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"You will become pregnant and have a son, and you are to name Him Jesus. He will be very great and will be called the Son of the Most High......"Mary asked the angel, 'How can this be? I am a virgin.' The angel replied, 'The Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the Most High will overshadow you....For nothing is impossible with God.' " Luke 1:31-32, 34-35, 37...." 'How shall this be?' - that is the query of men since the beginning when faced with the message of the supernatural power of God. The natural man cannot receive or comprehend how God works His wonders of grace. The answer is, 'With God nothing shall be impossible.' " Vance Havner
I am more and more coming to see that we who profess to believe and follow Him are living in one of two realms. Either we are living in the country of "How can this be?" or the realm of "With God, nothing is impossible." Then again, perhaps there is a third country. It would be inhabited by those who seemingly spend their lives traveling between the first two. Only one of them is a true safe haven in Him. Which do you think it is?
We in the western Church have become so inundated by our culture that we are far more comfortable and accepting of the "natural man's" way of seeing life than we are of the "supernatural's." Rational thought, reason, and logical thinking are at the forefront. We've become very skillful at it. So much so that we have succeeded in rationalizing away much of the supernatural wonder of His Word and works. If our natural minds cannot grasp or explain something, we then seem obligated to question it. We live in that realm of "How can this be?" and most often conclude that "it can't be." So it isn't. Small wonder that an unbelieving world is not much impressed with what we say we believe. How could they when it seems that we don't really believe the One we say we believe in?
It can be very comfortable to live in the natural all the time. It gives us a feeling of control, and we feel like we have a real handle on the ways of the God we say we follow. However, it is not at all comfortable to live in the realm of "Nothing is impossible with God." Not comfortable to our flesh anyway. Living in this country means we live lives of surrender and trust. We believe in a God who not only can do all things, but more, we are surrendered to Him whether He does what we seek or not. Believing that nothing is impossible means that He makes it possible to live in victory even when He doesn't answer us as we hope. It may be that the greatest supernatural work in a believer is when they can and do live as overcomers even when all around them is collapsing. What seems impossible to go through is made totally possible by the grace and power of the Father. Living in this country means we live in expectation of His working miracles, whether they be of the spectacular, noticed by all, or the quiet, noticed only by us. Oh that the Church would enter into this country. His country.
Too often, I've spent my life going back and forth between the two realms. Believing that nothing is impossible for a time, than, when He didn't respond as hoped and in the time expected, moving over into the "How can this be?" country. It is a miserable way of life, and for too many, it is all we know. Maybe it's what we know right now. The realm of "Nothing is impossible with God," calls to us all. Our hearts hear it. It bids us leave the false comfort of believing we've got it all figured out, and enter into His life of wonder. It also calls us to leave the realm of the double-minded, always going back and forth between "two opinions." All things are possible. Nothing will be impossible. It is an endless land, and surely, there is room for you and me. Will we enter into it?
Many today still talk of "the wonder of Christmas," in the Church especially. Sadly, that wonder is too often confined to the sight of children opening presents, beautiful light displays, and lovely trees. Our wonder stops with these. We miss the real wonder of He who is the greatest gift, the brightest light, and the most lovely of faces. Embrace the Wonder. In Him, all things are possible.
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This horny Japanese slut asked the school physician to have sex with her in first scene. She sucked the guy's cock and let him finger her hairy pussy until she squirts some of her juice. They had good sex and the guy unload his cum around the teacher's mouth. In the next scene, two of her students harassed her and forced her to suck their cocks after showing a cell phone video of her doing it inside the toilet. More scenes of Kaho Kasumi having sex with her students and colleagues can be seen in this DVD.
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Here's a sweet birthday card, with a cut-out vintage image from Reprint in the focal point. Add some flowers, a doily and a paper with flowers and you have a really romantic card right there. I cut along the edge of the flowers on the background paper so I could slide the image under them, and luckily enough I had some white flowers in my stash that looks just like the ones on the paper so I added those for decoration.
Cirkeln har jag stansat ut och i hålet syns en riktig favorit bland Reprints papper - det ser ut som träplankor. Runtom syns en kant av tårtpapper som jag sprayat med glitterspray och stansat ut ett lika stort hål i. För att skapa lite djup fäste jag hela det blå pappret med 3D-kuddar.
The circle was punched out, and you can see one of my favorite papers in the background, it looks like wood and works so well on this card. The edge is made from a doily, sprayed with glitter spray (I used the same circle punch here to create a "border"). I adhered the whole front of the card using foam squares to create some depth.


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Brookdale Cottage
Church Walk
North Petherton
Tel: 01278 663545
Church Walk Cattery, North Petherton,
Somerset, is set in a tranquil private garden setting complete with ducks and a natural stream coming down off the Quantock hills.
The cattery has been recently
constructed to provide comfortable heated accommodation with individual runs.
Chalets for singles, doubles or up to four cats are available.
We are located in a quiet cul-de-sac just off the A38 between Bridgwater and Taunton, and only 1 mile from junction 24 of the M5 motorway.
For your convenience, a map is displayed here with details of how to find us. It also shows the free public car park which is just a short distance from the cattery.
10am - 4:30pm
Closed all day Wednesday
Closed for lunch 1pm - 2pm.
Sunday 10am - 1pm
Latest time for collecting or delivering cats is 4pm weekdays and
Closed Christmas, Boxing Day and New Year's Day for delivery and collection of cats.


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I am an Assistant Professor of economics at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. I am a tax economist, and use administrative tax data to uncover the responses of taxpayers to taxes. This can inform the design of better tax policy.
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"Optimal deductibility: Theory, and evidence from a bunching decomposition", April 2018


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A Washington County grand jury has returned indictments against 11 people.
A tiebreaker vote by Washington County Judge-Executive John Settles kept the county out of potential legal trouble on Friday during a special-called meeting.
Ground has been broken for the new Dollar General store in Willisburg.
Hal Goode, executive director of Springfield-Washington County Economic Development Authority, is excited about the progress, and to have Dollar General in the Willisburg community.
Tobacco farmers in Washington County who have been around a while may recognize the quality of tobacco this year's crop is producing.
Memories from the drought of 1983 stir like the dust that blows in the hot, dry summer wind.
"This is the worst tobacco crop I've ever had," James Osbourne, who has been raising tobacco for 20 years, said. "My dad (Sidney) thinks the tobacco is as bad as that (1983)."
Many of you have commented to me about all the corn that blew down about three weeks ago. In traveling around the county this week, I have seen a lot more of it, and with our continued drought, it will only get worse.
This brings up the question what fields to harvest first, do you have the ability to dry down that corn, and various other harvesting questions individuals may have.
Have your perennials been in their current location for at least three years? Have you watered and fertilized them regularly throughout the growing season, yet they haven't bloomed as much as usual and they just look tired? Your perennials may be over crowded.
Jessica Marie Medley and Barton Wayne Mattingly were wed at 7 p.m. on July 9, 2011, at St. Dominic Catholic Church in Springfield.
She is the daughter of Glen and Sandy Medley of Springfield.
He is the son of Mike and Cheryl Mattingly of Springfield.
The bride is a graduate of Washington County High School and Eastern Kentucky University. She is employed as a social worker for Kentucky River Foothills.
An East Bernstadt man will spend time behind bars for his actions leading to a fatal July 2010 accident.
Stephen Sizemore, 55, entered a guilty plea to a charge of manslaughter, 2nd degree, Friday in a criminal mediation held in Taylor County.
The tax rate for real property in Washington County could go up one-tenth of a percent if the second reading of an ordinance passes on Sept. 12.
The current tax rate is 7.5 percent on real property. A jump to 7.6 percent would compensate for a decrease in real estate and personal property valuation in the county.
Washington County Judge-Executive John Settles said the court was allowed by law to increase the rate to 7.9 percent, but said that in the current economic climate a hike such as that would be unwise.
Employers and students have reaped the benefits of the Lincoln Trail Area Development District's (LTADD) summer youth program.
The program has placed residents aged 18 to 21 in Nelson, Marion and Washington counties with employers for the summer for the past two years.
"What we do is, we pay their wages," Terri Thomas, with the LTADD, said. "Whatever the (employer) pays, that's what we pay. If, for instance (someone) worked at TG Kentucky, we paid what TG would start their pay."
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Summer sessions are now updated in the Classes section 🙂 https://barkingdogstudio.me/classes/
Looking forward to getting outside!
Summer sessions are now updated in the Classes section 🙂 https://barkingdogstudio.me/classes/
Looking forward to getting outside!
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Looks like a beautiful day tomorrow for our return to Kitchawan Farm 🙂 We will meet from 10-1pm. See you tomorrow! 🌻🐝🌻
June classes: I need to have some idea of attendance from day to day. Please email me by 9pm the night before Wednesday Classes and/or Thursday Nature Journaling. If anyone is coming and has forgotten to email be sure to contact me in the morning to be sure class is on for the day. Tomorrow we will be meeting at 10am-1pm…to draw Lasdon Park , please be sure to let me know if your are attending :0)
Exciting news! For those who haven't heard the Conservatory is finally going to be a reality!!!!! After years and years of raising funds it is finally happening! While at Lasdon this morning I saw the boundary stakes marking the foundation area…so exciting 🙂 It is to completed this Fall…what a beautiful addition to Lasdon Arboretum.
Changes this season…changes in classes and nature journaling.
This June I will be offering 4 more botanical art classes in the month of June. Class will be on Wednesdays from 10-1pm on June 6th, 13th, 20th and 27th. The 4 week session will be $150.00 and those who want a drop-in option they will be $35.00 per class (drop-in option only available to previously enrolled students).
Nature Journaling will also be changing this year…. Kitchawan Farm has gone through some reorganization and is now being farmed by a NYC restaurant, so this summer we will be trying something different. I was so inspired by Dick Rauh as I know so many of you were I thought this would be a great venue to carry on and draw our park. Looking at the lovely trees and surroundings of Lasdon I was reminded what a beautiful park we have….so this summer we will meet and draw the trees, the formal gardens and many of the beautiful views and structures of the park. So get out your camp chairs, sun hats and pens and watercolor pencils…and get ready to sit under some shady trees and draw Lasdon Arboretum.
For those of you that missed Dick's tree workshop here are some photos of our day…Dick Rauh guided a wonderful workshop with his energy and enthusiasm, as always he was an inspiration to everyone that had the honor of sharing the day with him. Thank you Dick for being our teacher for the day 🙂
Nature Journaling classes at Lasdon Park will be $20.00 per class…pay as you go. The first class will be on Thursday, June 7th. and will run for 6 weeks. Supply list at the bottom of this post. They will be held on Thursday mornings from 10-1pm. Rainy day adjustments will be made via email the night before class. We may also visit other venues over the course of the summer 🙂
Back pack or bag to carry supplies.
Journal 9×11 or 9×5 journals or in this general size, these journals can be bought at any art store. Paper should be acid free with heavier paper that accepts watercolor this will allow you more freedom to apply color. You may also use cold press watercolor paper journals for those of you who would like to work with watercolor pencils 🙂
Fine tip marker (micron .005-.01 and 1 are my favorite) there are many fine tips on the market, make sure they are permanent ink. There are also sets of microns available that you can purchase…just be sure that they have some fine points in the set.
Ninji Watercolor Brush great for the field if your using watercolor. They come in multiple sizes..fine, medium and large…I have one of each 🙂
Drinking water and lunch or a snack.
Camp stool and a hat to shade from the sun.
Pencils (preferably a HB) Mechanical pencils with tiny leads are easy for the field because there is no sharpener needed and bring and eraser if you will be working in graphite.
A small selection of color pencils or watercolor pencils if you want to introduce colors into your studies. A water brush if you would like to create washes or bring a brush and small container of water if you don't have a Ninji Water Brush.
Some paper towel squares.
Small clear ruler to add to notes about size of your subject.
A magnifying glass to see details or a loop.
Above all come ready to enjoy your day =)
Kitchawan is beckoning. We will be going to the farm on Wednesday mornings this summer from July 22nd thru August 26th, meeting from 9:30-12:30. That gives us 6 lovely weeks of drawing at the farm 🙂 This year I will be offering accordion books. Please let me know if you want one and I will have it made up for you. Accordion books will be $10.00. We will discuss possible ways to create a story through page layouts and how to have a finished book of your summer at the farm. You are welcome to make your own accordion book or draw in your journals or sketch pads…..as always the goal is to enjoy yourselves. Choose your own medium….micron pens, watercolor, color pencils, pastels whatever you enjoy.
Cost will be $75.00 for six classes or $15.00 individual classes (pay as you go).
Contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com if you want an accordion book for you or if you have any questions.
Looking forward to seeing you there 🙂
Tomorrow is our last day to enjoy a summer morning at the farm….come and enjoy :O)
We have had several visits to the farm this summer ….never disappointed 🙂 Looking forward to more as everything grows with the summer sun and showers!
The next visit one is July 23rd :O)
hard at work
Summer is here!
friends :O)
passion flower!
Linsay and her teapot tree!
the main house…
artichoke plant
guarding the gate
Hollyhocks and Echinacea
Today was a glorious day….breezy and sunny….couldn't have been nicer. It was so wonderful to be back at the farm and to see my friend Linsay. Looking forward to returning next week crossing fingers for more good weather! ❤
An amazing primrose that I have never seen before!
Betsy drawing the teapot tree :O)
These lovely huge leave are Japanese Coltsfoot also known as Butterbur….brought some home for my garden!!! :O)


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Wednesday, 29 October 2008
The view from the 6th floor
I was wrong. (It happens.) Last night we had a launch party for Elise's book, The TV President, in Waterstones Piccadilly, and I'd feared that this was over-reaching, way above (the 6th floor) my station, and that a room more like a company boardroom than a hugger-mugger bookshop would hardly be conducive to loosening up. But, well, I had a good time, met good people, drank good wine, and we sold over a hundred books. Today I washed 119 glasses, god knows what happened to the 120th, and though I'm sure real publishing outfits have people to do this for them it felt pretty real to me.
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Episode 2: Shock at the Space Needle
Thankfully the show returned to its typical format this episode, as the 15 Season 10 contestants landed in Seattle and started doing Seattle-y things, like cooking with local seafood for the quickfire and visiting the Space Needle for the elimination challenge.
But, as you might expect, typical format for Top Chef means there's always a twist.
Continue on to read about the surprise additions, the Dallas star who's already making a name for himself on the show and the most unenthusiastic winner ever.
Quickfire challenge: Make a dish to highlight local shellfish
As a longtime Top Chef fan, I love seeing former contestants return to the Top Chef kitchen. This time, it was Josie, from Season 2; CJ, from Season 3; and Stefan, from Season 5, standing next to Padma and Tom as the chefs entered for their first quickfire. They were instructed to form teams of three, choose a local shellfish and cook a dish with it in 20 minutes.
During the instructions, an overeager, bespectacled John Tesar (from the great state of Texas) began divvying up prep tasks to his teammates.
OH NO YOU DIDN'T. PADMA IS TALKING. Usually that's enough to keep any man, or woman, in the kitchen fixated, but since he was distracted, she called him out for it. Maybe rudeness is what got Tesar, also a buddy of Anthony Bourdain's, the title of the "the most hated chef in Dallas."
At the start of the challenge, the seemingly random former contestant trio gave some initial advice ("here is some shellfish" and "you better cook it fast" … thanks for the tips, guys).
Despite the seafood selection, the groups were all about the geoduck. As if it wasn't bad enough that they are giant, phallic clams, they've got it buried in mud, so everyone is digging through mud to try to grab one. Then, they slice.
The winners were one of the teams lucky enough to score a geoduck– the Texan Tesar, softspoken Japenese chef Kuniko Yagi and Hawaiian Sheldon Simeon. They impressed the judging panel with a sashimi of geoduck with ponzu, apple and pine nuts. The three winners got to draw knives for elimination, and Tesar was the lucky one.
Too bad he looks like a super nerd with his glasses on his forehead all the time. It's almost as bad as wearing your sunglasses on the back of your head. (Sorry, tough week for Triple-D.)
Elimination challenge: Cook a meal for a Seattle chef in the 47 minutes it takes the Space Needle restaurant to rotate
As Padma begins to introduce the elimination challenge, she reveals that the veteran contestants will be sticking around… to join Season 10 as competitors.
I love this element… the show has brought back contestants to fill spots within a season and last year, there was that whole "Last Chance Kitchen," where the losing chefs competed for a spot as a finalist. This was the first time that they've done inter-season insertions, and they've done it right from the start.
The three they picked to come back weren't on the All Stars season (nor the Top Chef cruise or the Life After Top Chef show on Bravo), so outside of a Christmas special that Josie and CJ participated in years ago, this is our first chance to see these guys again. For the record, I don't like Josie, because she's one of the contestants who– faced with elimination– chose to "bow out" and quit the show over drama. That's a cop-out, and I hate it when people do that. I do love CJ. Fun fact: he is a former Olympic volleyball player with one testicle (cancer survivor). Stefan is talented but unlikeable, and every season needs someone like that.
Anyway, Josie, CJ and Stefan become the sixth team of three — tasked with working together to cook a dish for the judges atop the Space Needle. They have 47 minutes to cook since that's how long it takes the spinning restaurant to make a full rotation. I feel like CJ has the advantage for working at heights since he's 6′ 8″ (couldn't resist the joke! and another CJ fact!).
As they prep and cook their dishes, we finally get a sense of some of these chefs.
The loudest gets plenty of screentime, and that would be Ms. Carla Pelligrino. Carla looks like she belongs on one of the Real Housewives, her lips puckering with collagen as she says stuff like, "I wanna be a James Beard, and I wanna have a nice ass." Well, that's what they say she said, since every word is closed-captioned. She is closed captioned more than any chef I can remember on the show. She's also pretty annoying, shouting through the kitchen, cursing and slicing her finger during cleanup (somewhere, someone doing a Top Chef watching game won bingo for that).
The veteran chefs are being as over-confident as you would expect and even decide to change from a seafood dish to quail since everyone else is doing seafood. Not sure how they swippety swapped a major protein from the top of the Space Needle since they "shopped" the day before, but if anyone could do it, it would be these three. They've got connections on the show after all.
The teams serve a couple of salmon dishes, cod, prawns… all get relatively good responses from the judges, with most cooking the fish perfectly and pairing it with seasonal ingredients. A few complaints came when fish (or quail, ahem) was overcooked or flavors didn't come through strongly enough.
I find that's it's usually good sign when I don't recognize words in the description of the dish, as was the case for Tesar's team's offering.
So the swish swish was named the best dish, making this trio quickfire and elimination challenge winners. A pretty strong start. They singled out Kariku as the team's winner. Kariku is very quiet, mostly because, as she admits, she doesn't speak English very well. When she is named the winner, Tesar shakes her hand and the happy Top Chef music starts playing, and she's just standing there.
Her reaction: "Oh my gosh, this is going to make everybody, like, 'Who is she? We didn't notice she even was there.'"
It's kind of adorable. So potential favorite there. I also like Micah, who had some sassy comebacks and Jeffrey, who looks like the Book of Mormon/New Normal guy.
Back in the stew room, it's Jeffrey's team, who overcooked their fish, and the veterans, who overcooked the quail who end up on the bottom. Despite some definite disappointment from the judges regarding the quail dish (Gail called it "dark and murky"), the veteran team is safe and it's Jeffrey and his pompadour who gotta go.
I do love a Thanksgiving ep, and I hope you do too, because that's coming next week. My favorite is when they cooked "Thanksgiving" on the road for the Foo Fighters, which I was going to post here, but is unfortunately no longer on Hulu.
Top Chef airs Wednesdays at 9 p.m. on Bravo.


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Over the last couple of weeks, a new Apple iPod Touch commercial has been running on television. Although it seems somewhat similar to previous ads from Apple, its origin is quite different and is an example of how user-generated
content has never been so relevant.
Introducing the new iPod Touch commercial, by Nick Haley
Nick Haley is an 18 year old first-year English student and an Apple fan ever since he received his very first computer at the age of 3. Last September, he created his homemade TV ad in a day from visual content that can be watched on the Apple Web site.
His song selection was"Music is my Hot Hot Sex" by Brazilian band CSS. "The lyric of the song 'My music is where I'd like you to touch' gave me the inspiration to make this commercial," Nick Haley said. The beat of the video is right in line with the fast-paced tour of the abilities of the recently released Apple device. "Not only do the lyrics sound like they were written by an iPod fetishist, the song has the perfect YouTube trifecta: pounding beat + accented female singer + constant references to sex" explains Dylan Tweney from Wired.
On September 11th 2007, Nick simply uploaded the self-made commercial on his YouTube personal page, which is where a few advertising executives from the Cupertino-based company discovered it. The young man was sitting on the bus when he received this e-mail from Apple on his cell phone: "We represent Apple and we've seen what you have produced and we'd like a chat with you." He recalls: "This seemed ridiculous and far-fetched. My initial reaction was, someone wanted to steal it."
That's right. Instead of sending him a cease-and-desist letter (watch the video), they decided to buy his ad and fly him over to Los Angeles to work on a similar but broadcast-ready version. "My input was totally respected." Mr. Haley said.
Consumers creating commercials "is part of this brave new world we live in" tells Lee Clow, Chairman and Chief Creative Officer at TBWA Worldwide, a division of the Omnicom Group. "That's the whole point of advertising; it needs to get to the user" Mr. Haley explains. "If you get the user to make the ads, who better?"
Nick Haley's original version:
Apple's repolished version:
As of today, Nick is a fresher in politics at Leeds University.
Nick Haley's spot has been viewed 745,255 times on YouTube Web site, and the Apple's clip has been viewed 14,850 times. The commercial based on Mr. Haley's video has been broadcasted on "Desperate Housewives", football games, and Game 4 of the World Series. It can also be seen in Europe and Japan.


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by Dena Thomas, Monitoring and Evaluations Intern
I am sitting outside of the Shanti birth house with head midwife Ssanyu Namuleme. We gather under the shade of the veranda outside the center, while her 3 year old daughter Honnia plays with her African doll on the swing only a few meters away.
How did you hear about Shanti Uganda Sanyu?
It was September 2010 when I came to visit a friend in Kasana. They were making announcements at the town center (near the petro station). They were talking about a new maternal and newborn health center that was going to be built and they were looking for midwives. So I went and visited Christine by bodda and she gave me all the information that I needed to consider the position. I was hired on staff shortly thereafter.
How do you feel about your recent promotion to head midwife at Shanti?
I am very happy. It shows me that my bosses have confidence and trust in me. I have a good reputation here at Shanti for providing mother centered care and I try and use these skills every day. I am also a mother and want to treat others the way I'd like to be treated.
What do you think your biggest challenge will be here at Shanti in your new position?
The level of responsibility and growing into that role. I also need to develop my administrative skills more, as I am hands on care, not so much the other stuff. It's a new posting for me so I need to learn what all is required. There have been some restructuring with staff, and I'm looking forward to things getting back to normal.What do you enjoy doing most at Shanti?
Catching babies, of course!
Where would you like to see Shanti grow in terms of the services that it provides for the community?
I would like to see if we could provide cervical screening clinics here for women in Kasana. I would also like to see an increase in male involvement with their wives. Finally, I would like to increase the teenage sexual and reproductive health and contraception education outreach within the community. Currently we only work with them (the teens) during school breaks but it would be nice to do something more regularly throughout the year. Perhaps through the village health team – we will see.
What sort of Continuing Medical Education would you like to see for the staff at Shanti?
I think it would be good to have continuing education on 2nd and 3rd delivery stages, post-partum hemorrhage (PPH), and antepartum hemorrhage (APH).
Where did you grow up Sanyu?
I grew up in Mukono District and moved to Kampala when I was about 5 years old. I Graduated from S6 and then went to the Mango School of Nursing and Midwifery where I earned my certificates.


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On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Andrew Fedoniouk <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: >> -----Original Message----- From: Tab Atkins Jr. >> They're display:inline, for legacy reasons that can't be changed now. >> If they were 'inline-block' we wouldn't be having this discussion, as >> the answer would obviously be exactly what you just said. >> > > If button would be display:inline then this element: > <button>multiple words here</button> > will wrap on multiple lines in no space condition. > I haven't seen any UA that does this, have you? > > Actually it is quite opposite: all UAs in the wild are > forcing <button>, <input> and others to be display:inline-block. > No matter what is defined for them in CSS. Ah, you're right. For some reason I was convinced they were 'inline' for some legacy reason. A quick check, though, shows that they are just 'inline-block'. <img> is still stuck being 'inline', though, and I think we'd still like <img> to "just work" in a flexbox. ~TJReceived on Sunday, 15 May 2011 04:07:22 UTC
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How to View Unread Emails Only in Mail on iPhone/iPad
How to view only unread emails in Mail app? This guide will show you how to make it with a step-by-step tutorial.
AnyTrans – Best iOS Data Transfer Tool
This powerful iTunes alternative can help you manage iPhone/iPad/iPod content easily. You can download it have a try after reading this guide.
If you receive numbers of emails every day, it is easy to mess some important mails in crowded Mailboxes. So you may like to only view unread emails but is it possible? Yes, of course. The Mail app offers one feature to let users only access unread emails in Mailboxes. Let's start to see how to make it.
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How to View Unread Emails in Mail on iPhone iPad
Step 1. Open Mail app on your device > Tap on Mailboxes.
Step 2. Tap on Edit on the top right corner >Tap the circle next to Unread option > Tap Done.
Step 3. Go back to Mailboxes screen > Tap Unread option to view all the unread emails.
Bonus Tip: Manage iPhone/iPad/iPod Content Easier
If you prefer one easier way to manage your iDevice content, one iTunes alternative named AnyTrans can be your first choice.
- It can help you add files to your device without erasing any existing data.
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- AnyTrans supports managing music, ringtones, photos, videos, books, iTunes U, contacts, messages, notes etc.
Here take music for example and show you how to manage iPhone music with AnyTrans.
Step 1. Download AnyTrans and open it > Plug in your iPhone > Click on Audio > Choose Music.
How to Manage Music on iPhone with AnyTrans – 1
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Electronic engineering services include:
• Fire detection and evacuation
• Security systems, including CCTV, access and egress control
• Audio Sound, public address, sound masking and conferencing systems
• Time and attendance systems
• Asset tracking
• Telemetry and Scada Management Systems
• Gas extinguishing systems
Power utility Eskom has placed its energy efficiency rebates for businesses and homes on hold, pending a review of the incentive programmes in light of financial constraints, integrated demand management (IDM) senior GM Andrew Etzinger has confirmed.
This applies to the residential mass roll-out, the standard offer, standard product and performance contracting programmes, as well as the Esco model. (More about Eskom Rebate Programmes)
The new regulations stipulate that buildings complying with the Green Building Council of South Africa's green building codes must generate 50% of their hot water using renewable energy, either through solar water heating or heat pump technology. (Read more)
The world's largest carbon emitting companies are not doing enough to reduce their impact on the environment, with the 50 largest emitters having increased their emissions since 2009, the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) stated in its 2013 Global 500 Climate Change Report (Read more)


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I would like to run inline ruby code embedded in some kind of html webpage. There are ruby servers around like mongrel, thin, but I just wanted to run inline ruby in html without making a so called ruby app conforming to some framework I don't want to learn. I want the ruby code to act like PHP, so that I can access the Database, print out forms and so on.
What setup should I have?


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"And they asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?"
"Are you…?" This question is a very interesting question that we are asked in life, either directly or indirectly. In John 1:21, we see the man John the Baptist asked the above question; "Are you Elijah?" Expect to be asked this question in life. This is a question of comparison. Man will always find something that has existed before to compare you with but little do they know that according to 1 Cor 2:9, eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.
No man can be compared with you. Even though people will try to define you, you have to understand that your true definition can never come from man. In fact, man will always short circuit or underestimate what God has called you. Man will put a limit on what God calls you.
Jesus said in Matthew 11:11, "Assuredly, I say to you, among those born of women there has not risen one greater than John the Baptist…" Nobody was a great as John the Baptist from all who existed before Him but they were still trying to compare him with Elijah. Don't let anyone compare you to anyone who has existed before you. You are different from all.
When Joseph told his bream to his mother, father and brothers, they underestimated his dream. Joseph saw that the sun, moon and eleven stars bowed down to him (Gen 37:10), but note his father's interpretation of the dream:
…Shall your mother and I and your brothers indeed come to bow down to the earth before you?"
What an underestimation of such a big dream! I want to let you know that was not the interpretation of the dream and these are the reasons why:
- Joseph's mother was not there at the fulfilment of the dream.
- Jacob did not bow down to him when he finally saw his long lost son
Joseph's dream was a world class dream but they gave it a family definition. The dream suggested that Joseph will be a world renowned influence but they were going to make it a local champion dream. No man can rightly estimate you neither do they have any right whatsoever to estimate you. Even Joseph's father could not give a right estimation to his beloved son's dream. Remember, he loved Joseph that he bought a coat of many colours for him but that love was not powerful enough to make him give the right definition of his son's dream.
Stop waiting for man to define you. Don't surrender your identity to external factors. Joseph's dream had more to do with the fact that the people that matter in that time will still come and receive of him.
Refuse to be anybody other than yourself. You can only achieve God's purpose by being you because God knows the best identity you need to carry out His assignment for your life. Many people in our world today are trying to live out the script that a man – who could come in form of anybody like your parents, guardian, mentors, pastors etc – wrote out for them rather than following the script God wrote for them.
Don't miss next week's post as I talk more about your identity in Christ.


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Please feel free to comment on/critique my work. I'd like to hear from you.
Some of my favorite art books:
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain/Drawing on the Artist Within/Color--Betty Edwards;
Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist--Stephen Rogers Peck;
Anything and everything on perspective;
Every instructional book by Will Eisner;
Every instructional book by Scott McCloud;
Rendering in Pen and Ink--Arthur L. Guptill;
How to Draw Comic the Marvel Way--Stan Lee and John Buscema;
The Art of Comic Book Inking 1 and 2--Gary Martin
Current Residence: Pittsburgh, PA
Favourite genre of music: Whatever strikes me at the time
Favourite style of art: Everything


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HB 303, which would amend the Freedom of Information Act to forbid the use of confidentiality clauses in settlements or severance agreements involving tax payer money, passed out of committee today. The bill was, in part, sparked by the over 700k severance payment given to former College of Dupage president, Robert Brueder.
Since first filed in January, the bill has gained significant support and a number of co-sponsors. It passed unanimously out of committee with a 9-0 vote. Next up is a debate on the House floor.
You can read the bill at the ILGA website.


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You may have seen articles or blog posts saying that Search Engine Optimization is dead. The fact of the matter is that it is more important than ever. It's just that the factors that go into SEO have changed, and any reputable SEO company will stay on top of those changes.
Search engine optimization requires ongoing effort and can include the following:
- Competitive Analysis
- Review of Site Traffic Reports
- Cross-link reviews
- Development of Keyword Recommendations
- Page by Page Optimization Suggestions
- Implementation of Suggestions
- Search engine submission
- Ongoing Optimization
- Re-assessing competition
- Setting up cross-links
- Generating content
- Publicizing content (via social media and other media)
- Progress reports
Competitive Analysis
We do a thorough review of your competition and how they are ranked for specific keywords on the major search engines, including: Google, Yahoo, Bing.
Site Traffic Analysis
We use your current site traffic reports to see how well your site is doing traffic-wise and to find out what words people are currently using to find your Web site. These reports will help us make our recommendations for the keywords which we should target for your site.
Cross-link Review
This process involves searching through the various search engines to find out what sites link to your site. Search engines like Google use the number of links to your site to weight the popularity of your site thereby increasing your rank with the number of sites that link to you.
Development of Keyword Recommendations
Based on our research and discussions with you, we will develop a list of recommended keywords that we feel will make the greatest impact on your search engine rankings. We have found that is it usually best to focus on a few important and unique words rather then several general terms.
Page by Page Optimization Suggestions
Based on the keyword development and client approval of the words selected, we will then develop page-by-page recommendations for each of the major sections of the Web site. This will include changes to Meta tags, page copy and in some instances HTML code.
Implementation of Suggestions
The client has the option to have us implement the optimization suggestions or to have their Web development staff manage the changes.
Search Engine Submission
Once the updates to the pages have been made, we will submit the site to the major search engines, ensuring that the descriptions provided are accurate and appropriately worded.
Ongoing Optimization
Ongoing optimization includes keeping abreast of the competition, searching for partner sites to setup cross-links, and quarterly progress reports which will specify if changes should be made to the Web site to help improve search engine performance.


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First off I want to say thank you so much to all my new puppy people. You have provided my babies with some wonderful new homes and I am so glad to have you as part of the Braebrook family. :)
I don't currently have any litter plans in the works but I may possibly have something in the spring of 2013. I'm hoping to get some traveling in this year and as you can imagine that is awfully hard to do with a litter of puppies. ;)
My friend does have a young 16 month old black female available to a good show or pet home. Kyra is very sweet and keen to work. Feel free to email my friend for more details: Cherie Holmes email@example.com


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Once again, Fandomfest made me proud to call myself "fan" and "friend" to the promoters. Despite challenges, such as last minute change in venue, and guest cancellations, Fandomfest 2017 knocked it out of the park.
(photo credit: Malinda Wickam)
Taking over the old Macy's store in Louisville's Jefferson mall is almost poetic….. Capitalism died in that mall, and the fans swarmed and took over. The ironic justice is delicious.
Despite naysayers, a good time was had by the large crowds and friendly celebrity guests, with Matthew Lillard inviting fans to come meet and hug him "Like a porkchop". Fans as far away as Ontario, Canada were posting pictures of fans meeting actor Sonny Chiba of "Kill Bill" fame, with Artoo Detoo, and BB8 droids roaming the floors, thrilling many a Star Wars fan.
(photo credit: Malinda Wickam)
The venue wasn't without complications, but staff were quick on the ball to assist vendors, such as Steampunk Alley. Originally slated for the second floor, vendors had trouble getting their props to the alloted spot, as the back wall wouldn't fit in the elevator. Staff responded by placing them on the first floor, which was pretty awesome of them.
(photo credit: Malinda Wickham. She's the one being threatened by the T-Rex.)
The cosplayers came out in droves, including many children, and an entire family dressed as Harry Potter characters. Celebrity guests posted regularly, and thanked the staff for a wonderful weekend. This is the kind of Fandomfest I'm familiar with. I've never had a bad time there, I've always been treated VERY well by the staff. And I know from experience, when Fandomfest triumphs over the odds, the next year will be even better. Congrats to the staff, guests and promoters for another awesome Convention. Stay tuned for Fandomfest 2018, because I sure will!


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Artwork by Jiein Hyun
There Will Be 10sMy guild revisions sat untouched. All the work to lay out a 10-Man culling strategy no longer applied; I couldn't remove them. My conscience, dulled over the course of the last two years, enjoyed a reawakening by staring at itself in the mirrors of my Mother's house. I didn't want to be like her, making decisions on no other grounds than because I can. Effort was necessary in order to make great things happen. DoD had long stood as a place for players uninterested in immature leadership and arbitrary rules. That summer vacation compelled me to reassess my strategy surrounding the 10s. Instead of lancing them like boils, I contemplated the other end of the spectrum: could DoD seduce 10s into joining?
It was a ludicrous question; I shook my head in disbelief frequently while walking this alternate path. A 10-Man team in Cataclysm was a self-sufficient guild. Logically, there was no reason whatsoever why a clique of tight-knit friends would feel the need to have themselves assimilated into a "faceless" organization like Descendants of Draenor...at least, at initial glance. The more I put myself in their shoes, however, the more reasons floated to the surface. Members of a 10-Man guild were no different than any other players I marketed to. 10s thought they were free from the complex underpinnings of a 25-Man guild, but I was skeptical. They shared the same stresses as any other team, just ot a much smaller scale. And when a guild mishandles those stresses, each member was an unwilling customer, discreetly shopping for a better deal.
I walked through the list of my own pain points, converting six years of workable solutions into a packaged product. Recruitment was always a worry. Let me take that off your hands. Bring your 10-Man team to us and you'll enjoy the benefits of DoD's never-ending recruitment. We have a wide array of people to choose from, and not all of them will be able to participate in the 25. Maybe they can help your cause?
Raiding can cost gold, both in repairs and flasks. The situation wasn't nearly as dire when compared to Vanilla and TBC, but the costs do add up over time. Let me subsidize your efforts. Bring your 10-Man team to DoD and I'll commit to issuing you a weekly kickback from the guild vault to help take the edge off. Why stop at gold? DoD's vault was thick with unused BoEs from the 25-Man efforts; Neps and I could only auction off so much, so fast. Why not reinvest those profits back into the 10-Man teams? BoEs might not make-or-break a 10-Man's progression, but perhaps such a gesture would give 10-Man guilds pause before rejecting a radical offer from a guild they'd otherwise never do business with.
There was no question in my mind that 10s would proliferate in Cataclysm. 25-Man guilds would collapse in great numbers, and while I scrambled to pick up the pieces of those fragmented teams, the 10s would overflow and dominate the server. It wouldn't be long before those 10s felt the same pressures I felt, as players acclimated to their more compact environment. Sooner or later, frustration and turmoil would lead to the grass-is-greener syndrome. For those teams with few people-management skills, miniature explosions would paint the server like a fireworks display -- my signal to come knocking. I'd offer my condolences to the formerly-known-as-10s, pitching Descendants of Draenor to those grieving widowers. But for the 10-Man guilds who fought desperately to keep it together, they would need help. They would need guidance, direction, and tools, so they could focus on enjoying the game. DoD could provide all these perks, and more.
It wouldn't be an easy sell; many would deny our necessity. It was the nature of the gamer to shove a big middle finger up toward anyone telling them what was good for them.
So, I wouldn't tell. I would show.
|The "face" of DoD, circa May 2010
The main guild website (top), eqDKP
site (middle) and phpRaider site (bottom)
Look On My Works, Ye Mighty
Pushing the quality of my work produced a wonderful side-effect: free time. Late into 2010, I had more and more opportunities to break from coding, putting time into research. Traditionally, I sought knowledge of a technical nature: programming languages, debugging and troubleshooting, understanding what was happening at the bare-metal of the processor. But these days, I found myself seeking more "right brained" knowledge. Architecture and design considerations, usability, what makes sense to do when, based off of context. Inevitably, I often ended up back at people: their nuances, what drives them subconsciously, what motivates them. My intent was to become a better coder, but my research kept pointing me toward becoming a better leader.
My boss, Dave, repeated the message at every opportunity, "You really ought to think about management." Each time, I humbly thanked him. Professionally, I never saw myself trading code for people; I loved to fix things. Programming is a canvas that's never complete.
There was a second site, charged with the responsibility of tracking the guild's DKP. I'd been using eqDKP for this task, built in the days of EverQuest, receiving minor updates along the way. Customization existed only in the form of alternate color schemes, which was about as effective as a can of spray paint on an Excel spreadsheet. I'd be foolish not mention the third site, our raid management tool. This was an implementation of phpRaider, which grew a bit over the years. The majority of changes went in by my own hands, fixing bugs that allowed players to sneak out of raids they'd been confirmed for, well after the cancellation window had closed.
All three sites needed some serious love. Guild portals were all the rage, jamming a million widgets and scrolling text down your throat like they were the natural evolution of Geocities. I refused to pay for a "solution" I could install and configure on my own. What good is a mechanic that can't fix his own vehicle? I dug deep into the web until my screen was filled with Umlauts.
|The character profile management tool
featured in eqDKP-Plus (Source: eqDKP-Plus.com)
Germany Is Our Only AllyIt wasn't difficult to see I'd landed squarely in Deutschland, given the huge black, red and yellow striped flag at the top of the page. The language barrier had minimal effect as my attention focused squarely on the screenshots. Character profile panels boasted in-game rendering, thanks to an integration with the World of Warcraft Armory. At the time, the WoW Armory allowed players to pose their character in one of many different frames of animation. You could have this in your guild site. Aesthetical niceties aside, the content management system boasted full character statistic importing, gear and glyph display, even supporting multiple specs. When compared to the ridiculous hacks necessary just to display an item hover in eqDKP, this package delivered functionality well beyond anything I expected to find....and the character profile was only the beginning.
Named in homage to the original eqDKP tracking system it was based off of, eqDKP-Plus was, quite possibly, the most advanced guild CMS I'd come across. The configuration panel alone listed 41 custom modules that could be enabled and displayed wherever I chose. Some of them actually didn't suck! Automatic achievement tracking? Check. World of Logs report integration? Check. GuildOx rank badges? Check. When I stumbled across the full phpRaider implementation, I just about fell out of my chair. And of course, there was the eqDKP system itself, tying loot earnings directly to the raids in phpRaider, which in turn, cascaded up into the news items. With a single button click, I could post the news of a boss kill to the homepage, include a photo of the kill, and display the loot that was distributed. It was the complete package.
...include a photo of the kill...
And thus began the burning of 918 screenshots to CD.


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Airbnb has completely blown up over the last few years, but has been a service I have used since 2012. When I first told people that I were planning to stay in random people's houses and spare rooms when on holiday they thought Pablo and I were mad, but I am always up for trying new things – especially whilst travelling – so was willing to take the risk. I am so glad that I was not put off by other's apprehension because I have not looked back since, and here are the reasons why:
1) Price
This was the initial reason for choosing Airbnb over hotels. Though the service has become pricer as it has gained in popularity there is still accommodation available for most price ranges and is better value for money, especially in places such as New York.
2) Versatility
Staying in people's homes means that you can expect the unexpected and find somewhere to fit your personality. I have stayed in everything from people's spare room to a penthouse in Vegas; there truly is something for everyone. The featured image is an example of this variety, each image is somewhere I have stayed.
4) An insight into other people's lives
One of my favourites aspects of travelling is getting to see how other people live, there is no better way of gaining real perspective than actually staying in a local's house.
5) Feel like a local
After a few days of staying in an apartment I begin to get a better understanding of the city's vibe and like to pretend that I am an actual local. Also, every Airbnb host I have stayed with has been super accommodating and has sent, or left us, a welcome pack with local hot spots – some have even taken us around on a mini personal tour!
6) Explore different neighbourhoods
Staying in a residential area often means that you get the opportunity to explore places off the beaten track instead of the normal tourist destinations where hotels are often located.
7) Amenities
Staying in an actual home means that you don't have to go out for every meal or to simply grab a cup of tea. This also helps with one of my favourite holiday pastimes and that is checking out all the weird and wonderful things in the local super markets. Having a fridge for beers is also always a bonus.
8) Flexibility
Travel does not always allow for strict check in and out times, most hosts are aware of this and as long as you give them advanced warning they tend to be pretty accommodating.
9) Space
Unless you are affluent and can afford a penthouse suite in a hotel, Airbnb can offer way more space for your money.
10) People
Whether staying in someone's spare room, or renting an entire place, I have been lucky enough to meet or have correspondence with so many amazing, interesting people. Most recently we had a beer with our New York host, Luke, who happened to be in the same bar on the same night as us in Amsterdam the year before – talk about similar minded!
Of course, as with any service that relies on people there are mishaps and horror stories, but I have managed to have the best experience by following a few simple tips, being respectful and communicative with my host.
Have you used Airbnb? What was your experience like? If not would you use it in the future?


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COC Reports Modest Surplus for 2010-11 Season
Toronto – Today at the Canadian Opera Company's Annual General Meeting, COC Board President Philip C. Deck announced the COC achieved another successful performance year in 2010/2011, recording a modest surplus of $10,000. In its fifth season at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, the COC generated ticket revenue of $12.3 million and recorded an average attendance of 94%.
"In a year in which virtually every arts organization in North America visibly suffered, the COC balanced its books and achieved a very impressive attendance capacity of 94%," said COC Board President Philip C. Deck. "For this we remain extremely grateful to the thousands of patrons and donors as well as our public and private sponsors who support the COC in the belief that the art we create improves and informs everyone's lives."
In total, 129,450 patrons attended the 66 performances of the seven operas comprising the 10/11 mainstage season, including a special performance of Mozart's The Magic Flute featuring members of the COC Ensemble Studio. Box Office revenue represented 33% of total operating revenues, with fundraising and grants accounting for 25%, government funding accounting for 19%, and 17% coming from other income sources such as space and production rentals. The remaining 6% came from other grants made up of contributions from the Canadian Opera Foundation, reflecting a normal distribution of earnings on the endowment funds, and the Canadian Opera House Corporation, through the general assets and activities of owning and operating the Four Seasons Centre.
Over 6,000 loyal supporters, subscribers and donors, corporations, and foundations contributed more than $8.6 million (net) to the COC in 10/11, an increase of almost 5% over the previous year. Approximately 75% of the $8.6 million – $6.5 million – came from individuals in support of the COC's mainstage productions and artists, as well as transition and endowment funding, training, and education and outreach programs. In addition, many donors contributed annually through the Golden Circle, President's Council and Friends of the COC patron programs, including a lead gift from Dr. William Waters and an anonymous donor to the Year-End Matching Appeal. Individual support is particularly crucial to the COC's commitment to stage new productions each season in order to remain an artistically relevant producer of opera, as well as providing a diversified revenue stream from rental and co-production opportunities. The COC's new productions of Aida andThe Magic Flute were generously underwritten in part by Tim and Frances Price and the Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation, respectively.
COC fundraising efforts through special projects and events, including the 17th Annual KPMG Opera Golf Classic, the 12th Annual Fine Wine Auction, and Operanation VII, netted over $360,000 to the company.
The COC continued to receive support from several loyal corporate sponsors: Sun Life Financial with the Sun Life Financial Accessibility Program; Jaguar Land Rover Canada as the Official Automotive Sponsor; Trius wine from Andrew Peller Limited as the Official Canadian Wine of the COC; Delvinia as the Digital Marketing Sponsor; CTV and The Globe and Mail as the Official Media Sponsors; and the Hilton Toronto as the Preferred Hospitality Sponsor. Production Sponsors for the season included RBC (The Magic Flute) and CIBC and CIBC Mellon (Nixon in China). Other sponsors were Xstrata, TD Bank Group, BMO Financial Group and National Bank Financial Group.
Government investment in, and support for, the COC continued to remain a cornerstone of the company's core funding model, with all levels of government demonstrating their commitment for a strong and vibrant cultural sector. In addition to continued investment by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council, both funding bodies provided support for the COC's tour of The Nightingale and Other Short Fables to Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). The tour, which brought significant critical acclaim to the COC, would not have been possible without the support of both government and private donors. The COC is also grateful for the increase to its annual investment from Toronto Culture.
"When we prepare future seasons, the guiding principle is always to balance our artistic ambitions with the financial realities and, when planning seasons upwards of five years in advance, the ongoing fluctuations in the economy can prove challenging to navigate on a yearly basis," says COC General Director Alexander Neef. "I am very proud that our 10/11 season was extremely successful on both the artistic and financial side, and very grateful for the constant support and dedication of our patrons, subscribers and generous donors. We continue to strive to offer our audiences opera of the highest standards, collaborating with exceptional Canadian and international artists and companies, and the results show that we continue to rank among the best in the world."
The 10/11 season was a significant year for the COC in many ways as it saw the company add two new productions to its repertoire, perform two 20th-century works and make its long-awaited return to BAM. The COC opened its fall run with a new production of Verdi's Aida, featuring a contemporary Middle Eastern setting that stripped away the conventional Egyptian iconography. Paired with Aida was Britten'sDeath in Venice, starring Alan Oke in a Dora Award-winning performance. The winter months offered a new production of Mozart's belovedThe Magic Flute and the COC premiere of one of the most performed and respected operas of the late 20th-century, Adams' Nixon in China. In the spring, the COC made its second tour in 18 years to the world-renowned BAM with its 2009 production of Robert Lepage's The Nightingale and Other Short Fables. Upon returning to Toronto, the COC concluded its 10/11 season with an intriguing combination of operatic repertoire: Rossini's Cinderella (La Cenerentola), R. Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos and the company premiere of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, the latter earning Dora Awards for outstanding production and outstanding musical direction.
In 10/11, the COC's popular Free Concert Series in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre marked its fifth year with 79 free events ranging from vocal recitals to cutting-edge contemporary dance performances, and continued to draw capacity crowds. The Free Concert Series attracted approximately 15,000 audience members of all backgrounds and ages who experienced the artistic excellence and cultural diversity of the city. Also, in addition to travelling to elementary schools across Ontario, the company's annual Xstrata Ensemble Studio School Tour brought opera to a completely new audience in performing its school tour adaptation of Cinderella for the Inuit communities of Salluit and Kangiqsujuaq in northern Quebec.
The COC began its 2011/2012 season this fall with the company premiere of Gluck's Iphigenia in Tauris and a new production of Verdi's Rigoletto. It continues in January 2012 with Puccini's Tosca and the Canadian premiere of Kaija Saariaho's Love from Afar, one of the most performed 21st-century operas. The spring run includes Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann, a double bill of darkly witty, one-act operas: Alexander Zemlinsky's A Florentine Tragedy
(a Canadian premiere) and Giacomo Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, and the COC premiere of Handel's Semele. The Ensemble Studio performance of Semele on the mainstage takes place on May 23, 2012.
About the Canadian Opera Company
Based in Toronto, the Canadian Opera Company is the largest producer of opera in Canada and one of the five largest in North America. The COC enjoys a loyal audience support-base and one of the highest attendance and subscription rates in North America. The COC celebrates its 62nd anniversary with the 2011/2012 season that was officially opened at the end of September. Under its new leadership team of General Director Alexander Neef and Music Director Johannes Debus, the COC is increasingly capturing the opera world's attention. The COC maintains its international reputation for artistic excellence and creative innovation by creating new productions within its diverse repertoire, collaborating with leading opera companies and festivals, and attracting the world's foremost Canadian and international artists. The COC performs in its own opera house, the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, hailed internationally as one of the finest in the world. Designed by Diamond and Schmitt Architects, the Four Seasons Centre opened in 2006, and is also the performance venue for The National Ballet of Canada. For more information on the Canadian Opera Company, please visit its award-winning website at coc.ca.
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Monday, 18 June 2012
Arthur Beale - Covent Garden WC2
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This reminds me of that shop on New Oxford Street that fascinates and charms me, though I have never actually been inside. It seems to sell umbrellas and swords!ReplyDelete
I love that shop! James Smith & Sons - blogged about it early on in this blog's life: http://londonrobstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/james-smith-sons-umbrellas.htmlReplyDelete
Ah ha! So you have! I should venture inside at some point. I see you've also been to Arbutus - that was my first proper blog post. I was also mightily impressed.ReplyDelete
Love Arbutus - that squid & mackerel burger is a total winner.ReplyDelete
- Rebecca19 June 2012 at 20:30
I love Arthur Beale! I spend a lot of time standing outside looking at all the shiny clip-thingies and ropes and flags and stuff. I've always wanted to go in and just smell the air (which I am convinced smells of the sea and pipe tobacco) but I'm too shy!ReplyDelete
Rebecca - it is one of those shops that you doesn't seem to encourage browsing, it is very practical! I felt a bit awkward - so I tend to just admire from the outside and am happy that it exists! Unless I take up sailing of course, then I'll become a regular customer...ReplyDelete


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Oh, also -- so taken am I with the No-Stress tweak that I've incorporated it into these notes. Doing so involves invoking the term "Grit," which is in the SotC SRD but which I almost never see discussed. Grit has a numeric value representing how many consequences a creature will withstand before being Taken Out. As a term, Grit doesn't work too well for fantasy, if you ask me, but it's good enough for now and there are plenty of alternative names out there.
Speaking of alternative names, I'm considering dropping the terms "physical consequences" and "mental consequences" and just coming up with one-word names for them, like Wounds and Trauma. Collectively, they'd still be referred to as consequences, but it'd be so much easier to short-hand them with specific, intuitive terms. Any thoughts on that, my enormous reading public?
Anyway, on with the Summoning.
By default:
- Summoned creature(s) has one scope.
- One Good Quality creature, one Fair, or up to three Average. Average have one Average skill and no Grit, Fair have one Average skill, one Fair skill, and Grit 1, and Good have one Good skill, one Fair skill, one Average skill, and Grit 2. If the creature has Endurance or Resolve as a skill, it adds Grit, as usual. All starting skills have to be within the creature's scope.
- Resolve vs. combined quality of all summoned creatures (e.g., two Good creatures means needing to make a Fantastic Resolve effort). If summoner fails, he takes damage equal to combined Quality (resulting in a Minor Mental Consequence if up to three points of damage get through, a Moderate for four to seven, and a Severe for eight or more), and GM has control of creature(s) until the summoner can succeed on a Resolve roll. If/when he succeeds, he can assign the creature(s) a broad or narrow task (e.g., "Kill those men!" or "Break down the doors in this building!" or "Tell me about the Lens of Kheldoss!"), and controls them for as long as it takes to carry it out or until they disappear, whichever comes first. Assigning them a new task requires a new roll, with the same dangers.
- The summoner can dismiss summoned creatures by making a Resolve roll vs. the highest quality of the creature(s) to be dismissed (e.g., three Average creatures would require an Average Resolve effort, not a Good one).
- Requires a few minutes by default, +1 time increment/+1 quality of highest-quality creature (so a group of three Average creatures is 15 minutes, one Good creature is one hour) and +1 step/two added Traits. Thus, a +3 creature with two Traits would take a few hours to summon, by default.
- There's no limit on the number of Traits that can be applied to a creature, apart from the innate practical one (i.e., if you pile too many Traits on, you'll have no chance to control the creature).
- Summoned creatures attached to a character take damage on his behalf, as minions.
- Summoned creatures take damage as minions; overflow applies.
- Summoned creatures stick around for as long as it takes to summon them, to a minimum of a few minutes.
- The summoner can voluntarily take longer with the summoning ritual to assist with Resolve rolls: +1 to roll/+1 time increment taken, to a maximum of +4.
The summoner may apply any Trait marked with an asterisk (*) to summoned creatures on the fly, after being summoned, for a Fate Point. This doesn't mean that the creature gains new abilities so much as it just makes use of abilities it hasn't previously displayed.
Summoned creature(s) has an Aspect that can be invoked or compelled as any other. Fate Points given for compels go to the summoned creature, not the summoner, and disappear when the creature vanishes or dies.
Increase quality of summoned creature(s) by +1. Note the double-whammy effect on summoning time this causes.
Double number of creatures summoned per application.
Add an additional scope to the summoned creature(s).
Able to act without being attached to summoner -- treated as minion equal to Quality.
Adds an additional skill of the creature's Quality, or two skills of a lesser degree (e.g., a Fair-Quality creature with the Skilled Trait could have either one additonal Fair skill or two additional Average skills). These skills cannot be outside the creature's scope. If this Trait is added on the fly, it cannot improve a skill that the creature has already used. If the summoned creature(s) is attached, it may use a skill on behalf of the character.
The creature can be used as a library equal to its quality.
The creature gains a stunt within its scope for which it qualifies.
The creature has some special means of locomotion -- flight, fast swimming, etc.
The summoner and the creature share a telepathic bond (or something similar) that allows them to communicate without needing to speak as long as they're within three zones of one another.
The summoned creature is especially large, or made up of a swarm of smaller creatures. Either way, it blocks movement. The value of the barrier is equal to the creature's Quality.
The creature deals an additional point of damage on a successful attack. This can be applied multiple times.
The creature has one additional point of Grit.
Stunts (Resolve):
This is the baseline stunt required to work Summoning magic; it covers everything above, and is required for all the stunts below.
- Quickened Ritual: Pick one scope. For a Fate Point, summoning happens faster than usual with creatures of that scope: -4 steps on time increments table.
- Improvised Ritual: Normally, summoning requires a specially drawn circle and various occult accoutrements. Pick a scope. With this stunt, the summoner may pay a Fate Point to conduct a summoning without any of these trappings for creatures of the chosen scope.
- Focused Ritual: Pick a scope. For a Fate Point, a summoned creature (or creatures, if multiple creatures are summoned at once) of the chosen scope receives a bonus of +1 to a single skill. This does not count as a Trait for purposes of the Resolve roll or summoning time.
- Sustaining Call [Prerequisite: One other Summoning Stunt]: Pick a scope, yadda yadda, creatures of that scope stick around longer than usual: +2 steps on the time increments table.
- Dominating Call [Prerequisite: One other Summoning Stunt]: When summoning a creature of the chosen scope, this Stunt grants a +2 bonus to the initial Resolve roll. This bonus also applies to any further such rolls with that creature.


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How To Catch Up on Late Payments
If you have gotten behind on bills, you may be wondering what you can do to fix the situation. It can be difficult to pull yourself out of a negative spiral. When you are behind, it is often because you just do not make enough money to cover your expenses and handle emergencies. It is possible to recover from these situations. You will need to focus and cut unnecessary spending until you are caught up.
Make a List of Bills You Are Behind On
You need to sit down and make a list of what bills you are behind on and what you need to bring those bills current. You should also have your current budget on hand. If you do not have a budget, you need to make one now.
Prioritize the Bills
Prioritize the bills. You should go in order of your mortgage/rent, then utility bills, and then other bills in order of amount or interest rate or lateness. It is important that you make sure that you have a place to stay, electricity and running water. This is why the rent and utilities should come first. After that, you should stay current on your car payment.
Additionally, if you have to choose which bills to pay, always pay those bills first. In this type of situation, your credit cards are your last priority. If you get behind on your credit cards, it may affect your credit, but you will still have a safe place to stay and a way to take care of yourself. If you get behind on your rent and utilities, it will still affect your credit, but it can affect whether or not you can take care of yourself.
Find the Money to Get Caught Up
Determine how much extra money you have available to get caught up each month. When you are trying to get caught up on bills you need to stop all unnecessary spending. This includes going out to eat, going to the movies, and other forms of entertainment. You can also suspend your cable or other unnecessary monthly expenses until you are caught up. You may also want to consider selling some things that you are no longer using in order to raise money quickly and to help you get caught up.
Talk to Your Creditors to Set Up a Plan
Once you have determined how much you have available you should call and talk to your creditors or anyone that you are behind with. Many companies will be able to work out a payment plan with you, in order to help you get caught up. In fact, you should try calling if you are afraid that you are going to fall behind. There is a lot that they can do to help if you communicate with them.
Look for a Second Job
You may need to take on a second job for a short time so that you can get caught up. This can be very temporary, but it can help you to clear up the mess and help you to get control of your finances. You may also consider selling things on e-Bay in order to raise money quickly. You may want to consider these part-time jobs that pay better than minimum wage. Be sure that all of the extra money you are earing is going directly toward getting caught up.
Start Saving for an Emergency
Once you have gotten current on everything, you should begin to save money for an emergency fund, to prevent this from happening again. You should also begin to look for long-term solutions for your income crisis. You may consider looking for a higher paying job or enrolling in a program or school so that you are qualified for higher paying work.
Keep to a Monthly Budget
To prevent this from happening, you should have a written monthly budget and you need to stick to it. You should pay particularly close attention to your variable expenses. You may be able to cut back in areas without feeling like you are.
Communicate With Your Creditors
Communicate with your creditors and utility companies as soon as you realize that you may be late or miss payments. They can often delay a payment, stop interest for a short period of time or note in the records that you have communicated the problem.
Prioritize Your Payments
Remember that your credit card payments should be one of the lowest things when it comes to prioritizing on what payments you may be late on. You need to pay them, but it is more important to have a place to live and power. When you are short on cash, you need to work to pay off the most important things first and cut out any extra spending you may have.
Bottom Line
Catching up on late payments should be one of your first steps when you are starting to clean up your finances. You can make real changes to your financial picture with discipline and hard work. It is important to start taking steps so that you are not just surviving but thriving financially. Look at your entire financial picture and get serious about budgeting to see what else you need to do to change the situation.


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