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It's that time of year when you see the first signs of spring edging their way in. Well – we're talking UK spring here, so that equates to an extra ten minutes of sunshine a day, and a few daffodils and crocuses sprouting in gardens. All the same, you start thinking about making a few changes, perhaps lightening your hair colour or adding some brighter colours to your makeup collection. I couldn't have been happier when Just My Look asked me to pick a few things from their site to review, not least because I chose these spring clean-up-my-look items, but also because now I have Just My Look on my radar – a website for saving money on beauty products. Hell yeah!
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Inspirational Poem in Hindi: Himmat Karne Walon Ki Haar Nahin Hoti Written By: Harivansh Rai Bachchan
I recently saw the movie "Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara"
directed by Jahnu Barua, with lead characters played superbly by Anupam Kher and Urmila Matondkar.
It is a gripping tail of a familys struggle to treat the delusional dementia of their old father.
A poem that runs through the movie is very inspirational and
I thought I should share it with the readers.
Here is the poem, especially for those who get disheartened by failures.

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Massy Arias is practically a household name to anyone remotely interested in fitness. The Afro-Latina trainer rose to Instagram fame under her former pseudonym @MankoFit (now, @Massy.Arias) sharing fun and effective workouts as well as nutrition tips after enduring her own struggles with mental health. Massy has never been shy about sharing her personal battles that inspired her to get stronger, both mentally and physically, and led her to having the 2.3 million followers she does today. That was her story and will always be. But, we've been following her for a while and noticed some changes in her life so we had to ask: what is life like now for the seasoned trainer and now, mom, in 2017 where Insta-fitness experts spring up—well—instantly?
Probably the best it's ever been. On February 28th of this year, the 28 year-old welcomed her first child, a daughter, Indira Sarai Williams with husband and business partner Stefan Williams. Incidentally, baby Indi has a following all her own. To round out this incredible year, Massy also landed a gig as Target's new C9 Champion brand ambassador (MAJOR), and all while continuing to perfect her signature MA 30 Day Programs. With a whirl wind of blessings that are time consuming, to say the least, her community of "MA Warriors" (yes, she has a fan club) only continues to grow and unlike most Insta-famous personalities. And if you ask Massy, it's not due to strategy. In fact it's the exact opposite that keeps Massy at the top of her game.
"I think I don't think about it. I think I'm just sharing my journey and there's no strategy. That's the strategy. There's never been one. The stuff that I post, it's not like, 'Let me post this to gain followers,' you know, even my celebrity clients, I don't need to like 'oh post me up.' You're never going to see that on my page, because at the end of the day it's more educational and it's more of my journey. Obviously, I'm putting my business out there, duh, because it's how I make my money. But regardless there's never been a strategy, so that's why I think I stay relevant. Because it's my passion and my love for fitness comes from a very genuine place. I feel like people just know. People can sense that…they can…I think energy is really real. The energy you put out, is the energy you'll get back. So I honestly feel that my journey has been so genuine and full with positive vibes that I think it's just energy coming back and repeating," she tells me back on a sweltering day June, when I sat down with her in her home outside Los Angeles.
"Well, obviously Facebook is making it really hard, changing the algorithms and all of that, so you have to stay relevant. Honestly I haven't and if I did have I would probably see a better conversion of engagement and what not. Like for example, the last couple of days my reach hasn't been there. Why? Because I haven't posted. So now you have to post a certain amount of times for your account to remain relevant and you have to make sure that you're engaging. Apparently everybody knows about this new algorithm but me [laughs]"
It's true. Well, I can't speak to the whole Facebook thing (I'm still lost on the whole algorithm business myself), but having been a follower since her "MankoFit" days, I know firsthand it's her ability to be completely transparent with her audience that has secured her longevity. Everything from opening up about her post-partum depression to hitting her signature happy dance at the end of her workout videos, has always been organic. At the end of the day, real attracts real.
in preparation for our shoot that afternoon (which doesn't take much because she greeted us at her home with an already glowing complexion), she joins our team on a makeshift set in her apartment complex, where we're noshing on gummi bears, chocolate candies, and a collective team favorite — Veggie Straws, you know, for balance. Well, with a single declaration, Massy shuts that healthy junk fantasy down, "You know, you might as well be eating a bag of Doritos," she says with her newfound mom-like authority. Then she proceeds to give us mini-lecture about how the Veggie Straws are essentially trash. And although she bursts our "healthy" bubble, she's coming from a place of wanting to help and she's totally right, like moms always are.
Everyone makes a quick, subtle adjustment away from catering as we stare at Massy's washboard abs while she's getting photographed. Indira, or Indi, as she is nicknamed by her parents and to her tens of thousands of followers, just turned 4 months old. I repeat, 4 MONTHS old. And as we look at Massy, it's almost as if she didn't have a baby at all. If you followed her pregnancy, then you know she continued her regular fitness routine with modified workouts and diet, so she put in the work far before giving birth earning her that body. But still, one can't help but envy her version of a mom bod. However, to Massy "snapback" is loaded a term. She explains that every mother's journey is different and you never really know what someone, especially a new mom, is going through.
"I found that even though my body was looking a certain way, I mean you guys saw, 9 days after giving birth, my belly looked pretty much small, but for me dealing with postpartum depression right after has been the hardest. It's just because you really don't know yourself and now you find yourself living a new life and trying to figure yourself out. It's like 'Who am I?' Now all the attention is for the baby, there's all this outside pressure, like 'Are you breastfeeding? You know, if you're not breastfeeding, you're a bad mom.' I think about trying to be a wife, a mother, and also a businesswoman all at the same time. It's really, really hard," she admits.
"Nobody told me that breastfeeding was going to be so hard. I thought it was going to be a natural thing. And even though it is, it's not. They don't tell you your nipples are going to be bleeding; your nipples are going to be scabbing. They don't tell you that every time your baby latches on, it's going to hurt. You know, your nipples have to toughen up. They don't tell you the emotional changes that happen when you feel like you cannot provide for your child, because it's supposed to be a natural thing and you're like, 'Okay, I'm supposed to be providing for my child and I can't.' They don't tell you about the mob of moms who make you feel like a horrible mom if you don't," she breaks down about the pressures of being new mom.
There she goes again, keeping it real. And while she means every word of it, you can tell none of that matters as she gazes over at Indi in between takes as the team and I take turns "babysitting" on set. I could go on and on about how incredibly adorable Massy's mini-me is but one look at her Instagram, @GrowingUpIndi and see for yourself. Yes, this indeed is a family of socialpreneurs. In fact, forget Tinder, Massy met her husband on Instagram.
"We met way back, when Instagram was just a photo app and filter app. We were introduced by this gentleman from San Diego who I still haven't [IRL] met yet. I don't even know what he's doing now. He was putting these fitness enthusiasts together as a group like the 'Avengers of Fitness'. Stefan was a part of it, and [the group] all exchanged numbers and one day out of the blue he called me. I said 'Why are you calling me?' And we literally started talking every single day till we started working together and that has been it. We met on Instagram."
because he reminded her of her brothers but that over time his personality won her over. "I think my husband's pretty hot, but for me attraction is more than just a look, for me it needs to be more than that. I was attracted to his brain first then came everything else. I was like, 'Wait a second, let me take a look at you. You're really handsome, you know that?' He was playing the friend card and it worked [laughs]" Although, Stefan often co-stars in her partner workout videos, he's actually NOT her gym buddy. "Steph and I don't work out together, so he's not my gym buddy, but it actually works better that way, because when I go work out he's probably sleeping from being up all night with the baby, so I take her with me and make it work. Then we switch off. That's how our partnership works."
So how does a 28 year-old millennial mom and wife on her way to running her own fitness empire deal? There's two mantras she lives by: "If it has ever been done before, what makes you feel you can't?" and "Progress, not perfection." That's it.
Massy broke down what that means for what's next on her agenda, "I'm planning my tour which is going to be about finding my purpose, because I need to find my purpose again. I was planning last year before I got pregnant and had to stop, so that's something that I'm going to take again hopefully soon...I don't believe in people having to pay to workout with me. I'm going to create partnerships that are going to help me get to where my following is without them having to pay a penny to come and move. So that's one of the things I have planned to bring to Target, and all of these different partnerships that I have created over the last few months, or years—use their platform to help me go on tour and get people and my community to move. And putting out my programs. So I have two new programs, one for postpartum moms, and just an overall challenge that I'm doing myself, because now I feel it's time to get back to my usual."
For Massy, her new normal is doing what she can, and not trying to do the most in a world where just about everyone is trying to do the opposite.


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|Broadcast area
|La Raza
|La Estacion de La Raza !!!
|Regional Mexican
|21,000 watts
|188 meters
|Facility ID
|Callsign meaning
|W OLdieS (previous format)
|Former callsigns
|GHB of Waxhaw Inc.
|Sister stations
|La Raza Charlotte
WOLS is a Spanish-language FM radio station broadcasting at a frequency of 106.1 MHz serving the Charlotte, North Carolina market. Its programming consists of music and other material distributed by "La Raza," the Regional Mexican radio network.
While WOLS is licensed to (and identifies its location as) the Union County town of Waxhaw, North Carolina, its studios are actually located in Charlotte. The transmitter site is in Catawba, South Carolina.
WOLS 1230 AM originated in Florence, SC and was owned by famous retired FBI man Melvin Purvis. Initial sign on was in 1937. Studios were located on the 100 block of S. Dargan Street in downtown Florence. Daytime power was 1,000 watts but reduced to 500 watts at sunset. The station signed off each evening at midnight. The format was true block programming with mostly top 40 type music but specific hours dedicated to country and even classical programming. The 1960s produced lots of local radio personalities who saw much success as they graduated to larger markets. One famous WOLS alumni is Alan Moody. For the last 3 decades plus, he's been heard in Ohio and is a Cincinnati radio star & celebrity doing mornings on WGRR with his bride Janeen. Highly rated, their morning show is called Married with Microphones - as of late 2018. Other great Florence, SC WOLS talents were Johnny Andrucci, Dave Rogers, Lex Langston, Cecil Chandler, Joe Gasque, Doug Williams, Guerry Tanner, Pete Becker, Les Gardner, Diane DeVaughn, Cindy Outlaw, Red Miller, Dan Lindley, etal. The Florence SC station signed off permanently in the early 1990s. A few years later, the call letters were again used when the station signed on May 1994 on 1480 AM, a frequency that had been silent for several years, with the call letters WIST. At that time radio station owners were still limited to one AM station per market. GHB Broadcasting operated WIST-AM through a Limited Marketing Agreement (LMA) with Christ Covenant Church, the licensee for 1480 AM. Most of the adult standards music came from the Satellite Music Network format Stardust.[1] A year later, the FM station, once intended to be an FM outlet for WHVN, signed on with the call letters WLWW but eventually changed to WIST-FM.[2]
The name WNMX "Mix 106" was chosen in 1996. The station's sales manager had previously worked for WMXC(104.7) when it was called "The Mix". He hoped to resurrect that format on 106.1. The AM station became WNMX-AM[citation needed]. By this time the AM aired some separate programs, including a talk show from John Sullivan. The AM became WTLT in Summer 1997 with a separate news/talk format.[3] For one month WNMX tried a more contemporary sound with local DJs during the day. However, many listeners protested so the station returned to the Stardust format.[4][5]
Over the years the definition of adult standards has evolved, and the Stardust satellite format evolved with the times as well. Fewer songs from the big band era were played, though new performances of the old songs have become available. When oldies station WWMG changed its format to "rhythmic Top 40" music in 2004, WNMX added more rock and roll songs to its local morning show.
In Summer 2006 ABC merged Stardust with its Memories format. The merger caused Stardust to leave its standards heritage behind, playing most of the same "timeless favorites" but moving more in an oldies direction, with most of the big-band standards being recent recordings. WNMX still played many of the older records on the local morning show. Ironically, the Timeless Favorites format had evolved into the format that listeners rejected in 1997.
On February 12, 2008 WNMX changed their format to 60s-70s oldies,[6] branded as "Oldies 106.1", with the "Goodtime Oldies" format from the Jones Radio Network. "Goodtime Oldies" features a playlist of 60's and 70's oldies. The station also changed its call sign to WOLS, which was moved from an AM station in Florence, South Carolina. That station took on the call sign "WOLH". On January 1, 2009, Norsan Media took over WOLS, picking up "La Raza," the Regional Mexican format of WGSP-FM.[7]
Sports broadcasts[edit]
At one time, WOLS carried broadcasts of several sports teams. At the time of the change to Spanish language programming, these broadcasts were the only English language programming on WOLS.
WOLS was the flagship station for the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats from the team's debut in 2004 through the 2008-2009 season. At the end of that season, WFNZ, an all-sports station, took over as the Bobcats flagship station.
WOLS also carried football and basketball games of the ACC's Duke Blue Devils, which like WOLS' broadcast of Bobcats games, ended with the switch to Spanish language programming.
WOLS had broadcast the games of the WNBA's Charlotte Sting prior to the team's ceasing operations on January 2, 2007.
Starting with the 2010 NFL season, WOLS began broadcasting all Carolina Panthers games in Spanish.
- ^ Tim Funk, "Wistful for Music of the '40s? New Radio Station Brings It Back," The Charlotte Observer, May 19, 1994.
- ^ "WIST Adds Big Band, Easy-Listening Sounds to FM," The Charlotte Observer, March 4, 1995.
- ^ Kay McFadden, "Talk-Radio Station Signs on to Battle for WBT Listeners", The Charlotte Observer, July 8, 1997.
- ^ Kay McFadden, "WNMX-FM Swaps Formats to Lure Working Listeners," The Charlotte Observer, October 3, 1997.
- ^ Kay McFadden, "WTLT: No Change - News/Talk Remains," The Charlotte Observer, November 7, 1997.
- ^ Mark Washburn, "Sinatra Style Dropped in Favor of Ad-attracting Oldies," The Charlotte Observer, February 13, 2008.
- ^ Mark Washburn, "106.1 FM Will Shift to All-Spanish," The Charlotte Observer, November 20, 2008.
External links[edit]
- 106.1 FM La Raza - Station Website
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WOLS
- Radio-Locator information on WOLS
- Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WOLS


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Wednesday August 2, 2017
5 minutes
One Nation, Indivisible in The Sun, August 2017
I see our history after you surprise me with sour wine gums and weed on the patio.
I see how far we've come when we stand in each other's silence and do not wish to sing
I see our history by talking about our now: how the decisions we made then were not toward any one thing.
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Home / Portfolio / Conversions / Bidston Road
A residential development and conversion with sensitive extensions to an existing building on the Wirral. The scheme comprises of 21 no. two bedroom apartments for a Housing Association and funded by the HCA. Start on-site spring 2012.
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It's that time of the year! Time for warmer weather, flowers blooming, birds singing, and new Autodesk software to come out.
Yesterday Autodesk had a webcast featuring the new Autodesk 2012 line up. You can catch the recorded webcast at www.autodesk.com/webcast
You can find the new line up and features on Autodesk web site
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Niharika and Naga Sourya acted together in one film. At that time, there were no rumours about they being friends or more.
But an English newspaper reported that marriage was on the cards between Naga Sourya and Niharika. As per the story, the two have been in love for nearly two years.
Naturally, this has led to speculation and Naga Sourya has decided to finally open up about the issue.
"Stories about I and Niharika getting married have been doing rounds. But we are not in a relationship. In fact, some of my friends called me last night to tell about the story. I was shocked. It remains to be seen how far this matter will go and how it will end. Let aside Niharika, I am not dating any other heroine," he insists.
He maintains that he is totally focused on his career for now. Marriage will happen only after 3-4 years and to a girl selected by his mother, says the Chalo hero.
While Naga Sourya has brushed aside the issue as a run-of-the-mill rumour, the matter is not that simple say industry insiders.
In fact, when Chiranjeevi attended the pre-release function of Naga Sourya's Chalo, many said that it was due to the on-going relationship between Naga Sourya and Niharika.
Also, many in media and industry are aware as to how closely Naga Sourya and Niharika move around.
It is said that their marriage will be an ideal example of love-cum-arranged marriage. Though the actor is condemning the rumours right now, the marriage will surely happen in a year, say some industry insiders.
Rumours are rife that Naga Sourya will become the mega son-in-law in days to come.


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PWE were keen on showing off Neverwinter's new mod, Storm King's Thunder, to everyone on their community stream before it goes live. @strumslinger was joined by NW Content Designer @SeanMcann14 during the broadcast where they took everyone on a tour of the new adventure zones for the upcoming mod. Here are some of the noteworthy discussion during the live stream:
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How do I farm astral diamonds? I'm almost level 70 or lvl 70 already, what do I do? What do I do to get strong in Neverwinter? Answers to these questions can be varied, and sometimes not very helpful.
In this guide, I am going to detail one way of getting to self-sufficiency in Neverwinter.
Let me explain what my idea of self-sufficiency is. Firstly you are making at least 72,000 astral diamonds a day. Second, you are an asset in delves. Lastly, you have access to all content in the game.
Getting the right gears
Let's start by understanding what kind of gears you need. Do you understand your class yet? Do you already know how you are supposed to play it? Priority one for you should be knowing how to play your class.Read your class forums, watch videos on youtube, check out some Neverwinter twitch streams, you need to get a sense of how your class is best played.
Neverwinter just released their new lockbox. The New Life lockbox includes new augment pets which you get in epic class or legendary class. It's really great that you can now obtain pets at legendary class, I think we all agree that one million astral diamonds is just way too much to spend just to get 15% of your pet's stats. Anyway I'll try to post more information about the new lock box as soon as I can. Stay tuned.
So I have been playing Neverwinter online for about six months now. Bugs aside, it is has been a very enjoyable game, none of the extreme stresses of grinding that you see in most games. Unlike most of the other MMORPG's I've played, the daily quests in Neverwinter are easy to finish and can only be done once a day or once a week, so as much as you would like to keep playing and grinding away, this part of the game pretty much reminds you to get back to your real life. This is the best part of the game for me.


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|Kimmy the Kitsune
|1,027 (looks 23)
|1/40th of your size! (Two inches if you're human-size.)
|120 lbs when she's in human size.
|Half-kitsune, nine tails, demi-human body but full kitsune, LOVES to be eaten, cannot be digested, but loves it when people try. White fur, auburn hair, blue eyes, 5'9".
|Fur/Skin/Scale Colour
|Completely snow-white
|Hair Colour
|Hair = auburn
|Eye Colour
|Electric blue, with gray flecks in the iris spattered around. No pupils.
|Optional. VERY optional. Almost never worn.
|Other than her 9, bushy, pure-white fox-tails, Kimmy wears no jewelry or other accessories.
|Kimmy does not like violence and does not use weaponry. She can alter her center of gravity and can float in midair, and is immune to fire, acid, and being crushed by anything, and does not need to eat, drink or breathe - she feeds on bodyheat.
|Outstanding Features
|Kimmy's fur covers her from elbow to (large) hand-paw, and knee to foot-paw. Her fox ears are also white, and she has 9 fluffy snow-white tails. Other than that, though, she appears to look like a normal human female, aged approximately 23. Her skin is a lovely peach color, neither pale nor dark, and her hair reaches down to halfway between her shoulder and elbow. She has a very slender build, and as such her waist, torso, hips and shoulders are narrower than a human's. She also has smallish-medium breasts, about a B cup size.
|Kimmy is a very kind half-kitsune who can be a bit of a trickster at times, but is usually extremely silly and playful. She often talks far more than expected, and can chatter on for hours if someone doesn't tell her nicely to calm down. For some unexplainable reason, Kimmy enjoys inhabiting other peoples' stomachs and lower areas. Because of her immunities to the hazards of the digestive system, she actually enjoys when tummies treat her like nothing but food and attempt to digest her - the rougher, the better. She has no compunctions about viewing any and all of someone's gut, from start to finish is quite fine. Generally, you can find her occupying SOMEONE's tummy, or giving a massage to one of her larger friends.
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|Giving massages, being silly, wandering randomly around the innards of beings that swallow her alive, hanging out with things far bigger than she is.
|Some forms of yiffing (ask prior if you want to), cold places, rudeness, and poodles.
|Probably in somebody's stomach...
|Kimmy doesn't have a job, and just kinda hangs around people bigger than she.
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|I love being randomly eaten and I PREFER when my preds do digestion, as long as they realize that I myself cannot be digested. But, the more you try and the more your body treats me like common food, the happier I am. I do participate in non-vore though, but I am far happier in my own element.
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The Leaders Report: A Portrait of Education Leaders in Jewish Schools
Publication Date: January 1999
Publisher(s): Mandel Foundation (Jerusalem)
Author(s): Bill Robinson; Adam Gamoran; Ellen B. Goldring
Special Collection: Berman Jewish Policy Archive
Topic: Education (Education personnel and population)
Keywords: Occupation; American Jews; Educators
Type: Report
Coverage: Wisconsin Maryland Georgia
This report presents information about educational leaders in day schools, supplementary and preschools in three Jewish communities in the United States. The purpose is to stimulate discussion and planning for the professional growth and development of educational leaders in Jewish schools.
The main questions considered are: What are the training and professional growth opportunities for educational leaders? What are the career tracks of educational leaders? What are the work conditions of educational leaders?


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The Bromoil print is a one of a kind process and truly original photographic experience that you will treasure your entire life. Zack Smith has perfected his unique style of bromoil for his most recent series, My Louisiana Muse, and is now accepting commissions for portraits, family, and weddings.
For each commissioned fine art bromoil portrait Zack Smith will consult with you in person on location, wardrobe, and scheduling. Each portrait is shot with a large format film camera, processed, and printed personally by Zack. You will receive digital proofs to choose the image you would like to bromoil and Zack will print your photographs in the darkroom. From your first consultation to receiving the print please allow 3-4 weeks since this process is all done by hand.


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It is holding at the iconic EKo Atlantic City in Victoria Island Lagos
It holds from 10am – 7pm from September, 26th – 30th, 2016.
An estimated 500,000 visitors are expected at this year's Made-In-Nigeria Festival.
The exhibition is open to all Nigerian brands and business across all sectors of the economy providing Products and service for Nigerian market.
If an exhibitor would like to reserve a meeting room for a private meeting, they should send a mail to firstname.lastname@example.com or call 08108681780 (Oye)
You can call 08108681780 (oye) or send a mail to email@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com. Also you can visit www.mainfestival.com and click on "book your stand" under the Exhibit menu to either fill or download a form after which a representative will contact you.
Discounted summit rates, Invitations to select social events, Free Marketing and PR Kit to give you the most out of your Main Festival Exhibition experience, Facilities and utilities included in rates', Online profiling with company logo, Listing in Final Programme and Exhibitor Directory, Power supply and lighting.
Yes there will be, but for assured internet speed etc, we advise that you make provisions for a backup
Payment can be made by cheques, transfers, deposit and via regular online banking. Before payment, kindly notify us.
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Yes, exhibitors will have special vehicular clearance as close to the venue as possible to minimize inconvenience and in cases of heavy movement.
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On 3 Public Relations presents Florida's state and legislative campaign finance reports for everything raised and spent through January 31, 2014. The M1 information, covering activities January 1-31, 2014 was due to the Florida Division of Elections by midnight Monday, February 10th. On3PR now tracks both monthly and cumulative totals for your convenience. Information was secured from the State's Division of Elections website at www.DOS.STATE.FL.US.
Top Senate Fundraisers
Sen. Lizbeth Benacquisto (R-30); $520,768.88
Sen. Joe Negron (R-32); $486,274.00
Sen. Wilton Simpson (R-18); $348,976.05
Sen. Jeff Brandes (R-22); $308,050.00
Sen. Dorothy Hukill (R-8); $302,445.00
Top House Fundraisers
Rep. Steve Crisafulli (R-51); $300,193.00
Rep. Dana Young (R-60); $201,011.12
Rep. Matt Hudson (R-80); $172,250.00
Rep. Erik Fresen (R-114); $166,999.10
Candidate Jay Fant (R-15); $157,318.93
2014 Campaigns
In the 2014 election cycle, all of Florida's 27 congressional seats, the Governor and Cabinet seats, the even-numbered state senate seats, and all 120 state house seats are on the ballot. From January to June, campaign finance reports are due the 10th of every month, with the exception of the May report which is due the 12th. After the June report, the Governor and Cabinet races report on a different schedule than state legislative seats.
2014 Important Dates
Federal candidate qualifying period is noon April 28 through noon May 2, 2014
State candidate qualifying period is noon June 16 through noon June 20, 2014
Primary Election is Tuesday, August 26, 2014
General Election is Tuesday, November 4, 2014
To Access Today's M1 Report
To access this report please go to www.On3PR.com and click on the 'Campaign Finance' reports tab for password protected information.


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This week we are doing inservices and registration nights. I need to work in my room for a while tomorrow. Then, I have training on a new sub system on Tuesday morning (which I get to come back and train the school....AAHHHH lol.) Then, that night is registration night until 8 pm. Then we have inservice days the rest of the week and Thursday is a 12 hour work day basically.
We start back on Aug. 6th. It is a full day and a full week. It is going to be a long long long week lol. I am looking forward to getting my class list tomorrow (hopefully before registration night!)
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About the Innkeepers
March 2017 marks the beginning of a new era for Amid Summer's Inn Bed and Breakfast as we, the new owners, prepare to carry on the legacy of a unique experience.
With both of us growing up in large families as well as having seven children of our own and working in the public service sector for the past 30 years, we know what serving others is all about.
We are excited to be able to serve you as we share our home with you and help you feel like part of the family. Come join us and be treated like royalty while you make memories to last a lifetime.
We warmly welcome you,
Dennis and Starla Hutchinson ~ Amid Summer's Inn Bed & Breakfast
Amid Summer's Inn Bed and Breakfast is set at the heart of town and is part of the Cedar City Historic District. The Historic District is a set of one hundred and seventy-two main buildings and fifty-two outbuildings that help contribute to the historical integrity of Cedar City, Utah. Cedar City was founded by Mormon pioneers that were sent to mine iron found in the area. The iron mined in Cedar City was the first west of the Mississippi River. The iron works was shut down in 1858 and most of the town's residents left for other cities, but three hundred and one people stayed behind. Cedar City then became a town based on agriculture, which was lucrative and allowed several citizens to begin building Victorian, Colonial, Tudor, and Renaissance Revival houses in the area. During the 1930's Amid Summer's Inn Bed and Breakfast was built as a private residence. The home remained relatively the same until 2009 when renovations and additions were added. When completed it became the stunning 6000 square foot Historic English Cottage home that stands today.
Inn Amenities
Leave ordinary behind! At Amid Summer's Inn Bed and Breakfast, each of the ten, awe-inspiring, themed guest rooms is designed for relaxation and comfort. Every one of our rooms features a private bath, individual climate control AC, Wi-Fi, refrigerator, TV, DVD player, iron/ironing board, hair dryer, night light, alarm clock, specialty toiletries, soft linens, triple sheets and very comfortable beds. Also available to guests is the private, off-street, covered parking at the back of the property.
Each day we offer a full, homemade breakfast. You can also help yourself to home-baked pastries and snacks, which are available throughout the day.
Regardless of how you choose to fill your days, allow Amid Summer's Inn Bed and Breakfast to shelter you in style.


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Leaning to play piano can be one of the most enjoyable things one can do in life. Here are seven things you can do to help you find the best source of piano lessons.
1. Co ntact your local elementary school and ask if they have a qualified music teacher who offers private instruction. Most music teachers are qualified to play/teach numerous band and orchestral instruments such as piano.
2. Locate your Local Musicians Union to search for a qualified teacher–doing a search on Google for your local union is the easiest way to contact them. Although being a professional musician doesn't immediately guarantee that you are a patient, understanding teacher, experience and mastery of many types of musical idioms, along with the demand for superb "sight reading" gives them an edge. At the very least, this will be a great source for a reference.
3. If you live in or near a college town that has a school which offers a professional music curriculum, there are typically scores of advanced students who will offer their services to teach piano. And, this is often the least costly source of private lessons. Alternatively, the department heads will usually be a good source for this information–you might even find a professor who will offer lessons in their spare time.
4. Do a search on craigslist. There are frequently ads by qualified teachers in your area offering to teach piano. Alternatively, you could place a 'want ad' for piano instruction–you are likely to be overwhelmed by the responses, but you will at least have a place to start.
5. Look in the phone book for piano tuners. Piano tuners are frequently "keyed-in" to the local music scene and can be a terrific source of information. Many are musicians and teachers just tuning pianos to earn spare cash.
6. Contact your closest source of retail piano sales. As with tuners, stores that sell pianos are usually knowledgeable about local teachers. You might even find a deal to buy or lease a piano in the bargain.
7. Google now has a feature called "local search" which uses your computer's IP address to furnish you with local vendors and sources of searched items. Include your town and state to assist Google in focusing on your particular neck of the woods.
Taking private lessons is considered the best way to learn piano by most people because teaching it requires such a diverse set of skills. Reading music, learning different keys and time signatures, getting used to two hand fingering, setting-up good practicing pattern, and just finding time to devote to improving over time can be a challenge, but very rewarding when mastered.
There are piano instruction books and the ability to learn the keyboard online for those who are not sure if they have the skills, funds, or commitment for an undertaking like learning the piano. Some are quite good, others less so.


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A Blueprint for Life
When HETN's onetime CEO, Geoff Douglas, was a child growing up in Zambia, the people grew millet, sorghum and maize, which was pounded at home by the women. They also grew cassava, ground nuts, sweet potato, pumpkin and cabbage. Pumpkin is a wonderful vegetable because it is possible to eat the fruit, the leaves and the seeds. Land preparation was mostly done by hand, which precluded deep ploughing. The women used to forage for herbs, roots, shoots, fruits and wild spinach. Geoff remembers his mother's indignation as all the young hibiscus shoots disappeared from her carefully tended garden hedge. Intake of protein was modest and consisted of chicken, eggs, dried kapenta (a lake sardine), caterpillars and flying ants (termites), when these were in season. The important point is that the people were consuming a balanced diet, and they were healthy.
Enter the agricultural experts. Africans were told that they had no clue. They were taught to grow one crop – maize. This is what is meant by monoculture. They were taught to deep plough and to use NPK (Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium) fertilisers to maximise yield. Over time, this ensured soil depletion and a steady decline in the nutrient content of the maize. They were discouraged from pounding the maize at home and eating it whole grain. Instead, they were introduced to the perfection of refined white maize meal, from which most of the nutrients have been removed. Today, this is the staple food of Southern Africa. The other staples are bread, which is mostly refined, white sugar, traditional margarine and cooking oil. Most people in urban areas cannot afford much protein, but sweets and sugary soft drinks are popular. Consumption of fruits and vegetables is minimal. And, surprise, surprise, all manner of chronic degenerative diseases are on the increase.
When you look at what is in supermarket trolleys in the UK today, you soon realise that this problem is global. The current UK medical advice is that the ideal daily diet should contain five servings of fruit and vegetables, a moderate amount of unrefined carbohydrate and protein, and that it should be low in fat, sugar and salt. It is important for the reader to understand that this 'sensible' advice is predicated on purely observational data. It has never been tested in any sort of scientific trial, so it ought to be roundly rejected by the rationalists. On similar 'flimsy' evidence, we now believe that vegetable protein is healthy and that the fat should contain some omega oils. The 'experts' now tell us that modern margarine is healthier than butter, but that trans fats are extremely dangerous to health. They omit to tell us that this trans fat, or hydrogenated oil, is the traditional margarine that they used to insist was so healthy. Doctors remain adamant that we do not need any supplements; the 5-a-Day idea being their attempt to cope with all those micronutrients that they only vaguely understand.
Few people follow any of this advice, and there is so much conflicting information out there, it is no wonder that the general public is confused. What is not in doubt is that there is an explosion in the prevalence of chronic degenerative diseases, including obesity and diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease (CVD), mental illness and dementia, and disorders of immunity, including cancer, asthma and arthritis. All of these are disorders of lifestyle. We are told that we are living longer – but few of us are living more healthily.
Modus Vivendi is HETN's attempt to present the truth, remove the confusion, and empower the reader to take responsibility for his or her health and wellbeing.
So, let us embark together on this journey of radical lifestyle change. We begin with our food. Come back often, and click on whatever interests you in the menu items under this heading.


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Just read a very interesting research report from Gartner. This research report titled "Understanding the Real Cost of an IT Management Product" was published last year.
This report lays down the various costs that need to be considered when choosing a monitoring solution. These include:
• License costs
• Maintenance costs
• Planning costs
• Training costs
• Implementation costs
• Customization costs
• Ongoing administration costs
• Retirement costs
This list should not be a great surprise to you. We at eG Innovations always ask our clients to look at the real total cost of ownership (TCO) of a monitoring solution.
The report goes on to corroborate what we've been saying for years now – "Even though implementation costs will vary depending on the vendor and product complexity, we typically find that implementation costs can be three to five times the cost of purchasing the product, and Gartner has seen cases where it is seven to eight times the purchase price."
Gartner's take on open-source/free products – "Products available for free (such as open source), or those that are a "same cost" swap out, can cost more during a three- to five-year period than a first-time commercial purchase costing thousands of dollars."
Gartner's recommendations for folks looking to buy or even looking to see if they need to renew maintenance on their current monitoring product:
– To control costs, look for a product that is easy to use and has the majority of the functionality you need out of the box.
– Reduce operating license costs by purchasing products that are easy to implement and require minimal customization.
Given the current economic times, more than ever before, companies are looking critically at whether they need to retain their current monitoring solution, which they purchased several years ago, or whether they switch to a new-age solution that is much easier to implement and use. Often, the pain involved in switching solutions is the first point considered. Gartner's advise to clients is "Undertake management investments using some estimate of the operation life cycle costs, with a time horizon of three to five years."
I would say this holds true whether you are purchasing a brand new solution, or you are looking at replacing your current monitoring solution. Don't look for band-aid, you are only delaying the inevitable. At least be proactive and start to evaluate what would be the right solution for your current infrastructure, given how your infrastructure has evolved over the years and the number of new technologies that have come in.
If you are interested, check out this white paper (titled eG Enterprise vs. a Big 4 Monitoring Solution: Comparing Total Cost of Ownership) that we wrote recently comparing the huge difference in TCO between deploying a behemoth, old-age monitoring and management framework like one of the Big-4 vendors and a nimble, easy to use, all-in-one product suite like eG Enterprise.
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Tough - Poem by david bailey
Man You had a bad day tough
you just been played tough
never geeting laid tough
not feeling ok tough
your plane was delayed tough
first date was lame tough
just couldnt get a break tough
working all hours of the day tough
so what! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
life is tough it is what makes us it cant really
break us unless we let it control us
so what your life was tough
get over it and just be tough
because complaining about it will
get you absolutely no where
Comments about Tough by david bailey
Anita Raine (4/21/2008 7:41:00 PM)
theres a reason for every experience and every experience makes up who we are bulids our strength..
This is a good one (Report) Reply
Vidi Writes (4/9/2008 12:27:00 PM)
Each and every experience
Is an asset in the Balance Sheet of Life.
Tough or Sweet, live with it
Otherwise what are these experiences for? ?
Nothing comes in life without a reason
Experiences are treasurs, Bank on them.
David, you shared a good experience with us. Thanks (Report) Reply
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Sleep Baby, Sleep Series: Tip #4, Read the Signs
As you get to know your baby better, you may recognize signs of sleepiness.
If your baby isn't hungry or hot or cold, and she seems cranky, she may just be tired. Watch for signals like rubbing her eyes or opening her eyes very wide and then closing them suddenly. Small behaviors are easy to miss but if you pay attention, it will make your life much easier.
When baby shows signs of sleepiness, put her to bed. Place her in her crib or bassinet and be quiet. If she's already sleepy, music or too much of your voice may stimulate her. It's fine to stay in the room but consider sitting in a rocking chair quietly or just standing in the room until baby drifts off.
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This evening foray is an ideal opportunity to learn how to correctly identify some of the tastiest early autumn mushrooms.
Fletcher Moss Park in Didsbury has an interesting mix of habitats so even if we're having an Indian summer, there are locations which will still come up trumps.
The walk will last a couple of hours then we'll cook up our finds at the end so everyone will have a chance to sample some of Nature's best fungal offerings.


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Undefeated super bantamweight Christopher "San Diego Kid†Martin (23-0-2, 6 KOs) of Chula Vista will be making his Top Rank Promotions debut on Saturday, October 1, on the under card of the Toshiaki Nishioka versus Rafael Marquez WBC super bantamweight title bout at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Fox Sports will be televising that bout.
Martin, who secured the WBO NABO 122 pound title by defeating Charles Huerta in May, is now set to face Jose Angel Beranza (33-21-2, 26 KOs).


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The Annenberg Public Policy Center
The Annenberg Public Policy Center is located in the center of the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia. The four-story building contains offices, a broadcasting studio, and a modern conferencing facility.
The site for the new building is surrounded by brick buildings as well as some modern glass-clad buildings.
In response to this context, Fumihiko Maki composed a double-layered facade to create the effect of "warm transparency". The exterior layer is an aluminum and glass curtain wall with operable windows. An inner skin is composed of fixed (and some operable) glazing with movable wooden panels.
Inside, rooms are arranged around a skylit atrium connecting all four floors.
The glazing units that enclose the stair cores contain internal wooden blinds, allowing natural light to fill the space while reducing the heat gain.
Fumihiko Maki's recent projects, including the Annenberg Public Policy Center, the Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat and MIT Media Lab Complex are featured in our A+U July, 2012 Special Issue : "Power of Space – Fumihiko Maki's Recent Works 2007 - 2015".


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- Save time and money, walk to NAIT campus
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Architectural inspiration via Pinterest.
Solid and Striped + Staud Romy bikini; this and others at net-a-porter.com.
Place Nationale Isidore crochet-trimmed cotton-voile mini dress.
Ippolita Rock Candy 18-karat gold turquoise earrings.
Sophia Webster Lilico appliqued leather sandals.
Alaia laser-cut leather tote.
Darlings, what do you think of this chic space and the look it inspired?


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Edward Cornick offers a host of financial insights buried within this week's report
Earlier this week saw the publication of Department of Health annual report and accounts for the last financial year.
As expected, they show at a headline level in 2016/17 the department contained its resources within its budget and broadly delivered financial balance for the sector.
But as ever the accounts also provide a trove of information to pick at and pore over. Here are some initial reflections on what the accounts for 2016/17 tell us:
- 2016/17 was the so-called year of plenty – based on the last spending review it was the year that, by a distance, received the biggest funding increase expected between 2015-2020. But the provider sector deficit was still large at -£791m, which was over plan and heavily reliant on non recurrent funding. This means 2017/18 will be really tough – remember the tariff net increase reduces to 0.1% and provider cost improvement plans (CIPs) will have to average 4.2 per cent to achieve exacting control total targets. Bear in mind also that in accounts show in 2016/17, for the fourth year in a row, the overall DH position was supported by a significant capital to revenue transfer, this time equalling £1.2bn. This level of transfer cannot continue indefinitely.
- Quite apart from the actual deficit achieved, it is interesting the DH accounts say the provider sector planned for a "small" deficit of about £600m in 2016/17. A deficit of about £600m is not small. It is only small compared to the actual £2.5bn deficit in 2015/16. This shows that large deficits have become a new normal – but we need to ensure that this means the parameters of the debate on funding don't shift as well. Requiring trusts to continually plan for sizeable deficits is not a sustainable way to run a system. Proper funding is required.
- The NAO is happier with the DH than last year, when they landed the budget due to some last minute accountancy adjustments. But it still thinks the medium/longer term prognosis at a local level is unsustainable. Comptroller and auditor general of the NAO Sir Amyas Morse states: "Unlike in 2015-16, the department itself has not been forced to use the same level of significant one-off accounting adjustments to remain within its budget. However, the system at a local level remains under considerable financial pressure and Monitor's annual report and accounts note that "the NHS still has a long way to go before we can regard it as being on a sustainable footing again".
- The report reminded me that some £50bn of DH spend is on staff, which causes an intake of breath when considering removing the public sector pay cap. We have argued that developing a strategy for ending pay restraint over the course of this parliament is the right thing to do, but no one should have any illusions about the impact it will have in terms of the extra revenue funding required to pay for it.
- I was surprised provider asset disposals to generate capital only equalled £200m. This is despite trusts being incentivised to take exactly these sorts of actions by control totals, as they could have been the decisive factor in being able to unlock millions in sustainability and transformation funding. This should be kept in mind when debates are raging about how much capital can "easily" be generated through asset disposals in the coming years.
- The DH's public dividend capital ("loans" that essentially do not have repayment requirements) support for trusts' bottom line is not yet dead, although loans are now used more frequently. Despite sustainability and transformation funding, public dividend capital for 'non programme' elements equalled some £243m. Indeed the accounts note public dividend capital is "still issued as financing as planned support where trusts have a robust recovery plan in place". This is despite reports last year that public dividend capital would be largely replaced by working capital loans.
- CCGs deserve considerable credit. Some commentators doubted they would in reality really be able hold back the 1 per cent of their resources required by the DH in order to mitigate the predicted provider deficit. But they did, and this was of course key to the DH landing its budget.
- The financial special measures programme is "estimated" in the accounts to have delivered £100m in savings. This is coincidently exactly the same as what was estimated could be achieved by the programme by NHS Improvement once the initial cohort of trusts in financial special measures were identified in October 2016. It would be good to see more detail on how exactly this programme has indeed delivered the entirety of its projected savings.
- DH accounts say the Department spend on private providers was essentially flat from 2015/16, but this does not tell the whole story. We know trusts' own spend on private providers went up considerably as they were forced to outsource elective demand last winter to help with flow pressures in emergency demand. This meant the purchase by NHS providers of healthcare from independent sector providers increased by nearly 60 per cent in 2016/17, to nearly £400m.
- Control totals and financial special measures are lauded in the accounts as being the items of grip that turned the situation round from the record deficit in 2015/16. But we need to remember the counterfactual – trusts would have striven for savings in any case and they are not just motivated by regulatory action. The equation that more oversight simply equals better results is too simplistic. There needs to be balance between grip and provider autonomy in the medium term – what this might look like is something NHS Providers is currently working on.
Edward Cornick is finances policy adviser at NHS Providers.
NHS trusts' spending grew faster than GPs' in 2016-17
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It feels like I've been living in a submarine for the past month. Looking out the port-hole at the monotonous and incessant rain. Today dawned bright, cold and crisp with a frosting on the grass. I had a cup of my favourite Cuban coffee, a bowl of muesli and headed for Killiney Beach with the dogs. The tide was fully out so we were able to walk from the car park all the way to White Rock - and we returned beyond the car park as far as the DART station - about 45 minutes . The beach was quiet - a half dozen walkers, each with a dog or two. I dropped the dogs off and headed into town to check out a few shows in IMMA - stopping at Fixit in the Blackrock Shopping to get the ailing battery in my iPad replaced.
At IMMA the first sight I see on the way in is Barry Flanagan's giant bronze marching hare - a work expressly designed to put you in a good humour. It was originally intended for Aras an Uachtaran until President MacAleese discovered that Flanagan was a Brit. A happy conclusion as far more people now get to see it.
First stop was in the basement of the garden gallery for the Les Levine show. Levine was born in Dublin but moved to Canada and the USA in his early twenties so we can lay little claim to him. I'm not sure we want to anyway on the evidence of this show. The first exhibit was a video of an interview with the artist where he showed himself to be both long-winded and self-important. His CV suggests that lecturing was a big part of his career and I suspect that guff may be his forte. He's considered to be one of the founding fathers of media art (art that uses technology) but there's no evidence of that in the show. The exhibits consisted of photographs of a number of unremarkable bill-board campaigns and a series of 80 photographs from the Troubles in the North. These consisted of the usual gormless Unionists waving Union Jacks or hard-bitten Republican biddies looking sour. I then moved upstairs to where Nick Miller was responding to the studio of Edward McGuire. This was more like it. There was an interesting RTE interview of McGuire by Ciaran McGonigal where he outlined his colour theories. There were also artefacts from McGuire's studio including stuffed birds, his jazz records (Oscar Peterson etc.) and a mummified hare. There were also a series of paintings by Miller where he did a contemporary rendering of some portraits done by McGuire. Thus we saw a fresh-faced young Garech de Bruin by McGuire alongside the current aged version of the same man (see above). Chastening that for the sitter I felt. Anthony Cronin (above) and Paul Durcan were also given the same Dorian Gray treatment.
Back in the main square of IMMA I dropped in to Shot at Dawn, Chloe Dewe Mathews' photographs of locations where 1st World War deserters had been executed. This didn't work I felt. There was only banality where poignancy should have prevailed.
I headed back into town for a late lunch. I parked near the Four Courts and went for a stroll along the Liffey dropping into the Winding Stair for a browse. I happened on a curious self-lacerating poem by a relation of mine in the autumn edition of Moth - Blame was the title. There's an eclectic collection of books on view. Despite my going off him in recent years (the perverse pro-Bush posturing) I bought And Yet - Christopher Hitchens final collection of unpublished essays.
And so to lunch with a friend at Terra Madre. This is a discreetly located Italian restaurant - concealed in a basement on Bachelor's Walk. It features rustic, no-bullshit, Italian food with an extensive wine list. I had the bresaola followed by a truffle ravioli with lots of bread and a tasty bottle of Barberesco. A short, sharp, shock of espresso and I was on the road again.


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Last week the Supreme Court heard testimony in the case of Hawaii v. Trump, better known as the "travel ban" or "Muslim ban" case (for those interested, here's a synopsis from SCOTUSblog.) Commentary on this case has rightly ranged from freedom of religion to the boundaries of executive power to states' rights, but there is an underlying and persistent issue raised by this case that has not gotten the headline attention it deserves: the way that changes in our interconnected world accentuate the tensions between the rights of citizens and the obligations of neighbors. The fact that neighborly obligations don't sound like headline material is, let me suggest, proof of the problem.
It's easy to assume that deep down, we all know what citizenship requires. But is that true? Is there a simple answer to whether citizens of one country have obligations to citizens of another? What are reasonable limitations on the freedom of movement of non-citizens? When is it just—as opposed to legal, which is the work of this case—to restrict movement for the sake of national self-interest? It's tempting to imagine that we can leave it to the legal system to work out the nature of citizenship in the contemporary world. Unfortunately, while the courts will issue some legal clarity, they are unlikely to shed much light on the most foundational challenges of citizenship in the twenty-first century. This week we highlight two such challenges, which ask us to reconsider what it means to care for others, to be good neighbors, and to build a common good—and a common life—that is both rooted in thick moral sources, and shareable across disparate moral communities.
One trend likely to alter our understanding of citizenship is the dramatic rise in the global movements of people groups. Given the effects of global capitalism and geopolitical instability (not to mention the problem of rising tides and the displacement of coastal populations), any notion that the problems of migration will go away is mistaken. A powerful campaign to highlight the humanity of migrants, which can be lost in sound bites like "eleven million Syrians displaced by civil war," debuted this week around the country. The project, by Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei, is a documentary film called Human Flow, and was filmed over the course of one year across twenty-three countries. As the filmmaker describes, he felt compelled to undertake this project by the experience of going to the refugee boats on the Mediterranean, and watching women, children, and the elderly board in peril, with fear on their faces, heading to an unknown place where they were unknown. The vulnerability on display in those voyages, arising from threats at the most basic levels of human security, compel us to reflect on the obligations of neighborliness that transcend our privileges as citizens.
Another trend, at the other end of the spectrum from the disempowerment of refugees, is that the power of the citizen is being measured and manipulated in new and uncomfortable ways. As reported in Wired late last year, the Chinese government has begun a program to track "social credit," potentially in partnership with Chinese social media and finance corporations. According to the piece, "The aim is for every Chinese citizen to be trailed by a file compiling data from public and private sources by 2020, and for those files to be searchable by fingerprints and other biometric characteristics." This system quantifies and reinforces the privileges of being "well-known"—increased borrowing potential, for example, or better job prospects—while demonstrating just how removed certain populations are from the "right to be forgotten" (codified recently in the European Union's sweeping GDPR regulation). And, in case we are tempted to see China's project as a foreign or undemocratic activity, we should remember that the (ab)use and (mis)interpretation of citizens' data is precisely what is at stake in the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica scandal. What was Cambridge Analytica's purpose if not to aggregate, interpret, and sell the value of a citizen's (manipulable) opinion? If you have a social media account of any kind, this issue should hit very close to home (see Vol. 104).
What cases like Hawaii v. Trump remind us is that the local and the global are often deeply entwined: we are increasingly forced to "think globally," but it is as we "act locally" that our ideals are put to the test. Questions of citizenship bring up fundamental human concerns about the relationship between "us" and "them". Last year, after the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, I wrote about the "daily rituals of dignity" required to fortify us when we encounter extreme acts of dehumanization, like a white supremacist rally in one's hometown. It's precisely these daily rituals of dignity that help us imagine correctly the obligations of neighborliness, and how widely those obligations apply. One book that has helped me think through the basic structure of American civic life is Nancy Rosenblum's Good Neighbors. In that book, Rosenblum gives a picture of "the democracy of everyday life in America," and, as the title suggests, it begins with flesh and blood encounters with those people with whom we share a street address. Another source of careful thought on this topic comes from another Harvard professor, Danielle Allen, who engages abiding questions about encountering "the other" in her book, Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education. Through both of these works, we are reminded that the building blocks of citizenship require legal constraint, but they cannot be forged in our courts. Civic life is a set of daily practices, lived in the context of deep and growing diversity, through which we build and share a just and loving community with our neighbors.
However, before getting to the deep questions of the good civic life, we have to acknowledge that security of body and mind is a basic prerequisite for human thriving. Without security, the goods of neighborliness and citizenship cannot be meaningfully enjoyed. In an age of large-scale and increasing migration, often caused by geopolitical and geological crises far beyond the control of the individuals affected, we will have to wrestle with an old question—who is my neighbor?—in new ways. And even for those of us in more stable political communities, the quantification and manipulation of our very identities, whether through social credit or social media, will force us to bring new creativity to the central challenge of civic life, which is not only to exist with but to care for one's neighbor. Hawaii v. Trump is a flashpoint in which certain legalities will be clarified and certain precedents set, but the challenges of maintaining a just—and dare we hope for it, loving—civic climate will remain long after the case is settled.


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Carolina Crown rehearsal gallery Carolina Crown was featured in a photo gallery in the Charlotte Observer (N.C.) as they rehearsed at Nation Ford High School in Fort Mill, S.C. on Sunday afternoon, June 14. The corps continued to rehearse Sunday despite inclement weather. View the photo gallery at CharlotteObserver.com.
Musicians ready to show their stuff The Tribune-Democrat of Johnstown, Pa. reported on the Holy Name Cadets as they prepare to begin their summer tour. The corps hosted a free performance of its 2009 show, "Conflict and Resolution," for the community on Monday. High school students also had the opportunity to rehearse with the Cadets and see what a day in the life of a corps member is like as part of the organization's Music is Cool educational clinic. Read the article at Tribune-Democrat.com
Bluecoats drum corps gears up at Denison for tour The Bluecoats caught the attention of the Advocate in Newark, Ohio as they put the finishing touches on their 2009 show, "Imagine," at Denison University. The Canton-based corps spent a month on the Denison campus for their spring training rehearsal camp, preparing for "the most intense music experience of their lives." Read the article at NewarkAdvocate.com.
Blue Stars working toward second year in world finals The Blue Stars are building on last year's eighth-place World Championship finish and setting their sights on bigger things this year, the La Crosse Tribune reported Friday. Corps members will perform on Wednesday in Wisconsin before heading to Rockford, Ill. for their competitive debut. Read the article at LaCrosseTribune.com.
Spirit travels farthest in history of DARC The Dunn County News in Chippewa Falls, Wis. reported Friday that Spirit, based in Jacksonville, Ala., is traveling further to get to the June 21 Drums Along the Red Cedar competition than any other corps in the competition's nine-year history. The article details the corps' history and provides details about the show, to be held at the Don & Nona Williams Stadium in Menomonie. Read the article at DunnConnect.com.
Gibbs junior joins Florida drum & bugle corps The Knoxville, Tenn. News Sentinel reported on a local 16-year-old student who will be marching as a member of the Jacksonville, Fla.-based Teal Sound. Garrett Fuerst, who performs in the front ensemble, said playing in the corps with more experienced musicians "is really motivating and challenging at the same time." Read the article at KnoxNews.com.
Moultrie teens join drum & bugle corps The Moultrie Observer, of Moultrie, Ga., recently featured two local members of the Teal Sound. Rachel Foster, a color guard member, and Teal Ewer, a trumpet player, will travel nearly 10,000 miles around the country with the corps this summer. Read the article at MoultrieObserver.com.


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I can't rhyme and I can't even write when my heart is in motion,
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Listening to a million love songs that keeps it alive,
I thought love was blind but it doesn't choose.
Now day and night it's only ever you that's on my mind,
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Except I never had a choice; , my heart's made it tough,
And in a dream life would be a lot brighter.
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Rhythmic melodies when you come to see me.
It's like a new symphony in the skies is born,
If I told you now that I love you would you believe me?


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I get asked many questions from clients looking to book a wedding photographer. The most common are price, package detail, etc but when a client gets past that and wants to know what they're getting in a photographer there are specific questions most brides and grooms ask. Sometimes those questions are in an informal setting and there are times where I feel like I'm attending a job interview. In away every
consultation is like a job interview because I'm there presenting myself hoping to get hired to photograph their most memorable wedding day. When investing your time, money, and priceless memories into a wedding photographer you should always know what your getting. Besides the pictures and the album your also purchasing a photographer. And that photographer either knows what they're doing or they really don't. Here are a 5 questions you should ask to really know what type of photographer you're putting your trust into:
1) Who is going to be the head photographer on my wedding day?
A simple yet often missed question is whose going to be the main/head photographer during the day. Many photography companies have personel to take care of emails, phone calls, scheduling, etc so the person you consult with might not even be your photographer. I would recommend requesting a meeting with the photographer(s) who will be assigned to your wedding to make sure you connect with them on a professional and personal level. You are going to be spending the entire day with the wedding photographer so you better enjoy being around them.
2) As the wedding photographer, how do you prepare for a wedding day?
A wedding day is hectic in most cases with so many moving parts that any legitimate wedding photographer plans the wedding day before hand. Most seasoned wedding photographers scout the location days in advance, create shot lists, and even assist with coordination just to make sure the day runs smoothly with photography as a part of the wedding festivities. So if you interview a potential photographer that has no clue, be very cautious because you don't want any added stress with worrying about the photographer on your special day.
3) Do you have backup photography equipment?
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4) Do you carry the necessary insurance, permits, etc?
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5) Do you take certain photos in addition to your style of photography?
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The pictures the photographer takes alone should not be the only determining factor. Consider everything I mentioned above and ask more questions to clarify any grey areas you might have. Choosing the right wedding photographer for your wedding day is one of the most important investments you'll make.
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Thursday, March 24, 2011
Newspaper Cubby
This cubby can be left up to play with for as long as they need!
We saved newspapers for weeks for this!
Lay out your newspaper stack, gather 10 sheets and from one corner use a pencil to help you tightly roll them into tubes using sticky tape to hold. Repeat this 25 times. Use 3 tubes to make a triangle by stapling corners, make 5 triangles all up then make a star with the remanding 5 tubes.
While all this needs to be done by an adult there are plenty of jobs a little helper can do. Ask your child how you would make a triangle with 3 tubes and ask them to count out making sure you have 25 tubes
You may need help joining them all together but in the end it will look like this.. we used masking tape over the staples to give it more stability
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This is totally awesome! Love it! :)ReplyDelete
fantastic!! seriously love this. my kids are always using chairs and benches for their forts and get SO upset when we actually need to use the chairs to sit in. This is a great solution!ReplyDelete
I love that it uses recycled material - wonderful lesson that we don't always have to buy materials.ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing.
Kate this is just wonderful. Did it take long to make? I think this might be a project for J and Grandad :) We get so many free newspapers…love it. I've added it to dad's ever-growing list of projects :)ReplyDelete
Kate, it only took maybe an hour to make but had to wait for daddy to come home and help to construct it. It is quite big so needs an adult to hold it up while you secure it. yes i love that all the materials are recycled and easy to come by. Some lovely star playsilks would make a stunning night time cubby too!ReplyDelete
After it has been assembled and used can it be flattened again for storage?
if it can it sounds like great for my kids
Hi Ajar, no it is not able to be folded. It lasted a while outside undercover, faded the print but held strong. Enjoy creating yours!ReplyDelete


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Facebook Upgrades Advertising Platform
What Happened?
The social network is adding multiple new features to its advertising platform that will:
- Track whether your Facebook ads result in store visits and offline purchases.
- Let people navigate their way to your brand's nearest store from within the ad itself.
- Offer the ability to optimize ad creative, delivery and targeting based on store visits.
- Provide results across individual stores or regions.
What This Means For You
- You'll have access to real-time data on the offline response to your Facebook ads.
- It'll be easier for multi-location businesses to obtain and analyze the results of their Facebook ad campaigns at the local and regional levels.
Next Steps
- We're a Facebook Partner and a scheduled beta tester for these features. We'll be learning and testing out these new features over the next few weeks, and then begin implementing these new features into our clients' Facebook ad campaigns as they officially roll out.
Ads Coming to Google's Local Pack
What Happened?
- Google announced ads are coming to the Local Pack section of the organic search results. Last month, we saw the first appearance of Google testing these ads.
What This Means For You
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- This will increase the Local Pack section's size, from 3 listings to 4 listings, meaning it'll the take up more top-shelf space on Page 1 of the organic search results.
Next Steps
- We'll evaluate this feature further as Google continues rolling it out to their partner network and let you know it's something your business should consider trying out!
Campaign Groups Are Coming to Google AdWords
What Happened?
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What This Means For You
- We'll be able to make better recommendations for your business' Google AdWords campaign based on aggregated data across multiple accounts. Pretty good timing on Google's part since we just mentioned how Facebook's now providing results across individual stores or regions.
Next Steps
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Use the projects you completed in Units III and VI to conduct a preliminary risk analysis. Use a qualitative and a quantitative
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See the sample risk analysis on pages 253–254 in the textbook. Your essay should include the following components:
1. Generate a set of likely risk factors, and discuss them in terms of probability and consequences.
2. Use a qualitative technique to evaluate project risk.
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4. Develop preliminary strategies for risk mitigation.
5. Create a resource-leveling table for your project. For more information on resource leveling, refer to pages 407–416 in
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