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Demand for connectivity drives segment growth
With the Indian wireless communications market continuing to witness unprecedented growth, adding 18-20 million subscribers every month, the demand for active infrastructure including base station transceivers (BTSs), radio frequency (RF) cables and transmission has been strong over the past few years. In fact, wireless infrastructure is considered to be the fastest growing segment of the telecommunications market.
With penetration rates still at less than 60 per cent, the demand for connectivity in the country is not likely to diminish any time soon. Despite the peak 2G investments by existing operators already over, operators are likely to continue with network ugradation as continued subscriber additions will lead to a rise in demand for network capacity. They will also continue to make strategic investments for capacity creation in rural areas. Moreover, many regional wireless service providers, like Aircel and Idea Cellular, have started expanding their operations throughout the country.
In addition to network expansion, as the focus of the industry shifts from voice to data, there will be an increased demand for capacity, which will necessitate the deployment of active infrastructure.
The launch of 3G (on a wider scale) and broadband wireless access (BWA) services will further fuel growth in the country's wireless domain. It will open up new competitive markets for telecom operators and technology heavyweights as these technologies will require new equipment on the radio side, including new base stations and antennas. In order to migrate from the current GSM to a wideband CDMA (WCDMA) network, while the core network (the intelligent network, billing and the mobile switching centre) will essentially remain the same, the radio access part will require an upgrade. Estimates have pegged the total industry orders for 3G equipment alone at Rs 373-Rs 442.7 billion ($8-$9.5 billion). Operators have already placed large orders for 3G equipment with vendors and are likely to invest $1-$2 billion each to get 3G deployments under way.
On the supply side, telecom equipment vendors are gearing up for the opportunity in this segment and there is intense rivalry between incumbents Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) and Ericsson, and the fast growing Chinese vendors Huawei Telecommunications and ZTE, for whom the market is of strategic importance.
Clearly, as the Indian wireless market continues on its growth trajectory and readies itself for the next level of growth, there are attractive opportunities for players in the wireless infrastructure segment.
Size and growth
The major vendors in the wireless infrastructure segment include Ericsson, NSN, Huawei Telecommunications, ZTE, Alcatel-Lucent and Motorola.
According to industry estimates, the Indian wireless infrastructure market (including GSM and CDMA) grew at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30.82 per cent from Rs 112.75 billion in 2004-05 to Rs 432 billion in 2009-10. On a year-on-year basis, the sector, which had witnessed growth rates of over 40 per cent in the preceding three financial years (2006-07 to 2008-09), saw a decline in the growth rate in 2009-10 to nearly 30 per cent despite new operators launching services. The decline may be attributed to the slowdown in the operators' 2G expansion plans (due to lack of clarity on the 3G auctions).
Globally as well, despite a contraction in capital expenditure on wireless infrastructure in 2009, according to analysis by ABI Research, the overall capex declined by only about 5 per cent compared to 2008. While spending reduced in Western Europe, operators in North America – despite seeing some negative impact – continued with their 4G upgrade plans.
Meanwhile, spending in China and India received a boost as 3G deployments got under way. The biggest positive impact was from China. With 3G spectrum becoming available at the beginning of the year, the country witnessed deployments through the year, adding 243,000 new wireless base stations in 2009. This kept the momentum going. In addition, Africa saw continued momentum in base station spending, with Huawei providing vendor financing to operators in the region.
In 2010, there has been a renewed focus on spending on account of competitive pressures around improving capacity and coverage.
Key trends
Over the past few years, several key developments have taken place in the sector, some of them on a large scale, thus becoming industry trends. These include a focus on managed services, rising capital expenditure and a competitive vendor landscape.
Managed services
Telecom operators, who have traditionally viewed operating the network as their core competence, have over the past five years, been under intense pressure to reduce costs while concurrently improving service levels and launching new services. As a result they have been looking to vendors to operate and maintain all or part of their network, move the network to next-generation technologies, and help drive down network operating expenses. In fact, globally, 2009 was a year that saw managed services gaining increasing importance for wireless equipment manufacturers and becoming a $7 billion market.
In 2004, Bharti Airtel set a precedent in the Indian industry by outsourcing its mobile network management to Ericsson and NSN. Under a managed services contract, the company only pays for the utilised portion of the network.
Since, at any given point of time, a third of the capacity could remain unutilised, it is a huge advantage for the company. This model has now become an industry trend and has been adopted by other telecom operators such as Vodafone Essar, Aircel and Uninor. Managed services agreements can provide savings of 20 per cent to operators on the opex side.
While the market has been dominated by two major players, Ericsson and NSN, and Alcatel-Lucent being another key vendor in this segment, other vendors have also started capitalising on this opportunity in the past two years. For instance, Chinese vendor Huawei Telecommunications derived almost 20 per cent of its revenues from managed services in 2009. Managed services will continue to gain momentum in the industry and the future trend is likely to move towards vendor-agnostic multi-vendor managed services. There is likely to be a movement towards backhaul as a managed service. This will enable mobile operators to focus on their core business, while guaranteeing a backhaul capacity that matches their changing traffic demands.
Competitive vendor landscape
There is intense competition between the incumbents (NSN, Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent and Motorola) and the price-competitive and increasingly innovative Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE.
Until recently, North American and European vendors dominated the telecom equipment market in the country and currently account for over 50 per cent of the market. However, over the past few years, Chinese vendors have been moving up the ranks in the wireless infrastructure space and are now a major force to reckon with. For instance, in 2006 while Huawei's India revenues were just Rs 8.1 million; by 2009, the company had chalked up Rs 110 billion in telecom sales. Globally as well, in a significant achievement, Huawei, which accounted for just 5 per cent of the market in 2005, had moved into the third place in 2009 with nearly 20 per cent share of the wireless infrastructure market.
According to industry experts, innovative financing options and contract structuring for new telecom operators are likely to be the deal clinchers for these companies. For instance, according to ZTE, its main advantage over the incumbents is the financing options it provides following its five-year agreement with the China Development Bank, which provides the company a $15 billion credit line. Both these vendors are currently dealing with all the leading operators including Reliance Communications and Tata Teleservices Limited, and giving stiff competition to the incumbents. While there has been a degree of scaremongering among politicians about awarding contracts to Chinese vendors, the government has taken steps to address these issues, as operators are concerned about a significant increase in mobile infrastructure prices by excluding these vendors.
Equipment manufacturing
India started emerging as a telecom equipment manufacturing hub back in 2005. At that time, Alcatel had tied up with ITI for manufacturing GSM base stations and 3G equipment. It is estimated that Rs 132 billion ($3.3 billion) of foreign investment was committed to equipment manufacturing in the country in the latter half of 2005.
Given the large size of the Indian wireless infrastructure and handset market, government incentives that include 100 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) in manufacturing, and the low cost of manufacturing, are the reasons behind India emerging as a manufacturing hub. Key equipment and handset vendors including NSN, Motorola and Ericsson have set up their manufacturing bases in the country. This trend is expected to gain momentum over the next few years with more vendors setting up bases here.
Moreover, with the government tightening security norms for importing telecom equipment, a number of foreign vendors are looking to start manufacturing in India. Broadband and IPTV services equipment provider UTStarcom, and Wi-Max network equipment supplier Alvarion are among the vendors that are taking initiatives to manufacture their products in India.
Technology trends
On the transmission side, there has been a shift from copper to optic fibre. On the switching core side, a shift from the legacy time division multiplexing (TDM) switching networks to an all-internet protocol (IP) multi-purpose softswitch base common core network is likely. With the mobile capacity crunch starting to affect operators, backhaul and core network upgrades have become high-priority areas.
In fact, there has been a big shift in backhaul strategies as operators try to reduce the costs associated with skyrocketing mobile data traffic. They are now planning to shift from a dual/hybrid backhaul approach – TDM plus IP/Ethernet – to a single IP/Ethernet backhaull. Ericsson continues to lead the mobile backhaul microwave radio equipment segment, with a 20 per cent worldwide revenue market share in 2009. Several vendors are close behind.
On the base station front, the adoption of outdoor BTSs and the separation of the RF portion from the base band unit are rapidly gaining traction. This eliminates the requirement for feeder cables that form an integral part of the network infrastructure and are used to connect antennas and mobile stations. Currently, each telecom cell site requires six runs of feeder cable with each run varying from 40 to 50 metres. Therefore, about 250 to 300 metres of cable is required per cell site.
While there are various antenna technologies in the market, variable-tilt, high-gain, multi-band and remote electrical-tilt antennas have become increasingly popular as compared to earlier fixed tilt single-band antennas.
As India has large rural areas, operators are using high gain antennas, which cover bigger areas and can operate on GSM, CDMA and 3G frequencies. Therefore, they can be shared to reduce the number of sites and lead to a reduction in costs.
In addition, given the strong emphasis on aesthetics, the market is also witnessing a growing use of concealment solutions. This involves hiding the antenna and associated filter infrastructure to make it more appealing.
Further, with the emergence of 3G markets, tri-band antennas are likely to become essential in providing value-added services such as mobile broadband. The need for multi-band antennas is gaining traction in the market.
The way forward
Clearly, the Indian telecom market continues to offer huge growth potential for infrastructure solutions as it gradually moves towards maturity. With the subscriber base expected to reach 1 billion by 2013, the demand for active infrastructure will continue to be strong over the next four to five years. In addition, the launch of 3G and BWA services by end-2010 has also resulted in significant investments in wireless infrastructure, IP backhaul and terminal equipment.
According to Crisil Research, the sector will witness a total investment of around $55 billion (Rs 2,475 billion) over the next five years for the launch of 3G and BWA services, network deployment by new operators and the rollout of long distance networks. However, according to industry experts, growth in the active infrastructure segment is likely to flatten in the medium term (after 2014) as rural telecom penetration levels reach 50 per cent and subscriber additions plateau.
Nonetheless, the shift in focus from voice to data and the expansion of 3G networks across the country will continue to drive the demand for active infrastructure in the long term, albeit at a slower pace
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NatCen Social Research, Sage and the Oxford Internet Institute will be launching our new network for methodological innovation at the end of May. The network will explore whether social science researchers should embrace social media and, if we do, what the implications are for our methods and practice? We know that social media tools are increasingly being used in social science research. The nature of these tools means that it is a fast changing environment, with new practice emerging all the time. Despite this, there is limited interaction of practitioners or synthesis of these methods; there are also few opportunities to reflect on the implications of social media tools for research participants, methods and ethics. Our network of methodological innovation will bring together academics, researchers and research stakeholders from all sectors. The aim is to develop a community of practice with members drawn from the cutting-edge of academia, market research and applied social research.
Our community will be launched with a 1-day conference at the end of May 2012 with four further knowledge exchange e-events and a closing event across the next 12 months. We are hoping to live stream our events to enable the participation of network members from across the UK and internationally. We will build a collaborative online platforms to co-create think pieces, blogs, practitioner guides and develop lively discussion forums.
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It might only seem like yesterday, but it's been more than 12 years since the 'Crocodile Hunter' Steve Irwin was tragically killed by a stingray barb in 2006.
Robert Irwin, the son of Steve Irwin, is following in his late father's footsteps and is helping the world to fall in love with nature.
Since a very young age, Robert was fascinated with the natural world. Now, together with his family, he travels the planet and captures the beauty of the animal kingdom. The talented 13-year-old is sharing his wildlife photography on Instagram and people are loving it.
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Turning 25 in Tepoztlan/
The birthday in Tepoztlan was beautiful. The hike up to the pyramid is exhausting but incredible... 2 kms of steep uphill climbing, coupled with the fact that you are ascending about 600 m in an hour (at some point my ears began to pop!). Especially beautiful on weekday mornings, when ther are few people around, so you really have a sense of both the history and the ecology around you... the entire hike is in a preserved ecological park, not a single puesto or shop from when you enter until you reach the very top, and impressively almost no garbage either. I had to stop more times than I care to remember, and I coudnt help thinking that if that´s how out of shape I am, those kids in Zoatecpan are going to destroy me! They run about the mountainside like little goats, and since we will be accompanying them on their trips to photograph local flora and fauna, we will have to keep pace. They are going to have fun laughing at us city folk, ah well, it´s a well earned laugh! Almost all those children have, from the age of 4 or 5, been accompanying their mothers to bring firewood and water from far off places: their little legs, arms, and backs are incredibly stronger than most of ours have ever been. Who knows, maybe 3 weeks of working with them will whip us into some kind of shape, in ways that are much more fun than going to the gym! ;)
At any rate, despite the one mandatory moment of "I give up, I can´t complete this hike," when you do get to the top, the view makes up for everything. The cliffs around that area are beautiful and strange, one can spend forever looking at them and looking for shapes as one does in clouds. And when you get to the top, you also feel a certain camaraderie with whoever else is there... people who would never have stopped to exchange glances in the city suddenly smile at each other and make small talk, as if we now know that we are together in the moment. After a Spoken Word night at SLC some weeks ago, JS said something about the magic of the fact that it took millions of years of growth in different parts of the earth to ensure that all of us shared that night together in that teahouse... I felt something similar about being on top of that pyramid, by myself, and with groups of strangers who came and went while I sat there drinking it in. I spent more than hour at the summit, soaking in the view, soaking in the history, trying to imagine the past, wondering at the generations and centuries that have been part of this spot-- the Aztecs, the Spanish, and now tourists like myself--, marveling at the journey that has brought me from my childhood home in a little mountain town in the Himalayas to this little mountain town in Mexico. In so many ways, I felt incredibly fortunate. In a place where hundreds of thousands have prayed, I offered a prayer of gratitude as well. it´s the kind of place that makes you pray, regardless of whether you believe in prayer.
The descent was much easier, although I was so exhausted that at one point, I realized that whenever i stood still for a moment, to catch my breath or admire the view or tie my showlace, my legs began to tremble unconrtollably (keep in mind that I was staying in a guest house all the way across town from where the ecological reserve begins, so before the hike even began, i had already walked quite a bit). Finally decided I´d sit down for a few minutes at one of the rest stops, and struck up a conversation with an old gentleman sitting there. He had come from another state with his family, but by the time they got to the about the halfway point on the hike, he didn´t feel up to carrying on, felt it was too much of a risk at his age. So he sat down at this spot, and his family continued on. he asked me how much longer he shoudl expect to wait, I had to tell him it would be at least an hour and probaby more before they got back, and he sighed saying "they didn´t even leave me the car keys!" We chatted a little longer, he asked where i was from and what I was doing there by myself, and I ended up telling him a little about the project in Puebla and about how this little trip out of DF was my birthday present to myself. He wished me a happy birthday, then asked if I would allow him to give me a birthday hug. Sweet old man, hugged me and wished me all the very best for the project and for my trip, assured me that God would fulfil all my desires... I thanked him, and we parted ways, he continued to wait for his family, and I continued my descent. I stopped for lunch 8around 4:30 PM!) just outside the ecological reserve... I actually just stopepd to read a menu, and an old lady dressed in a traditional dress of one of the indigenous communities called out to me, "What can I get you, hija?". I swear, she could have offered me plain toast and I would have probably agreed, so sweet and grandmotherly was she. I asked her for something traditional and she offered me itacates-- how should I explain them? Think of it as a sandwich of 2 mini paranthas with chicked or potato or whatever stuffing you want inside. She slapped the dough into perfect traingles with her hands, just the way the señoras in Zoatecpan make tortillas, none of those city machine made tortillas, and two of those itacates were more than enough to fill my stomach. I thanked her, paid, and carried on, warmed by her warmth... even though this was a commercial exchange of a meal, it felt so much more personal than a regular meal in a restaurant. Both of those encounters reminded again of the warmth of this culture and its people, especially in small towns and villages, which in turn reminds me so much of home in India.
All in all, a beautiful day. Got back to DF later that night, absolutely exhausted, and every muscle in my body hurt yesterday. And yet, when I sat in on L´s more traditioanl birthday celebration last night, with cake and alcohol and a room filled with people, I felt so glad and so grateful for the way in which i got to spend mine. Don´t get me wrong, I definitely had my moment of missing everyone and wishing I could have come home to close friends and family that night... but all the same, I felt so happy and so complete out with nature and the indigenous gods, it felt like the right way to spend the first day of the next 25 years of my life!
And all your wonderful emails and facebook messages only made the day more special, brought all of you here with me. I love you all.


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Facts and beliefs
But, I am sorry, instead of all of this I will again post part of an Orkut discussion, so you will have to wait a bit longer to read here about Dutch politics and multiculturalism ;-) Below is another discussion with Roberta from the UK, we disagree a lot but our discussions are nice. Roberta had a discussion with a Muslim (named K here) about the validity of the Quran.
She said that he should prove that:
- Allah is God
- Allah wrote the Quran
- EVERYTHING in the Quran happened in FULL accordance with HISTORY and ARCHAEOLOGY
Esther says:
Why do you emphasize so much on proofs?
Roberta says:
For ONE reason only. To be a FACT, as something is claimed to be, PROOF is needed. If there is NO PROOF, then it is NOT a fact, but a mere speculation. (And that changes the whole context of an issue).
Esher says:
Is a discussion about validity really interesting, aren't there some more interesting and relevant ways in which we could have religious discussions?
Roberta says:
Sure we can! We can discuss any religion you like, as long as people do NOT claim that what they are preaching are FACTS.
Esther says:
This discussion has been going on a long time now and it doesn't seem to be heading somewhere.
Roberta says:
Of course! That is because I have set a challenge to K, which HE is unable to meet. So he keeps delaying and trying to manipulate the situation but is never proving anything.
He is pushing me to prove my evidence, which I will, as soon as he proves what I asked first. It is fair, I believe.
And I already said to him that if he cannot prove it, he must ADMIT it, so that I can proceed to prove the scriptures similar to the Quran.
Esther says:
Facts are things that you know / that you can test to see if it's true or not.
Roberta says:
Yes. This is my point. I totally agree with you.
Therefore my point is: If I cannot test to see if ALLAH is G-d, or that G-d wrote the Quran, it ceases to be a FACT, and it becomes a BELIEF. ONLY A BELIEF.
Esther says:
Yes I agree.
Esther says:
A belief is something you believe in because you find it plausible, not because you have proofs that everything is exactly like that.
Roberta says:
Some people believe in things because OTHERS tell them, and NOT because they find it plausible. MOST PEOPLE who are muslim these days cannot believe in the Quran as plausible because they cannot read ARABIC. So they depend on OTHERS to tell them things.
And the OTHERS can tell them whatever they want... after all, how can you check?
Esther says:
A scientific proof of the existence of God, gods or of your "aliens" isn't possible anyway, it isn't possible for any religion.
Roberta says:
Who said so? The meaning of G-d is KNOWLEDGEABLE. This is what G-d means as a word. And as far as this word goes, it is found in ALL SCRIPTURES as either G-ds or G-d, suggesting that there have been many G-ds. NOT ONLY ONE. The monotheist idea is the agglomeration of all these g-ds and their feats throughout history.
This is very important to establish.
Esther says:
Why should the Islam be an exception?
Roberta says:
It is NOT an exception. The only exception with Islam is that it CLAIMS G-d wrote the QURAN, and it claims that "ALLAH" is "The Almighty G-d", which I do not agree. So I need PROOF for this CLAIM. Otherwise it is NOT a fact at all!
Esther says:
If you don't accept what K says, and vice versa, is it useful to have this discussion then?
Roberta says:
I will accept what he says, provided he gives me ARCHAEOLOGICAL and HISTORICAL proof that situations in the Quran happened as it is stated, 100% and that Quran was written by G-d. Oh, and that ALLAH is G-D.
He is not accepting what I say because he is afraid of the truth.
And the truth is that you cannot prove any of the things I asked him to prove. Why?
Because they are NOT FACT. They are just SPECULATION or Baseless BELIEF.
Esther says:
There are on the one hand facts which we can know, and on the other hand there is our faith in which we believe. Some things can be considered as proven facts/knowledge, other things not.
Moral judgements and predictions, for instance, are beliefs, not facts.
Let's analyse this:
- "At this moment I am working for the Dutch Council of Vocational Education and Training." -> This is a fact.
- "I will still work there next year." -> This is not a fact, this is a belief or prediction.
- "In the Netherlands, abortion is legally allowed but only in the first three months of a pregnancy." -> This is a fact.
- "It is wrong to have an abortion because we are not allowed to kill a living human being." -> This is not a fact but an opinion, some people believe it's right, others disagree.
This distinction is also relevant e.g. for the Reality vs Fiction discussion we had before. Some Orkuters seem to think that every statement consists of a claim to facts which can be tested and which then turns out to be either correct or false. With predictions you can test afterwards if they were true or not, but with moral judgements you can never objectively test if they are right or wrong. I think that the same applies for religions, which are also moral systems. Moreover I think that God (or the gods if there are more) is not made of the same "material" as everything else that you can find in the physical world. I think God belongs to the meta-physical world, so if you look for physical, not meta-physical proofs of Him, you will never find them.
I am sure that K isn't afraid of "the truth" (your truth). When somebody strongly believes in his faith, there is no need to be afraid. I personally think that every belief should leave some space for doubt, I believe in God, but I am not sure he exists. I don't need to prove it either, because to believe is not the same as to know.
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ODE TO A MOTHER- Claiming Our Stories./
With tremendous effort I was pulling off an A in public speaking. I was determined as a grown woman and a mother of three, to prove I was a capable student for the first time in my life. No one in that classroom knew I didn't feel the least bit grown up. The magical transformation from insecure-people-pleaser, to self-assured-no-apologies adult, had passed me up. If anything, I felt incapable of claiming the attributes that I had earned with age and experience. I had know idea how to interpret my authentic life as a personal power. I just knew how to hide it.
That day was no different, especially considering the circumstances that I alone knew. It was of no consequence; I was living in the same uncomfortable skin I always had, regardless of what happened. I told myself, 'stuff it down, it's your superpower. Just tell these people why community supported agriculture rocks, and pretend you're fine. You know the drill…'
I inserted the thumb drive that contained my colorful PowerPoint presentation. I took a deep breath and turned to a classroom full of faces. I said "Good morning…" and than I choked. Organic veggies where the last thing on my mind. My eyes welled up with tears as I attempted to form my next words, but the truth forced its way up and out, "...I can't do this." My professor looked confused. He urged me to continue, reassuring me I could. But I walked away from the podium. I yanked my thumb drive from the computer and grabbed my backpack as I headed toward the door.
"Emily, if you walk out on your final you will not pass this class." But I kept my head down and walked straight past him and out of the classroom. Later when I emailed him, I was grateful for the final grade he gave me. He understood my inability to function that morning; not many people have an affinity for public speaking after finding out that their mother has just been arrested.
I had grown accustomed through my childhood to all the terrible things I overheard about people like us: we were lazy Welfare recipients, getting rich off of hardworking taxpayers, not contributing to anything in society… worthless. I looked at my shoes while people glared at us in the checkout line at Goodwin's grocery store. My mom ripped our food stamps from the allocated stipend the government gave us each month, and presented the paper card that identified her as a bonafide failure of a human with kids. We took our peanut butter, milk and ground hamburger meat and left the curses of my mom behind us as she ushered us out of the store.
We walked home along the same roads, laden with plastic grocery bags banging against our bodies. My mom had owned a car once, but I was too young to remember. I was used to walking. My big sister shifted the weight of groceries uneasily; terrified someone from school would drive by and see her this way. I can recall how often heads turned back to get a better view of my beautiful mom; her tight blue jeans, laced up boots stomping through puddles, a cool green eyed glare and a flashing white smile.
She was young and beautiful then; the recipient of breast implants (a Christmas gift from my ex-stepdad), accompanied her unblemished skin and petite body. People often marveled that she had kids at all, especially the stupor of suitors that followed in her wake wherever she went. The assistance she received from the state was billed to my father. He made a life for himself elsewhere with whatever was left over. My step father had left when I was 7 but not before leaving his marks on my mom. I imagine that many women are welcomed to a world of poverty and single-momdom this way. The odds are forever stacked against them
The many homes we lived in through my childhood were hardly ever our own. Turns out the cash aid for a family consisting of one single mom with two dependents, doesn't stretch very far. We lived with whatever boyfriend of my mother's would put up with her and her "baggage". It never lasted long. We lived in over 15 houses from the time I was a 2nd grader up until middle school. On the rare occasion that the rent was cheap enough for us to find a rental of our own, we would be so far from town that it was impossible to function. Without a vehicle, we hiked a heavy distance to and from the school bus stop. We ate the free lunch and later piecemilled dinners together with whatever was left in the fridge. I had only one friend whose parents would allow her to even come to the various houses we lived in, and I am proud today to know someone was there to witness what a wild world we made for ourselves.
Did my mom use the money and the food stamps to buy nutritious food and toilet paper? Did she pinch pennies and save so we could have a better future? So she could get a car, and than a job, and eventually wean us off the government's breast?? Of course not. She threw that money away when she had to: for dance lessons, for donuts on my birthday, for a new outfit from MacFrugals. She took us out to dinner on Saturday nights at the Big A for hamburgers with french fries, and gave us money so we could spend warm days swimming with the rest of the kids at Lake Gregory. By the end of the month we were packing our belongings into trash bags, my mom plucking butts from the ashtray outside and pacing back and forth with a short stub of cigarette hanging from her mouth. She would frantically glance up the street until Tom, Dick or Harry's vehicle came into view and shuttled us off to a new place.
Getting rich off of welfare meant my mom slept through depression for a good majority of the day. We watched the same 5 VHS movies on a daily basis and filled the gaps in between with Nintendo. School attendance was often optional. When I couldn't stand the dark, quiet pushing down on me inside, I took long walks through the winding hills in our mountain town, trying to get lost, knowing she would wake up and be sorry that I was gone. But I always knew how to get back home in the end. And I always wound up missing her first.
By the time I was in high school, many things had changed. My mom had given us a baby sister; a widowed mother, infant in arms, she could have fallen apart, but she didn't. Through the support of her family, she won a court settlement of $60,000. This was for the removal of her ruptured silicone breast-implants. She wasted no time in pulling up her bootstraps. She moved us away from that god-forsaken town and purchased an old, faded blue, Ford LTD. She paid rent on a house for a full two years and moved us in. She got a job working nights at a local coffee shop. She took her wisdom of poverty and established a division she named "Special Projects" through the local church. It was a charitable cause that focused on assisting single mothers and getting them back on their feet.
That short time that spanned the life of what we called "mom's boob-money', was about 3 years total. During that time, I was given the greatest gift of my childhood; the opportunity to see who my mom could be. She wasn't lazy. She wasn't a low-life, dependent of the state. She didn't pop out kids to collect a fatter welfare check. And she definitely didn't choose the circumstances that had left us miserably poor for the majority of my life. Given the opportunity, she thrived. She helped other people that she knew were struggling like we had. She became a roll model for me for the first time.
But the effects of silicon in her bloodstream for the past 10 years, had taken its toll regardless of the riches it bestowed upon us. There were still days she couldn't get out of bed. She had planned ahead and after waiting on a list for section 8 housing for more than 2 years, we were accepted. We moved into an apartment and my mom became a real welfare queen, paying rent that was $28 a month. She worked limited hours as a waitress, and spent the majority of her money medicating the pain she was daily living through. She had been diagnosed with Lupus, and than Reynaud's Syndrome and later, some kind of throat condition without a name. She kept medicating to get up and going. We knew that her good moments were sponsored by uppers, and that days of darkness would follow.
I moved out at the first glimpse of 18. My 4 year old sister spent a great deal of her childhood bouncing between my older sister's house and my grandma's. Eventually, wherever she was when she was away became more of a home than the places my mom was living. It turned out my mom couldn't come up with her $28 rent. She was back to couch-surfing. Life got harder and so did the drugs.
It seems crazy now, but it was hard to feel sorry for her. It was even harder that day as I fled the college campus, cursing her name as tears ran down my cheeks. She had kept collecting the meager Welfare allotted to her as if my little sister were still a full time dependent. She owed the state the money she had unlawfully collected. She had been trying to apply for social security, trying to get a correct diagnosis, trying to keep living while the world, and her family, and even her daughters, slowly gave up on her. She was cuffed and taken away in the parking lot of her public defender.
We couldn't pay bail. I was terrified my mom would show up to her trial date in an orange jumper, cuffed, without legal preparations. She would be dressed, playing the part of convicted felon in front of a judge who was yet to determine if she was even guilty. All praise be, a shitty X-boyfriend ended up paying for a bail bond to get her out. She would later be acquitted of all charges, but not until the stress and mental fatigue had pushed her half into a grave.
In the last years of her life she was diagnosed with scleroderma. It's not a well known disease. It's fatal, causing chronic and painful hardening of the skin and tissue. She had been dealing with this illness, and misdiagnosed since I was 10. Turns out Welfare queens don't get the best medical coverage.
I realize that many people have made it through harder times than these; that single-momdom and welfare don't always end with tragedy. But in hindsight I see that poverty had it's clutches on us in ways that we could not have broken free. I spent my youth trying to defend my mom against the judgments of well meaning middle class Americans: "Why doesn't your mom just… get a job...stop sleeping all day...spend less time worrying about that boyfriend…?" I hear the same comments about specific groups of people today and I quietly cringe.
There are so many people in this world that are just trying to make it through the day. I witnessed my mom live an entire life this way. I got a glimpse of her looking to the horizon, and making expectations for herself but it was too late. A lifetime of dependency, of willfully being a victim of her own means, and unwillingly being a product of poverty, led to her young death. I will always carry a sadness with me that she died in a state of ruin. But her absence has taught me that our story is one to own. It is pivotal that I examine it, and inspect what we were, as opposed to what I thought we were; or what I allowed other people to say we were. I am a bigger person when I claim this youth of mine. It fills me up, so that I no longer meet every obstacle with a "fake it 'til you make it" philosophy. I am good enough, just as I am. And so was she.


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'The Home of Football' has long been associated with the hallowed turf of Wembley Stadium, a place where Dalglish, Best and Messi - greats of the beautiful game - have all strutted their stuff over the years. But could we soon see Messrs Brady, Rodgers and Newton plying a rather different trade under the famous arch?
If these last three names mean nothing to you, you aren't alone. Despite the NFL being the richest league in the world, with revenues at an eye-watering $14 billion a year, the popularity of American football has so far failed to extend beyond North America, save for the universal appeal of the game's showpiece event - the Super Bowl.
It is this desire to export the game across the globe that is top of the agenda for those in charge of the sport, with an overseas franchise established by 2023 the ultimate objective. London is the prime target and the city has been a testing bed for the last decade, hosting at least one regular season game a year since 2007.
With a strong balance sheet, in spite of London games continually returning a loss, you may ask why the NFL continues to flutter its eyes across the Atlantic.
The first theory is that their home market has peaked, a trend that does not marry well with the NFL's aim to boost annual revenues to $25bn by 2027. A poll in the States in January showed that the number of people following the NFL closely and those who wanted their children to take up the game were both in decline.
However, football is still America's dominant game by some distance. More than 100 million people tuned into Superbowl LII in February, eclipsing baseball's equivalent stellar event, the World Series, which attracted 19 million viewers.
Enjoying a healthy but decreasing domestic market, the NFL has identified the UK's capital as the first stop in its world tour. As well as winning the time-zone lottery, meaning games can also be watched at a sociable time in Asia, the city is recognised as having all the ingredients to deliver the passionate fanbase, the lucrative sponsorship opportunities and the world-class stadia needed to produce a winning team, on and off the field.
League bosses have every reason to be optimistic that any investment will return meaningful gains. A 2015 report by Deloitte estimated that a London-based team could generate direct economic impact of £102m a year, as well as a boost on total spending in the wider UK economy to the tune of £96m. Sums like this have made Sadiq Khan and George Osborne loud cheerleaders for a local team.
Indeed, it was Osborne's London Standard that splashed on the biggest breakthrough for the proposal yesterday when they revealed that billionaire Shahid Khan had lodged a £500m bid to buy Wembley Stadium from the Football Association, in a deal that would eventually rise to close to £1bn.
Having the stadium under foreign ownership for the first time paves the way for a permanent NFL franchise to be housed, most likely the Florida-based Jacksonville Jaguars, whom Khan owns. However, to my mind, the idea that an established NFL team be parachuted in will present more challenges than were a brand-new team to be founded.
First, many prospective fans already have their team. You only have to tune in to a game played at London to see each of the 32 teams in the league represented in the crowd, regardless of the clash on the field. It's the equivalent of spectators at a Manchester United-Liverpool game sporting the shirts of Everton, Arsenal or Chelsea.
Switching your team is not something that people would do easily. Having lived in the US in the 1990s, I settled on the all-conquering Dallas Cowboys, an easy choice given they had just won their fifth championship.
Had I known that would be their last success, I might have taken a more strategic decision and backed the blue of the New England Patriots, who have won all five of their titles in the consequent period. However, that's not a natural instinct for sports fans who are more inclined to endure disappointment than switch allegiances. Therefore, it seems fanciful that a London franchise will be the benefactors of a surge in support purely on the basis of its postcode, particularly so if it's a current team in the league in the case of the Jaguars.
A more probable route to growth would be to attract new and young fans to the game. A team established in London would be well placed to appeal to the 40,000 kids in the UK who have taken up the game at the last count. Even then, any franchise hoping to return investment will require a mass conversion of the casual Super Bowl viewer into a committed season-ticket holder who wears the latest jersey and drinks out of the official mug.
Another stumbling block is the mere logistics of locating a team on another continent. Teams who play in London at the moment don't play the following week so they can recover from the travel. Although it has been mooted that overseas teams could play games in blocks, the sheer distance remains a key hurdle that has thwarted plans to export other profitable global sporting brands like the English Premier League.
There also needs to be significant financial incentives to convince US players to relocate half way around the world to a country and pay considerably higher tax for the privilege. This is just not something that the NFL system of salary capping currently accommodates.
So, while the concept seems to be inching closer to the goal line, five years out from the NFL's target, fundamental questions around how a UK-based franchise would work remain unanswered. As things stand, David, rather than Odell, will remain the most famous Beckham in Britain for some time yet.


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Wondering why Saudi Arabia is so fussed about Bahrain?
JBC Energy encapsulates the reason in one helpful chart:
Most of Saudi Arabia's chief producing fields are right around the corner.
As the analysts noted on Wednesday (our emphasis):
While stability in Libya is seemingly still far away, the market is now also eying countries like Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia more closely. With King Abdullah in the latter generously allocating financial aid, stability in OPEC's largest oil exporter seems to be more bought than fundamentally established. It is true that the country has a high per capita GDP rate close to $18,000 (IMF) but the major problem is similar to other countries in the region: "the majority of the Arab population is under 25 and the unemployment rate for young adults is in most countries 20% or more" Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal Al Saud put in an article in New York Times last week.
The billionaire nephew of the Saudi King warns: "unless Arab governments adopt radically different policies, their countries will very likely experience more political and civil unrest". The recent unrest in Bahrain is therefore of particular importance for Saudi Arabia as the small country is surrounded by the vast majority of Saudi oil production (see map). Consequently, unrest in this region can have fatal consequences for the world. If stock market sentiment can be taken as a sounding board for the region then the 7% plunge yesterday on the Saudi stock exchange can be interpreted as a sign of waning trust.
And it's worth pointing out as Saudi Arabia's benchmark index continues to slide.
As Reuters noted on Wednesday:
Saudi Arabia's index <.TASI> plunges to a fresh 22-month low on renewed selling pressure as investors bet on increased political risk in the kingdom. Banks are hardest hit. Al-Rajhi Bank <1120.SE> falls 6.3 percent, Samba Financial Group <1090.SE> drops 7.7 percent, while Banque Saudi Fransi <1050.SE> and Riyad Bank <1010.SE> each drop 7.3 percent. Saudi Arabia's index <.TASI> falls 4.4 percent to 5,293 points, taking its losses to 15.5 percent this week, with Wednesday the final day's trading of the week.
So there you go.
Related links:
Revolution in the Gulf states – Current Intelligence
Saudi contagion shivers – FT Alphaville


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everyday magic: on knitting for dear ones and articulating gender politics
with everyday magic volume ii: open-hearted, i debuted a bit of a shift in my knitwear models - my dear one, bryce, wears two of the three patterns. i chose him for a few reasons, some of which are really complex, others of which feel like second nature, but basically it boiled down to this:
- using only myself for photos gets tricky, especially for certain kinds of items (although i'm getting better at them, but it's still more enjoyable to spend a shorter period of time getting a bunch of good shots rather than spending an hour twisting myself into a pretzel for semi-focused shots)
- i'm very bad at a) asking for help b) having the patience to rearrange my packed schedule to accommodate others' similarly packed schedules and c) feeling comfortable asking someone for something that i then need to rely on them for
- i'm a femme and style things as such, which means i inevitably get people asking why i don't design "things for men". that's the primary topic of this post.
so to quickly address the first two points, it's particularly tricky to get photos of your own feet and hands. this has definitely improved with my new camera body and its flip screen, but it's still a hell of a lot easier to stay behind the camera and shoot someone else's extremities in multiple clear but interesting angles. and when you do a photoshoot with someone else, it's not just 20 or 30 or 50 minutes with your camera in your studio. it's a social occasion, and i like to use it as such. but i don't always have time to work around other people's schedules when i'm on a tight turnaround, and when people are helping me out, i'm also not going to be a jerk and be upset with them for having their own priorities. working with bryce is easy because i'm always happy to prioritize time with him (unlike how my anxiety likes to remind me with most people of every single minute i'm not "working" while we catch up after the shoot over smoothies or coffee or whisky), and i can always trust him to communicate exactly what he can or can't accommodate which makes it a lot easier for me to schedule the rest of my time accordingly, and he's willing to put up with my ridiculousness while i get the shots that i want.
as for the last note, he's also a masculine-of-centre fella. a fella who photographs nicely, which is convenient for me (although we always end up with a solid roll of bloopers which i enjoy for other reasons, re: cackling after the fact). and a fella who has a very different natural style from me, so for all those people who don't live in queer non-binary world all the time, and even for those who do, he's a solid contrast to me if i choose to model the exact same thing.
so here's the thing about "menswear" and "womenswear": i think both are bullshit, because i think the gender binary is bullshit. if you want to wear a thing and you feel happy in it, you should wear it. end of story. unfortunately, that's not how the world works, and our society is so heavily impacted by toxic masculinity that restricts everyone (including masculine-identifying people), the idea of challenging that especially with anything femme/feminine can sometimes mean violence against your person. so i get it. i get that some people are never exposed to the concept of gender as a social construct or being a spectrum, and i get how that can manifest in feeling frustrated because you have a person you really love in your life who has a more masculine style and it feels like there are severely limited options for knitting them something they'll love.
in my mind, the patterns from the everyday magic collections hold two purposes: one is to make beautiful items for yourself, and the other is to make beautiful items for the people you love fiercest. i've talked before about making being my love language, and i think a lot of us can relate to that. since i know that anything i put on my body will automatically look more femme, i rely on bryce to show how those same items can be worn by people with a more masculine presentation. our gender identities and presentations are all valid and beautiful, and none should be held above any others as being better or more legitimate. i love being inspired by the masculine people in my life to come up with designs i wouldn't have automatically thought of for myself. i would never want to deprive those people of designs that are thoughtful and detailed and creatively rich just because they are handsome rather than beautiful. they are equally deserving, and masculine makers are equally deserving of patterns they want to make for themselves.
pamela wynne's wonderful e-book handsome is what got me thinking about how to articulate this, and i'm so grateful to pamela and to hélène for connecting us because the timing of this is perfect.
everyday magic volume iii: burn it down comes out on june 24, and bryce will be wearing all three designs. he and i could easily swap any of the patterns in this collection and wear them well in everyday life, and probably we'd just style them a little differently. i hope you find something that makes you feel like your best self in this collection, and if not, don't worry, there are so many options out there and you can do whatever makes you feel best.


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AgilOne has made a data management platform available that integrates into its customer intelligence platforms. With its new version, it has added predictive tools to take on the marketing cloud. The custom tools offer the ability to personalize Web pages, email, search and Facebook, as well as direct physical mail. It also improves the platform's API features to collect mobile data, and integrate into call centers and point-of-sale systems.
Predictive marketing analytics is about crunching numbers. The explosion of data brought marketers a new type of analytics tool, although the technology isn't new. Other industries have used predictive analytics for years, but not predictive marketing analytics. The electronics industry has used predictive analytics to predict the number of components it needs to manufacture smartphones and other hardware in specific regions. It's about crunching numbers from a variety of data from email to social to search and beyond.
IGIGI CEO Alex Brodsky said the company, which designs and manufactures clothing for women, has been using the AgilOne platform for about 1.5 years for reporting and product development. The reporting provides information on product sales, such as how many people were interested in a particular style, size and color, as well as how many people bought the item in the past two months compared with the prior two months. Now it plans to use the platform to design and serve content, as well as creating dynamic catalog pages. The next step will be creating dynamic emails, which IGIGI will begin testing next month.
The more knowledge that is available about the buyer, the more optimized content, ads and Web pages. And the more that is known about the buyer, the more sophisticated the targeted message and successful the campaign will be.
As for AgilOne, the company is getting attention from those most familiar with predictive marketing. In January, Brett Queener, president and chief operating officer of SmartRecruiters and former executive vice president and general manager of the Salesforce.com Marketing Cloud, and Phil Mui, executive vice president, chief technology and product innovation officer at Acxiom, joined AgilOne's advisory board.


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Cricket Revolution is an independently video game, and it is the first commercialized video installment developed by Pakistan. It is the multiplayer gameplay based on the sport of cricket. This game focuses on a online community system serving detailed cricket stats for gamer through internet play in addition to a LAN based and offline component.There is another version of the installment uploaded before, You can get the download link of Ashes Cricket 2013.
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How To Install?
- Download both parts completely
- After downloading the file, extract it with Winrar
- After extraction open the folder
- Play and enjoy
- That's it
This is the way of installation and I hope this is very easy, just install this version with these instruction and no one can stop you playing it.


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A blog about animals including wildlife, horses, dogs, cats, and other domestic animals, as well as the artwork I create from them.
Apr 28, 2012
Site Update and New Print Service
I've recently updated my website, as some of you may have noticed. I added more menu options to make it easier to navigate, I hope. You can browse by subject, look at just prints, or view only originals for sale. I've also switched my print service from ImageKind to Fine Art America. Not that there was anything wrong with ImageKind's print quality. It was excellent. I've just decided that FAA offers a better preview quality of the artwork, has better community interaction, and an interface that's easier to use for both seller and buyer. The good news for you is that FAA also gives me the opportunity to offer you more size options on some images. If your order a print from FAA I'd love to hear how your purchase experience was. Please let me know. You can leave a comment here or email me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Apr 23, 2012
A New Start
It's been a while since I posted last. A lot has been going on. During the winter we bought a new house, sold our other one, and I've been busy with all that goes with that, moving, and getting settled in the new place. I was also busy at work and was working longer hours. Not much time for painting in the last several months. But that all changed on April 2. The company I was working for shut down. Everyone was laid off, including myself. This is not necessarily a bad thing. I've been wanting to get back to doing my wildlife art full-time for a long time but had a hard time justifying leaving a good paying job to go back to being what most view as a "starving artist". How do you tell people you want to quit a good paying job with benefits to struggle to make half as much money doing art, with no benefits? There's a lot of social/societal pressure, as well as one's own financial fears, to keep the "secure" day job. Well, my day job wasn't so secure after all, was it? So now I'm at a cross roads and I intend to get back on the road I detoured from years ago, the road of being a full-time wildlife artist. So you should all see a lot more activity on this blog, and more new paintings, in the coming months. Wish me luck! :)
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This is Part 1 of a 6 Part Series on the Tasks of Mourning by J. William Worden. But don't worry, this doesn't mean YOU have to do more work. I believe that your psychological immune system is already hard at work doing these tasks without your help. (Disclaimer: That is not how Dr. Worden presents them, it's how I think of them!!).Task I: Accepting the Reality of the Loss
It seems straight forward, right? You know he's dead or you were with her when she died. But even when it happens and you witness it with your own eyes, there is this weird feeling like it didn't happen. That truth that he or she actually died is so shocking to our system that our psyche has a hard time making it real.


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So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. – Will Rogers
It has been an exciting few weeks leading up to our second annual Campeche Ladies Conference. Along with baby's arrival, and a visit from Grandpapa, there were gift bags to pack, handouts to print, materials to package, menus to plan, decorations to make, sessions to write and many many other organizational tasks.
Continuing on from last year's theme: Women for God, this year our topic was the power of words, and specifically the power and impact of our words on the lives and hearts of those around us. And, of course, we used a parrot for our mascot and decorations.
It was a wonderful weekend, good food, good fellowship with friends and sisters in Christ, and good lessons from the Word of God. I wrote a full report and included more pictures on our ministry website, if you'd like to see more, click here.
If you're interested in studying what God says about our words, I'd recommend {affiliate link} The Power of a Woman's Words by Sharon Jaynes. (Spanish title: El Poder de tus palabras). This book was a great help to me as I studied this topic for myself in preparation to teach the conference.
Our next ladies conference will be March 7, 2015. We're looking forward to a lovely tea party time together studying God's Word with Mrs. Susan Bixby, and we would love for you to come!


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That black and white tie jumpsuit
"3 reasons why I love two piece outifts. They are: (1) Versatile; (2) Economical; (3) Practical.
- VERSATILE: I'm allowed to be creative as I mix and match different pieces. I'm challenged to find different ways I can wear a piece and what I can pair it with. It also causes me to push fashion boundaries by discovering innovative ways to wear a piece.
- ECONOMICAL: With social media, it is hard for women to get away with wearing the same outfit more than once thereby forcing them to buy a new outfit each time they have a very special event to attend. However, with two piece outfits anything is possible and you can get away with wearing the same piece but with a different twist. It saves you money and you end up getting your money's worth for that outfit - something else I love by the way 😉. (P.S. trying a different hairstyle and makeup also makes an outfit appear different).
- PRACTICAL: Living through four seasons a year can be a pain when it comes to clothes. I find myself with a limited amount of time to wear my summer clothes. I won't mention winter because all I can think about during the winter season is surviving the cold. With two piece outfits I can find practical ways to wear the same piece in the scorching heat or blistering cold. I can also add a second piece to a one piece outfit for the same effect. e.g Wearing a blazer with a dress.
These 3 reasons are why I was very happy to combine my seemingly one piece jumpsuit (a gift from my amazingly generous friend, Noma) with a crisp white shirt and tie. I previously wore this jumpsuit in the Summer and I felt like wearing it again but knew it would be too bare for the Fall. BOOM! It hit me. Wear a shirt and make it a two piece. One word. AWESOOOMMEEE!!!!" Photographed by Nancy K.
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So happy I came in contact with these gems! Not only do they come from Oil city, but they truly value photography. When we sat down to talk about their day, I got excited thinking of all the many locations in Banff to photograph. From working with the mountains to shooting in downtown.. I had endless ideas flowing. And they made sure to put aside A lot of time in their wedding for the formal photos, which meant I could take them to various locations without rushing things *A photographers Perfect Scenario!*
Now, this wedding wasn't short of a few hiccups, including the weather network predicting down pour throughout the day.. BUT it all came perfectly together on the day! No downpour, no need for covering, just a photographer in absolute heaven working with a gorgeous couple and breathtaking backdrop. I think you will agree that it was the perfect day for these lovebirds...
For formals we took some shots at the Cascade Gardens, headed down to Lake Minnewanka {my personal favorite} and finished off in the heart of downtown Banff! Love the mix of shots we captured <3 Beautiful bouquets & boutonnières were provided by the talented, Flowers By Janie. LOVED the arrangements!!!
Reception took place at the Banff Park Lodge and it was arranged beautifully with many little personal touches for the B&G.
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text: Painting is a misleading word because it is actually much more than it sounds. It's a way of deconstructing the entire structure of what one considers to be reality and looking at it very closely. It becomes impossible to maintain the illusion that one knows anything whatsoever. What is a cloud? What is it? We are taught what things are but in painting I find the closer I look the more mysterious it becomes. From the ground clouds look almost solid, as though you could walk on one. But if you fly through a cloud, that which appeared solid from far away reveals itself to be completely spacious and without any identifying features whatsoever. It is simply a subtle shift of tones. To be in the middle of a cloud is to be inside of a deep mystery.


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When it comes to writing a story, I am extremely visual. I need to often see a picture of something to be able to describe it with enough detail that it is believable for the reader....so the reader knows what I am talking about. So, many times I have had to research things online (Thank you internet!). It is one reason I have a real hard time working without internet. Sometimes I am mid-scene and need to look something up right that second...I need a visual.
When I was writing Karma Kameleon, I needed a really fabulous wedding dress for Lexi, my MC. I am not a wedding gown designer, so for me to just come up with a fabulous dress in my head would be extremely hard. So instead I went online and looked up dress designers (Lexi would never wear something un-designer from like David's Bridal or something! LOL!) And I found the perfect dress that Lexi would so pick out for herself. I described the dress in my MS and having the designers description right there helped too.
Last week I was writing a scene for my current work in progress and there was a scene with a little bit of BDSM. So not my thing....so I really knew NOTHING. And after viewing a few BDSM shopping sites, I am even more confident in knowing it is just not for me...in my writing, or in real life! LOL! Kudos to those who like it...it's just not me. But anyway, it helped to see pictures of things to be able to describe them.
And then today, I am writing an engagement ring shopping scene. I obviously know what a ring looks like...I have my own. But mine is very simple...a solitaire. My character would not want a simple solitaire. So I Googled engagement rings. I kind of had an idea of what I was looking for, and found it on a site. It helped to have a picture in front of me as I wrote the scene.
So, sometimes research can be really really fun...like ring and dress shopping!! And really really informative, like BDSM toy shopping. Just another great thing about being a writer!!
Monday, November 28, 2011
All in the name of research
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What did we do before the internet? You might have had some interesting times if you would have had to research those ideas in person.ReplyDelete
LOL!!!!! So true!!!!! I love the internet!! everything you need is right at your finger tips! Thanks for stopping by!ReplyDelete
I always worry I'll be caught up in some crime and police will take my computer and find out all the websites I've visited. Serial murders, blood spatter technology, crime scene clean up, interrogations.... I can just imagine trying to explain, "Really, officer! It was just for researching my book!"ReplyDelete
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This week we learned political arguments over Facebook are bad for a number of reasons, one of which being they can end in gun violence. One man tried to stop his wife asking for money constantly by faking his own death. Turns out it was neither smart or effective after the news media in his home country tracked him down. If your ever in a fight and your opponent ask you to hold something, don't do it cause it could be a hand grenade! And finally, one woman in Australia wants to have ghost babies with her ghost boyfriend. Fingers crossed I get invited to the shower cause I have so many questions this week on Earth Oddity!
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OtisAir a Fresh Approach
Testament to the company's exceptional growth in recent years, OtisAir's new business premises showcase their design and installation expertise and set the stage for continued expansion.
Words by Natasha Were.
Fresh, bright and welcoming, the new premises for air-conditioning and refrigeration specialists OtisAir are a world away from their previous home – a dusty little industrial unit on Sleepy Hollow Drive – and a far more fitting base for such an innovative, forward thinking business.
For General Manager, Sean Hill, there was no need for the public face of the HVAC industry to be messy and oily, so instead they built themselves new offices and a warehouse that are slick, contemporary and - needless to say - cool.
"We've come a long way in four years," says Hill of the company, "and this building represents everyone's hard work and success. This is our home for the future."
Designed by Kariba and built by Arch and Godfrey, the facility comprises of a 10,000 square foot warehouse and 5,000 square feet of office space, all of which is highly insulated and energy efficient.
Decorated in lime greens and gun-metal greys and furnished with contemporary seating and desks, the office space was conceived to provide staff with a pleasant, upbeat environment to work in and, with the company poised to expand into other Caribbean markets, the ability to accommodate their future needs with training rooms and a boardroom.
The building is also the ideal showcase for their work: OtisAir designed and installed their own low-consumption, inverter-driven air conditioning system, the building management systems, access control and security, and thanks to the modern industrial aesthetic with exposed pipes and ductwork, clients can see both the quality of workmanship and the range of equipment used, for themselves. Contractors too can now go straight to the service counter to purchase equipment and materials and seek advice.
The warehouse meanwhile is equipped with a sophisticated inventory software system enabling them to locate any part easily, and provides space to keep a huge stock of parts, equipment and materials on island, to efficiently serve the large commercial buildings that are the core of their business. The Watercolours, Butterfield Place, Caribbean Club, Cayman Corporate Centre, Bayshore Mall and the DMS building are just some of OtisAir's commercial clients.
OtisAir's focus on providing premier service is particularly evident in their hurricane-proofing. The entire facility is raised 10 feet above sea level, built with hurricane rated doors and windows, and the warehouse can accommodate the company's entire fleet of vehicles so that in the event of a storm, they can be on the road and operational again in record time.
Although OtisAir has been offering refrigeration and air-conditioning services since 1993, the turning point for OtisAir came in 2012 when the company was awarded the Linc Service franchise. As a Linc Service Contractor the company was able to dramatically expand its commercial division, thanks to the franchise's proactive, preventative approach
to maintenance.
In contrast to traditional maintenance models, where service providers profit from breakdowns and equipment failure, a Linc Service Contractor offers all-inclusive maintenance agreements, whereby they assume the risk on equipment and thus maintain it to the highest of standards. This extends the life span of the equipment and ensures its continued smooth operation whilst reducing operating costs for business owners.
OtisAir also offer a unique retrofit consulting service, which includes energy modelling, equipment replacement and ROI packages, tailored to specific building requirements.
In August 2018 OtisAir received the Linc Service Contractor of the Year award for the fourth consecutive year – an impressive achievement considering it was up against some 200 other Linc contractors around the world, many with several hundred employees. With such a track record, it should be no surprise that OtisAir has already opened a branch in Jamaica, and has set its sights on spreading its HVAC maintenance service model throughout the region.
For more info about A/C sales and services contact, Visit: www.otisair.ky Call: 345.945.7167
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Oxycontin [package insert]. Stamford, CT: Purdue Pharma L.P.;2007 November.
Roxicodone Tablet [package insert]. Newport, KY: Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals, Inc.;2006 March.
Roxicodone Tablets, Oral Solution and Liquid Concentrate [package insert]. Newport, KY: Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals, Inc.;2006 February.
Food and Drug Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. Electronic orange book: approved drug products with therapeutic equivalence evaluations. FDA Web site. Available at: http://www.fda.gov/cder/ob/. Accessed March 3, 2009.
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I don't usually respond to comments on my posts, or get defensive about people who challenge or contradict my advice - but in cases where someone is telling my audience that my advice is "quite misinformed" and not to take or spread it, then goes on to share misinformation themselves, I think I have a responsibility to respond. I have also turned off replies from people I don't follow, because I would prefer not to have information attached to my content that I don't stand behind.
From a reply to my post about herpes:
As someone who actually has herpes and a former sex worker, this answer is actually quite misinformed. I have attempted to message the person and advise them otherwise, but it is all blocked off or there is extreme limitations. Do not reblog this. You need to speak to a sexual health doctor. Most regular doctors dont take herpes seriously. There is also no test for herpes. You can only get tested once you have an outbreak. (You can be blood tested, however most doctors will tell you it is not possible) additionally, it is also extremely painful especially for women, meaning every time you urinate, you pee acid all over the sores. I have gone to the toilet and screamed in complete agony. I've gone to doctors who just laugh at me and refuse to help me because there is "nothing else they can do."Also, condoms and antiviral medication do not prevent the spread of herpes, as i have infected my own husband while using both. Additionally, you are mistreated, bullied and abused by people and the media for having herpes. Partners leave over it, some people even refuse to be your friend. Its horrible. As someone in a polyamorous relationship, you need to seek advice from a sexual health clinic, and preferably avoid herpes out of respect for your husbands health :)
First: It is quite easy to contact me through the two channels I have available: messaging me via tumblr or emailing me at polyamoryadvice at gmail dot com. It is impossible to contact the people who message me through my blog, because I publish everything anonymously. This is how almost all advice columns work.
Second: I explicitly say "this is something you need to talk to a healthcare provider about." I am not sure what you mean by "sexual health doctor" - but my answer includes recommendations for Planned Parenthood and "a sexual health clinic." I also said that the person with herpes might need to do extra legwork to find the right healthcare professional. I believe I provided safe, useful information about whether the people in question should see a doctor, and what kind of doctor.
Third: There absolutely is a test for herpes when there are no symptoms. It is a blood test. You can read about it here and here. This blood test is not part of the standard STI screening, but it is entirely possible for this person who is concerned about her possible exposure to herpes to request that test. Please do not tell people that there is no test for herpes - I stand by my continued stance that poly people should get frequent STI screenings.
Fourth: Condoms and antiviral medication do help prevent the spread of herpes. Condoms are not 100%, but they reduce the risk, especially when it comes to preventing women from getting the virus from male partners. While antiviral drugs are not a 100% sure bet, they are effective at reducing the risk of transmission. You can read about one study here. I am sorry to hear that your husband got the virus from you - but one anecdote is not a good reason to disavow advice about safe, effective, and useful methods like barriers and medications.
Fifth: I believe I did advise the person writing me to "preferably avoid herpes." They asked me for tips about preventing risk to their other partners, and for advice about disclosure within the network, and I did my best to give them that advice. I try to answer the questions people ask, not push them toward what I think is best for them from my perspective. I do not believe it is my place to tell this person to immediately cease their relationship with their partner who has herpes.
Sixth: I am sorry to hear that you have faced bullying and abuse. Herpes is unfortunately stigmatized in today's society. I tried to do my part to fight that stigma in my column by treating herpes not as a death knell for that relationship or a Terrible Monster To Be Afraid Of, but a medical concern approachable with the right healthcare and communication. I did mention that the partner with herpes might need to take some extra effort to find the right doctor. I linked the OJST comic on herpes because I think it does a good job breaking down some of the myths, and the article on asymptomatic testing because it also discusses the anxiety and stigma surrounding herpes. But the person writing to me did not ask about the potential consequences of contracting herpes, and I feel like I would have actually contributed to the stigma by focusing on the fear aspect when it wasn't mentioned in the original letter.


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#1 Who does not love Wine Storage?
Think about storing your prized wine in the Kitchen island with a wine cooler for the whites and an open rack for the reds. Housing this at the end of the island works better as it becomes easily accessible and it is visible clearly to guests too who can point out which one they would like to taste.
#2 Pull Out Basket Storage
Country style basket storage makes the island experience nostalgic and at the same time allows to stow away all your root vegetables and produce is a stylish way while making sure they get enough air to keep them fresh and dry. The basket weave also adds texture and color to the cabinetry finish & style. Storage in this way can not only be for vegetables but can also be for storing bread loafs, daily cutlery, plates, napkins as well as spice bottles.
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We all love to own cookbooks but many a times we do not know how & where to put them away. Kitchen island storage of seems an easy and convenient option to store away cookbooks as they are not in the way of prime cabinet area storage but near enough to access when needed. Storing them at the island also allows our guests to peek in and take interest in our book collection while we are busy cooking and chatting.
#4 Housing a Microwave Oven
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Forming the future – Youth Night volunteer
We are looking for friendly, pro-active and engaging volunteers to support our weekly Youth Night who can make a difference to the often challenging lives of children and young people living in inner city London. As a Youth Night volunteer you will enable us to provide more opportunities for our youth to have fun, learn and be active members of their community in a safe and nurturing environment.
Thursday Youth Night – 4-6.30pm for 8-12yrs, 6-9pm for 12-19yrs
Flexible and fun sessions for young people ages 8-12 years and 12-19ys provide a safe and friendly space to do homework, sport and games, outdoor activities, arts and crafts, cookery, and workshops and provide a healthy meal. Your time will make a huge impact on young people who need positive adult role models.
You will support young people to run their own projects and organise trips, building their confidence, skills and self-esteem.
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- Help tidy up and debrief after the session
- Plan for future sessions
- Be vigilant to any safeguarding or health and safety concerns and flag them up with the appropriate staff member as soon as possible.
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Travel expenses will be reimbursed with provision of receipts
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To apply please download the registration form and volunteer application form from our website and return this to firstname.lastname@example.com. Alternatively, please contact Laura for an application form and chat about the role. All volunteers working with children and young people will need to provide 2 references, be wiling to complete a DBS check and safeguarding training.
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