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Customized Business Card Design | How To Get More Out Of Your Business Cards In 2016 (And 3 Examples To Inspire You!)
Customized Business Card Design | Lots of people don't carry around business cards anymore, which is a huge mistake! Business cards are one of the most powerful communication tools providing your potential clients with all the information they need in order to contact you. However, they can do so much more than that – they can launch conversations and spur relationships, but also communicate the nature of your brand, grab the interest of your potential client and get them to actually call you. Or, if they're not designed well, they can end up in the trash can. And it's all up to you!
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We live in a time when you can get your hands on a free template and order a stack of business cards for less than $20, which is a troubling phenomenon. Most of these business cards have all the telltale signs of amateur design, and you'll definitely want to steer clear of them if your budget allows. The business card is often the very first contact a potential client will have with your business, and you need to make sure you leave the best impression possible if you're hoping to convert them into paying clients. To help you get started and make sure your business card wows your potential clients and gets them on the phone, we gathered some of the most effective design tips. Let's dive right in!
Stand Out! | Customized Business Card Design
Chances are, the business card you hand out to a potential client will be your very first impression, the one you make long before they even get a chance to see your website. If you use a generic template many other business owners are already using, how is your business card supposed to stand out from the pile? After all, we all receive dozens of business cards each week, so you need to make sure your card stands out from the rest. This can be a tricky challenge, especially if you're not an experienced designer, but it can be done!
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The very first step is creating a personalized design that will not only convey your contact details but also communicate the nature of your brand. Whether using your brand's colors, fonts, or elements from your logo, it's your job to come up with something that will seamlessly fit the rest of your branded materials. The goal is to look at what's already out there and come up with something new!
Cover The Basics | Customized Business Card Design
At the end of the day, the ultimate goal of a business card is to provide potential clients with everything they need to contact you and hire you, which means the first thing you have to think about are the contact details you're going to include on your business card. Keep in mind that you have to achieve a balance between providing enough details without cluttering your card and overwhelming the recipients. So, what's most important? Your name definitely has to be there, along with your phone number, email, and website, but you can also consider including the social media contact information.
Boost The Effectiveness Of Your Cards | Customized Business Card Design
With the introduction of smartphones and other technological advancements, many business owners no longer carry around business cards. However, business cards are far from being dead; they've just evolved. From QR codes that point to your website, Facebook page or another contact point when scanned, to augmented reality showcase examples of your work on a smartphone screen, there are plenty of creative elements you can include in your card to boost its effectiveness and add value to it. When everything fails, consider including a referral code or a coupon on the back of your cards to entice your existing clients to spread the word about your business and refer you their friends and family.
Usability Is Paramount | Customized Business Card Design
You can create a unique and interesting card, but if you don't pay close attention to readability, it might end up being a wasted investment. The goal is to provide your potential clients with your contact details so they can reach out to you the moment they decide to hire you or enquire about the services and products you're providing. If you use a complex font that's difficult to read, or shrink down the text to fit as many details as possible on your card, the recipients won't try too hard to decipher the information.
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Leave the calligraphic fonts for your Pinterest board and use a simple, readable font instead. A good rule of thumb when it comes to font size is to avoid using fonts smaller than 8pts. And lastly, you'll also need to pay attention to the color you use for the text. If the background of your card is white, you'll want to use a dark font, especially for the most important details. A light gray or a cream font on a white background is the perfect recipe for a disaster that might render your business card pretty much useless.
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The Issue Of Size | Customized Business Card Design
The average business card is only 3.5 x 2 inches, but many business owners decide to switch things up in order to make their cards stand out – whether by using round cards, or simply making their cards larger. This, however, can do more damage than good! Keep in mind that wallets and business card holders are made to accommodate this particular size; a round card, for example, definitely won't fit the standard card holder and it might end up in the trash instead.


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"Imagine what would have happened if a committee of Indian immigration officers had stood on the Plymouth Rock, and, after admitting ten Bilgrim Fathers, had said, "Your quota is full, the rest of you go back to England,' ", Dr. Nathan Krass at Temple EmanueEl yesterday said, speaking of immigration restrictions and attempts to draw a distinction between classes. "Yet we are all immigrants or descendants of immigrants. An American means any one who is born in America, or who, hailing from other lands, takes out citizenship papers and swears allegiance to the Constitution. This recent attempt to delimit Americans on the basis of religion or race is an outrageous insult to the intelligence of people of this land and treachery to the ideals of the founders of this-Republic."

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KwaZulu Natal Golf CoursesBosch Hoek Golf Club
Designed by Bob Grimsdell
Type Parklands golf course
Holes 9 holes, 18 tee-boxes
Par 72
Fairway Grass Kikuyu
Greens Grass Bent
Length 5870m
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Stay inBalgowan Accommodation, KwaZulu Natal
The Bosch Hoek Golf Course rests upon some of the most picturesque estate in the heart of KwaZulu-Natal�s Midlands. Built in 1963 by renowned golf architect and course designer, Bob Grimsdell, the clubs nine-hole, eighteen-pin layout is sure to go down as one of your most treasured parkland experiences yet.
Played to the eighteen the course that takes you on an enchanting journey around a lake, lily filled dams, tall trees and over streams from one pristine fairway to the next. The course has a par of 68 and spans 5840 metres in length. Blue skies adorn the green grassy hills that surround the course and golfers heading here for a round have the opportunity to soak it all in away from the usual busyness of day to day life. One of the most dramatic times to visit Bosch Hoek is probably the autumn when the generous green gives ways to the fiery hues of yellow, blazing red and orange.
Fairways are Kikuyu, greens are Bent and the clubhouse invites guests, year round to come and share a round with them. Facilities are first class and include a wonderful clubhouse, halfway house and bar as well as golf cart, pull cart and club hire, a pro shop, driving range, practice green and daily breakfast and lunch.


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What happens when a journalist tries the Red Bull Crashed Ice course
It's a lot harder than it looks
It's a lot harder than it looks.
First off, I haven't been on skates in over a decade. The last time I did have skates on my feet, it was on a pond playing hockey with my brothers and sister. But I cycle regularly and, with several athletes and organizers suggesting that cycling is actually good preparation for crashed ice, I thought my time on the course would be OK.
I was wrong.
Skating downhill is nothing like cycling. The balance of your body, the feeling of the wind over your body, the grooves of the ice under your feet, it's all different.
Claudio Caluori, one of the world's experts in crashed ice, was my guide on the course. Keep your body low, he said. Keep your feet staggered, he said. Lean forward, he said. When I listened to his directions, I managed to stay on my feet. But my body isn't trained for this kind of work. I type for a living, after all. The minute I forgot his directions, the minute I tried to straighten by body, down I went.
Slowly, over the course of about ten minutes, we made our way through the middle section of the course. It's a section of course most athletes navigate in about 15 seconds. I made it over a total of one obstacle without falling, but when I stood up to celebrate my small victory, down I went.
Caluori said the course is technically challenging and physically demanding for the athletes. It's a course that is well suited to determine the world champion of ice cross.
Crashed Ice is a demanding sport that punishes the bodies of its competitors. But I, on the other hand, am content to watch from the sidelines.


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Sort of like the opening credits of To Kill a Mockingbird plus the shower scene from Psycho. It actually has more cuts per minute than Hitchcock's famous scene. Math doesn't lie, people.
Saturday, February 18, 2017
Judging Angels the Movie!
Sort of like the opening credits of To Kill a Mockingbird plus the shower scene from Psycho. It actually has more cuts per minute than Hitchcock's famous scene. Math doesn't lie, people.
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The video is very creative.ReplyDelete
Methinks it would have marketed much better if you'd been releasing in November! :-p
Christmas miracles for Easter just don't have quite the same ring to them.
Is that the daughter?Replies
Two words. Die Hard. Anyway, it is really a subversion of the Christmas Miracle trope, so I'm kind of stuck with it, since everything happens around Christmas. If I had stuck to my original schedule, then there would have been a Christmas release. It's Christmas 365 days a year in the woodlands.Delete
Yeah, but with the weather in LA, who notices the difference with Christmas in July? And it's not like the Archdiocese was known for its catechesis. Half the catholics probably thought it was Christmas.Delete
The other option, of course, is to just delay another 6-8 months and you're right back on schedule. :-p
Oh....You should put links in the Notes section for the video. Expecting people to actually type in urls themselves is expecting too much.ReplyDelete
I'm seeing a video link at the end to your Bear video. If that's done intentionally rather than YouTube tossing it in, IMHO you ought to drop that.Replies
Apparently, I don't get to decide whether I want my video to have follow-ups. Users can flip off autoplay if they want. That sucks. I'm not sure what you mean about links in the notes section. You can share it like any other. Unless you're meaning to put a link here on the blog so people can copy and paste.Delete
On youtube, In the area where you type info about the video, you can put hyperlinks...like to your publishing house, and later where to order.Delete
Fantastic. I cannot wait. Please have signed copies available for purchace.ReplyDelete
I recall reading an excerpt of JA and thinking it sounded noirish, and it looks it in this video. Not surprising since the bear is a criminal defense attorney. Are you anti-death penalty?ReplyDelete
If there is a consistent take from readers, it is that it defies genre. Probably not the best thing for marketing, although it is called a psychological thriller. But I wouldn't call it noir. It is never a page or two away from some ursine humor.ReplyDelete
I am against the death penalty, which should come as no surprise, although I put someone on death row as a prosecutor. My reasons are two. (1) Illinois' capital punishment system was the poster child for an inept and corrupt death penalty system. Too many people on death row were exonerated by DNA. Then, we reformed it, and it was so much better. I am proud to have had a hand in that reform. I doubt an innocent person might go to death row, if we had the death penalty, although I can personally attest to one very close call. (2) You can't do death penalty defense without recognizing the humanity, the person-ness, of the defendant. I am convinced that if most people got to know death penalty defendants as well as I did, they would not be so sure about executing any particular individual.
This is not about what the Church says about it, although the current teaching in the St. Pope JPII's Catechism is unambiguously against it. It has not always been the case. Anyway, my reasons are my own.
I have never been an anti-death penalty crusader. It was a job I did very well. It was always more, "You're going to execute my client over MY dead body." When the abolition bill was passed, I did lobby for the governor to sign it, even though it put me out of a job. I did get one of the pens he used, though :-)Replies
Considering your extensive experience in the field, I respect your opinion on the DP, even though I disagree. The Church has always allowed recourse to the DP as a matter of retributive Justice. A soul has been willfully taken, and justice demands a price to be paid. The great Fr. Rutler wrote an excellent piece on this a few years ago. Frankly, I don't think JPII should have placed his personal opinion in a teaching document of the Church. It's led many to believe the Church has now changed its teaching, when that's not possible. Also, what happens if circumstances change again and a state can no longer provide for the safety of others? Another problem is that now you have neoCatholics (like Mark Shea) employing the seamless garment and accusing pro-lifers of only being anti-abortion because they are not also against the death penalty. And they often will cite JPII's opinion in doing so. It's complete b.s. and shows the danger of trying to change Church teaching. This movement has got legs now, and they're calling themselves the "New Pro-Life" movement and they don't hesitate to denigrate pro-lifers. It's not right. Just my opinion.Delete
Again, my opinion is not dependent upon Catholic teaching. Judging Angels does not really go one way or another. The only message (and it is really a minor one, contributing to character) is that doing death penalty cases for a long time will screw you up.Delete
WOW great video! Much better and more entertaining than the Pope videos. Glad to see the Bear is back. I was starting to get ephemeris withdrawal.ReplyDelete
Thank you Laurel. Our actress did a great job acting, including some subtle acting with her hands. That's what a video with no budget and consumer video and editing software can look like. Maybe I'll make a "Bear Video" parody, that's orthodox, later. But, still have to go over edits, whenever they're done.ReplyDelete
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HERTFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND--(Marketwire - Nov 16, 2012) - Kick off the winter season with a corporate or society golf day in Hertfordshire, England with Hanbury Manor's championship golf course.
Hanbury Manor, A Marriott Hotel and Country Club, is offering a special winter golf package. When looking for a championship golf course in England, guests will find this property offers beautiful grounds and impeccable service.
This winter golf package for £45 per person for a minimum of 12 people includes tea, coffee and bacon rolls upon arrival followed by 18 holes of championship golf. Guests can add lunch for an additional £10 per person and enjoy either a steak sandwich or signature Marriott burger with a pint. It's the perfect jaunt to the country for a game of golf at this hotel and country club in Hertfordshire featuring a world-premiere championship course designed by Jack Nicklaus, Jr. This golf course in Hertfordshire, England offers one of the most challenging 18-hole courses in the UK.
Other hotel packages in Hertfordshire are available and showcased on the hotel website. If looking for overnight accommodations, guests will find spacious rooms and historic charm combined with modern amenities. The hotel's 161 elegant guest rooms and suites, some with period features offers luxury bedding, LCD satellite television, large work desks and high-speed Internet. Some also provide sweeping views over the golf course.
The hotel also features a luxury spa with a range of extensive treatments available, a Romanesque indoor pool, and fully equipped weights and cardio gym.
Dining options include Zodiac, an award-winning 2 AA rosette restaurant, which offers traditional British inspired menu with European influences and was once used as the dining room of the Hanbury family home. Guests can indulge in the English tradition of Afternoon Tea, a light snack or a cocktail in the Oak Hall, as well as lunch and dinner in contemporary Oakes Grill restaurant overlooking the 200 acres of stunning Hertfordshire parkland.
To make a reservation for the winter golf package, please contact the Golf Sales Executive at 01920 885 024. If looking for accommodations as well, please visit MarriottHanburyManor.co.uk or call 1-800-228-9290 in the US or 0800 221 222 in the UK.
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With its fragrant walled gardens, stately Jacobean country house and 200 acres of Hertfordshire hotel parkland, the historic Hanbury Manor, A Marriott Hotel & Country Club makes a lasting impression. As London's time-honoured "Original Country Retreat", you'll find the obliging service and amenities expected from a five-star luxury hotel. It's a standard that extends from the richly panelled library warmed by an open fireplace to elegant guest rooms each designed offering plush new bedding, business-savvy touches, high-speed Internet and flat-screen LCD TVs. Savour award-winning dining at Zodiac and contemporary Oakes Grill. Yield to the blissful pleasures of the luxury spa, workout in the fitness centre or take on the PGA championship Hertfordshire, England golf course. For weddings, our hotel in Hertfordshire offers a distinctive setting that provides a memorable occasion.


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Roberta Guaspari
Roberta Guaspari's story had Hollywood written all over it: A mother of two young sons emerges from a failed marriage and finds her calling teaching violin at a New York City public school in East Harlem. When budget cuts threaten to close her program, she fights City Hall and wins. In 1999, eight years after Guaspari's efforts were first chronicled by the media, Roberta's story was brought to the screen in Wes Craven's Oscar-nominated drama "Music of the Heart".
Roberta Guaspari began studying violin in fourth grade. She eventually graduated with a music education degree from the State University of New York at Fredonia in 1969. While working on her master's at Boston University, she met George Tzavaras, a Navy officer studying at MIT. "I was 24, Italian and not married," she says. "The pressure was on from my family." They wed in 1971. As George rose through Navy ranks - with postings in Honolulu and Newport, R.I. - the family was always on the move. Teaching violin and persuading school administrators to invest in musical instruments proved a dauntingly tough career choice, especially after the birth of the couple's two sons. Finally, when the family moved to Greece in 1977, Roberta devised a solution. Withdrawing $5,000 from the family savings, she bought 50 tiny violins and persuaded the headmaster of the British-run Campion School to hire her. No sooner had Guaspari-Tzavaras established herself there than George asked for a divorce. "It was the lowest point of my life," she says.
But Guaspari-Tzavaras rebounded. With her sons - and violins - in tow, she moved to New York City in 1980, subletting an East Harlem apartment from a couple whose children attended Central Park East schools, a city-run alternative program. That led to an introduction to the school's music-loving principal, Deborah Meier, and a part-time job. Three years later, when she was hired full-time, Guaspari-Tzavaras had fallen in love again - this time with her gritty new neighborhood, where she lovingly restored the townhouse she lives in with Sophia, a 5-year-old from El Salvador, whom she adopted in 1991. "My mother really needs to come home and be a mother," says Alexi. "She is just as passionate about mothering as she is about teaching."
And there are those who are passionate about her. In 1993, world-class violinists, including Itzhak Perlman and Arnold Steinhardt, helped organize a Carnegie Hall benefit concert that raised nearly $300,000 for her program. "This woman has an incredible, demonic amount of energy," says violin virtuoso Isaac Stern. "She draws things out of the kids. And from her they gain a sense of self." That's certainly true for Guaspari-Tzavaras alum Melia Crumbley, 15. When kids who hang out on the street mock her for spending so much time practicing, says Melia, "I just look them right back in the eye and say, 'What are you doing with your life?" A documentary film about Roberta called Small Wonders was nominated for an Academy Award in 1996. Further developments inspired by this teacher include a feature film, released in October 1999. Music of the Heart starred Meryl Streep as real-life violin teacher Roberta Guaspari-Tzavaras.
The CharacterMeryl Streep was a literally last-minute replacement for Wes Craven's "Music of the Heart", after Madonna dropped out of the project. Streep was given six weeks for preparation in order to play the violin. "I had to beg them to give me some more time for the violin part of it." Streep, aside from having the daunting task of learning the violin while acting like a professional, also had the burden of playing a real person. She found this to be particularly challenging. "Playing a real person carries with it a whole other set of responsibilities than you would have when creating a fictional character," Streep continues, "So, I did as much research as I could and then I just sort of threw it away because I can't think of the real Roberta. I had to make it our Roberta, our movie Roberta. The real woman is a sizable phenomenon of energy, inspiration, hard work, irascibility. I tried to capture little parts of her and put it together in the film."


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International House Sydney Wins Grand Prix in the 2017 Timber Design Awards
Date: 26-Oct-17
Author: David Rowlinson
International House Sydney has won the highest honour - the Grand Prix - in the Excellence in Timber Design Award, as well as the People's Choice Award and the Sustainability Award in the 2017 Australian Timber Design Awards.
International House Sydney is a distinctive new element in the city. Designed by Tzannes Architects and DesignMake Lendlease the architecture enhances the amenity and character of the public domain as well as the interior environment for its tenants with a fully exposed timber structure that have been detailed with rigour to be enduring and sophisticated.
In the view of the judges International House Sydney has encapsulated the significant sustainability benefits that timber construction provides. The building structure incorporates 100 per cent recycled and certified timber above the ground level, which has resulted in 1,100 tonnes of carbon dioxide being avoided by switching from traditional construction. The building also has 2,700 tonnes of carbon stored in the timber structure.
In addition, the building has been awarded a 6 Star Green Star rating - representing world leadership - and incorporates a number of other sustainability benefits, such 105 kW photovoltaic array on roof, chilled beams and on-site black recycled water for toilet flushing.
International House Sydney has undoubtedly achieved international best practice in sustainability and is to be commended.
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May I introduce myself? Matthias Bettag, very pleased to meet you!
Hello, my name is Matthias Bettag. I started with Semphonic on the 1st of January 2012 as VP of Analytics, Europe, based in Berlin, Germany. It's an honor and an exciting challenge to work for the leading Web analytics agency as the head of the newly founded European office. Expanding Semphonic's business to Europe is certainly a big task, but I am very much looking forward to working on this.
Let me introduce myself a bit.
Like Gary, I came to Web analytics from an IT perspective. After my studies of media computer science I was working as a webmaster at Schering (a pharmaceutical company which was later bought by Bayer) in Germany from 2004-2006. I had to maintain and (re)develop some 30 websites. Beside the coding itself and working on the CMS, I managed SEO, SEM, usability, etc. and quickly found myself being the interface between marketing/business departments, creative agencies and the technical implementation.
It was a pretty good background for Web analytics and it wasn't far from there to actually focusing on the success performance of the websites. I analyzed user segments, traffic sources, and (typical pharma) KPIs like engagement and awareness.
In 2007 after Bayer bought Schering I was promoted to work in a global E-marketing support department working on their international website migration project. My role was to collect the different business requirements coming from all kind of countries, for different types of websites and for different target audiences. I had to manage the platform improvements to migrate the respective websites. This process involved internal peers in the different countries, but we also established a worldwide agency network for the technical implementations.
Again my interest was on measuring the website's success performance against the business goals. This affected maintenance and governance - especially optimization processes which needed to be aligned with the different stakeholders in different countries.
When I visited my first eMetrics conference in Stockholm in 2007 I gave Jim Sterne a "head scratch" (so he said after a few minutes thinking) describing to him the challenges and restrictions on pharma e-marketing. Like most of us, my first key learning was that nobody has the holy-grail perfectly tailored for everything and just waiting to be taken out of their pocket (however Jim had really cool WAA pins in there). Good to know I was not alone. And even better to know my approach was not wrong, it just takes time for changes, especially in large and complex environments.
I became more active in the WAA and ended up few years later as the German country manager and, new this year, the co-spokesperson of the newly founded WAA EU SIG (Web Analytics Association Europe Special Interest Group) which focusses on privacy issues related to Web analytics.
In 2009-2010 I was reorganizing the Web analytics platform and related processes on an enterprise level. Digital Initiatives became much more complex as pharma marketing evolved. Measurement became a regular part of the planning phase. Decentralized workloads and different role models required a SaaS platform, which replaced the in-house installation. Training and education was needed at every level - from the technical roles to the marketers and even the development agency network across the world.
I wasn't managing websites but instead analytics processes and keeping up to date with all kinds of new technologies, methodologies and learning how other industries are solving their challenges.
With that enterprise perspective, I came to deeply appreciate Semphonic's practice and methods as I read about them. The way they approached analytics just made sense to me. As an enterprise practitioner, the difference between people who just talk about analytics and people who are really doing it is pretty obvious. After a more than 4 years within global e-marketing support at Bayer I was again thinking of a change. It's certainly a big change - going from an analytics practice in a very large global-multinational enterprise to starting a new office from scratch. But I'm excited and I have a lot of support behind me.
Working in web analytics with all its different touch-points, being part of the fantastic international #measure network, having relations to so many businesses, is more than great. Doing this from Berlin with the city's truly unique spirit is even better. It's a great city. Berlin based startups are popping up like crazy at every corner, something I would never have imagined years ago. Berlin has become an international city; with so many visitors and citizens coming from all over the world who quickly forget (well, almost) all clichés they might have had about Germany. Working for Semphonic and in Berlin is going to be the best time of my life.
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Kindness and truth shall meet; justice and peace shall kiss.
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They were young and beautiful and kissing, two brown-skinned girls on a red leather banquette; kissing as people do when they are hungry and soaring and, usually, alone. They weren't alone, wedged there between the thick seats and small tables at the Lenox Lounge in Harlem. Nobody barked, "Get a room!" Life swirled easily about them, dollar bills passing from hand to hand across the crowd to the fellow behind the bar; beers all around or cocktails and high-pitched chatter, as if it were the most natural thing in the world for two girls on a banquette to be drinking each other in, one long gulp, then another; a taste, a tease, a head thrown back in laughter and an arm bent high to catch her stiff-brimmed hat before it fell.
That was election day, an age ago, it seems. Like the sailor kissing the nurse in Times Square on V-J Day in Eisenstaedt's storied photograph, like the boy gripping his girlfriend's bottom as she leaps to embrace him in a shadowed hall on the day Stalin died in Komar and Melamid's luscious painting Thirty Years Ago 1953, those amorous girls in an Art Deco bar were the iconic image of social happiness, November 4, 2008.
For a moment, a few hours, the world, or at least Harlem, was passionate and in love. Not with Barack Obama, with itself–each one with the friend or stranger by his side and beyond to the next one, and the next after that, a common love expressed commonly, in hands squeezed or swinging hugs or deep, public kisses. "Love is in the air, people," a drummer on the uptown 1 train had announced earlier in the day, and later it was in the streets. A million glances were exchanged that electric night; a million fingers brushed lightly against each other. Zing! Who knows how many awoke the next morning in the arms of someone no longer a stranger? If there were none, it wouldn't matter; that it was possible was the thing. People were alive and in love with possibility.
In an instant it was over, as it had to be. Elections are not revolutions. Nor are presidents even particularly sturdy progressives. By definition they crook the knee to capital, and concede, simply by running for the job at the top of the nuclear heap, a willingness to commit mass murder. Obama couldn't be "one of us" any more than his predecessors could. And yet, on the cusp of the inaugural, some leftists are disappointed, angry, glumly awaiting the inevitable celebrations like party kisses on New Year's Eve, surface exuberance masking the essential emptiness of the ritual. Some who were once full of hope now grouse about the dreadful cabinet picks or strain for positive explanations as the bigot Rick Warren prepares his inaugural blessing. Those who were always cynical regard the popular effusions over the first black president as simple-minded, hysterical, swoony.


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As we know Canon Inc. already developed an APS-H-size (approx. 29.2 x 20.2 mm) CMOS sensor on September, 2015 which comes with approximately 250 million pixels (19,580 x 12,600 pixels), since the world's highest number of pixels for a CMOS sensor smaller than the size of a 35 mm full-frame sensor.
Now, after more than four months, Canon again remind all the details about the developed 250 Mpixel APS-H size sensor at the the ISSCC 2016 Conference.
The details via Harvest Imaging as follows:-
Hirofumi Totsuka of Canon presented a 250 Mpixel APS-H size imager: 1.5 um pixel pitch (4 sharing) made in 0.13 um technology node. The device is consuming 1.97 W at full resolution 5fps. An interesting build-in feature of this sensor is the following: ALL pixel signals are converted by column SS-ADCs with a single ramp, but in front of the ADC, each column has its own PGA that can be switched to 4x or 1x gain, depending on the signal level. So when the pixels are sampled, a first check is done to look whether the signal is above or below a particular reference level, and then the right gain of the PGA is set to 1x or 4x. Simple method, but I think that the issues pop up in the reconstruction of the signal at the cross-over point between the two settings of the PGA.
Hence, such detail doesn't make the way for APS-H body b-based camera but it is expected that the 250mp APS-H Image Sensor likely to be sported in a full frame body in coming days.
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On June 30, Treasury Form TDF 90-22.1, commonly known as an "FBAR," is due.
You must file an FBAR if:
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- You had a "financial interest" in, or "signatory authority" over any "financial account" in a foreign county or jurisdiction; and
- The total of all such foreign accounts exceeded $10,000 at any time (even for a day!) in a given year.
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Good review, I will have to check them out. I am always interested in Goth bands. The female vocals sound cool too.
Very pressing review. I have never heard of After Forever, but they sound interesting. I'll vote.
Not a bad review. I heard a song from these guys, but I don't think it was from this album, but then again I don't remember the name.
Album Rating: 2.5I am not a big fan. I think it sounds cheesy. I didn't realize they were so young.
Eh, you kinda have to get used to it at first...
It grows on you, it just needs time.
How does it compare to Invisible Circles?
Album Rating: 2.5Heh... tkaes time. I first started listening to this band a year ago with Invisible Circles. I've had time and I just don't like them that much. I've only heard one song off this album but am not inspired to get the rest because it wasn't far enough from IC.This Message Edited On 11.24.05
Iai, I'm not sure yet...just got IC yesterday. Still have to listen to it.
I'm assuming it's a lot better, given the different reviews on Amazon.com. I could
be wrong though.
Eh, different tastes, I guess (aimed at Fast Fingers).This Message Edited On 11.24.05
I like Invisible Circles a lot.
Well, you could always attempt to get this album through "alternate" means to purchasing, and see how they stack up.
Still, though, considering how young the band is, this was a pretty impressive feat.
I'm a student. I have no choice but to get everything through "alternate means".
Heh, don't we all...I'm like that too.
I think IC edges this album out a little bit, but not by much. Still a great listen.
*chimes in as official AF fanboy of MX* Hmm, old review, but worth dragging up I suppose.
I would consider Decipher to be about on the level of Invisible Circles, but for completely different reasons...I'm constantly wavering between the two. Invisible Circles is incredible as a concept album, but for me at least, there are songs on Decipher that stand alone better. The aforementioned Pledge of Allegiance series are good examples; I personally am especially keen on "Emphasis" and the classic "Monolith of Doubt," which was what basically put the band on the spotlight.
What I really enjoy about the Decipher album is what many people will often dislike: the fact that the string orchestra is given equal treatment and preference to the electric guitars. This contrasts to the common guitar-driven style with orchestral "atmosphere" or backing; in many cases, the strings dominate the songs and guitars are used more for their aggressive attack and as part of the rhythm section. In my opinion, this gave AF a really unique sound that was much more to my liking. By voicing alot of the leads and melodies into the strings, the band is able to make these melodies really come alive. The addition of Floor's operatic vocals made After Forever truly straddle the lines between Romantic and heavy metal music on this release, begging the question of where that line can be drawn, if there truly deserves to be one, and emphasizing heavy metal's classical roots in a way that Yngwie or even Romeo could never quite capture.
This is After Forever's best album.
Nice job!
Album Rating: 4.0This is a good album and I should edit my rating to reflect that.
Wow, talk about an old review. I think I like Invisible Circles a bit more than this one, but there's still some tracks on here that outstrip a lot of stuff they, and the whole scene, have done.
Album Rating: 4.0They were 19 when they did this?
Album Rating: 3.5Very good Gothic metal album; this is probably one of the better goth metal bands out there. The combination of female vocals and death/guttural vocals are very well written; songwriting is also very good...technical but not over technical.
Album Rating: 5.0The best album of After Forever.
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SHAKOPEE, Minn., Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Stanley Crooks, chairman of the wealthy Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community in Minnesota, has died of natural causes, the tribe said. He was 70.
A release by the tribe said Crooks died Saturday at St. Francis Regional Medical Center in Shakopee while surrounded by family and friends, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported.
Crooks, who led the 480-member Indian band for 20 years, was "a leader in every sense of the word," said tribal Vice Chairman Charlie Vig, who will assume the chairmanship. "He was a true mentor and a true leader. We join with his family, friends and all those who were privileged to know Chairman Crooks in mourning his passing."
Crooks oversaw the boom years that followed the tribe's opening of Mystic Lake Casino near Minneapolis the same year he took office.
The tribe employs more than 4,100 people in its gaming and non-gaming ventures with an annual payroll exceeding $154 million, the newspaper said.
As its members became wealthy, the Shakopee tribe has shared in its good fortunes, giving more than $243 million to other tribes and charitable organizations since 1996, the Pioneer Press said. It also has provided loans of more than $450 million for economic development.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Senate Agriculture Committee passed H.R. 872, the "Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2011," on Tuesday, in a bi-partisan vote.
H.R. 872 would amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify Congressional intent regarding the regulation of the use of pesticides in or near navigable waters.
The bill was introduced in response to a January 2009 Federal Appeals Court ruling that requires costly and burdensome Clean Water Act National Pollutant Discharge and Elimination System (NPDES) permits for millions of pesticide applications.
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The Pember's Fall 2014 After School Program – Engage, Enrich & Inspire will begin Wednesday, September 10th in the Pember Museum from 3:30-4:30pm. The program is free to school age children. Each program will offer nature studies followed by inspirational art. Registration is not required but would be appreciated to insure we have plenty of supplies. For more information, contact Bernie at the museum 642-1515. The schedule is as follows:
September 10 – Animal Habitats with create a Critter's Habitat & Animal Tracks
September 24 – Wildflowers of New York with Paper Flowers
October 8 – Seashore Life with Sea Life creations
October 22 – Nocturnal Animals with Create a Bat
November 5 – Stargazing with Glow-in-the-dark Star Map. Includes a slideshow
November 19 – Bird Eggs, Nests & Feathers with create a Whimsical Bird Pin
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Where Can the Middle Class Buy a Home?
If you're in the middle class and want to buy a home here's a piece of advice: Move to Ohio (if you're not already there).
Some 86% of homes in the Akron, Ohio area are within reach of middle-class buyers in the area, the highest share in the nation, according to a report from Trulia, the real estate listings site. The next two cities on the list, with 85% of homes affordable to middle class, are Dayton and Toledo, respectively.
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Sunday, August 22, 2010
Mission on the mat: church youth group shares food life, and hope
By Anthony Duc Le, SVD
Eating in the Thai culture
Eating together is an important social and communal activity in every culture and society, and for Thai people, it's no exception. When there are events that involve serving food, those in charge invariably have to think about how much and what kind of food should be served. At my church, this issue often dominates the parish council meeting conversations. For example before our annual church feast, we spent a large proportion of time on this very topic. After the event had already occurred, we talked about whether the food was enough for everyone, and what we should do for the next celebration. Likewise, in our First Saturday gatherings at parishioners' homes for prayer and scripture sharing, despite my urging that this be a simple affair because I did not want to make it a burden on the host, the parishioners themselves refuse to make it so. No one leaves the house without first being fed. Even when the host family is rather poor, they still manage to get enough food together to serve everyone.
Eating being a part of family, community, or other group gatherings is a requisite for the Thai people who have their own unique way of sharing food. When Thai people sit down for a meal, they usually share the various dishes that are placed in the middle of the table. A pot or container of rice is placed on the side. Dishes differ from region to region. However, most meals consist of a soup, a spicy dish, a vegetable dish, and some fresh vegetables. Unlike many of their Asian counterparts, Thai people nowadays use forks and spoons rather than chopsticks, which are reserved for noodle soups such as kuaytiaw. In the countryside, people often eat with their hands, which is the style of eating practiced before utensils were introduced. For example, in the Northeast region of Thailand, people often use their hand to pick up a piece of sticky rice, dip it in a spicy dish and then put it in their mouth.
Usually the dishes placed in the middle of the table come with a serving spoon. But it is not uncommon for Thai people to serve themselves with the utensils that they use to eat. In people's homes, especially in the countryside, Thai people often eat sitting on a mat spread out on the floor inside or in front of the house where it is a bit cooler. However, eating in such an open space also requires them to invite neighbors to join everytime one passes by. It is a polite way for the people to continue their meal without feeling like they are being unhospitable. Usually, the passerby politely refuses the invitation and goes on his way leaving the family to eat in peace. Eating for Thai people is a relationship building activity in many ways, and an important part of people's everyday life. It is no wonder that when Thai people greet each other, they often inquire whether they have eaten or not.
The Christian Agape meal
In reality, it's not the Thai people alone who employ the occasion of sharing a meal together to enhance or solidify good relationships through the sharing of conversation, jokes, stories, and of course, food. In almost every culture, friendships and communities are often formed and strengthened through meal rituals – both formal and informal. In the Gospel accounts, Jesus was often seen eating with many people –his disciples, community leaders, and even sinners. Sharing food with these people were an important part of Jesus' ministry and actually afforded him many unique teaching moments. Sharing in a meal with others allowed him the opportunity to convert and transform the lives of people like Levi the tax collector and his friends who were castigated by society (Mk 2:15-17). Accepting meal invitations presented him with perfect scenarios to teach those such as the Pharisee named Simon on the relationship between love and forgiveness (Luke 7:36-50). Breaking bread with his disciples on the last night before he was arrested and hung on the cross allowed Jesus the occasion to say profound and sincere parting words to them, and taught them the way to remember him in the future (John 13-16).
So it is not surprising that in the early days of the Church, Christians would gather around the table in people's houses to share food and fellowship, sang, and prayed to remember Jesus. This meal is what came to be known as the agape meal, or the love-feast. This act of worship and fellowship would eventually evolve into the formal Eucharist that we see today. However, as the formal Eucharistic celebrations began to take shape, in the past, agape meals often were still held as an activity separate from the Eucharistic celebration. Today, at many churches, agape meals often take on the characteristic of after-mass social, Saturday night potlucks, or even full out meals in which members sit down around the table to share food and fellowship. At one of the churches of Fr. Truc Phan, SVD in Nong Khai Province, every Sunday, the villagers bring food to share with each other after Mass. All these things act as an agape and provide opportunities for building community spirit and unity.
From instant noodles to agape meal
When I first came to St. Michael Archangel Church in Nong Bua Lamphu in April 2008, I was quite disappointed by the lack of spirit in the church. I witnessed a situation in which few Catholic families came to Sunday Mass. I had no altar servers, no assigned readers, no organ player, and no organ. Music that accompanied community singing came from a recorded CD that was used every week. Needless to say, the pre-recorded music did little to enhance the dismal atmosphere in the church.
One of the few bright signs in the church that I saw was a group of 4 teenagers, 3 girls and one boy who came to church every Sunday for catechism. All four had been Buddhist since birth. The three girls had been recently baptized by the former pastor, although their catechism training had been limited. One of the girls came from the orphanage for HIV+ children located behind the church, and the others came from the community.
The catechism classes took place in the afternoon because the teacher had to travel to Nong Bua Lamphu from Udon Thani, the province next over. However, Sunday Mass was at 8:30 a.m. After Mass, the teenagers would often hang out at the church because they did not want to go home then come back for catechism. As lunch time came around, the youth would often ask for instant noodles or whatever food I had in my refrigerator to eat. I let them use the kitchen of the rectory to prepare the food because there was nowhere else to cook the food. Other than the church building itself, the only additional parochial building was the recently built rectory. Even the girl who came from the Children's Home did not go back but chose to eat lunch with her friends at the rectory. Eating at the church while waiting for catechism class, therefore, became a regular and necessary activity.
As I invested a significant amount of time and effort into building up youth ministry at the church, their presence at the church became common. So was the sight of youth eating together at the church, usually informally. Vietnamese youth who come to find work in Nong Bua Lamphu often came to visit me at the church, to study catechism, or to help clean the rectory. Oftentimes, they end up cooking using what we could find in the refrigerator to make it into a meal. Youth who come to participate in Saturday activities such as doing volunteer work in the village or attending activities at neighboring churches also often find themselves returning to the parish afterward to hang out and eat.
From a group of four teenagers, the youth group in the church has now grown to over 20. Some of them come from the community. Some of them have grown up from the children's home. Some of them are young adults who are Vietnamese migrant workers who have made their way to Nong Bua Lamphu, and subsequently to the Catholic church. Some of them are HIV+ teenagers who have recently come to live at the Mother Mary Home.
As the number of children and teenagers who come to the church grow, so do the activities designed for them. After Sunday Mass, children learn catechism or musical instruments, or life skills classes, depending on the development of church activities. Presently, activities for the youth (age 13+) take place all morning and officially end after lunch – a meal in which they cook and share together as a group. Thus, from merely giving the youth instant noodles to hold them up until catechism, the Sunday meal at the church now is a formal youth group activity that is participated by many of the youth group members.
Youth group meal as an extension of the Eucharist
While the youth group at the church has grown much larger than the few members just two years ago, not all of them are Catholic. Some are still studying catechism awaiting to be baptized. Some youth who come to the church do not have an interest in studying catechism, and cannot be forced to follow Catholicism against their will. Still, they come to church and participate in Mass. The church youth do virtually everything in the liturgy – serving at the altar, doing the reading, playing the organ (we now have one), leading in the praying as well as the singing. They also do many things outside the liturgy as well. However, the Eucharist for the youth, has not been as much a symbol of unity as desired because not everyone is receiving Holy Communion or on the track to receive the sacrament. It is a situation that is regrettable from the perspective of a parish priest, but it is a situation that I accept with peace and trust in the mercy of God.
What is so far not possible in the Mass is made up for in the youth meal, which is something that everyone is invited to participate in without any obstacles. All are welcome to partake in the food before them and to enjoy the conversation taking place in the group. The youth group meal is the agape meal that becomes an extension of the Eucharist for the youth, and is the activitity that all who come do not have to feel that they are "left out".
Youth group meal as an act of sharing and participation
Every Saturday morning, when it is still early, Nong Bua Lamphu's morning market is full of activities. Thewarat Thailampoo, a former seminarian who is now a regular church staff, goes to the market to buy two things – flowers for the church and groceries for the Sunday youth meal. His budget used to be 200 baht for flowers, and 300 baht (about 9 USD) for food. Usually, he buys some meat, some eggs, and some vegetables. He buys things that he thinks the youth can easily use to make a meal.
On Sunday morning, at about 11 o'clock, about five of the youth are assigned to go into the kitchen to make lunch for the group. The rest engage in other activities. Some are cooking experts, but most are not. Yet, they make do with whatever they find in the refrigerator. Their job is to come up with about four dishes along with a big pot of rice enough for the number of people present. They don't always estimate correctly how much rice or food is needed. Sometimes there's way too much left over. Other times, the food is gone, but people are still not yet full.
Those who don't have the responsibility of cooking do the setting up, cleaning, and washing. The group leader has a list of people assigned to the various tasks from week to week. Despite the attempt at a system, chaos is not unusual. Still, every week, the group manages to find enough people to cook, to clean, and to wash.
Youth group meal as an act of unity and acceptance
The taste of the food that appears on the mat spread on the ground in front of the church differs from week to week, from people to people. However, no words of complaint have ever been heard coming out of the youth who join the meal. Perhaps they themselves are too aware of their own cooking ability to dare criticize others. After all, eventually, it will also be their turn to do the cooking. But most likely the reason many stay for the meal is not for the food but rather for the friendship and the fun of cracking jokes at one another during the meal. So the taste is not so much an issue.
The group eats sitting down on the mat, and the eating takes place after the prayer of thanksgiving has been said. Saying grace is the duty of one of the youth who did the cooking that day. Around the food, the members share in the food that they themselves made. They make jokes, talk about the things that young people talk about, and generally enjoy being with one another. I also use the occasion to share with the group some news about the church or about upcoming group activities. I also use the occasion to give comments to the group—praising them for good things that they have done, or remind them to do better in other things. I try to keep negative things to a minimum in this task because it is important to not make people lose their appetite during meal. Just as we begin the meal with a prayer, we also conclude the meal with one. And nobody leaves the mat until the final prayer has been said.
Youth group meal as an act of service
Most youth don't like to cook and few like to do dishes. But here, they are taught to do both. Serving each other is at the heart of the youth group meal together. Cooking for each other, helping each other to clean up, and washing the dishes become acts of service for one another, and teaches them to value a life of service and cooperation. They not only serve during the meal but also serve in their daily lives. We hope that they will learn to serve the people in their family, the abandoned elderly in their community, the friends at their school, and the poor in society. Oftentimes, the youth group do activities such as going to visit the elderly, or do something for the church. Thus, by creating opportunities for the youth to serve one another in the meal, we hope to also remind them to serve one another in everyday life.
Youth group meal as an act of hope
Everyday there are countless meals being eaten all over the world. But eating together does not always mean building relationships if the participants do not put their hearts and minds into the activity. However, in the youth meal, I believe many of them do. Seeing the youth making food together, sitting side by side, and sharing the food that they have made inspires a tremendous sense of hope in my heart. It is the hope that in this world, people from all sorts of cultures and life situations can come together and accept each other in a sincere way. It is the hope that others will look at this simple group and see God's love reflected in their interactions with one another. It is the hope that in Christ, there is no Thai or Vietnamese, no HIV+ or HIV-, there is no rich or poor. For everyone, no matter who they are, are the children of God.
Ever since coming to serve at St. Michael Archangel Parish in Nong Bua Lamphu Province, I've tried to create many activities—both pastoral and social. It's been thoroughly a trial and error experience. Some activities have seen great results with community support. Some barely get off the ground. Some go well for a while until something happens and puts it to a halt. The Sunday youth meal as well as all the times when the youth come together to share food is for me a particularly meaningful act. It is not easy to create an orderly system with the cooking and the cleaning, and sometimes the food takes a while to be ready. But I believe many of the youth try their best, and sharing food with the youth has always been something very foundational in my youth ministry. When I see them eating together, young people sitting down around the table, serving one another, talking to one another, and relating to another, while all around them, society is becoming ever more individualistic and inward looking, I feel a tremendous sense of satisfaction and thankfulness because I believe that I am creating an opportunity for people to bridge differences and create community. And it can be done with a simple meal.
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The first official image of Amy Adams as Lois Lane in Zack Snyder's Man of Steel has arrived online, in black-and-white, courtesy of Desde Hollywood. The image shows us a Lois that's a mix of old-school flare (the vest, the haircut) and new-school technology (notice the iPad in her hand).
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"I grew up really loving (her). I wasn't trying to be her but I hope I do enough of a good job to have the same effect on young girls as Lois Lane had on me. I really loved seeing a woman represented as a modern woman in a superhero movie, and not even glamourized, really -- she was kind of a troublemaker. She wasn't a typical heroine. I identified with her from a very young age."
"What I love about (her) is that she's successful and independent. She was smart and feminine and that's something that I am going to teach my daughter . You don't have to be a man to be powerful. You can be a powerful woman."
"It was intimidating because it was played before by Margot Kidder, whom I love. One of my favorite movies growing up was Superman -- and Superman 2. I was kind of a nerd; I loved them so much. It was important to create a character that was new because I thought she was perfect. It's hard to step into a role where you thought someone had already achieved what could be achieved. But coming from theater, you're always stepping into a role that's been done before, so you're always excited about it."
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More than an hour for the planet
Students go beyond WWF's call to turn the lights off tomorrow
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But some schools are going a step further. They're organising other activities to promote this year's campaign theme "Go Beyond the Hour".
Rosaryhill School
Rosaryhill aims to raise students' awareness of the environment with debates.
One team from each of the school's six houses debates topics such as whether smoking should be banned in all public areas. The final round will be held today at lunchtime.
Teacher Kevin Leung Sung-yum, who organised the project, hopes the debates will give students a better understanding of environmental issues.
"Students can understand that there is more they can do apart from switching off the lights for one hour," he said.
The lights in all classrooms will also be switched off during lunchtime today. Teachers will spend 25 minutes asking students to think about what they are doing to protect the environment.
Five students were also chosen to take part in WWF's Earth Hour ambassador programme.
Using the skills their learned from WWF, the students have been spreading the green message at morning assemblies and in classroom talks.
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Fifteen Form Six geography students at the school organised activities.
In one programme, they gave out about 70 seeds to their schoolmates to see whose seed could grow the fastest over several months.
They also made announcements over the school's public address system and gave out leaflets at lunchtime, encouraging students to flick the light switch.
They called for lights out in all classrooms during lunchtime today, and will present prizes for participation.
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The school's environment club launched a month-long campaign called "Throttle the Bottle" at the start of this month.
The project shows that sustainable living takes more than just turning off lights. To show how much plastic people use, club members have been collecting used plastic bottles from the recycling bins on each school floor.
At the end of each day, they wash the bottles and put them in a cage.
So far, there have been more than 1,500 bottles in the collection, which will be sent to a recycling company at the end of this month.
The club also organised a "no plastic bottle pledge" campaign. About 150 students and staff pledged not to use disposable plastic bottles at school. They all signed a huge banner to be displayed in the school's foyer.
In addition, the club organised a petition that was sent to the school's cafeteria, asking it not to sell plastic bottles of water anymore.
Next month, the students will hold their annual clean-up hike from Mui Wo to Pui O. Participants will pick up rubbish along beaches and the hiking trail.
YP junior reporter Debbie Wong says the campaigns encourage students to recycle and change their ideas about consumption.
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The school set up a booth at its entrance on Wednesday and Thursday to test students' knowledge of environmental protection.
Those who answered a question correctly received an Earth Hour sticker or folder. Questions covered topics such as the greenhouse effect.
There will be a photo competition next month, with prizes for the best photos on the Earth Hour theme.
The school's nine Earth Hour student ambassadors will also distribute leaflets tomorrow morning in the school's neighbourhood. The lights of all classrooms will be switched off for an hour on Monday afternoon.
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But don't expect American diplomats to get involved in the fast-growing Ice Bucket Challenge — in support of Lou Gehrig's disease research — any time soon.
The State Department has issued an internal telegram forbidding US ambassadors and other high-profile foreign service officers from participating in the forfeit, in which people either pledge $100 to ALS research or record themselves getting soaked by frigid water, then post it online and challenge others to do the same.
"It's not just about ambassadors. Federal government ethics rules prevent us from using our public offices, such as — high public offices such as ambassadors — for private gain, no matter how worthy the cause is," State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf said on Thursday.
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President Barack Obama has declined a dare from Ethel Kennedy, the 86-year-old widow of late senator Robert F. Kennedy. Obama promised to make a gift instead.
Pop star Justin Bieber and former US president George W Bush and Microsoft founder Bill Gates are just some of the celebrities who have drenched themselves in icy water in support for the cause.
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Dorchester is the county town of Dorset and overlooks the River Frome. Close to Weymouth and Bridport, Dorchester is an historic market town with a fascinating past and connections with several famous figures. Holidays in Dorchester are perfect for family breaks, walking holidays and time away with friends – whatever your perfect pastime, Dorset is the ideal place to enjoy it.
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The Blue Pool has been intriguing guests for many years. This tranquil attraction allows you to get up close with the waters changing colour. You can also walk one of the many paths by the pretty green woodland.
The Lawrence of Arabia Trail is a must visit hiking spot. Lawrence of Arabia settled in Dorset after leaving the military and this trail allows you to explore some of the areas related to his great character. The 7 mile walk takes you to quiet woodland and beauty spots as well as The Bovington Tank Museum and River Frome.
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