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Declining Technology Company Life Spans
John Robertson
The lifecycle of technology-based companies from their beginnings to peak market shares and profitability is shortening. There might be no such thing as a medium term investment in the sector.
MySpace has announced it will cut half its employees as part of an international restructuring. This comes after an earlier cut of 30%. It will now concentrate on its music delivery capability and act as a conduit to the more popular social networking sites rather than play that role itself.
In 2005, News Corp paid $590 million for the former social networking sensation as it strived to create a global multimedia presence. Now MySpace is a dispensable nuisance.
The MySpace retreat comes within days of Facebook raising $1 billion with the help of Goldman Sachs and trading at a price that values the company at an extraordinary $83 billion. LinkedIn, said to be seeking $175 million, is being valued at around $3 billion.
Putting aside what the MySpace misadventure says about Rupert Murdoch's business acumen, its decline illustrates how short lived many of our technological ventures have become. Related to this is a second phenomenon - how technology companies seemingly have just one shot at greatness before being trampled by the following pack they once led.
The past year has been dominated on the consumer technology front by the assault of Apple's iPad. The company has over many years carved out a unique niche for itself as the most innovative and market savvy of the international computer hardware sellers.
Its reputation has been reinforced by the startling back to back success of the iPhone-iPad double which has seemingly tapped a strong desire for computing mobility that others had underestimated.
The Apple share price has reflected this success rising 35% a year over the past five years while the NASDAQ composite index, often regarded as the primary indicator of technology company returns, rose just 3% annually. The Apple share price is now equivalent to 18.8 times the company's 2010 earnings.
To validate such a market rating, Apple cannot simply sit on its laurels - unless its laurels are connected in some way to a new electronic entertainment experience. This year's annual international consumer electronics show in Las Vegas signalled an avalanche of iPad-like devices hitting the market in 2011. Most of them will be cheaper than the iPad even if they are chunkier, clunkier and able to access far fewer applications than are available to the Apple user.
By the end of 2011, we will have access to a wide range of alternative mobile computing products using Android, Microsoft's new mobile operating system, possibly one from the now HP-owned Palm as well as variants innovated in the back blocks of China.
In other words, the best times for Apple might have already been. This is not such an iconoclastic thought. Not long ago, the supreme leader in mobile telephony had been Nokia. According to its December quarter earnings report, Nokia's share of the market has continued to slip even as it cuts prices dramatically.
Nokia earnings in the latest quarter were 24% lower than in the December quarter of 2009. Operating margins which had been 24.9% in 1999, 17.1% in 2005 and 12.5% in 2009 had declined to 10.9%. The company hoped for something better but braced analysts in its most recent briefings for the possibility that its profit margin could be as low as 7% in the first quarter of 2011.
The Blackberry, produced by the Canadian firm Research in Motion, quickly grabbed a large share of the business handheld market in part because it could impress corporate IT folk with its e-mail delivery systems. It had become so prestigious and the leader of the free world was such an ardent user he persuaded the US security services to set up an ultra-secure connection.
Blackberry, too, is endangered as others find ways of combining personal entertainment and appropriately sturdy business tools in one machine.
These companies have largely arrived, hit their peaks and started their declines within 10 years. Going back a little further, Palm pioneered the handheld business scheduling and productivity tool in the 1990s. It lost its leading edge position as others copied, improved upon and then out marketed the previous market leader.
The life cycle could be getting shorter. IBM hung on to its position as the owner of the standard personal computer brand for well over a decade. Initially, interlopers had to prove their machines were IBM compatible or risk consumer rejection. Now, branding is unimportant as personal computers become known simply by their operating characteristics - 2Gb RAM, 250 Gb SATA HDD, 2.3 MHz, etc.
The social networking revolution seems to be evolving similarly. Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are, by normal standards, barely more than months into their corporate life cycles. However, as the recently released movie about the founding of Facebook shows, these are not enterprises requiring multi millions of dollars to attract followers. Consequently, the barriers to entry are no greater than what it takes to keep an audience interested.
Apple has been around a long time but always played second fiddle as a PC marketer. Having demonstrated so conclusively to its current and all future competitors how much success depends on being able to anticipate consumers' next set of needs, can it retain its competitive edge?
And, then, there is Facebook and Twitter. Will they still be the social networking sites of choice in even 18 months, let alone five years? There is no reason to believe they will at the current pace of change.
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Psychology is the scientific study of human behaviour.
The A level will lead students through the complexities of the mind, including memory and eyewitness testimony as well as the scientific study of the brain. The course is designed to develop an awareness of the workings of the human mind and the scientific investigation of human behaviour. Students will learn about a number of well-known psychological studies by influential psychologists such as Freud, Zimbardo, Asch and Milgram. They will also learn about psychological research methods and the application of psychology in the real world.
Topics studied include social influence, attachment, aggression, schizophrenia and cognition and development. The course also provides students with an understanding of the key approaches in psychology as well as a biopsychology unit which examines how our human biology works and influences our behaviour.
Psychology links well with many careers because it gives a good understanding of 'people'. Education, nursing, sport, marketing, therapy and psychological occupations all demand a knowledge of psychology.
Exam board:
Essential Entry Requirements:
Standard Sixth Form requirements, to include two grade 5s or above in GCSE Combined Science, or single subject Biology at grade 5 or above.
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Unit 1 – Introduction to topics in psychology (Social influence, memory and attachment).
Unit 2 – Psychology in context (Approaches, biopsychology, and research methods).
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Remainder of Unit 1 - Psychopathology
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Up to now, most programs have taught mindfulness meditation in a face-to-face setting, usually at economic cost. This approach limits the number of people who can take advantage of this training.
This six-week course is designed to make this practice available to many people who find it impractical or impossible to attend regularly scheduled courses outside of their home. This online course would take less time than required for most people just to commute to and from formal classes. All one needs is twenty to forty minutes a day for the formal practice and to be mindful during other routine activities.
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Mindfulness Meditation
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Understanding Life Insurance in the Simplest Form
Getting a life insurance policy is not a very simple decision to make and it takes a lot of thinking first. One of which is the fact that you are uncertain to have one when you think about its significance and the need for it. But this life insurance is being considered by people who think about their financial future in case of death of any of their family members.
Life insurances also offer built-in cash value, reaping dividends and tax-free investment aside from the fact that it gives protection to you. Policyholders are able to use it as liquid cash for their various needs as long as they purchased it with discretion.
There are a lot of different types of life insurance that can cater to the different needs of various individuals. It is also a wise decision if you consult a financial expert to help you pinpoint the right policy for you by also considering the number of dependents you have right now.
There are two basic forms of life insurances: the whole life insurance and the term life insurance. A term life insurance policy is also known as the short-term life insurance or a the temporary life insurance. The term insurance policy can only cater to those individuals who died between the specified periods of time of the policy they have enrolled. But when the person insured gets to live beyond the time specified in the term insurance policy, he will not get any money at all.
Getting a short-term life insurance is cheaper compared to a whole life insurance and this is common to young individuals who have dependents and those who have a house or car loan. But the premium costs for this type of insurance gradually increases once the insured age since there is higher mortality risk when he grows old making the premium almost equal to that a whole life insurance.
You can choose between two types of term insurance and they are the level term or the decreasing premium and the renewable term that has a increasing premium. At the beginning, premium cost for level term is very high compared to renewable term but after a few years, it becomes lower.
If you want features like ingrained cash value and life protection, you are looking for the whole life insurance. The actual cost of the insurance may be overlapped by the initial steep premium of this whole life insurance. The surplus you get from it or the cash value is added to a separate account that you may use for a tax-free investment to reap dividends or it can also give a level premium on the latter part. Aside from this cash value, death benefit can be gained on the maturity of this policy or upon death of the insured person.
Your Particular Fountain Can Keep The Personnel Healthy
A drinking water cooler is an excellent add-on to a waiting area or break room. Rather than selecting a Bottled water cooler, take into account one minus the replaceable bottle. You can find several advantages to this sort of water process that can assist you, the employees as well as your clients. The primary reward you'll discover is the price. Right after the preliminary installation costs, a no-bottle system will cost you drastically lower rates. The price savings is determined by the amount of gallons of water you use weekly. Many companies have the ability to save in excess of a thousand dollars per year for every Water dispenser at the office. By simply leasing the water cooler, you're going to get the main benefit of an experienced workers to maintain the machine for your office. Leasing means you simply won't have to maintain the device in case it is not suited to your working environment. Basically call your supplier and they will bring you some other device. The next bonus is the healthiness of your employees and even clients. Conventional water fountains enable microorganisms to gain access to your drinking water. Since the containers need to be taken off if they are drained, microorganisms might get in the system while the water bottle gets adjusted. It could also be brought to the water supply if the man or woman switching the water bottles has viruses on his or her hands. There may be actually absolutely no way in order to totally stop contamination of your water with this type of process. A no-bottle dispenser is airtight and doesn't need one to come near everything that could invade your water. Your team members and clients can certainly drink up from your dispenser or use it to help make espresso without the need of worry they will likely get sick because of bacterias trapped inside the cooler. Using a skilled group looking after your device, you can rest assured they will keep the filtering system thoroughly clean and even ensure your equipment is giving your office fresh drinking water. Last but not least, this kind of Water filtration model tastes much better. If you want a product which makes your water taste similar to Spring water, this is an excellent choice for your organization. Clients can take a wonderful stimulating cup while they wait plus your staff will certainly by no means ought to be thirsty in the workplace yet again.
The Way To Build A Working Prototype For An Invention
Any time somebody has an idea for a new product, the challenging portion will likely be to actually make the item and get it ready to sell to a company or even to generate with the help of potential investors. Companies as well as potential investors wish to really see the product working before they are ready to devote virtually any cash in it. The individual ought to take some time to produce a operational prototype for their innovation, yet they may need to learn much more about the scientific molding process in order to do that.
In the event an individual needs to discover much more concerning the scientific molding process, they may need to look online for scientific molding training. The coaching can permit them to completely understand the scientific molding process as well as to discover a lot more with regards to precisely what is needed through each and every action of the process. Learning this might help them have an understanding of precisely what must be completed to be able to make their own prototype an actuality and what they are able to do to be able to make sure of achieving success with their initial item. It may in addition help them decide if they wish to try to build the item on their own or if they need to work with an expert in order to have it appropriately created.
This stage might be by far the most pricey when coming up with a product, but the scientific molding classes can give a person a fantastic idea of just what the whole process takes and exactly what they're able to do by themselves. If perhaps they are enthusiastic about doing every little thing on their own and perfecting the skill sets necessary, scientific molding seminars can be incredibly advantageous. If perhaps they decide to make a lot more merchandise down the road, they will already have the skills they need to achieve this. In the event they figure out the process will be far too time-consuming, they also have the option for working together with a professional. Right after taking a course, they're going to understand enough to be able to work directly together with the professional to make the item precisely as they want.
Invest time to check out the classes now to be able to find out if this is the right selection for you. Even if you wind up working with an expert to design your final merchandise, taking a workshop might help you grasp the process far better as well as allow you to work closely together with the expert you ultimately choose in order to create your very first functioning prototype.
Providing Insurance coverage is a Sign of Professionalism
While all companies should get accountability insurance, people who perform inside the home building community need it much more so compared to most, as the employment they undertake is definitely harmful. Residence development is really a physically rigorous occupation, and demands all of the assistance regarding an entire team of people that often need to go up scaffolding or even ladders to operate inside uncomfortable positions from great levels. Hence the need for general contractors insurance, roofers insurance and so forth. Insurance policy coverage guards everybody. It guards all of the homeowner from liability. It this protects the company. Additionally, it helps to protect the employees and also crew should they sustain a job correlated injury.
There does exist one more reason why to acquire contractors insurance. Many informed house owners these days are usually cautious with getting prosecuted, and so may want to see proof that the company or perhaps roofing contractor possesses contractors insurance, just as a method to protect themselves. Having the capacity to present verification associated with contractors liability insurance coverage is really a assurance to homeowners, and has the actual potential to become an assistance in landing any given project. Additionally, it's really a manifestation of dependability. Any builder who's practical concerning covering himself as well as his workers, and also who will be concerned with giving the home-owner peace of mind is definitely the kind of company who will be prone to have great ideals when it comes to some other areas, at the same time.
Finding a Bank Card that can Help With Emergency Situations
When you want to to enhance your own credit rating or just to possess a spare bank card available intended for emergencies, you may want to check into OCBC credit cards. By using a charge card, an individual always has a certain amount of crisis money should you need it, therefore you don't need to keep worrying about borrowing funds through family or friends. An OCBC credit card might be helpful to have in a multitude of conditions, and also current credit card promotions furthermore will let you acquire money returned whenever you're making all your purchases. Thus, in case you place any groceries on your own plastic card, you don't need to worry about covering all of them until the end to the month's time and you may receive a bit of money back which means you just aren't investing nearly as much.
If you're looking for other products and services, you actually can also get OCBC personal loans. These are somewhat different, since you are done with all of them when you reimburse the bank, but you could possibly get personal loans to cover various conditions. A person may also get Al-Amin cash financing for your residence or maybe automobile, allowing you to trade up without having to have all of the cash you will need beforehand. If this sounds like something you will be excited about, it's really a simple matter involving meeting with a local lender to be able to check if you'll qualify for a personal unsecured loan or even an OCBC home loan.
Keep in mind, it truly is vital that you ensure that you keep up with your complete monthly installments, whether it is for the home finance loan or a plastic card. Having to pay even more than the minimum total amount on your own bank card every month is a fast technique to boost your credit score and that means you qualify for even better premiums with personalized or even house loans. This will likely save some costs over the years, in addition to getting you and your family money back again on your buys each month.
If you are excited about getting a plastic card, personal loan, or perhaps a home finance loan, speak with your neighborhood lender now. They are going to assist you in getting started filling out your applications and also let you know what you qualify for. If you can't be eligible for what you're looking for, or perhaps in the event you can't get nearly as good of a rate of interest as you wish, they can help by offering you and your family options regarding how to improve your credit ranking. Whenever you definitely obtain a plastic card, you can have some additional money readily available in the event your vehicle stops working or if you need to take the family pet to the vet. Whatever everyday life throws towards you, you could have a backup just in case.
The Main Difference Between Secured and Unsecured Loans
Though it is definitely a great simple view of the finance society to mention it in such a way, it really is even so genuine to claim that generally there are simply just only two major types of loans – properly secured, and unsecured. Some sort of collateralized financial loan is actually a loan which has a sophisticated tool called guarantee. Collateral can be quite a home, a motor vehicle, a bit of property … anything valuable that is "collateralized" to ensure that the preferred loan to get supplied. In the event that, for some reason, anybody accepting the funds cannot repay via the financial institution, the lender may finish up the owner of whatever the provided collateral happened to actually be.
While stuff like cars, residences, stocks and bonds are typically provided for collateral, there are some cases through which out of the ordinary items associated with interest happen to be pledged in order to secure a bank loan. These kinds of good examples normally include everything from inventory with a small business, to cash selections, race horses, fine art, necklaces, stamp collections, antique items and even more. Typically it's important for these kinds of atypical pieces of equity to get inventoried and actually evaluated by simply an objective third individual in order to establish their own worth. Sometimes this is not required, including in situations where the credit and also the agreement regarding collateral is actually in between pals.
Unsecured loans have been once known as "gentleman's financial products," and were typically covered, in no way having a good notary's symbol, but by using some sort of handshake. The chance to conduct business on the handshake had been a sign of honor amid men. With regard to folks of honesty, it turned out to be beneath their dignity for them to cheat, swipe or even tell an untruth. Sad to say, having said that, its not all individuals experienced such integrity. These days, it is not a guy's word that produces a person willing to risk capital with a great unprotected loan product, but alternatively a person's credit reliability. Normally, these sorts involving financial products are generally pertaining to private use instead of funding. Were anybody asking for this kind of unguaranteed money up and declare bankruptcy, the person loaning the cash is quite unlikely to ever retrieve virtually any involving his cash. They certainly will not have an authorized claim to the cash. Live and actually understand, a few would state. The prompt repayment of the unsecured loan product truly does a great deal to obtain a increased credit score for your debtor.
Easy Steps Small Business Owners Might Take To Connect With Consumers
Lately, it seems as though it's getting to be a lot more complicated for small businesses to connect with their very own frequent and also potential prospects. Establishments have continually experienced a challenging time in regards to contacting buyers. A business's ability to communicate with its market can certainly either allow it to needlessly grow or make it fall. Nonetheless, you'll find many options small and large companies may use to be able to be successful as well as expand. Entrepreneurs can certainly read more here to discover more about much more powerful answers.
The best way to get connected to buyers is actually by making use of their emails. Nearly every human being across the nation has got no less than one email address in which they check out from time to time. As an alternative to delivering traditional snail mail, in which could take eternally, you could make use of this approach which in turn simply takes mere seconds. The truth is that email marketing for small business users is actually traditionally used and very helpful.
It might additionally be a smart idea to utilize a qualified management staff so that they can help you out. Qualified management groups can help a holder with the help of small business crm (customer relationship management). These kind of services attempt to observe and formulate relationships between establishments and the public. Operations companies likewise aid to collect essential information associated with the population, and corporations can easily make use of this particular material to their own advantage. Along with some type of management company a great business owner can easily decide just how many consumers are addressing their on the internet email messages and offers and also exactly what enhancements can be produced.
As your small business grows you'll need to concentrate more on automating different responsibilities. Anytime a business is first starting out, the owner might be able to retain the existing requirement because it's tiny. Nevertheless, as your personal business begins to actually grow this sort of attentiveness is going to be extremely hard to continue manually. Small business owners need to search for a great alternative to complex marketing automation. Again, a straightforward remedy would be simple emails. Almost anybody can individualize their very own email services to actually send out mass messages to big teams of men and women quickly.
Think of all of these basic guidelines when you have a company and therefore are looking to grow and improve. Again, email marketing and advertising is very easy and powerful. Just as your personal enterprise develops you should consider working with a company to help you handle growth. As a final point, employ email services to make advertising and marketing more standard.
Find The Appropriate IRA Firm For Your Preferences
Traditionally, IRAs, or Individual Retirement Accounts, are dependent on different shares. Even though this can be quite a great way to increase your cash, it can also mean you relinquish your money if the stock exchange is not achieving a lot. Rather than taking this kind of financial risk, you should investigate the many firms that provide IRAs based on gold and silver.
You can find many different companies to select from, thus it can be hard to be able to select the right business for you. A good way to look for a wonderful business is actually to read through reviews online. These types of opinions can let you know exactly what current consumers loved with regards to a firm, what they failed to enjoy, and exactly how well his or her IRAs did with the company. They may also let you know a little more in regards to the company so you're able to get an insider point of view on using the services of the company you're considering. For instance, a Regal Assets Review will be able to let you know more info on making an investment in an IRA which is based upon silver and gold, which makes it a far more secure investment option.
In case you are considering making an investment in an IRA depending on silver and gold rather than standard shares, make sure you explore companies such as Regal Assets now. Look at the testimonials and next get in touch with the company now to find out all you need to know to begin with your financial investment.
Tips on How to Keep Safe Out-of-doors in the Winter Months
For individuals who really like the actual cold plus are in cold weather country, few things are as energizing or perhaps as enjoyable as the great range of winter sports and hobbies intended for your own satisfaction. Snowmobiling, down hill skiing, ice skating, ice fishing, cross country skiing, snowshoeing … you name it. Each provides unique enticements as well as rewards for those intrepid enough in order to want to exit fireplace and residence to answer their call. Even so, something carried out outside during the winter comes with specific caveats … mainly because that particular winter season weather which makes all these things to do achievable also offers the potential in order to injure or maybe kill the those who are unprepared.
The best solution? End up being intelligent, and don't venture out of doors into the cold unprepared! In the event the activity you might be taking on is actually a strenuous one, like snowshoeing or cross country skiing, make sure before you go that your particular physical condition is strong enough to actually handle that pastime. The very last thing a person needs to actually do is to suffer cardiac arrest out in all the paths, miles from assistance. Alternative methods you'll be able to safeguard oneself entail getting dressed appropriately. It's a good idea to not only put on multiple layers, to trap your own body heating, but additionally to use exterior apparel that is graded for your environment and also temperatures you're entertaining. Wool is always a wonderful way to go since it is one of the warmest fibers in the world. Due to the lanolin content, wool helps as well to successfully keep you actually dry.
Next, be sure the rest of your gear is suitable for the activity prior to you head out. You should not head out inside the environment with no very good shades or even goggles. Just as the sun's rays may damage your vision when you look directly at it, it can also blind an individual through its reflection off of the white snow ground. A person also can get sunburned by simply reflected natural light, therefore be sure to put sun screen lotion around the areas of your skin which might be uncovered by apparel. Ensure that all your devices are in top notch operating order before you decide to set out … this is one of the significant secrets of preventing accidents. For more info and concepts concerning how to remain protected whilst possessing fun during the winter, check out this article: http://www.thesportsbank.net/hockey/winter-sports-preparedness-tips-preventing-accident/.
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On account of the world wide web, the world has developed into a more compact area. Shoppers across the globe now have accessibility to items they may have been struggling to obtain in the past, and companies sell to new markets every day. If you own a business enterprise and wish to transport significant shipments of goods overseas, you will want to make use of a freight forwarding company. Care has to be utilized when making use of a provider of this sort, however, to make sure the goods arrive in excellent condition and also prices stays acceptable. How would you approach making this selection? What factors, apart from price, should you always be considering? First of all, search for a service provider having several carrier legal agreements. When a service provider is unable to move your cargo for some reason, the company will have other carriers to turn to, as opposed to watching your items sit and hold off until the first transporter is able to transfer the goods. You do not want hold-ups on their end to injure your enterprise. Next, see if the carrier possesses a network of global brokers, as this is crucial for communicating throughout the transportation procedure, along with a powerful customer support group that will back these people up. In cases where a dilemma develops at any time, the international representatives and/or customer support team will work to solve the problem in a timely manner, so that your products get exactly where they should be. Furthermore, you have to choose a company that is fiscally strong and also has the necessary insurance. Whenever you achieve this, you'll discover there's no need to concern yourself with items being held at a port because obligations to the transporter can't be satisfied or possibly that damaged items cannot be exchanged because of a lack of insurance. When it's time to make your choice, make sure to put JS Forwarding and Customs among the list of service providers to research. This company not too long ago earned Supplier of the Year via TRW Automotive, the only business to achieve this. J S Forwarding provides air, ocean as well as technology solutions, amongst others, and also has greater than 3 decades of experience in the industry. Businesses recognize they can count on js forwarding for all their carrier requirements and you will also. You must be certain to choose the right company in order to guarantee customer service, and many have tried this business along with positive results. Make sure to insert JS Forwarding on the menu of businesses to consider, since they could be just what you need too.


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10L Kitchen Sink by Sea to Summit, Portable, Light, Folding Camping Washing Bowl
- Brand: Sea to Summit
- Product Code: Sea to Summit 10L Kitchen Sink
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- £21.99
- Ex Tax: £18.33
Sea to Summit
At last, a portable camp sink that really works! Sea to Summit sinks are great for collection and carrying of water for purification, cooking, washing dishes or personal bathing. They're ideal for backpacking or group camping and they make a great gift for the outdoors person who has everything.
- Unique design with stainless steel stiffening ring that prevents the sink from collapsing when full
- Base is broader than top so it won't tip over in use
- Fine to use with hot water (60°C) and detergent
- Fully taped seams
- Wide webbing carry handles
- Comes with its own handy zippered storage pouch with drain hole
Proper Use:
Please note: bleach (even in mild concentrations) will damage the polyurethane coating and nylon fabric and should not be used
Always start with cold water in the sink, then add hot water (very hot water by itself will damage the seam tape)


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Bogh Solar is an affiliate of Bogh Engineering. We are large commercial builders with over 50 years' experience in the construction industry. We are a family owned business and Bogh principals are actively involved in the day to day supervision of each project. Our average employee tenure is 16 years. Our company is financially sound, we enjoy a cumulative bonding capacity of $100 million. We are licensed and insured.
The federal solar tax credit, also known as the investment tax credit (ITC), allows you to deduct 30 percent of the cost of installing a solar energy system from your federal taxes. The ITC applies to both residential and commercial systems, and there is no cap on its value.
Additionally, in previous years, owners of new solar energy systems could not claim the tax credit unless their system was operational. Now, the legislation allows them to claim it as soon as the construction of the system begins, as long as it is operational by December 31, 2023.
We are up-to-date on all Solar Rebates and Incentives in Southern California.
Current Bogh Solar projects includes:
Orange Lutheran High School – 2577 panels
Wellington Foods in Corona – 2775 panels
Toy Locker Storage in Rialto – 60 panels
A 773 kW system (2577 300w Renogy panels) currently under construction in Orange, CA
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Massage Heights
Elevating the Everyday
Massage Heights' Treatments Promote a Healthy Lifestyle That Goes Beyond Just Feeling Good
Today's self-care advice often focuses on mindfulness, fitness, sleep, and healthy eating. But Massage Heights would like to introduce another key component of self-care – massages and facials. Not just a once-a-year occasion or luxury, massages and facials have excellent health benefits and can be an integral part of a wellness routine. "Elevating the everyday" is the mantra at Massage Heights.
Six years ago, Massage Heights opened "to offer an affordable and convenient lifestyle program for our guests," Retreat Director Gabrielle Pangilinan explained. The focus on customized treatments and exceeding expectations is at the core of their practice. "What sets us apart from other places is our hospitality," Gabrielle acknowledged. "From our front desk to our therapists and skin therapist, we love to get to know each and every one of our guests and welcome them into our 'home.'"
Customizing every treatment begins with a client consultation prior to every service. With 20 therapists, all experienced and licensed, a wide variety of modalities are offered to ensure the best treatment is selected.
"Massages and facials have excellent health benefits and can be an integral part of a wellness routine."
The outcomes of the individual treatments go far beyond feeling good. "Receiving massages on a regular basis definitely has its benefits, such as better circulation, range of motion, and can help alleviate anxiety, digestive disorders, headaches, insomnia, and stress," Gabrielle said. Facials are also an important part of a skin care routine. "Facials are very beneficial because our skin cell turnover is normally every 28 days, but as we get older, it lessens," she explained.
Massage Heights is open seven days a week and Gabrielle encouraged, "Stop by and any of our lifestyle consultants will be able to answer all your questions, give you an overview of what to expect, and make you as comfortable as possible." 92024 Magazine readers who mention the magazine are offered a free "elevation" on their next visit.
Strengthening a self-care routine means taking a "time-out" from busy schedules. "Our goal is to remind our guests why they should take time for themselves," Gabrielle shared. "We want to be the place where you can go escape and de-stress from life for an hour or two and get our minds back to a positive place."
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Years in Operation: 6
Address: 111 N El Camino Real Suite F, Encinitas, CA 92024
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Should Uber accept some regulation to operate in Palm Beach County?
Internet-based transportation services such as Uber undeniably are a public asset. Fans testify that summoning the new-age equivalent of a freelance taxicab, by way of a smartphone app, provides many advantages over traditional taxis, from convenience to cleanliness.
Yet the Internet age also carries its share of potential threats, such as hackers stealing financial or government data. Uber now has added another, essentially telling Palm Beach and Broward county officials that if we can't play our way, we'll take our app and go home.
That's a shame because Palm Beach County officials continue working admirably to balance the demands of Uber, and its competitors such as Lyft, with those of traditional cab companies and their drivers, while properly keeping focused first on meeting the essential needs of the public.
Further, the requirements over which Uber is threatening to leave are no-brainers. Those rules, which the county has tentatively OK'd and will consider Aug. 18,
include commercial driver's insurance, and "Level II" fingerprint-based background checks – the same as traditional cab drivers.
Uber calls the tougher background check a deal breaker because it would generate a public list of all its drivers. Yet that already exists for traditional taxi drivers licensed to operate locally. As County Administrator Robert Weisman and others note, it seems the company simply fears having competitors poach its freelance drivers. Without doubt, it makes no sense to have two sets of regulation.
Broward County already has approved similar rules – to which Uber has responded by threatening to pull out of there as well. In Miami-Dade, meanwhile, the company continues to operate illegally.
Yet despite all its protestations, Uber has announced a 10,000-new-driver initiative to expand services in Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties, particularly in inner-city communities. To have placed its new offices in Riviera Beach, rather than Miami's Brickell City Tower, might have suggested more sincerity. The thought of saturating the driver market only supports traditional cabbies' – and some former Uber drivers' – complaint that Uber wants to continue driving down wages for them all.
Ideally, the three counties will develop a uniform set of rules. Those might help inform the rest of the state, whose legislators' best recent thought was the backward idea of a back-door moratorium to prevent any further regulation.


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Exhibition: Post Oil-City - The History of the City's Future
At a time when more than half of the world's population is living in cities, the effects of climate change on urban life can no longer be ignored. The exhibition "Post-Oil City: The History of the City's Future," presents innovative projects in Asia, Africa, and America that address urgent questions: How will the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy affect the process of urban planning and the city? How will the use of renewable energies affect urban metabolism and the politics of sustainability and mobility?
"Post-Oil City" is as much about the future as it is about the past. As indicated by the exhibition's subtitle—"The History of the City's Future"—every vision of the future is based on a vision of the past. By contrasting 11 current projects in the field of sustainable urban planning with 9 from the past, the exhibition aims to show that many of today's developments have their roots in the urban utopias of mid-20th-century modernism. Today, urban planners are returning to these concepts and adapting them to the challenges posed by climate change, a limited supply of fossil fuels, economic recession, and global systemic crisis.
Urban planning provides a laboratory for social as well as ecological change. Some experiments discussed in "Post-Oil City" are Masdar City (Abu Dhabi), Xeriton (Dubai), and the NEST project in Ethiopia. Other examples of urban experimentation featured in the exhibition modify existing structures: creating a public transportation system in Curitiba's inner city, renaturalizing New York's High Line, and building a network of electric cars with battery switch stations in Israel.
Though different in method and scope, the projects presented in "Post-Oil City" all have something in common: they exemplify the combination of reason, innovation, and flexibility that we'll need to make our cities and planet sustainable for the future.
The exhibition will also be opened on Wednesday and Friday for students/schools which are interested in the topic. Please send us an email before.
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Learn About Bamboo
Choosing Your Bamboo
There are various factors involved in selecting the bamboo plants that will best suit your needs and your location. A little planning ahead of time can ensure that you plant the right bamboo for your needs!
Purpose: The uses for bamboo, in all of its varied forms, are endless: hedges and screens, open groves, striking, stand-alone specimen plants, low variegated borders or ground covers, accent plants in pots on a deck or patio, a tunnel or interesting entryway, an Asian look for Japanese gardens, etc.
By far the most popular use of bamboo, however, is for fast-growing privacy screens and evergreen hedges. Since bamboo is one of the fastest growing plants on the planet, bamboo screens and hedges can be created more quickly and inexpensively than other plants or trees. Almost any species can be used for effective screening, given that it will grow to the height you desire in the space that you can allow for it, and given that it is properly matched to your climate and growing conditions. Learn more about using bamboo as a living privacy screen here.
Desired Look: Selection is all a matter of taste and purpose. Read the Bamboo by Genus A-Z page for more information about the different families and for photos and info on the specific species we carry. Or better yet, come visit us and notice what catches your eye. We have many mature groves and clumps on our beautiful 7.5 acre property.
There is an amazing variety of bamboos from which to choose. There are canes with colors, stripes, large/small diameters, exposed canes or canes hidden by foliage. Leaves may be striped and variegated, yellow or white with green, long and thin, large and wide, or very small and delicate. Growth habit may be vertical and narrow, bushy and wide, weeping, arching at the top, dense or airy, etc.
Keep in mind that the young plants you purchase may not immediately show colors and variegation or other special traits; these features will become more prominent after the first year or two. In addition, some features appear only in certain conditions; for example, red and purplish culms of certain species are only brought out by direct sun consistently hitting the canes themselves.
Temperature: Cold-hardiness, the lowest temperature tolerated by the root system of each species for 2-3 nights at a time, is listed on our Price List for each plant. The cold-hardiness rating generally represents the threshold for root death. Temperatures close to this rating may kill the tops or even the whole canes, causing them to turn beige. The dead canes will not produce new leaves, but if the roots survive, the bamboo will produce new shoots (young culms) when the shooting season begins.
It's best to select bamboos that will tolerate temperatures well below the lowest temperatures you've experienced in the last 10 years in order to ensure healthy plants long-term. Somewhat less cold temperatures may cause only leaf burn and the loss of some leaves. If the canes are not damaged, new leaves will bud out again when the weather warms up. Cold-hardiness can be expanded considerably by putting a very deep mulch over the bamboos in the fall.
Some bamboos suffer from summer heat rather than cold, and do not tolerate hot summer nights (over 70 F.) or daytime temperatures that regularly reach 100 degrees F and above. For example, most of the Fargesias, and some Chusqueas do not do well in these conditions. They are mostly considered mountain bamboos, which are evolved for cold, not heat.
Sun/Shade: Ideal sun exposure and shade tolerance parameters are listed as a range on our Price List and on each individual plant page. Compare with the number of hours of direct sun which your plants will receive, and what part of the day they will be in sun. Morning (AM) sun is cooler; afternoon (PM) sun may be hotter, and is especially harsh in hot, dry climates.
Running or Clumping Rhizome Type: The rhizome (root) type of each bamboo is listed on the Price List and plant pages. Consider all of the advantages and disadvantages of clumpers and runners for you. For example, clumpers spread wide more slowly, but generally grow tall faster, and don't require root barrier for containment. Runners spread wide quickly to form screens, are less expensive, but generally require containment such as root barrier or planter boxes. For a more thorough discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of each type and how to choose the best type for your situation, see the section titled Clumping vs Running Bamboos.
Height & Diameter: Maximum height and diameter reached by each species in the climate of origin and in Sebastopol, California are indicated on the Price List and plant pages. They are offered as "known reference points", however, height and diameter are affected by all aspects of your growing situation and climate: high and low temperatures, sun/shade exposure, humidity/aridity, water supplied, length of growing season, size of growing area, etc.
If your climate is similar to ours in Sebastopol, (or the climate of origin for that plant), and if the plant is located in an appropriate amount of sun or shade, has adequate space and will have year-round water, you can generally expect the maximum height listed.
Know that there is a correlation between height and diameter. You will not have a 3 or 4 inch diameter culm with a plant that is 15 feet tall; those diameters are reached by species which grow 30 to 50 feet tall! Generally, the shorter the bamboo, the thinner the culms.
Note: Relevant information on each species is easily and quickly referenced on our Price List, on each individual plant page under the "Additional Info" tab, and on our Bamboo by Genus A-Z list. Sun/Shade, Temperature, Height/Diameter, and Runner/Clumper type, and links to one-paragraph descriptions and photos can all be accessed from these places.
To search for recommended plants by your criteria, click here.
Special circumstances: Some bamboo species do better in unique circumstances you may find in your planting zone. Click the links below to find species for these circumstances:


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Director Raj Kanwar passes away
Famous director Raj Kanwar who directed hit films like 'Deewana' and 'Andaaz' passed away in Singapore due to kidney ailment on Friday afternoon.
Shammi Chhabra, assistant director and close associate of Kanwar family, said: "He was suffering from kidney problem for quite sometime". His wife Anita Kanwar and nephew Sunny Singh were near him when he breathed his last. Three days ago, Kanwar had undergone a kidney transplant and was under observation following some complications.
Raj's last rites will be performed in Mumbai on Sunday. "The body will be flown into the city around 10pm on Saturday. The cremation will be carried out at Oshiwara cremation centre on Sunday," said Chabbra.
On the micro-blogging site Twitter, Shahrukh Khan wrote: "My friend RajKanwarji passed away. The impermanence of life, makes one feel so helpless.
May his soul rest in peace. Aisi Deewangi..miss u sir. "Saddens me so much, my first director Raj Kanwar passed away..RIP Rajji..You believed in me when even I didn't. Andaaz taught me everything I know," tweeted Priyanka Chopra.
Raj Kanwar worked as an assistant director in the movie Ram Avtar and Ghayal. Later he took up direction and directed Shahrukh Khan and late Divya Bharti in the movie Deewana.
He will always be remembered for hits such as Laadla (1994), Jaan (1996) and Judaai (1997). His last film was Sadiyaan: Boundaries Divide, Love Unites in 2010 which launched Shatrughan Sinha's son Luv in 2010.
.His demise is a great loss for the Hindi film industry.
May his soul rest in peace!


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A recent study conducted by IDG Connect revealed that 53% of the respondents, which included IT executives working in organizations with 1,000+ employees, are still using outdated on-premise solutions for Human Resources. Thankfully, more than half of those respondents are planning to switch to a cloud-based SaaS solution within the next six months.
Gartner Group projects 2015 SaaS sales will reach $21.3bn. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is still SaaS' largest market – however, HRM, ERP and CM solutions aren't far behind.
SaaS is poised to revolutionize Human Resources. But what exactly is a SaaS solution? And why are SaaS solutions all the rage?
SaaS is a web-based software licensing and delivery model by which software is licensed on a subscription basis and centrally hosted. When evaluating a new eRecruitment solution (or any HR solution, for that matter) you'll need to decide if you prefer a web-based solution or a more traditional desktop-based application. Each model has its pros and cons, but overall, the benefits offered by a web-based software solution outweigh anything a traditional desktop application can offer. The main reason for this is that with a traditional desktop application you must maintain the software yourself, perform upgrades, and carry around a laptop (or, God forbid, a computer) wherever you go. Moreover, on-premise HR solutions have garnered a bad reputation over the years when it comes to usability and manageability.
SaaS represents an opportunity to escape fixed costs, annual maintenance charges and complex integration. With SaaS, all you need is Internet access and a browser, and you're good to go. The vendor handles everything related to hosting, upgrades, etc. Also, SaaS solutions typically offer a better user experience and greater accessibility, i.e. for cross-platforms and browsers.
As its full name indicates, with SaaS you're not actually buying the software – you're buying a software subscription, i.e. what eConscribi eRecruitment delivers to its clients. This means that while you don't own the solution, you have the right to use it as long as you pay your invoice and don't violate our Terms of Service.
"Who owns the data?" and "Is it secure?" are common questions we hear from prospects. The answers are pleasing: All applicant data is yours to keep, and should you ever desire a return to the old-fashioned pen-and-paper approach (perhaps you're the nostalgic type, or just really like to write :-), all of your data will be returned to you, as stated in our Terms of Service. Regarding security, rest assured you're in good hands. We run eConscribi eRecruitment through Amazon Web Services (AWS) in northern California for US customers and Ireland for EU customers, and we guarantee that all data stays within its respective environment and that AWS possesses every security certification imaginable.
Like what you've heard about SaaS? Contact us today to learn more!


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I wrote this article about two months ago. However due to my involvement with my political group the Social Democrats USA I have delayed completing and posting it until now. During the last two months little has changed. My current negative attitudes toward Christianity are still in a process of hardening.
Most who pay any attention to this blog must wonder about the continued changes of name that this site endures. The problem is that my religious sense of identity makes subtle shifts over time. One would think that a 59 year old man's basic beliefs and outlooks would be settled by this time of his life. Unfortunately my religious affairs are not completely settled.
So why "Devotion to Isis" as opposed to "Isis, Mary and the Goddesses." Well first I must state that my devotion to Isis has not wavered since I initiated this blog. It has been a constant for nearly a decade of my life. However in recent months my feelings about Christianity and thus Mary have cooled considerably. One consequence of this is that I am currently not reading any of the classical Marian literature at all. That does not mean that I will not in the future but I am not now. Other goddesses? I am always interested in them but my ongoing theological and devotional basis is always Isis. The goddesses for me are always personas of Isis. They represent Isis as she is seen in differing ways, traditions, and nations. They are never competing divine powers that in some way limit the universal power and imperium of Isis.
I do respect the right of other persons to worship other deities such as Athena, Cybele, or the Hindu goddess Durga within the context of polytheism. I also believe that certain goddesses can be legitimately be seen as being the supreme and only goddess – both the Hindu goddess Durga and Tara, the Tibetan Buddhist goddess, represent that possibility. However for me Isis is the one supreme goddess. She is not simply one goddess in a pantheon of equal goddesses; she is as Isidorus said all goddesses. I do not share the polytheism to which modern paganism seems to be increasingly turning. I also reject the conception of Isis as an ecumenical goddess who is simply a convenient symbol of the Great Goddess of Wicca, the matriarchal mythos, or of paganism in general. This is not meant to be an attack on other world views: it is simply a statement of my own.
Another reason for changing the name of this blog to Devotion to Isis is to stress the word "devotion." Isian religion should be a religion which stresses the devotion, love and worship of Isis. It should be a religion which stresses obedience to the will of Isis and the doing and speaking of Maat (righteousness and justice) in the world. Isis is a goddess of liberation and she is a savioress from oppression. She supports as is said the widow and orphan, the poor and oppressed. Her followers should attempt to the same.


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In the January 17, 2010 Longmont Times-Call there was a guest opinion by Election Committee member Strider Benston that had some outright incorrect statements that need to be corrected. Keep in mind, this is a member of the committee that just cost the city tens of thousands of dollars. You'd think he'd at least want to check his facts before making such statements.
- 1) He said "this local group, led by Mr. Chris Rodriguez, sued the city in U.S. District Court." Actually, I didn't lead this group, I was asked to join it after it had already begun organizing.
- 2) He said "a $68,500 settlement going to Mr. Rodriguez and his associates…which rests now in the pockets of the very people who brought the lawsuit…" Another lie, I did not get a penny of that money, nor did any of the plaintiffs as far as I'm aware of. If anything, I spent my own money on this lawsuit. We knew we would not personally financially benefit from this lawsuit, that wasn't the point. As usual, the attorneys are the only people who make out in these situations.
- 3) He questioned my statement about being "the only member of the public who has attended every single Election Committee meeting." At the time I wrote that, that statement was 100% completely true. Then they started scheduling meetings on Fridays instead of the normal Monday nights, which I couldn't attend. I seem to recall Mr. Benston coming in late on occasion, and there were meetings I was at that regular members were not. It appears Mr. Benston took this statement as meaning it wasn't open to the public, which I never even hinted at. He said he wants me to substantiate my claim, I recorded every single meeting and took notes. That, and I'm on record publicly speaking at just about every meeting. Also, I spoke to him personally at every single meeting. I can't help it if they guys memory is scattered – mine isn't.
- 4) He claims I received only 1 vote to be on this committee – actually I received 3, one less than a majority. For someone who has a lot to say, you'd think he'd have at least 1 suggestion in the recent "Items for discussion and potential revision to the LFCPA", but he had ZERO. By comparison I had 6.
- 5) He said nothing in the LFCPA has been "formally ruled upon at all." There was this thing the federal judge did called a Preliminary Injunction, it was actually pretty big news and lead to the city having to settle as it was a clear indication they would eventually lose in court. How could someone in Mr. Benston's position overlook that very important development?
For someone who we are trusting on an important committee, one that can levy large fines against individuals and organizations, and who cost the taxpayers $40,000 in a blink of the eye – Mr. Benston shows frightening ignorance or at least a cavalier attitude towards speaking without knowing the facts. This coincides with his endless bloviating during EC meetings, calling everything he disagrees with "spurious", while the attorney meter is running at $200-$400 an hour.
Mr. Benston and others on the committee took this lawsuit personally, and said as much, and many times in Mr. Benston's case. They then coincidentally went after one of the plaintiffs (Longmont Leadership Committee) and fined no other entity. I stand by every word I wrote and reiterate, based on actual events and not faulty memory, that some members of this group showed blatant bias and political favoritism. It appears he still doesn't get the point of the lawsuit, which is sad and troubling for someone who is in such a position, that forced speech still goes against the First Amendment. A federal judge agreed. No judge has agreed with any statement Mr. Benston or anyone with his same opinion has made. The city voted to change those 19 words – apparently they agree as well.
This is all the more reason to seriously gut the responsibilities of the Election Committee. It should become an advisory board no more powerful or important than any other. It should have no business as a quasi-judicial body, as has been clearly shown that they can't control themselves – to the detriment of taxpayers. The only reasonable, objective, and non-blatant bias and favoritism I witnessed was displayed by Mrs. Champion, Mr. Tiger, and Mr. Bernard. The others showed varying levels of spite, emotion that's not acceptable in a quasi-judicial setting, vengeful attitudes towards those of differing politics, and plain old ignorance of the ordinance.
If this committee continues in any kind of quasi-judicial role, it's pretty clear Mr. Benston doesn't deserve to be anywhere near it based on his guest editorial. And in case you're wondering if his rants that have nothing to do with Longmont that he makes during Public Invited To Be Heard appear in his comments from his EC seat – yes they do.


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"Awareness is the greatest agent for change." Eckhart Tolle
There are two fish swimming along and they meet another fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys. How's the water?" The two fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and says, "What the hell is water?"
Most of the time we are like the fish. We are swimming in a sea of possibility, but its too close for us to realize. Awareness is to personal growth as the Hubble Telescope is to space exploration. We zoom in and see the spaciousness of our inner life. We go deeper in order to see clearer whats right in front of us. Awareness is seeing life from a depth of 30,000 feet, where vision and purpose are born.
Without awareness, we flounder and drift through life. With awareness, we learn to see the potential and beauty in each moment. Like the fish, we need to both recognize who and where are now, and explore new edges of this reality.
There is a famous Zen saying, "You are perfect as you are, and you could use a little work." The essence of an authentic life is to fully accept yourself AND seek to be more of who you are at the same time. There is always more YOU to discover and become. The same is true in relation to the world. It is what it is, the perfect culmination of all that led to this moment AND it needs a little work to become all it can be. So the challenge is to accept all that is AND to participate in creating a better future for all. The key step to discern the difference between surrendering to what is and change is awareness. Awareness is the first A in the AAA plan to effective change management.
Awareness Asks Why
Awareness is powerful. Awareness helps you to see both the strengths and weaknesses in yourself and in systems. Awareness reminds you of what makes you happy, what makes your blood boil and what gets you out of bed in the morning. Awareness enables you to see the dysfunction in a system, the inequalities and injustices both small and large. In terms of change, wisdom is knowing what to do next, awareness is knowing why it's important, skill is knowing how to do it, and integrity is following through and actually doing it.
Why is a powerful question. Why creates a frame for all your whats, whens, wheres, whos and hows. Think about the power of why.
If your why is clear, you WILL find a way. ALWAYS
If your why excites you, you WILL find a how. ALWAYS
If your why is clear AND excites you, you will solve any what, trust every when, meet all the right whos, find all the right wheres, and overcome any challenging how.
And if you feel like you've been clear about your WHYS, and the whats and wherefores have not gone your way, this itself is likely taking you to a deeper WHY.
Kids understand this well- why, but why, but why, but why…… Kids understand something that we easily forget as adults. The power of why.
Why can be used for good or ill. When its used for good, its directed forward. When its used for ill, its directed backwards. An insatiable why that is directed backwards wants answers to questions that only lead to suffering- like why me? Why then? Why did he do that to me? These whys lead to anxiety. A persistent why that is directed forwards seeks answers to questions that open up new questions- like why do I feel this? Why am I feeling this NOW? Why is this important? And why do I care? These whys lead to clarity which gives you peace of mind.
The power of whys is that they make you wise with awareness. They take you close to the essence of WHO you are, maybe even to the source of life itself.(read on for more about the power of awareness)
Awareness and Vision
When Martin Luther King spoke, he didn't say I have a plan. He said I have a dream, and millions of people intuitively GOT it. The problem with politics today is that there are too many plans, and not enough vision, which is how you get to the WHYS. Politics today lacks vision and awareness. Malcolm X said,
The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.
Change without awareness leads you to aim for the wrong targets, fight the wrong battles, attack the wrong enemy and make rash and inauthentic decisions. The point of awareness is not just to know information and facts. Facts and knowledge are awesome. Action and passion are exciting. But to act passionately, out of a deep awareness of why certain causes give you goose bumps and why change is essential, is true mastery. With self awareness, you learn to see your own part in the problem, where you can make a difference and why you want to be involved. With self awareness, you learn to see the possibilities and pitfalls of change.
Awareness comes with firsthand experience. It comes with feedback from others. It sometimes comes out of the blue. And most importantly it comes when you get up close and personal with yourself in the mirror of self reflection. Lao Tzu said, "Knowing others is wise. Knowing yourself is enlightened."
Self Awareness
Awareness is often subtle when it first arrives, like a tap at the front door because it doesn't want to wake you up too suddenly. Occasionally when I lived in an apartment I heard a knock at the door late at night and resisted getting out of bed. I convinced myself that it was a knock at the neighbor's door. Without self awareness, it's always the neighbor isn't it? It was only when the knocking became more insistent that I finally got up to answer the door. Awareness usually has to take up a sledge hammer before we let her in the front door of our consciousness. Early signs of awareness might include a physical feeling of unease or a general sense of restlessness. Later signs of awareness might be more vocal like a palm slap to your forehead and a sigh- "Ah. I see! Of course!" Deepak Chopra even describes awareness at a cellular level. "Cells know when you are unhappy, anxious or stressed. A cell's awareness is expressed in chemical reactions instead of words. Your existence is based on feedback loops. Body listens to mind; mind listens to body. Awareness is the link."
Awareness comes in stages. After it arrives, it often retreats in a fog of denial and self righteousness. Then when it comes in full force, it is like a blinding flash of realization that changes you deeply from the inside out. Some day you will be minding your own business and awareness will strike you like Archimedes running naked out of his bath when a new truth struck him, shouting "Eureka, eureka" ("I have found it!").
What new and exciting awareness is tapping at the front door of your consciousness? Answer the call. Be the change and enjoy the transformation. Awareness is the first step to being a healthy and conscious change agent. The beautiful thing is that YOU are the one who is changed, and starting with you, the world becomes a more hopeful and humane place.
Awareness is powerful and full of possibilities. It makes you a better leader, a better friend and a better citizen. It improves your intuitive decision making skills, and decreases your anxiety. Awareness also transforms habits that may or may not be serving you. Shine the light of awareness on a habit and it becomes a choice. Awareness is the mother of all choices and empowerment. In short, awareness is good for your health and good for the health of the planet.
I end here with a segment from David Foster Wallace's commencement address at Kenyon College in 2005
The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death.
It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over:
"This is water."
"This is water."
It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out.
Its hard, but not impossible. Start by pausing to feel this very moment, become aware of who you are and who you are becoming. Wake up. This is it. Life is right here and now. Make sure you are living it fully.
The next A in the AAA series on Change Management is Acceptance. The third A is Action.


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So, to round-up the Copa Sao Paulo Futebol de Junior tournament semi-finals, I found myself watching the game between Fluminense's youngsters, who've flown through the tournament and Coritiba, who had kicked out Internacional in the quarters.
It was Fluminense who continued their great run with a big win as they beat the Coritiba side with an impressive score-line of 4:0. Two goals on either side of the break.
The game offered few interesting players, but those who were most interesting seemed to struggle in second half with overconfidence and tiredness.
Anyway, here are the players I liked… at least a bit. I'm sorry that I don't even know their age because Fluminense website doesn't have any information on the youth teams other than an occasional news story.
He played as an attacking midfielder. He wasn't too involved in the game, but when he was, he showed a fair bit of quality.
Decent player with good vision & passing, but at times he also struggled with simple things and made some bad decisions. At least 2-3 times he lost the ball trying an impossible dribble against a wall of players.
A lot of improvement needed before he even thinks about the big level, but he's got some materials to become a good player, at least on local level.
He was one of the two that looked very impressive in first half but in second half he faded off.
Fabinho played as right-back and rampaged up and down the pitch in the first half with great speed and great technique, almost finding the net too.
However he spent more time in opponent half of the pitch than his own in the first half and this running left him tired. The tall and skinny right-back also made more than a few bad mistakes in defensive phase but then again he showed on several occasions that he can win and make tackles too.
Leo Lelis
He is Fluminense's centre-back. I should say that his performance was full of schoolboy mistakes – lot of bad decisions mostly, with passing, with deciding what to do with the ball etc.
However, he seemed to have the raw materials. If he is to become a good defender he obviously needs to get a coach who can improve the mental side of his game. He is quick, tall, strong.
Marcos Junior
He is the star man of that Fluminense side, playing as a striker. He finished as the top scorer of the 2011 Brazilian U20 Championship.
In this game he scored two goals in the first half, both calm and good finishes with first right and then left foot.
He has great acceleration, pace and very fast turn, but he is a bit weak for now, couldn't win a header and lost a lot of balls in second half with tiredness and selfishness playing their effects. He had two occasions when he could've passed the ball to well positioned team-mate in attacking position, but he tried to dribble and failed. He was brilliant in first half, but in second quite bad.
From what I could find, he is 18 years old. Not sure when will he get his first chance in senior team, I could see Fluminense using him at some point of 2012 as substitute. He definitely has the talent to perform, now he'll have to become stronger and smarter.
I've not yet decided if I'll do the One Game Report on him or Corinthians' striker Douglas. Will probably take notes on both and see who performs more promisingly.


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Brightly luminous UFO, skin reddening, obtained medical attention. One large, flat egg-shaped object affected a car's electrical system and caused a burning sensation on one of its occupants.
See also: Ellipse , Heat , Injury , Interference
Almiro Martins De Freitas. At the spot where Almiro had encountered the object, concrete was fresh on the boulder precipice, and it had been raining heavily, but the concrete had suddenly hardened, and all around, there was a dry circle.
See also: Heat , Injury , Power Plant
Robert P. Sartin, who lives near the Lake Norman Airport and Duke Power Plant's 150 high Cowans Ford Dam spotted a UFO.
See also: Disc , Power Plant , Turn On Side
Sketch of the object and location by the witness.
Raw (first-hand) report from witness (reported Jan. 15, 2008):
My son saw this on his way to work. He drives from Denton, by way of the back roads. Its a faster route to work. At approx. 6.50am he turned east on sr.455 from Running Bear road. He saw bright white lights coming over the hill, on the opposite side of the dam. His first thought was (air craft). He had been in the Navy, in the past. He is familiar with aircraft. He started looking for the red and green lights. Not only did he not see them, but it was flying very slow approx. 30 mph. 30-50 yards away. It seemed to be hugging the shore line, flying at eye level. He slowed down, opened the car window, observed the craft as it went past. It made no sound at all. Black and gray in color. Delta shape. No bigger than his 1978 thunderbird. Rectangular rear, with three large round openings in side. No apparent thrust, no fire, etc. The top of the craft looked as if it had an extended canopy. Running about three quarters of the way down the fuselage. It was matallic as well. The bottom looked like it had panel lines. As I said, it had three white lights under it. Non blinking! He stopped by the house for a refill on his coffee, told my wife about it, drew a picture of the craft, and wrote down all details, then went off to work. After telling a co-worker at the shop his story, the guy told him he had seen it as well. But thinking people would think he was nuts, didnt say anything. His friend had seen it in Sanger (the town on the other side of the dam). Later the news cast ran a story on a sighting in Stevenville Tx. Thay are approx. 60 mi. south of us. The object thay saw, was very large. I see no comparison to that craft, but wonder if thay are related in some way. All I have to say is, is it one of ours? (This tecnnology is out of this world.)
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Stitch Encounter is an interactive show located in Walt Disney Studios Park (under the name Stitch Live!), and in Tomorrowland at Tokyo Disneyland and Shanghai Disneyland. The first edition of the show at Hong Kong Disneyland was closed on May 2, 2016 to make room for Star Wars: Command Post.
Disney attractions similar to Stitch Encounter include Turtle Talk with Crush, located in both Epcot at the Walt Disney World Resort and Disney California Adventure Park at the Disneyland Resort, as well as Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor at Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World.
The attraction is a prime example of both real time animation and digital puppetry. Stitch Encounter consists of an unscripted, real-time conversation between park guests and the animated character Stitch from Disney's Lilo & Stitch franchise. The attraction, which opened in July 2006, was part of a three attraction expansion to Tomorrowland, Hong Kong. It is located adjacent to the entrance of Space Mountain. The attraction offers shows in different languages depending on the version (Cantonese, Mandarin and English in the Hong Kong version, Mandarin in the Shanghai version, French and English in the Parisian version, and Japanese in the Tokyo version), to accommodate the variety of languages guests in the different parks speak. Show times are available at the entrance of the attraction and each show has a length of approximately 15 minutes.
Attraction description
Guests are seated in a movie theater-like room, called the Space Traffic Control. Children are then encouraged to sit up front, on the floor, so that Stitch can see them during the show. At the start of the show, the host of the Space Traffic Control requests the computer to search for an available spacecraft captain to talk to, the computer connects to the spacecraft which Stitch is in. After that, guests (both children and adults) in the Space Traffic Control are randomly chosen by Stitch to interact with. Stitch can interact with guests in many ways such as chatting, singing them a song with his ukulele and even take their pictures. Stitch looks and moves much like he does in the movie, complete with corresponding facial expressions and gestures. The conclusion of the show occurs when the audience aids Stitch in his escape from Captain Gantu.
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Escalating its confrontation on the V K Singh dog analogy issue, Congress today decided to boycott the Union minister in both Houses of Parliament for his remark in the wake of burning to death of two Dalit children in Haryana.
Sources said a decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of senior leaders and party MPs held by party Vice President Rahul Gandhi.
This was the first such meeting held by Rahul in the absence of Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who is in the US for a medical checkup.
Party's senior spokesman Anand Sharma said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had given assurances that he would be taking action against colleagues whose conduct is against established constitutional principles and practices.
Sharma said Modi should have recommended Singh's removal to the President by taking cognisance of his remarks.
Congress had created a ruckus in the Lok Sabha yesterday seeking action against Singh. It had staged a walkout. The Trinamool Congress and the Left too had attacked the minister.
At that time, Leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge had complained that the government during the debate on intolerance did not touch upon the remarks made by Singh about Dalits. He had also asked Modi, who was then present in the House, as to what action he planned to take against Singh.
Rajya Sabha today saw a clash between government and Opposition after BSP and Congress opposed the presence of Singh and demanded his dismissal from the government.
During the Vajpayee government, Congress had boycotted the then Defence Minister George Fernandes in Parliament on the issue of the coffin scam.
Government managers have been insisting that Singh had not made any such comment about Dalits and there is no reason for the Opposition to raise the issue again and again.
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Anza-Borrego Desert Narrows Earth Trail in "Powder Dump Wash".
In the 1930's road crews called this wash "Powder Dump Wash" because this was where they kept explosives. Below is a photo of part of a concrete and boulder wall from the building where they were stored. Noticed the fault line next to it.
Now this wash has become the Narrows Earth Trail with good geological examples of how this region was formed. I thought Anza-Borrego was all about flowers so I was surprised to find a geological trail. Here is what I found and learned. Over 100 million years ago hot liquid rock, called magma thrust into the earth's crust forming igneous rock. As it cooled, it crystallized into minerals and became granite. Later erosion exposed the granite and broke it down even further into sand.
This region had experienced and continues to have earthquake faults and because of that there are sections of older sedimentary rock next to the granitic rock. The sedimentary rock had pockets of softer material here and there and over time, rain and wind removed the softer rock, leaving these holes.
Anza-Borrego has thousands of small faults like the one below. The rounded edges of the contact zone caused by constant movement and the different kinds of rock material are distinct features of a fault. The fault lines in this valley create cracks in the earth that allows water to seep up and provided the needed water for the many palm oases.
The rock below is metamorphic, which means it has been changed by pressure, heat or chemical action. When this rock was at the bottom of the sea, about 450 million years ago, this cliff was located south of what we now call Guaymas, Mexico. You can see how the layers have been pushed, squeezed and turned on their sides.
As I left I turned around for a parting shot of the alluvial fan sloping down the mountain caused by heavy rain as it carried the sand and gravel down the mountain.
This short walk was a reminder of how we are always surrounded by active processes of geology. I could have found many of these same features in my home state of West Virginia that I have described here. I am always amazed at how our earth has exploded, bent, oozed, and moved all around. Once I began to notice geological features, it is hard to go anywhere without noticing and it makes my journey all the more interesting.