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Summary: Clean the World is a three-year-old sustainability initiative to help improve hygiene and sanitation in third-world countries by partnering with North American hotels to recycle leftover soap bars in exchange for eco-friendly PR exposure. Because soap saves lives.
It would be a rare GM or owner that would shun their responsibilities to our environment. Guests are known to appreciate the work done by a property to achieve LEED or Energy Star certification. These programs offer operational savings, but more often than not, the capital costs rarely pay off in the short-term.
However, sustainability should be looked at not only within the property, but also in a broader sense; the world community. Forward-thinking operators are always looking for ways to contribute, especially when the benefits are measurable and the costs of execution are negligible.
Clean the World is an Orlando, Florida-based not-for-profit organization. Yet, in the three years since it commenced operations, properties representing a total of more than 300,000 guest rooms have come onboard. Their program is simple: take the used bars of soap left by guests in their rooms and refurbish them for distribution to the less fortunate. Since its founding in Feb. 2009 Clean the World has collected, recycled, and distributed more than 10 million bars of soap to children and families in communities around the globe.
This organization is working with some of the top names in the hospitality industry to collect, recycle, and distribute soaps and bottled amenities. Corporate partners include The Walt Disney World Resorts, InterContinental Hotel Group (IHG), Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Best Western International, Caesars Entertainment, Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group, Mandarin Oriental, Joie de Vivre Hotels, Lakeview Hotels & Resorts, Canalta Hotels, Bellstar Hotels & Resorts, and many more.
I had an opportunity to talk to Shawn Seipler, co-founder and CEO, about his successes with Clean the World. Here is an interesting overview of this operation. And if you are not participating, after reading this, you might want to consider.
What is behind the genesis of Clean The World?
Every day, 9,000 children around the world die from diseases, such as acute respiratory infection (pneumonia) and diarrheal diseases (cholera, dysentery), which can be prevented by proper washing with bar soap. Clean the World has a mission to put soap in the hands of people who need it most to improve hygiene and sanitation conditions, as well as to lessen the impact of disease and promote better living environments worldwide.
The idea is very straightforward. Take the estimated 1.5 million soap bars that are discarded each day by the North American hospitality industry and recycle them to help stop the spread of preventable diseases worldwide.
What is the Genesis of the Organization?
Clean the World was founded in February 2009 by two former e-commerce executives, Shawn Seipler and Paul Till, who happened to ask the question, "What happens to our soaps and shampoos after we leave the hotel rooms?" After calling 30 hotels to find out, they discovered that all of the used amenities were simply thrown away. They decided to change that by forming an organization to collect and recycle those amenities, and then use them to help stop the spread of preventable diseases through proper hand washing.
How does it work?
On average, hotels pay $0.65 per room monthly to participate in the Clean the World hospitality partnership program. It's a nominal fee that covers the operational costs involved with the collection, shipping, and distribution of soaps and bottled amenities from hotel properties throughout North America to children and families around the globe.
Clean The World provides free shipping of the amenities for participating hotel partners and helps to promote the property's participation in our program through targeted marketing and PR initiatives. Clean The World partners benefit from media coverage, broader awareness via social media and the ability promote their properties as sustainable alternatives making a difference in the lives of others through the hygiene items they provide for their hotel guests.
The involvement of the hotels beyond the daily collection of amenities is minimal. Clean The World provides the turnkey solution for the hospitality industry to recycle soaps and help save lives. Based upon current support levels, the program annually diverts 1.4 million pounds of surfactant waste from polluting local waterways/landfills.
What properties are participating? Is this a property-level program, or do you have chain-wide endorsement?
We covet corporate partnerships and are proud to acknowledge the ones we have. These currently include Walt Disney World Resorts, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group, Caesars Entertainment, Mandarin Oriental, Joie de Vivre Hotels, and our most recent corporate hotel partners – Best Western International and IHG Hotels
These corporate partners give support to all of their brands and encourage individual properties to join Clean The World. As you may imagine, many of our 1,400 hospitality partners came to us one at a time. These are welcome and we sign new partners every day. But if we can get corporate buy-ins from some of the major hotel chains that understand the benefits of sustainability and wish to promote them to their guests via the Clean The World program, it would make our efforts much easier and more effective.
What are the costs to the property? How does a property implement the program? What do you supply?
We supply the Clean The World-branded bins needed to collect and ship the hygiene items. We provide shipping labels and free shipping of the materials for hotel partners. Participating B&Bs pay for their own shipping without bins, given the lower volume accumulated. We have a corporate partnership in place with UPS which provides 'carbon neutral' shipping benefits to our hospitality partners, helping improve the sustainability profile and allow for the purchase of carbon credits to lessen the costs involved.
Where is the recycled product distributed?
Our global distribution partners include World Vision, Children International, Harvest Time International, Stop Hunger Now, Food for the Poor, Samaritan's Purse, Operation Christmas Child and others. They have field offices in many countries around the world and we provide the soaps and bottled amenities that are often distributed as part of hygiene kits given to children and families in communities everywhere.
Have you had challenges with unionized workers and complaints from operators based upon increased housekeeping labor costs at the property level?
Not at all! In fact, the Clean The World program doesn't add any work for the housekeeping staff. They simply do what they do ordinarily when cleaning the rooms, but instead of throwing items away, they simply sort soaps and bottles into separate bags before placing them in our collection bins. No extra effort, and to-date we have not experienced any negative feedback from unions.
What is the feedback from properties on implementation? Can you give me some personal stories?
Our implementations are quick and thorough. The process is easily understood with regard to how collections of amenities are to be made at each property and how the hotels can promote Clean The World to keep housekeepers motivated. Inspiration comes from the people themselves. The housekeeping staff members at many hotels are often from third-world countries. They understand the value of soap and what it can mean in terms of improved health for an entire community.
Many of our hotel partners report high levels of participation and excitement for our program because their staff members are from Haiti, Mexico, Jamaica, and a host of other Latin American and Caribbean countries that are on the receiving end of our distribution.
One story in particular stands out. Cecilia, a housekeeper at The Peabody Orlando, told us that she cried tears of joy when she heard of how many soap bars were being distributed in her native Haiti [2 million soap bars so far]. Cecilia says, "I am originally from Port-au-Prince. I still have family there and many were affected by the January 2010 earthquake. I don't make much money, but I know that I can give back in a special way each time I clean a room and collect soaps for Clean The World. I collect the soaps that make it back to my family and friends in Haiti. I'm doing something to help and that keeps me motivated to always do more."
You are only in North America at this time, do you plan expansion?
We are planning for expansion. We often receive inquiries from hotel properties in Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and other locations. The program makes sense wherever it is implemented, but we need investment in order to make it a reality. Once we can find the capital to expand and open additional soap recycling facilities in other continents, we will grow exponentially in efficiency and effectiveness. We will truly be cleaning the world.
What about shampoo, conditioner, and other small bottle amenities: Do you recycle this product as well?
Yes, but the methodology is slightly different. All of these amenities are brought back to our processing plant. Here the exterior of the bottles are washed. If the bottles are judged to be at least three-quarters full, they are recycled for domestic distribution into homeless shelters. Bottles with lower fill levels are sent for recycling by a company called Newtech, which turns the substrate into plastic decking.
Can you think of any reason why a property would not participate?
The only objection some properties have is price. As our growth indicates, most hotel companies realize the benefits of our program, but some still get hung up on the idea of paying to recycle products.
We look at it simply. You can throw the items away, gain no PR or marketing benefits, contribute nothing to sustainability and social responsibility, and face disappointing the guests – your customers – who prefer to stay at eco-friendly hotels. Or, you could join with Clean The World, participate in our lifesaving amenities recycling program, and receive all of the benefits of PR, marketing, free shipping of materials, and the knowledge that you are lessening the build-up of trash in local landfills.
It's important to note that we are not just collecting soaps and storing them in a warehouse. To date, we've shipped 10 million recycled bars of soap, distributing them to over 45 countries.
Hotel companies make their own decisions, but from our perspective, this is a no-brainer in favor of saving lives with soap. With some 16 million hotel rooms in the world, we've got a long way to go.
You can find more information on this company at their website www.cleantheworld.org
(Article published on HotelExecutive on June 26, 2012)


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Some songwriters spend a lot of time waiting. Waiting for inspiration. Waiting for an idea. But why waste time when you could be writing right now? Or any time you want to?
One of the things songwriters wait for is a big idea that will launch them into a new song, something that is emotionally interesting, something they want to write about. Sometimes life hands it to you, When that happens, say "thank you" and go write your song. But life doesn't always cooperate, so a writer can end up in a long dry spell.
You don't need to wait around hoping an idea will magically appear. You can use a trick that professional songwriters use and keep your creativity in gear all the time.
A theme is the central idea of a song
Think of your theme as the bones of your song, the central core that holds the song together. There are some song themes that have proven appeal. They explore what it means to be human, to deal with emotions and situations that occur in all of our lives. There are endless ways to approach these themes which is what makes every song unique. Here's a brief list:
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- Life and Self: Finding oneself, facing challenges, growing up, reaching for dreams, spiritual experiences, seeking fulfillment, goals & achievements.
- Family & Friends: Family relationships, best friends, conflicts, forgiveness, milestones.
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You can (and should) write songs from personal experience, expressing the feelings and ideas that are important to you. But it's sometimes good to take a break and practice writing from the "outside." Getting a little distance on your theme can help you learn to connect with listeners who know nothing about what happened. What details do you need to give them so they'll understand what happened, get involved with the characters, and feel the emotion?
Film & TV: You might have noticed that songs use many of the same themes that drive other types of entertainment, especially movies and TV shows. While hit songs tend to focus on relationships and emotions rather than car chases and shoot-outs, they share many of the same dramatic elements: Who is involved? What will happen next? How does the main character feel about it?
You can use popular movies and TV shows to lead you to themes that pack a big emotional punch both for you and your listeners. Keep a notebook handy whenever you're watching a TV show or movie. Look for romantic or emotional scenes. Try to find two or three sentences that sums up the relationship between the characters. Write down a few lines of dialogue. Add some ideas of your own. Which character do you identify with? What is he or she thinking and feeling. Chances are you'll come up with the start of a good song that will appeal to a lot of listeners.
News shows and documentaries: These real life dramas can be inspiring, scary, joyful, or dark. Choose a news story or real life drama that moves you, something you want to write about. Then look for the central idea. What is the emotion behind the story? What drove the person to do what they did?
For a wonderful example of this type of theme, listen to the Country hit "I Drive Your Truck" recorded by Lee Brice. Read the lyrics here. The story is based on an interview on a news show with the father of a soldier killed in Iraq. Notice the physical details that the writers imagined, and how they changed the singer from a father to a brother.
It's important for you to put yourself emotionally into these situations, just as these writers did, imagining what it feels like and how it looks. Be on the lookout for situations that draw your emotional attention.
Keep your themes universal
By looking outside yourself for themes to write about, you can overcome the tendency we all have to write about ourselves from a very individual, self-oriented point of view. We assume that other people know us and care about our lives. But, truthfully, if you want to be a successful songwriter, most of your listeners will be complete strangers. They want to hear something they can relate to, feel, and identify with. That's the great power of a popular songs.
There's nothing wrong with writing songs that are very personal. They're important because they express something you want to say. But when you want to reach out to a wider audience, consider choosing a theme and expressing it in a way that many people can relate to.
Songwriting techniques to try
Choose an emotional scene in a TV show, film, or news program and try to sum up the theme in a few sentences. Choose one of the characters and imagine yourself in their shoes. What is that person feeling? What happened? How are they dealing with it? Try writing a song that communicates a similar idea or emotional message.


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I received this camera from my mom who found it at a yard sale for something like $1. I tried to find some information about the Akira, but I was having a hard time even finding examples of photos that people had taken using the camera. Clearly the Akira 2000N camera is not too popular?!
The whole camera is made from plastic, body, lens and all and uses 35mm film! It is very lightweight and feels like you are holding nothing in yours hands, although it is quite a large camera for what it does! It does have a place to attach a flash, a tripod, and/or a cable release, which seems a little crazy to me! There are 4 apertures for this camera: F6.3, F8, F11, and F16. Each of these are also clearly marked with a little weather symbol so it helps you guess the exposure if you are just learning. For example the F6.3 has a little cloud icon which is what you would set it to for complete cloud cover situations, while the F16 has a sun icon and is for full sunlight. The shutter speed on this camera is preset and there is no way to change it. Since the Akira 2000N 50mm lens is plastic, the photos come out pretty soft looking, but give you that nice lomography look. The Akira 2000N would be a great alternative to a Diana or Holga camera!
This camera is definitally not an SLR camera! While I knew this going in, usually you only have to worry about parallax error, not necessarily the viewfinder completely lying to you! Hah! I shot a full roll of film and got it developed on the same day. When the images came back I was really surprised to see that the way I had composed my shots in the viewfinder is not how they turned out on the actual photo! Everything looked zoomed out, so the camera captured more of the surroundings than the viewfinder led me to believe! Here is an example below: the top image is what I saw through the viewfinder window and the bottom is what the camera actually captured. Pretty big difference right!
So just keep in mind when shooting with the Akira 2000N, that when looking through the viewfinder everything looks larger and is more zoomed in that what will actually appear on the photo. You will definitely be capturing a lot more of your surrounds than you are bargaining for! Other than that, the camera is pretty straightforward to use and is comparable to shooting with most toy cameras on the market for a much better price! I will be posting more shots from the Akira very soon, so stay tuned!


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- Anonymous31 March 2016 at 01:50
Hahahahaha. First off, one must create a culture for it to be appropriated. No negro has yet to build a culture. Second, she is at that unniversity--a cornerstone of Western culture. If it weren't for slavery, she would live in a dung heap, eat bugs, and shit in the pond she drinks water from. Third, I love how negros like to claim the Egyptians as themselves... Arabs are just a step above the negro, and they have no love for them.ReplyDelete
Western culture must seperate from these parasites or enslave them again. They offer nothing. Even the special exceptions will still produce retchid offspring that negate any positive value the exceptional negro brought to society.
End the insanity. We don't need rap or near-humans with exceptional athletic ability anymore than we need the ghettos we pay for...
- Anonymous31 March 2016 at 16:16
The humour is amusing but the hypocrisy is even more informatie: the boy in dreadlocks is presumably Jewish from his surname and that is the ethnic group which ran the slave trade during the Roman Empire's time and afterwards teamed up with the Africans (late converted to Islam through conquest) as a slave trading system which operated in the Middle East and in the Western countries (enslaving millions of White Europeans from Ireland, Britannia and Russia from which they generally ended up either on ships galleys or in the harems as sex slaves) and then via the New World (through South America with its large Jewish settlements) as principally slave traders of Africans. The first slave owners in the future USA were Negroes and when the Royal Navy effectively ended the African slave trade in 1806, it was Africans who complained of being deprived of such a financially successful trade. The Vice President of the Confederate States during the American Civil War was a Jew who absconded with millions to England and Jews owned large numbers of slaves in America's South. One could say these two groups deserve one another. On the other hand, the Egyptians might cavil at being described as Negroes since their rulers (pharaohs) were Greek in origin and the most accurate portraits of Ancient Egyptians (on their saccrophogi) show decidedly Caucasian features.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1 April 2016 at 06:54
Pues a Cory le hace falta un ¨ lavao ¨ a pistola ( a presión ).ReplyDelete
A lo mejor después es muy limpio.
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Jew dude is tri-racial .he have white (clear skin and hair ),asian( eyes and upper jaw ) and negroid( lips,mouth and nose) .features .ReplyDelete


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One day in 1980, New York's history-minded Democratic Senator, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, sat in his wood-paneled study reading the Op-Ed page of a major newspaper. Suddenly he smacked the floor with his cane like Lionel Barrymore, shook his head and growled, "Of a sudden, the Republican Party is the party of ideas."
At least that's how I imagine it. Anyway, it was 1980, he did say the Republican Party had become the party of ideas. and he was right. He was also surprised, understandably. A party that had spent decades hanging on through low budget liberalism was finally changing. prompted by forces its establishment had not ignited and could not control.
From the West came the broad, grass-roots antitax movement signaled by passage of California's Proposition 13. From the East came new writers with new assumptions, who argued for change in the journals of New York and Washington. The two forces converged to produce something fresh: a modern conservatism that could govern.
At the center was Ronald Reagan, who kept in one piece a naturally divided movement—social conservatives who would ban abortion, libertarians who would legalize cocaine—first by giving its members a winner when they hadn't expected to have a winner in their lifetimes. Mr. Reagan's interests were widely and openly conservative. He had come to his beliefs at a time when the right's tenets were clear: budgets should be balanced; put a Federal agency in charge or the Sahara and it would run out of sand. But he was receptive to new thinking and generous toward all strains of conservatism because in a way he believed In them all. His respect for other conservatives spread as if by contagion. For a decade the people he brought to Washington functioned pretty well as one big fractious family.
And then … the crash. Not of the economy but Dr Communism, which brought down more than the Berlin wall. For if Mr. Reagan held modem conservatism together, two pillars kept it aloft. The first was unambiguous and effective opposition to the evil of Communism. The second was a promise that Republicans would make government smaller, less expensive, less intrusive. The first pillar fell last summer, on roughly the day The New York Times ran the headline "Gorbachev Quits as Party Head; Ends Communism's 744Year Reign." The second pillar began to wobble when the Bush Administration, in 1990, rescinded "Read my lips."
The end of imperial Communism made the movement start to float apart; the end of "Read my lips" made it mean. And thus the current impasse, in which conservatives hut"1 thunderbolts at one another. William F. Buckley Jr., an architect of the movement and one of its authentic heroes, is castigated as a narrow-minded excluder; he, in turn, eases into a pair of tuxedo slippers to tap out editorials damaging the Presidential campaign or the most rightward of the serious candidates in the 1992 race. Pat Buchanan.
It is not an easy time to be a conservative.
A decade ago, while Pat Moynihan was turning into Lionel Barrymore, R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., a columnist and the editor of the conservative journal The American Spectator, was writing a book called "The Liberal Crack-Up," which traced with originality and verve the decline of liberal thinking through liberal behavior. Now he has written a book abut the right. "The Conservative Crack-Up" is part memoir, part essay, and it has some useful; things to say about Conservatives and their current predicament.
"The politics of the left and right are bereft," Mr. Tyrrell says. "The liberals have not had new ideas since the last ice age . . . Conservatives have coherent ideas, but they have very few gifted pols. The conservatives relish for politics is only sporadic and almost wholly dependent on their perception that some zany reformer has become a threat to their home sweet home."
Mr. Tyrrell notes that one of the reasons conservatives didn't make some of the gains that they could have was that by the time they won power in 1980 many of their leaders, from their new President to the editor of their most important journal (Mr. Buckley of National Review) to the godfather of the freshest troops (Irving Krystal of the neoconservatives) were near or at retirement age. For them the victory of 1980 was less a hungry beginning than a satisfying end.
But this book is best when Mr. Tyrrell speaks of the distance, the utter disconnection, between the nation's establishment—the press, academia, the arts—and its people. He accurately observes that "conservatives have become accustomed to being underdogs in the cultural wars," that in the 1970's the conservative movement was the least celebrated of movements, receiving "nothing comparable to the publicity attending the antiwar movement, the youth movement or the gruesome feminist movement. And yet only the conservative movement was to attract enough support from the country to capture the White House."
The elites did more than ignore a movement. The "smokestack industries of American culture"—universities, policy institutes and the news media—have polluted the intellectual environment with their "incessant politicizing." The result, in Mr. Tyrrell's view, is a national blandness, a new conformity: "America's Kultursmog has eliminated most forms of intellectual individualism with alarming thoroughness. There was a time when American culture was teeming with diversity and even with heresy. But over the last few decades the atmosphere of American culture has grown stale as the arts, ethics and every product of intellect has been tainted with the political vaporings of the New Age."
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Mr. Tyrrell is amusing and pointed when he rails about what is wrong with the left. When he writes about the right, however, things get uncomfortable. Much of the history he tells is old and has been told, often better, elsewhere. Some of Mr. Tyrrell's complains seem tired. When he laments his and other conservatives' exclusion from the tables of the news media titans, one simple wonders why he resents the absence of a dying establishment. Young writers in their 20's and 30's, hazed, shaved and barked at in the politically correct boot camps of the Ivy League, continue to rise, rebel and turn right. And they are the future.
There is less Menckenish irreverence in this book than mere rudeness towards safe targets. The score-settling ratio is high. Mr. Tyrrell calls Gary Mills a backstabber and Hilton Kramer bilious; he suggests that George Will is an explosive figure motivated by malice. Often the book seems less an examination of a crack-up than an example of it.
Sometimes it is hard to read, hampered by an odd tone, a kind of dispirited puckishness. And sometimes it's just heavy going. Some conservative writers like Mr. Tyrrell affect a kind of big word style (predisposed to rodomontades, Mr. Tyrrell tends to compose feuilietons about the day's perturbations). In part I think because they all grew up in a time when liberals had intellectual hegemony, one of the first things you had to prove as a conservative was that you weren't stupid. But I'm not sure conservatives have to prove that any more.
Ultimately, this book is frustrating because it does not maintain a level of seriousness about what is behind the name-calling on the right—an inability so far to reach agreement on what conservatives should stand for and fight for in the new world. Should the right try, heroically, to return to the fight for smaller, less expensive government, or should it aim at increasing revenues that would allow us to get the books aright and fund what Pat Buchanan has called Jack Kemp's big rock candy mountain? Mr. Tyreell does not address this and other questions with depth.
There are, in 1992, many kinds of conservatives. Concorde conservatives crisscrossing the Atlantic to check on this election and that caucus, cultural conservatives, bristling supply-siders, spiky libertarians and others, all rent by 12 years of intramural fighting, conflicting ambitions and snubs. A dozen years of leadership will leave you tired; a dozen years away from the grass roots, when you used to be the grass roots, might leave you disoriented. It would be amazing if they weren't fighting, and weren't mean.
One wishes Mr. Tyrrell's magazine and other journals of the right would be not an army but a battlefield, not a combatant but a site on which combat occurs, each of the many sides contending, gaining and losing terrain, until the best side wins. We might all sit down, breathe deep, take heart and busy ourselves with pillar building. As for those fractious, angry Washington conservatives who would rather, this year, hurl thunderbolts, perhaps they need a rest. If they don't come together soon, they will get it.


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We organized ourselves through groups on Facebook. The main group, 'Codesign in Kosovo', was created for everyone involved in the project, and we also created smaller task specific work groups, e.g. for the ones who were responsible for the communication strategy of the project. The Facebook groups were used for various tasks: planning and inviting to meetings, workshops or events (see "Making a dialogue cinema"), sharing summaries, exchanging photos from our everyday and sharing common project photo albums that we put together on Flickr. We also used the chat functionality of Facebook, together with instant messaging services like Viber and WhatsApp, to do long distance interviews between Denmark and Kosovo. This allowed the Danish codesigners to ask follow up questions to the snapshots taken by the students from the University of Prishtina in the beginning of the project.
Modern technology allows young people to constantly document and share their everyday through digital platforms. The codesigners from KADK acted on this by inviting the University of Prishtina students to share images from their everyday life. In response, the codesigners from KADK would send similar pictures to the students from their everyday life in Copenhagen. The challenge was prompted with opening questions such as; "Where are you together with friends?", "What do you do together?" and "How do you use your local neighborhood?". Our photos were sent through email and social media and shared within our fellow Facebook group.
The codesigners from KADK invited the students from University of Prishtina and young people from both Podujevë/Podujevo and Gjilan/Gnjilane for a series of three-hour walks in their cities to talk about public places. Throughout the walks we shared the process of documenting the places and conversations with each other by taking turns holding the camera. In some cases, the walks led to places of recreation, some being hidden or secret from the rest of the public. In other cases, the highlighted places represented a missing link or a concern, e.g. an empty library, high-fenced public buildings etc. We later used the material from the Prishtinë/Priština city walks as the basis for the "Everyday stories as a game of Domino" workshop.
Throughout the project, the codesigners from KADK focused heavily on creating an open and transparent environment for all partners. This included communicating regularly through a central Facebook group and having the UN common premises as the center of the project and as a place where students from University of Prishtina were also invited in, even when the codesigners from KADK were not present. Events and materials of the project were always visible during our different meetings: Pictures were printed out and put on display at tables so that everyone was able to get an insight into the subject material. We could refer to specific pictures in discussions and rearrange them to create new meaning.
"Pick two domino cards that tell something important. Present your picks to the group, and make sense of the issues by combining all your cards on a poster." With these simple rules we worked together in groups combined of five people from KADK, University of Prishtina and the UN. A domino card consisted of two halves: a photo and a snippet of text or quote related to the photo. The photo and text on the domino cards were the very material we had produced ourselves from "Exchanging snapshots" and the "City walks" around Kosovo, and the material could be combined in new ways when the cards were placed like domino bricks. Through the game, we transformed the unsorted pile of stories and photos into four posters, one for each group, that pointed towards issues of vacant public space, libraries as youth spaces and much more that could be explored in the following parts of the project. Each group presented their poster and issues for the rest of the participants.
We realized that it is difficult to talk about youth engagement without concrete examples of what it can be. We went looking for already existing stories or activities and asked the question "Could this be youth engagement?". Equipped with camcorders we visited the young people and sites of the specific activities that we had come upon through our prior activities in Gjilan/Gnjilane and Prishtinë/Priština. Together, in short 2 hour sessions, we recorded material about the specific story or activity, e.g. a protest at the university or local bloggers. Afterwards, we edited the material into short, concrete examples of youth engagement. The documentaries were shown at the dialogue cinema in Gjilan/Gnjilane (see "Making a dialogue cinema").
The codesigners from KADK, University of Prishtina students and the Gjilan/Gnjilane students transformed the local sports hall in Gjilan/Gnjilane into a temporary cinema and showed five films about youth engagement (see "Youth engagements on film"), followed by a documentary about Kosovo rural life from the 70's. With the documentaries as an inspiration, the audience, who counted more than 100 young people, shared their own stories of engagement on pieces of paper and hung them for display around the cinema screen. The process of engaging the audience with dialogue cards was facilitated by Bardha from University of Prishtina. The result was 24 different stories of youth engagement in Gjilan/Gnjilane.
It was crucial for us to have a broad audience of young people attending the dialogue cinema with their inputs on youth engagement. Joined by the Gjilan/Gnjilane students, some of which were featured in the micro-documentaries, we promoted the event by setting up flyers and posters at high schools, universities and hangout spots in the city. This also enabled us to talk directly to people about the event. An online Facebook page was also created to spread news of the event through the network of the already involved people.
One outcome of the "Everyday stories as a game of domino" workshop was a proposal to create an event in public space centered around building a temporary hang out space: "Buildnic" was the working title. Some of the students from University of Prishtina had invited a circle of friends to take part in a planning meeting a few days prior to the event, together with the codesigners from KADK. Plenty of ideas were proposed, but in the end it was clear that none of the participants at the meeting had a personal stake in the event. Compared to the dialogue cinema, where the Gjilan/Gnjilane students and their projects were featured in films that were shown at an event they themselves were helping create, the Buildnic event was lacking a purpose and a reason for engaging. Therefore, the codesigners from KADK decided to cancel the event.


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Police have launched an operation to protect the family of Tony Hayward, BP's British boss, after they received hate mail and threatening phone calls.
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The chief executive's wife Maureen said the material had made her and her two children feel "rather uncomfortable" at their home in Kent.
The family has been targeted amid growing hostility to the firm in the United States for the spill that has so far leaked about one million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
Speaking at her house in a village near Sevenoaks, Mrs Hayward said: "Members of my family have had nasty phone calls and we have also had mail from groups.
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Kent Police sources yesterday confirmed there was an "ongoing police operation" involving Mr Hayward's family home but did not disclose the nature and details. The family home is protected by a 12ft high perimeter hedge and has a private access road.
Mr Hayward, the face of BP during the 49-day crisis, was dubbed the "the most hated and clueless man in America" by one American newspaper after several insensitive or over-optimistic comments about the spill.
Amid complaints from affected business-owners that BP was not paying compensation quickly enough, President Barack Obama yesterday said he wanted to be sure that "the money flows quickly and on a timely basis".
His administration had assigned people to "ride herd on BP to make sure that's happening".
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Amid the outcry over the worst oil spill in US history, Mr Hayward and BP were offered a modicum of comfort by Haley Barbour, the governor of Mississippi, who said that hysteria surrounding the leak was more damaging than the oil itself.
"The truth is we have had virtually no oil," Mr Barbour told Fox television. "We've had a few tar balls but we have a few every year", he added, because of natural seepage in the Gulf of Mexico.
"The biggest negative impact for us has been the news coverage," he said, as reports gave the misleading impression that the entire coast from "Texas to Florida" was "knee deep in oil".
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Mr Barbour is known as one of the most vocal pro-oil voices on the US political scene, receiving almost $700,000 from oil and gas industries in his past two campaigns. From 2000 to 2007, his lobbying firm was also paid $2 million for representing oil and gas interests.
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For the past month I have used the Volta while rock climbing in the Salt Lake City and Moab areas. It is a 9.2 mm rope designed for hard redpoints and light and fast alpine adventures. As a bonus it can be used as a single, half, or twin rope. The rope feels especially supple and it is noticeable different from the old line of ropes in that way. It feeds from a belay device quite easily when belaying a leader and the suppleness also shines during those cruxy clips. I primarily use a gri gri 2 when belaying and I was moderately concerned about lowering climbers (especially heavier climbers) with a rope this thin. However, I didn't notice any increased difficulty when lowering a climber but I would still advise people to wear a belay glove for added safety. I have taken several lead falls on the Volta and the catch is quite soft but not overly stretchy considering the soft and dynamic feel to the rope. I don't have a good sense of durability having only used it for about a month but so far there are no signs of wear. Overall, I am quite impressed with the new ropes and excited to use it on my future adventures!
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are they 1/8 or 3/32?
I have a 36t*104 ring, paired with a 14t cog (this one is 3/32) and a sram pc1 chain.
Occasionally I hear cracking noises so I'm trying to understand where it's coming from.
chain tension is OK, so is chainline..
if, as I suspect, the rings are 3/32, then I'll probably ditch the chain for a new one.
call me paranoid, but I don't want to break a chain while off the saddle on a climb...


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Jean-Christophe Filliatre writes: > But the purposes of cdk_doc and ocamlweb are clearly different: > > - cdk_doc is nice to produce HTML documentations of libraries, to be > browsed when developping. > > - ocamlweb is a literate programming tool; it means that it is used > to produce a document describing the all code i.e. interface but > also implementation, Yes, but it would be very useful if the markup could serve both purposes simultaneously. I'm using ocamlweb extensively and I find myself writing *.mli files that could be turned into online documentation (see http://heplix.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de/~ohl/omega/omega.pdf for an extended example). Navigating a hyperlinked PDF version of the woven file is easy enough, but quick online documentation generated from the _same_ *.mli files (ignoring the implementation files) would also be a very welome addition. It's not entirely trivial to design something doesn't constrain ocamlweb too much, in particula in the math arena, but it could be done. A first step would be for ocamlweb to ignore the cdk_doc markup and for cdk_doc to map TeX commands to a ``under construction'' tag. -- Thorsten Ohl, Physics Department, TU Darmstadt -- email@example.com http://heplix.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de/~ohl/ [<=== PGP public key here] ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail email@example.com. Archives: http://caml.inria.fr


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An Alabama woman was awarded an $8.5 million judgment by an Etowah County Circuit Court jury last week in an SUV product liability case.
Latoya Duckett, 22, was a passenger in the Mercury Mountaineer that suddenly veered to the left to avoid another vehicle, lost control and rolled over four-and-a-half times. The SUV ultimately came to rest upside down in oncoming traffic.
The month-long trial, which began September 14, concerned a 2005 lawsuit filed against Ford Motor Company over a rollover crash which occurred in 2003. The accident killed two people and injured two others, including Duckett.
Willie Gary of the law firm Gary, Williams, Finney, Lewis, Watson & Sperando, Joel Rosen of Pennsylvania and Jason Knowles of Cusimano, Keener, Roberts, Knowles & Raley argued that Ford Motor Co. negligently designed, manufactured, produced and distributed the Mercury Mountaineer, which caused the accident.
The trial team argued that the Mountaineer involved in the accident was defective and dangerous and failed to possess sufficient stability to prevent it from rolling over onto its side and roof during anticipated traffic maneuvers. The company was aware of this defect but refused to make the necessary corrections.
As a result of the accident, Duckett sustained significant injuries. Her right leg was amputated just below the knee and her left arm is paralyzed. She also suffered some brain damage, but according to Knowles, she stilll earned a master's degree.
"Ford Motor Company took a calculated risk by manufacturing defective vehicles," commented Willie Gary. "As a result of their negligence, our client suffered loss of her right leg. No amount of money will ever be able to replace her leg or her quality of life. "We hope that this verdict will send a message to all manufacturers to cure or recall vehicles with known defects that can destroy the life and health of our citizens," Knowles said.
This was the largest verdict in Etowah County history and broke the $5 million verdict set by Greg Cusimano and Mike Roberts of the same Gadsden law firm in 1985. #
I wrote an earlier post about this case without knowing that an IB member was counsel. The post dealt with citizen comments about the article that first reported the verdict. Some citizens opined that verdicts like this were "killing business". I posed the question: Which is more important "Human Life" or "Business Life"? ( LINK ) Surprisingly, the post received no comments from IB members or citizens. Congratulations to all on a fair verdict considering the terrible injuries suffered by Ms. Duckett; my sympathies to all the family members who lost loved ones in this horrible accident.
I think folks who suggest that trials decided in favor of the plaintiff in these defective product cases are "killing businesses" and passing the cost on the "the rest of us" (btw, the people hurt and killed are most always those among "the rest of us") are failing to calculate a) the cost of caring for those people (and their dependents) for the rest of their lives, b) that cost greatly magnified by the removal of penalties/incentives for manufacturers to make safe products c) the financial and economic benefits created by the research, design, manufacture, and competitive advantage created by motivating safer products. For starters - there's also upholding the ideals of fairness and justice.
Mark,Thank you for pointing out your post, I had missed it. I updated my post to include a link to it in the "Learn More" section. It is definitely worth a read.Darren, I couldn't agree more. Thanks for the comment.
Darren -- your comments are particularly timely in light of the GM and Chrysler bankruptcies. Many in Congress did not realize that GM and Chrysler were attempted to discharge liability for all vehicles manufactured before June 2009 in the bankruptcy. Doing so would have shifted the costs of these defective vehicles to either (1) the unfortunate victims of accidents; or more likely (2) state governments and tax payers as Medicaid and Medicare programs paid for the care of those injured by these defective products. Why should taxpayers subsize the poor design decisions of auto-makers?Fortunately, groups like InjuryBoard, AAJ, AIEG, and other safety groups put enough pressure on Congress that GM and Chrysler have voluntarily assumed liability for "new" accidents involving these "old" cars and will be compensate those who are injured or killed by their defective products.
I can't believe what I am readng. "Congratulations to all on a fair verdict considering the terrible injuries suffered by Ms. Duckett." This was not a fair verdict. How can an auto manufacturer be held liable when someone makes a sharp left turn at highway speed to "avoid another vehicle?" That's just bad driving and no vehicle made by any manufacturer, ever, can do that without crashing. Well, I guess they are liable, to the tune of $8.5 mil! Hate to tell you folks, but you just raised the cost of every Ford-built vehicle by a couple of bucks for the next year. Of course, lawyers don't care about that. When you need a new car, you just sue somebody and they'll buy it for you. The rest of us "regular folks" are the ones who pay the real price. These blog posts keep refering to "defective products." That's a personal injury lawyer catch phrase. The Moutaineer is not a defective product. The defect is in the legal system that allows you people to bring baseless lawsuits against innocent defendants. Shame, shame, shame on the law firm of Gary, Williams, Finney, Lewis, Watson & Sperando, Joel Rosen of Pennsylvania and Jason Knowles who brought this lawsuit. Granted, some lawsuits are justified. There really are defective products out there that legitimately cause accidents resulting in injuries. But these are so few and far between that it seems like you personal injury lawyers have to go after every and any manufacturer and hope for a big payoff to make a profit for the year. Of course I realize that nothing I say here will make a difference. This is who you are and I can't change how you were raised. But MY parents taught me to believe in the truth and to fight for what's right. I am ashamed to be an American, who is a part of the legal system that allows this kind of travesty to happen.
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2 important information that we'll look out for a graph: y-intercept and x-interceptReplyDelete
1. Check the y-intercept, you are informed that c < 0, where would you position "c"?
2. To find the "x-intercept", you've attempted to substitute some possible a and b values to give you an idea what it could be. This is a good strategy. However, you need to remember that, the question uses general values, so you need to generalise it in terms of "a", "b" and/or "c" when indicating the "x-intercept".
On the other hand, you have labelled the lines correctly :)
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Today I'm up at the kaBoks blog with a Get Well Soon card.
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Sneak Peek...
A Few days ago I also shared this card for the June challenge over at the kaBoks blog...
It's a Thank you card of my oldest daughter since she graduated last summer.
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Helping Families in Timor-Leste through Keyhole Gardens
Subsistence farmers in Timor-Leste depend upon crops to feed their families. LDS Charities and Catholic Relief Services have partnered to help farmers produce more crops through building keyhole gardens.
LDS Charities and One Acre Fund Partnership to Enable Farmers to Lift Themselves Out of Poverty
LDS Charities partners with One Acre Fund to help farmers in countries like Kenya and Uganda magnify their efforts so they can provide enough food to support their families and sell in the market. The organizations provide access to high-quality seeds and fertilizer, which will help farmers produce more food and lift themselves out of poverty.
Helping Youth in Ghana through Agriculture
LDS Charities and 4-H Ghana partner to organize 50 agricultural clubs in Ghana. These clubs help teens to develop leadership abilities and gain practical skills.
Gardening Project Brings Healing
LDS Charities partners with the National Mental Health Center in Mongolia to provide mental health patients with greenhouses and tools to aid in their healing.


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On Facebook and Internet citizenry
This morning I read a post on SeekingAlpha. The author accused unhappy Fecebook users and competitors of "whining," as Facebook "schooled the Internet." The author is correct that complaints abound, as do comparisons to AOL's previous dominance in being an Internet gateway.
Thr problem is, Facebook is worse than AOL ever was, and it is not a "walled garden." In a few short years, due to Facebook's impressive aggressiveness and other developers' laziness, there have become two classes of Internet users:
– users of the Internet who try to consume its services
– Facebook Internet CITIZENS
The reason I say that is that more and more sites have resorted to becoming de facto Facebook add-ons. Some big services only accept Facebook logons as sign-ups, period. Many services only accept Facebook comments. Many services haven't implemented their own internal ratings systems, in favor of Facebook Likes.
You may be okay with a world where Facebook is the passport to the Internet, but I am not. That's not to knock its impressive zeal for imperialism, new tools, and ease of convincing developers to accept its API and platform as their own base. It's just to point out the facts.
I represent a startup that is working on two major web 3.0 projects. Hell, web 3.0 will be easier if one company controls the majority of the information and sign-ons. But just let it be said that I am a part of the group warning that Facebook will become more than a social monopoly. It may become an Internet services monopoly also.


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Are you a person with disability who needs help in claiming insurance benefits? Suffering from a long-term disability may already come with a tremendous amount of physical and emotional pain. The last thing you want is to suffer even further by not being able to claim the benefits you're entitled to. It's common practice for insurance companies to make it as difficult as possible to access these benefits. Even if you have a clear case for your application, they will actively seek for a reason to reject it. In such a case, you should consider working with lawyers for people with disabilities to help in the negotiation process.
As someone who has a disability, you may be relying heavily on your insurance benefits in order to cover your day-to-day expenses. During the course of your career, you may have been paying insurance premiums so you can enjoy the benefits in the event that you can no longer work due to an injury or disability. If you no longer have any other source of income, this payment proves to be crucial for you and your family.
The bad news is that you may experience more burden dealing with your insurance provider. It's not uncommon to hear about similar stories as yours. Even after presenting a clear evidence of your injury or disability, it can still be difficult to claim the insurance benefits you are supposedly entitled to. It's possible for your claim to be denied or your payments reduced significantly.
If you find yourself in such a situation, it's important not to be discouraged. What you should understand is that you can seek professional and legal assistance so you can have somebody who understands the rule of law. You can take certain steps that increase the likelihood of getting your disability benefits. By making the right hire, you can begin the negotiation process or make the requisite preparations for a court trial.
Valent Legal has been helping people with disabilities get access to their benefits. They are focused on providing excellent client service, with all their lawyers maintaining a down-to-earth approach in every case. Through this, you can feel comfortable working with their legal professionals throughout the course of your trial. More importantly, they maintain a solid communication system so you can stay up-to-date on the merits of your case.
You can begin by getting in touch with Valent Legal. They offer a free initial consultation in which you provide a brief description of your legal issue. This can be done over the phone or in person. After this, the lawyers will discuss how your case must be approached. You will be given enough time to decide whether or not to pursue the case with them.
Valent Legal works on a contingency fee basis. This offers the advantage of not having to pay any money until you win in court or get a settlement. This should give you enough confidence to work with their lawyers for people with disabilities who have the requisite knowledge and experience to represent you in court.


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Eavesdrop (Screentest)
The Eavesdrop project is a series of short film collaborations with Toronto's live storytelling community. The first bloc of story's were shot live at public laundromats. The theme is dirty laundry. Featuring Jesse Yules, Ilya Schwarz, Amy Cunningham, Zeb Pike and Nolan Murray. Special thanks to Lisa Schwarz, Arianne Shaffer and Jessica Rae Gordon.


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Butterfly in Amber
Camilla Monk
(Spotless #4)
Publication date: May 12th 2017
Genres: Adult, Mystery, Romance
He's waiting for you…
Under a blanket of snow, surrounded by dark woods and a frozen sea, lies an ogre's castle. There lives a little princess, trapped in the maze of her own mind.
On a battlefield where the past meets the present stand a fairy godmother and a pirate, an old ice cream man and a knight in shining clean armor…
The clock is ticking fast, and to pierce the ogre's secrets and defeat him, Island Chaptal will have to fight to remember…and stay alive.
Can the Lions and the Roomba cats be stopped before it's too late?
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Aerial photographs – Fact sheet 191
The major aerial photographic collections held by the National Archives are listed below. Additional photographs may be identified by conducting a phrase search in RecordSearch using the term aerial photo*.
Accessing some of the collections may not be straightforward because they are not always well indexed. Inquiries should be directed to the office holding the records.


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2017 lobster landings decreased 16 percent; reduced clam landings due to algae blooms, imports
Maine commercial fishermen once again landed more than a half-billion dollars' worth of marine resources in 2017, according to the state Department of Marine Resources, in a March 2 press release.
At $569,173,089, the total value stands as the fourth highest ever and marks only the sixth time that Maine harvesters have surpassed $500,000,000.
Lobster landings in 2017 were the sixth highest on record at 110,819,760 pounds, despite declining by 16 percent from 2016.
Value also dropped from $4.08 a pound in 2016 to $3.91 a pound for an overall value of $433,789,855 which still represented the fourth highest landed value for Maine's iconic fishery. When accounting for bonuses paid to harvesters by 15 of 20 Co-Ops, the overall landed value of lobster was $450,799,283.
According to National Marine Fisheries Service data, American lobster was the species of highest landed value in the U.S. in 2015 and 2016, and Maine's landings accounted for approximately 80 percent of that landed value in 2016.
Herring, the primary bait source for the lobster industry, again represented the second most valuable commercial fishery at $17,993,786 on the strength of a record per-pound price of twenty-seven cents. Harvesters landed 66,453,073 pounds, most of which was harvested from the in-shore Gulf of Maine area known as Area 1A.
Despite a drop of nearly 4 million pounds landed and a dip of $3.8 million in value, Maine's softshell clam industry remained the third most valuable commercial fishery at $12,363,328.
"Landings declined in part due to closures associated with harmful algal blooms," said DMR Public Health Bureau Director Kohl Kanwit, in the release.
The decline in value is due in part to reported increases in supply of softshell clams from outside Maine which affected the demand and value for Maine clams.
Maine elver harvesters enjoyed another season in which their fishery was by far the most valuable on a per pound basis. Harvesters landed 9,343 pounds of the 9,688-pound state quota. At $1,303 a pound, the elver fishery was valued at $12,155,672, the fifth highest per pound and overall value in the history of the fishery.
Maine scallop harvesters landed the most scallops since 1997, bringing ashore 793,544 meat pounds, a nearly 45 percent jump from 2016. At $9,300,111, scallop landings had the highest overall value since 1993.
"Management measures developed in cooperation with industry are definitely yielding good results," said Maine Department of Marine Resources Commissioner Patrick Keliher, in the release.
Cobscook and Whiting/Dennys Bays in zone 3 remained open longer during the 2016-2017 season than in the previous season. Areas in zone 2 also benefited from 2 years of rotational closures leading up to the 2016/2017 season. "Maine's scallop fishery continues its impressive rebound thanks in large part to harvesters whose compliance with area closures and limits have been critical to the success of this fishery," said Commissioner Keliher.
"The past year has underscored what I've been saying for years now – that change is inevitable and we must be prepared," said Commissioner Keliher. "This year's decline in lobster landings is by no means a signal that the sky is falling. But it does highlight the need to make sure our management measures adapt to change. This is true for all fisheries. It is the best way to ensure resilience of our marine resources and opportunity for future generations."
More landings data can be found on the DMR website.
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