word mark needs to be editable by us.
Look and feel.The demographic is a professional health care market. The age range would be 20 - 50. Most are highly educated. The logo MUST look highly professional, respectable, credible. It must also look slightly 'hip' 'modern' and 'progressive'.
Do not use any images of chalk boards, graduation hats, pointers, lecturns etc. We want an abstract image.
Our messages to health care professionals are:
- high quality, digital information
- modern, young, progressive
- convenience, fun
- learning, knowledge, responsibility, professional, esteemed
We want a 3D image. We like angles and curves. This means we don't want a circle logo - we'd prefer an angular logo that has curves. It also means we dont want a boring square logo.
We're really looking forward to seeing what you come up with. All the best to you - oh and we guaranteed the prize because we know you'll come up with something spectacular. :-)
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Friday, February 16, 2018 at 10:00am to 11:00am
Join us for our free 30-minute webinars featuring a variety of expert speakers who provide valuable information for aerospace and defense manufacturers. The online productions are accessible as a live webinar, and are recorded and housed on the AMP SoCal website as part of its growing online library of business-friendly content.
The Strong Workforce Apprenticeship Group (SWAG) drives the expansion of apprenticeship in the State of California and throughout the country by partnering with industry, education and workforce development partners, and government. We work with school districts and community colleges to provide instruction that aligns with the needs of employers and offer strategic support and guidance to the workforce development community in order to integrate apprenticeships into their workforce agenda. We use a return on investment (ROI) calculator to show the economic impact apprenticeships can generate. Ultimately, SWAG creates guided pathways to gainful employment, which can lead to long-term economic growth and prosperity for regions, the state and nation.
We address the following issues: the navigation of governmental agencies such as the US Department of Labor to obtain timely registration of occupations for companies and local education agencies, the lack of equity among underserved populations to obtain work leading to a meaningful wage, and the non-alignment of curriculum and training necessary for middle-skills occupations.
Want to know more? www.sw-apprenticeshipgroup.com
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Apprenticeship Coordinator
Sector Strategies Manager
Goodwill Southern California
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Vice President, Economic Development
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review: Write a Novel in 10 Minutes
Aspiring novelists today often don't have time to sculpt great novels. We have busy lives. We have children to raise and jobs to attend to and household responsibilities. We have the nagging thoughts that tell us that our dreams and desires are not worth pursuing.
I would like to suggest that you can, without any guilt or shame, sculpt a novel in very small increments of time. You can make decisions bit by bit and then use your writing time effectively. You can take each one of the exercises in this book, work at them around your schedule, and slowly see your story come to life.
I remember the first book I read on being a writer. The author had excellent advice on everything except for time management. Instead, she expressed her gratitude to her husband, who worked full-time in some non-writing occupation, and whose salary paid for their three-bedroom apartment in Manhattan. One of her challenges for carving out writing time was getting distracted by her child's nanny.
Having neither husband, nor someone else financially supporting me, nor a view of the Hudson River from my living room, nor domestic help, nor even a child (although that is one distraction I would welcome), I had a hard time relating. I'm sure all of the challenges seemed real to her, but my take-away was without either finding a spouse who was willing to support me or winning the lottery, I was doomed to the ranks of "hobby" (ugh) scribblers. There were writers, and then there were the "rest of us", with day jobs, households, and people (both relatives and non-relatives) picking away at our precious writing time, so by the time we were done "everything else" and could sit down and write, we were just as likely to fall asleep.
Write a Novel in 10 Minutes is the writing book for "the rest of us": the writers who are trying to juggle their writing dreams with life's demands. Katharine Grubb has written a book full of down-to-earth, use-it-now advice, all broken down into sections which can be read and then acted upon in ten-minute chunks.
The first few sections of the book discuss how to work in ten-minute bursts so that each of the ten minutes is used well, and how to ensure that there are ten-minute bursts that you can write in. I liked Grubb's task/reward approach: fold the laundry, write for ten minutes. Make the kids breakfast, write for ten minutes. I'm writing this portion of the review having just finished eating lunch at work, and now I'm... writing for ten minutes. The paragraphs before this one were completed on my phone, on the subway.
Every chapter ends with one or more exercises to help the reader take action and put into practice what the chapter discussed. The most interesting exercises, for me, were the ones to help someone assess what needed to be done in a household and who was going to do it. Never mind writers — anyone who has their own home should do these.
After the chapters on work rhythm and time management, Write a Novel in 10 Minutes discusses story-telling, and specifically novel-writing, in a structured way, with each chapter covering one aspect the writer needs to consider.
At first, these sections surprised me, because I couldn't initially see what they had to do with the earlier chapters. Once I got into reading them, however, it made sense. If you're writing in ten-minute chunks, you don't have time to dither around. You need to know exactly what your next task will be.
Write a Novel in 10 Minutes is generously seasoned with examples and quoted passages from well-known works of literature, and written in clear, engaging prose. Even if you do have lots of free time and a view of the Hudson River, you may well find it useful for organising your writing life.
About the Author
Katharine Grubb is a homeschooling mom to five, blogger, indie novelist, writing coach, baker of bread, comedian wannabe and former running coward. Her novel, Falling For Your Madness, was featured in Catholic Digest and was a quarterfinalist for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. Her most recent book, Write A Novel In 10 Minutes A Day, was released by Hodder & Stoughton. She blogs at www.10minutenovelists.com and lives in Massachusetts.
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I loved, loved this series of paintings by Laura Morrison for Magnetism. They are at a very early stage here. Extraordinary scale, 5m high, six in number, really intimate portraits of trees... emotional and powerful, beautifully painted. http://flic.kr/p/v2F2n1
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Tired Hands Brewing Company is seeking a friendly, qualified person to join our restaurant team as a Busser. Our Bussers provide support where support is needed, throughout our restaurants. You will be expected to keep the restaurant clean and orderly for opening and during operating hours, and to assist with restocking, clearing tables/areas of the bar, running food/drinks, and assisting staff when necessary. An eye for detail and the ability to work with little guidance will go a long way. Energy, communication, and respect are critical to your success in this role!
Duties and Responsibilities
- Work at least two days a week in the mornings to clean the restaurant.
- Set up the restaurant to the company cleanliness standards
- Communicate with facilities manager to keep up with chemical inventories
- Keep supplies neat and orderly
- Assist in running multiple drinks on a tray to any section in the restaurant
- Assist in running multiple plates in hand to any section of the restaurant
- Assist in backing up the bar with supplies
- Be able to answer any question a guest may have regarding food/beer
- Assist in other needs as assigned.
- Be nice.
- Be on time!
- Must be able to reach, bend, and stoop frequently & lift up to 40lbs
- Must be able to work in a standing position long periods of time.
Compensation and Benefits
Competitive salary dependent upon experience and relevant qualifications. Tired Hands offers employee benefits upon meeting eligibility requirements. Benefits may include paid time off, health and dental insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, employee discounts, meals, and more. Tired Hands Brewing Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Diverse candidates are strongly encouraged to apply!
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How to Create Pin Designs Fast and Easy Using Canva
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Designing blog images and pins should be an easy and fast task. While doing it in Photoshop isn't rocket-science, it is still taking too long to adjust images to the right size, to play with fonts, colors and elements. In Canva, I can make a new pin within seconds just by populating an existing template with my imagery and text.
If you're looking for ways to create beautiful pins fast and easy, Canva and the likes have become a favorite among digital marketers. With all the tasks related to producing, publishing and syndicating content, such tools cut the time we spend on visuals by offering pre-built, easy to customize templates.
Ever since I discovered Canva, some three years ago, I've been raving about it. It's a major game changer for digital marketers and solo entrepreneurs at the same time. From designing flyers, to business cards, social media specific imagery and even book covers, this online based graphic design tool is free, fast and user-friendly.
I used to be a Photoshop girl. Back then, there weren't many other alternatives for graphic design, and while Photoshop has a ton of features, it takes forever to design anything. Canva has many of the extra steps I'd take in Photoshop, pre-built. No more setting the image size pixels myself, all I have to do is choose from one of the pre-built Canva layouts (Facebook or YouTube covers for instance). And whenever I felt lost for inspiration, all I had to do was choose one of the templates Canva makes available in the left dashboard and start edit one of those.
Here's how to create pins with Canva when you're on a tight schedule
Writing the actual blog post is just the first step of the process. But the rest is just as important as it involves distributing your content across social media. Your post might be amazing, but if your representative imagery doesn't reflect that, social media users are not going to be inspired to click on it.
When it comes to Pinterest the above is even more important. The entire platform is built around beautiful, inspiring imagery rather than text, which makes it important for content creators to focus on the aesthetics of their blog banners and pins. And while it does add to the hassle of creating content and syndicating it, having pins on Pinterest is well worth your time.
With Canva, you can have a beautiful new pin ready to go within seconds. I kid you not. When you have a template for your brand set in stone, you can go in and create a new pin within seconds. All you'll need to do is add your text and image(s). That's it.
Step 1
Go to canva.com and login to your account (or create a new one)
Step 2
In your homepage dashboard, select the standard "Pinterest Graphic" template (735 px by 1102 px), or click on the "Use custom dimensions" button (upper right corner). This will open a new window.
Step 3
In your new window you will have a white, empty canvas. You can choose to populate it with one of the pre-built Pin templates at the left of your canvas or create a new one from scratch.
Step 4
Editing text on Canva is super easy. Just take your mouse and click on the text you want to update. When you click the text you are actively selecting it and you get formatting options at the top of the page. From there you can choose your font, size, color, alignment and spacing (between letters and between lines). Add your text here and select your font and color.
You can add text either by navigating to the Text option at the left of your workspace, or type "T" in your canvas.
You can change an element's color (or a font's color), by selecting the desired element and clicking the color sample in the upper left corner on your worksheet.
Step 5
You can change template images just as easily. Oftentimes, templates include frames to make adding images a lot easier into an assigned slot. So either keep the same image if it serves your purpose (although I recommend using your own), or change it with a new image from your PC or from Canva's image library.
You can choose from a series of effects to emphasize your brand image and personality. These are available when you select your image. They will appear on the upper left corner on your worksheet, as FILTERS. Click on that to access Canva image filters.
Step 6
If you're happy with what you got, it's time to publish your work. So go to your upper right corner and click Download. Since Canva's design upgrade, you now have more features to publish your images. For instance you can connect your Facebook account and share your image directly with a Facebook group.
For our purpose, we are going to select Download again, and choose from one of the options available here (png, jpg or pdf).
Isn't this easy-peasy? I'd love to see some of your Canva created pins and hear from you in the comments below if you have another online tool you love to use to design pins. And if you want someone to jump in and set your Canva Pinterest templates for you, hit me up with a message right here. I'm ready to create beautiful templates for your brand.
Need help starting with Pinterest?
There are so many fun ways to integrate Pinterest in your content marketing. If you need help planning your strategy for Pinterest, I can show you how to make this new marketing channel work for your brand. Contact me here and let's talk.
Hi there! My name is Monica and I am a content marketing specialist who creates blog & Pinterest strategies to generate website traffic and leads.


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Full Equality Demands Language Rights-
Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.
– Nelson Mandela
A champion of human dignity, Nelson Mandela was a once-in-a-generation world leader who peacefully obliterated an institutional system of class and racial segregation in South Africa. Mandela also promoted a radical change in government policy on deafness and education by recognizing sign language as an official South African language and promoting sign language over oralism in the education of deaf learners. Unfortunately, such compassionate leadership and broad recognition of the human rights needs of deaf people worldwide simply does not exist today.
There are over 278 million deaf people across the globe. Eighty percent of this population—over 200 million—live in low and middle-income countries. According to the World Federation of the Deaf, a staggering 90 percent of deaf people in these developing countries receive NO formal education. Of the select few with access to formal education, only 1–2 percent receive it in sign language. Ninety percent of deaf children are born to non-signing, hearing parents and struggle to acquire ANY language at all. Lacking education and access to language, hundreds of millions of deaf adults struggle throughout their lifetime to find hope, employment and social fulfillment.
Deaf children are born with an equal capacity to be successful in education, employment and society alongside their hearing peers. Sign language is the single most important factor deaf children need to fulfill their innate capacity for achievement.
Through CSD's Deaf Adult Basic Education (ABE) program in Minnesota, we have gained an invaluable perspective on the global struggle for language acquisition experienced by many deaf people. Seventy percent of our ABE students are deaf immigrants from developing countries, and most come to us without ANY language. Our program supports adult students like Ahmed, who came recently to America from war-torn Somalia. Before joining our program, Ahmed had never been to school and struggled at home to communicate with his family through gestures and "home signs." Through our program, he finally has language (American Sign Language), a vocabulary and the joy of inclusion. LANGUAGE has given Ahmed access to the world and will provide him the empowering ability to make choices for himself and become self-sufficient.
CSD's Minnesota ABE program will continue making a difference in the lives of adult students like Ahmed, but more must be done on a global scale to afford children LANGUAGE to learn, participate and thrive. That's why I'm incredibly proud of our support of the World Federation of the Deaf, which is positively impacting change for deaf people worldwide and focusing international attention on what matters most in developing the innate capacities of our community through awareness campaigns like the 2015 International Week of the Deaf theme: "With Sign Language Rights, Our Children Can!"
The "With Sign Language Rights, Our Children Can" campaign will draw international focus on the basic human right afforded to children through language, while raising needed funds for WFD to sustain it's efforts. WFD played a key role in ensuring that the human rights needs of the global deaf community were recognized in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (UNCRPD)— including Article 2, which recognizes sign language as a valid linguistic means of conveying thoughts, ideas and emotions. Funds raised through this campaign will help support WFD's advocacy and coordinating role between the over one hundred UNCRPD signatory countries and their national deaf associations to guide the implementation of language rights laws that reflect their country's UNCRPD commitment, including Article 24, Section 3B, which obligates governments to facilitate the learning of sign language and the promotion of the linguistic identity of the deaf community.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
– Nelson Mandela
Like Mandela, we should strive to ensure true and full equality of ALL people. Without access to language and education, deaf people cannot communicate, learn or achieve on equal footing with the rest of society. We must recognize this as a form of apartheid and strive to support organizations working to erase it on a global scale. Please join me in supporting the WFD and it's 2015 International Week of the Deaf theme by donating today!
— Ryan Hutchison
Vice President, CSD National Programs
Citizenship And Constitution Day-
We are a nation of immigrants. In Minnesota, this couldn't be truer. We host some of the United States' largest immigrant communities: Hmong and Somali. After the Vietnam War and under the guidance of the U.S. Department of State, Minnesota became a hotbed for resettlement of displaced refugees from the mountainous region of Laos. At the turn of the century, we began to host refugees from Somalia, which had been in the middle of a civil war for many years.
While it may seem a bit strange in terms of weather and climate, many refugees settle in Minnesota because of the many services that are available to assist new members of our society acclimate to their new home. Since the initial waves of immigrants arrived, these two rich and cultural communities have become an integral part of Minnesota's way of life. A good number of these immigrants happen to be deaf due to the lack of medical services in refugee camps and exploding shells that damage the ear's capacity to hear, just to name two common causes.
At CSD of Minnesota's Deaf Adult Basic Education (ABE) Program, we have been able to give these new residents a chance to learn about their freshly adopted country. While deaf-specific citizenship classes are offered—thanks to the generous support of the Minnesota Department of Education—we have been able to serve at least 100 adult learners, and they have since become citizens of our great country. In at least half of these cases, attending Deaf ABE is the first time they've set foot in a classroom; such is the case with current student, Ahmed. Ahmed (shown above) is a 55-year-old learner from Somalia who is working hard to learn language, how to sign, read and write. This is his first school ever.
It is people like Ahmed who drive our work, because we know—as long as they work hard—everyone has a right to education and the American Dream, no matter their age or skillset. From all of us at Deaf ABE in Minnesota, we wish you a Happy Citizenship and Constitution Day!
— Aaron Gutzke
State Director, CSD of Minnesota
Telecommunications for the Deaf Updates-
The biennial conference of Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Inc. (TDI) took place August 19–22.
Fortunately, unlike the 2013 conference, this year's did not take place during a government shutdown, enabling a large Federal Communications Commission (FCC) presence that translated into multiple workshops detailing disability access rule-making currently underway at the FCC.
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler gave the keynote address on the first day of the conference, revealing that the FCC has created a new name for the staid-sounding Video Access Technology Reference Platform: Accessible Communications for Everyone (ACE). ACE, for the uninitiated, is essentially an open source video endpoint that works on Mac, Windows, Android and iOS. Along with the name change, a significant announcement was made through playback of a video of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio stating the City of New York's intention to implement ACE. While light on details, the announcement was welcome; widespread adoption of ACE should have positive far-reaching benefits for deaf and hard of hearing communities across the U.S.
I was able to attend a workshop that focused on the headway being made in captioning quality on television, as well as one where representatives of all six video relay service (VRS) providers gave updates on their progress in achieving functional equivalency. Separately from the workshops, there were two FCC-led town hall sessions: one with a panel of FCC staff discussing the development of their various rulemaking processes implementing Title I of the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA), and one with a smaller FCC panel discussing their progress on implementing Title II of the CVAA.
Finally, Eve Hill of the Department of Justice (DOJ) gave a presentation outlining the progress the DOJ has made with respect to disability access in the 25 years since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Significant progress has been made, and most were touched upon during Ms. Hill's presentation. However, I noted a glaring omission in the list of issues Ms. Hill touched upon: access to 911 services. This is an area that has—very unfortunately—seen serious regression since 1990.
Indeed, in 1990 when the ADA was passed, public safety answering points (PSAPs) were required to directly receive TTY calls without relying on relay services. In fact, Title II of the ADA prohibits PSAPs from relying on relay services, but with the decline in TTY usage and the proliferation of newer forms of relay service (such as VRS and IP relay), TTYs have, in large part, gone out of vogue. This has left a large swath of deaf and hard of hearing people with only one way to access 911 that clashes with the ADA mandate: indirectly, through relay services.
The Emergency Access Advisory Committee (EAAC), the formation of which was required by Congress in the CVAA, ultimately stated that ideal communications with 911 eliminates third parties sitting between 911 callers and PSAPs, by providing direct connection of callers to PSAPs. For those who are Deaf and are fluent in ASL, EAAC found that the ideal connection was through a direct video and text link to an ASL-fluent dispatcher.
The conference was very educational, and it is gratifying to see so much progress being made in raising the bar with accessibility. But, I would have liked to hear more about what is being done today to address the 911 problem. This needs to be a priority, but unfortunately at present the DOJ is taking a position – more or less – of "no comment", despite the requirements of the ADA and the recommendations of the EAAC. Until headway can be made with the DOJ, CSD will publicly advocate for direct video access to PSAPs, in line with the recommendations made by the EAAC.
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Warsaw Krakow Gdansk
After you buy the Gift Voucher we will email you a beautifully designed printable PDF file that you can use as a gift for your loved ones. The voucher will look like that:
The Gift Voucher will feature validity date (3 months after purchase*) and a unique booking code that the bearer of the voucher must use when making a booking for their tour. Using the code will make it possible to make a booking cost-free (up to the value of the Gift Voucher). It is possible to add extra participants to the booking if they don't have a voucher, if there are spots available.
Here's how it works:
*if you need a longer validity date for the voucher, please contact us, we'll work it out!
We also offer Gift Vouchers for private tours (priced differently), please contact us for details.
As many other reviewers have said, the strength of this tour is the wealth of cultural and historic context that Magda provides, for example we learnt a lot about traditional Polish Christmases and the amazing Christmas Eve feast. Try this tour, whether you fancy a breaded cutlet or not - you won't be disappointed!
Magda was a wonderful guide, she is extremely knowledgeable and welcoming. We thoroughly enjoyed learning about the food and the history behind it. She also had great suggestions on where to go during our stay and the food we needed to try (that we couldn't fit in on the tour). Needless to say we spent the rest of our holiday tasting all the delights that Warsaw has to offer! Highly recommended.
Magda seriously knows a lot about Polish cuisine! We are from Lithuania so we didn't expect something too different but we were nicely surprised by tasty food and all the stories that our great guide told us.
I had a blast learning about the history of eating in Warsaw while... eating in Warsaw! Magda was our guide and she is very knowledgable and pulls from her own history and past for examples. I don't think I would have enjoyed Warsaw quite as much without this tour.
My wife and I have been on several food tours in Europe and this one is among the best. Magda is perfectly suited for the food tour and had answers to every question we asked. The way that the history, culture, and traditions of Poland are tied into the tour really made this a well balanced tour.


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The Silph Company
The Silph Comapny, or Silph Co. for short, is an economic powerhouse that has quickly taken the region by storm. They have mastered mass production, distribution chains, and every other economic policy. Based in Saffron City, The Silph Company has become an economic juggernaut, crushing all opposition swiftly and efficiently. It is divided into dozens of subdivisions, with the most prominent listed below.
Silph Power Division
The Silph Power Division has likely had the most tangible impact on the region of Kanto as a whole. They were the ones that figured out how to more easily create weaker Magnemite that were still capable of producing power. They constructed the Power Plant in the Chiba Valley, and keep it operational. This division keeps almost all of Kanto supplied with power at all times.
Silph Capture Division
The Capture Division focuses mainly on the construction of Pokeballs. The main plants are in Vermillion City, where hundreds of Pokeballs are pumped out and shipped across the region every day. While only capable of creating Pokeballs, Greatballs, and Ultra Balls, as well as mundane capture tools such as Glue Cannons and Nets, the majority of the Pokeballs in use in Kanto have "Silph" stamped on them.
Silph Agricultural Division
The Silph Agricultural Division is in charge of creation of crops as well as the enhancement of said crops. Based in Viridian City due to its proximity to many farm fields, the Agricultural Division is responsible for the recent advancement in Rattata-toxic crops, an advancement that helped to increase farm yields incredibly.
Silph Pokemon Research Division
The Silph Pokemon Research Division is the most productive for the common trainer. They research enhancements, natural or otherwise, that help make Pokemon stronger. Their most recent advancement, the RedEye, allows Pokemon a variety of enhanced vision capabilities. In addition, most of the Vitamins as well as Healing Items are produced by the Silph Research Division.
The Rangers
The Rangers is the biggest program undertaken after Lance rose to power. With the increased Wild Pokemon threat, people from all around the region called for enhanced security. That's what the Ranger Corps provide. They are a massive body of highly trained specialist prepared to combat Pokemon at all times. When it comes to battling Wild Pokemon, the Rangers have no equal. With their specialized Stylers they can drive off most threats without combat.
There is at least a small Ranger base in every city. Rangers also roam the roads quite often, trying to help defend traveling trainers. The Rangers are widely viewed as a beneficial party. Few, if any, have complaints against the Rangers and what they do, which is not surprising with how much they help the region as a whole.
The Elite
The Elite are a select band of some of the strongest Trainers in Kanto. None of them are affiliated with a Gym, or the Rangers, or Team Rocket. They are simply a band of the very best Trainers in the region. They aren't a mercenary crew either, which perplexes many people. Why form a group if you're not going to earn money? The fact is, the Elites foreswear any formal duty in pursuit of bettering themselves and their Pokemon. A single Elite is a force to be reckoned with, and any group that earns their collective wrath should be worried. They truly are some of the strongest Trainers in Kanto. They are highly selective in their recruitment; if the Trainer is anything less than borderline perfection, they're rejected.
Team Rocket
Team Rocket is a massive group that spans the width of Kanto. They are in every city, and even many of the small towns. A huge group, they help the region more than perhaps any other body. They exist as a sort of public works commission. They help with dozens of projects in cities, refusing pay for their work. They help new Trainers acquire their first Pokemon or even help train, sometimes giving Trainers donations or free rooms. In areas such as Viridian, they bring in food, although they are forced to charge for that. Team Rocket is a beloved organization and has helped greatly in the recovery of Kanto.
Cinnabar Air Force
The Cinnabarians are well know for their prodigious skill in battle, and their Air Force are the best known in Cinnabar. Each and every one of these highly trained soldiers rides a Charizard, an impressive feat in its own right. These soldiers can fight better in the air, better on the ground, hell, these soldiers can fight in free fall. While it has been years since they were truly deployed in combat, the Cinnabar Air Force has remained sharp.
The Brawlers
Most Pokemon battles, while brutal, are rarely to the death. The Brawlers ignore that little caveat. Their battles, where massive gambles are staked on the battle, are always to the death. They have no small amount of infamy within Kanto; after all, they are basically throwing away powerful and tame(ish) Pokemon on a whim. Unfortunately for them, gambling on a non-League sanctioned battle is illegal. While it is normally ignored, the law has taken notice of these trainers for some reason.
The Academy
The Academy is coalition of the best and brightest in Kanto. These geniuses meet regularly to plan new technology as well as question new devices. They also study Pokemon, providing large amounts of information in that area as well. Oak was previously the leader of The Academy, but recently stepped down because he found the new goal of The Academy in contrast with his own. The Academy has slowly been moving towards Pokemon weaponry, something that Oak is not a sponsor of.
Seafoam Avengers
A small remnant of the once proud Seafoam Military, the Avengers are a band sworn to vengeance upon Lance. Nobody knows their true number, or where they are hiding. Rumors say that they are actually hiding within the Seafoam Islands out at sea. While they have lain dormant for the last decade, when Lance first came into power they were constantly launching well-organized attacks. Occasionally rumors of their existence will surface, only to soon vanish.
Mercenary Crews
The Red Blades
The Red Blades are a powerful mercenary crew mostly situated in The Vale, particularly near Viridian. The Red Blades are one of the larger and more powerful mercenary crews, but are rarely for hire. Their services have been bought and paid for by the Pokemon League. They constantly patrol The Wall, keeping the beast of the Malebolge away from the population of Viridian City. Widely respected in The Vale, the Red Blades have one of the best standings among The Vale mercenary crews. The Red Blades are led by the skilled swordsman, Zolo Malone.
The Dojo
Ages ago, The Dojo was simply a group that dedicated themselves to being the best and strongest. In recent years, they have become a mercenary crew, and even more recently have revolted against Saffron City and Sabrina herself. While heavily outmatched in both numbers and power, much of The Dojo has begun to learn the ancient art of the Blank, allowing them to fight on even footing. All of Kanto watches to see which will prevail in this deadly battle. The leader of The Dojo is as much of an enigma as their reason for attempting to take Saffron City.
The Gears
The Gears are a mercenary band lead by the famous Lt. Surge. While most groups focus far more on Pokemon and training, The Gears focus on weaponry and gear that allows them to compete at a higher tier than most groups. Most of the most technologically advanced weaponry in Kanto is utilized by The Gears, as well as the highest number of Magnemite. Serving as both a mercenary crew and the Gym Trainers for Vermillion City, they are smaller in number than the other crews but much better trained.
Toxicit Crew
Toxicit Crew is a small band of mercenaries that has laid claim to Viridian Forest as their own base. A ridiculous claim, but one that, thus far, they have been able to maintain. They have a massive fortress within Viridian Forest, and grow more than enough Brightleaf to keep themselves safe. The leader, a woman that goes by the name of Larissa, is rumored to have a massive Charizard that spews acid and is the progenitor for the poisonous Charmander that each upper member has.


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Wedding Traditions in Bulgaria
The actual engagement takes place on a holiday or on Saturday. The wedding ceremony is separate from the engagement and can take place years afterward. It is customary to declare the engagement in front of friends and family. Christian tradition dictates that the engagement ring be worn on the ring finger of the left hand and the wedding ring – on the ring finger of the right hand.
Most weddings in Bulgaria take place on Saturday or more often on Sunday. There are no (or less) weddings in the period of fasting (especially before Easter). The young couple, relatives and all the guests go to the ritual hall. If there is a church ritual, too, all go to the church after the civil procedure. It is impossible to get married in church before or without public - civil procedure. At the end of the ceremony, the couple exchange rings and a kiss. Then comes the custom of "stepping." Whoever manages to step on the other's foot first would dominate in the marriage.
Often parents and the best man hire folk musicians to play during the rituals. Even today it is believed that the bride should not leave her home before she is symbolically redeemed by the family of her future husband. The girls relatives block up the door from inside. With lots of jokes and different symbolic actions they do not open to the bridegrooms relatives until they get a sum worthy the occasion. The money for the "ransom" is placed in the brides shoe.
In the old days, the reception would take place at the groom's home. Nowadays, it takes place at a catering hall or a restaurant. The groom's mother lays a long, white hand-woven cloth at the door for the new couple to walk on as she strews flowers on the path as a symbol of health, happiness and purity in their new life together. She feeds the newly weds with a honey cake and wine with more wishes for a long, sweet life.
Then she holds a loaf of bread over her head and invites them each to pull one end of it. Whoever gets the bigger piece will dominate and have the biggest role in the new family.
Again there is the best man to dance! This is one of the most important moments! Young people who perform well dance for the best man, one of them holding a cock and the other- a festive bread.
Special wedding bread On the preceding Thursday (before the wedding) the brides mother performs the ritual kneading of the bread. The rising of the dough symbolizes the creation of a new family unit.
zdravetzzdrave The whole ceremony is rich in symbols – every bouquet and wreath should have red carnation - symbol of manliness and geranium – symbol of health ( the name of the flower in Bulgarian is zdravetz and word for health is zdrave). The wheat seeds and coins should be thrown over the young couple as a symbol of fertility and prosperity. When they go from one place to the other during the wedding days they should not go on the same street because it will cause repetition of the marriage.
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As some of you may know, CineQ Queer Film Festival is taking place from the 22nd to the 24th of March, and we're on the hunt for a new addition to our queer collective of creatives.
Over the last 2 year CineQ has transformed from a queer community cinema operating bi-monthly to a festival, and we recognise the role that marketing has played in drawing our audiences in and connecting them with the films that they want to see. We have a fantastic programme this year and we're looking forward to shouting about it.
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The research team that developed the guidelines is part of the Infantile Spasms Working Group led by John Pellock, M.D., professor and chair of the Division of Child Neurology in the VCU School of Medicine.
As part of its investigation the group examined scores of studies and reviewed current clinical practice with a commitment to establish criteria that target early diagnosis, timely treatment options and support for patients and their families.
To establish an infantile spasms diagnosis, a clinical evaluation is needed in which doctors obtain a complete history and physical examination of the patient. Spasms observed by parents or physicians may vary from a cluster of as few as two to more than 100, lasting from less than one minute to more than 10 minutes.
A full electroencephalogram (EEG) evaluation that studies electrical currents in the brain is conducted to uncover any abnormal pattern characterizing the disorder. Next, the etiologic diagnosis to determine the nature and cause is made, aided by MRI. Such a diagnosis will aid in establishing the appropriate treatment strategy.
"Following the completion of the history, physical and neurological examinations, as well as EEG and MRI analysis, roughly 70 percent of patients will have an established diagnosis without the need for extensive metabolic testing," noted the ISWG team. "This saves valuable time to initiation of treatment and reduces evaluation costs."
Full details of the study are now available online in Epilepsia and have appeared in the August print issue.
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Important—you can lodge your
meat chicken return online.
The meat chickens levy was first introduced 1 July 1969. Meat chickens that are hatched in an Australian hatchery will attract the meat chickens levy. Animal Health Australia (AHA), the National Residue Survey (NRS) and the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, now trading as AgriFutures Australia are responsible for the expenditure of the meat chickens levy.
The meat chickens levy comprises AHA membership, Emergency Animal Disease Response (EADR), NRS testing and research and development (R&D), as shown in the table below.
The meat chickens levy is calculated per chick. GST is not applied to Australian Government levies.
Example: the levy rate of 0.2644 cents per chick, calculated by 100 chicks equals 26.44 cents.
A producer, the proprietor of the hatchery where the meat chickens are hatched is liable to pay the levy.
A producer must submit a return and make a payment to the department.
A producer of meat chickens is not liable to pay the meat chickens levy if less than 20,000 chickens are hatched at that hatchery in a levy year.
A producer of meat chickens is also not liable to pay the meat chickens levy on meat chickens that die or are destroyed at the hatchery within 48 hours of hatching.
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IMPORTANT: If you pay your levy late you will incur a penalty that is calculated daily at a compounding rate of 2 per cent of the unpaid amount each month, including any penalties you have already accrued until you have paid the outstanding amount in full.
The meat chickens levy is based on a financial year.
Monthly returns and payments must be lodged with the department within two (2) months of the end of the month in which meat chickens hatched.
Example: for the month of July, the return and payment is due to the department on or before 30 September.
As a producer of meat chickens, your return for a month must state, in respect of the month:
As a producer of meat chickens, you must keep records for five (5) years, setting out for each month, the:
The meat chickens levy is provided for under the:
Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Act 1999
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Equestrian Pet Peeves/
I've often seen the "What's your biggest equestrian pet peeve?" posted as a daily question on IG and with too many responses to list and plenty of my own opinions, and also seeing how nasty things can get, I thought the topic deserved it's own blog post!
Dictionary.com describes a pet peeve as
noun, a particular and often continual annoyance; personal bugbear
Which also begs the question, what's a bugbear? I went ahead and listed a few of my greatest equestrian pet peeves below along with a few of my friend's biggest pet peeves:
My Own
When I see other people getting to make the same mistakes I used to, but my trainer drilled them out of me. Not fair. Why do I have to sit up and support to the jump?
Rain. Enough said. Oh and WIND.
When people don't get to buy the horse they want. It actually stresses me out to hear about friends not being able to have all the horses. I just want everyone to have their horse and for them and their perfect horse live happily ever after.
When people fall off and somehow have an absolute death grip on the reins. I don't even know if this is a pet peeve or I'm just impressed? When something goes wrong when I ride the FIRST thing to go is my reins. Horse trips? Fingers magically open. Long spot? Reins gone. Bad chip? Reins have been deemed unnecessary without my consent. Maybe I'm just jealous… but the horses never looked pleased to have their previous rider now attached to their head and mouth.
Nastiness on social media. There have been times when I see something that I gasp don't approve of! And guess what? I say nothing. Not because I'm some amazing person, but think about what is really going to happen if you say something, even with good intentions. They don't know you, why would they listen to your suggestions or criticism? Their only response is to become defensive. Just unfollow!
Witch Hunting on social media. Watch this video to see why it's both unproductive and a scary change to our culture. Just unfollow!
Having a GoFundMe to pay for a horse/vet bills/shows/etc.
Anything else that could be relevant to boarding or the barn experience, I have no right to complain about because I've probably been guilty of it at some point and no one knows everything. If you see someone committing a cardinal barn sin (like leaving poop in the cross ties) kindly say something (hopefully a different response in person than online, right?). This is especially true for safety issues! When you're kindly saying something in those cases, also mention the safety aspect because these barn sins are almost always committed out of ignorance and not malice.
Friend Responses
- Arena etiquette, especially in the warm-up arena. There is nothing more infuriating than playing a game of chicken with the person coming head on at you when they don't respect the shoulder-left rule. It's also maddening when people pass extremely close. There is a special place too for the people who clearly lack horsemanship skills and common sense and do things like cutting you off after a fence or smacking their horse as they pass you. Lastly, don't tailgate other riders!
- Caroline L. (@clurie.eq) [I'm so guilty of that last one, Leo's got a big stride and loves to chase!]
- Putting off a persona that you're the perfect rider and horse owner, we all make mistakes, be transparent. Also, not patting your horse after your round. They just tried their heart out for you, give them a reward, even if it's as small as one pat.
- Olivia M. (@remarkablemare)
- My biggest pet peeve are riders who don't listen to their horses or care for them with compassion. If your only goal is to get on your horse and make them do exactly what you want, then I don't think you are a great horse person. Also, there are few more annoying things than someone else besides your trainer giving you suggestions on how to ride your horse. Don't listen to the peanut gallery!
- Connie F. (@connieincolorado)
- When people blame their horse for their poor performance and when people don't attend to the other riders in the ring. Even if the horse is acting up, it didn't choose to be ridden so it's not his fault.
- Claire C. T. (@mdadultammy)


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Welcome to the addition to the "Fix My Trading" Series - "Learn How To Scalp"
Having completed the "Fix My Trading" Series with fellow traders, I thought by creating a course that involves interaction with myself and charts to better understand how to trade the way I trade. I only trade the way the market makers trade. It's the only way to really exploit the market.
The " Learn How To Scalp" Series is all about how to take the opportunities that are presented by the market.
"Learn How To Scalp The Forex Market" - If you want to enter into the world of scalping, then this series is the best place to start. My goal with this series is to develop traders to understand how they can exploit the opportunities that are presented in the market.
My method only involves scalping, only because it suits my personality. This is one of the important elements to this course. I establish what kind of trader you are, if this course is not for you…Then I will REFUND YOU.
Scalping must be taken seriously. You can learn how to be a swing trader, however my personality does not suit that method. I need to get in a trade and be ready for the next. By having this mentality I keep my exposure low and create more opportunities by not holding positions and waiting for break even.
In this course I introduce all the tools I use. You will have access to everything you need. More importantly, once you join the course you will receive my on going help and support can contact me via our "Team Traders" messaging board. Here you will be engaged with other traders also.
You will receive 3 Live trading sessions. These sessions are about applying what you have been shown about this course. I start off with a One To One session that lasts around 90 minutes. This introduces the method to you and what you need to know.
The objective is to get you to a level that you would feel confident to place trades by yourself. I will guide you along the way and will always be accessible for you to ask questions.
You will be shown the tricks of the trade. NO jargon. Just straight up trading.
There is speculation about courses and signals. I completely understand why many would be apprehensive. However, this course is about actually teaching you how to understand how the market works, not just how a system trades. In order to be successful in this game you must learn to adapt.
This is what this course shows you.
I look forward to anyone who joins. I want to create a team of scalpers known for their sniper like entries, fast in, fast out.
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While the medical side of dermatology focuses on treating skin diseases, our cosmetic dermatology practice exists to make you comfortable in your own skin.
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They may be entering only their sophomore year of high school, but 247Sports released its rankings of the top 100 2020 players in the nation on Thursday, and one Palm Beach County player cracked the list.
Pahokee defensive end Latarie Kinsler is ranked 97th on the list. The sophomore standout committed to Louisville in July, and 247Sports writer Barton Simmons calls him one of the "most athletic edge rushers anywhere in the country."
The website ranks Kinsler a four-star prospect.
Kinsler, who was named to MaxPreps' Sophomore Preseason All-American Team earlier this month, made a big splash as a freshman, racking up 23 sacks while largely coming off the bench.
"We expect good things out of him," Pahokee head coach Orson Walkes told the Post last month. "The sky's the limit for that kid."


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Sepp Blatter wins new term as FIFA President
FIFA President Sepp Blatter was re-elected head of world football on Wednesday, vowing to clean up the body's tarnished image following a series of explosive corruption allegations. Run-up to Sepp's win | Blatter the mansports Updated: Jun 02, 2011 09:11 IST
FIFA President Sepp Blatter was re-elected head of world football on Wednesday, vowing to clean up the body's tarnished image following a series of explosive corruption allegations.
Blatter, 75, was given a free run at another four-year term following the withdrawal on Sunday of Asian football chief Mohamed bin Hammam, who was later suspended amid claims he tried to bribe voters with cash-filled envelopes.
Delegates at FIFA's 61st congress returned Blatter by a landslide of 186 votes out of 203 after an 11th-hour call for a postponement of the election by England's Football Association ended in a crushing defeat.
"We will put FIFA's ship back onto the right course in clear, transparent waters," Blatter said after clinching victory. "We will need some time but we shall do it. Our pyramid is strong because the foundation is strong."
Blatter, who took over FIFA in 1998, has faced widespread calls for reform following allegations of sleaze surrounding the bidding for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, awarded to Russia and Qatar.
Several key FIFA sponsors had joined forces to call on Blatter to reform FIFA, voicing concern about the damage being done to the image of football by the wave of negative headlines.Changes approved
FIFA approved plans to change the voting system used for choosing World Cup hosts following the re-election of Sepp Blatter as president.
FIFA's Congress voted by 176 votes to four in favour of a proposal from Blatter under which the executive committee of the 208-member Congress would choose from a shortlist prepared by the executive committee. Currently, the hosts are chosen by the 24-man executive committee. Congress also approved changes intended to strengthen the ethics committee and to create a new watchdog named the "solution committee."
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Jul 27, 2012, 7:53 AM by Eric M. Zeman @zeman_e
Kyocera kicked out another rugged flip phone for Sprint and called it the DuraXT. This DirectConnect-capable walkie-talkie device takes a beating and keeps competing. Find out what we liked and what we didn't in Phone Scoop's full report.
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The Kyocera DuraXT, a follow-up to last year's DuraMAX, is a rugged clamshell that offers Sprint's CDMA-based Direct Connect push-to-talk service. As with other PTT phones, the DuraXT is not out to define new standards in style or design. Instead, the DuraXT is about surviving the dangers of worksites and other harsh environments all while providing the best in basic communications. If you think you're tough, the DuraXT is probably tougher.
Jun 10, 2012
Sprint today began offering the Kyocera DuraXT, a rugged clamshell that joins Sprint's line of tough-as-nails push-to-talk phones. The DuraXT uses Sprint's CDMA-based PTT service, called DirectConnect.
Kyocera's DuraForce Pro is a capable, rugged Android smartphone for outdoor types who demand a lot from their hardware. No rugged phone is without compromises, but the DuraForce Pro has fewer detractors than most.
Feb 25, 2013
U.S. Cellular today announced that it will carry the Kyocera DuraPro starting February 27th for $150 before $50 mail-in rebate.
Verizon Wireless customers who need a crazy tough handset that not only braves, but conquers, the elements need look no further than the Kyocera DuraXV LTE. This rugged flip phone may offer a limited set of features, but it delivers excellent performance across core tools.
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BILL BUELL has appeared on Broadway in Cyrano, Equus, The History Boys, Inherit the Wind, Urinetown, 42nd Street, Titanic, Tommy, Taking Steps, Big River, Annie, Once a Catholic, The First, Welcome to the Club, The Miser, and Anna Karenina. His Off-Broadway credits include The Fourth Sister, Eight Days Backwards (Vineyard Theatre); Andorra, Waste (Theatre for a New Audience); Bad Habits, Aristocrats (Manhattan Theatre Club); Queens Boulevard (Signature Theatre Company); Rancho Viejo, Kin, On the Bum, Violet-concert (Playwrights Horizons); Picasso at the Lapine Agile, The Common Pursuit, The Mysteries, and The False Servant (Classic Stage Company), La Brea and Tumacho (Clubbed Thumb). With The Public's Shakespeare in the Park: Tartuffe, The Winter's Tale, and Twelfth Night. His Yale Rep appearances include Much Ado About Nothing and last season's The Master Builder. Film and television credits include the up coming "7 Seconds" on Netflix, God's Pocket, Across the Universe, Spy Game, Welcome to the Dollhouse, The Love Letter, Requiem for a Dream, Quiz Show, Palindromes, Kinsey, Dark Water, The Box, Wind; "Boardwalk Empire," "30 Rock," "Blue Bloods," "The Bronx Is Burning," "John Adams," "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "The Jamie Kennedy Experience," "Law & Order," "Ed," "100 Centre Street" and "Cosby."


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I am PhD student focusing on African and African Diaspora Studies at UT. I am originally from Chicago, raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I am thriving by involving myself in the Austin community working with marginalized populations toward equality and, hopefully, liberation. I especially connect with Black women across ethnic groups to form a necessary community in such a white city as Austin.
How do you identify culturally?
I identify as Afro-Puerto Rican and/or African American.
How does your cultural background inform your thinking and sense of being in the world? How has it informed past decisions, successes, failures?
As a Black woman I cannot escape the matrix of oppression that determines how I navigate the world. My identity informs my studies, where I seek allies, who I feel comfortable around, how I relate to others and my environment, etc. Basically, life as an Afro-Latina has pushed me to analyze anti-blackness within the Latinx community as well as outside; it has pushed me to identify as a Black feminist/womanist; it has pushed me to seek answers to my history as a black woman in the diaspora; and it has given me no other choice but to constantly fight for Black liberation.
What inspires you and who do you look up to?
I am inspired by the Black women I see daily—those that struggle to survive and yet still manage to find joy in the midst of chaos.
What is your best piece of advice to anyone who may be struggling?
My advice is that only you know your struggle, but never doubt your abilities to overcome that struggle. You are capable and worthy.
What are your future goals and aspirations?
I'm still trying to decide if I want to be a professor or just work directly with the black community and engage the diaspora outside of academia.
Share one thing people should know about the Latinx community.
What is your favorite Latinx driven project and why is it your favorite?
I am always drawn to projects that focus on community building and liberation, whether that be grass-roots or otherwise. I also love cultural productions by Black and Brown people (art of various forms).
Where can people find you on the internet?
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The Shafi'i (Arabic: شافعي Shāfiʿī, awternative spewwing Shafei) madhhab is one of de four schoows of Iswamic waw in Sunni Iswam.[1][2] It was founded by de Arab schowar Aw-Shafi'i, a pupiw of Mawik, in de earwy 9f century.[3][4] The oder dree schoows of Sunni jurisprudence are Hanafi, Mawiki and Hanbawi.[1][2]
The Shafi schoow predominantwy rewies on de Quran and de Hadids for Sharia.[3][5] Where passages of Quran and Hadids are ambiguous, de schoow first seeks rewigious waw guidance from Ijma – de consensus of Schowars (Community of Iswamic schowars).[6] If dere was no consensus, de Shafi'i schoow rewies on individuaw opinion (Ijtihad) of de companions of Muhammad, fowwowed by anawogy.[3]
The Shafi'i schoow was, in de earwy history of Iswam, de most fowwowed ideowogy for Sharia.[citation needed] However, wif de Ottoman Empire's expansion and patronage, it was repwaced wif de Hanafi schoow in many parts of de Muswim worwd.[5] One of de many differences between de Shafi'i and Hanafi schoows is dat de Shafi'i schoow does not consider Istihsan (judiciaw discretion by suitabwy qwawified wegaw schowars) as an acceptabwe source of rewigious waw because it amounts to "human wegiswation" of Iswamic waw.[7][not specific enough to verify]
The Shafi'i schoow is now predominantwy found in Somawia, Eritrea, Ediopia, Djibouti, eastern Egypt, de Swahiwi coast, Hijaz, Yemen, Kurdish regions of de Middwe East, Dagestan, Chechen and Ingush regions of de Caucasus, Indonesia, Mawaysia, Sri Lanka, Mawdives, Kerawa and some oder coastaw regions in India, Singapore, Myanmar, Thaiwand, Brunei, and de Phiwippines.[8]
The Shafi'i schoow of dought regards five sources of jurisprudence as having binding audority. In hierarchicaw order, dese are: de Quran, de hadids — dat is, sayings, customs and practices of Muhammad, de ijmā' (consensus of Sahabah, de community of Muhammad's companions),[9] de individuaw opinions of Sahaba wif preference to one cwosest to de issue as ijtihad, and finawwy qiyas (anawogy).[3] Awdough aw-Shafi'i's wegaw medodowogy rejected custom or wocaw practice as a constitutive source of waw, dis did not mean dat he or his fowwowers denied any ewasticity in de Shariah.[10] The Shafi'i schoow awso rejects two sources of Sharia dat are accepted in oder major schoows of Iswam—Istihsan (juristic preference, promoting de interest of Iswam) and Istiswah (pubwic interest).[11][12] The jurisprudence principwe of Istihsan and Istiswah admitted rewigious waws dat had no textuaw basis in eider de Quran or Hadids, but were based on de opinions of Iswamic schowars as promoting de interest of Iswam and its universawization goaws.[13] The Shafi'i schoow rejected dese two principwes, stating dat dese medods rewy on subjective human opinions, and have potentiaw for corruption and adjustment to powiticaw context and time.[11][12]
The foundationaw text for de Shafi'i schoow is Aw-Risawa ("The Message") by de founder of de schoow, Aw-Shafi'i. It outwines de principwes of Shafi'i fiqh as weww as de derived jurisprudence.[14] Aw-Risawa became an infwuentiaw book to oder Sunni Iswam fiqhs as weww, as de owdest surviving Arabic work on Iswamic wegaw deory.[15][page needed]
The Shafi'i madhhab was spread by Aw-Shafi'i students in Cairo, Mecca and Baghdad. It became widewy accepted in earwy history of Iswam. The chief representative of de Iraqi schoow was Abu Ishaq aw-Shirazi, whiwst in Khorasan, de Shafi'i schoow was spread by aw-Juwayni and aw-Iraqi. These two branches merged around Ibn aw-Sawah and his fader.[citation needed]
The Shafi'i jurisprudence was adopted as de officiaw waw during de Great Sewjuq Empire, Zengid dynasty, Ayyubid dynasty and water de Mamwuk Suwtanate (Cairo), where it saw its widest appwication, uh-hah-hah-hah. It was awso adopted by de Kadiri state in Hadhramawt and most of ruwe of de Sharif of Mecca.[citation needed]
Wif de estabwishment and expansion of Ottoman Empire in West Asia and Turkic Suwtanates in Centraw and Souf Asia, Shafi'i schoow was repwaced wif Hanafi schoow, in part because Hanafites awwowed Istihsan (juristic preference) dat awwowed de ruwers fwexibiwity in interpreting de rewigious waw to deir administrative preferences.[7] The Suwtanates awong de wittoraw regions of de Horn of Africa and de Arabian peninsuwa adhered to de Shafi'i schoow and were de primary drivers of its maritime miwitary expansion into many Asian and East African coastaw regions of de Indian Ocean, particuwarwy from de 12f drough de 18f century.[16][not specific enough to verify][17][not specific enough to verify]
The Shafi'i schoow is presentwy predominant in de fowwowing parts of de Muswim worwd:[8]
- Africa: Djibouti, Somawia, Ediopia, Eritrea, eastern Egypt and de Swahiwi Coast.[18]
- Middwe East: Yemen, Kurdish regions of de Middwe East, Caucasus region, Saudi Arabia, de Levant and parts of Egypt.
- Caucasus[citation needed]
- Asia: Indonesia, Mawaysia, Mawdives, Sri Lanka, (Kerawa, Tamiw Nadu and Karnataka) in India, Singapore, Myanmar, Thaiwand, Brunei, and de soudern Phiwippines.
Shafi'i schoow is de second wargest schoow of Sunni madhhabs by number of adherents, states Saeed in his 2008 book.[2] However, a UNC pubwication considers de Mawiki schoow as second wargest, and de Hanafi madhhab de wargest, wif Shafi'i as dird wargest.[8] The demographic data by each fiqh, for each nation, is unavaiwabwe and de rewative demographic size are estimates.
Notabwe Shafi'is[edit]
Contemporary Shafi'i schowars[edit]
See awso[edit]
- Adhan
- Apostasy in Iswam
- Bwasphemy in Iswam
- Iswamic views on sin
- Iswamic schoows and branches
- Sharia
- Sawat
- Wudu
- Madhhab
- ^ a b Hawwaq 2009, p. 31.
- ^ a b c Abduwwah Saeed (2008), The Qur'an: An Introduction, Routwedge, ISBN 978-0415421256, p. 17
- ^ a b c d Hisham M. Ramadan (2006), Understanding Iswamic Law: From Cwassicaw to Contemporary, Rowman Awtamira, ISBN 978-0759109919, pp. 27-28
- ^ Hashim Kamawi 2008, p. 77.
- ^ a b Shafi'iyyah Buwend Shanay, Lancaster University
- ^ Syafiq Hasyim (2005), Understanding Women in Iswam: An Indonesian Perspective, Eqwinox, ISBN 978-9793780191, pp. 75-77
- ^ a b Waew B. Hawwaq (2009), Sharī'a: Theory, Practice, Transformations, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0521861472, pp. 58-71
- ^ a b c Jurisprudence and Law - Iswam Reorienting de Veiw, University of Norf Carowina (2009)
- ^ Badr aw-Din aw-Zarkashi (1393), Aw-Bahr Aw-Muhit, Vow 6, pp. 209
- ^ A.C. Brown, Jonadan (2014). Misqwoting Muhammad: The Chawwenge and Choices of Interpreting de Prophet's Legacy. Oneworwd Pubwications. p. 39. ISBN 978-1780744209.
- ^ a b Istiswah The Oxford Dictionary of Iswam, Oxford University Press
- ^ a b Istihsan The Oxford Dictionary of Iswam, Oxford University Press
- ^ Lwoyd Ridgeon (2003), Major Worwd Rewigions: From Their Origins to de Present, Routwedge, ISBN 978-0415297967, pp. 259–262
- ^ Majid Khadduri (1961), Iswamic Jurisprudence: Shafi'i's Risawa, Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 14–22
- ^ Joseph Lowry (transwator), Aw-Shafi'i: The Epistwe on Legaw Theory, Risawah fi usuw aw-fiqh, New York University Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0814769980
- ^ Randaww L. Pouwews (2002), Horn and Crescent: Cuwturaw Change and Traditionaw Iswam, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0521523097, pp 88-159
- ^ MN Pearson (2000), The Indian Ocean and de Red Sea, in The History of Iswam in Africa (Ed: Nehemia Levtzion, Randaww Pouwews), Ohio University Press, ISBN 978-0821412978, Chapter 2
- ^ UNION OF THE COMOROS 2013 INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM REPORT U.S. State Department (2014), Quote: "The waw provides sanctions for any rewigious practice oder dan de Sunni Shafi'i doctrine of Iswam and for prosecution of converts from Iswam, and bans prosewytizing for any rewigion except Iswam."
- ^ A.C. Brown, Jonadan (2014). Misqwoting Muhammad: The Chawwenge and Choices of Interpreting de Prophet's Legacy. Oneworwd Pubwications. p. 105. ISBN 978-1-78074-420-9.
- ^ A.C. Brown, Jonadan (2014). Misqwoting Muhammad: The Chawwenge and Choices of Interpreting de Prophet's Legacy. Oneworwd Pubwications. p. 303. ISBN 978-1-78074-420-9.
- Hawwaq, Waew B. (2009). An Introduction to Iswamic Law. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521678735.
- Hashim Kamawi, Mohammad (2008). Shari'ah Law: An Introduction. Oneworwd Pubwications. ISBN 978-1851685653.
- Yahia, Mohyddin (2009). Shafi'i et wes deux sources de wa woi iswamiqwe, Turnhout: Brepows Pubwishers, ISBN 978-2-503-53181-6
- Rippin, Andrew (2005). Muswims: Their Rewigious Bewiefs and Practices (3rd ed.). London: Routwedge. pp. 90–93. ISBN 0-415-34888-9.
- Cawder, Norman, Jawid Mojaddedi, and Andrew Rippin (2003). Cwassicaw Iswam: A Sourcebook of Rewigious Literature. London: Routwedge. Section 7.1.
- Schacht, Joseph (1950). The Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence. Oxford: Oxford University. pp. 16.
- Khadduri, Majid (1987). Iswamic Jurisprudence: Shafi'i's Risawa. Cambridge: Iswamic Texts Society. pp. 286.
- Abd Majid, Mahmood (2007). Tajdid Fiqh Aw-Imam Aw-Syafi'i. Seminar pemikiran Tajdid Imam As Shafie 2007.
- aw-Shafi'i, Muhammad b. Idris, "The Book of de Amawgamation of Knowwedge" transwated by A.Y. Musa in Hadif as Scripture: Discussions on The Audority Of Prophetic Traditions in Iswam, New York: Pawgrave, 2008
Furder reading[edit]
- Joseph Lowry (transwator), Aw-Shafi'i: The Epistwe on Legaw Theory (Risawah fi usuw aw-fiqh), New York University Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0814769980.
- Ciwardo, Agostino, "Shafi'i Fiqh", in Muhammad in History, Thought, and Cuwture: An Encycwopedia of de Prophet of God (2 vows.), edited by C. Fitzpatrick and A. Wawker, Santa Barbara, ABC-CLIO, 2014. ISBN 1610691776.
Externaw winks[edit]
- Shafi'iyyah Buwend Shanay, Lancaster University
- Aw-Shafi'i Risawa Majid Khadduri (Transwator), 1961
- Music and Its Effects Ahmed Sheriff, Tanzania, "Why it was forbidden?", pp. 50–55


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MOSCOW (Sputnik), Anastasia Levchenko — A decision to scrap visa requirements for Turkish travellers under EU's migrant deal will hardly affect the number of Turks seeking to claim asylum in Europe, a European Parliament member told Sputnik on Wednesday.
The European Commission recommended earlier today that the European Parliament vote on visa-free travel for Turkey after it meets all 72 benchmarks. The decision is expected in June.
"Visa free regime (for stay of 3 months anyway) will make travel easier without any real impact on the number of Turkish people seeking asylum in Europe (that is the fear of some European citizens)," Miltiadis Kyrkos, of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, said.
Kyrkos, who co-chairs the delegation to EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee, estimated that only 4.4 percent of Turks are denied visas to travel to EU's passport-less zone, and an uptick in their arrivals was very unlikely.
"Visa liberalization is almost always a political decision. Although Turkish authorities works hard for completing the 72 benchmarks it is impossible to have them all fulfilled, especially on sensitive matters…But there is a French – German proposal on the table for a procedure to take back the liberalization if and when the criteria are not met. That can be a solution for the moment," Kyrkos said.
Visa-free travel with Turkey is one of the key provisions of the EU-Turkish refugee deal, according to which Ankara has to take back migrants, who have entered the European Union illegally and in return the bloc will accept Syrian refugees from camps in Turkey.
The initiative of Paris and Berlin could pave the way for cancelling the visa-free regime with Turkey and other states if too many migrants from those countries came to the European Union. This mechanism also can temper domestic criticism of the proposal to liberalize the visa regime with Turkey which is growing in countries such as Germany, France, the Netherlands and Austria.


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Karen Adams
Karen Adams is a Stamford-based artist who specializes in landscapes and outdoor subjects. She has been painting in oils since she was a young girl in central New Jersey. Although she took a break from painting while in college, she returned to the art soon afterwards in NYC studying at Parsons and then in private classes. Recently she has been painting under the instruction of David Dunlop at the Silvermine Guild in New Canaan, CT. As seen in her work, she is inspired by her family's trips to local and national parks, most recently including Acadia, Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks. She hopes that her work portrays the beauty of our country to the viewer and allows them to appreciate it.
Ms. Adams' works reside in residential spaces in Connecticut, Florida, and Georgia.
Karen's work has been featured in group and solo exhibitions at the Stamford JCC, Stamford, CT, Dew Yoga, Stamford, CT, Silvermine Arts Guild, New Canaan, CT and the Larchmont Public Library, Larchmont, NY.


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Mawlamyine's one and a half giant Buddhas
When we first arrived in Myanmar we decided to explore the slightly lesser known region southeast of Yangon. This included Mawlamyine, a former capital during the British Burma period from 1827 to 1852. Today it is home to the Mon people and is an interesting place to see local industries whose products are shipped nationally and internationally due to the town proximity to the sea.
We spent a day exploring the area around Mawlamyine and found a fantastic reclining Buddha called Win Sein Taw Ya. As we have been in Asia for a number of months now we have seen our fair share of big Buddhas. This one however was fascinating and unlike anything we have seen before.
Firstly, it's pretty big. After its construction began in 1992 it was for a period the largest reclining Buddha in the world. Despite this it's still unbelievably long at 560ft (170m). And why build one giant reclining Buddha when you can build two. Although it might be more accurate to say one and a half as the second one is more of a skeleton. To be completely accurate both Buddhas are still under construction. The first on the left as you walk up the valley is almost complete from the outside whilst the second on the right hand side of the valley is a concrete skeleton with a face as the only recognisable feature.
The almost complete Buddha is the main attraction for tourists however it is also a Buddhist religious site. Not only can you view it from the outside but you can also delve inside the Buddha and get lost in its incomplete concrete interior from head to toe.
Inside you must remove your shoes (as with all Buddhist temples and religious sites) and so you soon find yourself stumbling through the dusty shadows of this massive sculpture. Inside are detailed life size displays of Buddhist history and events. These colourful sculptural scenes show traumatic images from a hell like place through to joyous festivities to well known Buddhist stories. I think the pictures speak for themselves as to how odd and unique this place is.
Interestingly while we were visiting we did see people working on both sculptures. They were also asking for donations to fund future work on the project. At the back of the main Buddha a lone man swept the floor slowly making piles of dirt to clear. He pointed us towards giant unfinished holes saying, in broken English, that there were good views. It was strange to see such a small amount of people working on such a large project. It was also clear that the finished sections were already showing signs of disrepair. It would be an amazing attraction and pilgrimage site if it is ever completed however it does seem that it may be a never ending task.
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This is Elizabeth Anna Leigh (as you can see if you look on the cabbage patch kid birth certificate next to her in the box). I made it using two green project boards and cutting them down to the right size and gluing them together. I then cut out the front of the box opening and painted them with a few coats of yellow paint.
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To most, these look like simple blue chairs, contrasting on a charcoal vintage vinyl floor cover. To ALBB, these chairs are upgrades from the first round of robin's egg blue folding chairs, which we spray-painted in the backyard nearly two years ago when we first took this space at 291 Main Street in the Telephone Building. Since then, we've dabbled in office rental for different types of events (business conferences, workshops, group client meetings, photo shoots, pop-up shops), and we've opened the space for different community events.
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My mother was 17 and my father 19 when they went to a county courthouse — along with their parents because of my mom's age — to get a marriage license in 1964.
With that important piece of government paper in hand, a minister joined them in holy matrimony in a simple, living-room ceremony in their Missouri Bootheel hometown.
When my parents celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 2014, I wrote a Christian Chronicle column about their commitment to God and each other.
For the last two weeks, I've witnessed a new chapter of their "love story" at a Texas hospital. My dad is battling a severe case of pneumonia and a problem with his kidney function.
Night after night, Mom has slept (albeit not much) on a hospital couch to care for Dad. At this point, they are both beyond exhausted. And Dad is still hooked up to oxygen and having trouble breathing.
Suffice it to say that they took their marriage vows — sanctioned by their government and their faith — seriously.
But once again in 2018, some lawmakers are asking whether the government belongs in that equation at all.
In 2015, my home state of Oklahoma made headlines when it contemplated getting out of the marriage license business. A similar proposal to end government-sanctioned marriage in Missouri drew attention last year. On the flip side, some religious leaders have refused in recent years to sign government marriage licenses — saying that's not their role.
Enter Alabama, which is considering similar legislation this session in response to the U.S. Supreme Court legalizing same-sex marriage in 2015.