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By DAMON LAWRENCE
The number 117 is ingrained in Jack Stockton's mind.
That's how many votes David Haggard beat him by in the 2002 race for Roane County sheriff.
Stockton believes he could have beaten Haggard easily had there not been a third candidate — Jeff Clower — in the race.
"I just think that the majority of the people in Roane County wanted a new sheriff and that third party split the vote up and he stayed in office again," Stockton said.
A company that Roane County officials go to for financial advice has been accused of fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The complaint was filed against Morgan Keegan & Co. in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia on July 21, 2009.
According to the SEC, thousands of investors were hoodwinked by Morgan Keegan about the liquidity risks associated with auction rate securities.
By CHERYL DUNCAN
Rockwood police spent the better part of the weekend rounding up and arresting almost 50 people suspected of selling and distributing drugs.
The arrests are the culmination of a six-month undercover operation in which Josh Rymer, drug investigator for the Rockwood Police Department, worked with a confidential informant, said Rockwood Police Chief Bill Stinnett.
A Roane County grand jury returned true bills in the cases late last week.
By CINDY SIMPSON
A Kingston man indicted on a vehicular homicide charge in the January death of a Harriman woman is free on bond.
Charles Wayne Crass, 56, of 301 Orchard View Road, was released at about 6:15 p.m. Thursday, said Harriman Police Chief Randy Heidle.
"He turned himself in last night," Heidle said Friday morning.
Crass is accused of striking 33-year-old Elishea Gilreath with his vehicle on Harriman's Emory Road.
For the first time in decades, workers are on site at the old Roane Alloys property in the Roane County Industrial Park in Rockwood.
This time around, however, workers are in the midst of undoing damage the former industry inflicted on the land and an adjoining body of water.
But officials are confident that the cleaned-up property can again be used to generate jobs in the Tennessee Valley.
"It will be an attractive site for business and industry," said Rockwood Mayor James Watts.
Rockwood's "star on the mountain" is shining brightly over the city in hopes of a miracle.
Rockwood Electric Utility turned on the gigantic lighted star atop Mount Roosevelt on Wednesday to remind the public to keep ailing Rockwood City Councilman Stan Wassom in their thoughts and prayers, said Vice Mayor Peggy Evans.
By TERRI LIKENS
After fostering about 200 children over 40 years, Flo Charles admits there have been times she wondered if it was worth it.
Those doubts may have been a little more frequent after her beloved husband, Clarence, died suddenly early last year.
She still had four foster children at home, a pretty 137-acre farm to care for, hayfields to mow, cattle to feed and a house that had sustained the kind of abuse that only a small army of children can dish out.
By CINDY SIMPSON
Pattycake Pastries is flourishing — so much so that the owner is adding a doughnut shop.
The shop will include a variety of pastries and specialty flavored coffees.
"Pattycake Pastries is expanding for the demand of the community with a doughnuts shop," said owner Mike Borman.
The shop will hold a grand opening on Feb. 19 at 9 a.m.
If it is anything like the Pattycake grand opening last November, expect lines at the door.
Criminal Court Judge E. Eugene Eblen denied Kevin Spurling's request for judicial diversion in October 2008.
Judicial diversion allows a person to go through probation, and upon its successful completion, have the crime they are convicted of erased from their record.
Spurling is a former school teacher in Knox County. He was indicted in February 2006 for statutory rape and incest. The Roane County victim was his then 14-year-old stepdaughter.
South of the River Constable Butch Barding suspects officials may have been playing politics with a junkyard case.
Roane County accused James and Patricia Woods and Dean and Nola Howard of operating a junkyard at 123 Rose Circle.
The county filed its complaint against the property owners in July 2006, but the case didn't get settled until last week.
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Class and Work in Cultural Capitalism: Japanese Trends (part 2)
2010年 11月 19日
The debate over the performance model flared up because it started affecting the elite sector; 'Japanese-style' management has never applied to small businesses which adjust their employment structure according to economic fluctuations, with workers moving from one company to another with considerable frequency. An increasing number of non-regular workers, those part-timers and casuals with no long-term employment base, are hired and fired depending upon performance and output. One should, therefore, examine the debate over the competing models of work with a conscious focus on the lower end of the labor-force hierarchy.
Cultural Capitalism: An Emerging Mega-sector
Culture has become big business around the world with advanced economies increasingly dominated by the information, education, medicine, welfare and other cultural industries that specialize in the world of symbols, images and representations. Japan's capitalism has been at the forefront in this area by producing fresh value-added commodities in the face of growing competition from Asian countries to which the centers of industrial production had shifted. No longer the manufacturing powerhouse of the world, Japanese capitalism has carved out new and enormous markets through expertise in the worlds of software technology, visual media, music, entertainment, hospitality and leisure. In these fields, Japanese companies continue to hold comparative advantage and claim international superiority, thereby releasing a constant stream of cultural products into the global market and reshaping the Japanese economy.
One may argue that Japan has now developed cultural capitalism, which relies upon the production of symbols, knowledge and information as the guiding principle of wealth creation and focuses upon cultural attractions and activities as the primary motivating factors underpinning consumption. The debate over 'soft power' and 'Japan Cool' has arisen in this context. To provide a map of the comparative features of emerging cultural capitalism as distinguished from conventional industrial capitalism, Table 2 contrasts the modus operandi of the two types of capitalism in existence today. It should be stressed that the features in the cells do not denote exclusive properties of each type but exhibit the relative points of emphasis of the two for comparative purposes.
As early as the 1980s, market analysts were quick to point out that the patterns of Japanese consumer behavior were becoming diversified in a fundamental way. Previously, manufacturers sold models standardized for mass consumption, successfully promoting them through sales campaigns and advertisements. Recently, however, this strategy has become ineffective as consumers have begun to seek products in tune with their personal preferences. They have become more unpredictable, selective, and inquisitive. The notion of the Japanese as uniform mass consumers does not effectively account for their consumer behavior patterns today. A consumer behavior study21 suggested the emergence of shōshū – individualized, divided, and small-unit masses – as opposed to taishū, the undifferentiated, uniform, and large-scale mass. The research institute of Hakuhōdō,22 a leading advertising agency, also argued that the notion of bunshū (segmented masses) would account for the behavior of consumers more effectively than the conventional view of them as a homogeneous entity. In short, cultural capitalism thrives with mass customization, the production of many different commodities tailored for specific focus groups, unlike industrial capitalism that is built upon the mass production of a small number of standardized goods. If industrial capitalism survives on the relative homogeneity of consumer lifestyles, cultural capitalism rests upon their differentiation. Mobile phones, for instance, are frequently revamped with different functions, designs and colors, fashioned to fulfill the distinct desires of particular and shifting demographics.
Contents of takeout box lunches sold to office workers at convenience stores are highly varied to satisfy the diverse tastes of youngsters, women, middle-aged men and other socio-economic groups.
Such differentiation of consumer motivations mirrors alterations in the criteria of class formation. Hara and Seiyama, leading experts in social stratification, argue that inequality has been removed in contemporary 'affluent' Japan as far as 'basic goods' are concerned, while the nation is increasingly stratified in pursuit of what they call 'upper goods.'23 Absolute poverty was eradicated when the population's subsistence needs were met. Almost every household can now afford a television set, telephone, car, rice cooker and other essential goods for a comfortable daily life. Virtually all teenagers advance to senior high school and fulfill their basic educational requisites. In the meantime, community perceptions of social stratification are becoming multi-dimensional. The different sectors of the Japanese population are increasingly divergent in their respective evaluations of status indicators. Some attach importance to asset accumulation, while others regard occupational kudos as crucial. Still others would deem quality of life the most significant dimension. In each sphere, what Hara and Seiyama call 'upper goods' are scarce, be they luxury housing, postgraduate education or deluxe holidays, with these expensive commodities being beyond the reach of many people. Thus, social divisions in Japanese society today derive not so much from the unequal distribution of commonplace and mundane industrial goods as from that of prestigious and stylish cultural goods.
It is an established convention to divide economies into three sectors of activity: the primary sector (including agriculture and fisheries) which transforms natural resources into products, the secondary sector (comprising manufacturing and construction) which produces finished goods from the output of the primary sector, and the tertiary sector which offers services or intangible goods and encompasses industries ranging from retail, wholesale, finance and real estate to the public service. Given that some 70 percent of workers in Japan are now employed in the tertiary sector,24 this sector needs reclassification according to internal varieties. Specifically, the recent expansion of areas that make knowledge-based, informational and value-added products form what may be categorized as the quaternary sector which branches off from the conventional tertiary sector. Though no governmental statistics are based on such category, on a rough and conservative estimate, approximately one quarter of Japan's workforce operates in this sphere, ranging from employees in the information and telecommunications industries, medical, health care and welfare sectors, restaurants, hotels and other leisure businesses to education and teaching support staff, and government workers. As Table 3 suggests, the number of employees engaged in the quaternary sector is on par with that of those in the manufacturing and construction industries that are typically classified as the secondary sector. These figures are admittedly very crude approximations.25 Nevertheless, broadly speaking, cultural workers undoubtedly predominate as much as industrial workers in the landscape of Japan's workforce today.
In tandem with these domestic shifts, Japan is now seen internationally as a superpower in terms of cultural 'soft power' that exercises a significant influence around the world in various areas of popular culture, including computer games, pop music, fashion, architecture, not to mention manga and anime. In the field of education, the Kumon method which has spread across at least forty four countries and territories uses special methods to tutor children in a variety of subjects. In music, the Suzuki method is marketed as a unique and special approach to enhance musical talent. Even in sushi restaurants, Japanese cuisine techniques constitute the core of business activity.
Nintendo is now a household name around the world, and computer games made in Japan enjoy immense popularity. So do Sudoku puzzles initially actively commercialized in Japan. These developments reflect the sharp edges of the emerging international division of labor in which the production of cultural goods occupies a crucial position in advanced economies in general and Japanese capitalism in particular.
All this signifies that the knowledge-intensive skills that are based on exclusive patents, copyrights and intellectual properties take on increasingly profound significance and attach greater significance to the cultural dimensions of production.
Cultural capitalism goes hand in hand with cultural nationalism. Japan's state machinery regards the expansion of its cultural capitalism as a global strategy to enhance the nation's position in the international hierarchy. In particular, the popularity of Japanese cultural goods has a special meaning in Asia where competing historical interpretations of World War II still cause contention. Even though memories of the past and the cultural trade of the present are two separate dimensions, it is a part of the master plan of the Japanese state that the prevailing popular image of Japanese cultural commodities in Asia will aid Japan as a nation in gaining general acceptance in the region in the long run. The notion that Japan as the most advanced country in Asia should lead other nations in the region concurs with the worldview of the Japanese establishment, even though the idea sometimes conjures up the wartime Japanese ideology of the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere.
It is also worth noting here that an increasing number of workers in the cultural sector, if not all, can produce their commodities without being bound to a particular physical place of work. If industrial capitalism originated from the Industrial Revolution in the late eighteenth and the early nineteenth century, cultural capitalism exploded with the Information Revolution in the late twentieth century, accompanied by the sudden expansion of the internet and the proliferation of mobile phones. Cyberspace technology enables cultural workers to be de-localized, and this tends to facilitate the above-mentioned casualization of employment. At the same time, the creative expertise of cultural products can easily be copied without authorization and pirated inter-territorially. To confront the situation, the 'Basic Law of Intellectual Properties' was enacted in 2002 to safeguard not only Japanese patents but also the nation's contents industry that produces original texts, images, movies, music and other creative data, while strict state regulation of cyberspace continues to be a near impossibility.
In this environment, workers become fragmented, with their work life becoming increasingly compartmentalized. Labor unions which used to be the bastion of worker solidarity have gradually lost membership and power, and individual employees attempt to defend themselves by being self-centered, resourceful and entrepreneurial. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the Japanese are concerned less with the survival and subsistence issues that govern industrial capitalism and more with the precariousness of their sense of identity and reality, the existential issues that characterize cultural capitalism. This trend forms a backdrop against which people attempt to carve out a new form of community in expanding civil society.26
Asahi Shimbun 'Lost Generation' Shuzai-han 2007, Lost generation: smayou 2-sen mannin (The lost generation: straying twenty million). Asahi Shimbunsha.
Chiavacci, David 2008, 'From class struggle to general middle-class society to divided society: Models of inequality in postwar Japan', Social Science Japan Journal, vol. 11, no. 1: 5–27.
Chūō Kōron Henshūbu and Nakai, Kōichi (eds) 2003, Ronsō: Gakuryoku hōkai (Debate on the disruption of academic ability). Chūō Kōronsha.
Fujita, Wakao 1984, Sayonara, taishū (A farewell to masses). Kyoto: PHP Kenkyūsho.
Hakuhōdō Seikatsu Sōgō Kenkyūsho 1985, 'Bunshū' no tanjō (The emergence of segmented masses). Nihon Keizai Shimbunsha.
Hara, Junsuke and Seiyama, Kazuo 2006, Inequality amid Affluence: Social Stratification in Japan. Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press.
Ishida, Hiroshi 2010, 'Does class matter in Japan?', in Hiroshi Ishida and David H. Slater (eds), Social Class in Japan, London: Routledge, pp. 33–56.
Kenessey, Zoltan 1987, 'The primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary sectors of the economy,' Review of Income and Wealth, vol. 33, issue 4: 359–85.
Kōsei Rōdōshō (Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) 2006, Heisei 18-nenban rōdō keizai no bunseki (Analysis of labor economics, 2006).
Kosugi, Reiko 2008, Escape from Work: Freelancing Youth and the Challenge to Corporate Japan. Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press.
Morioka, Kōji 2009, Hinkonka suru howaito karā (The impoverished white collar). Chikuma Shobō.
NHK Special 'Working Poor' Shuzai-han 2007, Working Poor: Nippon o mushibamu yamai (The working poor: the dicease that gnaws away at Japan). Popla-sha.
Satō, Toshiki 2000, Fubyōdō shakai Nippon (Japan: Not an egalitarian society). Chūō Kōronsha.
Shirase, Sawako 2010, 'Marriage as an association of social classes in a low fertility rate society, Hiroshi Ishida and David H. Slater (eds), Social Class in Contemporary Japan. London: Routledge, pp. 57–83.
Tachibanaki, Toshiaki 2005, Confronting Income Inequality in Japan: A Comparative Analysis of Causes, Consequences, and Reform. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Tōkei Sūri Kenkyūsho (Institute of Statistical Mathematics) 2009, 'Kokumin-sei no kenkyū: 2008-nen dai 12-kai zenkoku chōsa' (Studies of national character: the 12th national survey, conducted in 2008). Tōkei Chōsa Kenkyō Report.
Yoshio Sugimoto is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, La Trobe University and Director, Trans Pacific Press Pty Ltd
He drew on material from his Introduction to Japanese Society to prepare this article.
His Recent books include An Introduction to Japanese Society, third edition (2010) and The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture (2009).
Recommended citation:Yoshio SUGIMOTO, "Class and Work in Cultural Capitalism: Japanese Trends," The Asia-Pacific Journal, 40-1-10, October 4, 2010.
Articles on related subjects:
Nobuko Adachi, Ethnic Identity, Culture, and Race: Japanese and Nikkei at Home and Abroad
Stephanie Assmann and Sebastian Maslow, Dispatched and Displaced: Rethinking Employment and Welfare Protection in Japan
David H. Slater, The Making of Japan's New Working Class: "Freeters" and the Progression From Middle School to the Labor Market
Recommended citation: Yoshio Sugimoto, "Class and Work in Cultural Capitalism: Japanese Trends," The Asia-Pacific Journal, 40-1-10, October 4, 2010.
1 This article is based on material drawn from An Introduction to Japanese Society, third edition (Cambridge University Press 2010) and submitted at the invitation of Japan Focus.
2 For an excellent analysis of the paradigm change, see Chiavacci 2008.
3 Satō 2000 initiated the debate.
4 Tachibanaki 2005 is one of the best studies in the area.
5 Shirahase 2010.
6 Tokyo Daigaku Kōhō Iinkai 2008. The data were gathered in 2007.
7 Japan's relative poverty rate, an indicator of the percentage of low-income earners, was 14.9 percent in 2004, the fourth highest among the OECD's thirty member nations, and rose to 15.7 percent in 2007. The relative poverty rate represents the percentage of income earners whose wage is below half of the median income.
8 See Tōkei Sūri Kenkyūsho 2009, Table 1.8.
9 See Ishida 2010.
10 The total index of structural mobility records a consistent upward trend throughout the postwar years. The agricultural population provides the only exception to this propensity, showing a consistent downward trend. The total index arrived at its peak in 1975, reflecting a massive structural transformation which transpired during the so-called high-growth period starting in the mid 1960s.
11 Morioka 2009.
12 Satō 2000. Some experts dispute this thesis. See, for example, Hara and Seiyama 2005, pp. xxiii–vi.
13 Chūō Kōron Henshūbu and Nakai 2003.
14 The Labor Force Survey conducted in 2008 by the Ministry of Welfare, Labor and Health.
15 See NHK Special 2007.
16 For details, see Kosugi 2008.
17 Asahi Shimbun 'Lost Generation' Shuzai-han 2007.
18 Kōsei Rōdōshō 2006. The figures are calculated from data collected in 2002.
19 Tōkei Sūri Kenkyūsho 2009, Table 5.6. In the 2008 survey, 81 percent support the former type and 15 the latter.
20 Tōkei Sūri Kenkyūsho 2009, Table 5.6b. Both in 2003 and 2008, the figures were 53 percent versus 44 percent.
21 Fujita 1984.
22 Hakuhōdō 1985.
23 This is a major theme of Hara and Seiyama 2005. See pp. 164–7 in particular.
24 Labor Force Survey in 2007, conducted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.
25 The so-called 'compound' and 'other' service industries include cultural enterprises, such as 'political, business and cultural organizations' and 'religion.' Some researchers of the quaternary sector – such as Kenessey 1987 – include 'real estate' in this sector. Our approximation here is quite conservative, and we simply wish to show that the quaternary sector now forms an independent, expanding and sufficiently large sector in its own right.
26 The thesis is examined in Chapter 10 of the book
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|Fresh from Oven Moist Double Chocolate Muffins
As I started baking last year, it's so fun and addictive, I have move on to try baking different recipes. This is one of a good recipe that I found and tested, that I think anyone who loves Chocolates can try baking this too!
|Haha, I copied recipes I found into one book, and modified them as I bake and test!
Note: Original recipe adapted from here. I have made some modifications to make it less sweet and also I use slightly lesser plain yogurt because I buy them in packs of 200ml (as i am lazy to measure it to be 240ml)
Ingredients required:
- 240g (2 cups) all purpose flour
- 150g white sugar (i used lesser sugar than original recipe)
- 100g of chocolate chips (or any amount you desired, to suit your taste buds, i used hershey's semi sweet mini chocolate chips)
- 45g cocoa powder (i used hershey's cocoa powder. I used lesser cocoa powder than original recipe as i find the muffins very "heaty" ;p)
- 5ml (1 tsp) baking soda
- 1 egg
- 5ml (1tsp) vanilla
- 200ml plain yogurt (i bought the 200ml pack from the supermarkets)
- 120ml (1/2 cup) milk
- 120ml (1/2 cup) vegetable oil (I used canola oil)
Optional toppings
- 40g chocolate chips (i omit this as I do not want the muffins to be overly sweet)
- Preheat oven to 190 degree (or 200 degree if you are using a normal convection oven)
- Place paper cups in the muffin pan/cups
- Measure and put all the dry ingredients in a bowl, set aside
- Measure and put all the wet ingredients into the mixing bowl. Combine them with a hand whisk
- Sift the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients to rid the lumps. I used to omit this step but I have started doing this as the muffins will really turn out more even and tastes nicer
- Add in your desired amount of chocolate chips and mix until all combined.
- Scoop batter into each paper cups until 2/3 full. Be careful not to put too much as batter mixture will raise by a lot!
- Bake for 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool on wire rack.
- Enjoy!
The end result will be this super aromatising, soft and moist, super super sinful Double Chocolate Muffins! I only bake this like once in a blue moon!
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USA Today immigration and Latin America reporter Alan Gomez said that the president's legal authority to give work permits through an executive order was "murky" and "something that really hasn't been tested" on Friday's "Andrea Mitchell Reports" on MSNBC.
"He [Obama] created the deferred action for new arrivals where he allowed undocumented immigrants who were brought to the country as children to register with the federal government and be allowed to stay here, to be protected from deportation, that's about 580,000 young undocumented immigrants have been approved from that program so far. Now, the argument is that he can pretty much expand that, continue protecting undocumented immigrants while still carrying out the laws of Congress…but it gets into a lot murkier ground when he starts talking about granting work permits. And this is one of the things that we're going to be hearing quite a bit about in this Republican Senate in these next couple of weeks, is that next step of allowing them to work. He's not going to try to give them citizenship as you said, but it's, the legal ground on which he's standing to provide work permits is something that really hasn't been tested and it's something that's a lot more difficult to understand" he stated.
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Why Studying Abroad Isn't All It's Cracked Up to Be
I think it's time we be honest when it comes to studying abroad and not make it seem like something that it's not. I want to be completely candid with you because I think that it will benefit you in the long-run if you ever decide to study abroad OR you are jealous of people who are currently studying abroad. Studying abroad isn't all it's cracked up to be, however, I 100% believe you should do it anyway and I'll tell you why...
1. Independency.
I thought that I was super independent before I made the move to London for my Master's, but boy was I wrong. When I was in college (only 30 minutes from my house but I lived on campus) I would still come home every now and then for a warm cooked meal and my mom would help out with my laundry (yep, not ashamed). Now, it's all me. Literally. There is no one helping me with anything. I had to open a foreign bank account, all by myself. I had to figure out and navigate a brand new country, all by myself. I don't get money from my parents, so that's on me as well. I had to meet new people and adjust to a new learning curriculum. Most everything you do when you study abroad will be by yourself. Sure, you will make a few friends and that will be great. But everything else, serious that matters, is on you. No one is holding your hand and helping you. Europe is cutthroat (my opinion). They don't hold your hand in school, you do everything by yourself and if you don't do it - that's on you. I think I took for granted my American degree and professors because if I was struggling I knew I could go to a professor and ask and figure things out. Here, if you are falling behind or if your grade isn't that good, etc... it's all on you. You have to figure it out. You have to navigate it and you have to be ready for the consequences.
The flip side to this, however, is that you become fiercely independent. It's an empowering thing to go through and know that you can do all of that by yourself. That you can rely on yourself and trust yourself to get things done. I did a solo trip to Ireland where I was terrified, because I was completely by myself, but I was also excited. It's a time in your life where you grow up, quite honestly, and you realize that you can do things all on your own. You don't need people always holding your hand and showing you the way. Your parent(s) raised you to one day take care of yourself and I believe study abroad really jump starts that for students.
2. Homesickness.
Homesickness is a real thing. FOMO is a real thing. It's all real, a little too real... When I first landed in London, I was a wreck. I had just left my friends, family & boyfriend behind for a year in London. Sure, I chose to do this - but it's still scary! Everything I mentioned previously was hitting me all at once, I felt immense pressure and stress all the time - I was literally a wreck. I cried so much the first two days. All I wanted was my phone to work so I could call everyone back home. I wanted American food. I wanted to get back on that plane and go home. What the heck was I doing here? Why did I think I could spend a year away from everyone I love? Am I crazy?
The answer is: no. I wasn't crazy and it's turned into the best year of my life. Because, it will. It will do that. It will turn into one of the biggest adventures you've ever had. Whether you spend 6 months or a year studying abroad - it's the best thing you can do for yourself and your education. Sure, you will miss everyone back home and yea they are going to do stuff without you. I guess you could then look at it as - you're studying abroad......you're in another country.......you're expanding your knowledge and you're becoming more culturally aware of things....you've got it going on! So just embrace it and don't worry...you will be on the plane home soon enough. Enjoy the time you have left!
3. Traveling Every Weekend.
Let's be real for a minute.... you are here to study, right? So at some point - you have to do just that. I'm in a Master's program and it's not joke. Some weekends (like this one) I am literally inside all weekend working on papers and assignments. I don't have time to go see Europe every weekend. Plus, it can be exhausting. I've done it several times and even though I'm going to continue to do it - I believe you have to pace yourself. You can't just travel every single weekend. If you decide to travel while studying abroad (because who wouldn't?) I would suggest maybe two weekends out of the month and then if you have a 'reading' week like I do...take that opportunity to see multiple places not just one place for the whole week. There are ways to do it so you don't wear yourself but traveling every weekend isn't always as glamorous as people think it is. I know I laugh at myself every time I tell my Mom where I'm going.. like "Oh, I'm just going to dart off to Italy" no big deal. It's funny because sometimes I even take being over here for granted but I know I'm completely fortunate and it's the year of a lifetime. So do yourself a favor and plan a few trips (or be spontaneous, even better) before your studies get too intense and then pace yourself. This time is going to fly by and before you know it - you haven't gone places that you wanted to and you definitely haven't seen all of Europe.
4. Parle-vous Francais?
Yeah, don't worry not a lot of people even know what that says. It says "Do you speak French?" Most people, I've talked to, think that when they move to Europe or study abroad they automatically become fluent in another language. Doesn't quite work like that. Unless you are literally studying another language, living with a host family or constantly around someone who speaks that language - you won't become super fluent off the bat. Also, mostly everywhere in Europe is English friendly. I always try and learn key phrases and how to say "hi" and "thank you" in the languages of where I'm traveling but as far as becoming fluent, that takes time. Most universities over here offer a language scheme that I would have taken advantage of but see the way my schedule is set up..... So I've just had to learn bits of languages on my own. Believe me, if I could be speaking in French all day, every day - I totally would. Props to you guys who come over here and go home with accents and a second and third language - cause I just don't have time for all that (what with school & travel & all).
Studying abroad isn't pretty pictures every day and traveling to foreign places every weekend. Studying abroad can be messy, tough and hard to navigate. It can be challenging and overwhelming at times but it's worth it. It's worth every day you spend abroad and so much more. You will make lifelong friends. You will travel to places that are on your Pinterest 'Bucket List' board. You might meet someone & fall in love (who knows)! You will increase your network. You will learn in a different style. You will become fiercely independent. You will increase your job prospects. You will be amazing.
No, studying abroad isn't everything it's cracked up to be but boy is it worth it.
Have you studied abroad before? What advice do you have for those interested in it? What was the biggest thing you've learned from studying abroad? Tell us in the comments below! Xx


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[PROJECT] DEEMDEEP - Demography, Ecology, Evolution and Management in the Deep
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The oceans, upon which humanity relies for its survival, it is largely unexplored. Recent estimates establish that only 5% of the bottom of the sea has been explored. Of this small area, only one millionth is constituted by deep sea floor. Despite being largely unknown, the d...
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It is hard to reason about imperative programs, especially when concurrency and pointers are involved. Such programs are inherently complex, but the reasoning problem is exacerbated by conventional formalisms that demand, and thus encourage, tedious and overly detailed proofs...
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A major challenge in evolutionary biology is to understand how genetic variation is created and maintained. Recent studies confirm the old idea introduced by Anderson in the 1940's in his monograph "introgressive hybridisation", namely that hybridisation can provide a bridge ...
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Why Bush Is Toast (Today)
Am I crazy to be convinced that in a few hours the Florida Supreme Court will issue a ruling requiring a manual recount of "disputed" Miami-Dade undervotes in the presidential election?
We're told by numerous televised legal experts that such a Gore legal victory is unlikely, because the Florida high court is under intense pressure from four sources: 1) from the U.S. Supreme Court, which vacated the Florida court's earlier ruling and hinted it had impinged on the state legislature's power to choose electors; 2) from Judge Sanders Sauls' lower court opinion denying a recount; 3) from the Florida Legislature itself, which clearly plans to appoint the Bush electors if the Florida courts decide that Gore won; and 4) from the clock, since at this point it would be difficult to conduct an extensive recount in time to produce electors by the federal statutory date of Dec. 12.
Those who point to these institutional pressures assume they will overwhelm the Florida justices' clear desire to have undervotes counted, as evidenced in the Florida court's earlier opinion, with its intense talk of "disenfranchisement," of the "right of suffrage" trumping "blind faith in machines." It's not at all clear the Florida justices will sacrifice these ideals in the face of pressure. More important, there's a fifth type of pressure at work in this case: institutional and personal pride. Quite simply, if the Florida Supreme Court affirms Judge Sauls' opinion -- especially if it concludes there is just no time for a recount -- it will in effect be admitting that its earlier decision made a total hash of the presidential election.
Conservatives say this earlier decision was an exercise in freelance judicial lawmaking, and they are basically right. The key issue wasn't really the statutory confusion about whether Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris "may" or "shall" certify an election by a fixed date--that ambiguity was easily resolved by the court. The resolution seems obvious, in retrospect: Harris was required to certify results seven days after the election, but she had discretion to accept amended returns after that. Duh! The real issue was when and why Harris could exercise that discretion. Certifying the election, we now know, wouldn't end the matter. It would simply end the "protest" phase of the election count and begin the "contest" phase, in which the loser challenges the winner in court.
Here, the Florida court simply pulled a rule out of its ... well, out of the ether, as lawyers like to say. It declared that Harris could refuse to accept recounted returns only if "returns are so late" as to "preclude a candidate from contesting" the election in court before Dec. 12. What's more, the court took it on itself to decide precisely when that moment was-- 5 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 26. That was the last possible instant, the court ruled, at which there was still time for a contest.
It's pretty clear now that the court blew it--arrogantly blew it--in selecting this date. The court's deadline didn't leave enough time for a "protest phase" recount--Dade County gave up its hand count because it couldn't make the deadline, and Palm Beach tried to make the deadline but missed it by two hours. Nor does the Nov. 26 deadline appear to have left enough time for a "contest phase" recount, as the time pressure on Judge Sauls and the court now makes clear. It might well have been better--for Gore, and for the fairness of the election--if Harris had been allowed to go ahead and exercise her discretion to certify the results back on Nov. 14. Then there would have been plenty of time for a hand recount in the subsequent "contest" phase.
If the Florida court now says there's not enough time for a recount, it will be in effect admitting its spectacular mistake. Will it really do this? Or, having said that its Nov. 26 deadline left enough time for the contest phase, will it attempt to prove itself right by requiring a fast recount of at least some ballots in the few days remaining before Dec. 12? Humiliation, or potential vindication? That's the choice before the justices. I think I can guess which course they'll take.
The opinion is probably already written.
P.S.: I obviously don't mean Bush is "toast" as far as winning the presidency is concerned. Even if Gore gets his recounts, they may very well not give him enough new votes. Even if they do, the Florida Legislature will probably choose a Bush slate of electors, and Congress is likely to accept it. (The U.S. Supreme Court's decision more or less gave Congress carte blanche to accept the Florida Legislature's Bush slate if Congress believes Gore's victory in the courts was produced by a "change in the law.")


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Alvaré's talk to address role of government, law in promoting unconstrained sexual expression
NEW ULM – What is the government doing in the arena of human sexuality? How does it come to tell us philosophically, theologically, and practically what sex means? How did the federal government get into this business? Why?
These are some of the questions that presenter Helen Alvaré plans to answer in her upcoming Bishop Lucker Lecture. The Diocese of New Ulm's annual event will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 23 at the Church of St. Catherine in Redwood Falls. A reception will follow the event. The public is welcome to attend.
No one disputes the fact that the government is promoting a certain view of sexuality, she says. From Supreme Court decisions legalizing artificial contraception, abortion, and same-sex marriage, to the President draping the White House in the rainbow flag and talking about the necessity of transgender surgery, the evidence is plain.
The question is why.
Furthermore, "why are they causing so much misery for women and children, especially the poor?" she asks rhetorically.
"We've got far more unintended, non-marital pregnancy, and the feminization of poverty. How come they still get to do this? It's a complete failure."
The title of Alvaré's talk is "The Rise of Sexual Expressionism in the Law." She will provide an expanded treatment of the topic in a forthcoming book, "Putting Children's Interests First: U.S. Family Law and Policy," due out from Cambridge University Press this fall.
Alvaré is currently a professor of law at George Mason University School of Law in Arlington, Va., where she teaches family law, law and religion, and property law. She has also taught law at the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America and the John Paul II Institute of Marriage and Family, both in Washington, D.C.
To whet people's appetite for her talk, Alvaré agreed to do an interview for The Prairie Catholic. Following are quested posed to Alvaré and her answers.
Q. How did you become interested in this topic?
I have been struck by two things for a long time. First, the oddity that federal actors (the Supreme Court, President, etc.) would, in law, instruct Americans about the meaning of sex, which is not a legal question. It's pre-legal. It's human and divine.
Second, that when they did instruct, they taught that sex is important for its affective, communicative meanings between the couple, and for its "identify-formation" properties, unrelated to the fact that it is the place children are conceived, and unrelated to the fact that it therefore, per se, tends toward being associated with ideas like union, family, kin, and future.
Q. What were the events in society that led to the valorization of adult consensual sex in the law? What role did the general acceptance of artificial contraception play?
There is interplay among social, cultural, technical, and legal factors. Sex is naturally valorized because of its power to communicate love and to bond a couple, and because it is the only spot where God himself chose to "locate" conception. That's powerful stuff.
What the government, culture, and technology did was to tease these elements out from one another artificially. Even before the pill, the rise of the separation of sex from children occurred in the early 20th century when writers predicted that birth control would improve marital sex and overall happiness because it would focus sex on the happiness of the couple alone.
Everything from the rise of individualism to the American cult of happiness to the rise of youth culture to the sexualization of consumption (via advertising) contributed to the further separation of sex from all of its meanings.
Contraception technology was the most recent and powerful blow to integral sexuality. Catholic teaching aside, many non-Catholic commentators have pointed out that when you remove even the idea of children from sex, and set it off as about nothing more than physical pleasure and maybe couple bonding, you do things to sex which redound to the disadvantage of men, women, and children.
Sex is asked to bear more importance than it can bear. Infidelity and non-marital sex increase rapidly; non-marital children are born more frequently; women's and men's happiness declines as there is no open-ended commitment "necessary" any longer, etc.
Q. What do you mean that sex is asked to bear more importance than it can bear?
There's two sides. On the one side, we say that when you drag out of sex the fact that it creates new life, it becomes, in the words of this one philosopher, "unbearably light." So that's one side of it, that you've just taken away the fact that it is the source of the creation of all human life. You've removed something really significant ….
The other side is when you take that out of it, what is left is this communication between men and women, which is in the movies and ads and discussions of modern romance. Now this is supposed to be all there is.
This is all the weight it has, and it is supposed to be sublime. It is not just supposed to be for pleasure, but it is supposed to communicate precisely what you want it to communicate, no more and no less. It is now supposed to fill all the space that all the meanings of sex used to have, of unity, kin, family, future, plus intimacy, plus the bond, plus the kids.
Q. When you talk about sexual expression, you do not describe it in terms of freedom like many people would. Why?
Freedom means becoming who God intends us to be. We are most free when we are most "human in the image of God." Sex serves freedom then, when it is what it really is as God created it – when its actions and meanings are not artificially severed.
I say this as a person who did not accept the Church's teachings axiomatically on this subject when I was younger. I believed the Church to be sexist and physicalist on this point. I grew, not only through my reading of Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI, but also by reading the great philosophers and sociologists of the 20th century, who understood what happens to sex when it is made "unbearably light" by the divorcing of sex from its factual realities.
Q. Why did you think the Church's teaching was sexist? Physicalist? How was your thinking transformed?
I thought it was sexist because I thought they really weren't considering the burdens on women of being pregnant, giving birth, and taking care of children. They simply didn't care. They just thought, "Sorry, you're just going to have to face more children than you want, and more child care, and we're just not highly concerned about it. We are older men, making the rules, and we don't really understand where you're coming from. Nor do we wish to." That was really my perspective in my teens and early twenties.
Physicalist, in the sense that … I had the position very much of the dissenters of "Humanae Vitae," which was, "Isn't the real question whether you generously welcome children, not in every act, but really?" …
I guess what changed me was the actual experience of marriage combined with the fact that this issue bothered me since I was a kid. …
You know, the best way to understand something is to think about its opposite by distinction, not description, right? And the opposite is, what if sex is divorced from the fact of its being the place of new life? What will happen? What does it do to the relationship between men and women? What does it do to people's thinking about children? …
I became persuaded in my own marriage that the openness to children, the rejection of contraception, actually laid the groundwork for a happier, more integrated, more natural, more holistic appreciation of the union that I have promised my husband and the welcome that I wanted to extend to my children.
Q. Why are women and children hurt by a society that values unconstrained sexual expression?
Women are more oriented toward wishing sex to be associated with commitment, and toward accepting children. They will be more disappointed and even depressed when sex is not so associated. And they will be in 86 percent of all single parent households and 100 percent of abortion clients. They are also the bodies harmed by various forms of contraception. But don't be fooled. Men need stable, long-term, healthy relationships with women and their children too. They are emotionally scarred – but not in the same visible ways.
You have said that most prominent federal and state government policies are all about "self-empowerment" and birth control, not about stable marital and parenting communities. How has this negatively affected poor women?
Life is relational even more than it is individual. We are vulnerable for a great deal of our lives. We want to love and give love. When the government frames the human person as an individual first and foremost, it forgets this.
Well off women and men, with the same preferences as the poor for marriage and marital parenthood, will fare better than the poor. The well-off have more opportunities for marriage partners and have prospects for better jobs and education. They will less likely exercise their need to be "a gift to someone" by having a non-marital birth; but for poorer women and men, without the trade-off or opportunity cost of a good education or job, will more likely fall into that pattern of life.
Q. Why will well-off women less readily exercise their need to be a gift to someone than poor women by having a non-marital birth? Is it because of their need to have someone to depend on them, to love them unconditionally?
Every person, anthropologically, is a gifted giver. We have gifts, and we are called as part of being human to give them. We're not happy if we cannot be in relationship and give the gifts that we've been given.
Poor women, like advantaged women, have this – every woman, every man. The constraint that every woman has is that you're only fertile for so long. … The preferences that poor women and well-off women have is most of them want to have kids. Most of them wind up with children in their lives, between 80 and 90 percent of women.
But there are different constraints and opportunity costs for the poor woman, and this is what I mean. In her community, she is very unlikely to have as many opportunities for marriage. There are drastically more men who are incarcerated; there are drastically more men with past criminal records; there are drastically more men who cannot get a job, which people have come to believe is a prerequisite for marriage.
The other thing a poor woman is facing is what we call lower opportunity costs. If a middle class or wealthy woman, an educated woman, has a child, the opportunity she is giving up is to finish college and to have a good job.
If the poor woman has a child, she is not trading off a good job or a good education. Her opportunity for achieving those is quite low. … They are facing a situation where having a child is a narrative of success in their community: "I can be a mother" – "I can be a good mother" – "I can face the odds."


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Top tips for first time buyers (if you're still living at home)
With over 25% of British people who are aged 50 plus still having grown-up children living at home, the prospect of buying a home for the first time can seem unattainable. Getting together a deposit and the funds needed for your first home is definitely daunting but with a bit of forward planning and being honest with yourself about what you can truly afford, it's not insurmountable. Here are some top tips that will help you get on the ladder:
You've got to be willing to save – if you're still living with your parents then you're in a better position to save money than if you're currently renting somewhere. Most parents will cut their kids some slack when it comes to paying for household bills etc so you need to seize this opportunity. Put aside what money you can and open a cash ISA to start earning some interest. To ensure that you stick to this, set up a direct debit shortly after your pay day and watch your savings grow into a deposit.
Be realistic about what you can afford – many first-time buyers make the mistake of biting off more than they can chew. It's important to remember that your mortgage isn't the only thing you will be stumping up for. You also need to set money aside for stamp duty, survey fees, legal fees, removal costs, home insurance etc. And of course, once you're in your new home, there's all the household bills, council tax, water rates etc. The last thing you want is a crippling mortgage payment every month that leaves you no money for anything else.
Make sure your credit history is up to scratch – this can be the stumbling block for many would-be first-time buyers. Without a half-decent credit history, you're not going to get a mortgage in the first place so start acting now if your credit history is poor. We strongly recommend that you review your credit report before applying for a mortgage and if it's not what it should be, take the steps now to remedy it. This means paying any credit cards that you have on time (even if it's only the minimum payment), cancel any credit cards that you don't use anymore, don't make multiple applications for credit and get yourself registered on the electoral roll.
For any help buying your first home, please get in touch.


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How do I access the DVR on XTRONS head units?
Our DVR019 is incredibly simple for us to capture in car or out car scenes you like.
Access your recording from "recorder" app on our head units to access the DVR. When you reach capacity, your oldest recordings will automatically delete to free up space for new ones.
Firstly we need install the app If the "recorder" app is not preinstalled on the units, we need install it manually from APK installer on the unit:
There are 2 ways to install the APP:
Applicable for the TCD/PCD6.0/PCD7.1/PD series and D719AS,D771A,TR100
Example 1:
1: Connect DVR019 to the unit, the USB icon will appear on the top left corner on the screen:
2: Install the APP for DVR by following steps:
3: After the APK installation, the DVR icon will appear on the main menu of the unit, shown as" Ucam driving recorder":
Example 2:
1: Find the APKInstaller on the head units:
2: Find Ucardvr.apk from the uSB device to finish the installation (steps are same as the example 1, and DVR icon will also show the same on the unit):
NOTE: A message "memory card not detected" will show in the DVR interface if it has no SD card inside.
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afaixer wrote:I cannot find an option to flip the video vertically. Please tell me it's there somewhere.
There is no way to flip the video vertically of DVR019.
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Friday, 24 September 2010
The People at work are lovely :)
I am frequently getting commissions nowadays to make cards for people at work and I'm beginning to wonder if I shouldn't open a Folksy shop. But I don't want to get too big for my boots... Generally I get asked to make very bespoke cards but recently I was asked to make 2 'boy' christening cards, this is the first one and the second will be posted tomorrow...
The stamps are Kim Hughes from the now closed Cornish Heritage Farms (sob!) and I think that the paper was from my local craft shop :)
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Apple already forced their hands with the upcoming macOS Mojave 10.14 operating system, which will be available this fall, by deprecating support for 32-bit apps and urging application developers to move to 64-bit apps.
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Attachment Explorer: Preview Outlook Attachments Like Files in Windows
The Attachment Explorer allows you to preview attachments within Outlook folders as if you were viewing them in a Windows file folder.
Launch the Attachment Explorer:
- Outlook 2010/2013: Click on the ClearContext tab, and then the Attachment Explorer button.
- Outlook 2007: Select ClearContext > Tools > Attachment Explorer from the ClearContext Outlook menu. This button can also be added to the ClearContext toolbar.
The Attachment Explorer will default to displaying the files in the current folder in Outlook. A different folder can be selected for preview in the folder list to the left. The middle window pane will show the list of attachments in the folder, and the right window pane will show a larger preview once a file is selected.
* The types of files that are capable of being previewed will vary according to the Windows version and Office version.
Change views
While in the Attachment Explorer, there are several ways to change the file display:
- Click the Views button to choose another view: switching to a smaller detailed list of the attachments in this folder, larger thumbnails, etc..
- Click the Sort button to change sorting by attachment name, type, received date, etc..
- Drag the bars between the 3 window pane areas to change the width of each of these areas.
Select files in the attachment explorer by clicking on them. Right click for available actions on these attachments. Choices include:
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- Open the attachments themselves
- Save the attachments to a file folder
- Forward the attachments via email
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Thong Lor is a favourite scene for buzzing cocktails and fine restaurants, with more new hipster bars opening up every other month. It's hard to choose where to spend your evening.
Yes, we've tried and tested the very best like Rabbit Hole and six other bars in Thong Lor. Get the lowdown on the best chill out spot for a great night of drinks in Bangkok.
Rabbit Hole
Since their opening, Rabbit Hole has earned itself a reputation as the go-to-party spot in Thong Lor area. There's no signage but you will figure it out as it's probably the most opened one with people streaming in and out.
With 3 storeys of different layouts, including a full bar at the ground floor, it's especially fun when it comes to finding feel-good and completely relaxed joints like this.
Rabbit Hole is made up of a mixed crowd of dolled-up Thai pretties sipping on their whisky cocktails, to a sprinkling of expats and travelers. If you're lucky, you might even spot a local celebrity.
The live music keeps the cheering vibe going till wee hours.
125 Sukhumvit Soi 55 (Thonglor), Bangkok, 10110 Thailand
Opening Hours: Daily 7pm – 2am
Tel: +66(0) 81-822-3392
One of Thonglor's best known and most creative bars is Q&A. Offering a new standard to the real imbibers who are living by Bangkok city, the cocktails are genuinely created with au-naturale ingredients.
Q&A is like a long train bar – passengers just get high with self- control. All are welcome here. Our favourite part about this bar is that they serve awesome classics while they source for freshest ingredients to blend with the bar's home-made bitters and infusions.
Not to mention, Q&A scored as no. 26 in Asia's 50 Best Bars 2016.
235/13 Sukhumvit Soi 21, Bangkok, Thailand
Opening Hours: Mon-Sat 7pm – 2am
Tel: +66(0) 2-714-8875
The Iron Fairies
The Iron Fairies & Co provides some intriguing hints as to what lies inside. Entering the doors and passing through spiral staircases and low ceilings, one's eyes may need to adjust to the darkened bar's space while the magical world unfolds.
The food menu is well executed with gourmet quality, home made burgers. Best options from the cocktail menu tried will be their flaming cocktails like the Burning Bush.
This bar hits well with hip, trendy crowd and it is also said to be the most-frequented bar in Thong Lor nightlife area.
404 Sukhumvit Soi 55 (Thonglor), Bangkok, Thailand
Opening Hours: Daily 6pm – 2am
Tel: +66(0) 2-664-1445
Bon Bon
Despite of the close-to-saturated bar scene in Thonglor for years, Iron Fairies made another attempt opened Bon Bon against all odds.
This not-easy-to-miss bar at Seed Space, conceals a magical world with playful music, secret freezing room – complete with dozens and dozens of innovatively executed liquid nitrogen cocktails.
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Location: Bon Bon, Seenspace, 251/1 Thonglor Soi 13, Bangkok, Thailand
Opening Hours: Mon – Sun, 11.00am – 1.00am
Tel: +66(0) 2-185-2378
J. Boroski
Joseph Boroski is like an institution and he's behind many, many stellar cocktail lists for five-star hotels and top restaurants in the region.
Each cocktail here is handcrafted for you only and there's no menu. This speakeasy bar has no website and no signage, but it offers one of the country's most delicious bespoke cocktails to chic and saavy patrons. It's quite pricey though, so come with your wallet armed.
16 125/16 ซอย สุขุมวิท 55 Khlong Tan Nuea, Watthana, Bangkok 10110, Thailand
Opening Hours: Mon – Sat, 7.00pm – 2.00am, Sun, 7.00pm – 12.00am
Tel: +66(0) 2-712-6025
Little Beast
Little Beast will be belittled if we put it under gastrobar classification. They do make great cocktails that are delicious, and packed with a good punch.
But more than that, Little Beast makes it into our favourite restaurants' list to visit in Bangkok. With unpretentious food and drinks, it offers more than just a competent bar menu.
Location: Thong Lo 13, Khlong Tan Nuea, Watthana, Bangkok 10110
Opening Hours: Tue to Sat 5.30pm to 12mn | Sun 11am to 3pm
Tel: +66(0) 2185 2670
Dusk Thonglor
While it focuses on its easy-going vibe, Dusk Thonglor works on craft cocktails using freshest and seasonal produce. Prices at an affordable range, the drinks here come with gin-based cocktails and fraught beers like Hoegaarden and Asahi.
What we like best, Dusk offers splendid and entertaining live bands and it certainly works well as a new addition in Thong Lor district.
Thonglor Soi 13, Bangkok, Thailand
Opening Hours: Tuesday – Thursday, 6pm till midnight, Sunday, 6pm till midnight, Friday – Saturday, 6pm – 2am
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Thank you for keeping me up to date. And for giving me boosts too. It helps me out a lot. Sounds like everybody is busy. That's good. Well we are still hacking away here in my area. I am sure that we will make some good progress by doing this. I am grateful to be here. I got to go to the Temple this morning. With living in Benton City we live only 10-15 minutes away. So the Lord has provided a way and means that we can still go to Kennewick for things like shopping and the Temple. Well anyway I got to get going. I love you guys and pray for you everyday. I hope you have a great day I'll talk to you later. The church is true. Love ya. Bye.
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"Without struggle there can be no progress," Frederick Douglass
Without passion there can be no progress in the struggle.
In American football you get a new set of opportunities if you make 10 yards of progress within 4 plays. Simple logic and math would tell you that 6 foot tall player would only have to fall forward twice to gain more than 10 yards.
But football is a game of struggle. The ball carrier knows he can't go forward without a fight. The player facing him knows a a violent crash is necessary to keep his opponent from his goal. The team filled with players willing to gain ground at any cost will move forward, and win.
What are You Willing to Struggle For?
Is your dream worth the sacrifice; the pushing and shoving, and the grabbing and grinding? If you're not sure, then maybe you should consider this question.
Is It the Right Goal?
The 1929 Rose Bowl game was notable because of the play of California All-American Roy Riegels. He scooped up a Georgia Tech fumble, and ran towards his own goal line. The following punt resulted in a two point safety that gave the game to Georgia, 8-7. By the way, the Cal teammate that tackled him, Benny Lom, was named player of the game. He was going the right way.
Of course that play made Georgia Tech coach Bill Alexander real happy.
He was heard saying to his assistant coach "He's running the wrong way. Let's see how far he can go."
Are you running the wrong way? How far will you go?
If you are going the right way, consider the energy it will take to break past the other combatants.
Power Through
"Never go backward. Attempt,and do it with all your might. Determination is power." Charles Simmons.
NFL Hall of Fame running back Larry Csonka, never went backwards. He was known as a bulldozer, putting his head down and plowing through the defensive line. He powered through 10 broken noses, a broken eardrum, and several concussions to become one of the most feared runners in professional football.
He was a model of determination, and he loved the contact. Talking about handling the football for the first time in high school he said "I ran over two tacklers before I realized what I was doing. I didn't score or save the game, but I got a tremendous feeling carrying the ball…I knew then that I wanted to run with the ball."
You don't have to fall backwards. Put your head down and power through, if you have the passion for your goal.
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Palestinians say high-profile football playoff shelved
A football match scheduled for Sunday that had been seen as a symbolic step towards Palestinian unity has been postponed indefinitely over a dispute with Israeli officials, the Palestinian Football Association said.
Following Thursday's goalless draw in Gaza between Al-Ahli from the West Bank city of Hebron and Gaza's Shejaiya — their first match in 15 years — a second leg was planned for Sunday in Hebron.
West Bank and Gaza Strip teams play in separate leagues, in which Al-Ahli and Shejaiya emerged as champions. The winner will be eligible to represent Palestine in international competitions.
But the Gaza Strip, with which Israel fought a devastating 50-day war last summer, and the West Bank are separated by 60 kilometres (40 miles) of Israeli territory and Gazans are subject to rigorous border restrictions.
Israel asked four of Shejaiya's 37-member delegation to submit to security interviews as a condition of leaving the territory.
The Palestinian Football Association, chaired by former West Bank security chief Jibril Rajoub, and Shejaiya club categorically refused.
"Four of the players needed to pass a preliminary inquiry and for this purpose, their crossing was coordinated for yesterday. Rajoub cancelled," said a statement from COGAT, the Israeli defence ministry unit that coordinates with Gaza.
"Following the first cancellation, the crossing was coordinated once again for today," it added. "In the morning they cancelled the crossing again."
Rajoub accused the Israeli security services of "a personally directed attack" against him.
Israeli authorities "told us that four players could not go out for security reasons, and they wanted to question them", he said.
The two sides are in touch in the hope that the match can take place in the next few days, Rajoub said, but added that his association would not agree to security checks for players.
"An athlete can enter and exit Gaza without security interference, according to the rules of FIFA," he said, referring to football's world governing body.
Restrictions on the movement of players is one of the reasons the Palestinians have pushed FIFA, of which Palestine has been a member since 1998, to penalise Israel.
Islamist movement Hamas rules Gaza, which is under a strict Israeli blockade, while the Palestinian Authority of president Mahmud Abbas is based in the West Bank.
Attempts at reconciliation between the two Palestinian factions have proved futile, but the matches on Thursday and Sunday were being seen as symbolic victories over the bitter political divisions and the Israeli blockade.


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We're always looking for motivated people to join our team. We're especially interested in people who share our love of fishing and our passion for the outdoors.
Available positions will be listed here.
e-Commerce/Marketing Intern
The e-Commerce / Marketing Intern will be creating a variety of product related content for the themightyfish.com and assisting The Goose Hummock with a variety of e-Commerce, Marketing, Communications, and Business Development activities. The Intern will be responsible for supporting the day-to-day activities of the e-Commerce team while learning valuable skills related to marketing in the retail industry. The Internship work hours are up to 40 hours per week. The internship will last 4 to 5 months, with opportunities beginning April 2017. The intern will report to the e- Commerce / Marketing manager.
e-Commerce Team Member will be exposed to:
- Interaction with the e-commerce team, IT, and other functional business units as needed.
- Use of Adobe Photoshop CC, Microsoft Office, Lightspeed POS, Shopify, Google Analytics and Constant Contact email marketing tools
- Prepare and add detailed product attribute data, images, and writes/edits product descriptions, titles, and other meta data for our online store that sells outdoor equipment as well updates/changes to existing website product data/images.
- Write, edit and publish copy related to products and other marketing campaigns using search engine optimization strategies
- Design creative marketing graphics and copy for website and email marketing campaigns
- Create, execute, and monitor social media
- Use analytics tools and plan strategies to increase conversion rates
- Take on additional duties and responsibilities, as needed.
- Candidate must be a good writer and copy editor.
- Have some working knowledge of Adobe Photoshop CC and experience with Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, and Power Point.
- Currently enrolled full-time in an accredited university
- Junior or Senior academic standing
- Communications, Marketing, Business or any degree in the related field
- Applicants should be self-motivated and the ability to think critically, multi-task, and keep up in a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate will have a passion for marketing and e-business, and must have strong writing skills
- Good communication and organizational skills
- Ability to work independently
- Knowledge or passion for the outdoors and fishing would be a plus.


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It's easier to spend a few months and some money electing the right people than to spend years and a lot of money trying to get the wrong people to do the right things.
— Senator Debbie Stabenow, MSW
In spite of polling trends showing Hillary Clinton in a clear and consistent lead throughout the Presidential race, Donald J. Trump secured 290 electoral votes on November 8 to be the 45th President of the United States. Clinton received 232 electoral votes. While an additional state with 16 votes remains uncalled, the final count will not change the fact that Trump is President-elect. Preliminary counts of the popular vote have Clinton ahead by a margin of more than 1 million votes.
Republicans maintained control of the Senate with a 51 to 48 majority (with one Republican-favored runoff in Louisiana in December). Republicans lost two seats to Democrats, in Illinois and New Hampshire.
Republicans maintained control of the House with a 238 to 194 majority (with three races not yet called). Republicans lost six seats to Democrats.
In health care, President-elect Trump is expected to focus on repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), improving price transparency, and implementing free market principles to restore economic predictability to healthcare costs, among other issues.
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