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Imagine the typical "surf film" — it features a handful of celebrity and/or very young pro surfers, idyllic tropical locations, and extreme surfing mashed together with radical adventures in driving, partying and beautiful women. The soundtrack is loud and continuous. "Energy" drinks are consumed. This film is perfect surfers, surfing perfect waves, in perfect exotic locations. These elements are repeated on screen for up to 45 minutes (or longer in its worst versions). Corporate sponsor logos and the latest board shorts are prominently featured in slouchy "lifestyle" scenes. Cut to images of fishing, underwater reefs, sunshine and trees. Excited soundbites emit from the mouths of pumped up dudes. Thanks to modern wetsuit technology these days, the idyllic tropics are sometimes replaced by an exotic snow covered surf destination. Very little, if any, character development occurs in the film. We learn nothing about the "stars" in what is essentially a sports highlights reel. We watch them surf perfect waves, perfectly, to the tune of loud and repetitive music, until the credits roll. Occasionally there is a funny skit. No narrative. No plot. No story arc. Nothing changes. Just surfing with a decidedly pornographic nature.
I'm sure you'll agree that surfing is so much more than this. Most surfers I know are deeply nuanced characters with an incredible perspective on life. Some are addicts or criminals while others are saints or hard working mortals, but all have spectacular and real stories to tell. Surfing and our coastal experience are not a "lifestyle" to be exploited on screen by clothing companies. Surfing is a relationship with nature, sometimes frightening, often exhausting, occasionally glorious, always inspiring. Surfing sometimes reeks of urban pollution and floating trash and at other times it has the aroma of tropical flowers and fresh water.
Surfing is our constantly evolving experience with a vast power – the ocean – that is infinitely more powerful and full of life than anything we are as individuals. And yet… and yet… after 50 years of surf filmmaking, our films still do not show us this. In fact, I believe things have gone downhill since the original Endless Summer was made in the 1960s. And Hollywood? After countless attempts they still haven't even gotten close. Instead, we are bombarded with neon logos and the latest "style." We are told "the future is now" and "youth is real" or a dozen other meaningless yet catchy statements.
However, there is a grassroots movement afoot that is vastly improving the "surf film." Artists, athletes, writers and ocean scientists are collaborating to create a new style of surf film. Surf film festivals all over the world get better and more numerous every year. This inspired us in 2009 to create Save The Waves Film Festival. In 2009 Save The Waves Film Festival hosted eco-pirate Captain Paul Watson who introduced the powerful and controversial film "The Cove" to a packed theatre in San Francisco. In 2010 we held the world premiere of "Chasing the Swell" — an honest journalistic look into the hard world of big wave surfing through the eyes of Los Angeles Times video journalist Sachi Cunningham. In 2011 we hosted Keith Malloy and his brothers for the San Francisco premiere of "Come Hell or High Water" — a genre-busting bodysurf film in which not a single surfboard was ever seen. This year "STWFF" seeks to continue this run of unique films by traveling on the road to three California cities in November – Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz and San Francisco – and we are looking to exhibit new, provocative, eco-surf-documentary-adventure films.
Save The Waves Film Festival is excited to announce the official 2012 call for film entries for its fourth annual film festival. Save The Waves Film Festival is a one-night film festival event featuring documentary surf films, ocean activist campaigns, live music, and honored guests of the ocean world that highlight the environmental and human elements of surfing, ocean conservation, and the coastlines we know and love.
Save The Waves Film Festival is not restricted by film genre; however, we encourage filmmakers to explore unique and personal stories that link surfing and the environment, environmental activism, surf culture and the cultural value of waves and surfing. We encourage and welcome submissions that explore all aspects and angles of surfing, coastal environmentalism, and cutting-edge artistry from documentary to animation to engaging, experimental and unique works of ocean-inspired art. Narratives with a captivating story line and engaging content are encouraged and sought after. We discourage films of a pornographic nature, including what is known in the insular world of the surf-industrial complex as "surf porn."
Aspiring filmmakers from all walks of life should visit savethewaves.org/filmfestival to learn more about the film festival, read the festival rules and guidelines, and submit a short or feature length film. The deadline for film submissions to Save The Waves Film Festival 2012 is August 31, 2012. A $20 film submission fee and a completed film submission form is required along with 2 copies of your film on DVD. These documents and all information are available to read and download at our website. Filmmakers can submit films early and often.
Help us abolish corporate surf porn, and usher in a new wave of inspired surf films! The complete Save The Waves Film Festival guidelines, rules, application information and the film submission form can be found at savethewaves.org/filmfestival


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Coaching models are frameworks which support our intuitive powers and our coaching skills. I have included in this section the increasingly well-known theory of emotional intelligence, or EQ, as best-selling author Daniel Goleman put it. Emotional intelligence runs through coaching and leadership like the writing through the proverbial stick of rock; it is both the foundation stone and the result, employed in the techniques and delivered by them.
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- 3. Coaching models
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- Released: October 2011
Subject Overview
To best implement coaching's essential skills, it helps to have a model, or framework. Having a sound coaching process will help you share information, insight, and suggestions to help your employees be more successful.
You'll learn four models:
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- The Five O's Model
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Regarded as the DNA of coaching, the GROW model provides the foundation for all others. Learn to quantify – and apply – your emotional intelligence through this model.
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Are you interested in a particular career path, such as Public Affairs, Campaigning, Lobbying, but you are unsure how to get relevant experience in the sector? Or would you like to know what the necessary steps are to take, in order to achieve your career goal?
KEW-NET is an online mentoring service, set up by the Careers and Employability Service. This online mentoring network allows you to connect with students and graduates who are ready to share their experience and knowledge. From discussing job applications, CV's, to finding work placement and internship opportunities, KEW-NET is a fantastic tool to network and receive career support from a mentor.
How does it work? KEW-NET is simple to set up, taking less than 10 minutes! All you need to do is register here: https://secure2.aluminati.net/kent.aluminate.net/ and once approved, you can log in and create your personal profile. TIP! If you already have a LinkedIN account, you can merge this with your KEW-NET profile to save time.
You can then search for relevant mentors using the filter system. You can search by graduation year, subject, services they offer or even 'key words' such as NGO's or security. When you click on a mentor you can view their profile which details their experience, career, what they can offer and how many mentors they can take on. You can also see if they have previously mentored a student, and you can contact the student first to see what their experience was like, if you wish. If you find someone you think could be a suitable match, either message them first or send them a mentoring request. KEW-NET has it's own message facility, so you can contact them directly through your account.
So why use it? KEW-NET is a valuable tool to network, making new business connections with people in the industry. Not only can you receive guidance and support, work/internship opportunities may arise through your mentors – so you never know where it may lead!
If you have experience in a particular area you can even sign up to be a mentor yourself!
With over 89 connections in Politics and IR already on KEW-NET, make sure you sign up and get networking!
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This post is my second in a series of three posts dealing with sexual abuse and Christian spirituality. In my first post I talked about ways that certain Christian messages tend to create stumbling blocks for those striving to heal from the trauma of abuse, and I listed a couple of ideas to keep in mind if we want to live and share faith in a way that offers hope and healing to survivors of abuse.
The first had to do with thinking about what messages will actually communicate good news to survivors, and the second talked about reinterpreting God so that God is known as a liberator and not an oppressor.
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3. Recover the sacred feminine.
Just as women may feel estranged from a God that is strictly male, women can also feel divided from the biblical narrative that serves as the foundation of their faith. Exacerbated by English translations, the Bible is predominately androcentric. Most books appear to be written by men for male readers. Most of the leaders and heroes are men. Most of the language is bent around male paradigms. Most honored perspectives result from male experience. And, more recent centuries of acute patriarchal influence have caused common reading and interpretation of the biblical narrative to appear even more male-centered than it already is. Thus, women can have the same problem with the Bible as they have with God. It is at least subconsciously perceived to be a giant source of authority for the system of patriarchy and is therefore "against" women.
But! If God is for women[1] and against patriarchy (note, I say "against patriarchy," not "against men"), then the story of God's relationship with human beings must reflect this also. If the Bible is to be revered as a sacred recording of this relationship it must somehow contain within it the same liberation for women evident in the identity of God. And, assuming that God's relationship extends beyond the pages of this holy book, women must be able to find evidence of God's mission of liberation for women throughout history wherever the true spirit of God resides.
This logical approach doesn't tell women how to find such evidence in the Bible and history. But, it does assure women that despite the attempts of patriarchy to obscure it, such evidence does exist, and women have holy permission to look for it. Thus begins the quest for the sacred feminine.[2]
This quest may lead each person down a different path. Some recover and retell stories of biblical women. Some find encouragement from historical female saints and teachers. Some realize the potential for feminist theology to redefine how the Church shall interpret even the most patriarchal biblical passages. Others, such as Sue Monk Kidd, find God's sacred feminine in Greek mythology, ancient Christian art, Middle Eastern mysticism, and elsewhere.[3]
This third step of recovering the sacred feminine seems important to me so that Christian women are able to own the Christian story as their own and see that they have a place within it.
4. Community.
Up to this point, I have been outlining spiritual components that have more to do with a woman's inward disposition and journey toward faith. But, if we are to be concerned with healing, there is a time to shift toward external components, and this is that time.
Community is essential. The Church is still strongly patriarchal and easily threatened by even the simple notion that God could be imagined as female. If a woman is able to cultivate a spirituality that makes room for women to be a part of God's people, God's mission, and God's story in the world, that woman is going to need a community of support for strength to sustain it.[4] Often, women need to create this community for themselves. Sometimes, they are fortunate enough to fall into its embrace. Hopefully, this will be a community of both women and men, all striving together to model relationships that resist the influence of patriarchy.
This community is a place for support. This is a place for women to go to feel loved, to be reminded that they are not crazy, arrogant or heretical for insisting on their own value. This is a place where women may rest from the perpetual struggle against patriarchy they encounter elsewhere. This is a place where there are others who will speak up on behalf of women so that those who struggle the most will know they are not alone. This is a place where pain and brokenness may be safely shared.
Community is important so that women may have the space needed for healing to continue to deepen and give birth to new life.
Again, I am eager to hear back from the State of Formation community. How do you see patriarchy functioning in your communities of faith? What is most needed in your context in order to heal the wounds of gendered violence and speak a faith that does the same?
More to come!
[1] And, by "for women" I do not mean against men.
[2] Sue Monk Kidd, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter (New York: HarperCollins, 1996)
[3] Sue Monk Kidd and Anne Kidd Taylor, Traveling with Pomegranates (Thorndike Press, 2009)
[4] Ellen Bass and Laura Davis, The Courage to Heal (New York: HarperCollins, 2008)
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I'm writing a script for Howtoons, the hands-on, interactive comic strip for kids by Saul Griffith, Nick and Ingrid Dragotta, and Joost Bonsen. Through clever, age-friendly projects, Howtoons introduces youngsters to principles of technology and science.
With its blend of visual imagery and text, the comic format can be a powerful teaching medium. Unfortunately its potential is often overlooked. I grew up with comics and have never lost my passion for them. As a journalist I interviewed Charles Schulz, Al Capp, Stan Lee, and Chester Gould.
My Howtoons script features the exploits of Archimedes, the great mathematician and inventor. I want it to be a fun introduction to physics and science history. Hopefully kids will learn without realizing they're learning.
Archimedes has fascinated me since grade school, and clearly I'm not alone. My colleagues at the Exploratorium in San Francisco recently produced a live Webcast on the discovery of one of his lost manuscripts.


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Please visit Adam Sullivan's website at www.sullivanforcongress.net and sign up to help get the thousands of signatures needed between now and July 10th to put him on the ballot to challenge Jerry Nadler who is blocking impeachment on the Judiciary Committee despite the torture, murder, lying and spying that the Bush administration is perpetrating on this country and the world.
The Democrats are largely sleepwalking as our Constitution is trampled to bits. Please help!
There are groups of people going out together to get signatures on Manhattan's West Side and in parts of Brooklyn in Nadler's 8th Congressional District. Invite your friends, family and colleagues! If each of you filled up one petition, we could swamp the opposition with signatures, enough to avoid a costly legal challenge, which the Nadler campaign will mount if we don't get thousands of signatures, although only 1250 valid signatures are required.


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Oral history interviews. Geophysics and Oceanography: Warm Core Rings (WCR), 1992-1994.
Interviews were conducted with members of the project's collaboration using a structured question set covering all stages of in the collaborative research process: the formation of the collaboration and its personnel; the organizational structure; the formation of the experiment teams; the drafting of the proposal; funding for U.S. groups by the National Science Foundation or other U.S. funding agencies; use of subcontractors; development of software for data collection and analysis; the collaboration's decision-making style; role of the Principal Investigators, science management offices, consortia headquarters, advisory groups, and graduates students; impact of internationalism; patterns of communications; records creation, use, distribution, and retention; also, comments on the interviewee's home institution and trends in graduate education in geophysics and oceanography. Interviews (listed by institutional member of the collaboration and by name of individual) were conducted with: Goddard Space Flight Center, Wallops Island: Frank Hoge; Harvard University: James McCarthy; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University: James Bishop; Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Glenn Flierl [transcript not available]; Oregon State University: David Nelson; Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Miami: Othis Brown, Robert Evans; Texas A&M University: David Shink; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Peter Wiebe. Other institutions involved in the collaboration include: Bigelow Laboratory; University of California, Santa Barbara; Dalhousie University; Harvard University; University of Maryland; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; University of Miami; NASA; National Marine Fisheries Service; Naval Post Graduate School; Nova University; and the University of Rhode Island.
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This safe is for storing valuables.
- The definition of safe is free from risk, danger, harm or damage.
An example of safe used as an adjective is the phrase "safe haven," which means a place where people can go if there is an emergency.
- Safe is defined as a storage place for valuables, usually locked and made of metal.
An example of a safe is a locker.
adjectivesaf′er, saf′est
- free from damage, danger, or injury; secure
- having escaped danger or injury; unharmed
- giving protection
- involving no risk, often, specif., because well-founded: it's safe to say his recklessness will get him in trouble some day
- trustworthy
- no longer dangerous; unable to cause trouble or damage: safe in jail
- taking no risks; prudent; cautious: said of persons
- Baseball having reached a base without being put out
Origin of safeMiddle English sauf from Old French from Classical Latin salvus, akin to salus, health, sound condition from Indo-European base an unverified form solo-, whole, well-preserved from source Classical Greek holos, whole, Sanskrit sarva, unharmed, whole
- a container or box, capable of being locked and usually of metal, in which to store valuables
- any compartment, box, etc. for storing food, etc.: a meat safe
- Slang a condom
Origin of safealtered (after the adj.) < earlier save < save
adjectivesaf·er, saf·est
- a. Free from danger or injury; undamaged or unhurt: He returned from the voyage safe and sound.b. Not exposed to the threat of danger or harm: The children were safe at home all through the storm.c. Usable in specified conditions without being damaged. Often used in combination: a microwave safe container.
- Free from risk; not liable to be lost; sure: a safe bet.
- Affording protection: a safe place.
- Baseball Having reached a base without being put out, as a batter or base runner.
- A metal container usually having a lock, used for storing valuables.
- A repository for protecting stored items, especially a cooled compartment for perishable foods: a cheese safe.
Origin of safeMiddle English sauf from Old French from Latin salvus healthy ; see sol- in Indo-European roots.
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West Coast Wines: A Guide to California's Finest Vines
Earthy mushrooms need no wand to magically make a meatless meal a showstopper. Call on an Italian Valpolicella Reserva or a Spanish Rioja Reserva to fill the supporting role.
Pictured Recipe: Rustic Mushroom Tart
More Ideas for Mushrooms:
Baked Polenta with Mushrooms and Warm Portobello Mushroom and Potato Salad
Try These Bottles: Recioto della Valpolicella Amarone and La Rioja Alta Roja Reserva
Looking for something hearty for dinner? Dish out a savory minestrone or lentil soup full of all your favorite veggies. Then reach for a Vino Nobile di Montepulciano or an Italian Dolcetto from the Piedmont region.
Pictured Recipe: Hearty Minestrone Soup
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – A 22-year-old man is recovering in the hospital after being shot in the area of Union Street early Tuesday morning.
Lt. Henry Gagnon of the Springfield Police Department told 22News that officers were sent to 550 Union St. at 3:08 a.m. after their Shotspotter Activation system picked up the noise of gunfire in the area.
At 3:15 a.m. a 22-year-old man arrived at Mercy Medical Center by a private car with gunshot wounds, Lt. Gagnon said.
He was later taken to Baystate Medical Center for further treatment and is expected to survive, Lt. Gagnon said.
It wasn't made clear how many times he was shot.
No description of his assailants was provided to officers, Lt. Gagnon said.
Springfield police officers and detectives could be seen searching the area around 550 Union Street Tuesday morning.
LT. Gagnon said that Detectives are still investigating.
Back in the month of May, Officers found 18-year-old Lenezzia Clarke on the doorstep of 550 Union Street suffering from several gunshot wounds. She died shortly afterwards.
Two others were shot at that same building the same week Clarke was murdered- a 17-year-old boy and a 24-year-old woman. Both survived their wounds. To find more information on those shootings on Union Street click here.


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Local Sports Briefs
Published 6:00 pm, Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Pioneer Track Festival set for Saturday
The 2009 Pioneer Track Festival is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 5 at Hilliard Field on the Wayland Baptist campus. Participants get to enjoy a day of fun and frolic with the WBU track team, including members of the four-time NAIA National Champion Women's Team.
Events start at noon and include fun events like a lime and spoon race, a sack race, an obstacle race, a hoola hoop contest, a 3-legged race, an egg in the basket race, the 800-meter walk and a hot dog eating contest. The featured track races are the 60-, 150-, 300-, 600-, and 800-meter dashes, along with the 1,600-meter relay.
All events will be divided into seven different age groups from 10-and-under to over-50. Exciting door prizes will also be given away.
Softball tourneys scheduled for this weekend
Men's and women's softball tournaments, hosted by the Most Hated traveling team, will be held in Floydada on Saturday and Sunday. Entry fee is $100.
Deadline is noon Friday. Call Dennis at 806-518-8323 or 806-729-4993.
PHS Basketball boosters to hold meeting
The Plainview High School Basketball Boosters will hold a meeting at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the PHS cafeteria.
Haley Schneider commits to play for Tech
Haley Schneider, Monterey High School senior and daughter of former Wayland Flying Queen Jill (Rankin) Schneider, signed a letter of intent to play basketball at Texas Tech Wednesday.
The 6-foot-5 center will be in action at the DogHouse on Friday as the Plainview Lady Bulldogs host the Lady Plainsmen in the Lady Dogs' home opener. The game is scheduled to tip-off at 6:30 p.m.


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So we are back. Last 3 weeks were pretty crazy. First things first. Megan and I got married on July 10th. After couple of years of me bugging her she finally relented. The wedding, house full of polish people and sweet sweet honey moon with my lady 3 weeks off work, worries and biking. Great time for sure Thanks everybody it was great time.
With all this going on there was no biking, just couple of days of hiking. Besides that my last 3 weeks were filled with microbrews, wine and awesome local food both at my parent's house as well as Nor Cali. Oh man who knew food is so good 😀
This obviously didn't play well as far as biking is concerned. It's pretty amazing how fast you can loose your bike fitness (especially when you are a like me and don't have that much to begin with ) Mike Douglas this is your chance of taking me on @ tranquility. Next 5 weeks will be pretty tough with racing every weekend. Some drastic measures had to be done. Two long days in saddle sounded like great idea in my head, well and it was a lesson in getting your butt kicked. Some people have different ways of measuring fitness to me the Applewood rd and Epperson RD in IA are good measuring stick. As suspected the HR was really high and speed was really low… nothing surprising here. But at end of the day it wasn't that bad. Sunday I knew we would be climbing MOD loves climbing, if he says hey lets go for ride you would be wise to leave your single speed behind, I suppose I'm slow learner. Couple of this hills had me going about 5-6 mph. But the tempo was pretty low and got hilly 115-117 route in 8 hours and change.
Predictions for next 3 weekends:
- Sucky race this Sunday
- Don't embarrass yourself in Missouri
- Hopefully have some speed generated to ride with Bonsall for gravel worlds in 3 weeks.
Possible? I think so that should be at least 500-600 miles from today. With some high intensity of WNW ( which will most likely suck for me)


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The story of India's 3 IT biggies
Subir Roy | January 28, 2006
There were three chickens which all laid eggs, says Hrish Bijoor, brand consultant, weaving an allegorical tale. One was shy, one was honest and one was a chicken with hype. All laid an egg each, ordinary looking, whose product quality was identical, say 100. The first made a noise of two decibels, so very few heard of it and came to see it. But with those who did come, it scored 98 plus.
The second was the honest chicken. Its product quality was 100, it made a noise about being 100. Everybody came expecting 100, got 100. The end result was even or neutral, neither positive nor negative. The third chicken, whose egg was of quality 100, made a noise that it was 400, everybody came expecting 400, but got 100, that is minus 300.
If you have not guessed it yet, the first chicken is Tata Consultancy Services, the second is Wipro, and the third is Infosys - the three leading lights of the Indian software industry. They, more than anything else, have put Indian skills on the global map and gained India greater global respectability than it has ever had in its modern history.
The three, by now household names among middle class Indians, represent a fine conundrum. They offer near-identical services of near-identical quality and there is little to distinguish them in the way they meet customer requirements.
But they are so different�-- in age, pedigree and history of growth. Not unexpectedly, in an attempt to differentiate themselves they have followed vastly different marketing strategies and sought to makes themselves into distinctive brands.
TCS is the grandfather of them all. But fascinatingly, "it has been the best-kept secret in the Indian software industry," says Ramanujam Sridhar, marketing expert and CEO of Brand-Comm.
Until it was listed in 2004, TCS cared little about getting itself publicly known and concentrated on its customers. From all accounts it has done a fine job within its chosen focus. It grabbed customers when they were up for grabs but what is more, not only managed to hang onto them but created a relationship it has leveraged to win some of the biggest recent deals.
TCS earlier didn't have a theme, recalls Phaneesh Murthy, CEO of iGate and former Infosys highflier. Its attitude to customers was, 'We will do the work on any model you desire'. It was a leader in size but low in prices. But times are changing. Now the company is becoming more fussy about price and the kind of work it will do. Says Avinash Vashistha, managing director of offshoring consultancy neoIT, "It has been very aggressive in the last year and has put the right people forward. The IPO has made it hungry for the right things. TCS is stable and trustworthy. It has great expertise, a lot to offer and is not charging all that it can."
TCS's current marketing pitch marries its heritage and current hunger for deals. It sees its brand as made up of two parts, says Phiroz Vadrevala, executive vice president. One is the overarching Tata brand that projects trust, integrity, ability to deliver and fairness to all stakeholders.
The second is TCS as the pioneer Indian IT brand. There is some hyperbole in his statement that TCS is "using global expertise to build India by executing nationally oriented projects that are critical as they touch people's lives. The aim is to go global while continuing to serve the country."
But TCS has an unequalled national record. It has executed critical national projects like IT, enabling the NSE, NSDL, SBI (core banking solution), union finance ministry, and department of company affairs. Most recently, it has made a proposal for an IT solution for the national employment guarantee programme, aimed at fighting leakages through the use of IT, and is implementing a pilot for it in two Andhra Pradesh districts.
The other old-timer among the three biggies is Wipro. It was originally into hardware, then systems development and eventually into software. Wipro's IT software story got going in a big way from the mid-nineties when marketing gave support to sales, recalls Jessie Paul, chief marketing officer, Wipro Technologies.
From 1999 onwards, public relations, analyst relations and the website became important and marketing communication secured a role, but the exercise was still sales driven. Branding was still not a conscious function and played no role in marketing. Those were the days of the runup to Y2K and so selling was not really an issue.
In 2001, the need for a brand, and that too a global brand, was realised. This was because the sales pitch had to be increasingly made to the CIO and CEO of firms. Fortunately for Wipro, this exercise had already been done by Sombit Sengupta, strategy and brand consultant. In the late nineties, Wipro came to possess its now famous logo of the rainbow coloured sunflower and the legend "Applying Thought".
The branding exercise changed the company and focused it around IT. The slogan also fitted in nicely and in fact grew out of Wipro's grasp of technology.
Wipro has been driven by technological evolution, triggered by the departure of IBM from India. Its entry into IT services was through R&D services from the mid-eighties. Conventional marketing didn't have much of a role in this. Most of the marketing was done by posing as a peer to the client by saying, 'We also do research'.
Wipro, says Bijoor, has a carefully leveraged image, its orientation is global, pursuing best practices like Six Sigma, an image that has grown out of the Wipro-GE partnership. But it has not tomtommed itself. "The focus of the company emerges from Premji's persona - 'I could be a billionaire but I am this'. The company is showcased in his non-showcased manner. The brand has been spun out well and its mix of people also fits in with it. The misfit persona was Vivek Paul who appeared to be overshadowing Premji."
And thereby hangs a tale. The elevation of Vivek Paul to vice-chairman of Wipro marked a watershed. The company was becoming global and its employee profile was changing. Paul was both a product and architect of the change. Recalls Phaneesh Murthy, from being a company offering engineering services for products, with Paul it became more business applications development oriented.
Then came acquisitions like AMS and Nervewire. This transition from product engineering to business applications is marked by revenues from the former going down from around 55 per cent to a little over 30. Earlier it had hardly any customers in the financial applications space. The changes under Vivek Paul widened and opened the market for the company.
Now the company seems in wait-and-watch mode. After the departure of Vivek Paul, Wipro has gone in for a bit of soul-searching. Says an insider, "We are conducting a study to understand our own pedigree, why we are here and how to distinguish ourselves." Preliminary findings indicate that Wipro believes itself to be a company with high integrity, but not innovation.
Internally, it is seen as made up of good followers, but not having the cutting edge. The exercise is still on but a change in thinking has taken place. "I am not saying it is a revamp, but an exercise in incremental change. We started by saying we must be able to distinguish ourselves from others, but we now feel we are not bothered about others. Our aim is to define our brand and walk it."
Among the three, Infosys was the last to arrive and in chairman NR Narayana Murthy's own words, is "the new kid on the block". The defining moment for the company was the new economic policies initiated in 1991 which removed a lot of the "friction to business" that companies in India faced from the government and allowed MNCs to come into high tech areas.
For a young and small company to compete with MNCs for the right young talent, it had to be different. Narayana Murthy decided to "create a place where youngsters feel happy" and consequently "we were the first company in the software industry that adopted the campus approach. In 1992-93 we took a decision to build a campus for Rs 19 crore (Rs 190 million)�when our revenue was Rs 12 crore (Rs 120 million)." Thus from that time a key marketing strategy for Infosys has been "always believe in doing unusual stuff, and thereby be in a position to secure our future and growth".
In terms of the nuts and bolts of marketing, "Right from the beginning, we realised we had to focus on selling more and more in the marketplace. That's why we hired smart people to sell in our markets in the US, Europe etc. Second, we were the first Indian company in the software industry to create a wonderful global customer meet," calling it Milan, but recently changing to Confluence so people would not get confused with the city of Milan.
As Infosys grew, it realised it had to enhance the confidence of customers, which meant enhancing the confidence of the CEOs and CFOs of your customers. So it argued, "If we get listed on a US stock exchange, and if we're seen in the Wall Street Journal, on CNBC, then they will say, oh yes, this company is here to stay because it is in their marketplace. We were the first Indian company to get listed on Nasdaq (in 1999)."
The next thing Infosys did was to start, with Wharton Business School, an initiative called the Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Award to recognise entrepreneurs and organisations that have leveraged technology to transform corporations, individuals as agents of change and organisations that have transformed themselves. "We coincide this with the alumni conference at Wharton.
After 10-20 years they all become big people. It has tremendous value for Infosys." By doing unusual things "you get written about. More and more people notice you, are likely to join you, work with you, invest in your company. I have always believed you have to do the unusual stuff," affirms Narayana Murthy.
In seeking to be different, the companies have been making competing claims. Says Vandrevala, "TCS was the first Indian IT company to go global and continues to maintain this lead, being the foremost in locating its development centres around the world. It pioneered the global delivery model and was the first to offshore work to India as early as 1988-89." On the other hand Narayana Murthy says, "We were the first company to articulate the concept of the global delivery model and we marketed it well."
There is also a similarity of aims. Vandrevala says, "The challenge that TCS sees before itself is to build a brand synonymous with global brands like IBM and Accenture." But Wipro is not much different. Says Jessie Paul, "Wipro's primary vision is to become one of the world's top three brands in software services. We want to be an engineering-led brand, just as IBM is seen to be strongly into infrastructure management and Accenture in IT services consulting."
Sridhar sums it up by saying that "All three will become very big companies, all will be big brands. Infosys however has an edge as it has great clarity in its PR strategy and has a clearer position. It has worked out what it wishes to communicate and has succeeded in doing so. It has marketed itself extremely well to the media without making tall claims."
Phaneesh Murthy allows a peep into how this marketing exercise was conceived by describing Infosys as "the lotus in the marsh. In a country where business is mostly opaque, Infosys is transparent. You can build a brand from a core or context. Core means the kind of work you do, but this was no different from what the others did. So I chose context.
"One manifestation of this differentiation was to present your annual report in as many GAAPs as possible, including all kinds of information which was not relevant to customers in terms of the software you created for them, but projected a clean company."
He also answers the oft-repeated point that Infosys hypes itself quite a bit. "I cannot agree that there is excessive hype about Infosys. It has never failed to deliver on projects, so where is the hype? If Infosys does something, even if it pays Rs 2, it makes sure everyone comes to know about it. It makes a loud noise but I wouldn't call that hype." Vashistha agrees that Infosys is greater than 100, it offers impeccable service and is also the most expensive - like the Oberoi among hotels.
"When I was working in Nortel, Infosys was one of my clients. I used to say, Infosys is just hyping itself. I never bet on Infosys, but clients always liked it. I thought one day this will end, but interestingly, it has not. I would now compare Infosys to Accenture."
If all three are big and all will grow then is that the end of the matter? Says Sridhar, "There is some confusion about succession in Wipro. TCS has the best clients as well as resources. It is very successful but all three are. Size can't be a differentiator. Wipro tried to take the knowledge high ground but has not succeeded. Ultimately, you have to find a differentiator, like Apple has with iPod."
In marketing themselves, can the three more or less continue to do what they have been doing? Sombit Sengupta looks into the future and asks, "Where is the intangible premium, apart from size? In a monodirectional business commoditisation can happen very easily. The value proposition of low-cost manpower is there today but eventually value will shift to brands. Are Indian IT companies creating big business stars?
The young 19-27-year-olds all want to be stars. They can see a career for themselves in brands like GE and McKinsey. These youngsters are intellectually advanced, highly researched, job flirtatious. Do they see the Indian IT companies as brand stars where they can become rising stars? The intellectual property in these companies, which are facing global competition, is not showcased."
He adds, "When I see Wipro I see a businessman. For TCS the field is wide open. The Tatas have been around for over a hundred years. In that sense TCS is not a baby of the new economy. Bombay House has a spirit of sustaining businesses. Is Narayana Murthy like Anita Roderick of The Body Shop? Many tried to emulate The Body Shop but couldn't, and the company declined after she sold out. Narayana Murthy has created the same philosophy of integrity, corporate governance and excellence in communication as The Body Shop has by projecting a lifestyle."
He recalls that in the US, early in the twentieth century, business and innovation merged in the empires created by Edison, Bell and Ford. "The French have an expression "pensee et applique", which means think and apply, or thought and deployment. The problem with French society was that it thought too much and innovated little. Our three IT leaders are only in business. Their innovative thought process, or its results, are not very visible." Their marketing job then must just be beginning.
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Our opinion: Albany County wants to buy the Family Court building that it's been renting. It's paid dearly for it already.
Well, Albany County taxpayers, does your government have a deal for you. Turns out that you — as in, all 304,000 county residents — just might be able to own that spiffy Family Court building across from the Palace Theatre after all.
What, you thought owned it already?
Nope, it merely seems like it's the county's own building. Funny what some $2 million a year in rent payments can make some people think.
Too bad that one condition of any sale agreement that the County Legislature might be able to reach with the real owner, Columbia Development, can't stipulate a closing date of, oh, some time back in 2005.
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Well, rent payments alone on the courthouse now have exceeded $13.5 million. Oh, and factor in taxes — yes, taxpayers, you're on the hook for that bill, too — and it's more like $15 million.
Some lease agreement, isn't it — with eight more years and $16.6 million in rent payments remaining?
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There's good reason to suspect, meanwhile, that the $15 million the county has sunk into the courthouse already is quite close to what it cost to build it.
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How much should the county be willing to pay — with borrowed money, alas — for a building that it would have been better off owning all along?
That's hard to say, maddeningly enough. The appraised value of the courthouse, $23.6 million, is misleading: It includes the steady payment of that staggering amount of annual rent. It would make sense to factor in such payments if the building were to be sold to a private party. But it makes no sense here. It's not like the county, once it owned the courthouse, would collect $2 million a year in rent from itself.
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- I pride myself on my work ethic and have been with the same company since 2002. I have held a job since I was 14, and before then helped my parents as a field hand in different types of migrant work in central California.
- I did finish high school but never made it to college.
- One of my hobbies is building small niche websites that focus on a particular topic and which I monetize with Adsense, ebay partner network, and the Amazon associates program. This website is a small example of that… Except it is not monetized as the topic is not exactly searched for very often for some reason.


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A Socialist Victory in an Unraveling France
May 7, 2012
TIBERGE at Galliawatch has posted an eight-minute video of François Hollande celebrating his victory in the presidential election at the Place de la Bastille. She writes:
Hollande, who seems to be hoarse, shouts that he is happy that the young people he is addressing will construct the new French republic.
This is an eerie document, where an ethnic Frenchman, a pawn in the hands of his potentially violent, multi-colored, multi-ethnic, multi-racial audience, imagines he is a leader, when in fact he is being led by a pre-determined doctrine of destruction. He appears terrified, but so did Nicolas Sarkozy, whenever he had to put himself among the immigrants and speak directly to them. He is both pathetic and demagogic, possibly foreshadowing things to come.
She also quotes the French writer Bernard Antony on the results:
The Socialist party and the whole left and extreme-left with it, now dispose of our country from the Presidency, to the Senate, to all the regional Councils, except Alsace, to two thirds of the general Councils, to the City Halls of Paris, and those of a majority of cities including Lille, Lyon, Toulouse, Nantes.


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January 11 is national Human Trafficking Awareness Day.
Actually, all of January is Human Trafficking Prevention month, designated by President Obama in 2010. January 11 is just a single day we can all focus our attention on. Another is February 1, which is National Freedom Day.
Why do we need a whole month? And why do we need a specific day within the month? Well, I'm not sure we do. I do think it's important to have one or the other, but having both is nice too.
It's important because we need to be reminded that slavery is still a problem in our society. The Emancipation Proclamation was issued in the 1860s, and we're all taught that it ended slavery in the United States. I know that I was raised to think of slavery as an archaic, cruel institution, but that we as a society had seen the error of our ways and had become wiser–even if true equality was a work in progress.
It's disturbing to realize that slavery is still going on. It's just less socially acceptable now.
These days, slavery happens behind the scenes, and we call it "human trafficking."
It takes different shapes:
Sex trafficking is when someone is forced or coerced to exchange sex acts for money, or some other form of payment (like drugs). Women, children, and men can be victims of sex trafficking. It happens in hotels, in apartments, in suburban residences, online, and virtually any other setting you can think of. It happens to US citizens as easily as immigrants. Money doesn't have to be involved for a situation to be sex trafficking. Child sexual abuse and porn rings count.
Forced labor is when someone is forced or coerced to perform manual labor with little or no pay. It could be in a restaurant or hotel, or in the fields as a migrant laborer. It can happen to men, women, and children.
Debt bondage, or bonded labor, happens when someone is tricked into incurring some sort of charge (or believes they've incurred this charge)–such as paying someone to smuggle them out of a dangerous region. They're forced to work to pay off their debts. They might continue to rack up debt, and be made to continue working. Sometimes "debt" is passed down through generations, keeping an entire family enslaved.
Forced marriage, or early marriage, is when girls are forced to marry before the age of 18, often as young as 11 (or younger). It's a practice that's still, unfortunately, accepted in many parts of the world. The girl's husband is often much older, and her marriage may mean she enters a life of servitude, where she can be sexually trafficked and made to perform domestic labor.
That's a quick run-down of human trafficking. The ways it manifests are much more nuanced. You can read more at AntiSlavery.org.
Human Trafficking Prevention Month is important because humanity is important. There is still such a thing as fighting for the basic human rights of all people. Even in 2015, those aren't automatic givens. It's important to remind ourselves of that. It's important to remember that everyone has the right to choose the way they work, and to make a profit from their labor. Everyone has the right to sexual autonomy.
People who enslave, exploit, and manipulate others are pathetic and disgusting.
Preventing human trafficking is about awareness, first and foremost. So thanks for reading this article. Share it, and maybe consider donating to one of the organizations on this list.
L. Marrick is an author, ghostwriter, and suitcase entrepreneur—which is a hipster way of saying she travels and works from her laptop. Her memoir, "Working Girl: 132 Somewhat Moral Values I Learned from a Sex Worker," tells about when she answered a shady classified ad and wound up working as a sex worker's personal assistant. Her blog at SexualFreedomAndSlavery.com is where she writes about human trafficking and shares updates on her book tour. Her professional website, Copy&Sundry, is where she connects with ghostwriting and blogging clients.
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It's been four days since the apocalypse. Four days since Nina Garcia and Michael Kors' nonsensical whims du jour hijacked Project Runway and stuck us with the lousiest winner in the show's history. I've calmed down considerably since writing my post-show recap — I no longer feel the need to type in all caps — but I'm still driving myself crazy trying to make sense of what happened. So many questions! How did Gretchen go from eliciting Nina's death stare with her "crunchy granola" Birkenstock ensembles in the semi-final to having her "finger on the pulse of fashion" in a matter of days? Because she put her models in some high heels? Put some gel in their hair? Isn't the point of the show to anoint the most fashion-forward designer, not the one who's responding to current trends? Did Nina and MK want to punish Mondo for not heeding their advice about the so-called "circus-y" motifs? Did the show's producers insist on a female winner to appease the Lifetime audience? Or is it more sinister yet: They wanted to create a controversy to keep us talking about the show. If the latter, then, congratulations. Really. Stellar job. To Read More Click Here.
Before the finale and right up until that heated judges debate during the finale, most viewers assumed that Denver designer Mondo Guerra would emerge as 'Project Runway's' season 8 winner, and the shock of Portland designer Gretchen Jones, the season's "bad guy," winning, left a lot of fans of the show unhappy, to say the least. Check back Monday for our chat with runner-up Guerra, and read on for our post-finale conversation with Jones, who designed her winning collection after returning home to Portland and learning that her boyfriend had moved out of their shared home and that she wasn't going to have a place to live much longer. She tells AOL TV that her personal life has calmed down a bit, that she was confident about the competition all along and that, yes, she's well aware of how she was perceived on the show ... and she's OK with it. To Read More Click Here.
If you haven't seen last night's Project Runway finale, do not click the jump! Alright, PopWatch spoilerphobes, Now that you have been sufficiently warned, click on to see our chat with the surprising victor. Image Credit: Barbara Nitke/Lifetime TelevisionNobody was expecting the season-long villain Gretchen Jones to walk away with the coveted first-place spot on Project Runway, but thanks to some heavy duty endorsing by Michael Kors and Nina Garcia, the Oregonian who, er, spoke her mind all season long, did just that. After a night of celebrating with friends, she called EW to talk about why she should have won, her next move, and how Tim Gunn's apology to her never aired. To Read More Click Here.
Whether you're in the mood to watch some baseball, get in the Halloween holiday mood, or stick to what you know with some regular programming, this Thursday night is ready to deliver! Check out the family classic It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown and Scared Shrekless, but don't forget to tune into the hair-raising drama that's bound to ensue on tonight's Jersey Shore reunion and the 2-hour finale of Project Runway! See what else is new tonight: 8/7c It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown on ABC The Big Bang Theory on CBS Vampire Diaries on FOX Scared Shrekless on NBC 8:30/7:30c $#*! My Dad Says on CBS Community on NBC 9/8c Grey's Anatomy on ABC CSI: Crime Scene Investigation on CBS Nikita on The CW The Office on NBC Project Runway on Lifetime Television -- 2-hour finale! 9:30/8:30c Outsourced on NBC 10/9c Private Practice on ABC The Mentalist on CBS The Apprentice on NBC The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills on Bravo It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia on FX Jersey Shore on MTV -- reunion special! What will you be watching?
Since the beginning, Project Runway has always sent the final three to compete with a complete collection at Fashion Week. But in the last few seasons, they've allowed four designers to create a collection, only to eliminate one of them right before the big show. Personally, I think this is horribly cruel. It's one thing to be eliminated after a weekly challenge but to pour your life into a collection, six weeks of work and all that stress for nothing? I think that's why Michael C was so devastated when he was sent home last night. It truly is the worst elimination spot on the series. To Read More Click Here.
After eight seasons, Project Runway's Nina Garcia says judging the upcoming finale (part one airing tonight at 9/8c on Lifetime) was her most difficult by far. "I voted to have two winners," she confides. Among the final four designers is edgy Hawaii native Andy South — "an excellent contender," Garcia says. "Great with texture, great with innovation. His aesthetic is very modern. Andy's biggest problem is time management." Confidence is no problem for eco-friendly Gretchen Jones. "She thinks she knows it all," Garcia chuckles. "She's great at making cool, relatable pieces, but I don't think she's used to hearing criticism." To Read More Click Here.
The Lifetime hit started out with entertaining yet predictable catfights, as the designers ganged up on the less-trained Michael Costello. Yet as the season has progressed, a genuine affection has developed among all the remaining contenders, even the arrogant Gretchen. The warmth peaked with this week's challenge, in which the designers created prints based on personal experiences, and the lovably kooky Mondo Guerra chose plus signs as part of his pattern to symbolize his previously unrevealed HIV-positive status. There wasn't a dry eye on the runway when Mondo told the story he's kept secret - even from his family - for 10 years. His third victory in a row was well-deserved, but as he put it, the real win was the freedom he felt from going public, and how much his bravery can help others. The tears kept on flowing when eliminated contestant Valerie took the time to say something truly sweet to each of her competitors before her exit. This season's award-worthy Runway is proving reality shows don't need to be nasty to be great TV. What do you think of Mondo - and this season's Runway? Source Here
The newest clip from this week's Project Runway sheds a little more light on the crying and the secrets that have been hinted at in earlier clips. We already knew that the designers would be creating their own fabric this week, but the twist is that they must act as their own muse. Tim says the inspiration must be a moment in time that was profound, important and inspiring. Then there's a montage of clips of the designers as kids and I can see where this is going. Watch the clip, then we'll talk. To Read More Click Here .
Tonight, make sure to tune into Project Runway to see the latest designer to be auf ed from the Fashion Week runway running (and a possible cheating scandal!), but don't forget all-new episodes of CBS comedies Big Bang Theory and $#*! My Dad Says! See what else is new tonight: 8/7c My Generation on ABC The Big Bang Theory on CBS Vampire Diaries on The CW Bones on FOX Community on NBC 8:30/7:30c $#*! My Dad Says on CBS 30 Rock on NBC 9/8c Grey's Anatomy on ABC CSI: Crime Scene Investigation on CBS Nikita on The CW Fringe on FOX The Office on NBC The Real Housewives of D.C. on Bravo Project Runway on Lifetime 9:30/8:30c Outsourced on NBC 10/9c Private Practice on ABC The Mentalist on CBS The Apprentice on NBC It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia on FX Jersey Shore on MTV What will you be watching?
Have you seen the 30-second preview for the Thursday, Sept. 30 episode of Project Runway? If not, I say, prepare yourself. There's a scream! An "Oh my god!" Sirens! (Sirens?) A scary closeup of pins falling very, very slowly! Mondo crying! Andy crying! Scandal! Cheating! Intrigue! Why is Mondo crying? What was it that was so hard for him to keep a secret? That he cheated? That he knew who the cheater was? That there was no cheater and Project Runway's producers made him pretend like there was a cheater? And why is this season's the most controversial finale EVER? Does someone die? Source & Video


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Olexander on notice over living arrangements
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State opposition leader Robert Doyle during a press conference re-disgraced state Liberal MP Andrew Olexander who crashed his car into four parked vehicles while drunk early Sunday morning.
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Opposition leader Robert Doyle has warned embattled MP Andrew Olexander that he had better have been truthful about Ringwood East being his principal place of residence.
Mr Olexander is enrolled to vote at a Ringwood East address, which also qualifies him for an overnight allowance of more than $100 for each Legislative Council sitting day.
But his residential arrangements have been questioned after a weekend road smash in Port Melbourne in which three parked cars were damaged while he was driving from Albert Park to his apartment at Docklands. Liberal insiders say his primary residence is Docklands.
When asked yesterday whether the claims for the allowance were eligible, Mr Doyle said: "It better be the case, as simple as that. There's no other answer. It better be the case."
Mr Olexander qualifies for the allowance because the Ringwood East home is more than 28 kilometres from the GPO. He is eligible for it whether he stays the night in Ringwood East or the city.
He has signed a statutory declaration for Parliament indicating East Ringwood is his principal place of residence.
Mr Doyle said: "Andrew has assured me that his primary place of residence is East Ringwood and, therefore, when he does stay at Docklands when Parliament is sitting, it is appropriate for him to claim the allowance. I expect all of my members to fully comply with all of the rules of the Parliament."
On Monday, Mr Olexander said Ringwood East was his main residence and he stayed at the Docklands apartment when in the city.
It is believed he spent some of yesterday getting legal advice on the crash.
Mr Doyle said he accepted Mr Olexander's version of the crash, but a Melbourne taxi driver says he nearly crashed into his cab full of passengers shortly before the accident.
More details emerged yesterday of Mr Olexander's Saturday night before the crash. He attended a $25-a-head Liberal fundraiser.
Former state Liberal MP Christine Fyffe said Mr Olexander was one of about 50 people at the function in the Seville Hall.
Mrs Fyffe, an organiser of the function, said she believed Mr Olexander had only one drink at the function.
After leaving, Mr Olexander headed to Albert Park, where he drank wine and spirits with friends for about five hours. While over the .05 limit, he drove towards Docklands, but lost control of his vehicle in Port Melbourne and crashed.
Mrs Fyffe, the former member for Evelyn, said Mr Olexander's behaviour had been foolish. "I'm disappointed, very very disappointed that someone in that position would be so foolish to drink and drive. He was a bloody idiot," she said.


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1 tablespoon sugar
3/4 teaspoon salt
10 tablespoons (1 1/4 sticks) chilled unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
1/3 cup chilled solid vegetable shortening, diced
6 tablespoons (or more) ice water
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1 pound fresh red currants
3 egg whites
1/2 cup sugar
3/4 cup ground almonds (almond meal)
Blend flour, sugar and salt in processor. Add butter and shortening and cut in using on/off turns until mixture resembles coarse meal. Add 6 tablespoons ice water and process until moist clumps form, adding more water by teaspoonfuls if dough is dry. Gather into ball and then flatten into a disk. Wrap in plastic and chill for a couple of hours.
Position rack in lowest third of oven and preheat to 400F.
Beat egg whites until soft peaks form. carefully fold in sugar and almond meal, trying not to deflate the mass too much. Add in currents.
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Bake tart for 10 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 375F. Continue baking until juices bubble thickly and crust is deep golden, covering edges with foil if browning too quickly, about 1 hour.
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Man thrown in jail for using improvised flamethrower to burn bugs in his homeBy Mason White 2:23 AM August 10, 2016
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A man in Washington, was left scratching his head after police threw him in jail for trying to get rid of the bugs in his home using an improvised flamethrower.
Centralia police said that they have arrested the man, who was not identified, after telling his neighbors that he accidentally set his apartment on fire while trying to get rid of bugs.
The man was charged with second-degree reckless burning. He was booked into jail, pending a bail hearing.
According to the police investigation, the man got so fed up with cockroaches in his apartment, he used a can of bug spray with a lighter to create a makeshift flamethrower in an effort to burn the bugs alive.
When the apartment filled with smoke, he left and alerted his neighbors that something might be on fire. One of his neighbors called 911 to report the incident in the 300 block of North Avenue Tower.
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For the last 3 weeks this rare tortoise was showing extreme signs of lethargy, mucous covered eyes and hinting to a possible respiratory disorder. We brought this animal inside to house it in a specialized reptile habitat designed to provide a specific wavelength of light conducive to reptiles as well a graduating heat source that allowed the reptile to thermo regulate its own body temperature. Each day the animal was soaked 2 times for a half an hour and offered food. The animal refused to eat and after 10 days I knew it required veterinary care, plus I really wanted to have her eyes cleaned which required the animal to be sedated. Tortoise sedation or anesthesia can be tricky and the preferred reptile sedation drug for many species is
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Author Notes: The best summer sandwich? Ice Cream, of course! Creamy chocolate avocado ice cream squeezed between two chocolate chip cookies is a great way to sneak a few more avocados into your daily diet. Avocados aren't just for savory dishes anymore! —Fork Vs Spoon - Mallory
Makes 10 to 12 sandwiches
- 20-24 Chocolate Chip Cookies (about 2 to 3 inches in diameter) - homemade or store bought.
- 8 ounces heavy cream
- 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 3 tablespoons honey
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 12 ounces avocado flesh (about 3 medium avocados)
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 12 ounces whole milk
- 1 tablespoon bourbon or vodka (optional)
- pinch salt
- 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips (optional)
- In a small saucepan, whisk together heavy cream, unsweetened cocoa powder, honey, and granulated sugar. Place over medium heat and cook until sugar is dissolved and cocoa powder is fully incorporated. Transfer to a container with a lid and store in refrigerator until chilled thoroughly - at least 6 to 8 hours. Once chilled, begin on step 2.
- In a blender, combine avocado, lemon juice, and whole milk. Blend until smooth.
- Add chocolate mixture and blend until thoroughly combined. Mix in salt and bourbon or vodka (helps the ice cream remain scoop-able once frozen).
- Pour ice cream mixture into ice cream maker and churn according to directions from manufacturer. Once churned, transfer to a loaf pan and cover with plastic wrap and store in freezer until frozen through - at least 3 to 4 hours.
- Once frozen, remove from freezer and let sit at room temperature for 5 to 10 minutes until it is scoop-able. To construct ice cream sandwiches, place one scoop of ice cream - about 1/4 to 1/3 of a cup - on the bottom of one cookie and place the second cookie on top of ice cream scoop. Gently squeeze cookies together. Roll edges of ice cream sandwich in mini chocolate chips. Place sandwiches on a cookie sheet and place in freezer for about an hour to refreeze. Once frozen, wrap each sandwich individually in plastic wrap and store in freezer. Enjoy!
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